Although with a rather small attendance I ran my first wonderfull session of Blades in the Dark with Nigel Clarke (Cutter) as Bricks and Slade Stolar Duster (Wispher).
To set up the scene we established that both worked for the Crows, Duster as an expert Ghost Whisperer and Bricks as an enforcer. Lyssa called upon them to make a stop to a devastating Ghost assualt on their headquarters. Organised by Hook and the Dimmer Sisters.
After some investigating they discovered that the ghost attacks were killing Crow members left and right, draining their spirit essence to a location under the headquarters of the Crows. They also discovered that the Dimmer Sisters and Hook were behind the attacks.
This prompted the execution of an Assault plan from our two operatives. With a point of attack to place spirit anchors to create a distraction to stop the attacks on the Crows.
While trying to break through the Wards of the Dimmers Mansion they got stopped by a pair of bluecoats. Bricks didn’t hesitate to put his blade to the test, while Duster vaulted the walls of the mansion.
Duster went on his mission to place the spirit anchors as the Dimmer Sisters became aware of an assault due to a firefight between Bricks and the Bluecoats. Duster barely managed to stave of their divinity spell with his Beyond armor.
After the Bluecoats died, Bricks got a invitation beneath the streets with Hook, who made Bricks an offer to bring his boss a gift in return for him helping with the mission. Bricks declined the offer with a shot in his gut. Hook didn’t hesitate to strike back as his right hook(a literal hook ofc.) grasped for Bricks, barely missing him as he flipped the table. An ongoing chase through a maze of pathways under the Dimmer mansion ensued.
Meanwhile Duster barely managed to stay out of sight in the Dimmer Gardens, placing a few spirit anchors across the garden. Just before getting spotted Duster made a desperate attempt to gather as many spirits as he can into the spirit anchors, causing the sprits to break into the Dimmer Mansion, alerting them to Duster position.
While Duster barely managed to drop the spirit anchors underneath the foundation of the Mansion, as one of the Sisters cast an blood binding spell on Duster dragging him unconscious into the depths of the manor.
Bricks closed in on Hook(tick, tock, tick, tock), and with a last attempt caught Hook, and sliced open his throat. He even avoided taking with him a cursed amulet.
While this happened the Crows suffered a great assault taking more losses, which eventually diminished to a halt. And Lyssa was very pissed that it took so long. But as Bricks offered Hooks’ hook as a trophy she smiled as her long rival was finally dead.
The Path of Echoes didn’t take the death of Hook lightly, and a war between the Echoes and the Crows ensued.
All in all a wonderfull session. Perhaps we’ll see another session happen again in a few weeks.