DresdenFiles Game One

First Game:

• Benjamin Borden -- wizard, lost faith, conviction, in self. Picture Morgan Freeman in the role. He has an aspect of The Trouble with Apprentices...
• Iverson -- his apprentice
• Dierdre -- half banshee changeling
• Temsin -- The PC I selected. Benjamin's swordmaster, weretiger, buddies with
• Grant -- Benjamin's old apprentice, mercenary for supernatural community
• Gyatso -- Temsin's brother. Ala Buffy, True Believer, 13 year old assassin, sends hopeless to next life, pure mortal, not a psychopath.
• Kamori -- Not Appearing As A PC. Fox spirit, Temsin's lover, trapped as their protector, alien perspective

The PCs emerged from a previous adventure onto the middle of a four lane highway, pursued by a couple of monsters, so as to start in medias res with a fight. They were then asked by the White Council to check out Strange Goings On in a nearby town. Despite a false start involving Grant's player taking his aspect "The Clock is Ticking" a mite too literally, the PCs set off, wondering what the situation was.

Benjamin: We can find out with a couple of phone calls before we get there.

The GM said that we were the first group to realize that. Basically, the entire town was at least somewhat bespelled, not that it was a huge town. The PCs started off learning things in a local diner, and learning the hard way that trying to point out contradictions to the locals was fatal to them. This resulted in two casualties.

We had tried to be clever, with Gyatso pretending to be in tears remembering the death of his mother, which did indeed make the lady in the diner open up, but alas, no one quite realized what kind of spell she was under or what it was doing until it was too late, and her husband died soon after.

There was some amusing dialogue, and I remember Grant deciding that Iverson was "cute" (in a pet him on the head way), and Temsin agreeing.

I also remember this exchange:

Temsin: Time is illusionary.

Iverson: Tell that to your ethics professor

Temsin: Come to Tibet. We teach you ethics.

Iverson: Yes, but you don't give any credit.

Benjamin: Temsin, what are you doing?

GM: Apparently, discussing philosophy with Iverson.

It turned out that what was going on was a feud between Winter Court fae and Jamaican Necromancers. The PCs helped the former, represented by small fae, against the latter, earning an audience with a boy in a trailer, the autistic son of a woman whom the fae had vowed to protect. She had been murdered, so the small fae were trying to claim the boy on behalf of the Winter Court.

Someone: What strikes me as being a little odd is that someone from the Winter Court is being comforting.

The fae wanted the boy happy. The PCs pointed out that they had no claim on the boy. After all, the Winter Court completely failed to protect the boy's mother from the necromancers. The Winter Court fae reluctantly conceded the point.

The PCs were willing to allow the boy to go to the Winter Court, but only if he chose to do so of his own free will. This he did, finding them lots of fun and able to communicate with him despite his autism.

I'm sure I've forgotten a lot of the nuances, of course.