Characters
- Flake (Owl Village Spirit)
- Leda (Human Vampire Hunter)
- Rabbit the White (Rabbit Professional Wizard's Familiar)
- Boris (Human Religious Radical)
- John (Opossum Trapper)
- Zlatia (Human Troglodyte)
Session Recap
Before the party heads out, they realize they don't really have any consistent light aside from the jar of glowing grubs. Having helped around camp they very politely ask to borrow one of the gas lanterns, which they get with the agreement they should bring it back in one piece and ideally without wasting too much fuel.
Without any clear direction or plan, the group decide to spend some more time exploring their surroundings, heading north west and finding some kind of high-society ghostly party, guarded by a pair of skeletons dressed in incredibly fancy clothes and incredibly heavy armor. The skeletons give the party one look over and immediately know that this ragtag group has no invitations to the party, but through some quick thinking Flake declares that they are actually entertainers. The skeletons don't entirely buy it, but are also not really paid enough to care beyond this, and the group looks mostly harmless, so they let them pass.
At the ghostly party the group tries to socialize and talk to some of the guests, who are generally polite enough, but seem to not show much interest and get easily distracted. The party is looked over by the stern statue of a skeleton dressed in priestly robes and a fancy crown. Leda, Boris and John all decide to help themselves to the amazing (if slightly transparent and ghostly) looking food and drinks. They each feel some of their Strength seep away from them, but their Metaphysical attributes become a bit more pronounced. They also are now very slightly transparent. Not as much as the ghosts, but more than they are normally used to.
After spending some time faffing about in the party room they keep exploring the place, finding a staircase leading deeper into the dungeon, and a statue of a one-eyed hunched out crone dressed in rags.Flake examines the statue for magical vibes, quickly realizing that this is an image of the Liho, a powerful spirit of bad luck and indeed the statue gives off majorly bad vibes. Almost to prove his point Leda gets attacked by the very darkness of the shadows in the room as soon as they came in, only barely managing to jump away before it grabs her.
Shaken the group keep looping back towards familiar territory. As they enter the next room (which has closed doors on all sides save the hallway they came in from) the dungeon itself gives off a sigh, a gust of wind seeming to materialize out of nowhere and nearly blowing away their lamp's flame (luckily the glass protects it). At that John just gets overwhelmed with stress and turns stiff as a board, doing his opossum thing of turning dead. The party are slightly concerned, but decide that he'll be fine.
They try and fail to open a pair of rusted up doors, but between the lock and the bar from the other side, they don't have much luck and the group of mostly tiny animal people does not exactly have a lot of brawn to help break the door down.
Heading back into familiar territory, the group decide to head north-east, into the territory of the goat cultists. However the cultists have been on high alert ever since the encounter with the party in session 1 and so immediately rush them. Rabbit, who's in the nearby room manages to scare one away using some magic, and the group rushes back to try and get away, however the cultists are hot on their heels.
Desperate times calling for desperate measures, Boris takes out one of his makeshift firebombs, lights and throws it at the incoming cultists. The bomb bursts into a flaming puddle on the floor, however it ends up being mostly a show rather than doing any real harm. It does however dissuade the cultists for long enough that the party can disengage and hightail it back to the camp.
Observations
Only three players in this session, so everyone got to play 2 characters each instead of just 1. After all the Tunnels & Trolls rulebook would often point out that small player groups with 2-4 characters each is often a preferred way of play, so we're keeping with the spirit of the thing.
The group has had a fairly consistent turn over due to people traveling, and as such there was a very interesting dynamic at play where one of the players was around for last session, but not session 1, while the other two brand new. So she could only remember some info that others told her, but not all of it, and between getting confused with her own map (partially down to her own mapping, partially due to me kind of making things confusing the previous session) the group ended up going towards the goat cultists when they had explicitly hoped to avoid them!
The fire bomb was a hell of a play too. I told the player that if he failed his Precision roll to throw it, the bomb would also hit the party as well, since his targets were basically right on top of them. He succeed the roll only by virtue of the Humans' special ability to succeed on rolls they would miss by just 1 point (a thing I have always wanted to include as a special power or ability in a game), and then proceeding to throw three 1s on the 3d6 damage for the bomb. Still, while it didn't wipe out the cultists (a good possibility), it at least saved the party so that was worth it.
Overall the session was relatively short, as players took the time to chat with the ghost party, but they did explore some more uncharted territory, which does contribute towards the exploration Adventure Points goal, so progress was still made.
Session Stats
Rooms Explored: 5
Enemies Defeated: None!
Characters Dead: Also none!
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