Actual Play - Introducing Warden Thomas Caine (8/15/2011)

[seannittner]

GM: Sean Nittner
Players: Joe Harney, Steven Dunn, and Rose Itsuaki
System: Dresden Files

Our voodoo story wrapped up revealing two brothers, one hougan (David), one bokor(Jean Emmanuel), that have rivaled through the ages. As practitioners they have been around for a while, and played out their personal rivalries through their children.

When David’s

Comments

[cedyeus]

you know, the more I think about it, the more I think it's a mistake for Cain to have been in Chicago at all. I don't really want to have any contact or connection with Dresden or Murphey, and the two would have been unavoidable if he was a magic using cop in Chi-town.
Perhaps someplace like Seatle or Vancouver. Big enough city but not on Butcher's radar.

As for me, I'm enjoying the antagonism with Steve and the Winter Knight. At some point our agendas are going to align and we'll get an opportunity to remove our knee-jerk initial presumptions about each other.

[seannittner]

Cool, glad to hear (re: antagonism).

As for Caine's origins, yeah just because his parents were in Chicago doesn't mean he had to have been. If you'd like to retcon Caine's past I'm down with that, we can even do it within the fiction ("Yeah, so reports here say Caine was in Chicago during that terrorist attack, but guess what, he was never part of the CPD. In fact he was working out of Vancouver at the time...What the hell was he doing in the Windy City? And why just when that attack happened? Ain't that suspicious?"

[cedyeus]

I think we got our background wires crossed.

I had been initially wanting Cain to have been a brand-spankin' new warden at the time of the Black Council Betrayal. I was thinking that he even might have been at the hospital that the Red Court attacked with the nerve gas, and only his high proficiency with air magic is what enabled him to fight his way out with some of the other survivors.
This would tie nicely in to the Dark Hallow timeline, for Cain was like top on the list of new wardens to get a "head-choppin' sword" from Luccio before she got bait and switched.

Cause, unless we want to bring in Dresden and Murphy and other Named characters, I think it's best that Cain is from somewhere else completed (Did I said Chicago? Sorry, I meant Seattle...my mistake).