Last night we wrapped up Lowell Francis Iruvia campaign of Blades in the Dark on Gauntlet Hangouts! I played a young kid named Bijan, living on the streets and sleeping in a warehouse until the crew took me in (I was a later addition to the open table game).
I was a forger that didn’t know how to build things yet, but I had an ability to awaken inanimate objects, even wield them as weapons (the ability is called Ghost in the Machine so of course, I chose that one). Vicious and brutal, I set about using my newly obtained power; cocky that I belonged to a crew now.
There was a gang boss who bullied me. I framed him and killed him, sabotaging a building as he and his crew entered. I killed my rival; I turned to my heritage to garner even more power now that I had a taste for it! Iruvia’s current social structures, it turns out, had been built on and suppressing people who practiced my religion, which was the root of how I could put ghosts in machines. As I delved deeper, I accrued more Trauma I became obsessed, cold, and reckless.
And in the end, Bijan walked away from it all still looking for answers in his religion; setting out into the desert to find something he was convinced existed based on ancient knowledge barred from the world, but not him. Bringing only a mechanical hawk he constructed to aid him.
Lowell did an excellent job as GM and the campaign had so many cool things going on. I really enjoyed myself and it was neat seeing how flexible the system is. You can really speed up downtime or slow down and linger on specific scenes. Everyone had really cool arcs and it was a joy to play in.
I had a good time with Bijan: an interesting arc, strange powers, and a good dynamic with the other characters (both those at the end and earlier on). I particularly dug the changes you added to the fiction, revealing that the established Noble families who claimed centuries of control had in fact usurped power within several generations. It changed up the world in my head and added a lot to U’duasha.
I had a good time with Bijan: an interesting arc, strange powers, and a good dynamic with the other characters (both those at the end and earlier on). I particularly dug the changes you added to the fiction, revealing that the established Noble families who claimed centuries of control had in fact usurped power within several generations. It changed up the world in my head and added a lot to U’duasha.
Nice!
Nice!
Sounds like an amazing series!
Sounds like an amazing series!
It was really awesome, everyone else was fantastic as well; so good!
It was really awesome, everyone else was fantastic as well; so good!