The Outcast Dead – #nightsblackagents

The agents in my Night’s Black Agents campaign are following a number of leads in London, and one of the cases involved the discovery of (and subsequent disappearance of) a victim’s body in a street in Southwark. I chose Southwark because it’s an area with a history of poverty and people on the fringes, such […]

Red Shift: London – #nightsblackagents – Clue Summary

Just a short update this week – our valiant agents made it to London and made a brief and paranoid contact with a Scotland Yard detective named Templeton. Templeton stumbled onto the shadowy world of vampires a few months ago with the (brief) discovery of the body of a young runaway… which body then […]

Red Shift – Episode Six – Calais and Paris – #nightsblackagents Play Report

After Sunday’s action packed episode, last night’s visit to the bloody world of Night’s Black Agents was one of evasion and consolidation. Having had to flee from a murder scene, Hans and Rowan dug in at their safe house and ran through what they’d learned. The word “vampire” was used for the first time with […]

Red Shift Episode 5 – Calais – #nightsblackagents Play Highlights

Last night started nice and easy with a quiet interview in Star Logistics with the secretary, a bored woman named Jeanne who was happy to chat with the potential client – Rowan with a fake identity – and let slip about the infrequent all-night shifts that the boss and his drivers pulled. Rowan also […]

Night’s Black Answers – a player’s response to my questions for #NightsBlackAgents

In my last post I shared a short list of questions I’d asked the players in my Night’s Black Agents campaign in the hope of generating some backstory details I could plunder for drama and complications. Tonight Rowan’s player replied – and instead of just answering the questions she copied me into a folder containing […]

Night’s Black Questions – quick backstory for #nightsblackagents characters

I’m a handful of adventures into my Night’s Black Agents campaign and we’re all getting a feel for the characters. Having refreshed my exposure to the spy/thriller genre I’ve noticed that most protagonists have something lurking in their pasts that made a big impact on them. “He’d never been the same since Kiev” […]

Red Shift episode 4: Calais – Night’s Black Agents play report

Rowan and Hans regrouped after a few days of downtime during which Hans reminisced with an old special forces buddy back in Sweden and Rowan enjoyed an illicit few days of romance and hot funky adulterous action with her (married) lover, a former colleague of hers. He floated the idea of her coming back […]

The Saint’s Hair?

Ethelflaeda was a pious woman, so they said. Devoted to God and to his service. And in those long ago days before the first millennium had come and emptily gone who was to say that the unorthodox methods of her worship were to be condemned? They say she used to stand naked in the river […]

Red Shift – Episode 3 – Night’s Black Agents play report

Episode Three of RedShift was played out on Sunday evening, and while lighter on the action than the opening two episodes was still pretty intense and we got to see the Heat mechanics close up. Mysterious Arab fellow Valiant freelance agents Rowan and Hans ended last session in a private room just off the ER […]

Thoughts in the Depths

A creature for Trail of Cthulhu. The shunned tribal elders called it Giaouchatnhon when they discovered it’s lair deep within the caves in what is now Vietnam. They saw the effects it had on the first unfortunates to be exposed to it, infected by it, and they studied the results. The victims grew ill, pale […]