May 22, 2025

TLAS3 Chapter 19 From Hell's Heart

32 minutes

The battle rages on. Tatters and Mara face off against their respective foes… and everything goes straight to hell.

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1x6OnOk7Z-L5oJ7ir7xTE291SnJRDL0FNI293PKeA-gM/edit?usp=sharing

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Mechanics

The Voice of the Machine

Leader of the Machine Cult, possessed by the Ring of Winter

Wants global destruction and endless winter

4C, 1/2 armour

Deadly Ice Magic (Inflicts 2C, Forceful, Vicious, Area)

Summon freezing winds

Command fanatical loyalty

Summon ice creatures

Machine Cult Horde

Fanatical devotants to the Great Machine

Wants an end to the heresy of the flesh

6C (horde), 4C (group), 1C (solo), 0/1 armour, 2/6C

Long, cruel knives

Spout doctrine

Blindly follow orders

Scene 0

Chaos Factor 9

Scene Description:Stop the ritual

Scene Test: The scene is Altered: Increase An Activity

The Voice doubles down on the ritual: 1d4: 2! Not yet…

GM Move: Make Them Choose: Suffer a condition or Become separated from your allies

Effect of fireball:

Effect of ritual empowering

Mara goes down under a tangle of flaming bodies: Tatters is on her own

Scene 1

Scene continues: Voice v Tatters, cultists v Mara

Voice casts ice magic at Tatters, Tatters has Immunity (Ice) ongoing (so does Mara)

Plan has gone to shit: nuclear option: light the bomb fuse

Evoke a Spell (Teleport): 9

Consequence: put in danger: Change the Environment: she and the Voice transported to the Demon Dimensions. With a bomb.

Scene 2

Chaos Factor 9

Scene Description: Battle free of the Cultists

Scene Test: The scene is Altered: Add An Object and Reduce or Remove An Activity

Object: Inactive, Multiple

Activity: Ritual d4-d6

The ritual is failing without the Voice.

6 secondary conduits emerge. If they are manually activated, the cultists can still complete the ritual. Some cultists break off. Mara attacks the remainder.

Defy (break free): 10 success

Push Yourself (STR weakened)

Engage (attack remaining cultists): 11: Inflict 1C, parry 1C

Spend 2 of 3 Momentum for Advantage on Engage

Engage (attack remaining cultists): 10: take 1C, inflict 2C, cultists dead!

Scene 3

Chaos Factor 8

Scene Description: Escape from the Demon Dimensions

Scene Test: The scene is Interrupted: PC Negative. Meaning: Deny Needs

Tatters is cut off from the Fabric. No magic!

Is the same true for the ring? Likely. Yes

Does the bomb go off? Nearly Certain: Yes

Does Setarra make an offer? 50/50: Yes

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