Gamegamegame!
So I ran the first session of the new game.
It has only 4 people, who I know will not cause trouble or have any social problems with anyone else. And who are dedicated players who can and will role play as well.
So I started them off in an introductory session with all of their characters as little kids. Mission...meet cousin Tenny at the fort and cause trouble. So first...they get the message where Tenny is from Katia Seldor, thats Timothy Seldor's sister. (Timothy is one of the players, a hulkig but dutiful farm boy). So Anita Brooke, another character who has an excellent sword arm, attacks her with a stick, and they all run away and escape.
On the way to the fort, there were some interesting moral decisions. Tim found a bag of money. So Anita and Leith (Another character, ugly little rogue girl), tackled him and tried to take it.
Next stop, to the Tradeing post for Candy! Tim buys ribbon candies for everyone, while Anita and Leith race each other to the roof to rescue Old Gan's (The tradepost owner's) hat. The both make it up, and both fll on the way down, with Leith twisting her ankle. Earning them a fewmore ribbon candies. Meanwhile, Ilu, the third character, plays in the mud and feeds some of her ribbon candy to a horse.
Almost to the fort, Anita attacks some kids playing swords with sticks, and makes one of them cry. Almost to the fort now, they start being trailed by a neighbors dog who they know shouldn't be off its chain, so they kindly return the dog to its kennel before contiuning.
They arrive at the fort, to the smell of rotten eggs. And signs of a battle. Tenny's stuff is still there, and he smashed most of his own rotten eggs inside his bag and left it in the fort. They go out exploring, and eventually find Boar tracks with a lingering smell of rotten eggs. They follow the smell, with Timmy never really mentioning the large black dart he found imbedded in the door. Leith and Anita wage a war against carpenter ants back at the fort, as Ilu and Tim come accross the Boar. It has a harness on, with chains, and several kids unconscious and chained up being dragged behind. As they move closer, Timmy, already big for his age, and an obvious threat, gets hit with several of those darts...he spots the Kobold firing them but cannot escape the poison making him too weak and drowsy to move.
Ilu goes running and screaming back, straight past the fort and back home. Anita senses trouble, and leaves Leith to gaurd the fort (since she has a bad ankle) So follows Ilu's direction, and uses stealth. She finds the same scenario as before, only the Kobold isn't waiting for her. He is busy tieing up Tim and adding him to the chain, right next to Tenny. All it takes is one well thrown rock...pegs the Kobold in the head, and knocks him unconscious. Anita unchains the other kids, and the boar takes off...circles around....and comes back and starts killing and eating the unconscious Kobold.
So Anit brings back all the missing kids, and just in time for the posse of adults that Ilu brought back to arrive. SO Anita tels them about what happened...especially about the dramatic war against the carpenter ants.
This session lasted about a quarter as long as I expected it to, so we were able to continue on with Chapter 1, Act 1, of their more grown up adventures. I don't have much time, so long story short, they were told by a kobold named Knok, that another Kobold named Grek, was gonna poison the well just before the upcoming holiday (where people get splashed a lot), and Ilu who is a nurse, knows how dangerous this poison can be. So Anita and Leith and a few others go down into the well, trap and kill Grek, and stop the poison, while Tim and some town militia handle the ropes, and Ilu rides to her grandmother in the next town for a magical solution to the disease. Now, Knok, they rewarded by not killing him, and by giving him a heather wand (another part of the celebration) and thats about where we left off.
All in all, everyone had fun, and I can't wait til next sunday.
It has only 4 people, who I know will not cause trouble or have any social problems with anyone else. And who are dedicated players who can and will role play as well.
So I started them off in an introductory session with all of their characters as little kids. Mission...meet cousin Tenny at the fort and cause trouble. So first...they get the message where Tenny is from Katia Seldor, thats Timothy Seldor's sister. (Timothy is one of the players, a hulkig but dutiful farm boy). So Anita Brooke, another character who has an excellent sword arm, attacks her with a stick, and they all run away and escape.
On the way to the fort, there were some interesting moral decisions. Tim found a bag of money. So Anita and Leith (Another character, ugly little rogue girl), tackled him and tried to take it.
Next stop, to the Tradeing post for Candy! Tim buys ribbon candies for everyone, while Anita and Leith race each other to the roof to rescue Old Gan's (The tradepost owner's) hat. The both make it up, and both fll on the way down, with Leith twisting her ankle. Earning them a fewmore ribbon candies. Meanwhile, Ilu, the third character, plays in the mud and feeds some of her ribbon candy to a horse.
Almost to the fort, Anita attacks some kids playing swords with sticks, and makes one of them cry. Almost to the fort now, they start being trailed by a neighbors dog who they know shouldn't be off its chain, so they kindly return the dog to its kennel before contiuning.
They arrive at the fort, to the smell of rotten eggs. And signs of a battle. Tenny's stuff is still there, and he smashed most of his own rotten eggs inside his bag and left it in the fort. They go out exploring, and eventually find Boar tracks with a lingering smell of rotten eggs. They follow the smell, with Timmy never really mentioning the large black dart he found imbedded in the door. Leith and Anita wage a war against carpenter ants back at the fort, as Ilu and Tim come accross the Boar. It has a harness on, with chains, and several kids unconscious and chained up being dragged behind. As they move closer, Timmy, already big for his age, and an obvious threat, gets hit with several of those darts...he spots the Kobold firing them but cannot escape the poison making him too weak and drowsy to move.
Ilu goes running and screaming back, straight past the fort and back home. Anita senses trouble, and leaves Leith to gaurd the fort (since she has a bad ankle) So follows Ilu's direction, and uses stealth. She finds the same scenario as before, only the Kobold isn't waiting for her. He is busy tieing up Tim and adding him to the chain, right next to Tenny. All it takes is one well thrown rock...pegs the Kobold in the head, and knocks him unconscious. Anita unchains the other kids, and the boar takes off...circles around....and comes back and starts killing and eating the unconscious Kobold.
So Anit brings back all the missing kids, and just in time for the posse of adults that Ilu brought back to arrive. SO Anita tels them about what happened...especially about the dramatic war against the carpenter ants.
This session lasted about a quarter as long as I expected it to, so we were able to continue on with Chapter 1, Act 1, of their more grown up adventures. I don't have much time, so long story short, they were told by a kobold named Knok, that another Kobold named Grek, was gonna poison the well just before the upcoming holiday (where people get splashed a lot), and Ilu who is a nurse, knows how dangerous this poison can be. So Anita and Leith and a few others go down into the well, trap and kill Grek, and stop the poison, while Tim and some town militia handle the ropes, and Ilu rides to her grandmother in the next town for a magical solution to the disease. Now, Knok, they rewarded by not killing him, and by giving him a heather wand (another part of the celebration) and thats about where we left off.
All in all, everyone had fun, and I can't wait til next sunday.