The party explores a mound further east atop the marsh, discovering a secret entrance further into the maze below. There the battle with gigantic centipedes, the unquiet dead of necrotic priests, and hear the howling of an unearthly wolf deep within the tomb.
A wanderer joins the party as the group continues to explore the mysterious crypt below, dismantling a trap, accessing the center of the sunken labyrinth, and finding a horror within.
edit: I accidentally listed Gamdar as dead when I meant Garbash, too many G clerics – this has been corrected below
Our group acquires some new allies, returns to the tomb, leaps over some fire beetles, suffers loses, and finds the hidden sarcophagus of an ancient druid.
The group sets out in search of a Torumekian plane downed in the Sea of Corruption, meeting Worm Handlers and a lost little girl, and discovering an ancient crypt from the days before.
The players gain two new allies, traverse more of the maze, engage in a brief chase, and meet a skeleton that doesn’t quite understand its unliving condition.
Since FKR style play is getting more attention I thought it would be a good time to pitch an open table game using my Primeval 2D6 system over on one of the Discord servers devoted to the style.
I met up with other members and pitched a few games – running a West Marches style game, an investigative horror game, an Ars Magica-alike, as well as a game set in Hayao Miyazaki’s setting where the Nausicaä manga takes place.
Almost everyone immediately expressed interest in Nausicaä being their top pick, so we started discussing the game, potential places to play, character ideas, and we landed on playing somewhere out “off the map” so to speak in our own corner of the world, making it easier for players to drop in and out without knowing the plot, as well as letting us handwave a lot of details.
I should preface this and probably every session that I am notoriously anti-canon. I want to draw on the imagery, themes, and broad-level assumptions of any source I’m using – Nausicaä included. So if something contradicts established lore – that’s the canon of our game. This is by no means to disrespect the source material, the creators, or the fans, but rather to allow our table to celebrate the world in the way that’s the most fun for us.
The party explores a number of tombs over the Barrowmaze, and take heavy losses.
The party attends a Winter Elf play and enters into a living myth to retrieve a magical harp from a paranoid Frost Giant.
The party decides to search the immediate southern portion of the barrows, running into a variety of figures and learning a few details of the tomb.
edit: I accidentally numbered the last session report as 7 when it was actually 7, sorry for the confusion
The party continues into the maze, fights with shadows and loses one of their own, discovers a frightening ally, and an elfish play troupe arrives in town.
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