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Welcome to this week’s free post for Covenant!
PLAYTEST FOR MAY 5, 2024
Chapter 4 of the Covenant ended with a bang this Sunday. The PCs confronted Madura Masham the World Eater in the Grey, or Gaia’s afterlife. What’s more, Rayney – the daughter of Temjin the nozumi, one of the nonplayer characters – was there, too, and she was on Madura’s side.
Luckily, the player characters’ (PC) ship the Infinity managed to chase off the Discordian warship that was menacing them two weeks ago. They also sent down a Louisiana-class fighter – a mass-production version of Sazzy the ratel’s New Orleans, complete with its big GAU-180 Gatling gun – and, piloted by Tweak the aco, the PCs joined the battle.
It was a hell of a fight, with a lot of bids being made. Madura got off a few area-of-attack effects, and we got around needing a battlemap to see who he attacked by just saying he attacked everyone. (He was a god, or close to it, and his attacks were mystical)
It was a hard fight, too. Chanenth the calerre, who bailed out of the Louisiana to snipe at Madura, got knocked out of the fight pretty early. The Louisiana didn’t seem to be doing much damage to Madura, either, until Carver blessed the ship with the power of Wooshu and Drinalis, two of Gaia’s gods. Then its weapons started doing some real damage to him.
In the end, the action economy simply wasn’t on Madura’s side. He was one character facing down a party of PCs in a divine space fighter, and he had to cut and run. Whatever the PCs did to him, it seemed to free Rayney, or at least that’s what Sean thought.
It was a good end to the chapter, and Sazzy already has plans for what we’ll be doing this Sunday. We’ll fill you in here. Talk to you then.
Radio Free Covenant - A Podcast about the Science-Fiction Roleplaying Game "Covenant" and Urban Fantasy Novel "Crossing the Line" 