The Turning Point

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>>55197288
...it's "a pale man in a neat, dark suit". The GM says "you can shoot him before he speaks" but there's no in-character reason for any of us to do so. Without rolling initiative (or we did and he had a higher minimum than our maximums anyway, I don't remember, either way it was pointless), he casts a "Force 10 Control Actions" spell and yells "SUBMIT!" We attempt to resist and fail because it's extremely strong, at which point the GM says "oh, you have minus 10 dice to your pool to shake it off", which puts us all completely unable to move, indefinitely.

The GM would later mention that this was incorrect interpretation of the rules on his part, and that we should not have had minus ten at all.

Anyway, so he ties us up, and then we hear the Bishop's voice say, and I'm not joking, "Good work... LUCIFER. Hahahaha!", followed by in a classic growling demon voice "YES, MY LORD."

There's a pause and then the GM says, "there will now be a ten minute intermission".

So, we all wake up in separate rooms. The mage is first; he attempts to cast a spell and we hear the GM go "oh, right, you... feel a powerful electric shock as the mage shackles detect the use of magic, you take 12 stun damage" which immediately knocks him out.

The face is next - Lucifer growls along the lines of "God won't help you here, pretty boy" and begins carving off the face's ear. "You take 6 physical damage, and your left ear is permanently mutilated"

Face: "Oh."

next up is the cat mage, who had no combat spells and was designed for sneaking around as a magical burglar and stealing high-value packages. Cool guy, not sure why he came on a wetwork run. Whatever. "You take 9 physical damage as Lucifer spends an hour torturing you in horrible ways with a knife".
Essentially the same deal for the medic, only he was also told that "your dog is dead" 2/3

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>>55197405
3/3 this dude made the dog at character creation and its tracking/hunting abilities were important additions to his build. It had a name and a back story. No rolls, no reasoning, just "your dog is dead, Lucifer knew it was here and found it"

so, while torturing the medic, Lucifer growls "take this... it will make you STRONGER" so I may torture you longer". The guy, pretty upset at losing his dog with no roll or roleplay, sounds fairly detached and says "yeah sure I'll give it a shot". At this point now that he has the syringe stuck in him, Lucifer leaves the whole complex permanently, and a player is (it's been probably 20 minutes since Lucifer's unavoidable mind control spell) allowed to make a choice other than "what do you say before he tortures you" again


The summoner overcharges himself wildly to summon a force 10 (equal to Lucifer) spirit of beasts, essentially a giant Tasmanian Tiger. He sends it to chase after Bishop Gregory. At this point the GM's mind breaks down because he decides he needs the EXACT rules and the exact maths on how long Lucifer was torturing people for vs how long the guy's been driving away, puts the spirit in an impossible situation by requiring an extra SIX SUCCESSES every attempt, then eventually gets him to retroactively use a bonus because he realises it was impossible.

So, the guy's two bodyguards jump on top of the principle and the GM declares "they protect the principle" which is a specific action that costs initiative. Problem is, they don't have the initiative to do it, but in the GM's head they are still dog piling their subject, despite having acted out of turn, so now the spirit has to go through them. The spirit does so and gets him to within an inch of his life (apparently) before being destroyed, because it had to go through 2 surprisingly resilient (to a giant tiger) regular henchmen.

In the end we got no money, the run took 8 hours, and we got 4 karma (I got 5 for a 4 hour run last time).