Blades in the Dark
Today we played our first session of Blades in the Dark. It was great.
We started out in a dinky rooftop workshop above a bar. Only two character; Cass (The Slide) and Dell (The Leech).
After bickering with the bar's owner about rent, the two of them set out to gather leads on a job. Eventually, a gondala man gave them a tip about the nearby college. He had seen several shipments of fancy food delivered to campus, likely for an extravagent party. With that, the duo decided gather leads on possible avenues for profit.
On the way to the Campus, Dell decided to touch a nearby luminescent tree. To his surprise, it's contact poison burnedinto his hand, causing some serious wounds.
Cass, being a pacifist, wanted to con their way into the school by pretending to deliver a shipment of live eels. With a freshly stolen clipboard board, they demanded a signature from someone in charge. Dell followed closely behind. His face had been scarred years before in an accident, so he wasn't exactly inconspicous. After a paniced encounter, Dell is taken to the medical laboratory by a blucoat and an employee, leaving Cass alone to go talk to the manager. Knocking on his door, they bubmles about an injured person in the laboratory and how the manager is *desperately needed but don't ask why*. Before he can lock the door, Cass finesses a ball of crumpled paper into the door hole, allowing them to easily push the door open after the manager "locked" it and left.
Meanwhile, Dell was having the struggle of a lifetime. Not wanting to become a medical cadaver, he ran ahead of his escorts and tried to lock the door, only to find it had no lock. Empowered by the poison induced brain damage, he could feel no pain. The manager arrived just in time to watch Dell launch himself through the nearest tempered glass window. Shards dug into his skin, contributing to his already numerous collection of scars. With no other options left, Dell commanded with absolute authority for the manager to hand over his clothes.
The manager refused.
Cass managed to slip away with some vital documents, leaving Dell to face a few days in prison. Pretty cold.
After discerning the party to actually be some sort of presentation for an artifact, the two commit to a robbery. With no plan, our crew decided to sneak onto the campus during in the day, and hide during the night when the doors lock.Cass managed to find a utility uniform with ID. While passing time, Dell decided to rig one of their oil lanterns into a fire bomb. The sound however, caught the attention of a nearby bluecoat. Cass managed to get in front of the problem by convincing the officer she's here for repairs. "Don't go in the closet there's dangerous chemical fumes." Somehow thisworked.
Somewhere along the line, the crew came to a plan. Cass would use the firebomb to panic the crowd into evacuating, then Dell could emerge from the closet and easily steal whatever artifact is being presented. With their ear pressed to the door, Cass didn't hear the blucoat walk up. As Cass's brain spiralled a lie, the officer admitted to also being curious.
The two of them listened together.
Dell spent his time in the closet carving wooden stakes from mop handles, just in case.
The presenter was a frail, ghastly skeleton of a man named Dr. Strangelove (I don't remember his actual name but it was something like that). With wheezy gasps, he orated to the crowd of government officials about the leviathan crisis. With great effort, he had managed to discover the location of a fresh hunting ground, one that could be the salvation of the empire. "BEHOLD!" the doctor uncorked a spirit bottle, releasing the chained and very pissed off spirit of a pirate.. The frightened audience could only watch in terror as the doctor forced the ghost to give up the information. Information he would use to strong arm the emperor. The terrified bluecoat tried to flee, but Cass grabbed his arm. With hot improvised patriotic dogma, he managed to convince the officer to arrest that professor. He put his hands on the cops cheeks, and looked him dead in the eye. Then without a word, tossed the fire bomb down the hall.
An ectoplasmic inferno broke out, billowing thick smoke and screams of the damned. Cass burst through the door dragging the officer behind them. "THERE'S A DEMON SEMEN LEAKAGE!!"
Dell takes this as his cue to burst out of the closet. Much confusion ensues, but the patriotic officer managed to tackle Dr Strangelove.
His spirit bottle shattering on the ground.
In a flash of ethereal smoke, the vengful spirit ripped its way into the doctor's body. Dell had already managed to abscond with the doctor's notes, leaving Cass to sort out the bluecoat. Not wanting to catch an offence, Cass reached deep into their soul for the hail mary of bullshit lies.
They reached deep into the past. A booklet of fake ID's won in a backroom poker game. Mostly useful for scamming a free drink now and then. But not today.
With absolute confidence, Cass pulled out a forged Spirit Warden badge (An organization way too secret to have badges). The officer was blown away. Cass caressed his cheek, thanking him for being such a good officer, and promising that she would use him as a contact in the future. But don't tell anyone though *winkyface*.
But it worked, and the crew decided what to do in their off time while appraising their haul. Dell spent his time drinking his way into a lifetime ban from the divebar a few blocks away. With the raw charisma of a man with nothing to lose, he became very intimately acquainted with the gondola man from earlier. There was mentions of mouth stuff.
Cass spent their time doing drugs and partying with the gang goons who own their pub's debt. Basically sword jocks.
This all culminated into a morning encounter with the newly made Dr Strangelove, now clearly a vampire of some sort.
Things went off the rails here. A confused fight broke out that ended with the boatman getting killed and the crew cheesing it. Then I had an outburst and we called it a night.
Actually such a great game. Probably the most fun I've had with an RPG.
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