We set our game in an alternate reality Portland, Oregon in the late-1800s. Although supernatural events had occurred in the world previously, the players decided that an event twenty years prior changed the fortunes of Portland.
A comet appeared in the sky, the Star of Darkness, and struck the Earth in the Pacific Ocean. Soon, a gargantuan monster rose from the depths and crawled along the Columbia River, leaving a trail of destruction and weird magic in its wake. Seemingly headed for Mount Hood---no-one knows why---it collapsed on the east shore of the Willamette and died. Europeans called it the Apocalypse Beast, the Japanese the Kaiju, the Native peoples said it had travelled across the Bridge of the Gods. Aftwards the land was more rife with the supernatural the farther east you went to Mount Hood.
The city of Portland became home to the decomposing corpse of a being of unfathomable power and grew weirder by the day. Beset by prospectors, hoping to harvest magical materials from the remains, Portland's population exploded and sightseers came from far and wide to witness the giant, fish-like bones, curving up into the sky.
As we played through the adventure, we changed the main villain to a villainess, Drauzhal, Queen of Halja, with her Rotting Crown, a sort of homage to Judge Death. The final encounter that was remiscent of the Ghostbusters confronting Gozer the Gozerian in New York. Proverbial streams were crossed and it resulted in an explosion that only one character (Muriel) survived.
Perhaps the other Slayers will be raised from the dead by Tonto in another session down the line? Who knows.
They did save five out of eleven pyskers in total.
- Rose Water. A pretty young card sharp, gambler and psychic object reader, rescued from the nefarious, top hat and tails-wearing undead, Sir John, and his two plague hyenas
- "Gran". An old gypsy fortune teller, rescued from Drauzhal's ampitheatre
- Unnamed brawny black railroad worker, rescued from Drauzhal's ampitheatre
- Unnamed grimy old, whiskered prospector, rescued from Drauzhal's ampitheatre
- Unnamed Hispanic girl, rescued from Drauzhal's ampitheatre