The Oldenhaller Contract

Jonas actually escaped. Which is good for me.

First game session this year, third since Jan 2015. For the first time since 1997 I ran The Oldenhaller Contract. We've used the modded 1st ed WFRP rules, fresh characters. Only two players participated in the game. Two more should join use next time.

Three Fate Points were spent during the game and PCs got mugged during the first event of the scenario. Actually, both PCs lost consciousness and were robbed of even shoes.

Aside of that, everything went really good. They managed to strike a deal with both Valantinas and Huydermans. All minor cultists and the beast were slain, only Jonas Whitespore escaped. And most likely I will use him in the next game sessions.

"Here Lies the Ancient Guardian of Knd'Glk"

Part One | Part Two | Part Three

Dramatis Personae:
Galia - Dead One.
Bakly Satuk Tybdo - rude Fighting Man.
Brick - Fighting Woman, fugitive slave with golden teeth.
Torgren - Magic User.
Medlek Hako - Minotaur Fighting Man (replacement for Bakly).
Maeron - Goat Man fighter (replacement for MU).

Meatshields and Mercenaries:
Apti - L1 Fighting Woman (almost a friend of PCs).
Sssss - L3 yellow-skinned Lizard Man fighter, also named as Sssson of a Bitch.
He - meatshield, sister of She, in incestous relationship with her brother.
She - meatshield, brother and lover or He.
Karrad - long-bearded meatshield scout, armed with Longbow.
Ardak - one-eyed meatshield, fellow of Holga.
Holga - Ugly Big Lady, meatshield, fellow of Ardak.
Fat Derik - L1 Magic User.

PCs bought cart, mule and pile of equipment, hired their henchmen and went north of Aglor in search for rogue priest which must be slain by Bakly Satuk Tybdo to fulfill a will of his god. During their first rest stop they spotted giant Black Hen which wounded Bakly but later was put to sleep by Torgren and later decapitated by Ssss. Unfortnately, after one more day of travel, party was surprised by seven cave goblins while preparing their camp. In the very beginning of this epic clash Bakly Satuk Tybdo was hit by three arrows (19, 19, 20) and killed instantly. Moments later Torgren clashed with three ferocious goblins, killed two and disemboweled third one, but vile monster managed to strangle him to death with its own entrails before its death by blood loss.

With Bakly Satuk Tybdo dead and buried they had no intrerest in searching for the renegade priest, but Brick had 50000gp debt to pay - she and Bakly waked up naked in the Forbidden Temple of Aglor and "were charged fee" to avoid being sacrificed for desacration of the holy place (Jeff, I love your carousing table :D). After short consultation they decided to go back to the ancient graveyard site west of Aglor to plunder rest of the tumuli.

They managed to go there without any accidents and after short investigation they noticed that no one came there after their first expedition. They managed to destroy seven undead lizardmen skeletons discovered in one tumulus during their first visit but He was killed by monsters. After burial of their henchman party retrieved huge clay pot filled by strange, triangle gold pieces and went to explore one of the tumuli previously left untouched. Fat Derik used his Read Magic spell to read signs on the strange, conical gravestone:

HERE LIES THE ANCIENT GUARDIAN OF KND'GLK

Galia, only person in current party that was part of the previous expedition, explained that Knd'Glk was huge undead lizardman who kept artifacts "ordered" by necromancer. Against common sense PCs decided to open the grave.

Undead Animated Tyrannosaurus Skeleton managed to kill Brick, She, Ardak and Holga and put everyone else except Ssss and Galia to unconsciousness before it was finally destroyed.

If the party will continue to lose henchmen at this rate there will be probably no one willing to go with them :D

Loot: 5000 gp.

One note: at the end of last game session Apti used her share (1000 gp) to hire an assassin to kill her husband.
One more note: Satuk Tybdo is anagram for Kutas Odbyt, Polish terms for Cock and Anus :D

Game report!

Too bad that I've forgotten about writing report from last two game sessions, during which PCs were on their way to ancient graveyard to retrieve two magic items requested by mighty (and possibly evil) wizard. Here you are: 

• All meatshields but one (Apti- L1 Fighting Woman) were slain by encountered giant beetles;
• Two PCs (Atus and Father Andrews) were slain by giant Cave Wyrm, but as dragon was heavily wounded by TNT (owned by Old West priest) it left to heal wounds;
• PCs managed to rob several tumuli and retreived items "ordered" by the necromancer who hired party in exchange for "repairing" Galia the Dead One. They grabbed about 6k gp in jewelry and +3 spear (but they didn't knew about abilities of the weapon);
• As usual, the most dangerous place in the whole Lower Kradia was... the city of Aglor! After selling loot to the Explorers Guild appraiser (who charged 20% fee as PCs weren't members of the guild), two PCs were polymorphed into pigs, but they managed to dispell the curse (losing +3 spear in exchange) and kill the wizard who cast the spell. Now they may have powerful enemies in the Upper City and probably must flee from Aglor ASAP;
• Ah, one more thing - as another effect of carousing save failure one new PC (replacement for dead Atus) now must perform a Quest for his deity - he has one year and one day to find and kill the evil priest who defiled his temple and his god.

As you can see, shit has hit the fan :D

Today is another game session so I'll try to post something more in the evening.

Part One

Part Two

Underworld Kingdom game report #2

Quick report from today's game:

• I decided to save life of previous PCs (one player who went home earlier could save them - none of the characters was dead - all was just unconscious - rules about it can be found here).
• Party sold two stinking chain mails looted from bandits and hired five new meatshields: Apti (female L1 Fighting Woman), Gith (one-eyed drunkard), Gork (fiddler!), Ong (deeply retarded shield bearer; once well-known poet, but his brain was destroyed by veneral disease) and Meur (young but well-equipped gambler).
• Atus got some strange and nasty veneral disease (effect of carousing table - I don't remember who made it :-( ).
• Party got info about some ancient graveyard west of the city of Aglor and went to search for it, especially that they had one 'little debt' to pay (some said that Necromancer was involved in it).
• Before party managed to reach the graveyard they were ambushed by a lone troll. After long and hard fight, in which Ong's head was bitten of and chewed (his body later ran away like beheaded chicken), Gith hit monster with a large frog (!) and Atus was almost killed, party managed to kill the monster.

Sorry for my strange and crippled English today, but I'm rather tired :D

(part one can be found here)

Dickshield Crusaders

Dramatis Personae:

Jenix Estre - acolyte of Resh-Eiar.

Galia - Dead One.

Brane - off-worlder scientist, teleported to the Underworld Kingdom from his home spaceship.

Father Andrews - preacher from the Old West, who delved too deep into some mysterious mine.

Atus - mercenary from the medieval world.

Avan - shield-bearer and drunkard. Meatshield.

Medoc - swordsman and drunkard. Meatshield.

Party began in the city of Aglor, deep in one of the larger caverns of the Underworld Kingdom. They gathered some intel about adventurers that came to the west and never came back, but before they came out of the city they were ambushed by rampaging green scaly demon (I believe that its name was Rhan-dom Spawn) without eyes on its head, but with one on its... cock. After rather desperate fight, Brane managed to kill the monster with his needle rifle. Demon exploded, covering the hero with blackened, bloody gore. But who cares about little mess on his face and clothes? Show must go on.

As no one had a map, party and their two newly-hired henchmen (Atus: I can't pay you right now, but you can have ten percent of all of my share) wandered (not so) deep in the depths of Underworld Wilderness. They found crumbled and overgrown remains of some kind of old road but decided to delve into some rather unremarkable forest. Needless to say, they wasted almost two days there, only to be totally ambushed by six well-equipped bandits (chatting during watch is awesome idea :D). Avan, the guy with large wooden shield with huge dick pictogram on it was slain by thrown knife at the very beginning of the assault. Galia was almost killed, struck by a leader of the brigands (they managed to save her, however). Father Andrews threw his dynamite in the middle, but it wasn't a good throw. The last casualty was Medoc, who tried to clash with one of the bandits (but with 2 HP and no armor is not a good idea), but later all of the bandits was killed and their leader escaped.

Atus buried his fallen hirelings, took Avan's "dick-shield", stripped bandits from valuable goods (5 gp and two chain mails) and hanged their corpses on the trees. As every member of the party was heavily wounded they decided to return to Aglor... only to be lost in the woods.

They managed to get out of the forest after maybe three days of wandering around (I love my direction die :D) and found again the remains of the old road. After a day of journey they found old, crumbling shrine - seemingly perfect place to camp. Too bad that no one paid attention to the human bones scattered in it...

As all members of the party fell down unconscious, struck by ice-cold claws of the Wraith, it is assumed that they are no more.

Tomorrow is the day!

Today I will run first Underworld Campaign since 2005 and first under this name and - what is more important - first with game mechanics - in the past we didn't used any dice, rules or even character sheets!

Wish me luck :D

And here is photo of my current handouts / books / prints:

Dice box, rubber hornet, printouts of still legal (quite ancient) 3LBB, Encounter Critical, Monsterless Manual, Terminal Space, Realms of Crawling Chaos, Cthulhu mythos creatures for Labyrinth Lord, some printed sheets, various notebooks with notes and house rules (can you see notebook with Qui-Gon Jinn? It's Terminal Space prototype notebook!), character sheets, Arduin Lost Grimoire, compilation of random tables found in OSR sites / blogosphere, complilation of AVES spells.