Project NEMESIS

It was a little hard getting back in after a long hiatus (just several weeks off due to things and stuff) but I kicked it off by pulling back and giving each player present (Cicely's player was running late because he can't say no to his grammaw) one of the big Companies involved in events. 

The session started with a flashback, since the character of Cecily was a week behind everyone else. The cops asked her to come in for questioning, put her in a room where she sat looking at the (presumably) one-way mirror for about half an hour, and then the officer opened the door and politely said, "You're free to go. Sorry. Apparently it was all a misunderstanding." She returned to tanning and cramming and when asked if she did anything occult, or tactically significant over hte week, she said no. 

Cecily's player couldn't make this session. We started with Seth going in front of a FISA court. I don't know jack about FISA, but neither did anyone at the table (hey, it's SECRET, 'kay?) so that was all right. I set a scene with three judges who'd been gotten out of bed and informally gathered at one's home. 

Leo's player was back (and, consulting my notes, the guy who was graffito tagging stuff was Alexander Sobieski), so we started by catching him up. His agent (Devon) got him a spot on the Hairy Gary Abnerthery Show -- a talk show with a guy who's kind of Oprah for mutants. 

Let me begin by saying: STILL NO FRANKLIN'S GHOST! Good grief! This is a resource! A fair smattering of points went into it! It could help their asses OUT. But nothin'. Not an ectoplasmic sausage. Sheesh. This session, we were missing Leo's player and I hadn't prepared as much as previously, but it went okay. Not great, but a decent building session. I'm probably going to go through character-by-character until they're together -- there was a lot of individual action this session. 

It didn't quite have the same delirious energy of the first couple sessions, but we hit a lot of plot points like they owed us money, and we got some good characterization in. Still no Ben Franklin though. I mean, what the hell? If I could summon up a lecherous, intangible, undead founding father I'd be on that like a teenager's cell phone!

I didn't have a plan for this session other than, "Do the stuff I had planned for session one and didn't get time to do." That worked just fine. "Plan" is a pretty vague term anyhow. It's more like "list of stuff to throw at the PCs when nothing more presentable is happening." I expect that as the game grows, it'll develop its own momentum and I won't have to prime the pump quite so much.