Fear the Boot, Actual Play

The technology park turns into liminal horror.

A technology park invites you to see the wonders within! Never mind that it's been missing for centuries.

A battered exploratory vessel finds its way home. Does its survivor deserve a second chance at life?

Wrapping up the case with an explosive ending.

The party begins to assemble the narrative and motivations for the crime, even as it becomes less clear who's instigating it all.

The investigation is interrupted by a visit to a doctor of sophontology.

For this game, we developed a planet that will play an important role in the main story, using  The Quiet Year.  The images below track the colony ship's progress over time.

Digging through the lives of a family trapped in a gilded cage.

Selecting the next job and heading to the capital world of the Corraster League.

With the body and facts secure, it's time to decide the first client's fate.

Next stop: medical facilities in a system that should be quite a bit safer. Not that life always works out that way.

The first contract: retrieve a body from a mining station and find out just how much a corpse can be worth.

Today, we ditch some stress and get back into gaming by taking a pitstop. Ever wondered about the world of cooking mysteries in the 42nd century? Me neither, but here it is! NOTE: This was a comedy improv game, so it doesn't conform to the PG-13 boundaries we put on our main show.

Grace Gunn, Tommy "Bam Bam" Prue and Irving Holt didn't expect to find themselves sneaking around the Three Spires Country Club this evening in their effort to rescue Trixie from whomever it was that took here – yet, that's exactly where they find themselves. But even though this wasn't in their plans, when you put a private Jane, an ex-con-turned-boxer-on-the-mend and a back alley camera jockey t...

A brief stop in the Atnia Cluster before heading to the team's first deployment. Concept art for the species mentioned... Asta Freyep   Reisian Sirini

Used to be a time when you could get by on your word and a handshake. While that might still be true for some things, here in Chicago, you get a whole truckload of palooks who want to justify their existence with all kinds of paperwork. Sign this document. Fill out this form and Boom! You exist. Or you get to own that thing you just bought. Of course, on the flip side of this, you get plenty of pe...

Final game prep, group creation, and character creation. In case you're curious, this is what a Sirini looks like.

Doing a bit of pre-game prep to set some parameters for the game, to make session zero go more smoothly.

Right place, wrong time. Wrong place, right time. Doesn't matter how you slice it, there's some places you don't ever want to be, regardless of the time. And in 1933 Chicago, that place is a speakeasy when the coppers are on the hop. And right now, that's where Grace Gunn, Tommy 'Bam Bam' Prue and Irving Holt find themselves. While trying to find Trixie, some cultists and… well something else deci...

  You ask 10 people what you should do if you get into a tussle, you're bound to get 11 answers. Regardless of what you're told, you ultimately gotta know what you want to get out of the fight. And right now, Grace Gun, Tommy 'Bam Bam' Prue and Irving Holt just want to get out of the speakeasy they're in, with their precious cargo of Trixie in tow. Of course, that also means that Stanley needs to...

Cleaning up a whole lot of dirty laundry.

A search for toilet wine turns into a prison break.

The crew goes to war with the Crows, and there's an uncomfortable amount of syphilis involved.

Affairs of the heart are a wonderful thing. Of course, that is if you want to call all the unreturned affection from the one you love, because they love someone else wonderful. At that point, Affairs of the Heart become more like, 'Affairs of the Hurt.' And our trio of Grace Gun, Tommy 'Bam Bam' Prue and Irving Holt are about to find that the woman they've been seeking – Trixie, or if you want to...

The second candy war begins.