Dresden Files: Coloring Oustide The Lines.

We had another session of Dresden Files the last Friday and the players decide to just run with it (which is kind of good thing since my notes for this session sucked).
When we last left our heroes, they were at the burning wreckage of a Red Crystal (a mixture of Ecstasy and Red Court Vampire Venom) drug lab. They quickly decide to take the leader of the Hell Hounds (Lychanthropes) for further questioning, make sure none of the other gang members are in danger of being burned alive and crank open a fire hydrant to hopefully contain the blaze. Sister Maria headed back to the church and the party decided to incarcerate their prisoner at the nun’s warehouse/armory. They drive over to Dr. Fu ‘s Tea House to see if they can get Whisper (NPC sorceress/The Dude’s girlfriend) patched up. Dr. Fu finally agrees if Artie give him some of the plant that the party had stolen from the Summer Court.
Then things went off the beaten track. Artie’s player chimes in, “Hey, we’re supposed to be college students. Let’s go to a party.” And they do. The Dude drags Whisper around the party. She’s a bit groggy from blood loss and “medical” herbs. Unfortunately, Sissy The Knight of The Equinox and psycho-stalker is also there. He spends the rest of the party in heated Social Combat with her. She was trying to convince party goer’s that The Dude was her man. And The Dude countered with the girl is crazy and probably has a social disease.
Alex decides to get rip roaring drunk. Artie decides it might be a good time to put a move Alex or at least express his feelings. Unfortunately, his attempts to stay sober are sabotaged by the other party goers. Artie gets hammered and doesn’t even realize it. He works up the courage to drag Alex off into the shadows for a little making out. A big time downer happens when Artie accidentally Soul Gazes Alex. It’s was sort of the Wizard’s equivalent to “I did what last night.”
I let each of the players describe what the other sees. It was pretty interesting. We also played it out that they each got drunk enough that they wouldn’t remember who they had Soul Gazed until they actually came face to face the next day.
Alex saw: A festive circus with mannequin performers and lurking parental shadows in the background. Hiding behind the performers is a little boy clutching a stuffed wolf.
Artie saw: A woman giving birth to a wolf while a giant wolf sulks away in shame.
With the party over, the Dude drives the group back in Alex’s truck. Artie pukes on the inside of the windshield.
The next morning things keep going bad including hangovers.
Alex is woken up by a very angry phone call. Apparently, Sister Maria has no problem cussing like a sailor in English, Spanish and Latin at the same time. The fuddy duddy Sister Katherine had convinced Father Pedro that Sister Maria was violating her vows with Alex. It also comes out that the player characters didn’t bother leaving anybody to guard the Hell’s Hounds gang leader. Alex apologizes and heads off to practice where he starts getting some ribbing from the jocks about “experimenting” last night at the party. Alex resorts to his awesome Presence and puts the team in their place. He continues with practice hungover.
Artie is woken up by a pounding on his door. It’s Warden Lake and she’s a bit pissed about Artie and friends getting her apprentice (Whisper) shot up. She orders Artie to her dojo within the hour for an extra long session of Ken-Do. Of course, Artie is so hung over that he doesn’t make it on time. Nor does he realize that his straight laced room mate was very curious about the warden in a boyhood crush sort of way.
The Dude gets woken up by his friends calling him to go check on the prisoner. He grumbles and goes out to the warehouse. Of course, the gang leader has escaped. Not only did he escape, he also stole some automatic weapons and explosives. He decides to tell his friends and not Sister Maria. Eventually, the rest of the party gets to warehouse. Artie and Alex have a very awkward moment then Artie explains about Soul Gazes.
Artie manages to gather enough blood from the prisoner to do a tracking spell. It’s a pretty easy task and they trace the gang leader to mobile home on the outskirts of town. It was a pretty one sided fight. Artie blasts the gang leader with a Kinetic Force spell. With the damage the guy had taken the previous night after getting pounded by a Red Court vampire the guy ends up having to take an Extreme Consequence. The rest of the gangers (all mortals) just turn tail and run. They question the gang leader a little more and really don’t learn anything new. They decide to just dump in Quaker Heights (a predominately African American neighborhood) and a sort of karmic justice since the gang leader was also a White Supremacist, too.
Then they hear the news about two dozen bodies found in a burning building in The Triangle (A really bad part of town where the drug lab was). The Dude was first one to note that they had only faced about dozen gang members the previous night. Then they realized. Yes, there was also a starving and very mad Red Court Vampire on the loose. They deduce that she went on a feeding frenzy then just dumped the bodies into the fire.
Artie gets questioned by Dean Jormag about the incident. Artie gets halfway through the story when the Dean just cuts him off. Artie hears the Dean muttering something like “Perfect, I can get that bitch Warden through her apprentice. That kid broke the First Law.”
The morning news broadcast isn’t any better. “Local college football hero has affair with nun.” The school and the church are both rocked the scandal.
And that was the end of the session.