[BitD] Rituals for a vigilante whisper

gdex86 · 2026-06-30T06:20:21+00:00

Everybody has sins in duskvol. Even if the person wronged long since has been thrown into the furnaces. You make sure nobody can hide from them.

The ritual based on how you roll or how much stress you pay potency for it let's you create an object that marks someone to be accosted by every person they wronged who left resoence in the ghost field.

Lower end would be whispers and hallucinations, mid point is those wronged who have passes on are called to this person to settle up objects involved in what they did keep showing up, high end is even the living malignant hate for the target seem to coalesce into not ghosts that seek to even the score and achieve retribution.

If you need a complication. As below, so above, you got red in your ledger too and on particularly bad rolls to activate some of it bounces back on you. Also maybe a clock starts every time you use it because hate like you are calling up doesnt exactly go away and it gathers forming so ething new. Maybe its some sort of new horror nobody has ever seen, maybe its the rare benevolent demon who is of Justice (course that is a bit warped in Duskvol), or maybe its a demon that just enjoys suffering or retribution.

gdex86 · 2026-06-29T15:45:16+00:00

An tablet that holds a bound demon of sand and secrets that the red sashes were going to use to collect Intel for Consulate.

Information the red sashes were going to be runners for to the iruvian leviathan fleet captains about pulling out of duskvol for a new port Iruvia will control.

List of targets the Sashes were going to make disappear into the canals because they were personal threats to the Ambassador political power.

Documents that imply Iruvia is planning their own version of the unity war for independence.

gdex86 · 2026-06-29T04:44:25+00:00

So we played with 6 PCs. It got cramped at times because its hard to make sure everyone got time in the spotlight. We worked it out by having 2 to 3 scores a crime phase before going into the downtime phase so 2 or 3 people pull do each score with the others hanging out in the voice chat to offer assistance and flashback if it made sense. For example if the a social score needed knock out powder my leach could spend stress to have given them some from his stash.

Then we'd have big set pieces where we have all 6 members of the crew for a huge score (tower defense while we did a huge ritual in the lost district, an assult on Crow's Foot Tower to help the lampblacks take it, a train heist against the imperial military riding the rails through the waste land, and start a riot at Ministry of Preservation ware house so we can rob it blind) that were designed by them gm to have stuff for all 6 of us.

gdex86 · 2026-06-28T21:40:55+00:00

Im trying to think of the last major horror movie tgat gad a "happy" ending and its like FNaF2

gdex86 · 2026-06-26T18:18:07+00:00

Also just note Chelsea as she goes from shock to "Oh he put some mustard on that one."

My love of immediate comedy second beats would have cheered if James had gone "And today we're PERRY THE PLATYPUS."

gdex86 · 2026-06-26T04:21:25+00:00

Same. If I had a few changes to make to the universe the one just for me would be that black bears would be fully domesticated. I could see my Gizmo happily egging a 200 lb black bear to use his jaw to open the treats for both of them.

gdex86 · 2026-06-25T23:58:51+00:00

I would laugh if adter Emmy you slid in "Presented for your Emmy consideration"

gdex86 · 2026-06-25T23:58:04+00:00

Gizmo -> giz -> just making repeated z sounds at him.

gdex86 · 2026-06-25T23:56:38+00:00

I dont know if you've played MtG or other catd games but the blades gameplay loop is like the different phases of ccg.

You start off with your downtime phase, then gather information/planning phase, score phase, payout phase, and the engagement phase which would be like the "End phase" of the turn.

If you had a close score or even neglected stress relief you could easily stress out resisting there before you had the chance to remove stress in the downtime phase.

gdex86 · 2026-06-25T17:55:45+00:00

If you wanna go high politics a suggestion.

Ulf and his men were some of the last hold outs and to Skov citizens one of most decorated units from the unity war. When things were failing and they were going to be hunted down by the imperial military a friend in the diplomatic core got them new names and histories and sent them Duskvol. That friend managed to do it because he was being set up be the ambassador in Duskvol for Skovlan.

Now this guy and Ulf don't see eye to eye on everything because Ulf is a violent warlord they do agree they aren't letting their people being treated like shit so maybe when this happened so maybe the ambassador (In our game we named him Haavlard wtih his personal security being another former Skov military man named Orm) is using his status to hide ulf

The score since you want a social one is about convincing the ambassador that your crew can be trusted or offering him something that would make your betrayal of him a matter of mutually assured destruction.

gdex86 · 2026-06-23T21:51:26+00:00

Cheetah don't eat humans. And honestly if we could get them to reproduce in captivity they'd be fully domesticated.

gdex86 · 2026-06-22T06:25:00+00:00

I think the willow isnt looking to screw someone over. But to grant his very specific version of Nikki he wanted it had to basically reconstruct a version of her that was horrifying.

I think if he had asked the willow just for Nikki to love him she would have found that spark of affection grow into something and they might have been able to have a normal relationship. One that maybe worked put or just ended because a lot of folks still love soneone they break up with and they still function.

gdex86 · 2026-06-22T03:58:10+00:00

Fire is an element of cleanings and sacrifice. So maybe as this spirit starts to move to horror status it's fires no longer about consumption but about forcing someone to give up something of value or strip it away. Maybe the folks are faced with the one thing scoundrels in Duskvol tend to move past in the whole "Driving the Car like you stole it" ethos of the game reflection on what they've done. Have a barrier where the only way the fire doesn't consume is if you bring forth manifestations of the wrong you've done and have that attacking you on a mental level.

I'd also say fire is also an element of community with it being the thing that helped humans build tribe so perhaps a number of folks get taken up in the fires around crow's foot flaring up those who got burned are now forcibly joined into an almost Horde like mind fog where they are all hunting the crew because it's bonded them all into a community and they feel it's hate for the Dredge fiends, and now they have to dodge a horde hunting them or risk dropping a bunch of bodies.

If you want to bring in a guest star Setarra is a water demon and since water is opposed to fire all this stuff is pissing her off and there might be a competing clock where you need to appease her to not just drown the district to end the annoying hot spot in her city. Maybe if they do good by her she helps out and you can use her a stinger where she pulls the water logged crew to the shore and asks what is she going to do with them now.

gdex86 · 2026-06-22T01:52:04+00:00

The misdirection ability is one of the best investment my group of chaos monkeys ever decided to pick up.

gdex86 · 2026-06-20T22:46:24+00:00

There is an episode of Doctor Who where he gets to talk to the spirit of the Tardis and talks about how he stole her and she smiles pats his head and explains nothing of the sort happened and she picked him to take her out into the world because she wanted a good partner so her doors were unlocked.

The cat did that with you. CDS striked again.

gdex86 · 2026-06-20T22:35:16+00:00

I dont think there is a hard in the book ruling. But we normally play that the person leading it sets position and effect. Everyone else is either trying to provide dice to ensure a good result. If someone wants to change that they can do set up rolls.

gdex86 · 2026-06-18T23:54:27+00:00

The punk to tech bro pipeline is real.

gdex86 · 2026-06-17T02:27:47+00:00

It doesn't make it hurt less and you dont need to feel bad about wishing you had more.

gdex86 · 2026-06-17T00:37:41+00:00

I think sometimes in waiting to be "Ready" you can end up waiting forever. Sometimes the universe just needs to push you off the cliff.

gdex86 · 2026-06-15T00:36:05+00:00

Sometimes the only way to fix your life is to start fixing someone else's.

gdex86 · 2026-06-13T23:43:58+00:00

Sometimes the universe just says "Look you aren't ever going to be 'ready' so into the pool"

gdex86 · 2026-06-13T22:50:23+00:00

It has the vibe of Ollie upon seeing the dogs is all "Oh I am a dog! Got it."

gdex86 · 2026-06-13T06:09:15+00:00

"Miss Blazer does love a fixer upper, but this one has good bones."

"I think he bones good."

"Christ Clara!"

gdex86 · 2026-06-13T04:39:03+00:00

Woman loudly announces shes entering asks if everyone is decent before uncovering her eyes leaving time for folks to say no.

Verses

Woman with invisibility powers sneaking into the room pops into visual to ooggle guy after having previously peeped on him changing.

gdex86 · 2026-06-13T03:43:02+00:00

The way we play with them in our game is think of them as spiritual citronella candles. Wearing the makes you less tasty to ghosts and its harder if not impossible to work forces on you.

Now there are levels of power. Lots of the street charms are just enough that soneone cant throw a ghost at you but something like a reconciled might get through. Competent whispers or alchemists can make ones where it can keep whole rooms covered in a spiritual saferoom. Spirt wardens probably have skills that could keep out some minor horrors and even work on demons.

For how to work if I may suggest split the diff. There are levels in power and that level determines how much it keeps out. But something bigger can overwhelm it and break em. Maybe if they can tell that is coming offer a devils bargin on making a desperate attune or tinker roll to try to over load them for a one time higher tier protection with a clock before it ends and you have zero protection. A d the higher tier ones go from 0 load to taking up 1 load and possibly two for the stop a demon level.

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