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Microscope: The Age of Miracles

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 I ran a Microscope game on A Night at the Opera a few weeks ago and these are the results. We (including myself) are fairly new to the system, so this was as much a game as it was a tutorial for myself and my players. I'm fairly happy with how it turned out.  Towards the end we started doing things play-by-post which turned out to be a mistake because people would sit on their hands for entire weeks and not take their turns, something I feared would be an issue. It was cool for a while, if I do it that way I'll probably just install a time limit, take your turn within a day of being notified or be skipped like a chump. It's unfinished, and this was also our first major game of Microscope, so this probably is poorly done. Anyways, here's your history: THE AGE OF MIRACLES Theme: "The Discovery of Magic Leads to Major Theological Upheaval" Palette: YES NO Magic has side effects Divinity is unknowable and ambigious Magic is not a science, is jazz (is not reproduc...

Belli Occulta Season 1

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This is a timeline detailing some major developments and scenarios I've ran for Belli Occulta since I began this campaign.  Belli Occulta is a Delta Green campaign I began running around May 2023 starting with a 90s rendition of my scenario "Widowmakers" and things went from there. The campaign meets mainly on Sundays, with a second player group that occasionally convenes on Wednesdays.      The Sunday group have played as three different cells of Delta Green: we started with Cell 'M', who conducted operations across New England and beyond against Majestic-12 and occasionally the Dorian Grey Society led by their driven but unstable cell leader, MONTY. Cell 'I' fought a prolonged war of espionage and sabotage against the Skoptsi, a Russian castration cult devoted to a twisted fertility deity. Cell 'V' has crossed the country fighting the Karotechia and its cronies, as well as trying to escape the orbit of the ineffable power known as the King in Yel...

Report: Operation HOI POLLOI - Part Three

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??/??/???? A hospital bed. Lt. Fields awakens, Special Agent Gaultier in the bed next to his. No sign of Special Agent Copeland. A surgeon enters, consulting a chart on a clipboard. He tells Lt. Fields they are in Modesto, California. He asks Lt. Fields benign questions about his injuries, about the blast and ensuing fire that consumed the fortified cabin of the Bear Flag Republic's leader, Ronald Pringle. Fields asks after the condition of his cohort. They assure him all his fine, him and Gaultier sustained only superficial burns and injuries, Copeland was injured by shrapnel and has required surgery, which she is undergoing presently. It’s strange, it should hurt a lot more than it does, or he should at least feel that warm haze of morphine, but no. He feels fine. Trying to make conversation, and noting the doctor’s nametag says “Kipling,” and offhandedly mentions there being “no discharge in the war.” The Doctor is baffled by this, and Lt. Fields has to explain the joke. That’s ...

Scenario Outline: Operation HOI POLLOI

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CALIFORNIA UBER ALLES or OPERATION HOI POLLOI HOOK Your agents are called to liaison with local law enforcement in Sacramento, California after a mass shooting at a synagogue leaves twenty dead and other injured. This might be in their official capacity as federal agents, or it might be A-Cell being proactive, as the perpetrators are members of the Bear Flag Republic, a white supremacist militia that Delta Green suspects of being connected to the Karotechia. When manifestos taking responsibility for the attack begin being mailed to television and radio news stations across the state, it quickly becomes apparent that the situation is worse than anyone first believed. Inserted into the manifesto are lines from the accursed play, " The King in Yellow ". A-Cell's directives for your agents are to contain the outbreak of the King in Yellow through any means necessary, identify the origin of the manifestos destroy it and whoever is responsible for distributing them, and to cove...