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Funny/Epic/Legendary moments
KnightOrbis:
One of the most epic sessions my group has ever had was when our main damage (he was an immortal swordsman of some sort) challenged a powerful lord of the Winter Court to a duel, they both ended up choosing skill. The duel ended up taking almost half an hour because neither of them could land a blow until the last few minutes because they started tagging maneuvers, but just as our swordsman looked as he was about to lose he triggered his severe mental consequence and used four fate points and killed the faerie lord (Using flurry from Supernatural Martial Arts), I believe he made four attacks with Accuracy:12 Weapon:12.
HumAnnoyd:
I ran two games concurrently using virtually the same version of the city as well as the same villains. It was interesting how different the games ended up being. But both campaigns had a similar revelation that came at very different times in the game and in very different ways. Here is the fist one.
To set it up you need to know that the PCs had gone to get some vital information from someone and when they arrived at the library he was nearly murdered by the bad guy's cannibal thugs. That was what tipped them off that someone in their midst was a traitor. Below is an adventure log write up one of my players did for how the session ended:
They went over everyone who knew they were headed to meet Adrian and set about to check up on them. Since they had promised to care for Caroline in Jack’s absence, they decided to check on her first. Casey dialed her number. After a couple of rings, Kennedy answered, “Hello?”
“Hi Kennedy, its Casey.” Casey replied.
“Oh. Hello Casey.” Her voice was cool and level.
“I just wanted to call and check up on you two. How is Caroline?” As Casey spoke, he could hear Jack’s doorbell ring over the telephone line and the faint sound of Caroline asking the visitor to hold one second.
Kennedy spoke again, “Oh, I wouldn’t worry about her.” she said, her voice changing slightly into something older and unbalanced. “I think she’s going to be just fine. In fact, I’m sure she’ll taste delicious…” The odd voice started to cackle horribly and Caroline’s shriek of terror could be heard in the background before the line went dead.
Casey set down the receiver slowly. He turned to face Bruno, his face white with anger and said, “I think we found our mole.”
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That was pretty cool but in the other campaign they started to suspect things a bit sooner. The traitor was possessed by an ancient spirit that was sabotaging the PCs actions. One of he players began to suspect some of the NPCs and decided to take action to vet them and find the traitor. Unfortunately he didn't tell anyone else of his suspicions. Below is the log from how that turned out:
They arrived to find the house immaculate, sandwiches and salads in the kitchen and even some chocolate chip cookies in the oven. Kennedy was obviously dealing with the stress through perpetual motion. Everyone went immediately to the kitchen to dig into the spread. Except for Zeb. He obviously wasn’t too suspicious but he decided to er on the side of caution and asked Karolynn to accompany him to his laboratory in the basement.
She followed him downstairs and he asked her to step into the circle. He wanted to check something. She balked and nervously asked him why he wanted her in the circle. Keeping his cards close to the vest Zeb said that it was nothing but he really needed her to get into the circle. She meekly agreed and started to move toward it.
But at the last second, catching Zeb completely by surprise, she turned and BLACK AGNES’S spirit flowed out of Karolynn and tried to possess the old wizard with a shriek! The battle was a psychic one and completely silent so no one above would hear it. Karolynn’s body dropped to the floor and Zeb realized that he had made a major mistake. He could not hope to prevail against a spirit as powerful as Agnes. His only hope lay in being smarter. Zeb did a lot of work in his lab over the years and had installed a powerful sprinkler system in the laboratory in case he needed to put out a fire or ground out some magic experiment that had gotten out of his control. Luckily, running water also grounds out spirits. With a shriek Agnes fled Zeb’s house going up through the kitchen floor scaring the crap out of the rest of the group who were happily devouring the food that Karolynn/Agnes had made for them.
Zeb ran up the stairs into the kitchen and told them to stop eating. Black Agnes had prepared the food while in possession of Karolynn! Osamu, covered in crumbs from the excellent sandwiches turned pale while Stacy spit out a mouthful of cookies. Silvio slowly and deliberately put down the salad he had been about to eat.
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It was an epic moment of a player using his Aspect: IF YOU DON’T HAVE THE POWER, YOU NEED TO BE TWICE AS CLEVER and making a declaration with a FATE point. I have to say it saved my ass as a GM. I had no idea what to do next if Zeb would have been possessed.
Mr. Death:
I think my two favorite moments in the games I'm running so far are a wizard taking out the driver of a drive-by by hexing the airbag into deploying (the OOC exchange went, <Wizard'sPlayer> Does the car have an airbag? <Cop'sPlayer> ...I love you.) and the same wizard hijacking the Erlking's Chariot to get back a stolen magic sword (and prevent the Hunt from going through downtown LA) in my one game.
In the other, one of the best moments was when the Warden character was looking into the possibility that his mentor, who was thought killed by the Red Court in Cairo, might be alive, but captured. Because the Reds were patrolling the Ways, he had to hitch a ride with someone to get South of the Border, and in the process was talked into buying a gourd in a throwaway gag.
Then, several sessions later, the Warden's investigation ends up with him getting ambushed by a dozen were-panther warriors in league with the Red Court. The Warden's player decides to hit the first one with the gourd--which I had forgotten about up to this point--and rolled well enough to take the guy out in one shot.
In another instance, the Warden and a Temple Dog were stuck in Faerie, and were trying to find their way in a market between Summer and Winter. The Warden had been Compelled away from his sword for the scenario (which started with him waking up hungover after taking an elf to a dance club), so he went to a dwarven smith to procure another. The dwarf was asking several hundred gold pieces for a sword he said was wielded by Brynhildr. The Warden goes, "Do you take debit?" which does not amuse the dwarf.
On the other side of it, the Temple Dog is browsing and--through a dialogue-less exchange of sniffs, headtilts, and barks--buys a large bone from a wolf spirit with its own stall on credit. As they're leaving the market, the exchange goes...
<Warden> Where did you get that?
<Dog> *tilts head toward the market, chuffs*
<Warden> ...Did he take debit?
<Dog> *nods* Awoof.
<Warden> Son of a...
Addicted2aa:
--- Quote from: Mr. Death on November 13, 2012, 08:41:00 PM ---<Warden> Where did you get that?
<Dog> *tilts head toward the market, chuffs*
<Warden> ...Did he take debit?
<Dog> *nods* Awoof.
<Warden> Son of a...
--- End quote ---
Classy. 8)
blackstaff67:
We're traveling from Indiana to Chicago. We as in me (sorceror), a White Council wizard and a Werebear. One hour from Chicago out white wizard buddy decides to dial the number on his cell phone (after crafting a magic circle to keep magic out and see who answers.
"Hello?"
"Yes, this is the office of Harry Dresden, PI."
Me: "Who is this guy?"
My wizard friend: (To me) "A Warden." (To Dresden)"Yes, we were given this number by a mutual friend in Bloomington..."
Me, Self-Compelling as Aspect of mine: (Loudly) "We don't need any official White Council entanglements!" (I rub out circle, breaking it and allowing magic in, causing the phone to short out).
GM: Okay, you both just got the temporary Aspect "Harry Dresden is pissed at me."
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