Harrowed Halls

This week we started a brand new Savage Worlds campaign using the Agent of Oblivion setting. If you’re not familiar with the setting, check it out here at Reality Blurs. Evil Mike is the GM for this one. He was sick with a cold while running the first game, but we still had a great time…mostly at his expense. Let me tell you about our characters…

Samuel Smythe (Steve): Occult Branch, Polish national, The healer
Baltasar Magnusson (Owen): Operations Branch, Swedish, The Lindquist/Forger
Cyrus Lowenstein (Ben): Operations Branch, American, The Ladies man
Nick Harmon (Mike): Occult Branch, American, Combat Psychic

Sidebar: Many of you may know that Ben has a slight stutter. One of the funniest moments of the night was when we were introducing our characters. Ben (of course) named his own character, but he gave him a last name that’s difficult for him to pronounce. So when it came time to introduce him to the other characters, he had a difficult time spitting out “Lowenstein”. The name alone is kind of funny, so I (quite innocently) asked him to repeat it. He did, again having a heck of time spitting out the name. By the time it was over we were all laughing so hard I had tears. You may think this is kind of mean spirited, but I you should know that we all love Ben. And he’s a very good sport about our teasing.

Now back to the game… We are all new agents fresh from our Oblivion training. The first order of business was to meet our cell leader, a Mr. Myster. Mr. Myster is an interesting guy with a tail and prosthetic leg. Apparently these “injuries” are from the backlash of using an untested arcane device. Something he immediately warned us not to do. We found out our cell is based in Poland, in the city of Wroclaw. We were currently in England so we caught a transport plane to take us to Poland. Agent Smythe has a major fear of flying and spent the trip rocking back and forth and mumbling things like “These things aren’t safe” and “we’re going to crash. I just know it.” The rest of the team was less than sympathetic. While on the plane Mr. Myster explained that our cover in Wroclaw is that of an import export business.

BOOM! That’s the sound we heard as an air-to-air missile blew a hole in the side of our plane. For a few moments I thought Agent Smythe was correct and we were all going to die. We scrambled for a parachute, tried to save some of the gear we were transporting, and jumped…

…right into a forest filled with German speaking Russian troops from some unknown place/organization. Prior to running into the Russians, we had hopped into one of the few items we saved from the plane, a SUV. When the Russian leader ordered us out of the car, our driver, Agent Magnusson, floored it (or floored it as much as you can in a tree filled forest) clipping the Russian leader along the way. Agents Smythe, Lowenstein, & Harmon exited the vehicle. Not a good thing since the Russians opened up on us with machineguns. In the ensuring gun battle the SUV was mostly trashed, and just about everyone was wounded.

We ended the night with us hoofing it to the German-Poland boarder wondering who the heck those Russians were.

More fun to come in two weeks!

Chaos Steve