FAE NOIR --- "Vote Early, Vote Coffin"

I GMed an adventure I created for "Fae Noir" titled "Vote Early, Vote Coffin" at DexCon last week. I got a lot of great responses from the three gaming groups that played it, but the most memorable one was the last game played at the Con, which is recapped for you below.

Setting:
The setting of the game is New York City, 1926, the night of the mayoral election between the incumbent Mayor Hylan and the Jimmy "James" Walker. The players chose from pre-made characters, since this was a conventional one-shot game.

Players:
Grimmock: Ogre "Precinct Captain". His job was to get out the votes for either Hylan or Walker (I let the player choose which in the beginning) in his precinct. He's huge and has a fascination for vaudeville acts. He carries a deck of cards with him at all times and likes to practice his juggling when he's bored.

Celene - Goblin Moll Girl/Prostitute. A real "looker" by Goblin standards....she smokes about 3 packs a day and her flinty voice carries it well. She's a natural at jobbing around, always trying to make a little more money either by rolling over deadbeats or a quickie in the back alley.

Mickey: Human boot-legger. All business and the brains of the outfit. He's constantly looking at the bottom-line.

Mercer: Elf "Getaway" Driver. Sure, elves in this setting are only 10-inches tall, but I gave the character driving stilts, a brody handle, and 1922 roadster with modified seats to make it work. Think of when Shortround drove Indy in "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" and you get the picture.

Plot:Epilogue
Jimmy "James" Walker was convicted on several charges of grave-robbing, election-rigging, and racketeering. He has his own cell on Riker's Island.

An election was held again. Mayor Hylan won an easy victory thanks in part for his "operations" in saving the city from an army of zombies.

Ogre was awarded a special "precinct colonel" title in Mayor Hylan's administration. No extra duties, but he did get his own room at Morton's steak house as "friend of the mayor."

Human bootlegger got free oversight over his "customers" in his neighborhood speakeasies, so long as some of the cops could drop by for a free pint after work.

Elf got Jimmy's white 1922 Roadster, conveniently parked in front of the docks.

Goblin got a special pardon from the circuit court judges, as "special friend of the mayor"

All members of the party split the $10,000 in the suitcase 4 ways, along with their loot from the bank heist.

Finally, Hero-Cop married Trixie and moved to Montana, where he had 11 children and died of a heart attack at the ripe ol' age of 57.

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