Covenant Update for March 25, 2024

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Welcome to this week’s free post for Covenant!

PLAYTEST FOR MARCH 24, 2024

Sunday’s game was pure roleplay. Not much happened, but a whole lot of bombs got dropped into the story.

You might remember Suji, the lupine witchfinder from last week who joined the party. They started this week’s game by transforming into Mezumi, the chronomancer that the party had been looking for. They also stopped time, and since the NPC Temjin was the only other person who had the time stop ability (called “sidestepping”), they were the only person who was able to interact with them.

We’re going to be throwing a lot of names at you that you won’t know or understand now. That’s because they’re from Gaia, which is a two-decade worldbuilding project between Typh and Sazzy. Hopefully, we’ll be able to make this as painless for you as possible.

Anyway, in another timeline (which the PCs ended, long story), Temjin’s wife Aurora was killed by someone named Madura Masham, the leader of a Sagittarius Arm group of mystics and esoteric beings called the Centric Void. Our current BBEG Rekana is bad, but he’s nothing compared the Madura Masham.

How bad is Madura Masham? Well, you remember Baran? The old Khan of the ratel Khanate who was trying to take over the Sagittarius Arm and invade the Orion Arm? Turns out he was doing all that to stop Madura Masham. And now it looks like stopping him is the PCs’ job now.

Anyway, Temjin taught his daughter Rayney his sidestepping ability so that she couldn’t be killed. However, Madura Masham figured out a way not only to capture Rayney, but to convert him to his side. She’s now a power aspect of madness and an extremely dangerous foe.

That meant that the PCs were possibly facing three dangerous foes: Rayney, Rekana, and whoever Madura Masham’s agent on Gaia was. Mizumi offered to trap them in a bubble of stopped time while the PCs learned how to sidestep, but that would leave her defenseless. That’s where we stopped, with the PCs trying to figure out their next step.

It sounds like we’re coming close to the climax of the current story arc. Just how many sessions that will take is anyone’s guess. Like we said, Typh and Sazzy have a lot of lore to work through on Gaia, and they can throw a lot of that at us.

Luckily, we won’t be including Gaia with the basic rulebook. When we do, though, it’ll probably be the thickest book we publish.

Anyway, that’s it for now. We’ll update you next week on how Sunday’s session goes. In the meantime, subscribe to our Patreon and join us for game talk and streamed games on Friday on our Twitch channel .