Tales of Athas is a game of D&D that I started playing 2022-11-17 +as a Player. It is a in person Campaign and is currently Ongoing.
+Here’s how it went!
+an in person campaign with the old vulcamonos gang!
+can’t believe it. very excite.
+some real mad max / dune / acid death fantasy kind of world building +from Keegs, which is really cool. good for him. there’s a huge, cracked, +blistering sun; and two moons (they have names and everything but i +didn’t write them down). there are 9-ish ‘islands’ of earth in a ‘sea’ +of loose sand, so despite being in an unforgiving desert, there’s lots +of nautical imagery. different crafts that can sail on the silt sea.
+we started out in prison with no items. as cliche as meeting in a +tavern, but fun. we felt underpowered and desperate.
+i’m playing a lovable rogue based on dolly parton. her name is jolly +pardon. she grew up dirt poor in a one-room cabin in the (hills). one +day she was spotted by a traveling (prince) who was enchanted by her +singing. he whisked her off of to the court of the petty warlord, where +she grew very popular. her nemesis Dolene, however, grew jealous of her +and spread rumors to besmirch her reputation. Dolene was eventually +successful and the warlord tossed Jolly out of the court.
+In our session, we broke out of gladiator’s prison, crossed the city, +and made it to Shatterglass, an abandoned obsidian mine and outpost of +the Veiled Alliance, an organization dedicated to freeing the slave +cities of Athas.
+We found what was left of my crew there. Zax was a husk. his mind had +been wiped. And the others had been dragged deeper into the mines.
+Following the trails, we found a strange tableau. Thri-keen eggs had +been arranged around the bodies of Verin and Zara. As we approached, a +horror burst from the ground and attacked us.
+So yeah! Super excited! It’s been about 8 years we determined since +we’ve all played together. and Keegs is a super crafty dm. There are +battle maps and minis, and he gives everybody dossiers for character +sheets and notes, and sometimes he crafts huge stage pieces for the map. +it’s all really quite impressive.
+Update 2024-01-27: So I just realized a couple of +things. 1) it’s been almost 1.25 years since we started this campaign +already!! and, 2) the way this gamelog—which, according to my git log, +I’ve been keeping since 2021-12-23—is set up, I don’t really have any +way to keep track of individual sessions of an ongoing campaign in a +meaningful way. Besides little updates to existing entries such as this +one. That is, if I want to run the numbers and see how many individual +sessions I have played over the course of a year, I don’t really have +any easy way to do that. I shall ponder this.
+Anyway, huge session last night. The culimation of our last year of +playing. Let me catch you up:
+The city-state of Thanalas is ruled by a cruel despot. Martok, a +cannibal halfling with psionic powers in a world of little to no magic. +And we’re trying to overthrow him and give the city back to the people. +So we rallied a bunch of townies to our cause. And we waited until the +night of the Lunar Veil, this big parade + festival celebrating the rare +full double eclipse of the sun by the planet’s two moons, to stage the +coup. BUT some terrorists, the Ghostflame Syndicate, planted a bunch of +bombs in the parade floats to wreck the coup and damage the cause. But +we found them and defused them. And meanwhile a couple of us got caught +in Martok’s private viewing box in the gladiatorial arena. (We had just +executed on a plan to assassinate Martok by spiking his drink with the +one half of the explosive components of the Ghostflame’s bombs, and +lacing his food with the other half. So after he eats and drinks them… +BIO BOMB.) And the rest of us have just found out that our pal Valtor, +the hugely popular and renowned gladiator, is in cahoots with the +Ghostflames and got them access to the parade and the coliseum to plant +all the bombs.
+And that’s where we are now.
+A whole bunch of stuff happens in parallel. Dakka gets roped into +working the announcer booth for the gladiatorial games, pulling off a +bunch of Vicious Mockery and Bardic Inspiration through the giant +announcer’s horn. At one point, our man Henry shows up in the booth and +is like, Hey boss what’s this? And shows Dakka one of the bombs. Turns +out there are dozens of them planted in the stands. Which are packed +with people. Dakka announces a competition, tells everybody to look +under their seats and if they find a little hourglass shaped thing, +CAREFULLY bring it to the announcer’s booth WITHOUT letting the sands in +the two halves mix for the chance to win a Fabulous Prize! This is maybe +the most dangerous thing Dakka has ever done.
+Meanwhile, Lucia is running around running all kinds of stuff behind +the scenes. Kale, head of the Ghostflames, summons her for an audience +and asks her to kill Martok. She’s like, gosh that’s TOTALLY not already +part of our plans and is totally inconvenient, gosh. But she accepts. +Then Zara—a old pal of Jolly’s from the Veiled Alliance freedom fighter +group—shows up in the crowd and approaches Lucia. She tells her the +thri-kreen are IN the arena. (We have a kinship bond with the thri-kreen +after rescuing their eggs from the ankheg.) They have buried themselves +in the sand and will wait for our signal to leap out and attack. When +she hears the “competition” announced over the horn, she runs up to the +announcer’s booth, teaches our man Henry how to disarm the bombs, and +sends him out to find as many as possible. Eventually, he and his boys +disarm about a dozen. And about a dozen more are turned into the booth +for prizes.
+Meanwhile, Darragh, our champion, is prepping for the final event. +It’s her versus Valtor. She delivers a pep talk to some of the civilians +who have been conscripted / forced into being gladiators. (After we +ourselves escaped from the arena, Martok captured a bunch of commoners +and forced them to fight in our place.) They are being forced to fight +seasoned guards and gladiators in a re-enactment (to the death!) of the +ancient battle at the temple, where the execution of Rajat shattered the +sun and drained magic from the world, an event to which we are +mystically bound and have had visions of. Darragh’s pep talk, and her +bribing one of the guards to join the commoner’s side, lead to the +commoners narrowly defeating the guards in a dramatic and very unlikely +upset. Then it’s finally time for the main event.
+Jolly and Diablo have been entertaining Martok, his personal +bodyguard Grak, and a couple of guards this whole time in Martok’s +personal box. A lot of deception and sleight of hand and luck have made +this go fairly well. He noshes on the laced grubs. And as the final +event starts, he cracks open the bottle of his finest wine. Which is the +drink spiked with the catalyst. He toasts, and downs the drink, and he +fucking EXPLODES. Jolly and Diablo dive behind the thick oak bathroom +door and avoid most of the blast. They’re stuck in there now though, so +they escape down the poop chute and end up outside the arena.
+Simultaneously, Darragh and Valtor square off out on the arena. A +dozen guards encircle them, and behind each of them is chained a giant +ten foot tall scorpion to force them into close quarters. Darragh +immediately gives the signal, and the sands rumble, and over a dozen +thri-kreen warriors emerge from the sand and start wrecking the +gladiators. Darragh easily dispatches Valtor and when she grabs his +scimitar it burns her hand and sears her mind.
+When Martok’s booth explodes, Grak the half-giant (with whom we have +a lot of personal beef) is thrown from the booth, through the air, and +lands on the arena floor far below. He survives, but just barely. Only +for Lucia in passing to magically catapult a small stone through his +skull.
+An over-excited fan shakes her hourglass in the stands, and blows +several rows of seats to kingdom come, and also blows a hole in the side +of the arena. Disastrous. But also the only unintended explosion after +recovering two dozen something bombs?
+And that’s where we ended. Now you’re caught up on a little over a +year of D&D.
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An Empty Dream is a game of Girl By Moonlight that I started playing @@ -363,6 +496,21 @@ class="uri">https://www.twitch.tv/lanternlightadventures
🎲🎲 +Spelljammer is a game of D&D that I started playing 2023-02-23 as +a DM. It is a roll20 + discord Campaign and is currently Complete.
+Here’s how it went!
+Started a new game for the Beekey Blinders. Supposed to be just a +one-shot of spelljammer, but they liked it a lot and wanted to just keep +playing this. So now this is what we’re doing!
+Update 2024-01-03: Completed this game a couple +months ago. It was heckin fun! The gang hasn’t gotten together for a +game since then though. sadface :(
++
Spelljammer is a game of D&D that I started playing 2023-02-23 as -a DM. It is a roll20 + discord Campaign and is currently Ongoing.
-Here’s how it went!
-Started a new game for the Beekey Blinders. Supposed to be just a -one-shot of spelljammer, but they liked it a lot and wanted to just keep -playing this. So now this is what we’re doing!
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🎲🎲 -Tales of Athas is a game of D&D that I started playing 2022-11-17 -as a Player. It is a in person Campaign and is currently Ongoing.
-Here’s how it went!
-an in person campaign with the old vulcamonos gang!
-can’t believe it. very excite.
-some real mad max / dune / acid death fantasy kind of world building -from Keegs, which is really cool. good for him. there’s a huge, cracked, -blistering sun; and two moons (they have names and everything but i -didn’t write them down). there are 9-ish ‘islands’ of earth in a ‘sea’ -of loose sand, so despite being in an unforgiving desert, there’s lots -of nautical imagery. different crafts that can sail on the silt sea.
-we started out in prison with no items. as cliche as meeting in a -tavern, but fun. we felt underpowered and desperate.
-i’m playing a lovable rogue based on dolly parton. her name is jolly -pardon. she grew up dirt poor in a one-room cabin in the (hills). one -day she was spotted by a traveling (prince) who was enchanted by her -singing. he whisked her off of to the court of the petty warlord, where -she grew very popular. her nemesis Dolene, however, grew jealous of her -and spread rumors to besmirch her reputation. Dolene was eventually -successful and the warlord tossed Jolly out of the court.
-In our session, we broke out of gladiator’s prison, crossed the city, -and made it to Shatterglass, an abandoned obsidian mine and outpost of -the Veiled Alliance, an organization dedicated to freeing the slave -cities of Athas.
-We found what was left of my crew there. Zax was a husk. his mind had -been wiped. And the others had been dragged deeper into the mines.
-Following the trails, we found a strange tableau. Thri-keen eggs had -been arranged around the bodies of Verin and Zara. As we approached, a -horror burst from the ground and attacked us.
-So yeah! Super excited! It’s been about 8 years we determined since -we’ve all played together. and Keegs is a super crafty dm. There are -battle maps and minis, and he gives everybody dossiers for character -sheets and notes, and sometimes he crafts huge stage pieces for the map. -it’s all really quite impressive.
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Good Buy, Cruel World is a game of Brindlewood Bay that I started