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Welcome to this week’s free post for Covenant!
Sazzy is back in the saddle as Force Majeure on Sunday’s playtests, and the players are back in the Sagittarius Arm.
This week’s game, picks up just minutes after the player characters (PC) freed Neeja’s homeworld from loyalists to the old Khan of the ratel Khanate, Baran. Not much happened, as this session was for setting up the latest campaign. But this one promises to be interesting.
Sazzy is linking their campaign with Sean’s Underground Railroad campaign, which happened a few years prior in the game’s history. In the Underground Railroad campaign, the PCs (including the aco Collision, who is returning for this campaign as the gunner on the New Orleans) rescued several acoes from being experimented on by Rekanna Industries in the Archimedean Campaign (AC). In Sazzy’s campaign, the PCs will be heading back to the Orion Arm to deal with a Rekanna “scrapping site”.
Acoes are artificial organisms. They’re sapient but have no rights except in the Covenant, so they can be used and abused however their owners want. In the case of Rekana Industries, when an aco outlives their usefulness, is considered defective, or just rebels against how they’re treated, they’re sent to a scrapping site to be ground down into pet food.
The PCs are being hired to help with evacuating the acoes in one of these scrapping sites before destroying it. Naturally, they were all in.
Like we said, Sunday’s session was for setting up the story, so there was no gameplay. However, Sazzy is planning to have the PCs be a distraction while a larger force of NPCs rescues the acoes at the scrapping site. That could mean a lot of different kinds of gameplay: definitely fighting, but also social encounters, deception, demolition, sabotage, even a little stealth. Whatever it is, Covenant can probably handle it. And if it can’t, well, this campaign’ll give us ideas for fixing that.
Anyway, that’s it for now. We’ll be talking about the game and Sazzy’s campaign on our Friday Twitch stream, and we’ll also be publishing the character creation rules for calerre over on our Patreon. If you’re a patron, you’ll get early access to that. Talk to you when we see you next.
Sean’s urban fantasy book Crossing the Line is available for download on Amazon! Buy a copy for yourself and for the readers on your Christmas list!
Radio Free Covenant - A Podcast about the Science-Fiction Roleplaying Game "Covenant" and Urban Fantasy Novel "Crossing the Line" 