Really(!) looking forward to my next Blades session tonight. We’ll see if “The Blackbirds” crew make it back and alive from rescuing the leader of their elite shadow gang, which is a bunch of kids from the local orphanage. 11 years old Hix was snatched by chance by the local The One with Many cult to be feeded to an heavily modified bearlike beast. The show was already in full swing when they crashed the party and set the bear free.
We left our daring crew (Spider, Lurk, Hound) as one of them got trauma due to stress overload while battling a Wisper, while the other ones have still 1-2 stress to burn.
I plan to offer a major “devil’s bargain” to keep them going. Sure thing is, that they won’t be friends with the cult afterwards spoiling the show and hurting some promient guests. Did I mention that the priest is a bit distracted with trying to control the Bear-Thing? Well, that will change afterwards for sure and he may have a lesson to teach…
Kids in blades are so grim. Awesome though! Very Oliver Twist.
It was an awesome session last night. They managed to free Hix and made it back home. To my suprise the Hound was so pissed off about the whole kidnapping that he tried and succeed in killing the priest of the cult. So, no lesson to teach from this side anymore. We had a good scene from this when the hound (only 17 years old) found out, that he seems to go over “to the dark side”.
The crew had to strike a deal with the Deathseeker Crows to make it out alive. We will see what comes from this deal. Wanted to use them anyway and Birds + Birds was a good fit. They made a whooping 9 heat from the whole action and I gave them a lot of REP for it. They deserved it.
Rest of the session was leveling up PCs, crew (1st time!). The Blackbirds are still Tier 0 but with firm holding now. It will be a blast when they make Tier 1.