GM Link Session 12 Part 2
Casting: Tiger Team!
- Jian Wu (Two) (Christian) 8M, strong guy
- Jiao Ting (Eight) (Chris D) 8M
- Liang Jing Min (Five) (Randy) 8M, Noble, on the outs with family
- Nongmin Chushi (Seven) (Rory) 8M, says he talks to spirits, inquisitive and charming more than creepy despite possibly being insane.
- Shang Yi (One) (Calvin) 8M, natural leader and archer.
- Zhiyu Zhige (Nine) (Laurie) 8F, sorcerer specializing in healing.
- He Bohi (Eleven) 8M, Twin, grew up near the docks.
- He Donghai (Twelve) 8M, grew up near the docks.
- He Qing (Four) 9M, bully of the group.
- Laoshu (Three aka Mouse) 9F, quiet and good with a knife.
- Meiyou Ren (Six) M Also good with a knife
- Rang Baozhai (Ten) 11F, our bookworm and nerd.
A day off, what to do? We talk about it a bit, some opt to relax around camp but most decide to go exploring. We follow a trail for a bit to a fork and opt for the less traveled one to the left.
About two hours from our camp we come across a small clearing with a cave and a big triskelion symbol carved into the stone ground. Chushi curiously walks right up to it, whereupon a ghost appears!
Everyone has to make a Fright Check, Chushi makes his possibly because though startled he thinks its likely a friendly spirit. Mouse of course makes here check, because well shes mouse! Chushi is startled (Not having Combat Reflexes that can happen a lot) so loses his first turn in surprise but cheerfully says ho to the ghost as it approaches him.
The Fight!
The ghost impolitely ignores Chushi's greeting and attacks him! Chushi takes 2 FP damage and decides its not a friendly ghost,it has him grappled. He opts to run away but its not his turn so... Mouse runs up and stabs the ghost to no effect, followed by half of the party. Rang ponders what she knows about ghosts. Jing Min runs up behind them tugging onto their sleeves suggesting its time to go and Zhige runs up behind Chushi.
Chushi manages to break free (and rolls 5 to resist the FP drain) and though he was going to run off, changes his mind. Not leaving Mouse there! He wonders if his bear claw might hurt it since its a fresh kill. Right after that Rang calls out there vulnerable to bones so hes more confident in the idea and pulls it out.
Jing Min does the same, Jian Wu comes up and slashes at it with his axe, and Zhige does the first thing to make it nervous and casts a foxfire spell at it, though it dodges. Ting runs up and rushes into it, figuring he has bones but does not hurt it.
Ren and Rang run to the lip above the cave where we saw a bunch of bones.
Ting decides to bloody his knuckles in case it has to be exposed bone and smashes the ground. Unfortunately that releases two more ghosts! He then gets grappled for his trouble, while one ghost heads towards those going for the bones and the other goes after Jing Min.
Things looking kinda dicey here!
Jing Min stabs the first ghost and hurts it! Drawing first blood! Zhiges foxfire comes around for another pass (cool spell) and burns the ghost. Chushi slashes with the bear claw but misses.
Jing Ming backs up and goes for the ghost that came at him from behind, Chushi finishes off the first ghost with a very lucky slash. So half the party is on each remaining ghost and now armed with bones.
Ting gets grappled by the ghost and proceeds to get his energy drained, also he is prone from a really bad dodge attempt. Unfortunately in our efforts to kill the ghost the rest of us hurt him more than the ghost. Chushi does a Telegraphic horizontal slash so if he misses he wont hit Ting, Zhige tries to heal Ting, and Jin Ming tries an armed grapple using the bone to pull it off Ting. We struggle a few rounds but Jin Wu lands a powerful hit and dispatches that ghost. Meantime the others finished of their ghost as well.
Chushi figures the ghosts may come back and starts to make a warning sign. While Zhige is healing Ting up (hes still too exhausted to move fast but at least she heals the damage his friends inflicted on him. An old woman appears and tells us what a great job we did, she has been trying to exorcise them for some time but is too old to do much. Since the ghosts wont be coming back, Chushi changes the sign to read "No more ghosts here, your welcome. Team Tiger"
She then invites us to her place, the right fork.
This Old House
The team follows her back to the house which is a really big and nice place. Shes cooking venison in the oven and cuts up some greens to make a stew. We ask why another exorcist or warrior wasn't dispatched to help but she informs us some blood sorcerer is summoning them all over the place. We ask if she works for the Order, she laughs and tells she kinda works with the Order, she was here long before they were. Chushi thinks about it carefully but declines to directly ask how old she is, she might think it rude. He wanders around and tries to figure out if she is either a spirit or a Taoist Immortal, maybe even something else.
We end the session here, picking up next week.
Post-Mortem
See what I did there?
Next week will likely be our last one before the time skip when we do off screen training and get a year or two older. One player is moving the next week so the timing worked out perfectly.
We started late, after about 30 minutes of chatting but needed no catchup after last time. It was a fun ride and we did surprisingly well. Luckily their were bones available and we had the bear claws to help out.
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