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Title: What's happening in your game then?
Post by: DanteC on July 10, 2014, 08:53:21 PM
Just that really.  I'm interested in what characters people are running, how they've done their city, and what plots are being woven, but I'm sure there's a lot of people who are interested as well. 
Title: Re: What's happening in your game then?
Post by: Exkramental on July 10, 2014, 11:12:07 PM
Well, we call our city Eden city, Group is a Wizard, pure humen, focused-biomancer/shifter. and a viking-spirit (working for monarch)  a shifter trapped in his mortal ascendens.

they all live in a old abandoned theater owned by 4 white-courts-virgins, doing artzy theater-stuff, and getting fed that way.

Game kicks of by a  invitation to an auction, to the leading superpower in EDEN; a black court vampire, all that is somebody in Eden gets a invitation, and are treated as guests, there is a rumor of a especially powerfull item being sold.  at the auction  they see the local grey wardens, mafia in the know, lesser magic users, a singel frost giant, ect. all kinds of nastys

The auction kicks of, and varies items are sold. after that, the black-court  enters and  he welcomes them, and thanks them for being guests,  he reviels a old dagger and tell them that its the dagger called athama, silance falls over the audience, he then grap the dagger and start on his super-villain speech. (a huge Block is placed on the zone 40ish shifts), and he laughs as he shouts that they are all fools, and he will collect all the serects of Eden now, (the bad guy always tells hes plan and how he did it ect). He goes on and again clap his hands, and the walls go down and reveall 40 renfield  that are ready to eat all the people there alive, the Blackcourt Master laugh, but then stops when he realise that all the refields throtts has been slit, black-court-master eyes widen in shock as the huge magic-block does down, and mayham insue.

 the pcs get away alive, and the blackcourt vamp die, now that there is a power vacum in Eden, and  factions in the city try to grap power, and Athama is lost and the hunt goes on(would be fun for a PC to touch it and all, not saying here for spoilers), so city is all mayham, with over worked wardens, and only the pcs to turn to.

a Evil organisation Khaoz, is getting a foothold, it's a anti-fea cult, kinda like keep mortals pure. One of there biggest moves was the mass-killing of jews, in the 2nd worldwar. according to Khaoz, kabalistic priesthood, was gaining to much power in eastern europe, from the reports thees kabalists had infuced there blood with fea earth magic, making them strong. now remnents of that priesthood, called orpheus(unformed), are hunting Khaoz.   

1 besides that, red-court is planning to do a move on Eden.
2 Spirits are acting up, and no one knows why,
3 a Powerfull drug is hitting the streets called deity forcing humans into the spiritrealm of dreams, and sometimes taking things back with them, unknowingly.

all kinds of fun,

Places, Oak and stone a old auction house run by frost-giants,
a dojo(safehaven) teahouse, (kinda like mac's)
the mines, are a old part of the city that have turned into bars/nigthclubs and feeding grounds, huge place goes really deep,
and all kinds of cults, shops as fronts.
Title: Re: What's happening in your game then?
Post by: Haru on July 10, 2014, 11:26:47 PM
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Title: Re: What's happening in your game then?
Post by: blackstaff67 on July 11, 2014, 04:06:54 AM
After repelling a Denarian-backed Outsider invasion, the group has discovered that there's one last RCV Duke in play and gunning for the party's home in general and the former True Believer in particular.  Said intrepid heroes include: Siberian were-tiger, Daughter of Artemis (Amazon), Son of Ares (Myrmidon), White Council Librarian/Wizard, True Believer-turned-High Queen (courtesy of Excalibur, I think), an independent Wizard playing with Sponsored Magic that involves both Heaven and Hell, and the new Spring Knight.  No worries.
     WC boy just discovered that he's heir to a mansion on an island a couple miles off Michigan City.  His grandfather built it, he's discovered to be the sole survivor...and his grandfather was an unknown Knight Templar.  Good times ahead.
     The Amazon has discovered that 1) +Ulfbert+ swords satisfy the Catch for ALL Amazons and 2) someone's still making them.  She's not at all happy about that.  There's also a rival Son of Ares in the area looking for revenge against the Amazon for a recent unprovoked ambush.  More good times ahead.
     Spring Knight has about six months let to finagle a way out of a deal he made with Baba Yaga, who is Not A Nice Person.
     Morgan's alive in our game; he's prying around the independent wizard because someone tossing around Hellfire makes Morgan concerned. 
     Outsiders are taking advantage of an upswing in Faith to reveal themselves as false angels, false prophets and the like and otherwise shaking up the region. 
     And the independent wizard and the True Believer/High Queen are starting to become an item--yet another reason for Morgan and the White Council to butt in.
     House Raith and Malvora are executing vendettas against each other and are starting to draw in party members with interests. 
     A shoot-out at the Shedd Aquarium led the party to
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from an Outsider attack.  Reports that other paranormals were nearby to play out their own version of the show "Deadliest Warrior" are vague and contradictory (though the Amazon placed 2nd in the archery finals, being beat out by some crossbow-shooting guy named 'Tell').  Said shoot-out with Outsiders forced the indy to either let the woman he loved die...or wield Hellfire to save her.
     At the moment the party is in NYC competing in some tests run by the Dragon Ferrovax. Interesting times.
Title: Re: What's happening in your game then?
Post by: Sammael on July 12, 2014, 10:09:09 AM
Stockholm.

The museum of ethnography has discovered that a number of cultural importance has gone missing. Maria Sjöstrand, a private detective often consulted by the museum for item acquisition, investigation and evaluation, is given a call by the director. She accepts and calls her archeologist friend, and oftentimes strong man Will Dorenius. Together with Simas Kope, Will´s anthropology major Simas Kope does also get dragged along for the ride.

Then as they begin their investigation they run in to The Raven, a fallen nephilim wet-works man, who has often crossed paths with Maria before.

Together they are on the trail of three artifacts just as a branch of the Ordo Templi Orientis has set up shop in town.

Title: Re: What's happening in your game then?
Post by: Ulfgeir on July 13, 2014, 01:55:57 PM
Our campaign is centered on Boston.

The characters include:
* A Focused Practioner (diviation magic). THat is my character. She later became a full wizard
* A Swedish Werewolf
* An emmissary of Power (The son of Ferrovax)
* A Summer court Changeling (Is a heir to a Summer prince)
* A genie. Very clueless.
* A pure human journalist who works for a local newspaper delaing in supernatural stuff. For those in the know it is news, for others it is make-believe stuff like the National Enquirer.. He got later replaced by another emmissary of Power from CHina (Working for an organization controlled by a Chinese Dragon)
* A pure human activist. She later learned magic (became a full wizard), and found out that she had outsider taint as someone in her ancestry had done the nasty with an outsider...

It started with some strange things happening around Boston Unversity, where we all studied. Firt a few persones where found dead in an old sacrificial tree and we learned that something bad was coming. The ones repsonsible for the ritual killings were a couple of enthralled girls who wanted revenge on the wiccan sorority that they had been members of earlier and then had been expelled after being caught in doing things they should not... Then a coven later put Boston in  freeze as they used some kind of ritual to do bad stuff.

My character found out that her girlfirend was not who she appeared to be. She was a 800 year old wizard who switched bodies a la corpsetaker and had been the mastermind behind the previous events, but had now wanted to get out from underneath the thumb of her evil family due to my character. This ended badly for the mercenaries they sent to get her. We found out that some ancient Faerie Queens had awoken (Which was not good at all), and some of us got hit by the repercussions of previous acts. The activist got herself a stalker in the form of a young seventeen old girl, after the activist had drunk a love-potion put into her drink as a prank by the emmissary of power.

Then a strange ghost appeared on campus and killed members of various fraternities. We ended up meeting Carlos, and the previous mentioned seventeen year old girl who had developed powers of fire magic and was now a warden. Was kind of awkward when I met her and the activist. I had been a friend of both of them, and tried help them in their relationship of sort without knowing that they knew each other. I had know that the activist had been affected by some kind of mind-effecting magic. She had talked about her brief encounter with the girl, that caused her to become a stalker, she had however never given a name nor a description, and netiher had the girl in question, whom I had tried to be emotionally supportive and helpful when she spoke fo her unrequited love for an older girl... We found out that all of us, who had been in the old Wiccan sorority house had been affected by some kind of mind-altering effect. Some more than others (The poor changeling had gotten the brunt of it due to having spent the most time in the house. He had been living there and had brief relationships with most of the girls).

In the next adventure, two different mexican gangs had taken over the city. The changeling's sister disappeared. We thought that she had died and become a black court vampire due to some information we had. A group of young wardens showed up, led by the girl who loved the activist. They were after some kind of coven that had kidnapped a lot of children. Things went bad, and some wardens were killed, and almost all were injured. Some of the coven got away. The Genie had managed in the meantime to get herself married to a troll king, and now he was ill. He had been poisoned by iron needles. We learnt that another group of trolls had been working with a black court vampire trying to take over the territory. I learned from vision that there were some mysterious forces manipulating everything from behind.

Next when me and the former activist were visiting Edinburg for the first time, the White Council base were attacked by lots of black court vampires. The senior council were replaced after a coup, and it was full war on the streets of Bsoton. Not just between the gangs and the FBI, but the campus are was also attacked by lots of black court vampires, as were the grounds that the three old Faerie Queens had. We later helped the Seniour Council regain their power, as we could provide lots of evidence against the coupmakers. My girlfriend's family also had been lot more aggressive in targetting her, and time was running out for us. I helped her vanish by getting her a new body (If anyone else would find out it would be very bad for me)...  And yes, she had originally when she was evil been conspiring with the coupmakers, and the vampire that helped the trolls...

The next adventure dealt with the consequences of the Werewolf and his girlfriend having adopted the child of the former Troll king (he had died). Not the child who looked human had lots of things he needed to find out about.  The Son was apparently a vassal to Mab, but also the liege of the older Faerie queens. Something they weren't that happy with. I was asked by the werewolf and Son to join them as the son was to go and meet Mab.

Next there were lots of Dragon-related business as various dragons started going to war between themselves and that spilled over into our lives. The Emissary of power and the Werewolf was targetted by mercenaries that tried to kill them. We did our best to try to find out what was going on and stopping it.


Here's a link to the webpage we used for the campaign (two adventuers left). The campaign is currently on hold
Link (http://dresden2boston.wordpress.com/)  If you hover on the Stories-part, you will se the different adventures (books). Under each of them are the chronicles. The ones labelled Cassandras Lies, are from my characters pov. That and the Genie in Boston is written in English. The other two is in Swedish. The GM made so we who wrote chronicles got an extra fatepoint.

/Ulfgeir
Title: Re: What's happening in your game then?
Post by: Leeder on July 21, 2014, 09:05:11 AM
We play in Vancouver, in the same time as Harry hunted werewolves and started the Vampire War.

The group:
 - Maory "Mana-eater", major talent with Mimic Abilities at 4. Former headhunter from States, now jobless biker.
 - RCMP sergeant, ex-MI6 assasin. Pure mortal with decent spy skills and martial arts.
 - Homeruled lycanthropesse-student with Superb Might. Living empodyment for Unstoppable Force, as we call her.
 - Homeless wizard, who hate the White Council for killing his loved one as a warlock.

In our first arc the characters confronted several threats at one time. Mad scientist had threatened a Science Convention and bombed it out with hundreds of victims. White Court sold out the lycanthropesse to its guest from Bolivia - obviously Red Court's Duke. A maniac escaped Seattle and started to kill, maim and fry his victims in the south districts of Vancouver. A building company (secretly owned by a local Summer Court Lady) tries to demolish a great scrapyard, where the PC-wizard guards the weak Barrier between our world and the Nevernever. Lycanthrope criminal band acquired a new leader, who agressively began to eliminate the murderers of his predecessor (the PC's, of cource). The local White Council Warden was found dead. And at the top of that mysterious and horrifying Jade Court of Vampires began to devour and embrace the wizards and minor talents of the city.

The party successfully got back its lycanthropesse, and the Red Court Duke sailed home with an oath of vengeance. The maniac turned out as a mortal vampire hunter and died, assisting in that rescue mission. The lycanthropesse negotiated a contract with the new leader of the lycanthropes and earned their help in battle with JVCs, but they failed in planning and preparations, and the vampires killed many minor talents before. Finally, in an epic carnage JCVs (at least, the weakest of them) were torn apart to final death, but the eldest JCVs retreated somewhere. One of them chased the PC-wizard, and the wizard was saved by the local Summer Court Lady, who traded his security for his scrapyard. The mad scientist escaped too. The first arc had ended.

Year have passed, and we have started the second arc. It haven't ended yet, so I would not describe it's plots, but I can assure you that the last year's adventures are a picnic in comparison with the present problems. The main forces now are the Triads (led by a group of supernatural criminals), the Fairy and the Ultra Mega Heavy Rain with the Super Epic Thunderstorm.
Title: Re: What's happening in your game then?
Post by: CrimsonJoker on July 21, 2014, 11:40:45 AM
Lexington Kentucky, in the middle of the war (around Dead Beat).

The group consists of a nerdy Wizard, a Knight Of The Cross who is bad at the second part, a werebear, and a a WCV who was switched at birth and you had BETTER BELIEVE I plan on compelling to shit.

We haven't gotten our first arc really going yet but I've set up the groundwork for it. They haven't yet met the Red Court Mafia Boss but they HAVE met the WC. The Wizard, who is a PI, gets hired out every so often by KY's Special Investigations goddess Cassandra "The Black Dog" Black. Recently one of their friends got his ass fried by lightning and eaten by wereanimals, but they dealt with that. Now they have to deal with a sniper that puts the DC Sniper to shame after killing a demon that very much resembles a heavily watered down version of The Operator.
Title: Re: What's happening in your game then?
Post by: Jabberwocky on July 21, 2014, 01:48:13 PM
Prague (https://stovezata.obsidianportal.com/), Czechia.

The game is not time-specified according to the books as I have made a lot of changes. There may be no Harry Dresden at all...
The PCs:
Werewolf (http://toonstore.net/Jabberwocky/Darken/)
Minor Wizard (http://toonstore.net/Jabberwocky/Libor/)
True Believer Nun (http://toonstore.net/Jabberwocky/Bohuslava/)
We started with Neutral Grounds and than moved on with a local internal RC conflict (https://stovezata.obsidianportal.com/adventure-log/summary-of-last-two-sessions).

The PCs are currently working for a villainess (http://toonstore.net/Jabberwocky/Bianca/) (I redesigned Bianca for my needs) and will only gradually discover her true face. More (http://toonstore.net/Jabberwocky/Pavlina/) bad (http://toonstore.net/Jabberwocky/Verner/) things are on the way. On the other hand Bianca and her entourage are certainly not the biggest problem Prague and the PCs with it will have to deal with: this (http://toonstore.net/Jabberwocky/Reon/) is going to be very interesting.

As a whole the most powerful faction is the Summer Court and the Summer fey are going to be the antagonists further in the campaign. The basic idea is that the spires and towers of Prague form a specific magical pattern that allows chronomancy and time travel. And the Summer fey know that.

Currently I am preparing yet another villain (http://toonstore.net/Jabberwocky/Gryspek/) but am still unsure how to put him into the story. He and his scourge are based on a West-Bohemian folk tale of a group suicide of a whole noble family at the beginning of the Thirty Years' War. And people are giving me some angelic-diabolic ideas in a neighbouring thread (http://www.jimbutcheronline.com/bb/index.php/topic,42344.0.html) :-)

More info on some of the factions: Red Court (https://stovezata.obsidianportal.com/wikis/red-court), Black Court (https://stovezata.obsidianportal.com/wikis/black-court), Wizards (https://stovezata.obsidianportal.com/wikis/wizard-council).
Title: Re: What's happening in your game then?
Post by: bobjob on July 23, 2014, 05:04:03 AM
The game started modestly enough: a modern Apache Shaman attempted a blood spell to reawaken The Mother (gaia spirit) and reclaim the native lands of Austin, Tx. Aided by a dark version of a Forest Person (before the introduction of the genoskwa), the spell only partly succeeded in creating a new ley node after the PCs stopped the event in the first adventure. This untapped energy became the focal point of a contest to see who would master it, eventually won by the Seelie Sorceress Kaminari the Stormbringer (the Summer equivalent to the Leanansidhe).


All in all, it was a fun campaign. Sadly, like most things that go on for too long (this campaign went on for 2+ years of weekly play at my dining room table), people's schedules changed and we never could get everybody back together. It lost momentum and I called it to an end.

The Players:
Shen Lo - Han Dynasty Sorcerer/Avatar of the Phoenix Yang and great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather of Ancient Mai
Charlie Cane - Demon-touched Private Eye
Serena Keres - Nephilim
"Lucky" - Homeless Holy Man/Knight of the Cross (wielder of the mysterious Fourth Sword (http://www.jimbutcheronline.com/bb/index.php/topic,42073.msg2049964.html#msg2049964))
Joshua Caitson - Seelie Knight of the Stormbringer/Malk Changeling
Title: Re: What's happening in your game then?
Post by: Jabberwocky on July 23, 2014, 08:35:56 AM
Quote from: bobjob on July 23, 2014, 05:04:03 AM
  • A plot that involved Michael Dell selling his soul to the Devil and everybody who ever bought a computer from him being infernally influenced (caveat emptor!)

I really really like this!
Title: Re: What's happening in your game then?
Post by: bobjob on July 23, 2014, 01:39:08 PM
Quote from: Jabberwocky on July 23, 2014, 08:35:56 AM
I really really like this!

It was quite a bit of fun. The actual deal was that he would be given the innovation and ability to build his empire in return for any children he fathered. I wrote it in there that Michael had found out he was completely sterile after some medical procedure and the demon "fixed" that without telling him. There was a clause in the contract that said if Michael didn't turn over his children when the bill came due that any person the empire touched would instead be open to the influence by the Fallen (since they now owned the empire). Always read those User Agreements!

I let the players work through the implications. Most of the US govt ran on Dell computers at the time. Several fortune 500 companies, millions of personal PCs. Not only that, but his computer business had funded hospitals and other charities which could fall under the demon's sway. One of my players worked for one of his charities (in real life) that helped with a Jewish Community Center, so I created a secret group of Kabbalist Wizards funded by Dell that would help combat the demons.

We had a Demon lawyer working for the law firm of Boccanegra (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boccanegra) and DeGuello (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Deg%C3%BCello) (translation: Black Mouth and Slit Throat, my own version of Wolfram and Hart), demonic possession in all kinds of forms (including one massive possession that I'm going to keep secret because I plan to use it in another game on these boards) culminating with some back stabbing and eventually weaseling out of the deal.

All in all, one of my better case files.
Title: Re: What's happening in your game then?
Post by: Jabberwocky on July 23, 2014, 01:52:05 PM
Brilliant, my dear Sir!

(http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6odkq8jNo1qbolbn.gif)
Title: Re: What's happening in your game then?
Post by: Asleif on July 28, 2014, 01:34:22 PM
The City of Boston
Main Aspect:"Only the Shots of Sarajevo are missing..."

Players:
White Council Wizard (Blue Collar Student at Harvard and an oldtimer mechanic, trained and "adopted" by Donald Morgan)
Knight of the Cross (Keeper of an Orphanage - best friends with the Wizard because they grew up in said orphanage)
Winter Knight (Annoyingly british Assassin with enough money and power to make solomon blush...)
Emissary of Power (Chosen by a Shadow Deity of the local native American Indians - stupid rich kid who has no idea what he has gotten himself into)


The Main Conflicts are:
- Italian Mafia vs. Irish Mafia (both secretly backed by supernatural creatures - the italians by Minerva and the Irish maybe by the Denarians)

- The Order of St. Ignatius (radical military protestant inquisition based in Salem) vs. A witches only Sorority (biggest sorority in our Boston) by using things like the Purity Pledge Movement to fight the evil influence of the sexual deviant witches. My Wizards Girlfriend turned out to be a 100+ year old witch...
The big catch here is, that the White Council is not allowed to intervene in Boston for another 66 years due to a contract made with The Order of St. Ignatius a couple of hundred of years back. So my Wizard is all on his own.

- Harvard vs. MIT (Harvard is controlled by the White Court, but a variant that feeds of knowledge and we have no idea yet who is pulling the strings at MIT)

- Irish Druids vs. Indian Shadow Lodge - Really no idea whats going on there. You have to ask the Shadowy kid about that one xD

Then you also have a Task Force of actual non crooked Cops who try to break the almost overpowering hold of the organized crime, the North Irish Forces and lots of other small time players

And above all that we have the Spring Court who has gotten Dominion over Boston from the Summer Court.

The general feeling is one of a bubbling conflict between all major factions and there is an increasing amount of pro-war attitude not unlike the political situation before the WWI.

Last Session we had the Irish Mob fly in troops from the IRA to arm up for going to war against the Italians, eventhough both parties know its somebody else killing their guys they refuse to look weak before their opponents. So we had to prepare everything for a temporary stand-still between the factions while we are looking for the actual killers.
So the next Session will begin the peace talks in the main church of the Knight of the Cross. Because both the italians and the irish are hardcore Catholics...

So a massive Sandbox Setting that could get out of hand easily!
Title: Re: What's happening in your game then?
Post by: Midas on July 30, 2014, 12:48:17 AM
Our group is based in El Paso.

We have been doing a character rotational game, there are three main protagonists and several secondary protagonists (some have not been introduced in the game yet so they are not listed). This allows us to bring in players who cannot play all the time and change the line up. When new characters are introduced, they start at our original starting level. However, characters that are "on the bench" receive two minor milestones automatically. The player then creates a scenario that they were involved in to determine if they get a significant milestone or not. <--Players vote on these (GM is usually using this session to build the next scenario).

El Paso is a major crossroads of the NeverNever, the Wyld Fae love this area because Summer has little presence here (reason currently unknown) and Winter is mainly concerned about the bridge across Rio Grande.


Characters:
Wizard: Lawbreaker(1st) Ranch hand running from the Wardens. Lives off the grid away, only comes into town for supplies. (GM PC character)
Were-Coyote: He is a Coyote (human smuggler). Uses his abilities to patrol his smuggling routes ensuring they are clear. Hunts down Cartel members for the local authorities.
RCI: Fellowship of St. Giles, thug from New York that was sent by the Fellowship to handle problems
Champion of God: Crusader with a claymore, here to protect the pass. Striving to become a Knight of the Cross. A little slash happy.
True Believer: Vampire hunter, excommunicated from the church. Came to El Paso for one mission.
Focused Practioner: Ectomancer. Hipster College student from Marquette University (Milwaukee is known for hauntings). Hosts a cable show called "World of the Psychic." Generally considered annoying by the rest of group, but they tolerate him because of his abilities and the fact that he always buys them a round.

Main Conflicts:

Red Court Vanguard- Teamed up with local cartel to distribute Three Eye. Laced the drug with saliva and is turning out RC from the local blood center and illegals crossing the border. {Main operation smashed in first campaign, but it is known that they are still in the area}

Winter Court- Not a major power here, but taking advantage of the absence of Summer. They seem to have focused what strength they have to secure the bridge.

Drug Cartels- varied, always fighting over turf. A few are aware of the supernatural powers and get hired out occasionally.

Unknown Syndicate- magic organization that kidnapped our wizard.

Misc:

There is a massive population of Wyld Fae in the desert surrounding El Paso these days. Disappearances of people in the desert have made the local news. Vanilla mortals no longer venture outside of El Paso for fear of getting taken.
Title: Re: What's happening in your game then?
Post by: Baron Hazard on July 30, 2014, 08:25:29 PM
So, I may be coming up to run the second arc shortly soon here. For the first arc (which was admittedly some time ago):

First off, my GMing style for a game like Dresden Files is I created several plot lines and events happening in Seattle, and than kind of let the players choose what to focus on, Those tend to become more pronounced and the others still occur (and the players will need to deal with whatever fallout their prioritization caused if any) and maybe a few drop off completely.

In this game, (about the same time as Storm Front) the characters investigated around abit and then latched onto the "Fae Weirdness" going on (however other events going on Seattle: Third Eye being peddled by a Samoan Gang of Hexensharks. House Skavis was buying and remodeling a series of free clincs and rehab centers (under the umbrella of the "Skavis Community Betterment Foundation"). Red Court was nipping around the edges.)

Piecing together information, the PCs discovered that freehold of Fae had formed in Seattle. The leader of the Freehold was a Minotaur (heavily inspired by Nathan Fillion and Nathan Fillion based roles), who had gained posession of a Svartalfar artifact named Oathbreaker, that could sever any oath. He quickly learned this included the oaths binding a fae to their court, freeing them. He settled in Seattle forming his own Demesne inside of a Indoor Public Storage Facility (because Minotaurs and mazes xD.) Not only was he providing a free hold for fae that wanted to be unbeholden to summer or winter, but he was also helping to care for mortal homeless and downtrodden. (two of his changeling agents were thief/Robin Hood urban legends in Seattle, stealing to provide for the swelling numbers.These two were based hevaily on Locke Lamora and Jean Tannen)

The Problem is both Queens refused to stand by this affront to their authority, also both wanted access to such a powerful relic, the consequences of which were terrifying to contemplate, as either Queen could theoretically be forcibly unbound from their court, taking that power with them, drastically changing the balance of the Courts and probably destroying the Earth (this was before certain reveals in Cold Days that make that even WORSE.) The minotaur in his freehold however sought to not use the artifact as a weapon but simply to do his own thing and live his own life in peace and offer that opportunity to others.

The PCs found and met the Minotaur and after talking to him and seeing what he was building, hated to admit they liked him, they began to discuss ways to save him, as terrible summer and winter storms slowly swept towards the city from both sides.

I was quite proud of my players for coming up with the plan they did, they would establish the minotaur as a freeholding lord of the Unseelie Accords, affording him consideration and at least some protection. The White Council wizard decided to sign for the White council, but that left 2 more signatures required. The were-rat procurer of artifacts and knowledge, cryptically told them they only needed 1 more, and refused to answer who his second signatory was. Trusting in each other they weighed several options before they Decided on Skavis. (they'd already butted heads with Skavis previously, and he'd even attempted to hire the Wizard as a "consultant" so they had an in)

They made their way into Skavis' corporate headquarters when the two storms colided. As sleet and snow and hail and rain pounded the city, bursts of hurricane like winds roared, and Winter and Summer came into open conflict in the streets of Seattle in Broad Daylight.

The PCs managed to convince Skavis to sign on, citing Self Preservation. Thus led to that Elevator scene. All the PCs standing in an Elevator around an ally that should be a big bad, armed with a broadsword and shotgun. Upon exiting the building, the first thing they encounter were Elder Gruffs fighting Greater Ogres, it got even worse when the PCs discovered while the two courts were fighting there was a standard running order. As soon as they were seen, both Gruffs and Ogres abandoned their battle and turned towards the PCs together.

They engaged, but things werent looking good. The torrential downpour greatly impeded the Wizards power, and the rest weren't exactly physical power houses. Skavis however didn't get to be the head of a White Court family by collecting stamps and burning through some reserves he handled as many Gruffs and Ogres as the rest of the PCs combined.

This led to a scene later, where he sensed prey and flipping a car found two children huddled hiding under it filled with despair. He smiled that predatory smile and stalked towards them. The party devolved, the Red Court infected Agent of St. Giles already incredibly unhappy to work with a vampire tried to shoot the Skavis, but his attempts were thwarted by his teammates.

The Wizard, feeling his talents useless under this downpour, offered another way to help. He offered himself to Skavis, Skavis fed thoroughly, though stopped before he died, and after a moment he got shakilly to his feet. and the group moved on. It was a great scene ducking and dodging Fae when they could, fighting them when neccessary. Making hard choices, such as living a group of victims to the mercies of several dozen malks and stealthing by.

One of my favorite scenes of this whole arc was when Dragomir Thesius (Pure Mortal P.I.) heard a scream and tore off after it, he found a woman trapped on top of a car, surrounded by a clacking horde of Shellycobbs. Quickly Dragomir worked out a plan with the resident chi-empowered speedster, who drew the shellycobbs away. Dragomir ran up to lead the damsel to safely, she hurled herself at him, as she thanked him, she turned out the Naiad and attempted to draw him in with her siren song. Dragomir maintained a coolhead and iron will as he played along with it, pretending to be entranced. and as they kissed, he drew his 45 with steeljacketed rounds put several into her stomach. it was just PERFECT.

Anyway, the group ran afoul of Ronald Reuel the Winter Knight, there was alot of pagentry and double word play. But basically he managed to concede that Neither queen should get Oathbreaker (and his vested interest is, Knight or not hes mortal and rather attached to this world) if he took them prisoner, he would grant them safe passage. It was very clearly stated, that as they were taken into his custody, they offered him no promise of hospitality or safe passage.

He lead them safely through the city, until a group of Red Court Vampire assassins descended into the fray. And then a stab of fear shot through the heart of the RC Infected as he heard the steady *THOOM THOOM* of a mighty heartbeat echoing through the streets. As the Devourer roared into view, the party split, the Speedster and RC Infected leading the Devourer on a merry chase through Seattle away from the rest.

The Winter Knight held steady against the Rampires, but it was obvious this was a perfect time to leave his custody as he "was busy." and the Storage facility wasn't far now.

The finale ended up the Wizard lost an eye (a Red Court Vampire wayleighed him and as he lay stunned, it reached down and plucked out his eye, and ate it directly in front of him/Extreme Consequence), in a show of unusual bravery the Were-rat in Rat form dropped from a nearby tree taking out the Rampires eye before scurrying under a car to safety.

Eventually, the Wizard and Were-rat made their way into the storage facility with the Skavis, The Wizard and Skavis signed, and the Wizard looked at the were-rat questioningly. The Were-rat smiled and withdrew a silver leaf pin (very early in the game, he secretly did a favor for summer (screwing over the rest of the PCs and the plot in the process) naming him esquire of summer and providing him one boon.

He summoned Aurora and bid her sign the document.

She probably should have prioritized, Court Business (such as the Gruff did in SmF) but it was such a ballsy move I had to let it pass.

The team that had took the devourer on a merry chase, managed to kill it mostly through  immense amounts of C-4 and dropping multiple buildings on it.

The Wizard was free'd from his Doom of Damocles for his heroic efforts.

Currently what is still unknown to any of the players, is that the Wizard's mentor is Black Council mastering mind magic, and that the PC is so loaded up with mental traps and spells. I cant wait xP
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The next arc, will involve them taking a vacation to Las Vegas (where the Rat Pack is Black Court Scourge that secretly runs Las Vegas, I saw the idea posted here a while ago and just loved it.) The Wizard has been looking for his parents, in the first arc he discovered they were members of the Venatori Umbrorum.

A lead of where they are, will bring the PCs to Las Vegas where they learn that his parents are Blampires.

As for theme/plot. Ferrovax was having a supernatural auction of some of his treasure (the Were-rat was there keeping tabs), one piece of treasure was an Urn belonging to one of the Jade Court 'Dragons' (one of the 5 rulers of the Jade Court), as this piece is displayed, all hell breaks loose and it is stolen.

The Jade Court blame everyone and are coming in force to Las Vegas, The Black Court seeks to defend their territory. Ferrovax is roaring for vengeance.

Big Mess. The PCs better clean it up or alot of people are gonna die xP