Covenant Update for January 8, 2024

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Welcome to this week’s free post for Covenant!

PLAYTEST

We had a long break from playtesting Covenant over the holiday, but we were back at on Sunday.

The player characters (PC) began their assault on the aco scrapping site on Sujimma. The scrapping site, if you don’t remember, is where Rekana Industries grind up obsolete acoes into pet food. Sazzy, who was the Force Majeure (FM) for this session, made sure to emphasize the gore, just to drive the point home.

The PCs didn’t have much trouble slipping in. Their base of operations, the spaceship Infinity, had enough crew to send down a diversion. They started freeing the acoes trapped on the conveyor belt leading to the grinder when Kem showed up.

Kem was an NPC from Sean’s Underground Railroad campaign last year. He’s a massive eight-foot-tall risu with a Gatling gun, and he was on duty when Tweak escaped from Sujimma the first time, so these two have a history.

Kem and Tweak had a huge fight that we ran entirely in roleplay without any bids. Tweak started emitting a golden glow during the fight, which appeared to protect him when Kem picked him up and threw him against the wall. The fight ended with the two of them falling through the floor.

Kem had the fight beaten out of him, but instead of finishing him off, Tweak said that he could join the PCs. He didn’t have much choice – Rekanna’s rough on employees who fail the company – so he joined the PCs as they evacuated the scrapping site and set off a nuclear bomb in it.

The game ended with everyone back on the Infinity and with Tweak proposing to another aco named Sarah… and throwing up from nerves halfway through it. (You can read more about Tweak and Sarah’s adventures on the Radio Free Covenant subreddit).

All in all, it was a satisfying game. Not a whole lot of rules got tested, but we did tie up a number of lose ends in Tweak and Sarah’s backstory. And we’ll be continuing the game next Sunday, too. Talk to you about that next week!