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Welcome to this week’s free post for Covenant!
PLAYTEST FOR MARCH 17, 2024
Had a good playtest session on Sunday, or at least Sean thought so.
To recap, the player characters (PC) had landed on Gaia to find some way to counter the time-stop powers of Rekana, this arc’s BBEG. They’d entered an inn in the Shadowed Lands last game, and that’s where this session picked up.
Everyone bought rations and charms for the journey. Rekka the risu opened a pouch to pay for it, and the whole inn went silent. Then they started to close in on the PCs.
Rekka had the foresight to see if there was any esoteric energy – basically, magic. It was off the charts. The innkeeper turned into a jester, and suddenly the fight was joined.
The jester – who the PCs learned later was manifestation of Admanadreaux, the god of insanity – kept casting illusions and trying to get the party to fight each other. It got to Tweak the aco, who tried to eat the muzzle of someone else’s rifle. Finally, Sazzy the ratel got fed up, grabbed the jester, and did her best to pummel him into a fine red paste.
When the fight ended, the PCs found themselves in the ruins of a long burned-out and abandoned inn. A white folike lupine witch hunter named Suji filled them in on what happened and then offered to tag along. That’s where we ended the session.
It’s nice that we’re getting back into action-packed sessions. We’ve had plenty where there was lots of roleplay and hardly any interaction with the rules. It’s nice to know that you can play the game that way, but we didn’t get much playtesting information out of it. Now we are.
If everyone’s schedules line up, we’ll be playtesting again on Sunday. Sean and Sazzy will also be streaming on their Twitch channel on Friday at 10:30 p.m. Eastern, 7:30 p.m. Pacific. If we don’t talk to you on Twitch chat then, we’ll talk to you again next week
Radio Free Covenant - A Podcast about the Science-Fiction Roleplaying Game "Covenant" and Urban Fantasy Novel "Crossing the Line" 