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From: dozens 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.
+Tales of Athas (D&D)
+
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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Small Medium Large is a game of Troika! that I started playing 2023-02-09 as a DM. It is a Discord Voice Oneshot and is currently @@ -662,46 +798,6 @@ class="uri">http://tilde.town/~dozens/quest/
🎲🎲 -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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