Wednesday, June 9, 2021

Fallin' Down - Music - Submitter's Choice

After writing up the music post for Fallin' Down, I put a call out to the submitters of each floor, to see if they had music tracks in mind for their dungeon levels. I also asked Conscience what he'd been using so far.

A rune wizard amends signage in the Stone Town, courtesy of one of Conscience's players

I received the following replies:

Conscience (Dungeon Master)
General Combat Relaxed: Drumbeat of the Dunmer (https://youtu.be/Yookfajt3lg)
General Combat Intense: Stormclouds on the Horizom (https://youtu.be/QdKgNP0ygMw)

Stone Town Day: Journey's End (https://youtu.be/cph3BSQq1e0)
Stone Town Journey/Event: Wind Guide You (https://youtu.be/qBBwdOGDIKk)
Stone Town Dark: Masser (https://youtu.be/Va9GQkjrnII)

Broken Venus: Mirkwood Theme (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhZMk7ZCOyw)

Ghouls Exploration: Flat of the Blade Instrumental (https://youtu.be/WfIP4DWGG28)
Ghouls at Work: Pray for Rain Instrumental (https://youtu.be/XdaJi0tdAwI)
Ghouls Attack: Babel Instrumental (https://youtu.be/rNWXDiqw-cc)

tophat (Floor 3)
"I'd put Machinarium's The Prison down for specifically visiting The Blood Pool"

Monday, June 7, 2021

Fallin' Down - Music

Friend of the blog Conscience is running Fallin' Down for his open table. He hasn't written a full play report or review yet, but he's been posting updates to the disky and it sounds amazing.

Screenshot from his roll20 of the abandoned inn in the Stone Town

So I decided to score all the Fallin' Down floors. Similar to what I did with Esoteric Enterprises. Here's the music I'd use for each area:

Saturday, June 5, 2021

Clean Living - a Resident Evil Adventure

Resident Evil! It's not my favorite series - in fact the only one I've ever played is 4. The setting is kind of bloated with too many prequels and spinoffs and retcons that create a ridiculous Metal Gear style pileup of conspiracies.

But I saw a thread on the traditional games board that captured my imagination: what would it be like living in a world where anyone with a grudge could turn over a rock and find thirty new bio-organic weapons. And it reminded me of one of my favorite settings of all time: the B.P.R.D.
By Guy Davis, the best of the B.P.R.D. artists

So I wrote up a rules hack for Delta Green, along with an adventure and some pregens to play with it. You can read them here.

Here's a play report of how the playtest went.

THE UNITED STATES IN 2021
Since President Adams’ assassination in 2013, the United States has been in a permanent state of emergency - a police state in an endless struggle against yearly bioterror attacks. Wild mutants breeding in the woods for decades, filtering out into population centers. Cults and militias brewing new strains of viruses bought on the black market. Zombies staggering into crowded malls. Secret military tribunals. Bodies in sealed bags, tipped into an autoclave.

That’s been the new normal for almost a decade. And it’s not all bad. The biological revolution that unleashed neverending horror on the world also opened a treasure trove of medical and pharmaceutical discoveries. When’s the last time you heard of someone dying of heart disease, or cancer? So people live around the shortages and empty shelves, the long lines, the endless checkpoints manned by guards in full MOPP gear, pointing flamethrowers and rocket launchers at families in sedans. You shop for groceries, pick up the kids from school, spray your groceries down with bleach, and hope to God the thing on the back of your hand is just a rash.

THE DIVISION OF SECURITY OPERATIONS
Empowered by the 2001 PROTECT America Federal Bioterrorism Commission Act, refreshed every year by Congress during the usual appropriation cycle, the Division of Security Operations is the cabinet level agency which assumed the duties of both the FBC and the National Counterterrorism Center. Unlike its predecessors, the DSO has broad authority to assemble Joint Terrorism Task Forces on a permanent basis, in effect skimming personnel from other law enforcement, military and intelligence three letter agencies.

BRIEFING
Yesterday, local police in Lubbock, Texas making a routine traffic stop found a hermetically sealed container filled with plagas spores. Thankfully the driver was apprehended without incident, and the container secured without releasing its contents.

We’ve got people checking out the trucking operation, and the source of the package. We need you to investigate the destination. According to the shipping records, the box hiding the spores was destined for a community in Central Washington called Squiddler’s Patch, up in the Okanogan National Forest. We’re sending you in undercover to sniff out the operation, with the option to go loud and neutralize any threat that can’t wait for a followup team.