Alrighty, folks, in case you missed it I'm trying something a little new. The gaming group has been on hiatus, and we're on the verge of getting things up and running again. But something that's kind of stuck in my craw ever since I put together my 'list of AP blog posts' is that my old Promethean chronicle is on another site altogether. I've decided to fix that, if for no other reason than to strip out all of the unrelated gaming stuff in addition to the things I thought were clever on LiveJournal 15 years ago.
This is a game that's always stuck with me, and it helped build a foundation for what I've called my "Woodburn Chronicles" setting. Characters from this chronicle appear in my
"Child of the Machine" and
"Prodigals of the Machine" stories, as well as a few other games I've run over the years. About four and a half years ago (wait, that long?
holy shit), as you may recall, I wrote
"Goodbyes," which was intended as something of a tenth anniversary revisit of some of the characters from this game (so, um, spoiler alert, you might know how some of them end up already). And one of the NPCs who shows up in this chronicle has a bit of a 'cameo' in
Night Horrors: The Tormented.
So I'm gonna repost those old write-ups here. As I've mentioned elsewhere, these aren't going to be copy-pastes; there'll certainly be a bit of editing here and there and the occasional footnote. That said, remember that this is stuff I ran and wrote down a long-ass time ago, so there will be details I failed to write down at the time (either because I forgot or because I didn't deem them important back then) and will not be able to recall in the rewrite (though that said, I did find some of my old notes while typing this up so that might help in the logn run). I'm not going to do them all at once, but will try to get these out over time and hope I get through them all before the Second Coming.
Two more notes before I get into this:
First, a reminder that this was run with the first edition Promethean rules -- in fact it was while the supplements were still coming out. Big chunks of the adventure are taken from the story material in the backs of those books (I'd actually have to reread them to know exactly what I used) and some of it is just blatantly lifted and adapted from other supplements, particularly Mysterious Places. But there's gonna be stuff that doesn't quite work the same or I would have done much differently in 2e. I think in terms of the narrative enough of it fits without issue but either way I'm not going to make any special effort to reconcile any of it. Though I'm sure I'm going to have to resist the urge to update certain background details to better fit in with 2e.
Second, one of the characters has some Nazi mad science in his backstory. There shouldn't be anything directly or overtly gross, but just warning you nonetheless.
And as always, if you have questions, just ask. Here we go.
