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Hi,
We recently had sort of a mini convention locally (as part of a huge LAN party/event). Basically they provide us the space, we use it as a way of getting in a heap of new players.
One of the later games was The Accursed Halls. (Yeah Yeah.. that deadly mix of intrigue and wightness)
I had been running Master of the Fallen Fortress at the same time and had just finished. There was a group of players and gms from other tables who had started to congregate around the Halls table. After finishing up paper work I got up to go take a look (had played it already) and found that the party of 5 were in the throes of the battle with the Wight/Zombies.
Then a character was slammed by a wight. A Level One version. Jeremy a local gm wanting to check his facts spoke to our new VC about the exact result of that level drain. No more than a minute later though, that initial advice was overturned and the table had its first death. The guy took it in good faith.
Then the next character fell (apparently there were some amazingly bad combat attack rolls in there). So the party of 5 was down to 3. The gm had not cottoned on yet that you get new baby wights outta this deal. The realization on some of our faces were pretty visible :)
There was yet another death as another character went down and the gunslinger who was still on his feat was hitting those misfire numbers a lot. It was looking pretty dire.
One of the characters got back up. The new wight He was in turn killed again by one of the still live adventurers. Yet another wight in transition was coup de graced by the same character. The final new wight was also killed.
Now this may sound painful and nasty for new characters, but they took it in their stride! There was laughs and smiles all around that table as the new form of pvp emerged!.
The 2 still alive characters escaped and got their solitary 1 exp , but it was certainly a great experience for all of us gathered around watching.
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Hi,We recently had sort of a mini convention locally (as part of a huge LAN party/event). Basically they provide us the space, we use it as a way of getting in a heap of new players.
One of the later games was The Accursed Halls. (Yeah Yeah.. that deadly mix of intrigue and wightness)
I had been running Master of the Fallen Fortress at the same time and had just finished. There was a group of players and gms from other tables who had started to congregate around the Halls table. After finishing up paper work I got up to go take a look (had played it already) and found that the party of 5 were in the throes of the battle with the Wight/Zombies.
Then a character was slammed by a wight. A Level One version. Jeremy a local gm wanting to check his facts spoke to our new VC about the exact result of that level drain. No more than a minute later though, that initial advice was overturned and the table had its first death. The guy took it in good faith.
Then the next character fell (apparently there were some amazingly bad combat attack rolls in there). So the party of 5 was down to 3. The gm had not cottoned on yet that you get new baby wights outta this deal. The realization on some of our faces were pretty visible :)
There was yet another death as another character went down and the gunslinger who was still on his feat was hitting those misfire numbers a lot. It was looking pretty dire.
One of the characters got back up. The new wight He was in turn killed again by one of the still live adventurers. Yet another wight in transition was coup de graced by the same character. The final new wight was also killed.
Now this may sound painful and nasty for new characters, but they took it in their stride! There was laughs and smiles all around that table as the new form of pvp emerged!.
The 2 still alive characters escaped and got their solitary 1 exp , but it was certainly a great experience for all of us gathered around watching.
Thank goodness one was a gunslinger, had the other been a summoner they could have just finished the dungeon instead of leaving:)
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The 2 still alive characters escaped and got their solitary 1 exp , but it was certainly a great experience for all of us gathered around watching.
Every time I have run/played the game, the wight/zombie encounter was near the end of the game (often only the fungi path left) so they earn more than 1 exp of the possible 3 exp.
I find it interesting that scrolls of sanctify corpse are more common after a running of accursed halls than I had ever seen before.
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I'm dreaming of a wight christmas
My entrails spread out in the snow
where the blood splats glisten
You failed your listen
The surprise round's going to blow... oh....
I'm dreaming of a wight christmas
I have Die Hard I'm all right
May AC's be Soaring White Knight
Or for all
your Christmases you'll be a Wight.
RIP Joey Jirra I