[UA] The last game session in DL's dinner room (may -15) - and previous sessions

[DL]

[par o pessoal da lista em português: sim, eu sei que tá em inglês. Qualquer
dúvida, pode dizer na lista. Sim, Artur, esse é o jogo que vc vai entrar se
quiser. Não quero muita gente jogando, como sempre, mas tá para incluir vc e
talvez mais alguém. Abraços a todos]

Ok, im sending this, and if ppl think it's useless, just tell me (don't
scream things like: DON'T FILL MY MAILBOX WITH JUNK, YOU MORON, or something
like that, please).

The campaign idea is to take the player from one side to another of the OU,
and mixing a little of "normal occult" on it.

The game really started in character creation, with Bruno Palermo and Bruno
Nogueira creating their chars. Nogueira is Lieber, a german journalist
living at London, where he developed his Urbanomancy. Bruno Palermo in this
sunday (may, 5), still have some problems with his character concept, so i
let him to finish at home. Since he had played UA with me before, and i know
he from a long time, i could trust he will not make nothing even close to
"screwing a good character".

Nogueira's first session was very short. He talked with Ronald Chalker, a
NPC, about some hidden city under London, and how much he will get paid to
lead him to it. After Chalker have left his appartment, Lieber call some
newspaper friend and cheked on him, discovering Chalker is some kind of
"modern Indiana Jones" or so, a explorer and record breaker in things
dealing with wilderness exploration.

Bruno Nogueira didnt show up in the second session (may, 7), so i called him
giving a yellow card "next time you don't show up, and don't call before the
game session, you're out", but he apologized, and stated some problem, so it
was ok.

Palermo brought Eduardo Fernandes, another player i frequent have in my game
table (and, as Palermo, is a long time friend). Eduardo is kind of a
munchkin, and bitchs a lot from time to time, but also he puts a lot of
effort to play, and really enjoys it, so is easy to forgive the trouble he
makes from time to time.

We make the usual jokes about "how much time Eduardo spends to make a
character", since he usually is really slow on it. The room started to get
filled, with my brother and his girlfriend also there, and my mother and her
husband dinning at the table. I waited at least for my brother to leave the
room, so i could start with Bruno (Palermo is the kind of guy that loves to
socialize. So, as long as have too much ppl in the room, he will keep
talking, and not pay attention to the game).

He have finally figure out wich aspect of the hunter hes character will be,
and he decided to "find ppl", but not kill them. Holt, his character name,
have been a manhunter in a bad sense, and killed enough for this life, got
got really tired of this, and got into a more serious business, just finding
ppl, and doing usual private eye work. He is really hates supernatural
stuff, and don't have a clue about been an avatar, but follows it quite
well. His life story explain the character actual situation quite well, so
we find ourselves ready to start.

While Eduardo was still finishing his character, Bruno started to play. Holt
receive a visit from Ronald Chalker. Big, white but with a very tanned skin,
and looking like a tea addicted. He was quite direct to the point, showing
up the kind of hurry he was, hiring Bruno to find a guy wich was heard to
been at LA (i asked Eduardo what was his character last name, "Montoya", he
told me, and thats what Chalker told to Holt). Both them head to the
airport, trying to reach LA as soon as possible (this character talk was
quite long, actually, at least half an hour long, so we pause for pizza).

During the "food pause", Eduardo was almost finishing his character. He was
in some doubt between an Entropomancer and a Epidero. After some good and
bad points discussion, he end up with Epideromancy. Ruan Montoya, his
character, is a Hispanic-Apache-American, living in a farm at California,
not so close to LA, but close enough. As a epideromancer, he reconize it
more like an "abilitie granted by apache spirits that told me how to be
relieved of the prison of flesh" or something like that. Well, i said, "ok,
lets see how it goes" and give it a little grin. :)

Chalker keep Holt quite nervous during the flight to LA. Asking for tea all
the time, or at least for some hot water, wich he prompted put some leaves
he crushed over the teacup. Besides, Holt finally take a walk on the plane
when he started with some bibliomancy (not the school, but old fashioned
bibliomancy). When he got back, Chalker gave him a few more tips about the
guy they had to find, and explain this thing could get a little messy. Also,
ask him to keep up with him, since this guy was just some help to find yet
another person, at London. Holt, more worried about the bibliomancy stuff
than anything else, but thinking about the money, agreed. He tried not to
mind about chalker been a little softer on the head, as long as he pays
well.

Then they arrive at LA with few clues about the guy they are looking for,
besides his surname, "montoya". Holt gives a few calls, look for the surname
in the phonebook, and in a strike of pure luck (i know, i helped Bruno on
that, but maybe, some of the "powers above", have something to do with it)
some guys in a bar table they stop to eat, have just mentioned Montoya and
some ranch, and how they needa crew for his crop. Holt got in some
discussion with the workers and thing are starting to get ugly, so Chalkner
get in between the fuss with his .45 pointed to the big one with a broken
bottle. They leave the place with the guy at gunpoint, they ask him where is
this ranch, get into the car, and run as fast as they can.

They stop at a gas station, and soon the clerk is calling the police behind
their backs (there was a radio alert for people in their descriptions, car
plate, color and type), they noticed and drive off. A police car get close
to them, but Chalker got some cards in the windows, and they pass without
noticing them. Holt almost freak with it, but hold itself togheter this time
(Bruno Palermo got a hardened at Unnatural for Holt this time), and they
move along to the ranch.

Montoya lives alone, just keeping a horse as company, in a small ranch with
a middle size platation. He just hire people when he really need. [a note
here. Since i trust my players, and is no "easy play", their characters have
been made with 250 points, instead of the usual 220. Besides, they roll the
dice for the number of minor and signifcant charges they have in the
beggning of the game. The "tens" are the sig charges you have, and the
"non-tens" are the minor, Eduardo was a luck sob on this one, scoring a 99,
so started the game with the highest possible combination, 9 minor, and 9
sig charges for his Epideromancer]

He doesnt really receive Holt and Chalker in a friendly mood. They are both
too urban types for his tastes. And they look a bit cluesless in what they
propose: to meet a friend, they dont know the name, but is someone they know
Montoya keep in touch after have meet him after been at US army in Germany,
a few years ago [was in us army service or something, in a american or OTAN
base. German people on the list can be much more sure about this than
myself. My "books on military subjects" has been a hobby in teens, but now
they are just "dust-catchers"]. His friend is Lieber, the other player, but
Montoya don't give them his name just that easily. He tries to contact
Lieber by phone, something he never done before, all their friendship was
kept by mail letters and nothing else. After some more talk, he agrees with
one of the possibilities Chalker propose to him: he will receive as much
money as Mr. Holt, and coming with them, he will be reassured they don't
mean no harm to his friend.

The game session ends with them heading to the airport after Montoya askiing
his neighbor to keep an eye on things for him.

Hey, i will continue, but not now, i have to watch blade2 and in a few
hours, Attack of the Clones! Cya! :)

Haroudo Xavier

P.S.: I know i didnt rach the game session of day 15...and still have been
another at day 9, but  that one was quite short. :)




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