DF Novices, Session 24 - Report by Eleanor

      We played another game on Tuesday. Introduced a new player this session, another recruit from the Unofficial GURPS Discord. I found most of my current group on that server, and I would highly recommend it to any player or GM looking for other GURPS gamers.

    The actual session was an odd one, part roleplay (which was good) and part "extended OOC planning discussion around what to do next and whether the PCs could afford to level up" (which was... less good). Anyway it's done, and the party managed to get paid, and struck a deal for more ore from the mine, and most of the PCs are "levelled up" now. Not the most auspicious start for a new player without any money or XP, but it's out of the way and we can get back to the default activity of going into dark places and hitting things, for which a half-ogre barbarian (even a rookie one) is eminently qualified.

    Here is another quick write-up from the player of Eleanor. I award an Impulse Point for any player that writes a summary which I can post to the blog.

Session Date:    Tuesday 4 April 2023

Party roster:

Agis Keylar, wood elf cleric, 94 points (PC)
Doran Longbeard, dwarf knight, 86 points (PC)

Eleanor Bayley, human thief, 92 points (PC)

Erizax Ofaris, human wizard, 90 points (PC)

Renaud Aymon, human holy warrior, 65 points (PC)
Ben, half-ogre barbarian, 65 points (PC)
Randall, human warrior, 123 points (NPC)
Cynric the Wild, human berserker, 62 points (NPC)

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We spent a lot of time in town. It was our plan to train once we got paid. It was a big hassle. It's honestly just lucky that we managed to meet with Talni again and she was eager to get in on the work we were doing. We got a loan from her which gave us the time we needed to wait for the council to pay us. Lucky us we get paid and we even got another job to go back and clear out the rest of the things in the caverns.

It was nice to enjoy the mead that I bought as well. Three silver for a bottle? That felt like absurdly expensive, but at least uncle Baris was happy with it.

There was a lot of talk about what she should do but I believe we all agreed to go to the caverns next.

Oh, and we met a new person. Ben. Another half-ogre. I don't know what it is with people being scared of half-ogres at this point. The two I've met personally are both surprisingly docile. Ben might not be as much of a pacifist as Borgergorg. I wonder where he went.

Anyway, we're at least getting out there again soon. If we meet the rat monster again.. well, I got more than a few bolts left, and he's only got one eye left.

- Eleanor

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After this session we are skipping ahead two weeks of game-calendar, to account for the necessary R&R and training time. Time for me to get re-stocking...