So have had a lot happen in the last week, mostly bought stuff off of Trademe.
Got:
One Druchii Battalion - saved $150ish
Old player's Druchii - Saved $250ish
2x Blackguard boxes - Saved about $10
1x Reaper bolt thrower - saved about $7
1x Ogre Kingdom book - saved $30ish
All i can say is Aww Yeah.
I also have been searching the online stores for some alternative models just for shits and giggles really, so have some models that are currently somewhere between britan and my letter box. over the next few weeks i'll be ordering more models from various sites. Most of the cost seems to come from the postage, damn metal mans being so expensive.
After all my crap finally arrives and i make one or two more purchases i'll have near to 4,000pts worth of Druchii, not bad as i got most of it this week =p.
Once it's all here and on my painting table i'll be able to start working on my awesome weeabo samurai army that i'll be order from the Perry brothers. It'll be a slow and drawn out army though as i'll be ordering weekly from england for the models.
anywho, i'm off to paint tiny mans now. just thought i'd put up a quick update
Ciao
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Super busy
Sorry about the delay between updates been busy of late. In the last week i've decided to stick to the Druchii, i've started painting them too which has been interesting as i'm still not sure if i like their colour scheme or not. i've just ordered a battalion box form trademe, auction finishes in like an hour and was about $50 cheaper than RRP. =) hopefully that'll arrive sometime early in the week so i can get to converting and stuff.
Had one game against Matt's shambling whores, uh i mean hordes. went pretty badly for the Druchii, they got massacared while only managing to kill some bats skeletons and a unit of ghouls. On the plus side it gave me some interesting ideas to use with my shades that i was trying out in the game. I was using army builder before and discovered that i have 1420ish points of Druchii already and with the battalion on the way i should be able to make a fairly craptastic 2k list.
Once i've got my druchii at the 2,250 needed for battle cry i'll start saving towards my samurai army, this'll be good as it gives me plenty of time to focus on painting the elves before battlecry and allows me to improve my painting skill (already better than tim's) before i start work on my weeabo fightan ninjaz.
i'm off to paint now, ciao
Had one game against Matt's shambling whores, uh i mean hordes. went pretty badly for the Druchii, they got massacared while only managing to kill some bats skeletons and a unit of ghouls. On the plus side it gave me some interesting ideas to use with my shades that i was trying out in the game. I was using army builder before and discovered that i have 1420ish points of Druchii already and with the battalion on the way i should be able to make a fairly craptastic 2k list.
Once i've got my druchii at the 2,250 needed for battle cry i'll start saving towards my samurai army, this'll be good as it gives me plenty of time to focus on painting the elves before battlecry and allows me to improve my painting skill (already better than tim's) before i start work on my weeabo fightan ninjaz.
i'm off to paint now, ciao
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
I see a Druchii and i want him to turn black...
Well, just a quick update this morning. I am doing the late shift tonight which gives me a few hours to do crap this morning and so once the rain stopped i managed to take out a few druchii to get some spray painting done. All off my druchii to my knowledge are undercoated, and most of the corsairs are even finished, or almost there.
Just waiting for the paint to dry, so probably can't do anything till tonight.
Ciao
Just waiting for the paint to dry, so probably can't do anything till tonight.
Ciao
Bleh
Well, haven't had a chance to do any painting so far however i have ben reading up on Druchii in general. So far i am tossing up between a Slaaneshi cult or a pirate theme, and to be honest am at a loss for how to decide.
So far models wise i have around 30 Corsairs, 5 dark riders, 5 coldone knights, a reaper bolt thrower, a sorcerer, a sorceress and a master on a cold one.
All up i think that's around the 1,000pt mark and while could work for either fluff i think the corsairs tip it towards the pirate theme quite heavily.
My next investment i'm thinking will be probabaly either more dark riders or some crossbowmen to fill out my shooting some more.
I would be quite interested in trying out some witch elves or black guard some time but have yet to work out how to theme them in.
I suppose the witchelves could always just be crazy berserkers (not that far fetched really).
No idea really for the black guard.
In other news the PTQ San Juan is this weekend so i will probably be quite busy for the rest of the week, still hoping to get in at least one game against Matt this week (still have to work out how to use corsairs properly) but i'll have to see how it all goes.
Hmm, either the Druchii forum is down or someone has blocked the tubes again. Either way it's a pain in the ass as i was much looking forward to doing more reading.
Also Tim, seeing as i know you actually read this you shouldn't do a brets army as you'll suck and then whine when i toast you =p
Ciao for now
So far models wise i have around 30 Corsairs, 5 dark riders, 5 coldone knights, a reaper bolt thrower, a sorcerer, a sorceress and a master on a cold one.
All up i think that's around the 1,000pt mark and while could work for either fluff i think the corsairs tip it towards the pirate theme quite heavily.
My next investment i'm thinking will be probabaly either more dark riders or some crossbowmen to fill out my shooting some more.
I would be quite interested in trying out some witch elves or black guard some time but have yet to work out how to theme them in.
I suppose the witchelves could always just be crazy berserkers (not that far fetched really).
No idea really for the black guard.
In other news the PTQ San Juan is this weekend so i will probably be quite busy for the rest of the week, still hoping to get in at least one game against Matt this week (still have to work out how to use corsairs properly) but i'll have to see how it all goes.
Hmm, either the Druchii forum is down or someone has blocked the tubes again. Either way it's a pain in the ass as i was much looking forward to doing more reading.
Also Tim, seeing as i know you actually read this you shouldn't do a brets army as you'll suck and then whine when i toast you =p
Ciao for now
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Blog highjacking commencing
Ok, well it's been awhile and i doubt anyone reads this but that's ok. I'm going to use this blog to help motivate me to finish my army in time for battlecry in feb 2011, that's 11 months.
So far i think i a have about 1k of Druchii that i can field, this needs to go up to 2,250 and needs to all be painted, etc.
My goal is to post on here 2-3 times a week, i'm hoping to use monday as a painting day and so will record how that goes. (if i get a camera will even post pics) Wednesday night wargames will be followed by a battle report of the 2-3 games we played that night as well as a small rant about what i could've done differently. Other than that i'll have to play it by ear i guess.
So, last night i played two games against Matt's VC using my Druchii. The first game i proxied my corsairs as repeater crossbow men, Matt was fine with this. my army was: 5 coldone knights, 5 dark riders, a master on coldone and 10 crossbow men. Matt was using an interesting set up with a vampire, 15 ghouls, i think 20 skeletons and 3 fell bats. the first game was a massacre in my favour. in about four turns i managed to wipe the field of his undead horrors, mostly achieved through the use of concentrated firepower and the fact that charging cavalry toasts most infantry.
The second game was a slight victory for Matt with his Vampire securing the objective on the final turn of the game. I think this game would have worked out quite differently if i had not been so over confidant with my coldones and had instead used them in tandam with my corsairs as opposed to galloping off across the table. a good lession for me though.
Also just as a note during games from now on i am intending to take notes so as to be able to give detailed reports as opposed to this post which is essentualy just jumbled points. I also hope that my blogging ability will improve with use and my posts will become more coherient over time.
I'm pretty tired at the moment so will head to bed and hopefully post an outline of the army i am aiming for at 1,000pts and perhaps even decide if i want to take Druchii or Slanneshi Woc to Battlecry.
Ciao
SBOD
So far i think i a have about 1k of Druchii that i can field, this needs to go up to 2,250 and needs to all be painted, etc.
My goal is to post on here 2-3 times a week, i'm hoping to use monday as a painting day and so will record how that goes. (if i get a camera will even post pics) Wednesday night wargames will be followed by a battle report of the 2-3 games we played that night as well as a small rant about what i could've done differently. Other than that i'll have to play it by ear i guess.
So, last night i played two games against Matt's VC using my Druchii. The first game i proxied my corsairs as repeater crossbow men, Matt was fine with this. my army was: 5 coldone knights, 5 dark riders, a master on coldone and 10 crossbow men. Matt was using an interesting set up with a vampire, 15 ghouls, i think 20 skeletons and 3 fell bats. the first game was a massacre in my favour. in about four turns i managed to wipe the field of his undead horrors, mostly achieved through the use of concentrated firepower and the fact that charging cavalry toasts most infantry.
The second game was a slight victory for Matt with his Vampire securing the objective on the final turn of the game. I think this game would have worked out quite differently if i had not been so over confidant with my coldones and had instead used them in tandam with my corsairs as opposed to galloping off across the table. a good lession for me though.
Also just as a note during games from now on i am intending to take notes so as to be able to give detailed reports as opposed to this post which is essentualy just jumbled points. I also hope that my blogging ability will improve with use and my posts will become more coherient over time.
I'm pretty tired at the moment so will head to bed and hopefully post an outline of the army i am aiming for at 1,000pts and perhaps even decide if i want to take Druchii or Slanneshi Woc to Battlecry.
Ciao
SBOD
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
The old gang back together again
So Monday was no good for me or Oscar this week. So we gamed last night (Wednesday). The previous Monday Tim had made it along and they had played some D&D so my guys were behind on the xp, which is particularly harsh on James since he was already a level down after being resurrected. In the session I missed they had caught up with Sushi and Ash, fought some rabid rats, found a pregnant lady wandering around in the woods and picked up a little of a the strange local language.
It turns out we are in Ravenloft. Not Barovia, thank god, or Darkon but in Torgorack. A City at war with its neighbor, Cavitis. Anyway we escorted the pregnant lady to the city and took her to her uncle’s house. He pointed us to a wise man that might be able to help us with our questions. On our way to the wise man we were jumped by the local law enforcement, known as the daggers and question by their local captain. Sushi antagonized them as usual and it nearly came to combat but a really really old guy saved us. He said something that convinced them to let us go.
We then learnt that this guy runs the local mad house and can talk directly to our minds via a magic headband he inherited from his father. He told the daggers we were his assistants and sushi was a patient. He then invited us to dinner at with his helpers and a few of his less mad inmates. One of which was a Kobold Cleric with soul melds, named Frang or Tim's new second character. We then spend the night in the madhouse and wake up to find a shriveled human finger hanging on our door knob. We ask our host about it but he is even more surprised than us.
We then head off to see that wise man. We had to hide Frang in a wheel barrow of dirt laundry because any non humans are arrested on sight as enemy spies. We reach the wise man and do the knock and password and head on inside. We ask him every question we can think of and discover the following-
The Torgorack is ruled by Lord Cass,
Cavitis is ruled by The Whispering Lord,
People in Torgorack age far faster than anywhere we have been before (most men are grown at around 7-8),
Cass is seeking his lost sword and finding it is the primary responsibility of the Daggers,
The heraldry of Cavitis is a hand with an eye in it's palm (sounds like Vecna to me),
Cavtis' armies are primarily undead and contructs,
The wars front is the mountain range between the two lands,
Torgorack is surrounded on three sides by the mists and Cavitis on the fourth,
The severed finger may be part of a ritual to use us as sacrifices,
At This point the guy from the madhouse comes in and asks us to find the self styled king of the madmen who has gone to see his fellow king, we assume this to be Cass and he asks us to help him recover his lost loon. If the Daggers catch him they will use it as an excuse to shut down the asylum. Since this guy is our only ally in this screwed up city and the daggers were super dicks to us we head off to help. We find the 'king' be man handled by some daggers.
There is no way to resolve this except combat so we get stuck in. Things start to go bad right from the start the Daggers have high AC and many of our attacks simply miss. They maul sushi and James in about 2 rounds and James has to retreat so he ran use his rifle again. Ash get a bit beat up but mostly held his own. He hits them a bit, but not much. We take one down then two more show up. Everyone starts pulling back but sushi gets caught up and killed. The jester is almost caught as well but we all make it out safely and back to the madhouse.
The game session ends there. We also played a really long game of EDH, four way magic before we started D&D. But I didn't really know what was going on but Oscar won. Hopefully we can play more often on other nights of the week since Monday is now the worst day off the week for me to do gaming.
Matt
It turns out we are in Ravenloft. Not Barovia, thank god, or Darkon but in Torgorack. A City at war with its neighbor, Cavitis. Anyway we escorted the pregnant lady to the city and took her to her uncle’s house. He pointed us to a wise man that might be able to help us with our questions. On our way to the wise man we were jumped by the local law enforcement, known as the daggers and question by their local captain. Sushi antagonized them as usual and it nearly came to combat but a really really old guy saved us. He said something that convinced them to let us go.
We then learnt that this guy runs the local mad house and can talk directly to our minds via a magic headband he inherited from his father. He told the daggers we were his assistants and sushi was a patient. He then invited us to dinner at with his helpers and a few of his less mad inmates. One of which was a Kobold Cleric with soul melds, named Frang or Tim's new second character. We then spend the night in the madhouse and wake up to find a shriveled human finger hanging on our door knob. We ask our host about it but he is even more surprised than us.
We then head off to see that wise man. We had to hide Frang in a wheel barrow of dirt laundry because any non humans are arrested on sight as enemy spies. We reach the wise man and do the knock and password and head on inside. We ask him every question we can think of and discover the following-
The Torgorack is ruled by Lord Cass,
Cavitis is ruled by The Whispering Lord,
People in Torgorack age far faster than anywhere we have been before (most men are grown at around 7-8),
Cass is seeking his lost sword and finding it is the primary responsibility of the Daggers,
The heraldry of Cavitis is a hand with an eye in it's palm (sounds like Vecna to me),
Cavtis' armies are primarily undead and contructs,
The wars front is the mountain range between the two lands,
Torgorack is surrounded on three sides by the mists and Cavitis on the fourth,
The severed finger may be part of a ritual to use us as sacrifices,
At This point the guy from the madhouse comes in and asks us to find the self styled king of the madmen who has gone to see his fellow king, we assume this to be Cass and he asks us to help him recover his lost loon. If the Daggers catch him they will use it as an excuse to shut down the asylum. Since this guy is our only ally in this screwed up city and the daggers were super dicks to us we head off to help. We find the 'king' be man handled by some daggers.
There is no way to resolve this except combat so we get stuck in. Things start to go bad right from the start the Daggers have high AC and many of our attacks simply miss. They maul sushi and James in about 2 rounds and James has to retreat so he ran use his rifle again. Ash get a bit beat up but mostly held his own. He hits them a bit, but not much. We take one down then two more show up. Everyone starts pulling back but sushi gets caught up and killed. The jester is almost caught as well but we all make it out safely and back to the madhouse.
The game session ends there. We also played a really long game of EDH, four way magic before we started D&D. But I didn't really know what was going on but Oscar won. Hopefully we can play more often on other nights of the week since Monday is now the worst day off the week for me to do gaming.
Matt
Monday, October 19, 2009
Long time no see (or post)
It’s been more than a month since I posted here. Mostly due to life getting busy and the fact that in that month we have only had to gaming Mondays. The business comes from me moving out of home and in with my girlfriend. The lack of gaming has come from first Stephen then Oscar being unable to attend.
The moving out has meant I have packed away all my Warhammer miniatures and paints and haven't gotten around to unpacking them yet. So no updates on that front. I bought some new minis for my army in the form of 20 new ghouls and 10 new graveguard. But like I said all packed away so no chance to paint to even glue them yet.
In the two sessions we have had we played some D&D. Due to it just being me and Stephen playing these days we opted to make second characters. Stephen first off made an undead wizard/scholar guy and I made another modern character. This time a Special Forces sergeant. James Ryan is his name and he is NZSAS. He was swept from his home dimension when he and his squad were tasked with clearing out a dangerous cult from a remote cabin the mountains. The Cult happened to have magic at its disposal. So a mighty battle followed in which all the cult was wiped out as were all the solders. The last two left standing were James and the cult leader. Ryan simple shot the guy dead since he was out of magic. But with his dying breath he read a scroll that threw James through the multiverse.
So James arrived in Sigil, managed to not go insane form the shock and lived on the streets for a few days since no one could understand him. In that time he was attacked by some street thugs who he shot dead and looted for their armour. He then went to library to see if he could find anyone who could speak English. Or even just a book in English. He found a strange scholar who’s seat he apparently stole. The scholar cast a spell and could speak English. And so the party met up.
We then met up with Falgar, the Gnome that was guiding Ash and Sushi, he tasked us with finding those two who are in some sort of strange demi plane. We also have to prevent the birth of some sort of god. Felgar had a plan that involved going to the forgotten realms, there would be a crossing of dimensions or something. Anyway from their we could jump to the new dimension and meet up with the two lost adventurers. So while waiting for this cosmic event we went to the World Serpent Inn, some sort of tavern in a pocket dimension that can take you anywhere. While enjoying strange and exotic drinks, a magician appeared and wowed us with her amazing tricks, she then gave us a Platinum coin. She then turns around and informs us by taking the coin we have pledged ourselves to Heket the witch queen.
So this magician lady, who we discover is named the Jester, leas us onto one of the planes of hell to visit our new employer Heket. She tells us we have a simple task, get her a magic dog with green fire for eyes and a tongue to add a bit of spice to her hellhound gene pool. Seems easy enough, only its not a hellhound its a hound of the eternal hunt, which means we had to go find a hunt and then work out how to get a hound off a band of godlike hunters.
We found a hunt starting in a forest on a material plane. So went to investigate. The hunt began and with the blasting of a hunting horn we were swept up in the chase. Luckily James has endurance so running for a few hours is no sweat and Stephens guy was undead so never gets tired. The hunt travelled across the planes until it eventually reached a set of crypts with ghouls in them. We battled the ghouls and James got paralyzed. But the Ghouls were killed and the respect of the hunters was won. One hunter was missing his spear and hunting horn. He couldn't speak but the Jester managed to work out he wanted us to go get his horn form raven the trickster god and he would give us a hound in return.
So off we went to the elemental plane of air, where Raven kept a house. Along the way to the door to the plane of air, we travelled through the beast market. Suddenly there was a commotion up ahead and might beast had broken loose and was on a rampage. James leapt up onto a near by stall and opened fire on the monster. Stephens’ undead guy soon jumped up as well and sent his skeleton minions to engage it. The beast destroyed the first skeleton in one hit and the second ran off only to be run down. It then tore through the stall we were on. James leapt clear and threw a grenade at the monster, hurting but not killing it. Stephens’ undead guy casts some spells at it hurt it also. James got off a shot that enraged it and it charged into him and reduced him to negative hit points in one go. So bleeding to death on the market ground he watched as the undead guy killed the beast with a scroll he was carrying only for its death throws to destroy him in turn. James stabilized on -8 hit points and was saved by Falgar and the Jester.
Stephen needed a new character at this point so, at Oscars suggestion made the Jester as a player character. She turned out to be a warlock/bard teifling and took a feat threat lets him have a familiar and Oscar house ruled up a rabbit familiar for him. So off to the elemental plane of air we went. We easily found Raven’s house and the spear and horn we were looking for we also found two giant orbs protected by force fields. As we went to leave the house it jumped to a different plane and we found ourselves on the plane of beast in the eternal hunting grounds and we met raven. Who said that we could have the spear and horn back if we could get him the third orb for his collection. The third orb was in the possession of Enkey and craftsman god that lives on the plane of Machinis.
So off to the plane of Machanis we went looking for Enkey, the god with the orb. We found him easily enough but he wasn’t receiving guests. He was too heart broken about Lilira the goddess of love from the forgotten realms dumping him. But if we could get her back for him he would give us any prize. She was in a Tran dimension brothel ruled by two gods of excess and debauchery.
So off we went to the brothel place. It turned out to be a ziggurat in a jungle. We strolled up to the guards, large humans with monkey heads. And found we needed and ounce of platinum just to get in the door. I used Knowledge Tactics to work out we could probably take them. At this point the gaming session ended because Oscar had to go. But when we picked up again yesterday, James stalked off into the jungle and tried to snipe the guards. He only winged one of them and failed being stealthy so the monkey guards caught and killed him. Killed him dead. The Jester then managed to kill both guards with clever use of spells and class features.
So into the brothel the Jester went. She bluffed her way to Lilira's room on the top floor and discovered she was here because she was cursed, by and evil goddess. Cursed to never return a man’s love and that was why she couldn't stay with Enkey. But which evil goddess cursed her? Why Heket of course and so our quest came full circle. The Jester knocked out a servant and stole his clothes, disguised Leilira as that servant and then they both slipped out into the jungle and through the gate to the World Serpent Inn.
Now all the players came together and the chain of item swapping occurred. Heket removed the curse, Enkey gave Raven the orb, Raven gave the hunter the spear and horn, the hunter gave Heket the hound and Heket released us from her service. As a reward for dying in an attempt to rescue her, Leilira bought James back to life. Sadly the Jester hadn’t recovered his body so he was down a level when he came back. Enkey made us pendants that would hopefully allow us to travel to and from the demi plane when we went to rescue the other two and the Jester was hired by Felgar to join the team.
So Lelira transported us with her back to the forgotten realms and we set off towards the smoke from a town we could see in the distance. Ready to find that junction and leap into the demi plane. While trekking through a swamp we were set upon by a horde of killer worms. The rose up out of the ground and burrowed into us. The jester was taken out and James had to carry her to safety and treat her wounds, thereby stabilizing her and warding of death. He then threw a grenade at the worm swarm and blew it to hell. Just as it was exploding it took the shape of a humanoid figure and screamed in silent rage of pain.
we had to end things there, with James carrying the unconscious jester towards safety. But I had printed off the rules for BESM or Big Eyes Small Mouth. The anime roleplaying system and I got the other two to make characters for a short game I want to run. The rules are super simple and it is more about playing your characters than rolling dice. Oscar decided it would be a mecha fight anime, with romantic comedy and they were all in a techno band. It was then added that the instruments they play turn into the mecha. I added they were high school students by day, but pro mecha fighters and in a garage band by night. Me and Stephen continued adding to it after Oscar had to go and decided that they wanted to win the prize money from the mecha fighting to get a recording deal.
Well that’s about it for the time being. We are thinking of boosting our numbers by asking Brian (an old friend from High School) and Michael (who Stephen knows through magic, who I know through larping and who Oscar knows from uni and magic) if they would like to come along and join in regularly.
Matt
The moving out has meant I have packed away all my Warhammer miniatures and paints and haven't gotten around to unpacking them yet. So no updates on that front. I bought some new minis for my army in the form of 20 new ghouls and 10 new graveguard. But like I said all packed away so no chance to paint to even glue them yet.
In the two sessions we have had we played some D&D. Due to it just being me and Stephen playing these days we opted to make second characters. Stephen first off made an undead wizard/scholar guy and I made another modern character. This time a Special Forces sergeant. James Ryan is his name and he is NZSAS. He was swept from his home dimension when he and his squad were tasked with clearing out a dangerous cult from a remote cabin the mountains. The Cult happened to have magic at its disposal. So a mighty battle followed in which all the cult was wiped out as were all the solders. The last two left standing were James and the cult leader. Ryan simple shot the guy dead since he was out of magic. But with his dying breath he read a scroll that threw James through the multiverse.
So James arrived in Sigil, managed to not go insane form the shock and lived on the streets for a few days since no one could understand him. In that time he was attacked by some street thugs who he shot dead and looted for their armour. He then went to library to see if he could find anyone who could speak English. Or even just a book in English. He found a strange scholar who’s seat he apparently stole. The scholar cast a spell and could speak English. And so the party met up.
We then met up with Falgar, the Gnome that was guiding Ash and Sushi, he tasked us with finding those two who are in some sort of strange demi plane. We also have to prevent the birth of some sort of god. Felgar had a plan that involved going to the forgotten realms, there would be a crossing of dimensions or something. Anyway from their we could jump to the new dimension and meet up with the two lost adventurers. So while waiting for this cosmic event we went to the World Serpent Inn, some sort of tavern in a pocket dimension that can take you anywhere. While enjoying strange and exotic drinks, a magician appeared and wowed us with her amazing tricks, she then gave us a Platinum coin. She then turns around and informs us by taking the coin we have pledged ourselves to Heket the witch queen.
So this magician lady, who we discover is named the Jester, leas us onto one of the planes of hell to visit our new employer Heket. She tells us we have a simple task, get her a magic dog with green fire for eyes and a tongue to add a bit of spice to her hellhound gene pool. Seems easy enough, only its not a hellhound its a hound of the eternal hunt, which means we had to go find a hunt and then work out how to get a hound off a band of godlike hunters.
We found a hunt starting in a forest on a material plane. So went to investigate. The hunt began and with the blasting of a hunting horn we were swept up in the chase. Luckily James has endurance so running for a few hours is no sweat and Stephens guy was undead so never gets tired. The hunt travelled across the planes until it eventually reached a set of crypts with ghouls in them. We battled the ghouls and James got paralyzed. But the Ghouls were killed and the respect of the hunters was won. One hunter was missing his spear and hunting horn. He couldn't speak but the Jester managed to work out he wanted us to go get his horn form raven the trickster god and he would give us a hound in return.
So off we went to the elemental plane of air, where Raven kept a house. Along the way to the door to the plane of air, we travelled through the beast market. Suddenly there was a commotion up ahead and might beast had broken loose and was on a rampage. James leapt up onto a near by stall and opened fire on the monster. Stephens’ undead guy soon jumped up as well and sent his skeleton minions to engage it. The beast destroyed the first skeleton in one hit and the second ran off only to be run down. It then tore through the stall we were on. James leapt clear and threw a grenade at the monster, hurting but not killing it. Stephens’ undead guy casts some spells at it hurt it also. James got off a shot that enraged it and it charged into him and reduced him to negative hit points in one go. So bleeding to death on the market ground he watched as the undead guy killed the beast with a scroll he was carrying only for its death throws to destroy him in turn. James stabilized on -8 hit points and was saved by Falgar and the Jester.
Stephen needed a new character at this point so, at Oscars suggestion made the Jester as a player character. She turned out to be a warlock/bard teifling and took a feat threat lets him have a familiar and Oscar house ruled up a rabbit familiar for him. So off to the elemental plane of air we went. We easily found Raven’s house and the spear and horn we were looking for we also found two giant orbs protected by force fields. As we went to leave the house it jumped to a different plane and we found ourselves on the plane of beast in the eternal hunting grounds and we met raven. Who said that we could have the spear and horn back if we could get him the third orb for his collection. The third orb was in the possession of Enkey and craftsman god that lives on the plane of Machinis.
So off to the plane of Machanis we went looking for Enkey, the god with the orb. We found him easily enough but he wasn’t receiving guests. He was too heart broken about Lilira the goddess of love from the forgotten realms dumping him. But if we could get her back for him he would give us any prize. She was in a Tran dimension brothel ruled by two gods of excess and debauchery.
So off we went to the brothel place. It turned out to be a ziggurat in a jungle. We strolled up to the guards, large humans with monkey heads. And found we needed and ounce of platinum just to get in the door. I used Knowledge Tactics to work out we could probably take them. At this point the gaming session ended because Oscar had to go. But when we picked up again yesterday, James stalked off into the jungle and tried to snipe the guards. He only winged one of them and failed being stealthy so the monkey guards caught and killed him. Killed him dead. The Jester then managed to kill both guards with clever use of spells and class features.
So into the brothel the Jester went. She bluffed her way to Lilira's room on the top floor and discovered she was here because she was cursed, by and evil goddess. Cursed to never return a man’s love and that was why she couldn't stay with Enkey. But which evil goddess cursed her? Why Heket of course and so our quest came full circle. The Jester knocked out a servant and stole his clothes, disguised Leilira as that servant and then they both slipped out into the jungle and through the gate to the World Serpent Inn.
Now all the players came together and the chain of item swapping occurred. Heket removed the curse, Enkey gave Raven the orb, Raven gave the hunter the spear and horn, the hunter gave Heket the hound and Heket released us from her service. As a reward for dying in an attempt to rescue her, Leilira bought James back to life. Sadly the Jester hadn’t recovered his body so he was down a level when he came back. Enkey made us pendants that would hopefully allow us to travel to and from the demi plane when we went to rescue the other two and the Jester was hired by Felgar to join the team.
So Lelira transported us with her back to the forgotten realms and we set off towards the smoke from a town we could see in the distance. Ready to find that junction and leap into the demi plane. While trekking through a swamp we were set upon by a horde of killer worms. The rose up out of the ground and burrowed into us. The jester was taken out and James had to carry her to safety and treat her wounds, thereby stabilizing her and warding of death. He then threw a grenade at the worm swarm and blew it to hell. Just as it was exploding it took the shape of a humanoid figure and screamed in silent rage of pain.
we had to end things there, with James carrying the unconscious jester towards safety. But I had printed off the rules for BESM or Big Eyes Small Mouth. The anime roleplaying system and I got the other two to make characters for a short game I want to run. The rules are super simple and it is more about playing your characters than rolling dice. Oscar decided it would be a mecha fight anime, with romantic comedy and they were all in a techno band. It was then added that the instruments they play turn into the mecha. I added they were high school students by day, but pro mecha fighters and in a garage band by night. Me and Stephen continued adding to it after Oscar had to go and decided that they wanted to win the prize money from the mecha fighting to get a recording deal.
Well that’s about it for the time being. We are thinking of boosting our numbers by asking Brian (an old friend from High School) and Michael (who Stephen knows through magic, who I know through larping and who Oscar knows from uni and magic) if they would like to come along and join in regularly.
Matt
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