Blades in the Dark: A bunch of hacks

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unseenlibrarian: Jun 4, 2012; There's only one thing in the mountains that leaves a track like this. The creature of legend that roams the Timberline. My people named him Sasquatch. You call him... Bigfoot.

I wound up bumping up to the hacker tier because the one setting that seemed good for this that didn't show up as a stretch goal is modern urban fantasy. So I will probably work on it myself. Little bit Daniel Faust, little bit Skin Game, little bit Leverage with wizards, demon mob bosses, etc, etc.

# ¿ Apr 17, 2015 14:19

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# ¿ May 3, 2024 16:09

unseenlibrarian: Jun 4, 2012; There's only one thing in the mountains that leaves a track like this. The creature of legend that roams the Timberline. My people named him Sasquatch. You call him... Bigfoot.

My kickstarter expectations were set unreasonably high by Greg Stolze, before big kickstarters with tons of stretch goals were regularly a thing, where he'd normally start sending poo poo out the same day the funding cleared.

And then I pledged to Far West, oops.

# ¿ Apr 24, 2015 20:30

unseenlibrarian: Jun 4, 2012; There's only one thing in the mountains that leaves a track like this. The creature of legend that roams the Timberline. My people named him Sasquatch. You call him... Bigfoot.

They're apparently going to add bookmarks/index after the final "Everyone has eyes on it to spot obvious errors/typos/problems" sweep. (Deadline for reporting weird mismatched stuff is 2/15, I believe.)

# ¿ Jan 31, 2017 21:23

unseenlibrarian: Jun 4, 2012; There's only one thing in the mountains that leaves a track like this. The creature of legend that roams the Timberline. My people named him Sasquatch. You call him... Bigfoot.

Opening a mission with 'So you're skydiving into the penthouse" seems pretty apt for a Blades heist opener.

# ¿ Apr 20, 2017 01:20

unseenlibrarian: Jun 4, 2012; There's only one thing in the mountains that leaves a track like this. The creature of legend that roams the Timberline. My people named him Sasquatch. You call him... Bigfoot.

Evil Mastermind posted:

Have people been getting shipping notifications for the special edition, or is it just showing up?

They said they're not going to send out shipping notifications until all of them are fully shipped on the ninth, IIRC. Which seems dumb given people are -already getting them- but you know.

# ¿ Jun 6, 2017 16:12

unseenlibrarian: Jun 4, 2012; There's only one thing in the mountains that leaves a track like this. The creature of legend that roams the Timberline. My people named him Sasquatch. You call him... Bigfoot.

And it was waiting for me when I got home today, so that was cool.

# ¿ Jun 8, 2017 20:12

unseenlibrarian: Jun 4, 2012; There's only one thing in the mountains that leaves a track like this. The creature of legend that roams the Timberline. My people named him Sasquatch. You call him... Bigfoot.

I've been considering something similar but instead of 'monsters as Heist' it was just 'modern urban fantasy heists.' Like Leverage with elves.

# ¿ Jun 9, 2017 15:04

unseenlibrarian: Jun 4, 2012; There's only one thing in the mountains that leaves a track like this. The creature of legend that roams the Timberline. My people named him Sasquatch. You call him... Bigfoot.

Slowly working on that Modern urban fantasy hack I've mentioned before, as at least now I've worked out crew types.

You've got your Haunters, who are ghost focused. Jobs like 'exorcise ghosts', run 'be a shame if ghosts happened to this nice building' rackets, and do the occasional 'call up aunt Mabel and find out where she hid the good silver' medium jobs.

You've got the Thirteenth floor guys, who specialize in breaking into liminal spaces and stealing poo poo from them. Your kids disappear into a fantasy world in your closet? They'll retrieve them. A second hand store on your street that only exists on alternate Tuesdays and you work those days? They'll break in and steal that cursed artifact you've had your eye on.

There's Monster Hunters, who are just what they sound like. Probably almost respectable except for the whole 'work for pay instead of for the general good' thing.

Crossroaders: These guys go after supernatural bargain-makers. Grift the devil? Sure. Get someone -out- of a deal with the devil? Also sure. gently caress the devil up with cold iron crowbars for going too far with evil genie tricks? That too.

Illusionists uniquely deal with the rest of the magic criminal underworld. They're specialized in covering up magical phenomenon and providing plausible explanations for events. Frame up jobs, making bodies go away, and flat out stealing dangerous poo poo and disposing of it.

Secret societies: (Basically just cults from the core, but with a veneer of "actually worshiping dark gods is for the desparate, we just want to accumulate temporal power with the -trappings- of cults and also running around in masks and cloaks is cool.)

# ¿ Jul 1, 2017 14:08

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# ¿ May 3, 2024 16:09

unseenlibrarian: Jun 4, 2012; There's only one thing in the mountains that leaves a track like this. The creature of legend that roams the Timberline. My people named him Sasquatch. You call him... Bigfoot.

Yes, actually:

https://twitter.com/EvilHatOfficial/status/1000756851095433217

# ¿ May 29, 2018 12:42

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