Morgan's Raspy Raven Gumshoe Season 2 Adventure

The convention games ran from Jan 31 to Feb 12, 2024. I assume there was a cut-and-paste error on Warhorn, the convention title was Raspy Raven Gumshoe Season 2023, not 2024.

This is an interesting free online convention. 12 different GUMSHOE systems, each run by a different GM. None of the games overlap in time. Since there are limited seats, Players are strongly encouraged to only sign up for only one game, so other people can have a chance at playing. As of Feb 1, two games still had an open seat, so those open seats can have a Player who wanted to double dip.

The systems offered were: 13th Age, Da'Zoon, Fear Itself, GUMSHOE System, Night's Black Agents, SH/AM/US, Swords of the Serpentine, The Esoterrorists, The Fall of Delta Green, The Yellow King RPG, TimeWatch, Trail of Cthulhu

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Feb 3 (Sat), 11am-3pm (4 hrs)

Find FOREVER

System: Night's Black Agents
GM: PTroilus
4 Players: Jim McCarthy (Rufus - Hacker), Ian Stronach (Ashanti - Analyst), FermeLaBoucher [Simon] (Ren - Black Bagger), Morgan Hua (Jordan - Journalist/Cuckoo)

You all have your own reasons for looking into FOREVER. Maybe it was linked to your colleague, your handler, or your family disappearing. Maybe it was linked to the operation that got a half dozen of your teammates killed. Whatever it is, it also got you out or burned.

Your leads have all made a habit of disappearing, but this most recent one - a frantic, last-minute call for an extraction - looks like the most promising by far, if you can get him out in time.

In Night's Black Agents, you play modern-day highly competent burned or retired spies, working in the shadows to take down supernatural forces of darkness.

Pregenerated Characters will be provided. Newbie Friendly (to Night's Black Agents, Foundry, or both!). Age minimum 18.

Tone: Highly competent former spies in a paranoid mystery-thriller.

The scenario is pretty simple and works as an introductory scenario. We had 2 newbies, so that was fine.

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As an introduction, we do a short quick extraction of a NPC. The issue was I asked if we were going to plan this or go by the seat of our pants, and another player didn't want to spend to much time planning, so we each did sort of a montage of actions, so it wasn't very satisfactory.

We basically spirit away an informant from a crowded outdoor shopping area. He's being tailed by two goons. He tells us where FOREVER is.

We then did a back-at-our-hideout scene and how did we customize our hideout and what extra things we have in our bugout bags.

Then we wake up in a motel in FOREVER. After finding out that we've lost time, we're still under surveillance, and that we're in an artificial town underground somewhere, we find a way to escape. I likened this to The Village from The Prisoner. The other prisoners seemed listless and lacked memories.

We find an underground tunnel complex and cut a deal with Orlok, a vampire, to cut off the UV lights that protects a hatch that leads to a military base and freedom.

The vampire was being harvested of serum that extended the life of powerful people. It in turn fed off of people living in the village. Guards and UV lights watched for people who acted out of place and locked in the vampire. We came to our senses because the vampire deliberately left our memories intact in his bid for freedom.

My PC, a NPR podcast reporter (deep cover), then blew the whistle on the stem cell experiments various rich and powerful people were doing to extend their lifespans. Illegal activities were done. Public money was mis-spent. And various rich and powerful people suddenly aged and died when their source of serum dried up.

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