Hugo Tuya’s guards have destroyed a nest of deepfolk and rescued the villagers those deepfolk abducted. In this session they returned to Estala to collect their reward, recover and repair their gear. Unfortunately they found no reprieve here: the night of their return the Myrmidon Armestra came to them and asked them to depart immediately in the morning to scout the surrounding areas. She expected that there might be some deepfolk left in the area, and wanted to find where the deepfolk emerged from, so they could seal their tunnel. She also feared there would be more deepfolk coming, or that they had despoiled the homes of independent trappers and forest folk living in the woods.
Hugo Tuya’s Guards desperately wanted to rest and take a few days to recover, but they had no time. The rest of this session was spent discussing the clues they have picked up so far, healing, asking questions about town, getting what help they could, and preparing to leave for the hills. They have been given three locations to check over a period of 5-7 days:
- The Observatory, to the north east,
- The high passes, which stretch from the observatory to
- The Cauldron Lake, in the north west
In the next session the guards will choose a direction, and head off to secure the lands around Estala while its people fortify its walls in preparation for another onslaught. Truly, there is no rest for those who do good deeds …
December 9, 2020 at 3:28 pm
What system are you playing here?
December 9, 2020 at 5:06 pm
We’re using Gensysis RPG, the successor of Warhammer 3rd Edition and Star Wars: Edge of the Empire. It has a complex dice system which enables you to get successes with downsides, or failures with upsides, when you do skill checks. It takes a bit of getting used to but the complex dice pool can give fun results. I thought of continuing using the Coriolis dice pool system used in our past campaign – it’s super easy to use and very effective – but I don’t want to do years of the same system. And I didn’t want to go back to D&D for fantasy – completely over it!