#gaminginthetimeofcovid19: remote #NightsBlackAgents, the #PersephoneExtraction. The agents investigate a secret Soviet-era bioweapons lab in the vicinity of the Russian city of Norilsk (look it up on Wikipedia or a maps app - that city is crazy). The vampire conspiracy comes in hot and heavily armed, but AJ and Eric work desperately to destroy the weaponized Marburg virus will Ayça coordinates the garrison’s defenses and Ticky goes full commando stalking bad guys. It was bad. Not everyone made it out. But the bioweapon was destroyed and the conspiracy left empty-handed. We think. The surviving agents escaped to Volgograd, en route to Greece. The conspiracy may be on the back foot, we hope, but they’re nowhere close to defeated yet. We’re just using Google hangouts, which is fine - it’s not great but it is free. #gumshoe is thankfully not a 5-foot-step kind of game thankfully, so we don’t really need a lot of mapping or detailed location tracking. Just the occasional share when someone needs to know what a Mi-24 Hind looks like. It’s interesting, with Gumshoe One-to-One, The Yellow King, and the upcoming Mutant City Blues 2nd, there have been some significant improvements (in my opinion) to the core Gumshoe rules - Night’s Black Agents actually feels a little dated, although I still like it a lot. Also the Fall of Delta Green rules for military hardware and lethality could easily be imported to Nights Black Agents when you play in Dust mode. We’ve always just used the default technothriller style, but I do think next time I do a longer game the grittier Dust mode would be fun to try. Anyway, if you’re a boardgamer whose exposure to RPGs is limited to D&D3 through 5 and similar, you should really try one of the Gumshoe games sometime - Timewatch, The Yellow King, Night’s Black Agents, and Ashen Stars are all really good. Swords of the Serpentine is their upcoming fantasy game that looks really promising. I also really like their two One-to-One games, Cthulhu Confidential and Night’s Black Agents: Solo Ops. https://www.instagram.com/p/B-yqF3ahbUy/?igshid=17hljhok6g9vs
