So here we go:
The Olympian Chronicles.
Our adventure starts as a small,
impoverished house in the Cairo of No-Tutankamon Earth is visited by
an old, grim man, leaving behind a letter for the professional
treasure hunter Paneb, which contains instructions, straight from his
newfound father Hades, to go to a specialized school that would help
him understand his mysterious powers.Of course, the letter included a
small apology for being absent...His son´s entire life.
Ralph Ipswich, the descendant of the
legendary hero of Albion and a promising magic student, is told by
his parents that he was adopted, and is due for a much more important
fate. Taking a vapor train, and guided by the Scotsman
Smiley, he adventures himself towards Hecate's School of Wizardy,
where he meets Paneb for an unlikely mind reading encounter, making
the first group of today´s session.
Meanwhile, on Uruguayan Earth, Guillermo Hudson, a masterful and asocial hacker working for the police in Montevideo, and Arrit Peanutbutter, an unusual girl who takes care of animals in the zoo and just ate a very strange golden apple, are visited by Elon Musk, riding on his solar powered space travelling machine, looking for promising individuals with special abilities to fight evil.
Rodolfo Nievi, alias Fito, an
Argentinian hacker, biker and whiskey lover, who lives in Climate
Change Earth (an earth struck by constant climatic catastrophes) receives an anonymous mail by a strange alias, which invites him to a
special mission, with a big pay and the suggestion of information
about his origins as a possible reward. He takes a ticket with a
false id to a remote place in Africa ad is met by Lutumba, an agent of
Elon Musk, who offers to take him to Elon´s secret base.
An unlikely alliance forms as they are
taken Elon´s super headquarters in the frozen wastes of
Antartica. Now Elon has assembled Fito,
Guillermo and Arrit, and is trying to unite them as part of his Super
Team(and our second, group of heroes): the EM MEN!
Far away, Helena, a mysterious 16 year
old from Maine with the power of precognition, Corey, a 18 year old
metalhead from who was raised by a strange magic cult, and Aetos, the
current emperor of the Grecoromanic Empire in 2637, suddenly wake up
in a strange new world called "the City". Ruled by an
elusive figure called "The Architect" , the City is a small
island where individuals from distinct worlds were imprisoned because
someone wanted them "Removed" from their realities. While
not hostile to them, even offering them an easy and problem free
life, their assigned guardians, Haqim and Habiba, tell the Godlings
that no one has ever escaped the island, uniting the third group in a
common goal: Escape.
On Hecate's School of
Wizardry
Looking at our wizarding heroes, Both
Paneb and Ralph are now introduced to Hecate s school of
Wizardy. Paneb is trying to make contacts inside the school, including
the famous BOLT-0, master of occultism (but unable to cast any spells, due to his claw-hands and the fact that he's a robot); and the school board director,
Aleister Crowley. He makes a deal with BOLT-0 to obtain some illegal
human-fat candles that would supposedly help him contact Hades in
exchange for a future favor, but the ritual simply fails miserably.
Influenced by his newfound teachers, Ralph learns of the possibility
to become immortal, and dreams of a future with enough time to do all
that he wanted.
Both also have the chance to meet
Paredolia (a crazed conspiracy theorist magician obsessed with
associating object between each other) and Apophenia (an actually
grounded person), children of Morpheus and Iris. But something wrong
is going at the school. Paneb is warned by an unknown stranger to
escape the school and get to the caves, which the school has claimed
many students have disappeared in.This is further complicated by a
living shadow's assassination attempt on Paneb!
As they defeat the shadow and the
teachers question their students about the incident, Paneb reveals
that he had attempted a ritual with candles of human fat. While
Aleister Crowley is sure the ritual was just a fluke and had nothing
to do with the living shadow´s attempt, he demands to know who gave
him the candles. Thinking it as an act of vengeance, Paneb decides to
blow the whistle on BOLT-0s human-fat candle smuggling activities,
effectively ending his long teaching career as he is dragged away
swearing vengeance through his robotic speakers.
On The EM Men Earth
Assisted by the amazing Sea Goat (a man
with the head of a goat, and swimming powers), Cyclopes (a humongous
Cyclops with a visor), and Daffyd (just a regular dude) the EM Men are
tasked to destroy the evil Twitter corporation's secret headquarters, on the inside of an
active volcano.Everything seems fine, but our heroes are yet not
accustomed to the suits.
The day before the raid, Fito befriends the mighty Cyclops and Guillermo hacks through Elon's files, they both learn about the existence of at least 52 different earths, that Arrit is immortal (and she tells Sea Goat about the Golden Apple she ate, given to the old man who cared for her by a mysterious stranger with sad eyes), and that Elon is actually the son of the mighty forge-God Hephaestus, and bears the title of God of Innovation.
As they charge in on the evil Twitter
corporation, they find out that Twitter was preparing a death-ray to
subdue earth`s population. As they fly down with Jetpacks into the
insides of the volcano, they fight off some half-human half-shark
mutants with lasers on their heads.
While the Uruguay and Argentina
team-up of Guillermo and Fito deliver powerful kicks and lasers,
Arrit Peanutbutter literally tears the brain of one of the sharks out
of their head, showing off her incredible might. They finish off the
job as Elon rushes the team out of the almost exploding volcano, but
Sea Goat is nowhere to be found...
On the Architect´s
City
As they are received in the City s strange culture and hospitality, Helena, Corey and Aetos find out about the Resistance, the City's subversives, they claim a mysterious prophecy about the Lady of the Moon who would help the immigrants to the city finally escape, destroying the "thunder that created the world"; and are viewed by the City´s guards as terrorists,. Using their psychic powers to communicate, the three Godlings have managed to feign submission on the outside, but started scheming to ally themselves with the Resistance and find a way to return to their own worlds.
Worried about her parents, Helena uses
her power of scrying to contact them from the distant earth,
discovering they are likely are not even in the same planet. They
confess to them that she was adopted, given by a strange organization
that later just seemed to vanish into thin air. Aetos looks deeply
into the cultures of the City, and used his shape changing powers at camera blind spots in his room to learn the forms of some of the
City´s high ranking politicians and Habiba, Aetos own "care
taker".
Corey and Helena managed to have a
brief contact with the elusive leader of the Resistance, who told
them that one of them might be the child of the prophecy, and asked
them to wander around the bazaar on the following day so they could
speak more. Meanwhile, Aetos has infiltrated and seduced his way to
information about the architect in the City s high society, learning
the place where they meet with their ministers, and the cave where
apparently the immigrants arrive.
What is Elon Musk true purpose? Is the
Hecate School of Wizardy really the learning place they claim it to
be? Will the Godlings be able to escape the trappings of the
Architect´s city?
Only Fate truly knows.
Only Fate truly knows.
*****
So that's it for the play report. Keep in mind it was written by Aetos' player. So there's some things other players might have done in private that he doesn't know about. Likewise, things are being reported from his perspective, and there's a few details he left out (like how Aetos' careful 'infiltrating and seducing' the high society of The City largely involved him having sex with extremely aged bureaucrats of both genders.
But on the whole, a good introduction to the first session of what is going to be a very weird campaign.
RPGPundit
Currently Smoking: Lorenzetti half-volcano + Blue Boar
Is there room for another player?
ReplyDeleteNice of you to ask! But unfortunately we're full up, and I get the feeling you don't live here, anyways.
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