So, we started a new game of Promethean last week. Jamie, Justin and Ben are playing.
- Rose (Jamie) - a Cuprum Tammuz. Something of a kung fu monk, this little Asian girl has been living in the hills out west for the last hundred years. Now she has decided to head out into the world. She just hopped off the train in Pittsburgh.
- Marcus (Justin) - a Ferrum Tammuz. Marcus has a strong connection to his body's mortal life as a soldier. He works as an industrial artist, building those god awful corporate-art sculptures we seem to have in spades around town.
- Hannibal, "Han" (Ben) - a Stannum Frankenstein. Han is an angry young Promethean traveling in search of his creator, a real bastard that basically tortured him for a few months and then disappeared.
I'm running the adventures out of the Promethean books, with quite a bit of my own embellishment.
In the opening installment from the core book, the PCs feel a pull to an abandoned auto garage in Wilkinsburg. Hannibal and Marcus run into each other on the Carnegie Mellon campus before the mojo starts, and Rose is in a coffee house downtown stealing free WiFi. (Despite living in the sticks for the last century, Rose owns a laptop and uses email pretty extensively.)
When the Azothic beacon goes off, Rose and Han cannot resist the pull and head off to find it. Marcus manages to keeps his head, but he wants to see what Han is up to, so he follows him. It starts to rain along the way.
Rose reaches the garage first and manages to get in through an open window. Inside, she finds a brazier full of a burning wafer giving off bright green flame. This is obviously the source of the Azothic radiance. Investigating the place, she finds the garage (and the house above) abandoned, but there are footprints in the dust to indicate someone has been here recently.
A block away, Marcus decides to stop Han before they reach the source of the pull and see just what he's up to. Han doesn't want to stop, but his Stannum nature leads him to fight Marcus off rather than evade him. Han tries to Shock Marcus, but the Golem empties a shotgun blast into Han's arm instead. Han pursues the fight, and Marcus puts another blast into his leg.
Rose hears the sounds of a gunfight and heads outside to see what's going on. She finds the other two just as Marcus is throwing a sparking power line at Han, who juices himself back to health.
The three return to the garage, and shortly an overweight man comes in carrying a doctor's bag. Marcus and Han try to hide, but the man spots them easily (with an ungodly Perception roll). He introduces himself as Calogero, an alchemist with some knowledge of Prometheans. He proposes to them that they can help him complete an alchemical experiment the results of which may help one of them achieve mortality. The group agrees and he tells them that the first ingredient is called the Eye of Thoth.
The Prometheans discuss what exactly this ingredient could be and decide to go to a library in the morning to research it. Marcus offers to let the other two stay at his apartment in Oakland, and they all retire there.
In the morning, they go to a library (I don't recall which) and do some research, coming up with a few leads, including a photographic exhibit downtown of lunar eclipses and a display of moon rocks at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. They head to the museum first.
Inside, they find that the centerpiece of the exhibit is a large lunar geode, cracked in half, that looks uncannily like a pair of eyes. (Thoth = moon deity; freaky eye moon rocks = Eyes of Thoth?) Rose spots a man who seems to be less interested in the exhibit and more in the room's security. She tries to get close and chat the man up, but he politely excuses himself. Marcus and Han follow him discretely, and when he slips down a side corridor, Han follows.
A chase ensues, ending up in an alley beside the museum. Han is stopped when a black pickup pulls up. The man he was chasing jumps in the back of the truck while the driver levels a shotgun at Han's chest. The truck speeds away as Rose and Marcus arrive.
The three discuss the situation and decide that if someone else is after the geode, it might be easier to let them steal it and set a trap to catch them after than to steal it themselves. They set about constructing such a trap that night.
That night, though, the only interesting thing that happens is that Han is attacked by a big dog, which bites him and then runs away into the night.
The group waits again the next night. A stranger shows up carrying a spear. He walks right up to Han and tells him simply, "Leave." Han goes around the side of the building and tells the others what's going on via walkie-talkie. The man appears and tells to walk away. The same dog from the night before comes out of the shadows behind Han.
Meanwhile, Marcus, who is covering one of the other exits, notices a big blond dog watching him. He pulls out his shotgun and trains it on the creature.
Rose decides to head off toward Han. Just as she getting around to the back of the building, though, she hears the sound of a rifle action behind and above her.
A final figure steps out of the shadows and tells "Jack" (the one with the spear) that they don't need a fight. Unfortunately, a fight is what they have. A perfect opportunity to see who's tougher: Prometheans or werewolves. Turns out, when it's five to three and the Prometheans don't have any sources of aggravated damage, the werewolves have something of an advantage. Granted, by the end of the fight the Prometheans had healed back to full by juicing off of the streetlamps, but it was close. Marcus did manage to drop his opponent and leverage her to end the fight, but she was healing pretty quick.
Jack offered the Prometheans a deal. If they spied on an address the werewolves couldn't enter, he'd give them half of the geode. (The pack needed the other half to bribe an oracle.) The Created agreed, and that's where we left off.
