Robert Bohl's Demihumans: Session 3 Squire Prador Blackmails a Gnome

+Robert Bohl's Demihumans: Session 3
Squire Prador Blackmails a Gnome

I had two player's for our last session, and the events involved the introduction of Squire Prador, a
cruel, sadistic military leader (Demiuge character) who has been given charge of monitoring the enclave of Bilgeton. The scenes of the session have set up some intrigue: The Company learned that there is a psychodelic mushroom drug of unknown origins (it is not manufactured by the Company's gnome) being used in the enclave , and Prador is using that drug (and its nasty side effects) to blackmail the gnome. Specifically, Prador is requiring the gnome to devote resources to fighting a swamp fever that is infecting humans.

There was some nice interplay between the Company's gnome and dwarf. The gnome used her Polymorphic Corpus move to become trollish, but in so doing, she required the Dwarf's artisan-adept hands to help manipulate lab equipment. The use of that move was gratuitous to some extent, but it set up some good role playing moments.

I was working as the Demiurge to give the Dwarf opportunities to use some of her moves to rally some forces together (I mentioned on a number of occasions that there was a sizeable enclave crowd), but the player of the dwarf is somewhat reserved, so she's taking some prompting to fit into her dwarf leader mode. I do think she's primed to step up to the plate in our next session.

Our next session is set to have all the players of the Company in attendance, so there will be some developments along multiple fronts.

A more complete breakdown of last Sunday's session is below:

Last week, Donna the Dwarf and Sansi the Gnome were attending to a halfling adolescent named Nob. He was suffering the effects of some type of mushroom drug that has psychotropic powers. Nob's father supplies mushrooms of various types to Sansi (and in addition harvests edible mushrooms for sale). The mushroom in questions, however, is not one that Sansi uses (though Sansi does know about that variety). Sansi used her Polymorphic Corpus move that allowed her to transform into a troll.

During the drug investigation session (with Donna serving as a lab assistant because troll hands are not so adept with fiine motor activities), Squire Prador showed up. He effectively bribed Donna: He threatened to spread news that Sansi was the origin of the mushroom that caused the negative effect on Nob and he suggested that there have been other negative reactions happening in Bilgeton. He has forced Sansi to turn her attention to finding a drug to help humans with outbreaks of swamp fever, and in return, Squire Prador will hold off on spreading the news that Sansi is supplying dangerous addictive drugs to Bilgeton. Squire Prador seems to have knowledge of many things about this drug situation (How does he know so much?), and he is cruel and sadistic. Sansi ended transforming back to her Gnome form (which was grotesque and somewhat terrifying), but Prador looked upon that transformation as an amusing, entertaining Gnome trick.

So the Company is set up for some confrontation with Squire Prador. There is some drug intrigue on the radar . . . and there is that evil magic involving the mutilation of an alligator lurking in the wings.