Faction Actions! - Elysia Rising Ep4 - Blades in the Dark Actual Play

Episode 4 April 03, 2024 00:08:31
Faction Actions! - Elysia Rising Ep4 - Blades in the Dark Actual Play
Explorers of Elsewhere
Faction Actions! - Elysia Rising Ep4 - Blades in the Dark Actual Play

Apr 03 2024 | 00:08:31

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Show Notes

DM Dan returns with another Faction Actions video to show what the gangs of Elysia have been up too during the latest downtime.

 

Played using the Blades in the Dark ruleset, by John Harper - https://bladesinthedark.com/greetings-scoundrel

 

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DM DAN - https://twitter.com/dmdant | https://www.instagram.com/dmdmt

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JC - https://www.instagram.com/JCQuickDIY | https://www.instagram.com/capitalRPG/

MEG - https://www.instagram.com/midgetmeg92

NATE - https://www.instagram.com/njadamart | https://www.instagram.com/pridecaf

 

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Episode Transcript

[00:00:00] Hello and welcome back to another explorers of elsewhere, Elysia rising faction actions. We are back again. Hello. I am DM Dan and we are going to find out what the city of Elysia has been up to whilst our crew have been whiling away the hours, de stressing after a quite, um, quite unusual, a quite, uh, unexpected hammering, a job. Um, we've seen that cavern has had a bit of a. Bit of a bang up, but we are, yeah, gonna see if there are any other tussles through the city over the space of the last kind of in world day or so. So we are once again back on the factions actions page. We can see the actions that the factions have been working towards. [00:01:04] I should just quickly start off on the relationships. So the crew have completed another job for the cobbles, successfully, I might add. Masto has absolutely nothing to complain about. So that is not only puts their faction clock with the underworld up to plus three, but it also changes their relationship with the cobbles specifically to plus three. [00:01:36] Interestingly, I'm actually going to argue that whilst they kind of tussled with the shield of Alesia, arguably the shield of Alicia have slightly bigger fish to fry, what with the guard and the, oops, ghost attack. [00:01:55] That said, the shield of Alicia and the guard definitely kind of tore into one another. So their relationship is dropping. [00:02:05] And that actually means they drop to minus three with one another, which now means that the what? The city watch and the shield of Alicia are now at war with one another. [00:02:19] That means that both of them are going to lose some of their power, as, you know, their hold as a funnel resources towards the inner commons, the war effort. [00:02:30] But, yeah, that means that there might be some kind of territory, some opportunities up for grabs for. For the other factions in the city. As an aside, the shield of Alicia were already at war with another faction, which will come apparent at some point in the future. So really it was just the watch that finding themselves a bit more stretched than they were before. So, in terms of the factions, let's see what they are up to, because that's pretty much all the updates on the relationship clocks. [00:03:03] So, once again, we can see some of the things that the factions were going up to. The marionettes completed their clock last term, so they're gonna start a new one. But we'll quickly run through the ones that were already kind of public knowledge and are in process. So the city watch, despite being now being at war, they are still a tier three faction. So we'll roll a cool, quick faction dice. [00:03:32] Three three dice. Faction roll. For them, that comes out as a six. [00:03:42] So the sangra. [00:03:45] So the city watch successfully fill their clock and a number of single file have now been kind of rounded up. Whoo. The chain bearers. So they have attempted. They've been attempting to recover void touched items. They are currently a tier three faction as well. So let's roll three dice for them. [00:04:18] A five, which is two segments, which takes them up to five or six. So they are nearly done. [00:04:27] Children of Aya, who arguably, in the form Dorothea, came to caverns aid, question mark. They are a fact, a tier four faction. So let's go ahead and roll for dice for the children of I. [00:04:46] As they spread Aya's word, they get a six. Okay, so that would be three segments, but that means the clock is filled. The cobbles. They are still attempting to expand into old town. [00:05:00] They are going to roll their single dice for a grand total of all six. Go mustang. [00:05:10] He's loving life. Three segments takes them up to five as well. They are nearly. They nearly have a foot in the door. The shield of Alicia. [00:05:19] So given everything that's happened to them, they have now dropped. [00:05:27] So they are still on a week to hold tier. So that's two dice for their fortune. [00:05:38] That's a five. So that is two segments, which takes them halfway to completion. [00:05:46] And that is it for the public ones. [00:05:50] So, yeah, the city watch have completed their thing. The children of ire have completed their thing. So I'm just going to quickly roll all the secret ones, and then we'll see what these clocks look like after. [00:06:05] And here we. Ah. So the Marionettes have had a slow start on their new project that the players have not yet discovered the details of the kindling carry on. They got two. [00:06:23] The kindling carry on, I believe it was two segments. The blackguard have completed theirs, so they're going to restart and, yeah, the tellers, the hollow EIc, all the ones on the bottom, EIC illness, lodge, reticent, chicana keepers, orchestra, all kind of getting one or two segments. [00:06:41] So they're all coming perilously close to completing their clocks, which will then have a narrative impact on the game. So it looks like it's just at this current rate, there's. [00:06:52] Yeah, a lot of things are going to be changing in very, very quick succession. So we'll see how that impacts the players and the world, and that is about it. So this is the world that the players will have woken up to at the end of episode four going into episode five, when we will see what sort of forced servitude Dorothea inflicts upon our crew. [00:07:21] And yeah, see if their actions impact any of these clocks going forward. [00:07:26] So if you're enjoying the kind of intriguing behind the scenes stuff, make sure to like this video and comment down below on what you think is going to be a kind of juicy combination of changes where if these clocks kind of all hit 12:00 together. [00:07:43] Yeah. Because I can see that there's, there's a lot that's due to shift, if you want to see how exactly it impacts the players. And make sure to subscribe to the channel and hit the bell icon for notifications of updates because we release new videos very, very regularly and we wouldn't want you to miss out. So that's pretty much it. [00:08:08] Bye.

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