The first Counter-Colonial Heistcrawl session of the new year is a wild success with a bunch of new faces!

The first Counter-Colonial Heistcrawl session of the new year is a wild success with a bunch of new faces!

At the end of last year, the frankincense groves were burning, the Chinese pirates were in disarray, and a bunch of starving, thirst-wracked prisoners had just been liberated from their sacrifice-cage on the beach.

The strongest of these quickly pulled themselves together – the French philosophe Cessat, German Satanist aristocrat Rebekah, displaced Chinese lunatic Prince Tenzi and his faithful bag-man Lu Bu joined the indefatigable Padre Antonio and crew. In short order they separated a bunch of pirates from their junk, liberated another cage full of prisoners and made themselves masters of yet another ship. A quick frontal assault plus the overwhelming majesty of prince Emperor Tenzi cowed the pirates, while undead crocs mopped up those who weren’t quick enough to see the light. By the end of the night the former prisoners had found themselves in charge of:
– weapons and starting equipment, including 3 machetes and a jezzail;
– 3 canoes, 1 catamaran and 1 ocean-going Chinese pirate junk in remarkably good repair;
– 31 rescued prisoners, in addition to the 16 PCs still surviving from previous sessions;
– 4 captive pirate crewmen, including one Michelin star chef.

Next job: rescue a dead crocodile god from a pit surrounded by burning resin trees.
Of particular interest to Jason Kielbasa, Jeremy Duncan, AC Horton, Zedeck Siew, Chris P., Kyrinn S. Eis and Maxime Golubchik

the greatest of all answers to that old Call of Cthulhu question: “why don’t we get the police to deal with this?”

My daughter’s school project led to me rereading Tammany Hall articles and I figured some of you might not know the greatest of all answers to that old Call of Cthulhu question: “why don’t we get the police to deal with this?”
So here:

William Stephen Devery, New York City’s last chief of police, was either an “illiterate ruffian” or an amazing, openly corrupt, and utterly likable eccentric.
…the Board of Police Commissioners fired him (for corruption) in 1894. He was then indicted for extortion. A jury acquitted him in 1895. Meanwhile, a State Supreme Court ruling had restored him to duty.
Devery, Frank Farrell, a professional gambler, and State Senator Timothy D. “Big Tim” Sullivan formed a syndicate to handle protection services for gambling establishments. …between Sullivan and Devery, the syndicate united the powers of the police, the legislature, and the State Gambling Commission.
Inevitably, he set up Giuliani’s favorite baseball team, the Yankees.

http://www.mapsites.net/gotham/sec6/Devery.html

an accusation of figureheads, or: flesh to wood (area effect)

an accusation of figureheads, or: flesh to wood (area effect)

bards

bards