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