Category: Actual Play
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Children of the Apocalypse at Arisia 2019
At the Greatschool of Peterborough, three heroes-in-training study combat, magic, and psionics – the fierce but compassionate Tannain warrior Argelia “Flu” Fluharty, the wealthy and arrogant psionics practitioner Miss Virginia Hill, and the ethereally-floaty-yet-heavily-armored Champion of Iset Fran Stern. When fellow Greatschool student Brianna Kling approaches them, one of her (four) arms is in a…
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Legion of Liberty Session 23
As Cornwallis continues the advance into North Carolina, Brigadier General Daniel Morgan has been raiding British supply lines with a large detachment of Washington’s Continental Army. To disrupt Morgan’s raids and protect the vulnerable supply of food and ammunition, Cornwallis dispatches headstrong Colonel Banastre Tarleton and his elite force of dragoons. Informed of Tarleton’s movements by loyalist defectors, Morgan invents a…
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Legion of Liberty Session 22
In 1780, the war for independence in the northern colonies is all but won; however, Lord Cornwallis‘ armies have won several victories in the south, with the help of Loyalist colonial militias. General Washington orders the Legionnaires, along with a detachment of Virginia calvary, to rendezvous with North Carolina militia in the backcountry and try to…
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ETU Actual Play with the Roll20 Gang – 12/12/18
Graduation is approaching for the ETU seniors, but their nearer-term concern is Walpurgis night, which this year falls near a full moon. As they prepare for possible chaos that evening, each receives a mysterious text asking them to meet on the nature trail west of campus… and then a follow-on text asking them to bring…
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ETU Actual Play with the Roll20 Gang – 12/5/18
On their return from winter break, the seniors find themselves shorthanded when slugger Marco heads out for a tour of Major League teams looking for a post-graduation slot. Trouble quickly follows in the form of a Monday morning commotion in the Biology building. Ryo finds his entomology professor, Dr. Carleton, dead on the floor of…
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Legion of Liberty Session 21
Since the start of the Revolution in the southern colonies, the Chickamauga Cherokee have been staunch allies of the British. Continental Army spies have discovered that the British are funneling supplies to the Cherokee, and the Legionnaires are dispatched to cut off this line of supply, reducing the Cherokee threat. With help from the Culper Ring,…
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Legion of Liberty Session 20
The rescue of Archimedes Laughton makes a new mission for the Legion more feasible. In Nova Scotia, despite similarities with New England on many levels, Revolutionary fever has not taken hold. Some attribute this to the pacifist evangelical preacher Henry Alline. Alline’s sermons have become wildly popular in Nova Scotia, tamping down any sparks of…
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ETU with the Roll20 Gang – 11/14/18
Having activated the golem at Jenny’s house, the seniors followed it to an affluent neighborhood and into the backyard, where it crashed into a pool house. Within were the zombie Heimglimmer, the last vase of soul fetishes, and four Neo-Birkhun performing the ritual that would make Heimglimmer all-powerful. The group quickly sprang into action with…
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Legion of Liberty Session 19
General Washington has learned of a powerful superhuman enslaved man about to be sold at auction in British-occupied Charleston. He gives Godot, Francis and Jacoby 200 pounds in gold and orders them to purchase the slave, Archimedes Laughton. The trio, however, decides to rescue Archimedies instead. They purchase supplies for trade in Charleston and hire…
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Legion of Liberty Session 18
General Sullivan dispatches the Legionnaires south, to the main center of fighting in the Carolinas. Enroute, the heroes stop off in Philadelphia, and notice that the Continental Congress has sponsored a menagerie just outside the city as a means of boosting morale in the newly-liberated capital. The heroes decide their morale could use boosting, and…