Intro
So I had planned to run this session at home, but between work and scheduling conflicts I ended staying in the city tonight. It was kinda a bummer because I had planned a bit of creative PvP for tonight's session (I introduced patron play to bullets). I got the patron on the phone and it ended up working out really well.
Weather
The first sign of interesting times was when the tornado sirens started going off. I saw some cloud rotation and apparently one touched down a couple of miles from me. Winds got really high and tree branches started fall. I decided to take a video of the storm and I captured my transformer exploding.
The Session
We were without power and couldn't watch a movie so Bullets Flying Everywhere was a go. This scenario was
FATAL STRIKE
You are in Miami when a group of ninjas who moved only by cruelty try to steal a nuclear weapon. It's up to you to stop them, alone, because this time it's personal.
My two player's we Sparks a tech guy and Rider a sharpshooter. The game opened up on a Miami beach. Tech guy went straight into making his device while sharpshooter went swimming.
The patron wanted to poison one of the players so I ruled poisoning was a McGuffin kidnapping and that the player would need to rescue the antidote. Very Temple of Doom.
A beautiful woman handed out free drinks and Rider ended being the one to injest the poison. While the players were instigating how to cure when they were confronted by a bunch of Goons with ponytails.
A fight breaks out but they're outnumbered 10 to 2. They run for it but Sparks gets knocked out while a wounded Rider speeds away on a motorcycle. He got off to a good start and almost lost them on the overpass when he came to a dead end. 10 against 1 they blocked his retreat and killed him.
Sparks woke up as a grizzled survivor in captivity and immediately broke out of what he found to be a nuclear power plant. He made his way through the everglades until he came to a place to heal up. He then found the local park rangers and recruited them to the cause along with a Demolitions expert named Preacher. The went back to the Nuclear Power Facility to confront the Ponytail ninjas and got into a massive combat engagement with a fortified enemy while the reactor melted down in the background.
Aftermath
We were rolling dice and working out move order when we heard a loud noise outside. It was a crash but like the sound of an explosion. I sprung to my feet and ran out the door barefoot. We were on the second floor so I jumped down the stairs and jogged across to the accident. I saw the car wreck but I thought it must have been driving in the parking lot. It still hadn't registered to me that she had come off the highway, uprooted a tree, and blown through a stone wall to get there.
I saw that no one had stepped out and the door was still closed. I ran up to the door, heard screaming inside, and saw there was someone banging on the glass trying to get out. I grabbed the handle with both hands and I'll be honest I barely felt it. I pulled, something gave way, and the the door was open. There was a young woman inside and I pulled her out. I think her name was Valerie. She was really shaken up but able to stand. I got her phone for her and she called her mom. We talked for a bit until she had calmed down and I checked to make sure she wasn't injured. She had a bad headache but other than that she was fine. Police were arriving so I left her to them and she went off in an ambulance.
Reflection
Talking about doing this stuff feels out of place, like this doesn't belong in my real life. And yet when the time came I never considered any other option. Somebody needed help, for all I knew there could have been kids stuck in that car, and it's only natural for me to do everything I could to help them.
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