GURPS Campaign Log, Session 2
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newnumber6Here's how it went:
After 3 months living with the settlers on this island, who believed themselves cursed, (during which the PCs learned some magic or swords skills or both) Spring finally came. With that, a renewal of the townspeople's desires for the Earthborn to free them of this curse.
Lorien, the blind wizard serving the people there, asked the PCs help in contributing power to a divination. It seemed to fail at first, but that night Sully had a dream, where she was an orc, apparently an orc shaman. She was looking over a cliff, then threw some bones, turned, and another orc, with one pure red eye and a scar over it, dragged a weaker orc over and slit its throat. Feeling the power (through the dream), the orc then turned and chanted something.
She didn't tell anyone right away, but the next day's attempt at divination did reveal they were under a specific curse, rather than just bad luck, but knew of no one who would want to curse them... they had little contact with anyone on the island, although they did trade with the orcs a limited degree before they turned ultra-hostile. Sully then came forward about her dream. Lindsey (Captain of the Guard) recognized the description of the red-eyed Orc as the chieftan of the Skullpeak tribe. When Sully was able to recite the words from her dream, one of them translated that it was a curse, specifically that the people cursed would have no luck, no escape and suffer in misery until they died or he (the shaman) did, which the townspeople thought summed up their condition.
The problem: The Skullpeak tribe lay past a mountain pass, and since the bad luck started none of their people had made it past the mountain pass and come out alive... either it was blocked or the people who went through just didn't come back. They believe it was part of the curse, but that the Earthborn weren't so cursed, so might be immune.
Naturally, the PCs (and Joe, the doctor) decided that they could probably take out this shaman and hopefully end the curse. (Fred, the crippled former criminal, stayed behind). Lindsey and two other men gave them an escort at least as far as the mountain pass, and they allowed them to equip themselves with whatever the town had (which included some weapons and armor, but they also took their own guns).
They decided to save almost two days travel by cutting through a forest (one near where their cars all first appeared), which had orcs in it. In the forest, Daimon
found a helmet with what appeared to be a bullet wound in it and orcs blood, indicating that someone must have been around there with guns. They continued on though, and
soon were attacked by a handful of orcs, which they dispatched quickly and handily with their weapons without injury on their part (Daimon took a speak to the chest, but it just stuck in his armor without penetrating), but one of their escorts was badly wounded with a spear. After patching him up they decided sending him home would be best, with the other escort. Lindsey alone went along with them now, but luckily nothing happened until the mountain pass.
Lindsey left them, wishing them luck, and they went on through the pass, breaking for camp slightly past the halfway point. During Sully's watch in the middle of the knight, the group was attacked by a huge man-like being (Ogre). She had to wake them up and fend off the creature with her gun. It took many bullet wounds to take him down, seemingly running on sheer anger without caring at all about his wounds. There were close calls, but it was
swinging wildly for the most part. Unfortunately Joe took a direct hit to his torso, not only nearly breaking ribs but sending him flying on his back. Luckily, Sully did him in with a bullet a second or two later.
They helped patch Joe up, and decided to rest there for a day or two until he felt up to going, which he did eventually (though was still not up to full strength) and followed the directions to the location of the Skullpeak tribe's camp. They approached carefully but were spotted... not attacked right away, but as soon as Daimon got close enough, he began firing, while Sully readied a fireball with her new magic. More orcs appeared out of the sides to take them down. Daimon's first shot, aiming for the head, knocked the chieftan out. The other orcs managed to get in a couple hits on everybody, but were soon taken out too... some unconscious, some dead. They decided to kill all but the chieftan, so they could find out where the shaman was, since he was nowhere to be found. (There were also women and children orcs in the camp, but rather than killing them they just scared them off).
In the camp they found a huge bag of silver pieces in the Chieftan's tent, as well as spotting an area of loose earth that hid a diamond.
That's about where we broke though.
No particular memorable quotes this time around.
From an OOC perspective:
I think I've been spoiled by consent based games where you don't have to decide exact ranges for things or roll dice, you can just go with the flow and decide on exciting results. Deciding how far something is is a pain, especially for me, being dysquantic (distances and measurements don't really register on me).
After 3 months living with the settlers on this island, who believed themselves cursed, (during which the PCs learned some magic or swords skills or both) Spring finally came. With that, a renewal of the townspeople's desires for the Earthborn to free them of this curse.
Lorien, the blind wizard serving the people there, asked the PCs help in contributing power to a divination. It seemed to fail at first, but that night Sully had a dream, where she was an orc, apparently an orc shaman. She was looking over a cliff, then threw some bones, turned, and another orc, with one pure red eye and a scar over it, dragged a weaker orc over and slit its throat. Feeling the power (through the dream), the orc then turned and chanted something.
She didn't tell anyone right away, but the next day's attempt at divination did reveal they were under a specific curse, rather than just bad luck, but knew of no one who would want to curse them... they had little contact with anyone on the island, although they did trade with the orcs a limited degree before they turned ultra-hostile. Sully then came forward about her dream. Lindsey (Captain of the Guard) recognized the description of the red-eyed Orc as the chieftan of the Skullpeak tribe. When Sully was able to recite the words from her dream, one of them translated that it was a curse, specifically that the people cursed would have no luck, no escape and suffer in misery until they died or he (the shaman) did, which the townspeople thought summed up their condition.
The problem: The Skullpeak tribe lay past a mountain pass, and since the bad luck started none of their people had made it past the mountain pass and come out alive... either it was blocked or the people who went through just didn't come back. They believe it was part of the curse, but that the Earthborn weren't so cursed, so might be immune.
Naturally, the PCs (and Joe, the doctor) decided that they could probably take out this shaman and hopefully end the curse. (Fred, the crippled former criminal, stayed behind). Lindsey and two other men gave them an escort at least as far as the mountain pass, and they allowed them to equip themselves with whatever the town had (which included some weapons and armor, but they also took their own guns).
They decided to save almost two days travel by cutting through a forest (one near where their cars all first appeared), which had orcs in it. In the forest, Daimon
found a helmet with what appeared to be a bullet wound in it and orcs blood, indicating that someone must have been around there with guns. They continued on though, and
soon were attacked by a handful of orcs, which they dispatched quickly and handily with their weapons without injury on their part (Daimon took a speak to the chest, but it just stuck in his armor without penetrating), but one of their escorts was badly wounded with a spear. After patching him up they decided sending him home would be best, with the other escort. Lindsey alone went along with them now, but luckily nothing happened until the mountain pass.
Lindsey left them, wishing them luck, and they went on through the pass, breaking for camp slightly past the halfway point. During Sully's watch in the middle of the knight, the group was attacked by a huge man-like being (Ogre). She had to wake them up and fend off the creature with her gun. It took many bullet wounds to take him down, seemingly running on sheer anger without caring at all about his wounds. There were close calls, but it was
swinging wildly for the most part. Unfortunately Joe took a direct hit to his torso, not only nearly breaking ribs but sending him flying on his back. Luckily, Sully did him in with a bullet a second or two later.
They helped patch Joe up, and decided to rest there for a day or two until he felt up to going, which he did eventually (though was still not up to full strength) and followed the directions to the location of the Skullpeak tribe's camp. They approached carefully but were spotted... not attacked right away, but as soon as Daimon got close enough, he began firing, while Sully readied a fireball with her new magic. More orcs appeared out of the sides to take them down. Daimon's first shot, aiming for the head, knocked the chieftan out. The other orcs managed to get in a couple hits on everybody, but were soon taken out too... some unconscious, some dead. They decided to kill all but the chieftan, so they could find out where the shaman was, since he was nowhere to be found. (There were also women and children orcs in the camp, but rather than killing them they just scared them off).
In the camp they found a huge bag of silver pieces in the Chieftan's tent, as well as spotting an area of loose earth that hid a diamond.
That's about where we broke though.
No particular memorable quotes this time around.
From an OOC perspective:
I think I've been spoiled by consent based games where you don't have to decide exact ranges for things or roll dice, you can just go with the flow and decide on exciting results. Deciding how far something is is a pain, especially for me, being dysquantic (distances and measurements don't really register on me).
