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So what was the situation we were just talking about? So you know what we’re talking about. So you’ve got your players, you’ve got the characters worked out that your students were playing these kind of, technocrat scientists and so on in Berlin. What was the situation that they came up with?
So we were playing a very noir ish, dark, smoky, tension filled, game where they were, ordered by their superiors. Actually one of their superiors, a French woman who’s one of the people in charge of the secret organisation called Justine Cabret, known as the cadaver inside the organisation. And, it’s just writing itself. Yeah, they were they were trying to, hunt down a former SS officer, kind of fringe science figure who is supposedly died in 1945, a guy called Karl Geisler.
But Geisler had been seen around there been rumours and the secret organization really want to get their hands on Geisler. So that was the core of it. And it started. The entire thing started in medias res, with them running through the streets of Berlin, chasing someone that they’d been to interview because he thought they thought they might know where Guy Geisler is.
So we started with a chase scene. That’s what it kicked off as, and yet all just spiralled from there with, you know, meetings in British Army barracks with the senior commanders of of Soviet forces and British forces and American and French forces, you know, cocktails and champagne, but everything going horribly wrong. So it was it was great.
It was a really fantastic set up for a game.
So this is yeah, it’s really collaborative, right? It’s not as straightforward as the GM has a prepared scenario… a pre-pared. That’s quite nice. Pre-paring knife prepared scenario in front of them that you kind of run the players through. Everyone’s throwing stuff in. It’s that kind of game right?
Yes. Or I mean, or if you’re say running a convention game, the person GMIng can sit down and prepare the situation themselves. And in in the games themselves, there will be a set of pre-prepared situations. So if you just want to go like, oh, let’s just can like create some characters and play this game, you can just whip this prepared situation out and go like, let’s play this one, too.
Or you can do the complete creation system. But doing this with students was such immense fun. One of the players, Amy, had never played a role playing game before. And her character was this American. The character was, she was a scientist, an American scientist. And she ended up becoming this, you know, schnapps drinking, stone cold killer over the series of the of the three sessions, because of all the stuff she’d been exposed to, Amy played it brilliantly. She was a really, really great, kind of like you saw the changes in this character’s perspectives and ideas over just like three weeks of play. It was fantastic experience.