Question: What happened to Mabel and James in your Gangs of New York session?
Good heavens, everyone is so excited about the Gangs kids lately! Their awesomeness must be showing. Alas, both Mabel and James fell victim to the classic Hero-level Scion trap of antagonizing too many mortals before they were high enough Legend to handle it.
James, a private eye attempting to suss out the truth about some frightening incursions of Titanspawn and other magical phenomena in his area, accidentally ran afoul of the law a few too many times and found himself in a direct fight with some police officers. He then made the ever-popular Dodekatheon Scion mistake of channeling his vengeance against them, leading to a burning and permanent hatred of law enforcement officials that haunted him until he died. After outright murdering several police officers around the city, vengefully destroying even ones who had never seen him in retribution for their fellows' slight against him, he finally went down in a massive hail of bullets when he was cornered by several SWAT teams. He went down flipping them off and yelling. His death also put Michael Chambers, James' bandmate, on the hook for owing Hermes a favor, thanks to Hermes blaming him for allowing James to die and waste the investment he'd so far put into keeping him alive.
Mabel survived much longer, and her death wasn't really her fault; thanks to Michael being branded a highly dangerous and wanted terrorist by Homeland Security, Mabel ended up implicated in his crimes after the mortal authorities noticed that she was coincidentally around him too often and decided she was an accomplice. After a particularly harrowing escape from army helicopters that forced the band to split up, Mabel ended up trying to take refuge in a safehouse run by a local witch, but unfortunately the magical wards on the place failed and the army was able to lay siege to it. It was just her, the witch, and Jake's normal teenage brother, so there was no hope of succeeding; she marched over to the door, opened it to glare at the team of Men in Black in the hallway, and was shot so many times there was no hope of ever saving her. With her dying breath, however, she used the last of her magical mojo to reinstate the wards on the safehouse, so the kid was spared and the rest of the band was able to temporarily return to it as a safe base to hide from pursuit.
The Dodekatheon parents - when they can be reached, which isn't very often - don't seem to be very pleased about the double failure of their offspring. The pressure's on the rest of them (especially Alan, at the moment) not to screw anything else up or die, or there will probably be some epic Olympian problems down the road for everyone to deal with.
Hey, there. Just wondering if your limiting which pantheons your PC's can be in? Asking 'cause I noticed that all of them are from the Near East.
ReplyDeleteYep, several of our games limit pantheons for reasons of plot and Storytelling. Gangs of New York is limited to the Mediterranean pantheons at the moment, which means the Anunna, Dodekatheon, Pesedjet and Yazata; Eastern Promises is centered around the (currently playable) pantheons affected by British colonialism and European expansion in the nineteenth century, which is close to the same setup but with the Devas swapped in instead of the Dodekatheon.
DeleteThe god-level game isn't taking new characters right now, but if it were, it'd probably be limited to Aesir and Orisha.
it's the cluster fuck that never ends. It goes on and my friend.
ReplyDeleteHello, these stories and these fiction's you have 1) are amazing. Are they all based on games you play with players and their just written out? Also how would someone potentially convince you to allow them to play in one of your games?
ReplyDeleteAww, thanks. :) Yes, all the fiction on our site is based on our games, either as backstory or the continuing adventures of our Scion PCs. It's two parts John writing an awesome adventure, five parts players doing awesome stuff with it, and one part me writing it down at 3 a.m. instead of sleeping.
DeleteOur games are pretty full at the moment, but you can always drop a line at ampstorytellers@gmail.com if you're looking to see if we have an opening or want to pitch to us.
Well Please keep it up. I love reading them they are well written and very engaging. I have emailed you all about asking to join hopefuly i will hear back from you. Until then, I await new fiction. Tell John and your players thanks for being awesome to give you the material. And thanks for not sleeping....kinda a weird thing to be thankful for but what the hell lol.
DeleteWow...According to the Twitter-sphere Two more characters have bitten the proverbial bullet. I cant wait till these fictions come out. To the players in the game Im rooting for you all to survive DONT LET ME DOWN!!!
ReplyDeleteYeah, those poor kids! They were Eastern Promises, not Gangs, but their deaths were mourned just as hard.
DeleteKeep carrying the flag, surviving members of their band! There's only so much you can do!
Oh wow, How many games do you currently have running I Thought the current characters under characters were just somehow in the same game lol
DeleteAt the moment, we're running three - Skeins of Fate, which is god-level (and features the top four characters on the page, all of them Legend 11), Eastern Promises, which is about to hit Demigod (and has the next five characters down), and Gangs of New York, which is Hero-level (and the last six characters at the bottom). If you feel like reading a big wall of text, this post explains who's in what game.
DeleteWe've run sessions with up to nine people in them before, but for the long haul it's usually better to have five or six people per game. :)