Post battle report

Yesterday was a blast. My two old players make up characters. One was an FBI agent second was Sog/Sag CIA operative. They both went into the unknown with no intel, this was their first brush with unnatural. They lived thru it, and in the end, made contact with someone from a conspiracy. Nothing was said yet about allegiance to the official Program or the Outlaws. Also, they are just begging their trial period of observation from higher-ups in the conspiracy. So this is for now 

Already thinking about my next adventure. Probably there will be more players, so I'm thinking maybe Last Things Last will be a suitable beginner scenario for them, or maybe something else? Could someone point me in another direction?

The game takes us about 15 minutes to create characters and then almost two hours of running the adventure. This was my first real gaming since... Don't even remember when? Also, first time running an adventure in meat space for a long time. All went good. This is the most important thing. Everyone has fun. So my mission here, for now, is complete. Thanks to Matt Sanderson for the great scenario and to Stygian Fox for their superb book.

 

Prep... Wait! Today is the day!

So today is the day that I will run my first adventure in meat space for a long, long time. I'm a little rusty but hope that everyone will have fun. My bag is ready, the only change a made to the setup from the photo is the Handler Screen I almost forgot that I bought it a couple of years ago.  

Prepping... Day 5

So today I went to my local Copy Point and printed out one map that is available for Pulvis et Umbra Sumus scenario. It will be a good handout for players. Also, I'm planning to gather up everything for tomorrow evening, but I will do it in the next post. For now, I must read my notes once again. 

Dices are for scale. 

Prepping... Day 4

So today I'm using my own printer and some glue to make this NPCs portraits. I think they look great in black and white. I'm hoping to use them in the future in another run of this scenario for another group. Nothing to add more, no more time for RPGs today...

Prepping... Day 3

Today I'm focusing on music. I like to have some ambient sounds in the background during play but nothing to distract players. So my go-to pages are freesound.org and YouTube of course. I need some ambient sounds for the hotel scene, and the strange happenings at the end are an adventure. Maybe some car crash sound for one of the events and something more? We will see. I do not want to tell more without spoiling the scenario. But here are some of my finds in no particular order:  

For hotel restaurant scene.

Panic in the city scene.

Otherworld places.

Airport scene.

Car ride scene.

Car crash.

Prepping... Day 2

Today I've decided to write my notes as You can see in the pictures below. In this regard, I'm an analog guy. I always read the scenario for the first time, then after deciding that I will run it, always read for the second time and make my notes. If there is a time gap between reading, taking notes, and running the game I mostly read the scenario for the third time and notes also. This is of course in the case of one-shots or separate scenarios. The campaign is another whole different story. 

Prepping... Day 1

I've started with NPCs. For me, the most important is to show my players them. So I went on This Person Does Not Exist and generated all of them. With some MSPaint magic, I will show them as Polaroid photos to my players. Here You have my NPCs for Pulvis et Umbra Sumus.

Dennis Carter

Joseph Chalmers

Laura Carter

Louise Wright

Ophelia Atwood