My Weekend... and other animals
This weekend was the first since the 36hr that I've done much of anything.
Saturday morning me, Andy and cheekychipmunk went along to Fourmyles place courtesy of a lift from indigogecko and sorted out assorted larp costume.
Then we headed up to the uni to look in on the character gen. session and meet some of the newbies but we found we were surplus to requirements so we scooped up magicaddict and headed for the bar.
A drink and an electronic pub quiz game later we aquire helbling and head back to her and magicaddicts new place (which is very nice if rather cramped for 5 people) and then on to warhammer shedding Andy en-route.
Here endeth the brief description, Warhammer under a cut for those of you who don't care.
Warhammer began fairly well, we actually started playing before 8pm. Not bad considering I was trying 7:30 start.
We had a bit of confusion while we sorted out what all the different fragments of the party were trying to do and then started at the wrong end of the party so that Mel and Peter went and bluffed their way in the Grafs sons bedroom while the possibly evil doctor was being lured away before we knew that the doctor had fallen for the lure. This, of course made Alis elaborate 'get boyfriend to introduce her to doctor and go drinking with them' plan rather superfluous..
All went well in the end and the two group met back up at the inn to explain how the evil doctor was poisoning the grafs son with warpstone contaminated Vics Vapo-Rub.
Meanwhile, Franz and Alaina are scoping out a meeting between unknown kidnappers and some people they killed earlier. The unknown kidnappers turned out to be skaven and of course the dead people couldn't be there (Death can really interfere with your social calender).
Franz successfully rescued the kidnap victim while alaina tore out several throats and got zapped by a skaven mage, changing her shapechange ability from 'turn into a bat' to 'turn into a load of flies, crows, beetles or cockroaches.
With the kidnapped girl safe. She is quickly returned to her father (the only 'good' lawlord) and off they all go to point the finger at the traitor, arriving just in time to stop the traitors doppleganger servant from assuming the form of the Graf and taking over the whole city. A huge chase ensues in which the doppleganger escapes and legs it into the woods never to be seen again and the arch badguy, lord wasmier burns down his house to destroy the eveidence that he's the head of a huge chaos cult and tries to escape by coach only to be stopped by Alaina throwing the coachman off the coach, sending the horses mad, shattering most of the coaches hitching tackle causing the coach to flip over and the escaping as a cloud of flies.
lord Wasmier is killed in the crash and the party save the day. Hooray *cue applause*
Now we just have to see if they get rewarded for saving the city or executed for knowing too much, we'll find that out at the game this evening.
And so on to sunday. I was planning to monster the first game or two of the new campaign but yesterdays party consisted of loads of pathfinders and no healers. Fortunately I had Karls costume with me (I love it, its so light after all the chainmail) so a balance priest was added at the last minute.
Karl turned out to be a lot of fun to play but rather hard work trying to keep up the rapid chatter about anything and everything,
The main problem he has is a compulsion to help anyone who says they're lost. This is a BAD thing when the lost person is a ghost who wants to suck out your life force.
I'm not sure what his survival chances are. On the up side he likes everybody and I'm trying to by all the utility miracles like remove fear and freedom before I get the destructive ones so he'll always be useful to the party.
On the down side, I think the excessive happiness will really annoy some of the more order aligned characters and a compulsion to run forwards and introduce himself to everyone the party meets could get him killed in short order, either by the monsters or by his own party (In his first game he's already been knocked out by his own patrol leader and drain life 4ed almost to death.
We'll see how things go...
More warhammer tonight to make up for missing a session this coming saturday, then back to work tomorrow.
Bye all
Saturday morning me, Andy and cheekychipmunk went along to Fourmyles place courtesy of a lift from indigogecko and sorted out assorted larp costume.
Then we headed up to the uni to look in on the character gen. session and meet some of the newbies but we found we were surplus to requirements so we scooped up magicaddict and headed for the bar.
A drink and an electronic pub quiz game later we aquire helbling and head back to her and magicaddicts new place (which is very nice if rather cramped for 5 people) and then on to warhammer shedding Andy en-route.
Here endeth the brief description, Warhammer under a cut for those of you who don't care.
Warhammer began fairly well, we actually started playing before 8pm. Not bad considering I was trying 7:30 start.
We had a bit of confusion while we sorted out what all the different fragments of the party were trying to do and then started at the wrong end of the party so that Mel and Peter went and bluffed their way in the Grafs sons bedroom while the possibly evil doctor was being lured away before we knew that the doctor had fallen for the lure. This, of course made Alis elaborate 'get boyfriend to introduce her to doctor and go drinking with them' plan rather superfluous..
All went well in the end and the two group met back up at the inn to explain how the evil doctor was poisoning the grafs son with warpstone contaminated Vics Vapo-Rub.
Meanwhile, Franz and Alaina are scoping out a meeting between unknown kidnappers and some people they killed earlier. The unknown kidnappers turned out to be skaven and of course the dead people couldn't be there (Death can really interfere with your social calender).
Franz successfully rescued the kidnap victim while alaina tore out several throats and got zapped by a skaven mage, changing her shapechange ability from 'turn into a bat' to 'turn into a load of flies, crows, beetles or cockroaches.
With the kidnapped girl safe. She is quickly returned to her father (the only 'good' lawlord) and off they all go to point the finger at the traitor, arriving just in time to stop the traitors doppleganger servant from assuming the form of the Graf and taking over the whole city. A huge chase ensues in which the doppleganger escapes and legs it into the woods never to be seen again and the arch badguy, lord wasmier burns down his house to destroy the eveidence that he's the head of a huge chaos cult and tries to escape by coach only to be stopped by Alaina throwing the coachman off the coach, sending the horses mad, shattering most of the coaches hitching tackle causing the coach to flip over and the escaping as a cloud of flies.
lord Wasmier is killed in the crash and the party save the day. Hooray *cue applause*
Now we just have to see if they get rewarded for saving the city or executed for knowing too much, we'll find that out at the game this evening.
And so on to sunday. I was planning to monster the first game or two of the new campaign but yesterdays party consisted of loads of pathfinders and no healers. Fortunately I had Karls costume with me (I love it, its so light after all the chainmail) so a balance priest was added at the last minute.
Karl turned out to be a lot of fun to play but rather hard work trying to keep up the rapid chatter about anything and everything,
The main problem he has is a compulsion to help anyone who says they're lost. This is a BAD thing when the lost person is a ghost who wants to suck out your life force.
I'm not sure what his survival chances are. On the up side he likes everybody and I'm trying to by all the utility miracles like remove fear and freedom before I get the destructive ones so he'll always be useful to the party.
On the down side, I think the excessive happiness will really annoy some of the more order aligned characters and a compulsion to run forwards and introduce himself to everyone the party meets could get him killed in short order, either by the monsters or by his own party (In his first game he's already been knocked out by his own patrol leader and drain life 4ed almost to death.
We'll see how things go...
More warhammer tonight to make up for missing a session this coming saturday, then back to work tomorrow.
Bye all