The second part of our campaign game ran last night. Here is a brief write-up and a few pictures. You can find more pictures by clicking
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After the Chaos in the Oriental Gardens at Progress Park, three of the groups had failed to find out what the Jade Hood was up to. Through well placed bribes, some threats, and the judicious use of snitches, they managed to find out that there were four people down on the waterfront who had been doing work for the Jade Hood and would have information.
All three teams arrived to find a new player in this story. The Black Tong gang, led by Madame Daiyu Rong. The Black Dragon tong have sworn themselves to the destruction of the Jade Hood's gang and when they heard he was up to something, they came to check it out.
The teams quickly dispersed and went racing after the Encounter Markers. With no villains to oppose them (yet) they moved quickly. One of Tom's Arbas had a high BRAWN and the Leap special ability and made quick work of jumping to the top of the roof (we'll just assume he was as nimble as a mountain goat and leapt easily from one ledge to another up the side of the building). On the roof, he learned that the Encounter marker he had triggered was the appearance of two members of the Jade Hood's gang.
Each bad Encounter had Jade Hood men appear at one of four numbers---Tom was unlucky in that he drew the card that placed them right next to him.
The fight on the rooftop was epic but the two Jade Hood men finally fell after several turns.
Meanwhile, Markus's Professor team raced along the outside of the buildings, quickly reaching the dockside where most of the Encounter markers were placed. Unfortunately, George's tong trggered the appearance of two of the Jade Hood's men directly above Markus on the rooftop of Burton storage.
The one with the machine gun on the roof quickly discovered that shooting barrels caused them to explode. He hit the Black Dragon tong in the alley with one of these explosions and immediately killed one of its members (luckily the madame escaped unharmed).
The second guy decided to drop down on the dog as the rest of Markus's team was making its escape. It did not go as he planned as the dog ripped his throat out.
While that didn't go well, a second machine gun burst into more drums sent the shrapnel riddled corpse of one of Markus's team sailing off the board. The second rear-guard suffered from a bit of lead poisoning.
In the end, each of the three players was able to find a required person and pass their BRAINS test before the game ended so that they would not be penalized in the next chapter.
All the people the players were searching for were from a foreign country. The players had to have a model with the Language ability in order to get the clue they needed. Otherwise, they would have had to exit the board with the foreigner in tow in order to have someone else translate.The whole scenario played out in under two hours and there was lots of jumping off buildings, explosions, and Jade Hood men getting their butts handed to them again.
Next game. I up the ante! :twisted:
June 28, 2012, 06:19:39 AM