Games that don’t happen
Life has a lot of ways of nudging events so that games don’t happen. There are periods where we can confound life’s intent to spoil our fun and gratification, but that still leaves a lot of time where life wins. Living in Korea was once a source of gamelessness for me, but I learned how … Continue reading
Walking in Gumshoes ~ The End of the Road
Our Mutant City Blues campaign has not been declared dead, but the lack of an official pronouncement does not make it less so. Predictably, the game to a crashing halt the moment it was about to take off. There is nothing about Gumshoe or Mutant City Blues itself which contributed to this, so this post will not get … Continue reading
Walking in Gumshoes ~ The Crime
Our Mutant City Blues campaign started off with a brief out-of-character discussion about how the Heightened Crimes Unit would be represented in Montreal, an overview of altered history and the future’s altered history, a primer on changes in Montreal, and then we segued into the Google Drive Document for the start of in-character play. That we are doing … Continue reading
Walking in Gumshoes ~ Investigating
For all intents and purposes, our three characters are now in the thick of investigating our first crime scene for our Mutant City Blues campaign. We opened in the Montreal Heightened Crime Units bullpen, where the three of us were assigned a homicide case at a local culinary landmark. We have spent the last two weeks … Continue reading
Casting Shadows 