Dramatis Persona
|
Player |
Character Name |
Comments |
|
Brian |
Ash |
DEAD;
Killed in the Chaos Factor |
|
Brian |
Cujo Zakamate |
Araskite
Brotherhood, Ex Loom of Fate "Retired" in |
|
Brian |
Dandelion |
Cult
of Ecstasy, Hippie, and Unknown Guitar God, Ex Platform X, now in London, was
in the intro to Fate of the Isles |
|
Eamon |
Freddrick Klokkos |
Son
of the Ether, Historian, Ex Loom of Fate & Platform X, now in In |
|
Gill |
Cullum
McCloud of the Clan McCloud |
Verbena,
Druid, Ex Loom of Fate & Platform X, now in In
London, was in the intro to the Fate of the Isles |
|
Ian
J |
Juan
Carlos |
A
Son of the Ether, Played once only in the first session of the Loom of Fate,
Current where bouts unknown |
|
Ian
M |
Jennifer
Tiddles |
Cult
of Ecstasy, Protestor, Ex Platform X, Agent of a thrash metal Goth band now
in London |
|
Jill |
Agetha Goodenough |
A
Verbena Wiccan took part in the intro to Fate of the Isles. |
|
Jim |
Kane |
DEAD:
Killed in Platform X |
|
Jim |
Herr
Doktor Doktor Bruno Weiss |
Son
of the Ether, Gageteer, and associate member of Chantry X, Survivor of the
Chaos Factor; Was involved in the intro to the Fate of the Isles, but had
several "accidents" whilst burning off paradox, currently in
Cambridge at his labs working on work-a rounds. |
|
Lesley |
Vincent
Du Lacey |
Euthanatos,
"Voodoo Witch Doctor", Owner of the Psylo and night club in London,
Ex Loom of Fate & Platform X, now in In London,
took part in the Into to Fate of the Isles. |
|
|
Aeron
Shumark |
Virtual
Adept, "Vortex". Ex Student of the legendary Black Gambit, Ex Loom
of Fate & Platform X, now in In |
Chronicle: - Loom of Fate
New characters
- Vincent (Vinnie) Du’Lacey (Les),
Cullum Macleod (Gill), Kane (Jim), Maria Marten (Karen), Aaron Shumark
(Vortex)(Tara), Kujo Zakamati (Brain), Juan Carlos (Ian J).
The
Mages are in
Once
the reading is over Madam Cleo vanishes.
The party fail to notice that although the reading lasted but an hour or
so three hours have actually passed.
Cullum heals Norma who promptly departs to see her priest. Vinnie’s dog follows her and the party arrive
at Grace Cathedral. Father Williams
turns out to be a corrupt priest and summons aid in the form of four Men in
Black when confronted by Kane. The
villains are defeated and the Bishop captured.
In the Car Park of the Hilton Kane (at the Bishops request) administers
the Rites of Death. The Bishops pattern
joins with the pattern of Kane’s sword, reforming it in the process. Norma believes that something has happened to
her mother as their car had been off the road for months.
Cullum
goes to check out Mrs Weaver's House. He
is surprised when Mrs Weaver, protesting that her daughter has been kidnapped,
shots him. Vinnie, Kujo and Kane go to
investigate why Cullum has not come back.
Aeron stays at the Hotel to guard Norma.
By the time the party gets to the weaver house Mrs Weaver is gone. They search the house, finding the body of
Mrs Weaver in the attic. They also find
some stuff that belonged to Mr Weaver.
Cullum rings Aeron then they dash back to the hotel.
There
are two men in Black about to burst into the hotel room. Aeron (in the
bathroom, hiding with Norma) explodes some semtex in the corridor. The men both vanish. Aeron and Norma move onto a different floor.
When the rest of the party arrive the hotel surrounded by police in the middle
of a hostage situation with Norma & Aeron as the main attraction. The false Mrs Weaver is sobbing away the
police captain and two men in black, with FBI ids, stand near-by looking
official. Aeron tries a couple of tricks
to get out, these fail. Kujo, Kane,
Cullum & Vinnie join forces and manage to make one of the Men in black
disappear and Kujo manages to create a one way link with the Captain. When Cullum wants to do something against Kane
& Kujo's moral codes they break the coven.
Kane stands and stares at the men in black.
The
men in black send a cop over to check Kane out and he straight arms the guy,
breaking his neck. Promptly, Kane is
mobbed by the forces of the law, arrested and carried off. Vinnie surrenders to the police and explains
the situation to the Captain saying that they are Norma's friends and it’s all
just a big misunderstanding, Vinnie volunteers to talk Aeron out of the
building.
Meanwhile
Kujo with a false FBI id walks into the building and uses and Mind 4 effect to
locate Norma and Aeron. Also meanwhile,
Aeron and Norma have decided to walk out.
The situation is resolved with Norma refusing to go home at the moment,
saying that she is staying with her friends Aeron and Vinnie, and Mrs Weaver is
left being very annoyed.
Norma,
Vinnie, Cullum and Aeron go to visit Mr Weavers grave where they are visited by
his ghost (called up by Vinnie’s awareness of his presence and his wanting to
appear to Norma) who promptly (and very politely) possesses Vinnie. His has little to say but convinces Norma
that her real mother is actually dead.
Kujo with his false FBI id walks into the police station and gets them
to release Kane to him, he explains that Kane is a Serial Killer and is under
FBI jurisdiction.
New Characters - Fredrick Klokkos (Eamon).
The
characters (other than Cullum who is resting in hospital and Kane who is laying
low) have booked in with Norma at a Motel.
Aeron goes out to a seven eleven and is attacked by a Marauder; he
defeats it with some help from Fredrick who happened rent the flat above shop. Vinnie, Kujo and Norma are attacked by three
Marauders whom they destroy (taking some radiation damage from a dead
radioactive horse).
The
Characters move to a disused building on the lower east side. Aeron attempts to locate a home address for
Dr Himitsu. He offends against the New
World Order (NWO) information guardian system.
Police turn up on another kidnap charge.
Fred listening on his scanner watches the whole scene from a nearby
building. Kujo possesses the senior
officer and just as the characters are about to leave the police leave, their
senior officer having decided that they have turned up to the wrong
location. Fred sees a mysterious man
enter the building and moves in to check it out. Vinnie and Kujo come down from the roof to
pick up the rest of their gear and are surprised by a cyborg (terminator style). Vinnie shoots it to no good effect. Kujo gets
his wrist shattered in nine places, having made the mistake of taking it on in
unarmed combat. Someone in the group
manages to destroy the cyborg by ramming his rifle into something
important. The Cyborg goes into self
destruct and the party leg it, shadowed by Fred. Kujo goes to hospital, where his wrist is
set, and he is kept in for observation.
Vinnie meets Fred and they overnight above the seven eleven in Fred's
flat.
New Characters - Jennifer
Tiddles (Ian M).
Cullum
& Kujo meet with Jenny in hospital and Vinnie turns up (booking the green
bottles in the process – what ever that means?). Kane goes to Mrs Weavers house confronts the
guards and is captured. The party goes
from Fred's home where they have been staying to the UMC and investigates Dr
Himitsu's office. They find evidence of
a Technocracy symposium meeting on the 7th of this month.
In
the lift down they are magically shifted to the Genetech Horizon realm. There they are confronted in a pseudo
reasonable manner by Dr Himitsu, he offers a peaceful resolution. Vinnie eventually cracks and ventilates the
good doctor’s head. They have learned
that Norma is wanted to replace a device that is failing, and that the device
is used to stabilise
Jenny
(who came in separately and was captured) and Kane are rescued/escape from
their holding cells in the horizon realm. The security staff seemingly let them
escape. The leave UMC – promptly –
travelling back to the “real world” in the lift.
The
party report into their superiors or mentors and are roughly told to keep Norma
away from the Technomancers and find out what’s happening at the symposium
meeting. Aeron has arranged a plane and
Fred has started packing. Various
members of the party have put bets down about the chance of an earthquake. If things go as the good ex-doctor Himitsu
suggested, the Technomancers will now take off the kid gloves.
The
whole party are in separate locations. Cullum attempts to arrange a safe
house. Aeron talks via scrambler to his
mentor and gets into the on-line occult library of Baron de Turville. There he learns more about the occult history
of
Aeron,
Kane, Cullum, Vinnie with Norma drive to
The
Mages, with Norma in tow (on Aeron’s passport – as his daughter) take a flight
from
The
Mages go to Cullum's Mentors Home in
Vinnie and
Kane both appear back on the plane, which now is on route for
Kane
departs for
Vinnie
decides to make the most of the free flight and gets into some serious
partying, then flies back to the
Cullum
spends some time with his Master, developing his art and learning about paradox
flaws. Fred arrives from Liverpool,
after stopping of at his Traditions free house in
Finished
Chronicle: - The Underground - Platform X
The
group receive packages, individually addressed to each of them. Three of them get bombs intended for a Mr
Daark. Others receive paper work that
deals with various murders dating back to the 1930's. They report to the police, and are led (by
the pattern of the murders) to investigate mysterious reports of vanished tube
station at Kings Cross.
Squat Somewhere in
New Character -
Dandelion (Brian)
Dandelion,
a spaced out member of the Cult of Ecstasy receives some fingers in the
post. Marks them not known at this
address and changes squats.
The
party meet up with Dandelion (whilst he is busking down King's Cross), Vinnie
tries to score off him, and he hangs around the party, following them, possibly
thinking that there's a free meal in it.
After several hours searching, they come across a dusty old staff only
door, behind it is a maze of corridors, filthy stairs and disused escalators. They navigate this maze, or rather Cullum and
Aeron do, with the rest of the group in tow and arrive at Platform X, where
they meet a strange attendant, who is generally abusive and doesn't tell them a
lot other than Mr Daark left here in the 1930's, the train's from here stop in
any tube station and leave the bloody tramp alone. Cullum disturbs the tramps unconscious form,
Wych (the tramps familiar) pops into being and warns them off. He tells them a bit more about his master and
then Opalescent Order of Harmonic Truth; he seems surprised that the party has
never heard of this order. Eventually
the cabal susses that this place is indeed a node.
They
drain the place dry of standing quintessence.
The platform attendant comes back out.
It emerges that his name is Yyg, an earth elemental bound into this
place by Loftwyr; High Priest of Boudicca.
Yyg remembers that he has to issue a challenge and does so. The Cabal send Kane on a race with Yyg to
They begin
their surveillance of Mr Daark; Fred moves the fridge of Zool into Platform X.
The
party make plans and wait for Monday when Dandelion usually sees Mr Daark
coming to work. Jennifer Tiddles flies
in from the
Dandelion,
Kane & Vinnie wait for Daark. Daark
spots Kane and sends one of his heavies to sort him out, Kane knocks the guy
down, he starts screaming for help, and some stuck up commuter steps in. The Mages follow the commuter for a while,
thinking him to be Daark. Fred enters
Onarion and tries to sell them photocopier stuff. He is seen by Mr Baxter and strikes a deal.
He later follows Baxter, watches him pull a bank robbery, and follows him into
the east end of
Deaths
- Kane (Jim)
The
Mages attack Onarion entertainment in a frontal assault to take out Mr
Daark. It turns out the Daark is in
league with a Nepherous mage called Mr Won.
He says hello to them when they stumble into his office congratulates
them on killing Mr Daark and spontaneously decays in front of them. The mages make a bit of a hash of the attack
and many of them suffer quite a lot of damage.
They cause structural damage to the building, fires, the odd flood,
electrical arcing and generally ruin the entire building, which is later in the
day condemned. Kane during the fight
sacrifices himself so that Dandelion, Klokkos and Cullum are not gunned down
after having already taken a lot of damage from traps that they had sprung.
Kane takes three bursts of automatic gun fire for his friends and dies in a
bloody mess on the floor. The group leave the area before the police arrive and
return to the chantry.
Finished
Campaign
Note
New
Character: Herr Doktor Doktor Bruno Weiss (Jim)
Vinnie establishes a new night club in the Kings Cross
area in the deconsecrated church of St James the Penitent, Dandelion signs up
with Vinnie as an artist. Aeron
begging’s studying with new character: Herr Doktor Doktor
Bruno Weiss in exchange for his membership in the Chantry
Chronicle:
Angel of Mercy
Vinnie
first sees the statue of the Angel of Mercy in the Angel Fountain mall. The place is due for a grand reopening
soon. Vinnie gets growled at when he
tries to detect magic on the statue.
The
blood Lords visit the Psylo trying to cause trouble. However they try to pick on Dandelion who
manages to avoid all but a slightly tense atmosphere with this group of Neo
Nazi Satanists. Marco, the leader of the
Blood Lords uses some sort of Magical detection device on Dandelion. The Lords warn Vinnie that the Platform X
Mages should stay out of the Blood Lords business and the Blood Lords will stay
out of theirs.
Campaign
Note
Interlude
of 2 weeks: Where in the Mages
prat about trying to find out more about Mr Wellington who owns the Statue,
during this time, they all follow Aeron into the Digital Web. They also find out the Blood Lords have been
hanging about the Angel Fountain Mall.
On the news the group see the statue
starting to bleed and Men in Black (MIBS) descending onto the scene to control
the strange events. Vortex visits the
site by correspondence sensing and sees a camera man vanish in another
correspondence effect as the MIBs threaten him; she thinks that she has just
seen another Mages Avatar awaken. Dandelion, Lucerzia and Vortex go down to the
mall to check things out. Dandelion gets
himself arrested for pretending to spliff up in front of an officer of the
law. The big doggie goes around the back
and sneaks in for a closer look. Vortex
is spotted by an MIB and uses correspondence to bug out. Dandelion escapes form
the nick using some coincidental effect that causes the doors to be
unlocked. He goes to the mall, get
captured by the MIBs. They pump him full
of truth drugs, straighten him out and KO him.
He awakens in Whitechapel. Later they find that the statue has been
stolen and the Technocracy has vanished.
The Blood Lords also appear to have vanished with Marco nowhere to be
found
Finished
Campaign
Note
Some
action for the Mages in the Fate of the Isles Chronicle, but other than that
there's about 5 weeks worth of down time covering Christmas 1995 and New Year
1996
Chronicle:
Just another Day at Platform X
Session Played - Wednesday,
27/12/2000
Player's - Brain (Dandelion) &
Les (Vinnie)
Vinnie and Dandelion arrive at
Platform X in time to see a spectral steam train (in the Victorian style with
weird extras for special effect - carrying the name "spirit of De
Vinci") come hammering through the station - now this is a little strange
as the station is supposedly disused and one end is bricked up ! The rather short handed team check out the
scene and other than a rather unpleasant
Alien creature (in the spirit world that is, not a corporeal creature)
that appears to be waiting for the train (green many eye's lots of tentacles,
dripping in slime - that type of thing) there appears to be noting out of the
ordinary. The train reappears every 40
minutes, the team consult with a Vampire they hangs out in the Platform X area
(a Nosferatu who preys on rats and other vermin), but he knows nothing about
the train. They establish that some of
the time the train is extra dimensional.
As it smashes through a wall that Dandelion constructed - this isn't
true all the time.
London underground workers are appear
on the scene as apparently the mystery train has caused all the points in the
area to go nuts and get stuck pointing in the direction of Platform X. Using a Spirit effect the group summons a
spirit off the train - which promptly materialises and then ages about three
millennia on the spot!! It leaves behind its clothes and a wacky looking
ray-gun - which Vinnie promptly appropriates.
The Mages check out the work crew and
one of them thinks that he has a sudden heart attack (a Mind effect caused by
Vinnie on Gus an old over weight rail worker).
About an hour after the workers have left (they rushed Gus off to
hospital) they are replaced by 3 scientists, a couple of heavies, a military
type (captain, British army – UNIT SID?) & and obvious MIB. The Mages try
to divert the new crew away from Platform X and in the process one of the thugs
gets killed by the local Vampire (who decided to help the "good"
guys) and another gets blown away by Vinnie's new gun (which appears to massive
damage to bodies but none to objects, fires as it freezes as it disrupts or
something like that) - both Vinnie and Dandelion are covered in gore as the guy
exploded in a loud proficient military manner!!
Both the mages leg it (still attempting to take the attention away from
Platform X).
Dandelion
gets caught by the police, but eventually manages to escape - after a bizarre
chase through the streets of the west end and the spontaneous creation of a 12
foot long 6 foot high wall of solid gold.
Vinnie collapses the southern end of Platform X with a sequence of
Entropy effects (which may or may not have had serious effects on the whole
structure of the area J
) Dandelion's face appears on
"Crime stoppers", the TV News, Local TV News & in the Evening
Standard and the Sun (later in Fortean Time, but he
don't know that yet). Therefore he
shaves his beard and his head and borrows some of Vinnie's clothes.
Dandelion
then burns off a shit load of Paradox - the net effect of which is that he
forgets that the sixties even happened - therefore in the Dandelion mindset,
the fifties were the coolest things that ever happened.
Finished
Chronicle:
Big in
Session Played - Thursday,
08/11/2001
Players – Brian (Dandelion),
The guys wake up in a coffin hotel in
Session
Played – Sunday, 11/11/2001
Players
– Brain (Dandelion),
New
Characters - Damien Carras - [Jim][Jesuit
priest, Demon hunter, Celestial Chorus]
<OK,
so I didn't document this session at the time so this is a poor account> A Demon of the Iron Wind turned up
and lured the group off into the Wicked City - one of the thousand hells of the
Yomi. A few
thing s went on <zombie gangsters, weird technology & some strange scary
shit ;) > eventually the group meet up with the Lord of the Wicked city - A Yomi Lord aka - Demon Lord.
The Lord asks them to help him get rid of a league of evil sorcerers
<his reasons for wanting this are unclear, something about a double cross
during the 2nd World War> who operate out of Berlin and use a
group of Vampires called the Blood Lords who he believes that the group has
already had dealings with. Most of the
group agree <except for Jim's character that - being a Demon Hunter - finds the
idea of working for a Yomi Lord unconscionable &
promptly announces that he intends to retires his character as soon as they
manage to escape the wicked city>.
Those that agree convince the Demon Lord to let Damien go as well &
he returns each of the group to their choice of locations within the real
world. Cullum, Dandelion, Vortex &
Juan return to the Psylo in
Character
Retirement - Damien Carras - [Jim]
Continues ??