Session Zero

This is the beginning of a great adventure...

Q1 - Who are you?

Given Name(137)Nettie
Family Name(149)Darwin
Moniker(58)Rover
Character Roles(30)Laborer
Laborer(62)Miner

Nettie Darwin but nobody knows that name. "Rowe" has been working in the mines as long as she could remember.

Q2 - What drives you?

Character Goals(2)Acquire knowledge or learning
Action(25)Construct Theme(10)Bounty
Descriptor(84)Sealed Focus(31)Faction

Expose the cover up of corruption/atrocities by a powerful faction.

Q3 - What does the world feel like now?

Theme(19)Cursed

Q4 - What just force you into motion?

Prompts(47)Protected, Price

Rowe had been in the mines for as long as she could remember, but it was in the early morning hours when she heard it “…seal them in, all of them, word has been given, place the charges.”

Q5 - Who else is in this?

Given Name(165)Sakura
Family Name(100)Takara
Moniker(88)Swiftblade

Swiftblade, the only name Rove knew was outside of the mines - possibly a myth, but somehow related to Rowe. Connection unknown.

Q6 - What does the world lose if you fail?

This domineering faction secures its power, as an oppressive, uncontested force - and the peoples at the bottom are lost and forgotten.

Q7 - What’s in the your way right now?

Person, unaware - Rowe shouldn’t have heard what she heard, but she did, and now if she doesn’t act she and everyone else will be sealed into the mines to die.

Scene Zero

Situation: Prompts(13)Locate, Family Rowe has just overheard the foreman and an unknown speaker, ordering the mines sealed, dooming Rowe and her mining family.
Want: Rescue/Escape
Obstacle: The foreman and whoever gave them the order to seal the mines. Their goal, see the job done or face wrath of failing their orders. They do not know Rowe overhead the orders.
Frame: Rowe needs to rescue her mining family and escape before they are doomed. If she fails, countless miners, and Rowe herself will perish, along with whatever is being sealed into the mine.

INT. TORCHLIT MINING TUNNELS - RESCUE

Rowe is running as fast as she can, she was near the egress, but that is now a dangerous place. She must get to the quarters and relay what she heard. If they mean to seal the mine, they’ll do it before the first shift, in less than an hour.

Begin a Session

ROWE

I will not let them do this, I will not let them die. In the old way, on this iron I swear.

Rescue the miners from the mine
Swear an Iron Vow(Heart)—7 vs 3|5
Momentum:2 → 4

Rowe knows these tunnels, she’s been here for as long as she can remember. Why? How? Not important now, but always persistent questions. The mines were always just about survival, enduring. But today was different, the company was to see them all dead. Not today.

At the entrance to the living quarters, the dorms.

ROWE - SHOUTING

Awake awake! The Company is going to seal the mines. Awake! Awake! We have little time!

Compel(Iron)—8 vs 3|5
Momentum:4 → 5

The miners, her extended family, has been a tinderbox for months. Conditions worsening, demands for ore increasing, punishments and threats, and Rowe knows the right pitch to call action. The miners grab tools, and rallying cries are heard echoing through the tunnels. A slow song beginning to form.
Reach a Milestone Rescue the miners +1 (1/10)

THE MINERS IN CHORUS

The king and his men stole the queen from her bed, and bound her in bones.

The seas be ours and by the powers where we will we’ll roam!

Yo, ho, all together hoist the colors high, heave ho, thieves and beggars never shall we die. 

Yo, ho, all together 
Heave ho, now and forever, never shall we die.

It’s a mob, with pickaxes, tools, and torches. Going against the company. With Rowe at the front of the charge.
Face Danger(Heart)—7 vs 2|10
Coming to the first gate, we caught them off guard. We pass through before they could lock it, but not before the cries of the guards echo upwards through the tunnels.
Momentum:5 → 4

The second gate is sure to be locked now. Rowe nods to Moniker(41)Hook . Press on and bring pressure to the gate, I’ll climb through the water tunnels, and meet you on the other side.

Face Danger(Edge)—6 vs 10|1
Supply:5 → 4

The climb upwards through the water is arduous, and impossible with gear. Rowe leaves behind all but what is wearing and makes it to the top. She moves quickly and quietly, towards the second gate.
Secure an Advantage(Shadow)—4 vs 1|7
Momentum:4 → 6

It’s not silent, but the shouts from the second gate cover her approach. Three guards holding the doors, there should be six here. The others must have fled. No time to waste, they won’t be expecting an attack from up here.

Rowe leaps from the ledge and crashes into the guards below.
Route the guards at the second gate
Enter the Fray(Shadow)—4 vs 7|1
Position:Position → out of combat
One guard is slammed to the ground, and immediately Rowe leaps to the wall, leaps again, with a downward punch at another guard.
Strike(Iron)—8 vs 8|6
Route the guards at the second gate +2 (6/10)
Position:Position → in control
He goes down, but now Rowe is also on the ground. The third one draws his sword, and Rowe is without a weapon. He swings for her, as she attempts to roll away.
React Under Fire(Edge)—5 vs 8|2
Health:5 → 4
Endure Harm(Health)—7 vs 5|3
Momentum:6 → 7
His slash cuts across her back, but only tearing into her clothes. A close one. Time to fight back.
Clash(Iron)—4 vs 3|5
Route the guards at the second gate +1 (9/10)
Faster than the guard expected, Rowe spun around grabbing his sword hand with one arm and smashing his face with her other. But it was in that moment that she saw the three other guards above - racing away. They were shouting and the third gate would now be fortified.
Take Decisive Action(track)—0 vs 9|3
Take Decisive Action(4)It’s worse than you thought: Make a suffer move (-2)
Route the guards at the second gatecompleted
The guard in front of Rowe slumps. The guards who got away had the keys to the iron gates, and Rowes family is trapped on the other side of the bars.
Momentum:7 → 5
Rowe looks at Moniker(44)Lucky We don't have time to pry these open, blasting powder? Get everyone back!
Check Your Gear(Supply)—5 vs 4|7
Supply:4 → 3
It takes time, but Rowe places the powder, and runs a fuse - somehow it is not soaked through. After the smoke clears, Rowe shouts.

ROWE
They'll have fortified the third gate. And there are no more shortcuts, this is going to be hard fought. Do we have any more blasting powder?

Check Your Gear(Supply)—5 vs 7|2
Supply:3 → 2
This is the last bit. If we use it here, and they seal the entrance they'll have nothing else. There is another option. The climb.

The third gate is a choke point with shear cliff on one side, as it opened to the natural cavern. The carved stair is the only way up or down, unless someone was crazy enough to try a climb.

ROWE
They'll have muskets and swords, and we'll all be lined up on the stair. There's a reason nobody ever gets out. I'm climbing to give you a chance.

LUCKY
What do we do?

ROWE
I am going to draw them off, while they are focused on me, you and West-end set the blasting powder. You'll only have one shot. But then we see sun. Today we see the sun again. 

LUCKY
Aye. We'll not let you down.

Some distance up the mines, still torchlight, Rowe saw the shear cliff face in dimly lit torches. Nobody had ever attempted it. It was this slowly die in here. Rowe, Lucky, West-end, and dozen others - the only family she had ever had. Today we see the sun. And so she began to climb.
Face Danger(Edge)—4 vs 4|8
Spirit:5 → 4
It started well enough. A few handholds that she never noticed before. Progressing upwards, quickly, quietly, and then her luck ran out. A chasm, that had to be crossed, no choice. With a bit of momentum and a swing, she swung across the dark. She very nearly made it, but there was nothing to grab, and so her hands scrabbled across the coarse stone and she began to slide, to certain doom in the depths below. But before she fell, her sliding slowed and she felt a pull on her leg, someone was helping her!

She was still sliding, and pulling down whoever was helping her, but someone was holding her foot - and then she saw something - a hidden overhang of rock, just wide enough to grab. She reached out, and held fast to the bit of stone. Looking upwards she saw no person...

ROWE
Silver?! What are you doing here? How? Why?

Yes, Rowe was in fact talking to a monkey. The creature was also barely hanging on, but had most certainly saved her.

ROWE
I see. You want out just as bad huh? Listen, unlike the Foreman, if you help you have a place with me. Not as a pet. As part of the family. Just... just, help me figure a way out of here.

Take a Break