Compromise and Conceit
Infernal adventuring…
Category: game reports
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Date: 5th October 2177 Weather: Rainy Mood: Frustrated and exhausted. Who knew killing Americans was this tough? Outfit: My shiny new combat armour, that I bought with the proceeds from icing Lima. It’s snug and super tough at vulnerable points where other armour fails. Not very breathable and the peripherals on the helmet are…
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Inquisition reporter: Suleiman the Lost Report date: 40874.413 Imperial Standard Report location: Infield, shuttle Emissary of Wrath 743; cogitate encode level 4714 Report Status: Heresy unresolved; external action unwarranted; maintain extermination recall watch The Emperor protects, and we in service to the Inquisition extend his protection to all those who toil for his glory. Our…
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This is an account of our first, short adventure, playing the Malifaux RPG Through the Breach. Malifaux is a Victorian steampunk-horror setting in which the world as we know it is linked to another, sinister world called Malifaux by a phenomenon called the Breach. The Malifaux side of the Breach is full of magic powered…
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[Editor’s note: this is a guest post giving an account of another downtime, played by Bart, who is responsible for our hacker, Ghost.] After loading in the loot from their latest gig, the hacker Ghost and kid mechanic Tail have separated from their companions to bring the stuff to their hideout quickly and are preparing…
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If the Autumn Bridge shakes in your bellows Your every breath will be your last For you must dredge the waters till the Just give up the Dead … The sands of waters will make you clean And you will hear the whispers beyond I recently started playing in a short Malifaux campaign, with my…
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Date: 4th October, 2177 Weather: Rainy Mood: So so so happy! I got to see Fae Ling Moon! She played her new anthem and the lights were amazing and I only missed the last two songs because of rioting, and Alt spoilt it a bit but we did good business. I didn’t get to kill…
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The difference between virtuality and life is very simple. In a construct you know everything is being run by an all-powerful machine. Reality doesn’t offer this assurance, so it’s very easy to develop the mistaken impression that you’re in control. – Credited to an Ephemeralist prophet Date: 1st October, 2177 Weather: Rainy Mood: Confused and…
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[Editor note: This is the second Cyberpunk Facebook downtime, cleaned up and stripped of faffing. It describes what happened after we finally decided what to do with the loot we scored after killing Lima, and shows the dangers of hanging around to debate logistics in a world where the biggest guns rule. Fortunately in this…
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[Editor note: this is a report of a downtime that happened – run on facebook – after our last Cyberpunk session. It is one of two quite impressive downtimes we ran over the past two weeks. We’ve run another session in person since then, but that session makes no sense without these downtimes. Also…
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Date: 6th September 2177 Weather: Rainy Mood: Elated, but sore. I’d forgotten how much it hurts to get shot in the head, but I’m so so so so happy that my Russian ghost came back to me. Even if this time it made me sick and weird and I heard voices … Outfit: Obviously today…
Compromise and Conceit 