Jill ran her twelth Scarred lands game last night! It was great! Not only did we have the usual crew, but Rebello stopped by and played! He played the drunken and lecherous Father Doral and it was a real stretch for him. ;)
I will place the full Journal behind a cut to spare non-gamers and anone with a weak stomach. Although it may be fun to click and just look at the pictures. That's right, this journal includes PICTURES!!! Get excited!
Body jumping, body humping, booze rituals…Tharag hope you sitting down.
So we are in the ghost room. The ghost wants his gold but does not hurt Tharag or his friends. We sleep but are not dumb and take watches. Tharag volunteer to take watch with Mia, the woman from the mirror. Except for cloak we gave her, she is still naked. Hur!
Watch is not going on long (but everyone else asleep) when Mia get naked and declare “I want green babies.”
Hurmmmm…ok. So Tharag give her what women all over Ghelspaad want. It must be noisy because the priest Dorsal, wake up. He get naked too and is doing something to Mia, but Tharag is not using that end so he not care.
Few seconds later (new record!) Tharag is ready for sleep. Buggy, too. We lay down, we see weird. Karny wake up, grab Tharag’s bag and run for it! Hur! Tharag’s bag has a few mushrooms in it, and some poison. And some rocks. Tharag poor. Tharag go to sleep.
Then things get very confusing. Roland is kicking Tharag awake. Tharag awake. Roland went and got Karny back. He say, “Karny is not Karny anymore. Find out who she is. “
Ok.
So Tharag hold her head under water in the fountain until she feel like talking. It also get her clothes all wet. Bonus for Tharag. After a lot of not-drowning, we find out that Karny is Mia! Tharag’s head begin to hurt. This mean…Mia…is Karny. And Karny…is Mia.
This is not so bad. Mia is hot and with Karny’ mind inside of her, she love Tharag. And Mia human, not as breakable as an elf. This is ok. Hur hur hur! Tharag and Roland will take the Karny body back to the mirror where we freed Mia and put it back in there. Too bad for her.
Then is time for Tharag to be confused again. Roland really wants them to switch back. Sika does not have the mental to do this (she mostly destroys, which is why Tharag like to be around her). Roland and Father Dorsal want Mia to switch back with Karny. They begin to yell at and threaten the Karny-body. Eventually, Father Dorsal perform The Ritual.
They take the pants off the Karny body and Tharag hold her still. Father Dorsal announce that he will perform a Holy Booze Anima or something. Tharag not religious and close eyes. This not going to be pretty.
When Roland says is ok to look, Karny is switched back into body of Karny (which is good, too) and Roland threw up in corner. Buggy licks it up. Hur!
We tie up Mia and put a hood over her head so that she cannot switch with anyone else. She say she has mental powers to switch and we believe her.
Then we move on, down the trap door in the fountain. The ghost in the room get upset and Tharag whacks it with the Big Stick. Bad ghost! It explode.
We go down the stairs behind trap door. We get to a big room that is a graveyard inside. There are tress and the moon is out. We are underground and Tharag think a little nervous about Belsameth. Wolves howl. Not good, either.
There are tomb stones that say stupid things like “Deadeye” and “Lord Sledd”. These short elves are not dead. Everyone else see different names. People they like. This is stupid and Tharag squint until the magic go away and we see what is really on the stones. It is a riddle. Pieces of words. Make sentences (Tharag learn about this because he can read now).
The words all together say “Walking on dead legs, bristling with rusted spear tips”. Tharag is surprised!!! This is the doom of his tribe! This is why he was sent out of Albadia to bring back salvation of tribe and stop this. But not know what this is yet. Hurm.
No time to think and feel pain. Out of many graves, bones fly. They all go together and make huge 30 foot tall skeleton man! He has a giant sword (nice sword) and is attacking. Tharag yell “Buggy Bear! Now is the time! For Albadia!”
Roland get excited when he hear this and is already fighting the giant skeleton man. Roland is fast and it cannot hit him. Buggy does like him and runs around not being hit. Tharag does not do that. Tharag does not run around. Tharag hits.
Tharag drives the Big Stick into ribcage, smashing bones and snapping rope ties. Is good. Sika makes the “scrunch face” that means she is being mental. The skeleton arm holding the sword is torn off! Good one, Sika!
Karny has summoned her fire elemental. The elemental blasts the rest of the giant skeleton man into blackened bones and ash! Hur! Good. Tharag takes the giant sword. It is as big as Tharag. Perfect.
We search and find a grave that was not robbed for bones to make the giant. In this grave is a chest with a book in it. The book is full of symbols. They are not magic but might be Albadian? Tharag cannot read this. He need the Helian- …! Heli…ann…?
WHERE IS THE HELIANN????? Tharag look behind him. No. Tharag look under rock. No. Tharag look in his bag and make Roland dump out his bag, too. The Heliann and Frostfur are gone! Huh.
We move on. Next is a long hallway. We make it through a room of magic darkness where no one can talk, hear or see. But we can smell and Tharag and Buggy make it through after some running and screaming. There is teleport magic set up in the room and we lose Mia. She is gone. That is not good but with luck Tharag will see her again when she come back looking for child support. Hur!
Then we are in a hall where everyone think everyone else is zombie. More magic. Karny attack Tharag but uses an elf sword and no one is hurt before Tharag restrain her. We move on.
Then we find the room. It is crypt and the dead Chardun Priest is here, Tharag thinks, in that coffin there. The magic spell is written on the wall. Karny pulls out paper and stylus and starts writing. Is good.
There are magic mirrors in this room. Tharag counts them. There are more than ten. Every mirror looks in on one of the rooms that Tharag and his friends already went in. At the entrance, we see people! Actually, we see birds. Then people.
A murder of ravens fly in and go “Kawk! Kawk!” Hur! Sound like Father Dorsal. Anyway, we know that these birds work for the Fall King. That about all we know. Oh and he has plant skeletons. Like attacked up by the river and…and were at the front entrance of this tomb. Tharag think maybe that important…maybe tell Roland and…nah.
After the birds come the men. There are nine (not more than ten, Tharag can count them). They are leather boys and look like they fight hard. The leader is bad. He has a cooked skin armor suit. Human skin. Tharag has heard of this being done by members of Circle of Thorns but pretty sure this guy works for the Fall King. After the men comes a snake golem. Hurm.. Not good. Looks like dead woman infested with snakes.
The snake golem splits up and so do the men. They start searching rooms. They are looking for…us? In the room of total darkness and no sound, Tharag throws caltrops dipped in poison. Hur hur hur! Even if one steps on them, no one will hear him yell and they will step on them, too! Tharag is crazy, not stupid.
And now we watch the men and make plans. Plans to beat them. Tharag and his friends are close, Tharag can feel it. Almost done. Tharag is almost done killing for the gods. But killing nine more men is not a big problem.