Between The Lights, Session 1: Heat

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This is an actual-play writeup of a game I am running on the Jenna Moran fanclub on Discord.

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"It is the right of any Power of the Light to say: I am the Light, or any Power of the Dark to say: I am the Dark, when acting in service of their Code. They are the hands and eyes of the force that moves them, and it is considered humility—not pride—to set that identity above their own."

-- from The Society of Flowers, by Heather Williams

Today's session was an introductory one, with the opening scene being a bit of Noble societal obligation (a member of the Green Snake Order that had joined a penitentiary order for a reason) and also a straightforward Thing To Chase (a Power running amok). (I wasn't sure which one the players would engage with, so I added both angles.) So we had a fun chase scene and then a bit of Noble societal obligation.

I should probably note before we go on that one extra person has joined the group:

Maddie Clarkson, Domina Fog, has a Burger King crown that ensures that it is and will always be her 13th birthday. She can turn into fog and has Secondary Domain over bad weather. And when she wishes on a star, it actually works.

Anyway, here we go:

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