Covenant Post for Feb. 20, 2024

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Welcome to this week’s free post for Covenant!

FEB. 18 PLAYTEST

We didn’t get a whole of actual playtesting done this Sunday – just one bid, and that was to keep the plans of the player characters (PC) secret. Luckily, the roleplay made up for it.

After adding two characters to the party – Zalthara or “Fury”, a Battle Matriarch valka with a badass Gatling gun, and Rekka, the female risu mystic from last week – the PCs tried to figure out what to do with Rekana. Carver made the bid to make sure Rekana couldn’t hear their plans, and part of that bid was summoning Ratatoskr.

If you know about Norse mythology, you know who Ratatoskr is. In Covenant, though, he’s a foulmouthed risu deity, and he had some brutal honesty for the PCs.

Turns out the reason Sazzy the ratel and Soike the risu are acting like zombies is because Rekana has stolen their minds and stored them in crystals. The PCs can reverse the process, but Rekana has done this to over five thousand people, and you have the body there when you reverse it. Otherwise, their soul travels on to the afterlife.

Chanenth the calerre and Carver were despairing over this and were seriously considering some desperate measures to restore everyone’s minds, like somehow giving up their own souls to do it. That’s when Ratatoskr dropped the bombshell.

Rekana was once just like them. He was the Squirrel King, a position of huge power in risu society. Then there was a disaster on the valka planet orbiting Algol in 1999 CE, and he basically had to give up his soul to reduce the damage from it.

Rekana is a monster now, said Ratatoskr, because he did something completely selfless. So maybe Carver and Chanenth needed to be just a little more selfish and consider what they wanted out of this adventure beyond saving the world. He gave them some heavy stuff to think about.

The war council continued long into the night, and unfortunately the PCs weren’t able to come up with anything. Hopefully, they will next Sunday. If they do, we’ll let you know what it here. Talk to you then!