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terryclothYesterday we tried to start the new campaign Lazar's going to run, but didn't get far, because we used half the night finishing up characters.
We have Bob the evil ghost. ("I'm not evil! Evil doesn't actually have a meaning anyway, everything is relative. Now, let's go find someone young and healthy for me to possess.")
...and Tess the Healing Doll. ("I don't know him.")
...and Kit the Kitsune in a not-all-that-effective disguise. ("Your majesty! What are you doing in a dive like this? You *are* the emmporer, aren't you?")
...and Leen(?) the Giant Ice Skunk Summon ("I have no reason to run from the city guards. They're only after criminals.")
...and Shumira ('Mira') the bunny-squirrel thief. ("I'm not incompetent. I steal from the rich and give to the poor, that's why I'm broke.")
...and Cho the fighter of indeterminate species, who always wears full plate armor. ("...he can see what you really are, so stop pretending.")
Our, for lack of a better word, heroes, met in the Organ and Pointsetta, a 'bar' in the outlaw city of Tortuga with more waitresses than customers, and 'special accomodations' upstairs. It also had a shadowy figure lurking in the corner, although that was only Mira.
Kit -- the deposed Duke of Briarridge and Tess -- his only remaining retainer, who stuck with him because everyone else treated her like property -- rode in on Muffin the giant dog, only to run into Cho and Bob in the doorway. Tess recognized Bob, and Bob recognized that Kit was very, very strange, since she saw him as a giant 8-tailed kitsune, and not as a foolish-looking wizard riding a giant dog for some reason.
They decided to get a table together and talk about new times, when Kit spotted Leen looming in the corner, and headed over to pay respects to the Emperor, since she was his personal bodyguard. Mira denied being royalty, but did let everyone sit down, which proved to be a futile effort because a press gang surrounded the block and started rounding up anyone with a criminal record.
Since most of the people at the table were either criminals or would have a criminal record because of the work of evildoers -- or were property that would be returned to 'rightful owners' that they had no love for -- they decided to flee, instead. Rather than flee through the streets and be rounded up, Kit cast his 'super-jump' spell on everyone, and they bounced away across the rooftops.
"It's a variant of reverse gravity," he explained, as they made their escape, heading in the direction he'd sent Muffin bouncing after throwing a copper and telling her to fetch. "It negates gravity, then when you get to a certain height it shuts off for just long enough for you to head back down. Does anyone remember how long it's been since I cast it? It only lasts a minute..."
With that, everyone decided that they'd bounced enough, since no one did remember, and while Mira and Cho managed to catch themselves deftly, Tess and Kit had to 'land' by dismissing the spell when they were close enough to the ground not to be injured by the fall. They were outside the army's cordon, so they picked a less disreputable looking inn ('the anxious eunuch'), and sat at a table to figure out what to do next, since the port was now off-limits.
Bob: "I need to find a temple of the eternal void."
Cho: "I'm with Bob."
Kit: "I heard the church of Starlight was banned in Ankh Morpork, so perhaps the eternal void isn't banned there..."
Bob: "Then let's go there!"
Kit: "Of course, that's a thousand miles away, and the capital city of the empire currently at war with our own."
Tess: "We need to find a forger so that I can get papers saying I'm a free sentient."
Kit: "I was going to make them up myself, but I don't have the tools and I'm way out of practice. I wouldn't *need* to forge them if I still had my signet ring."
Mira: "I found this map, with a strange name on it I don't recognize..."
Leen: "I'm with Mira, not like I have a choice."
Kit: "Oh, that place hasn't existed for a thousand years."
So, basically, they really didn't have a plan.
last session, different campaign | next session
Also, I finally managed to finish Half Life 2, despite all the crashes. Hopefully, the 'episodes' are more stable, since they're using a later version of the engine like Portal, which didn't have the crashing problem.
We have Bob the evil ghost. ("I'm not evil! Evil doesn't actually have a meaning anyway, everything is relative. Now, let's go find someone young and healthy for me to possess.")
...and Tess the Healing Doll. ("I don't know him.")
...and Kit the Kitsune in a not-all-that-effective disguise. ("Your majesty! What are you doing in a dive like this? You *are* the emmporer, aren't you?")
...and Leen(?) the Giant Ice Skunk Summon ("I have no reason to run from the city guards. They're only after criminals.")
...and Shumira ('Mira') the bunny-squirrel thief. ("I'm not incompetent. I steal from the rich and give to the poor, that's why I'm broke.")
...and Cho the fighter of indeterminate species, who always wears full plate armor. ("...he can see what you really are, so stop pretending.")
Our, for lack of a better word, heroes, met in the Organ and Pointsetta, a 'bar' in the outlaw city of Tortuga with more waitresses than customers, and 'special accomodations' upstairs. It also had a shadowy figure lurking in the corner, although that was only Mira.
Kit -- the deposed Duke of Briarridge and Tess -- his only remaining retainer, who stuck with him because everyone else treated her like property -- rode in on Muffin the giant dog, only to run into Cho and Bob in the doorway. Tess recognized Bob, and Bob recognized that Kit was very, very strange, since she saw him as a giant 8-tailed kitsune, and not as a foolish-looking wizard riding a giant dog for some reason.
They decided to get a table together and talk about new times, when Kit spotted Leen looming in the corner, and headed over to pay respects to the Emperor, since she was his personal bodyguard. Mira denied being royalty, but did let everyone sit down, which proved to be a futile effort because a press gang surrounded the block and started rounding up anyone with a criminal record.
Since most of the people at the table were either criminals or would have a criminal record because of the work of evildoers -- or were property that would be returned to 'rightful owners' that they had no love for -- they decided to flee, instead. Rather than flee through the streets and be rounded up, Kit cast his 'super-jump' spell on everyone, and they bounced away across the rooftops.
"It's a variant of reverse gravity," he explained, as they made their escape, heading in the direction he'd sent Muffin bouncing after throwing a copper and telling her to fetch. "It negates gravity, then when you get to a certain height it shuts off for just long enough for you to head back down. Does anyone remember how long it's been since I cast it? It only lasts a minute..."
With that, everyone decided that they'd bounced enough, since no one did remember, and while Mira and Cho managed to catch themselves deftly, Tess and Kit had to 'land' by dismissing the spell when they were close enough to the ground not to be injured by the fall. They were outside the army's cordon, so they picked a less disreputable looking inn ('the anxious eunuch'), and sat at a table to figure out what to do next, since the port was now off-limits.
Bob: "I need to find a temple of the eternal void."
Cho: "I'm with Bob."
Kit: "I heard the church of Starlight was banned in Ankh Morpork, so perhaps the eternal void isn't banned there..."
Bob: "Then let's go there!"
Kit: "Of course, that's a thousand miles away, and the capital city of the empire currently at war with our own."
Tess: "We need to find a forger so that I can get papers saying I'm a free sentient."
Kit: "I was going to make them up myself, but I don't have the tools and I'm way out of practice. I wouldn't *need* to forge them if I still had my signet ring."
Mira: "I found this map, with a strange name on it I don't recognize..."
Leen: "I'm with Mira, not like I have a choice."
Kit: "Oh, that place hasn't existed for a thousand years."
So, basically, they really didn't have a plan.
last session, different campaign | next session
Also, I finally managed to finish Half Life 2, despite all the crashes. Hopefully, the 'episodes' are more stable, since they're using a later version of the engine like Portal, which didn't have the crashing problem.
