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[Final report of first session]

Tuesday, January 4th, 1933

The next morning Thomas hears a knock on the side of the hull of the Argos. He emerges to discover that the goon from the previous morning, Frankie No-Shoes wants to know if Thomas wants to do "some work." When Thomas presses Frankie about what kind of job it is, Frankie tells him that it's "man work." Intrigued, Thomas agrees to go with Frankie. Along the way he tells Thomas that the guy ...

[sorry for the need to split these up]

Monday, January 3rd, 1933

We pick up the action on Monday. At sunrise Thomas Moore gets a knock on his door. He opens it cautiously to find a weathered old man in a fisherman's cap. The man offers Thomas a bowl of fish stew. The stew (cioppina) turns out to be delicious. The old man, who never seems to speak, waves Thomas out of his primitive hut. He leads Thomas down to the edge of the water and hands him a bag. The old man proceeds ...

[sorry, have to break this up because of blog length restrictions]

The Session Begins…
As we being it is New Year's Eve 1932. FDR is yet to take office and the groundbreaking ceremonies for the Golden Gate Bridge are still several weeks away. (I only lightly planned the beginning of the session because I wanted to give the players a chance to get comfortable with their character's "real lives" before we got into two-fisted masked avenging.)

New Year's ...

(I've posted the full session report in the Pulp Hero forum, but I want to have a home for this that it's easier to keep track of... unfortunately blog posts can't exceed 10,000 characters, so I'll have to segment this up.

Some Background

My SF Pulp Noir game is set in San Francisco starting at the beginning of`1933. It's as historically accurate as possible with a few very small tweaks here and there. Of course, the presence of the characters, who are essentially Masked ...

These characters will appear in a game I'm running at the GameStorm game convention in the Vancouver/Portland area... (this will be a work in progress for awhile.) I'll be editing this content as I work... This is a pulp game, so characters may not be exactly politically correct.

The Player Characters in the Champions of Tinseltown play actors hired to do public appearances as well known serial characters. (The studio would never risk the actors they have on contract to do these appearances... ...