Another Bug Hunt...
16 November 2006-
It's back to GURPS:Fantasy after a long stint playing other games and other genres, and Craig is taking a turn running the adventure. Our party had been taking it easy in a local city when our wizard (Kevin) was summoned to the Mages' Guild to be assigned an important-sounding mission: another wizard in the guild was in trouble, and a rescue was needed.
It seems that a nearby island, inhabited by huge bugs (ick!) and a small village full of colonists/victims, had become a research station for one of the local mages who specialized in entomology. It further developed that this mage had a communications device with which to remotely contact the Guild on the mainland, and he had just called in to report that the wards which normally keep the creepy-crawlies at bay had failed, and that the village was being over-run with giant spiders (double-ick!). Naturally, Kevin accepted the challenge, and our party was ferried across to the island forthwith to investigate and deal with the problem.
When we arrived, the docks were deserted, but we found a native ranger-type on his way back to the village after an extended hunt, so he showed us the way to the village. Sure enough, the whole village was covered in a giant spider-silk canopy, right out of Tarantula. We approached, and ascertained that there are still people in at least some of the buildings, but several giant spiders came down to challenge us. We left it there for this week, but it's sure to get hairy next time. What we wouldn't give for some flame-throwers and a platoon of Colonial Marines! Somebody wake up Hicks!
It's back to GURPS:Fantasy after a long stint playing other games and other genres, and Craig is taking a turn running the adventure. Our party had been taking it easy in a local city when our wizard (Kevin) was summoned to the Mages' Guild to be assigned an important-sounding mission: another wizard in the guild was in trouble, and a rescue was needed.
It seems that a nearby island, inhabited by huge bugs (ick!) and a small village full of colonists/victims, had become a research station for one of the local mages who specialized in entomology. It further developed that this mage had a communications device with which to remotely contact the Guild on the mainland, and he had just called in to report that the wards which normally keep the creepy-crawlies at bay had failed, and that the village was being over-run with giant spiders (double-ick!). Naturally, Kevin accepted the challenge, and our party was ferried across to the island forthwith to investigate and deal with the problem.
When we arrived, the docks were deserted, but we found a native ranger-type on his way back to the village after an extended hunt, so he showed us the way to the village. Sure enough, the whole village was covered in a giant spider-silk canopy, right out of Tarantula. We approached, and ascertained that there are still people in at least some of the buildings, but several giant spiders came down to challenge us. We left it there for this week, but it's sure to get hairy next time. What we wouldn't give for some flame-throwers and a platoon of Colonial Marines! Somebody wake up Hicks!
posted by Brucifer | 6:00 PM
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Hey, since we're not gaming tonight, maybe you could UPDATE THE PAGE!
Just a thought...
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