Editing SGA 2007 Archive

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The following [[Seattle Gamers Assemble!|SGA]] games took place or are planned in 2007:

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=Calico Jack and the crew of the ''Rapacious''=
; Game System
: [http://www.peginc.com/Games/Savage%20Worlds/50%20Fathoms.htm Savage Worlds]
; Pitch
: Join Captain Calico Jack, the infamous pirate of the early 18th century on a mission of danger, murder, excitement, and BOOTY! 

: Play Calico Jack, his girlfriend and fierce pirate Anne Bonny, their companion Mary Read, or any other able-bodied free-booting member of Jack's crew on his dread pirate ship ''Rapacious''.
; Game Master
: Mark Walters
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; Characters
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; Date
: TBD
; Technical Notes
: '''Game World:'''
: Savage Worlds with appropriate skills and weapons for early 1700s pirates.  Characters pregenned.

: This would be a highly fictionalized (and therefore fun) version of John Rackham aka Calico Jack and his crew.  So fictionalized, in fact, that only some of the crew names and Calico Jack's crossed swords Jolly Roger flag are retained.  The rest will be wonderful Hollywood movie pirate bunk, in the vein of Pirates of the Caribbean with a little Errol Flynn tossed in for good measure.

: '''Magic:'''
: The characters will certainly be larger than life, but not magical.   However, who knows what you'll find?  Maybe a voodoo princess, cursed Mayan gold, mermaids... or something completely different.  
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=HeroQuest=
; Game System
: [http://www.glorantha.com/support/ HeroQuest]
; Pitch
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; Game Master
: Johnzo
; Players
: 4
; Characters
:
; Date
: February 26 & March 5, 2007
; Technical Notes
: '''[[User:Johnzo|Johnzo]]:''' I'd like to run a HeroQuest experiment.  The "experiment" part of it is to try to run a zero-prep player-driven game.  D&S and 1889 were both heavy prep GM-driven games, so I want an exact change-up from that.

: I'm going to make up / steal some mechanics for shared setting and situation creation and moderation and then use them on the 19th, then get a start at play on the 19th and finish things off on the 26th.

: My instinct for this is to keep the number of players low by SGA standards so that we'll have a shot at coming out with something coherent.  I'd like to cap it at just four players.  

: This is running simultaneously with Faery's Tale, so it'll be a good test of that dual-SGA game thing we've been talking about.  

: If the HeroQuest experiment fails on the 19th, we can refine & retry it on the 26th or fall back to Dungeons & Savages.

: Finally, if anyone knows of good collaborative worldbuilding rules, please lemme know about them.  I know of PTA's pitch generation and Burning Empires world-burning and ... whatever the hell it was that Aria Worlds tried to do but didn't.

: And if anyone's ever done anything like this before, please also chime in.  I am especially interested in how to code conflict into the situation.
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=The Mute Minstrel=
; Game System
: [http://www.firefly-games.com/ Faery's Tale]
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; Game Master
: Cain Young
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; Date
: February 19, 2007
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=Roanoke=
; Game System
: [http://www.clintkrause.com/ Wushu: Roanoke]
; Pitch
: 1587: A small group of English colonists establish a settlement on Roanoke Island

: 1590: The colony is found completely abandoned with no trace of the colonists.

: What happened? Find out!
; Game Master
: Edmund Metheny
; Players
: 8
; Characters
: Reverend Ezekiel Parris, Fire-and-Brimstone Preacher (Cain)
: Lady Charity de Warwick, Pirate Hunter (Sophie)
: Haunce Walters, Devious deck hand and opportunist (Mark)
: Miss Emme Merrimoth, Dorset Farmgirl (Laura)
: Braith Madog, Unhangable Loner (Johnzo)
: Paiyn, Runaway Slave Child (Kevin)
: Alice Langston, Feisty Widow (Meg)
: Thomas "the Butcher" Vessel, Redeemed Convict (Taylor)
; Date
: February 5 & 12, 2007
; Technical Notes
: This game is intended to be a ''Lost''-style recurring series, with characters drawn from the pool of colonists and local Tribes as needed to accomodate new or occasional players.
; Recaps
: See also the [http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=310201 Actual Play thread] on RPGNet.
==Episode 1==

: After an overview of the Wushu system and of the Roanoke colony's official history, the GM played the opening credits and music.  Throughout the game, he had a soundscape appropriate to the circumstances: falling rain and thunderstorm, crashing surf, marsh birds and frogs, etc.  The primary lighting was provided by candles, with electric lighting behind the GM for easier reading.

: '''Credits:'''

: ''In 1587 one hundred and seventeen men, women, and children set sail from Plymouth, England to found a new colony on the shores of Chesapeake Bay.  Almost from the moment they set sail their journey was fraught with hazards and delays.  Eventually, too late in the year to plant, their food supplies already running dangerously low, they found themselves not where they expected to be, but on desolate Roanoke Island.  The governor of the colony, John Wh:ite, set sail back to England within the month to raise more supplies.  When he returned three years later, the colony had vanished.  Not one man, woman, or child, nor their remains, nor their tools, clothing, keepsakes, or valuables, was ever found.  They had disappeared completely from history, their final fate unknown.''

: ''This is their story.''

: ''This is Roanoke.''


: '''ACT I'''

: '''OPENING SCENE:''' England, early morning.  Francis Walsingham is having his breakfast.  A servant brings him breakfast and reminds him of an upcoming meeting with the Queen.  Walsingham thanks the servant, then places a map of Virginia on the table, examining it as he eats a pastry.  Using a magnifying glass he follows the coast north until he comes to a small island marked Roanoke.

: '''SCENE 2:''' August 28.  It's a dark and stormy night on Roanoke, the first rain of the season.  A small black child is running through the forest.  Paiyn jumped off the Tiger when he saw his last chance to escape as the ship left.  He somehow managed to make it across the channel to the island, but he is completely lost.  He saw the ship's boat come back so he ran deep into the forest, terrified.  Now he sees the light of a fire despite the ran.  He approaches, hearing chanting voices and drumbeats; near the fire, he sees a woman dancing.  Suddenly, he feels warm and comforted, as if she was his own mother...  but his instinct tells him that he he stays, he will die.  He flees headlong in the dark.

: '''SCENE 3:''' Haunce is standing guard n the middle of the night (all the colonists take turns doing this).  He’s come to the conclusion that where there are Puritans, there is secret vice, so he needs to build a still.  He decides to get into the stores to steal a little grain to ferment (the seed grain!)  He announces that he has heard some noise over there and will check it out As he's busy stealing a sack of grain, he has flashback of himself in the stocks while a magistrate reads off a list of petty theft charges against him.  Members of the crowd throw stones, rotten fruit, and offal, while a burly man stripped to the waist lays into his bare back with a lash.  Although he does take the grain, the memory leaves him feeling a little guilty.

: '''SCENE 4:''' Captain de Villaguerra is in a longboat, being rowed ashore by a half-dozen pirates speaking in whispers.  Rodrigo, the leader, whispers to her that they will put her ashore with some supplies, but that they can do no more because Diego has more men loyal to him than she has.  At least it will save her from being hanged, which is what Diego had in mind for her - eventually.  As they near a break in the barrier islands she can hear the roar of the surf and as they go through the “cut” the current becomes quite violent, tossing the longboat about.  Rodrigo curses about mistiming the tide, and the longboat goes over, spilling them all into the sea.  Villaguerra distinctly remembers someone grabbing her ankle - perhaps a crew member? - and then something hits her over the head.  Very distantly she hears two men arguing but she cannot understand the words; it sounds like rapid, fluent Latin.  Then there is a brilliant flash of light. 

: '''SCENE 5:'''  Ezekiel Parris has been up all night praying.  Events of the last month - the stranding of the colonists, the shortage of food, the discovery that the previous colony was missing, the death of George Howe, and John White’s departure, have severely shaken the colony, and Parris has been praying for guidance.  He meditates on the Crucifixion; he is tormented, however, by the fact that his thoughts keep returning to Mary.  It ultimately ends up with a vision in which Ezekiel is crucified on the wall of the stockade, naked, with Emme turning into Mary Magdalene kneeling beneath him, gazing up at him worshipfully.  In a cup, she is catching the blood that drips from his hands and feet, then drinking it.

: He hears the door to the church open.

: '''SCENE 6:'''  Emme gets up before dawn.  She is washing her face in a basin of water, but the water turns to blood, thick and coppery, staining her hands, face, and clothes.  At the bottom of the basin she finds a gold ring.  She examines it; it is a simple band with the inscription "Forever yours."  It fits her perfectly.  Then she is awakened as something pounds on the door.

: '''SCENE 7:'''  Alice is up early, making breakfast, getting Richard ready for morning services, and generally being a busybody.  Molly is still in bed; Richard says that did not sleep well.  lice goes to question her, and Molly relates a terrible dream she had in which the entire colony was cursed by god.  She dreamed of a coal-black demon looming over the colony, pouring out a great curse upon the colonists.  Then an angel appeared with a scythe, with which she slew all the colonists, throwing them into a giant winepress which crushed them until their blood flowed out covering the entire island.  Alice convince Molly to get up and see Reverend Ezekiel. 

: '''SCENE 8:'''  As people are getting up with dawn, Braith decides it's time to go fishing.  His hook snags onto something, perhaps a branch.  He retrieves it; snagged on the hook is a badly battered jack (a leather mug used by sailors).  Looking around he notices some other odd items of flotsam - a few pieces of broken planking, some rags, torn canvas, a bit of rope, and eventually part of the bow of a small boat that seems to have washed up on the mainland shore during the night.  As he tries to recover some of the lumber and nails, he finds an unconscious woman!


: '''ACT II'''

: '''SCENE 9:''  Emme checks on the noise at her door, calling; no answer.  She opens the door to find Paiyn lying unconscious on her doorstep.  It appears that he ran headlong into her door!  She wakes him and recognizes the Tiger's cabin boy.  He babbles incoherently about someone trying to burn him.

: '''SCENE 10:''' Alice brings Molly to see Reverend Ezekiel and describe her dream.  He recognizes a passages from the New testament, Revelations 14:18.  He assigns Molly more biblical readings.

: '''SCENE 11:'' Braith starts a fire to warm the half-drowned woman, and starts pulling nails from the lumber.  Caridad de Villaguerra wakes up, and he asks her how she feels.  Though she is disoriented, she recognizes at his speech and his blond hair that he is English, so she cautiously answers him back in English, asking about her men.  Braith say he saw nothing of them, but then he spots a flock of gulls circling and feeding.  Charity goes to examine it and finds an arm, bloated from a stay in the water.  From the tattoos, she recognizes Rodrigo's left arm.  She can find nothing else of her crew.

: '''SCENE 12:''' Reverend Ezekiel is officiating, preaching fire and brimstone, when the church door opens!  Emme is bringing a small black child.  Molly screams and faints.  Paiyn is clutching Emme fearfully; Haunce, trying to impress Emme with his gallantry, gives up his seat.

: Soon after, Braith arrives with Charity.  Molly, just coming to, faints again.  Once revived, she insists that the child has the face of the demon from her dream, while the new woman has the angel's face.

: '''SCENE 13:'' Lady Charity makes her introduction, announcing that she is Lady Charity de Warwick, captain of the privateer Patience.  Some appear skeptical, particularly Braith. 

: A cry interrupts the conversation - someone stole grain from the seed stock!  Haunce, who had reported hearing noise during his watch, is questioned.  When he realizes that ten sacks were stolen, he is a bit disoriented -- he had only stolen one.  He secretly decides to hoard his one sack of grain, and is quick to blame "the savages." 

: Led by Reverend Ezekiel, the colonists organize a search for the grain thief.  Braith removes the manacle from Paiyn's ankle, and the boy finds tracks in the dirt near the granary, corresponding to a man's shod feet.  Braith suggests that Ferdinando came back to steal the grain.  But Haunce, trying to distract suspicions, whips the mob into a frenzy about "the thieving savages."  [At Johnzo's suggestion, Mark used the Doom mechanic to ensure that his stolen sack of grain was not found, redirecting suspicion on the Indians.]  He make sure that the angry mob tramples the tracks so that his cannot be identified.  With Haunce's goading, the lynch mob starts departs.  As they arm up, "Lady Charity" makes sure she is well provided with pistols and rapier, her own weapons having mysteriously disappeared in the wreck of the longboat.  

: '''SCENE 14:''' Alice, Molly, and a few women and children are left at the camp.  Alice find Molly praying aloud in the church, babbling about impending doom.

: '''SCENE 15:''' Paiyn finds intermittent tracks of bare feet, longer and narrower than a human's.  Haunce is steering the mob toward the abandoned Croatoan village on the far side of the island but the tracks lead instead to the edge of the swamp.  Then someone realizes that Richard Langston has disappeared!  They look for him, find his tracks but they lead to the edge of a pool too shallow to swim in.

: Reverend Ezekiel and Haunce return to the village to see if Richard turned up at home, while Emme, Charity, and the mob continue to search.

: '''SCENE 16:''' Braith and Paiyn get on the raft to examine this morning's debris and search for bodies -- especially ones with boots.  Braith finds nothing but the bloated arm and a boot sole. 

: '''SCENE 17:''' After ascertaining that Richard has not returned home, the Reverend decides to search the houses for stolen grain.  Haunce looks nervous, tries to blame the theft on Richard.  He manages to stare Ezekiel down, but the Reverend remains suspicious.

: '''SCENE 18:''' Lady Charity takes over the search party.  The search for Richard and the mysterious tracks yields nothing, but another colonist goes missing!

: '''SCENE 19:''' It's getting late.  Charity asks Emme (as the least suspicious type around) for her hospitality; Paiyn will stay with Braith.  Haunce, who by then needs a drink, abandons the idea of hoarding his sack of grain and to fire up the still.  He takes his still to a cave and starts assembling it.  But then he hears thumping drumming noise coming from all around.  He loads his old arquebuse, tiptoes out and nervously sneaks back to the village.

: '''SCENE 20:''' Braith hears a noise outside.  He takes his hatchet and goes to check it out -- and finds Haunce standing outside the stockade.  Haunce tries to convince Braith that there are people out there.  Braith shrugs but lets him in. 

: '''SCENE 21:''' Haunce goes to knock on the Reverend's door.  Ezekiel was having a dream about "consoling the widow Molly" and is unhappy to be disturbed.  Haunce reports "rhythmic pounding noises", says he's sure there are other people on the island although he knows they've thoroughly searched the place.  Ezekiel shooes him off.


: '''ACT III'''

: '''SCENE 22:''' August 29.  Charity and Alice inspect the village and discuss how to keep track of who is where.  They agree to keep a better eye on the roster.  Charity evaluates how to improve their defences.

: '''SCENE 23:''' Braith and Paiyn go fishing.  Braith teaches Paiyn how to repair the nets and sets him to work.  Paiyn shows Braith how to spear fish.
 
: '''SCENE 24:''' Haunce and Emme go hunting for meat.  Haunce proudly shoots a 12-point buck and hopes he impressed Emme.  She helps him dress it, while he brags about past exploits.  As they are about to return to the village, they hear a shot in the woods.  Haunce checks his weapons and reloads; then they go check.  They find a dead wolf, shot between the eyes with a lead ball, but just left there.  They clean the kill, take the pelt, and return to the village at dusk.

: '''SCENE 25:''' Reverend Ezekiel is reading and preaching from the Book of Job; the church is packed.  A rumour is going around that the newcomers, Paiyn and Charity, are demons.  But people are happy when Braith and Paiyn return with fish, and Emme and Haunce return with meat.

: Braith questions Alice about the rumours.  Haunce overhears Paiyn talking about the drumming and chanting he heard the previous night, questions him.  Haunce then tells everyone about the wolf that was shot; no one claims the kill. 

: Braith suspects the Spaniards.  He questions Lady Charity about her ship and whether her men could have shot the wolf.  She says it's possible, but expects that after the wreck of the longboat, their powder would have been wet.

: '''SCENE 26:''' That night, Haunce sneaks out to check on his still.  In the cave, he is surprised by a large wolf!  He throws the still at the wolf, then whips up his matchlock pistol and shoots him square in the chest.  But he sees the wound close instantly!  As the wolf is about to leap, another shot hits the beast in the side of the neck and the wolf falls down.  Haunce huddles in the back of the cave with his arquebus until down.


* '''Some of the best quotes:'''
** "We'll put an extra pine cone in the soup for you."  -- Braith/Johnzo, to the newly arrived Lady Charity.

; Player Thoughts
: '''[[User:Johnzo|Johnzo]]:''' My favorite part was when the Rev. and Haunce faced off over the missing grain.  I liked how the conflict dicing allowed the characters to showcase their traits, and I really liked how the players regarded the issue as suspended after the dicing was done.  I was worried that it was going to degenerate into more rounds of "well, I can't get him with this skill, maybe I'll try this skill."  Instead, the point was made, the issue put off to another day, and tensions increased.

: I thought the large ensemble worked well, with people patiently waiting through downtime.  One thing that might help even more in this regard is aggressive scene framing, where people state their objectives at the front of the scene, and as soon as the scene either denies or confirms those objectives, we move on to another thing.  I don't know how that fits with people's gaming tastes, though.  And it's not that I think there's a problem, but I'm always in favor of experimenting to try to redline my gaming.  :)

: Also on the topic of the big ensemble, it was one of my goals to reduce its effective size by establishing a subunit for Braith to work in.  I thought this would be with Haunce, but instead it was with Kev's character, and that strikes me as good and natural.

: Like so many of my characters, Braith didn't really reveal himself until actual play started.  I'm thinking that instead of "gentle" his Social trait should be "knows he is destined for something special."  This makes him somewhat resistant to fear, but also makes him a little cold and fatalistic and weird. 

: I think that Braith's essential struggle will pit his aloof and destined nature against the human connections he'll generate on the island, most notably with the little slave kid, whose name he has still not learned, and with his aborted hatred of the absent Ferdinando.  In a way, fostering Kev's character is his way at striking back at Ferdinando.  I also want to keep his deference to Haunce, I don't know why, but this feels like an interesting choice.

: Speaking of Haunce, I'm super glad for Mark's desperate attempts to push everyone's buttons.  My favorite horror stories are siege tales like Stephen King's "The Mist" or "Battlestar Galactica" where the external horror is balanced by an internal horror of people coming apart under enormous stress.  Haunce is the driver of that internal horror right now.  I think he's the central character of the tale.  What we do with him will be very interesting.

: '''Mark:''' My favorite part was hitting the doom button to keep everyone from discovering Haunce's secret.  He's so terrified of this, that he'll go to some lengths to protect himself, even though it might spell disaster for others.  This makes for an interesting conflict, because he doesn't really want the colony to fail.  At heart, he's not a bad guy, he's just weak, and it will be his undoing.

: Roleplaying is fun :)  I'm glad Cain didn't back off when he had the chance.  Rev. Parris both scares and fascinates Haunce.  Given the chance, Haunce will try to suck up to him because of the influence he weilds in the colony.

: It would make sense for the others to become involved in the Haunce-Ezekiel conflict.  Braith, for example, might develop a distrust of Haunce.  Emme might become an ally or an exasperated enemy, depending on how Laura plays her.  It would be fun to expand the stand-off.

: Haunce He's the kind of guy who either ends up being the charismatic leader, or gets locked up in stocks and has rotten vegetables thrown at him.  Or both.  It's a fine line between greatness and gitness, and "great" men tend to be really just successful or lucky con artists.  One only needs to look towards Commodore John Paul Jones in our own history to see an example of that.  Or General Benedict Arnold. Or Vice President Aron Burr.  Haunce is a bird of their flock, just born into more modest circumstances.

: Doing this in scenes is really working well, and a nice break from the usual "Okay what's the party's marching order?" kind of roleplaying.  As we play (and I'm sure Ed intended this), I'm thinking about what my character would be doing as if this were a movie or a play.  I'm imagining cut-scenes, fades, swipes, dramatic music, even camera angles.  I might try describing my actions more in those terms next week.

: I thought the roleplaying was all great... especially that done by Meg (Alice) and Kevin (Paiyn).  It's been a while since I've been in a game that captured everyone's imagination the way this one has.

: '''[[User:Mechante Anemone|Mechante Anemone]]:''' I really liked the atmosphere, including the use of environmental sound and candle lighting.
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=The Terror of the Polywampus=
; Game System
: Homebrew
; Pitch
: Gather round young'uns and listen to me tale, the tale of mutants and science gone wrong. Up the river from here is the Hanford Nuclear Plant, where they made the atomic bomb and other devices of nuclear devastation!

:In the early days of Hanford, they were nay concerned with the toxic waste they created and much of it was dumped into a leach pond. Into this pond some ducks settled, but most died horribly from the radiation.

:But two of these ducks survived and mated. They laid a clutch of eggs, eggs that glowed at night. All but one of these eggs failed, but the last one, it hatched an abomination. It hatched the monster known as the…

:Polywampus!

:This foul beast was nay a duck, but a throwback to great beasts that once roamed the Earth's prehistory! It was born hungry and it et it's parents, then anything else it could corner: Jack rabbits, coyotes, and other critters. It grew and grew to an enormous size, bigger than a Clydesdale! It's bill is lined with sharp pointed teeth, and it's body is covered with green and brown feathers.

:It can chase you into the Columbia river and hunt you down, it can climb the sides of the valley snap your legs off! It can run faster than you can, and it will eat you whole! The only warning you'll get is it's cry:

:Wauuugh! Wauuugh!

:You hear that lads, it's too late…

:Wauuugh!

:What's that? Did you make that noise?

:Wauuugh! **Thoom** **Thoom**

:It canna be!

:WAUUGH!

:It's the Polywampus! Run! Run! Aieeee!

:'''**CRUNCH**'''

:You're a Boy Scout or a Girl Scout, and a giant, mutant Duck Monster just ate your Scout Leader. Can you defeat the Polywampus?
; Game Master
: John Reiher, AKA [[User:Kedamono|Kedamono]]
; Players
: 6
; Characters
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; Date
: January 27, 2007
; Technical Notes
: This is also a playtest of John's new RPG rules, the Pulp RPG System, so it's double the fun and double the pleasure. There's room for 6 players of all ages, and you'll be creating your characters at the game, just remember, they are kids, between 10 and 15 years old, out in the great outdoors!
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=Savage Lorax=
[[Image:Lorax.jpg|thumb|]]
[[Image:I-Thneed-You-Suess_small.gif|frame| LARGE] ]]
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; Game System
: [http://www.peginc.com/Games/Savage%20Worlds/Savage%20Worlds.htm Savage Worlds]
; Pitch
: In the land of the Lorax<br>Where the Truffula grows<br>Sits the greedy old Once-ler<br>And his band of fellows

: His business is the Thneed<br>A right ridiculous thing<br>It makes him so wealthy<br>He's nigh near a king!

: But the Thneeds are a problem<br>For the Truffula woods<br>Because they waste all the Truffula tufts<br>For the sake of consumer goods!

: But that's not all<br>The old Once-ler perpetrates<br>No, he's a right robber baron<br>Who's put us in dire straits!

: He catches the Swomee-Swans<br>And bakes them with honey<br>He skins the brown Bar-ba-loots<br>And tans their hides for money

: He fries up the Humming-fish<br>And serves them will dill<br>There is no creature, that for a few coins<br>He will not cheerfully kill

: He chops down the trees<br>The woods he will exhaust<br>Until the landscape becomes<br>A de-Truffula'd holocaust

: Will you do something about it?<br>Will you fight for our cause?<br>Will you help the Lorax<br>Undo Once-ler's faux pas?

: Will you help stop his factories?<br>Will you help stop his axes?<br>Will you gum up his operations<br>Tap his whisper-ma-phone? Read his faxes?

: Make no delay!<br>Now you've heard the pitch!<br>Turn right at Weehawken!<br>Sharp left at North Nitch!

: Together we can stop him!<br>We must act today!<br>For if we don't, my friends<br>The Lorax will be lifted away!

: And then it will be too late.

: ...

: I've been playing around with the Savage Worlds book (Thanks Ed & Sophie), and I'd like make a Savage Worlds Lorax game, for two nights in January, if anyone's up to it.

: '''The setting:'''

: Truffula Woods near the headquarters of Once-ler, Inc. Old Once-ler is busy chopping down Truffula Trees for their tufts to make the latest consumer product fad: The Thneed. "You need a Thneed"

: '''The problem:'''

: Between the industrial smog, the toxic sludge and cutting down the trees, he's killing off the critters that live there: Brown Bar-ba-loots, Swommee Swans, and Humming Fish.  And to make matters worse, he's catching the critters, skinning and cooking them, and selling them for profit!

: '''The solution:'''

: The Lorax, who speaks for the trees (for the trees have no tongues), is taking matters into his own hands.  He's recruiting a band of brave heroes to go toe-to-stocking with Once-ler and his cronies, and put an end to his nefarious practices once and for all!

; Game Master
: Mark Walters
; Players
: 8
; Characters
: Cara Pace - Yertle (Laura)
: Marvin MacMalapert - Star-bellied-sneech (Ed)
: Frolicia Fay O'Friskle - Brown Bar-ba-loot (Sophie)
: Sam I Am - Who (Taylor)
: Pequod Picaroon the Pirate - Humming Fish (Kevin) (first episode)
: Fokker McScud - Swomee Swan (Cain)
: Cindy Lou Who - Who (Meg)
: Son-celer - Once-ler traitor (John Reiher)
; Date
: January 22 & 29, 2007
; Technical Notes
: Players will be able to choose a race to play, either Bar-ba-loot, Humming Fish, Swommee Swan, Star-Bellied-Sneech, Who, or Yertle.
; Recaps
==Part 1:==
: [[User:Shosuro Kando|Shosuro Kando]]:
: Marvin MacMalapert, bastard for hire<br>Got a note from the Lorax - he answered by wire<br>The note was quite simple, it said "Please meet me<br>Quite near to the stump of a truffula tree."

: Marvin spit grickle grass out of his gob<br>But thinking about it, he needed a job<br>His rent had would come due soon, and business was slow<br>And provisions of Barbaloot whiskey were low!

: So Marvin set off for his stump rendezvous<br>at the edge of the forest where trees were now few<br>He got to the place, but then squinted to see<br>The whole of a Seussian thug company!

: The psychotic Yertle known as Cara Pace<br>Who's Moseymotiller lost many a race<br>And sweet Cindy Lou Who, a killer at heart<br>With ornament-fu, she took people apart!

: There was Fokker McScud, who's razor sharp beak<br>Unspeakable mayhem and havoc would wreak<br>Little Frolicia Fay O' Friskle with darts<br>Could poison her enemies, then stop their hearts.

: And Piquod Picaroon, a pirate so cruel<br>He killed off his crew with tyrannical rule<br>The serial killer who was called Sam-I-Am<br>Who ate all his victims, with green eggs and ham

: And puffing a bong by a truffula tree<br>The worstest of all by a factor of three<br>There was Sonceler Onceler, who's wicked machines<br>Would torture his victims, then rip out their spleens!

: "Holy shit!" exclaimed Marvin, as dread filled his guts<br>"I thought I was hardcase, but these guys are nuts!<br>The lorax is crazy to hire this crew<br>I think he's been huffing some trufflula glue!"

: But prior to Marvin just dumping the lot<br>The Lorax appeared on his specified spot<br>His pug ugly mug wrinkled into a frown<br>And he told how the Oncelers were cutting trees down

: The Lorax explained that he spoke for the trees<br>(And Marvin, aghast, covered up with a sneeze)<br>The trees wanted killers, the Lorax then said<br>To bust a fat cap in the Onceler's dumb head!

: Marvin (who'd been planning to get himself gone)<br>Realized he was stuck cuz the hit was now on!<br>If he tried to leave now, he knew for a fact<br>This mob of stone killers would just have him whacked.

: He turned to the Lorax to ask about pay<br>And discovered the lard ass had faded away<br>Apparently thinking his crew'd do the thing<br>Without even getting a taste of some bling!

: His snubulous popper he loaded with care<br>Then climbed up a Truffula tree that was there<br>If he made a false move he was sure he was dead<br>So he drank himself into a stupor instead.

: The very next morning the carnage was started<br>before the last dew of the night time departed<br>The Truffula choppers arrived to chop trees<br>but were killed by the group with the greatest of ease

: The Oncelers died screaming, and some tried to flee<br>Their luck it was bad, their escape not to be.<br>Mangled or stabbed, strangled, poisoned or shot<br>The group spared not one of the Oncelery lot.

: A few drove away with mechanical speed<br>And called out the watch to take care of their need.<br>The watch sent out Oncelers with badges of tin<br>And butterfly nets to catch criminals in.

: Meanwhile Sonceler Onceler had taken the gear<br>The Oncelers were using the forest to clear<br>And had mashed it all up to create a new thingy<br>A mechanical Onceler eviscera-dinghy!

: The cops then approached with their nets held up high<br>And almost at once they all started to die.<br>Just one Onceler was spared, the rest napped in dirt<br>Not one of the murderous party was hurt.

: Marvin MacMalapert went through it all<br>Discovered he isn't a bastard at all<br>He thought of himself as cold-hearted and mean<br>He'll have nightmares for years now, from all that he's seen.

: And though he has never been truly devout<br>He prays to Doc Seuss now to just get him out!

: Because these guys are CRAZY!
: &nbsp;
: [[User:Mechante Anemone|Mechante Anemone]]: Cindy Lou Who, Pequod Picaroon the Humming Fish, Marvin MacMalapert the Star-Bellied Sneech, Sam I Am the Who, Cara Pace the Yertle, Fokker McScud the Swomee Swan, Frolicia Fay O'Friskle the Brown Bar-ba-loot, and Son-celer the Once-ler traitor came to the Super Secret Ecoterrorist Camp to fight the Once-ler deforesting the land.  They were about to give up when finally, just as the sun was setting, the Lorax appeared on a stump, with a mighty "Gazompf!"

: He looked around and seeing no mighty army but a rag-tag band of idealists, loafers or mercenaries, frowned.  Since they did not have an army, he said, they would have to spy on the enemy and use cunning tactics.  They must go find out what the Once-lers' weaknesses were!  Then he disappeared as suddenly as he had appeared.  It was dark, so Fokker and Pequod's effort to scout were fruitless. 

: It was during Cindy Lou Who's watch that a rumbling sound was heard to the north.  Frolicia recognized it as the sound of the big machines that destroyed the truffula tree forests!  The eight ecoterrorists went to look for the source of the noise.  Sneaking over the last hill, they saw the axiswhatsis, a whirling circular machine whose twirling axes chomped on truffula tree trunks as they spun. 

: Marvin took aim and winged the Once-ler piloting the mechanical monster; Cara charged in her moseymotiller, and Sam I Am swung form a truffula tree into the Once-ler's turret.  Then there was the contraption built by Son-celer Once-ler to battle the axiswhatsis &mdash; it was a thing or terror and truffula trunks!

: At Pequod's suggestion -- he had seen similar contraptions on whalers, he said -- little Frolicia snuck under the axiswhatsis and climbed aboard through a hatch.  She blew a poisoned dart at the Once-ler and he collapsed!  The ecoterrrorists seized control of the axiswhatsis.  Pequod was able to pilot the machine, if gingerly. 

: While they were discussing whether to sneak in or destroy the equipment, they spotted another rumble.  Fokker, Marvin and Sam went to scout, and found another machine, a loggamajammer picking up truffula tufts felled by the axiswhatsis.  They charged it!  Cara, with passengers Cindy and Son-celer, rushed in behind.  They brutally killed the Once-ler pilot. 

: As they were commandeering the second machine, they suddenly realized that three more loggamajammers were coming over the hill!  But Cindy Lou Who got on the radio and completely confused the Once-lers, assuring them that everything was fine.  Once the other loggamajammers were gone, the team decided to destroy the captured loggamajammers and continue toward the Once-ler HQ with the axiswhatsis and Cara's moseymotiller.

: They met with six large Once-lers armed with butterfly nets (scary, huh?); the Once-ler tried to capture a prisoners.  The ensuing carnage was frightful.  Cindy Lou Who and Fokker McScud, in particular, dealt death to numerous Once-lers.  One managed to escape, but one was captured and interrogated by Fokker (covered in the blood of the other Once-lers.)  The prisoner said that after receiving a confusing message, the Once-lers had suspected an ecoterrorist attack and were trying to gain intelligence of enemy activity by capturing one of the Lorax's allies.

: Sneaking and learning things and cunning tactics? So much for that idea.  Hey there, diddle diddle, straight up through the middle.

* '''Some of the best quotes:'''
** "You're not Sam, you're [[Wikipedia:Son of Sam|Son of Sam]]!"  &mdash; Marvin/Edmund to Sam/Taylor.
** "He's a pilot fish!" &mdash; Marvin/Edmund and Frolicia/Sophie, when Pequod took control of the axiswhatsis.
** "I will serve you green eggs and ham!"  &mdash; Sam/Taylor
** "You're a mean one!" &mdash; Cindy/Meg, smashing a Once-ler to smithereens with her Christmas ornament.


==Part Deuss==

: [[User:Mechante Anemone|Mechante Anemone]]: An army of Once-lers and loggamajammers was approaching!  While Sonce-ler was setting their own loggamajammer (damaged) and axiswhatsis on rudimentary auto-pilot and sending them against the Once-lers, the rest of the ecoterrorists hopped onto Cara Pace's moseymotiller (except Pequod who remembered he was a fish and needed water.)  Sonce-ler caught up with them after jumping off. 

: They took a circuitous route to the Once-ler headquarters, figuring they would be almost deserted, and parked in the Once-ler of the Month spot.  They walked into a large factory where truffula trees were being stripped, the fruit discarded into poisonous waste, and the tufts were turned into thneeds.  At the far end was a control pane; that looked like a big pipe organ.  Next to it was a big red button labelled "Do not push".

: While Sam was alertly watching for an ambush, Marvin decided that everyone does indeed need a thneed and equipped himself with a thneed fedora and trenchcoat.  Frolicia was salvaging still-edible (for a Brown Barbaloot) truffula fruit.  Cindy Lou, Fokker and Sonce-ler raced to press the big red button labelled "Do not push". 

: All sorts of alarms went off!  The floor split open from the door to the control panel; Sam, Cindy Lou, Sonce-ler, and Cara started falling toward a chute!  Fokker simply flew off.  Cindy Lou was nimble enough to jump away.  Sonce-ler held on to the control panel, and Cara barely caught the edge of the receding floor, suspended above the chute and yelling for help.  Sam used his springulous slapper to hang from the ceiling above the chute. 

: Cindy Lou and Marvin began throwing bins of thneed down the chute, and this cause a faint cry for help to ring.  While Frolicia was trying to help Cara up, Fokker pressed the button again! the floor trap shut quickly, sending Cara bouncing and landing on her back.  But Sam was suspended from the ceiling in the chute under the now-closed floor!  Sonce-ler pressed the button a third time to re-open the trap, and Marvin resumed throwing bins of thneed.  Sam made a thneed rope and threw it to the prisoner at the bottom of the chute, who turned out to be Thing Two.  Both Sam and Thing Two were now hanging from the ceiling above the chute, so Fokker flew over to grab the thneed rope and pull them to the side. 

: Sam questioned Thing Two, a painful process.  He learned that the Cat in the Hat had been captured by the Once-lers while trying to negotiate, and was kept under the Lurker tower.  Sonce-ler started playing with the controls.  The place became dangerous as machines went crazy and smoke rose, so everyone else fled. 

: They went to the Lurker tower and climbed to the top, where they found a well-appointed office.  After scaring the secretary and making her fall down the stairs, Marvin and Cindy Lou hit the fine gricklegrass cigars in the humidor.  On the desk they found the plans for a war machine, as well as a forged letter addressed to the president of Here (also known as There) and incriminating the nation of There (who called themselves Here) as trying to start a war.

: There were many portraits of famous Once-lers; behind the portrait of Sponce-ler Once-ler, Sam found a secret button.  He pressed it and a secret door was revealed.  They found the Cat in the Hat, chained to the wall, very thing and mangy-looking.  Frolicia unlocked his manacles and Cindy Lou got herself swallowed up by the Hat.

: Sonce-ler's efforts had set the thneed factory on fire, so they all ran back to the Truffula Woods.  The Lorax talked to the Cat in the Hat, examined the evidence retrieved by the ecoterrorists, and announced that he would next send the team to the Hierarch of There (or Here) to inform him of the deception.

* '''Some of the best quotes:'''
** "It's Fokker's Pendulum."  - Frolicia/Sophie.
** Cindy Lou/Meg: "I thought the Cart in the Hat was an infamous crime lord?"<br>Sam/Taylor: "Cindy Lou Who, you've watched too much 'Law and Order'!"<br>Marvin/Edmund: "No, she's right.  The cat is responsible for the entire mystal creth distribution network in the area."

; Player Thoughts
* [[User:Mechante Anemone|Mechante Anemone]]: 
** Mark did an awesome Seuss job.
** The minis Johnzo had made for the Savage Lorax game were absolutely fantastic.  I think they really added a lot.
** John Reiher built his war machine contraption at the table, using a stack of chopsticks as truffula tree trunks.  It was really neat.
** As Marvin MacMalapert, Edmund had to speak in whupass rhymes throughout the game -- and he did.
** We're so bloodthirsty, Dr. Seuss must be crying.
; Additional GM Thoughts
:

=Dungeon & Savages: Against the Lord of Blood=
[[Image:Cardboardmini.jpg|thumb|Aaron, Longrinn, and Fat Bastard attacking the Lord of Blood]]
; Game System
: [http://www.savageheroes.com/conversions.htm Savage Worlds]
; Pitch
: Your party is now approaching the Village of Hommlet, having ridden up from lands of the Wild Coast. All you have is what you wear and wield, plus the few coins that are hidden in purses and pockets.  What you do possess in quantity, though, is daring and desire to become wealthy and famous. Thus your group comes to Hommlet to learn. Is this indeed a place for adventurers to seek their fortunes? You all hope, of course, to gain riches and make names for yourselves. The outcome of this is uncertain, but your skill and daring, along with a good measure of luck, will be the main ingredients of what follows, be it for weal or woe!

: The dusty, rutted road is lined with closely-grown hedges of brambles and shrubs. Here and there it cuts through a copse or crosses a rivulet. To either hand, forest and meadow have given way to field and orchard. A small herd of kine graze nearby, and a distant hill is dotted with the wand stone chimneys with thin plumes of blue smoke rising from them.  A road angles west into the hill country, and to either side of the road ahead are barns and buildings &#8212; Hommlet at last!

: But who is this?  You hear a cry for help from the direction of the mountain road.  Investigating, you walk up the mountain road to the next hillock, where you discover a man crumpled in the rise between the wheel ruts.  You judge him a villager, by his simple, sturdy clothes.  And, by the bloodstains on that garb, and by the cuts on the sturdy staff that lies next to him, you also judge that he has recently seen a fight...
; Game Master
: Johnzo
; Players
: 8
; Characters - "The Five Swell Gals"
: Longrinn the human paladin (Mark Walters)
: Mykk the half-Orc fighter (Edmund Metheny)
: Aaron the half-Elf ranger (Laura)
: Lyle the Elf bard (Taylor)
: Sianica the human thief (Kayobi - first episode)
: Fat Bastard the Dwarf Cleric (Kristian)
: Petunia the Halfling druid (Sophie) and her dog Martha
: Sammy Topbottom the Gnome thief/magic user (Meg)
; Date
: January 8 & 15, 2007
; Technical Notes
: Power stunting rule: Make a raise and you can narrate your result.
; Recaps
==Part 1:==
: '''[[User:Mechante Anemone|Mechante Anemone]]:''' With five female players, the ladies had a majority and successfully voted in the name "The Five Swell Gals" for the party (after all, the Five Swell Guys weren't all guys.)   Yes, we did notice there were more than five of us -- how about the Seven Sentinels who were really nine?  Yeah, I read way too many Alan Moore comics. :)

: So the Five Swell Gals found the aforementioned pesant who had been badly beaten, and decided to take him to nearby Hommlet to get some care.  They soon learned that he was the only survivor of a party of fifteen villagers who had ventured up in the mountains to retrieve young Horace, a 12-year old boy who had been somehow lured to a little-known monastery.

: Apparently, Young Horace was a quiet boy, his widowed father's only child and support.  Old Horace (the father) was legless, and relied on his helpful son to get around and take care of his modest farm.  But a few weeks before, a two-headed calf had been born to one of their cows.  Young Horace took it to the local druid so that she would read the omen, but when she decreed that the calf must be sacrificed, the boy had refused and instead hidden the calf in the forest.  Then Young Horace had suddenly started developping an interest in the abbey in the mountains, declaring that he wanted to join the monastery.  Eventually, the boy had run away to the abbey.   His father was upset and when a group of villagers went to demand that he be returned, they discovered that the monks had hired a band of Orcs, the Twisted Tooth, as mercenaries to defend the monastery. 

: Old Horace and the villagers pleaded with the Five Swell Gals to help -- and the rumour that the monks were sitting on a huge treasure trove didn't hurt either.   Although a crabby Petunia complained that they should be doing a little more ground work first, the group charged up the mountain, with Longrinn and Mykk taking point.

: When they reached the monastery in the crags, they indedd found it defended by Orcs.  Sammy cast a spell to plunge the (previously damaged) gate area in darkness (Obscure).  Erin and Sianica climbed over the walls, Petunia burrowed under the foundations, and the rest swarmed through the broken gate.  

* An epic fight ensued, where some of the highlights included:
** Lyle the bard waded through the fray (using Mykk as cover) and took no damage, while Sammy scurried into a building to hide and was turned into a pincushion by archers.
** Lyle used her Fear spells (singing heavy metal) to rout large mobs of monks and Orcs.
** Longrinn the paladin had the worst luck with his dice, worse even that Aaron the ranger, and that takes a lot of effort.
** Martha the dog managed to horribly maul an Orc on her first attack (and then never rolled anything higher than a 2).
** Petunia burrowed under the Orc leader Hakka's feet and dragged him halfway into the ground as a "weasel attack."
** Ganging up on Hakka allowed the group to chip at him effectively.
** Speaking of effectiveness, Aaron (despite a series of disappointing rolls at one point) showed that he was just as effective with a bow as he was as the two-sword Cuisinart.
** Mykk was a tank, as expected, and bagged Hakka after many blows.
** Sianica was a true "death from above" ninja and also managed to claim credit on others' kills!
** Fat Bastard would rather stay in the middle and risk taking Mykk's "friendly fire" than miss a fight.
** Longrinn can take quantities of damage that would squish several of the other heroes, and barely notice -- which is good, 'cause he sure took a lot of blows.

: Eventually the Orcs were annihilated and Longrinn and Mykk brushed off the monks who were trying to bar the way to the treasure chamber.  An immense pile of gold was in the center of the large room; although Longrinn could feel serious evil vibes, they seemed to come from the room, not the gold. 

: Going gold-mad, Sammy threw herself face-first in the treasure, having gone to Gnome heaven.  Swimming in gold, she reached for a single coin -- and as soon as she grabbed it, the room started filling with blood.  Meanwhile, outside, Petunia found Young Horace in a cell.  Gleeful, the boy was shouting: "He comes!  The master comes!"  A gigantic, shapeless tentacled monster emerged from the gold.

: The monks wailed in despair.  Longrinn managed to extract an explanation from them: the Lord of Blood had long ago been imprisoned here and for 3,000 years, the abbey's monks had been keeping him/it imprisonned by making sacrifice of all earthly pleasures and riches, denying themselves every comfort.  But recent omens and a planetary alignment had allowed the Lord of Blood to contact a receptive victim and call to Young Horace.  The monks had hoped to keep the boy locked up and prevent him from aiding the Lord of Blood; because of his age, they could not bring themselves to hurt Horace.  But the first act of greed committed in the room had freed the Lord of Blood!

::<blockquote style="background:aliceblue; border:1px solid black; padding:1em"><B>johnzo:</B> Like [[SGA_2006_Archive#The_Voyage_of_the_Olympic|The Voyage of the Olympic]] I'd planned this to be another "Pottery Barn" game where in the first session, the PCs would be induced to break something, and in subsequent sessions, they would have to deal with the fallout of that breakage.  So I was very happy with the Lord of Blood's emergence in Session 1. </blockquote>

==Part 2:==

:'''[[User:Mechante Anemone|Mechante Anemone]]:''' A fierce battle broke out, as Longrinn, Fat Bastard, Mykk, Aaron and a bunch of angry monks tried to prevent the Lord of Blood from getting out of the treasure room.  [http://www.johnzo.com/pic.html?s=_lg&d=2007-against-the-lord-of-blood&i=0&e=jpg Sianica was grabbed by a tentacle and devoured by the LoB!] (on account of player no-show.)  Meanwhile, Sammy explored the abbey for something helpful, Lyle retreated to the library to find the book about the Lord of Blood, and Petunia talked to Young Horace. 

:Petunia had really meant to kill off Young Horace before he could help the LoB complete his ritual, but upon hearing that Young Horace was hoping to find a way to heal his old father through a bargain with the LoB, she didn't have the heart.  Instead, she let him out and started trying to steer him out of the monastery, so she was too distracted to stop her dog Martha to run off and join the fray in the treasure room.

: [http://www.johnzo.com/pic.html?d=2007-against-the-lord-of-blood&i=2&e=jpg&s=_lg&c=1 While the fight raged on], with the Five Swell Gals hacking at tentacles that kept growing back, Lyle found the Book of Eville and brought it out to the light, but could not decipher it.  Sammy, tired of being pursued by an angry little monk belittling him for his part in allowing the Lord of Blood to break his bonds, decided to join the battle and attack the LoB with fire.

: [http://www.johnzo.com/pic.html?d=2007-against-the-lord-of-blood&i=1&e=jpg&s=_lg&c=1 Longrinn stopped blow after blow from the Lord of Blood], his shield dented beyond recognition.  [http://www.johnzo.com/pic.html?d=2007-against-the-lord-of-blood&i=3&e=jpg&s=_lg&c=1 Mykk fought hard, but was eventually captured by the LoB's tentacles and dragged toward the waiting maw].  Mykk used this new-found closeness with divinity to go berserk and deal the LoB several painful blows.  The combined efforts of all those fighting on the side of Good-and-Not-Being-Eaten, and particularly Mykk's berserker rage, caused the LoB several wounds.  A little monk, full of admiration for Mykk's brave fighting, tried to pull him out but instead was pulled in with the Half-Orc to be devoured by the enemy.

: [http://www.johnzo.com/pic.html?d=2007-against-the-lord-of-blood&i=4&e=jpg&s=_lg&c=1 Just as Mykk, still suspended in the air by tentacles, was being dropped in the LoB's gullet], Aaron of the Two-Sword Cuisinart dealt the LoB the mortal blows.  The hellish creature shivered; Fat Bastard and Longrinn combined their powers to Turn it, and [http://www.johnzo.com/pic.html?d=2007-against-the-lord-of-blood&i=5&e=jpg&s=_lg&c=1 the LoB collapsed in a puddle of ichor and tentacle bits].  But Martha the dog plunged into the puddle as it bubble away, and could not be found again afterwards.

:Although the Lord of Blood was gone, Longrinn could still feel evil inside the treasure room, its very walls, and some of the gold.  Then animals started arriving from the surrounding mountain forest, trooping inside the treasure chamber around the debris.  Questioned by Sammy and Petunia, they kept saying the "Spring is coming." 

:The monks decided to disband since their task was over, except for the one who had been so impressed by Mykk and asked to become his apprentice.  Fat Bastard and Sammy went down to Hommlet to take Young Horace back to his father and look for a scholar and a wizard to read the Book of Eville.  Although the priest at the local Temple of St. Cuthbert was very happy to help sequester the tainted gold, no one could be found to read the book, not even at the viscount's castle. 

:But Aaron found the local druid dead, beyond a breech in a hastily thrown barrier of thorns; she appeared to have been gored by an animal, probably a boar.  None of this did much to improve the sense that the Five Swell Gals had not succeeded as brilliantly as they had hoped.  They elected to keep watch on the place while looking for someone to decipher the book and until "spring" came. 

:Lyle finally got impatient.  She decided to walk into the erstwhile treasure room, where the animals were still waiting, and cut her hand, letting the blood fall to the floor.  The resulting tremor alerted the rest of the group, who rushed to the treasure room with weapons drawn. 

:In the center stood Martha the dog.  The animals started advancing toward her; when a squirrel reached her, she gave it a friendly lick &mdash; and it sprouted bat wings and flew off.  A steer approach next, was licked, and had its antlers turn to serpents. 

:But Petunia, not the sharpest tool in the shed, ran in and, recognizing her companion, ran to embrace Martha.  Though her features momentarily wavered when Martha licked her, she seemed unaffected.  She brought Martha out of the treasure room &mdash; where Longrinn slew the dog on the spot, then the steer.  But the squirrel could not be found...

:'''Epilogue:''' Days later in Greyhawk, a large city with its generous share of vermin, pigeons and rats gathered around a bat-winged squirrel...

; Player Thoughts
* '''[[User:Mechante Anemone|Mechante Anemone]]:''' Some favourite quotes:
** "You forgot to call me a fool this turn!" &mdash; Sammy to the angry little monk
** "We're about to be the Four Swell Gals." &mdash; Lyle
** GM: "These are the front tentacles..."<br>  Petunia: "And Longrinn's being attacked by the ass tentacles."
** "I have him right where he wants me!" &mdash; Mykk, dragged to his (near) doom by the LoB
** Lyle: "We must disperse this evil gold so it can't do any more harm."<br>  Longrinn: "Yeah, you'd like that."
** Petunia: "The druid is a halfling, so she can hardly have been gored by something large like a steer."<br>  Mykk: "Maybe it was a dyk-dyk."
** GM: "But how do you track a flying squirrel?"<br>   Longrinn: "First, you need a really large moose."

; Additional GM Thoughts
: '''[[User:Johnzo|Johnzo]]:''' [http://www.johnzo.com/gallery.html?d=2007-against-the-lord-of-blood Against The Lord of Blood: The Photonovel].



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