The Dogs? Yeah, I Like Do-OH MY GOD Caper
The Dead Setters get back to basics, helping Ulf Ironborn run the Billhooks off some turf at the docks.
As an entanglement from their low-heat last session (low heat only because it happened on the Void Sea and nobody knew about it), Ulf Ironborn (known in our circles as “Good Ol’ Barf Ironface”) came to the Dead Setters for a favor. They were +3 with him, and when he asked for their help taking over the Billhooks’ extortion racket at the docks, the crew agreed even though they were also +1 with the Billhooks.
Amusingly they chose a social plan, convincing Coran that his sister Erin was planning on using supernatural chicanery to finally gain control of the Billhooks. This led to a confrontation at the ‘hooks’ slaughterhouse, which was easily fanned into the flames of fratricide. I set up a clock for Coran’s group and a clock for Erin’s group, and then set up a smaller clock for the death-dogs Erin loosed upon her former comrades.
The dogs won, and then the Dead Setters Ol’ Yellered the dogs.
Coran survived, albeit with one hand looking more like a Pez dispenser and strips of meat ripped from his other arm. Rook ushered him out the back, as the crew didn’t want Ulf to storm in and just kill him. They might have use for the wounded Billhook scion.
It was a pretty simple score. We had to break before payoff and downtime, so we’ll get that next time.
This session we also broke from Hangouts and tried using Roll20. We had tried it at the beginning of our campaign but couldn’t get everyone to hear each other back then. They’ve made improvements or something, because I felt like the audio in Roll20 was even better than over Hangouts.
Of note: In our refactoring character and crew sheets for v8, we ended up needing to choose 2 crew abilities. They chose Ghost Market (as their long-term plans involve dealing with the Reconciled and applying their secret of longevity to still-living people somehow) and Patron (because that’s how you get from Tier 3 to Tier 4). Ghost Market wasn’t taken lightly, as it filled their second Veteran dot and blocks off other winners like War Dogs, which they had been eyeing for some time too.
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