Mortal Coil - New Problems
After playtesting the Ashen Stars adventure Terra Nova we returned to our regularly scheduled Mortal Coil campaign on Friday.
The magic level of the campaign has by now reached medium strength and everybody's throwing in more magic facts. I've certainly upped the ante with the new problem facing "Spiritual and Health Consulting Ltd.", the PCs company.
It started off slowly enough with a big department store on Oxford Street hiring the PCs to fix failing Christmas sales caused by a mysterious and unnatural aversion of customers to the premises. It didn't take them long to find out that the recently deceased owner was haunting the house to punish his estranged son for turning the company into an employee-owned enterprise. They faced the ghost off during midnight hour and banished it for the moment (not permanently), but reports of other hauntings (in Old Bailey and elsewhere) started to pour in as they were doing so. Something was definitely not right with the dead.
Ben Steinfeld (PC) got a text message from their old acquaintance Lucy Blackthorne (co-ownerof the Hellfire chain of nightclubs). She asked for an urgent meeting, but as they were just about to face the ghost, he couldn't (or wouldn't) comply. Later when he returned to his apartment with his colleagues, they found Ms. Blackthorne in front of his door, badly hurt by an unknown attacker.
Birte Johannsen (PC) put her healing powers to use and when Ms. Blackthorne came to, she claimed that Lucifer himself had locked down Hell and gone missing - apparently the reason why the bad spirits were returning. She and her brother were now looking for the Prince of Hell, and she wanted to enlist Ben's help. The attack on her might have been an attempt to discourage this course of action.
That's where it stands. Will Spiritual and Health Consulting investigate the disappearance of Lucifer Morningstar? Will the angry dead overrun everything? And will Lucy Blackthorn finally get her way with Ben Steinfeld? We will see (with apologies to Neil Gaiman).
The magic level of the campaign has by now reached medium strength and everybody's throwing in more magic facts. I've certainly upped the ante with the new problem facing "Spiritual and Health Consulting Ltd.", the PCs company.
It started off slowly enough with a big department store on Oxford Street hiring the PCs to fix failing Christmas sales caused by a mysterious and unnatural aversion of customers to the premises. It didn't take them long to find out that the recently deceased owner was haunting the house to punish his estranged son for turning the company into an employee-owned enterprise. They faced the ghost off during midnight hour and banished it for the moment (not permanently), but reports of other hauntings (in Old Bailey and elsewhere) started to pour in as they were doing so. Something was definitely not right with the dead.
Ben Steinfeld (PC) got a text message from their old acquaintance Lucy Blackthorne (co-ownerof the Hellfire chain of nightclubs). She asked for an urgent meeting, but as they were just about to face the ghost, he couldn't (or wouldn't) comply. Later when he returned to his apartment with his colleagues, they found Ms. Blackthorne in front of his door, badly hurt by an unknown attacker.
Birte Johannsen (PC) put her healing powers to use and when Ms. Blackthorne came to, she claimed that Lucifer himself had locked down Hell and gone missing - apparently the reason why the bad spirits were returning. She and her brother were now looking for the Prince of Hell, and she wanted to enlist Ben's help. The attack on her might have been an attempt to discourage this course of action.
That's where it stands. Will Spiritual and Health Consulting investigate the disappearance of Lucifer Morningstar? Will the angry dead overrun everything? And will Lucy Blackthorn finally get her way with Ben Steinfeld? We will see (with apologies to Neil Gaiman).