String Theory: a Night's Black Agents campaign

Taking a break this week from the Undeath of History to collect all of the material from my Night's Black Agents campaign in one place.

Setup

• The Pitch: the original ideas for the game that I relayed to my players.

Sessions

1. (S)Entries: the team is hired to retrieve a laptop. Then everything goes sideways.
2. The Call: on the run, the agents get an offer from the Lisky Bratva.
3. Post-Mortem: the agents split up and escape their pursuers but not before encountering a dangerous foe on a boat.
4. The Red Eagle: the team interrogate a mob boss and defeat a werewolf agent.
5. Operation Rollup: the agents end a human trafficking ring and blow up a mob boss. This ends the (S)Entries section of the game.
6. Tracking Control: the team gathers intel on the source of the werewolves sent after them.
7. The Heist: the agents rob a bank and get more than they bargained for.
8. The Escape: the team evade the authorities and decide to find out Philby's secret from his old handler.
9. Out of the House of Ashes: the agents escape an embassy, avoid an ambush and make a vital ally.
10. The Blood Opera: The team extracts a former Soviet spymaster and face a vampire in single combat for the first time.
11. Storming the Castle: the agents end Project Werewolf for good.
12. Treason in Blood: the PCs obtain vital clues to the conspiracy's plan and the Third Party reveals itself.
13. Old Ghosts: the climax of the Zalozhniy Quartet section of the campaign. Explosions, close encounters with vampires and being thrown off skyscrapers.
14. Way Too Much Heat: now international hunted terrorists, the agents flee the Middle East and attempt to avoid retaliation by a desperate Conspiracy.
15. The Big Bang: The team uncovers the source of the Conspiracy and using a new superweapon attempts to destroy it.

Material

• Project Werewolf: a secret CIA operation using Nazi science to create supersoldiers.
• Staff:
• Special Officer Lynch: local head of the project, tasked with controlling irritable supersoldiers.
• Dr. Gerhardt: the mad scientist behind it all.
• Dr. Gomez: recruiter of raw materials.
• Director Peirce: the man running the show.
• Agents:
• The Bride: the secret traitor.
• Kessler: the sniper and focused hunter.
• Quist: the unstable shapeshifter.
• Talbot: the original and most powerful.
• The Werewolves: failed experiments.
• The Vampires: their history, their powers and their plan.
• Variations: infected insects, rats, and the product of genetic tinkering.

Final Thoughts