New Dark Sun content

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Under a Dark Sun: "Session 21"

"Session 21": (play-by-post, 10/20/15 - 10/21/15)

Adventure name: Relic Hunt

Current PCs / NPCs
Grom Dunestalker - Half-Giant Psionic Warrior (PC)
Sadiria - Half-Elf Wilder (NPC)
Russk - Mul (stated as a Half-Orc) Fighter (NPC)
Thrassos Haruk - Human Driud (NPC)

Due to RL complications, we've moved this game from "in person" to emails.  It's going much smoother now.

We rejoin our "heroes" out int he wilds, on the way to a ruin from the Green Age.

"New" Fantasy Mini's

I took these photos ~9 months ago, and me just now getting around to posting them.  Anyway.....

Fantasy mini's that I'll use if I ever get the chance to game in person again (as opposed to over Skype or whatever).

Under a Dark Sun: Session 20

Session 20: (play-by-post, 10/12/15 - 10/19/15)

Adventure name: Veiled Threats / Relic Hunt

Current PCs / NPCs
Grom Dunestalker - Half-Giant Psionic Warrior (PC)
Sadiria - Half-Elf Wilder (NPC)
Russk - Mul (stated as a Half-Orc) Fighter (NPC)
Thrassos Haruk - Human Driud (NPC)

Due to RL complications, we've moved this game from "in person" to emails.  It's going much smoother now.

When we last check in with our "heroes", they had successfully bartered for new gear in the Urik's Elven Market, and had an invitation to meet a mysterious contact at The Angry Giant tavern.

Under a Dark Sun: Session 19

Session 19: (11/11/14)

Adventure name: Veiled Threats / Relic Hunt

Current PCs / NPCs

Grom Dunestalker - Half-Giant Psionic Warrior (PC)

Lain - Half-Elf Bard (NPC)

Sadiria - Half-Elf Wilder (NPC)

Russk - Mul (stated as a Half-Orc) Fighter (NPC)
Thrassos Haruk - Human Driud (NPC)

Filled with dread from their encounter with templars, the group decides to go and sell their arcane contraband in Urik's Elven Market.

Under a Dark Sun: Session 18

Session 18: (10/27/14)

Adventure name: The Year of Priest's Defiance / When in Urik

Current PCs / NPCs

Grom Dunestalker - Half-Giant Psionic Warrior (PC)

Lain - Half-Elf Bard (NPC)

Sadiria - Half-Elf Wilder (NPC)

Russk - Mul (stated as a Half-Orc) Fighter (NPC)
Thrassos Haruk - Human Driud (NPC)

Mildly refreshed from a obscenity-filled lull in combat, the party once again faces off against the bandit forces of the "bearded man".

Under a Dark Sun: Session 17

Session 17: (7/3/14)

Adventure name: The Year of Priest's Defiance

Current PCs / NPCs

Grom Dunestalker - Half-Giant Psionic Warrior (PC)

Lain - Half-Elf Bard (NPC)

Sadiria - Half-Elf Wilder (NPC)

Russk - Mul (stated as a Half-Orc) Fighter (NPC)

We find our protagonists warily investigating the wild-looking man that has just wandered into the ruin from the desert. 

Under a Dark Sun: Session 16

Session 16:

Adventure name: The Year of Priest's Defiance

Current PCs / NPCs

Grom Dunestalker - Half-Giant Psionic Warrior (PC)

Lain - Half-Elf Bard (NPC)

Sadiria - Half-Elf Wilder (NPC)

Russk - Mul (stated as a Half-Orc) Fighter (NPC)

The session open with our heroes lost, standing at the edge of a dune. A few days earlier, they had set out from Outpost Three with their shipment of obsidian, headed for Urik.  A sudden sandstorm in the night separated the group from the caravan.  Now, as they watch the sun break over the horizon, they glimpse something wondrous.  Last night's winds have uncovered an ancient structure, still intact.  As they look on, fresh green grass sprouts up from in front of the building to spread across the small dell between dunes.  Bereft of options, the group decides they must investigate.

Under a Dark Sun: Session 15

Session 15: (1/28/14)

Adventure name: Last Stand at Outpost Three - Follow-Up

Current PCs / NPCs

Grom Dunestalker - Half-Giant Psionic Warrior (PC)

Lain - Half-Elf Bard (NPC)

Sadiria - Half-Elf Wilder (NPC)

Russk - Mul (stated as a Half-Orc) Fighter (NPC)

We find the party waiting for Lain to return from his headlong flight from the Red Tower.  Upon his return, Lain says nothing, but manages to look regretful about his cowardice. 

Under a Dark Sun: Session 14

Session 14: (1/28/14)

Adventure name: Last Stand at Outpost Three - Follow-Up

Current PCs / NPCs

Grom Dunestalker - Half-Giant Psionic Warrior (PC)

Lain - Half-Elf Bard (NPC)

Sadiria - Half-Elf Wilder (NPC)

Russk - Mul (stated as a Half-Orc) Fighter (NPC)

When we last saw our heroes, they had just rescued the Urikite relief forces from a swarm of monstrous scorpions.  They then set back out across the Sharprock Badlands to the dried-up riverbed where they all rested for the night.

Under a Dark Sun: Session 13

Session 13: (9/25/13)

Adventure name: Last Stand at Outpost Three - Follow-Up

Current PCs / NPCs

Grom Dunestalker - Half-Giant Psionic Warrior (PC)

Lain - Half-Elf Bard (NPC)

Sadiria - Half-Elf Wilder (NPC)

Russk - Mul (stated as a Half-Orc) Fighter (NPC)

We begin with our group approximately 1 hour from the supposed position of one of the elven observation posts.  Taking out this sentry post will leave a hole in the elven lines, allowing small groups to bypass the siege.

Under a Dark Sun: Session 12

Session 12: (8/28/13)

Adventure name: Last Stand at Outpost Three

Current PCs / NPCs

Grom Dunestalker - Half-Giant Psionic Warrior (PC)

Lain - Half-Elf Bard (NPC)

Sadiria - Half-Elf Wilder (NPC)

Russk - Mul (stated as a Half-Orc) Fighter (NPC)

As the session opens, the party is still riding out a duststorm within a warehouse in Outpost Three.  Zombie elves had just smashed their way through the front door and been defeated.  Now there is a worrisome banging coming from the trapdoor in the ceiling.

Under a Dark Sun: Session 11

Session 11: (8/07/13)

Adventure name: Last Stand at Outpost Three

Current PCs / NPCs

Grom Dunestalker - Half-Giant Psionic Warrior (PC)

Lain - Half-Elf Bard (NPC)

Sadiria - Half-Elf Wilder (NPC)

Russk - Mul (stated as a Half-Orc) Fighter (NPC)

We rejoin our group on the morning of their second day under siege at Outpost Three.  While manning the walls during the morning watch, the group is approached by caravan master Laalarash.  Laalarash is touring the walls to bolster morale.  After a brief conversation, the caravan master suggests sending the party out as a strike force to harry the elves.

Under a Dark Sun: Session 10

Session 10: (7/03/13)

Adventure name: Last Stand at Outpost Three

Current PCs / NPCs

Grom Dunestalker - Half-Giant Psionic Warrior (PC)

Lain - Half-Elf Bard (NPC)

Sadiria - Half-Elf Wilder (NPC)

Russk - Mul (stated as a Half-Orc) Fighter (NPC)

We rejoin our heroes as they continue to defend a small section of the walls of Outpost Three, a House Klethira caravan way post, from elven raiders.  The party had just negotiated healing from Haalak, a mentally unhinged Fire Cleric.  They then return to the wall to continue to fight off the continuing elf raids.

Under a Dark Sun: Session 9

Session 9: (6/05/13)

Adventure name: Last Stand at Outpost Three

Current PCs / NPCs

Grom Dunestalker - Half-Giant Psionic Warrior (PC)

Lain - Half-Elf Bard (NPC)

Sadiria - Half-Elf Wilder (NPC)

Russk - Mul (stated as a Half-Orc) Fighter (NPC)

Last session, the party saved the House Klethira mining town of Duvik's Pass from the ravages of the Burning Plague.  AS a reward, they received shares of the impending sale of the mine's obsidian.  To collect, they would have to accompany the shipment of obsidian back to the city-state of Urik.  The caravan that would be transporting the obsidian would not arrive for a week, so the party decided to go back to the village of Dorian's Well to drop off the supplies scavenged from the ruined caravan (that they were originally sent to find) and buy some potion fruits.  They unload the supplies, buy the entire stock of potion fruits (six!) and head back to Duvik's Pass.

Under a Dark Sun: Session 8

Session 8: (5/25/13)

Adventure name: The Burning Plague

Current PCs / NPCs

Grom Dunestalker - Half-Giant Psionic Warrior (PC)

Lain - Half-Elf Bard (NPC)

Sadiria - Half-Elf Wilder (NPC)

Russk - Mul (stated as a Half-Orc) Fighter (NPC)

As the session begins, the party descends into the mines again after a rest in town.  Exploring deeper into the earth, they find a natural cavern piled high with the bodies of the missing miners as well as the less lucky members of the halfling group.  Unsurprisingly, undead rise up out of the sea of bodies.  The zombies soon surround the party and our heroes are hard pressed to cut down the undead hoard. Just as the party begings to get the upper hand, Grom scores a Critical Hit, neatly severing the head of one of the zombies; unfortunately this does not stop the zombie from continuing it's assault. Eventually, Russk and Grom eventually lay enough of the creatures to rest that Sadiria can start blasting the shambling dead apart with her psionic powers.

Under a Dark Sun: Session 7

Session 7: (5/8/13)

Adventure name: The Burning Plague

Current PCs / NPCs

Grom Dunestalker - Half-Giant Psionic Warrior (PC)

Lain - Half-Elf Bard (NPC)

Sadiria - Half-Elf Wilder (NPC)

Russk - Mul (stated as a Half-Orc) Fighter (NPC)

Our story open on the party having just searched (looted) the bodies of some halflings who were hold up in the Mess Hall of an obsidian mine.  The mine in located in the settlement of Duvik’s Pass, a mining town run by House Klethira.  Something has been killing the miners (it is suspected) and the won is suffering from a mysterious plague.

Under a Dark Sun: Session 6

Session 6: (4/18/13)

Adventure name: The Burning Plague

Current PCs / NPCs

Grom Dunestalker - Half-Giant Psionic Warrior (PC)

Lain - Half-Elf Bard (NPC)

Sadiria - Half-Elf Wilder (NPC)

Russk - Mul (stated as a Half-Orc) Fighter (NPC)

The adventure starts with the party having rested after defeated a nest of monstrous centipedes and gathered up the remaining supplies from a ruined House Klethira caravan.  As the party hitches up the draft animals and deliver the caravan's contents, they see a figure approaching on the horizon.  It their old dwarven weapons trainer Flint.  Now his body is gaunt and pale beneath his armor, and his eyes burn with unholy hatred.  The party destroys the revenant, but not before it gets in a vicious blow on Grom and paralyzing him with a single look.

Under a Dark Sun: Session 5

Session 5: (4/3/13)

Adventure name: Centipede Caravan

Current PCs / NPCs

Grom Dunestalker - Half-Giant Psionic Warrior (PC)

Lain - Half-Elf Bard (NPC)

Sadiria - Half-Elf Wilder (NPC)

Russk - Mul (stated as a Half-Orc) Fighter (NPC)

The adventure starts with the party having rested and found acceptance in the village of Dorian's Well as a dying man riding a kank shows up just outside of town.  (a kank is a large ant-like insect that is used in a similar manner to a horse in Dark Sun).

Under a Dark Sun: Session 4

Session 4: (3/20/13)

Adventure name: The Village of Dorian’s Well

Current PCs / NPCs

Grom Dunestalker - Half-Giant Psionic Warrior (PC)

Lain - Half-Elf Bard (NPC)

Sadiria - Half-Elf Wilder (NPC)

Russk - Mul (stated as a Half-Orc) Fighter (NPC)

The session begins with the party wander in the wasteland, hungry and lost after resting in the goblinoid tomb / dungeon complex where they waited out the sandstorm.