- Coup de Main in Greyhawk<\/a>
- Coup de Main #87<\/a><\/li>
- Coup in Sunndi #61<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li>
- State of the Productive Facilities<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n
Coup de Main in Greyhawk<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
The game keeps trucking. It’s open to visitors, newcomers, inexperienced players, cats and dogs. Come join us if you’d like:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nSunday Basic session #9<\/strong> was scheduled for tonight, but it got canceled due to GM scheduling. Try again next week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Monday Coup session #112<\/strong> is scheduled for tomorrow, Monday 19.12., starting around 16:00 UTC. I’m currently GMing, and we’re doing the usual, strategic full panoply sandbox around the Selintan Valley region of Flanaess.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div>\n\n\n\nCoup de Main #87<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Tuomas was feeling under the weather, so instead of continuing the Coup-de-Gnarley saga, I picked up the baton for a quick session at Castle Greyhawk. Greyhawk is a latter-days simile of the original D&D megadungeon (not at all similar in reality, but there’s a thematic connection), and we play it entirely like a megadungeon: quickly prepared simple expeditions into the depths for various reasons. It’s good to have a specific goal for a megadungeon like this, particularly as the Castle Zagyg<\/em> material we’re playing is very treasure-poor; you won’t accomplish much in this place without a clear goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This party, though, has one: Frida the Teenage Witch has sort of adopted a chivalric quest from her once-benefactor, prince Viusdul. The party is looking for the “Oracle of Zagyg”, a fabled machine or aide of the Mad Archmage, to query it over the fate of the wonderful elven princess Sarana. Frida’s never had anything to do with Sarana, but she’s pretty smitten with elves in general. Prince Viusdul succumbed to elven grief (literally, died of frustration), which clearly left a mark on Frida, who is now questing for a second-hand princess!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So that’s the elfquest drama context. Frida’s picked up a bunch of murderhobos at the castle barbican, and just like that, we’re ready for some new expeditioneering into the Castle. (The one true success we’ve had regarding the Castle so far is how the adventurers seized the Castle barbican and gifted it to the local Rangers, resulting in a safe and defensible strongpoint conveniently right next to the actual Castle.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The party started by mapping the external Castle a bit by using wizard Opioid’s Spider Climb for some easy wall-climbing. Frida got some omens encouraging her to keep exploring the Castle basement, though, so ultimately the ground level approach was discarded in favour of going back into the dungeons. Witches and their omens, eh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The dungeons were eerily empty as the party navigated back to the burned down library. The broken and melted bronze doors here had seemed formidable before, but now a well-prepared party managed to force them open. Entrances were made into the royal baths, but what seemed like the sanctum or a magical laboratory space of the Mad Archmage was wizard-locked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The party found some valuable gems in the baths, but was generally forced to retreat in disappointment; Frida was fairly sure that the long-searched for Oracle was behind that one last wizard-lock, but\u2026 she only managed to pull together the magics needed to breach it after returning from the dungeon!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Witch magic works through personal immersion and will, so I guess it’s not surprising that a Witch could just meet a mage-locked door for the first time ever, and then soon afterwards realize that it is a magic they have an answer for in the form of the Knock<\/em> spell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Coup in Sunndi #61<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Meanwhile in Sunndi, we were taking a bit of a break from the Doom of Naerie questline on account of player scheduling. Antti, a prime mover in the Naerie quest via his character Sparrow the Paladin, often has fairly inconsistent schedules, so we get to play without him now and then. This regular irregularity has kinda encouraged a system where we play several adventuring parties side by side depending on the set of players in the session: we’ll play “your” adventure on the days you come to play, and “theirs” otherwise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In this case “theirs” was more bounty-hunting<\/a> in the anarchy-wracked failed Sunndian princely state of Dhalmond, well familiar at this point from past adventures. The deal with the bounty-hunting adventure is simple: every month a number of incorrigible criminals contribute to the awfulness of life in Dalmond, inspiring the constabulary to set up frankly extravagant monetary rewards for their capture. Dalmond is shorter on food and soldiers than it is on gold, so for now adventurers have the unique opportunity to play bounty hunting. To spice things up, a competing bounty hunter party called the Sunset Riders<\/a> is after the bounties, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
- Coup in Sunndi #61<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li>
- Coup de Main #87<\/a><\/li>
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