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In out last session, the party had spent some more time looking around Bridgefront for more information about the cookie-cutter creature. They found some. The party came across another victim and some spider-like webbing that led deeper into the Shingles. Exploring more, they actually encountered the creature…briefly…and retreated out to an alley with the latest victim. Meanwhile, Darcy, who had been slinking in the shadows and watching over the party, dealt with two individuals who appeared to be associated with Sergio…the gang leader in this area. Dealt with them fatally. After all of this activity, the party headed back to Korvosan mainland to get a drink. While relaxing, Darcy was slipped a note from her mentor to go home as he had some information for her.

That’s where we will pick up after the break. Adam had to work and missed this session. There should be no spoilers below; we pretty much made this up as we played. Hooray! My comments in italics as usual.

We were missing two players during our prior session. Those who were in attendance had shifted their focus from searching for Lamm (who is known for his ability to simply “disappear” when needed) to investigating the gruesome deaths of “empties” in Old Korvosa, following up on the information that Detective Divo Figus had provided. After spotting a creature that clearly has been responsible for the “cookie cutter” killings which evaded their pursuit AND encountering a known thug who may make the investigation more difficult, the trio headed back to Mac’s place to rest and recover.

As a few days had passed in game time in the prior session, I started with asking the players who had missed the prior session just what their characters had been up to in the meantime. We will pick up this session with that after the break.

All of the players were able to join us for this session.

My GM comments are in italics.

Our first few sessions were largely taken up with character creation and then pursuing Gaedren Lamm. While the party had put a stop to his current operations, Lamm himself escaped and went to ground. Many folks that party spoke with mentioned that when Lamm wanted to not be found, he typically could not be found. We had also ended the prior session with Mac finding a dead body, looking as though something had burst out of its chest and stomach. We will pick up with this after the break.

Adam and Jen had to miss this session so Aimar and Isabella were off doing something else.

Most of this session was pretty much spontaneous so I don’t think there are any spoilers for any published adventures.

My GM comments are in italics.

I’m just going to jump right in below the break and continue exactly where the prior post left off rather than provide a mini-summary here. Mostly because we still have definite spoilers for Haunted Fortunes and I want to make sure all the spoilers are below the break.

There are definitely spoilers below for the Haunted Fortunes adventure from Book 1: Edge of Anarchy from the Curse of the Crimson Throne adventure path below the break.

For our Korvosa campaign, we spent a good bit of time with character creation. Specifically, I brought in the notion of background phases from Fate to start to tie the characters together before we began the campaign and to learn just a little bit about who they are. Instead of focusing on that, this session recap is going to jump right into the first “adventure” proper. All of the player characters did have at least one background phase that included how a decrepit miscreant by the name of Gaedran Lamm who either wronged the PC themselves or those around them. Jen had to miss the part of these sessions.

There are definitely spoilers below for the Haunted Fortunes adventure from Book 1: Edge of Anarchy from the Curse of the Crimson Throne adventure path below the break.

As usual, I fell behind in keeping with posting here. Our Shadowdark game continues (Friday nights) but has changed direction slightly. If I get around to it, I’ll post session summaries for our most recent campaign reset. This post is about our new Savage Worlds for Pathfinder (aka Savage Pathfinder) campaign set in the city of Korvosa. Although our first adventure does leverage the Curse of the Crimson Throne initial adventure, we are not playing that adventure path. We’ve spent about a year playing Savage Pathfinder at this point and finished a prior campaign based on Ire of the Storm so we’ve got a good bit of play under our belt. I’m sure we still get things “wrong” with this version of Savage Worlds but, to be honest, that isn’t all that important to me as long as we’re all having fun and everything is handled fairly.

Below the break is the blurb for this campaign based on input from the players and then a bit of information about the player characters. Each player was asked to provide three keywords for something that want in the campaign. These words were the following (collapsing similar ones into just one): Automatons, Chicacabra, Humor, Intrigue (Political), Mad Science, Mistaken Identity, Mystery, Robin Hoodesque, Secret Society, Supernatural/Haunting, Thievery, Vampires, Humor, Mistaken Identity. (Chicacabra is an inside joke from the prior campaign and we always have humor…I don’t think any gaming group can avoid it.) When asked for the style, the response was for something episodic, kind of like a television series, as opposed to a long campaign arc.