Chris' big experiment this year is a sort of Quantum Leap that keeps the characters separated, but the players together. The players, though they can't play many scenes together, are stoked to be in a complex web that justifies their being split-up. While she interacts with Mary Seacole, Yaz meets Vinder in a strange temple devoted to Time, and John fights the Sontarans in the present day with his canine ally Karvanista. In this one, the Doctor finds history rewritten and the Sontarans (new to Jodie) fighting the British in the Crimean War. While it's a serial, Chris cleverly divides the adventure in discreet episodes that can stand and be understood on their own. Traits: Alien, Alien Appearance (Major), Feel the Turn of the Universe, Hypnosis (Special), Menacing, Natural Weapons: Disintegration Touch (6/L/L), Obligation (Major to Time), Psychic, Special: Regeneration (like Time Lords), Teleport, Vampire, Vortex (Ravagers don't need a TARDIS). Skills: Convince 3, Fighting 1, Knowledge 5, Science 4, Subterfuge 4, Survival 3, Technology 4, Transport 1 There's more story-telling than choices to make, but the players imagine it will all come together eventually.Īttributes: Awareness 4, Coordination 2, Ingenuity 7, Presence 5, Resolve 5, Strength 3 So the GM introduces a LOT of things, including a dog-like race bound to help humanity, a historical mole man digging tunnels in Liverpool, an anti-matter force that is destroying the universe, a psychic who knows she'll meet the Doctor later, and villains released from the clutches of Division. Rather than jettison that part of the plot entirely, Chris instead introduces Vinder, and later Bel, creating even MORE cut scenes for the players to listen in on, but not participate in. He was meant to play this mini-series as its necessary action man and eventual link to one of the villains. (who played Captain Jack) and the role-playing club over untoward behavior. How will these stories intersect with the PCs' own? One problem for Chris was a falling out between John B. Chris drops a lot of complicated information in the first of his six Flux chapters, providing the players with cut scenes to events their characters are not aware of. After Flux, he decides to stick around for a couple games, but bows out suddenly before the end game, as life gets in the way.įlux/The Halloween Apocalypse. John agrees to play through Flux with the character of Dan Lewis, a proud Liverpudlian who keeps getting knocked on the head by Lady Luck. She ends up not pushing it very hard when Jodie's Doctor is left a little dumbstruck at how to role-play her reaction. Having recently lost the two other players she's consistently been gaming with, Mandip is quick to find a hook to banter with newbie John, but also decides Yaz has fallen for the Doctor. She wasn't too sure what to do about the curve ball Mandip threw her though. For her final year, she expects to deal with the Timeless Child revelation and for Chris to throw all her old enemies at her. All the players are moving on with Chris, though Jodie finds filing away her Doctor's character sheet harder than most. One particular quirk of his serial, however, is that he ends up playing a lot of prominent NPCs, to the point where he's almost a player himself and might have needed a third party to step in. So the pieces aren't all going to fit exactly, but the players agreed that on the whole, the more serialized gaming was a success it kept them invested. He took so long between sessions that some players moved on and he often had to revise his plans to account for a player's absence (or indeed, his players' pleas that he extend the game to a few more sessions). He's never hidden from his players that he's found prep work to be much harder than he first believed when he took on those duties, something that caused a lot of scheduling problems for the group. Getting back to it after the lockdown, Chris decides to go for broke and plan out a multi-part story he calls "Flux", which will threaten all of reality and bring his time as GameMaster to a close (or nearly).
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