Session 1

This is where gameplay will take place for the first session of testing.

INTRO:
Escorted through the busy streets of Paris, you and a dozen other tourists from all over the world are being led along by your Parisian guide. His name is Lucas, and he speaks mostly in English as he explains the sites both old and new. The Eiffel Tower lingers blocks away as your final destination, as it does for nearly every other group of tourists being lead around in this way.

The day is perfect. Rolling clouds. Pleasant temperature. Calm breeze. Then there is a clap of noise from the sky, like thunder. Too loud and right overhead to be a far off rain cloud rolling in. At first, you can see mostly everyone reacting the same way, both your guided group, as well as local Parisians. Everyone ducks slightly, eyes large, hands halfheartedly covering their heads from some sort of impending blow. It is not a bomb. This becomes clear in the most strikingly and horrifying way imaginable.

A shock to the system freezes you momentarily in place. Everyone is all looking up at the sky now. Cars slowly roll to a stop. Green lights are ignored. Some cars honk their horns, unaware of what is happening up above. The sky is being ripped apart. Slowly, a grey object descends out of a swirling vortex up above you. Out of a whirlpool of color and bright lights emerges an object just as large as the Eiffel Tower itself. As it fully "exits" the hole in the sky, the hole washes away and disappears. Most are left stunned, like they've just seen the world's greatest magic trick be performed. A few scatter into nearby shops and restaurants. Some of the stalled cars take off down the street, whizzing by cars whose operators have now gotten out to get a better view.

The object, slender, long, reflective, and otherworldly, slowly rotates silently above Paris.

You get the sickening sense of being watched by something whose glare cannot be escaped from.

I'll take out my phone and snap a picture, making sure to get a good landmark in with it, like the Eiffel Tower if that's the direction of the object.

I look around to assess the condition of those around me, and if anyone seems somehow injured, or too shocked to move, I'll help them get inside the nearest shop. If everyone is ok on their own, I'll just get inside by myself. (Empathy [][][], I assume there will be no modifiers from steps 2 and 3. I'll roll now, but let me know if I should have waited for your input).

A bolt of adrenaline and panic jolts you into action, you hesitate to leap into a nearby cafe as you look back to the group of tourists you've been walking around Paris with, you want to shout to them, but your mind won't allow it. In your hesitation, you look back and notice you've slightly gone off course and have walked past the door, now closer to an alley than the door, the fear jolts you around the corner instead. (You are afflicted with +1 Fear.)

You scatter from the rest of group quite quickly and are one of the first to do so. You gather at the window of the shop you entered with other shoppers, fishing out your phone as people around you mutter to one another in hushed tones.

I turn around and look back out to the street. When I notice people getting into the shop, I scramble around to join them.

@Falible: Peaking around the corner, you nervously half-step back and forth in and out of the corner you're hiding from, unable to move and gripped by fear. You struggle to take action as you try to rationalize what is happening up in the sky. (You are afflicted with +1 Fear.)

@KaeJae:You assume there is a back door, but can't be sure of it. The streets you've traveled down all day are filled with back alleys, so it seems very likely.

Negative Spice:The object slowly stops rotating and as it comes to a complete stop, the object seems to be shrinking in size in an impossible way. Metal, or whatever it's made out of, should not be able to move in the way you are seeing. Then, suddenly the object violently returns to its normal size, like a metallic lung that just took a deep breath. BOOM, the sky turns a bright blue around the object that stretches out and to the horizon in all directions as far as the eye can see. Its effects are felt immediately.

Traffic lights go out, the sound of cars crashing into one another can be heard down the street and for blocks away. Everyone puts their phones down, staring at blank, black screens. A tingle travels through everyone like a shiver. The whole crowd reacts like a gust of icy cold wind has swept through the area. Even the people indoors feel it. Now suddenly, every other person begins quickly backpedaling away from the object. Off on the horizon, a plane seems to be taking an extremely unsettling sharp dive, hurling itself at an alarming rate down toward the earth. Panic ensues. (Everyone receives +1 INS (Inspiration) of whichever type they desire.)

@Succulent: Like watching some great storm become larger and larger, it's hard for you to look away. You are witnessing something so historical and grand, you struggle to not be fully immersed in it. A moment of clarity and a sense of intense dread snaps you out of your compulsion to stay, and you head around the corner and down the back alley. (You receive +1 Low Growth to Boldness)

(You award the party +1 Exertive INS)

Positive Spice: As you begin to head out of the alley and onto the next street, you hear shouting from around the corner. You step out to see a Parisian police officer holding up their radio and shouting in french down the block to another officer. He clips the radio back onto his uniform and begins sprinting toward the other officer through the crowd, trying his best to polity push people out of the way as dozens of folks all also run in the same direction.

Not sure what to make of the chaos going on around me i do the only thing that i think will make me safer and search for higher ground so i can try to get a better vantage point and asses the situation

I see that a more collected person than me has entered the alley, and seems to be wishing for a map. I pull out my Tour guide book of Paris and see if she would like to use it. "I have this, it has some good maps in it. I just have no idea what to do. This is insane! What in the world are we supposed to do?"

I spot a Hotel nearby with a fire escape on the side and decide to try and make my way over there to get on top of the building

@Vilenax Scooting past dozens who have broken out into panicked sprints, you begin to approach the fire escape as people begin to quickly rush down it in an attempt to get to the street. You could wait until they've gotten down, but the time spent waiting and thinking and watching as scared people continue running past you makes you second guess yourself. You find yourself frozen for a moment, not sure what to do next or how to get yourself out of this situation. (You are afflicted with +1 Stress.)

Noticing a young lady from the tour guide down an alley, you rush over in an excited panic, fumbling to draw out your map from within your pack. Your excited approach does not mix well with the predicament at hand. Victoria is caught off guard by you and taken aback until you finally retrieve the guidebook and its maps. Her disposition toward you has changed slightly now, but you fear for losing the trust of the one person you somewhat know in this sea of bustling strangers. (You are afflicted with +1 Stress.)

Positive Spice: Whether it be by some odd coincidence or a stroke of good luck, John confirms the hotel as the one he's staying at as well.

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