Because I was given the time today at work, my players got this advance 'trailer' for Kingmaker Chapter 2 which they start tomorrow night:
Kingmaker Season Two!
<cue dramatic announcer voice>
“In a world where high adventure doesn’t have anything to do with altitude – or drugs - one year has now passed, and the burgeoning kingdom of Roma is slowly growing… but what new adventures await the kingdom’s founders?”
<cut to rapidly flashing image montage>
Two snarling lizardman with jagged-edged war clubs charge through marshy grass at the camera.
An achingly beautiful, but obviously non-human, woman peers at the camera from around a tree, half-fearful, half hopeful.
A fog-shrouded swamp with shadowy shapes moving through it, torchlight dancing around them.
Akiros slams back into a stone wall, wounded, and slides down it to the street, his sword dropping from limp fingers.
A smiling dark-haired woman in festival garb dances towards the camera, hands out, as if trying to draw the viewer into the large festival dance behind her.
Thunderclouds roll in over a lake, pushing a wall of driving rain sweeping over Staghold, washing blood from the streets.
Swarms of bees pour out of the bushes and form a three-dimensional image of a female human face, the mouth opening to speak.
In a barn engulfed in flames, a woman runs from side to side, hemmed in by flames, trying to escape.
A wounded warhorse, reins dragging, staggers down a path, exhausted and riderless.
A huge ebon-furred wolf with a silver mane, wearing oddly-designed armor, growls and circles the camera as if about to attack.
A blonde-haired girl of perhaps twelve, eyes white and unseeing, rushes towards the camera, arms outstretched, crying “Daddy!”
A rooster glares at the screen balefully, and sounds a challenging cry.
Armored for battle, a troll swings a bloody greatsword, slicing the camera view in two, to reveal a single bloodshot eye staring at the screen.
<dramatic announcer voice resumes as the camera slowly moves in on the eye>
“Tune in this season and follow out heroes - Raj Mystery-Blooded, Mere Elkrider, Althais the Paladin, Osric the Stag Lord, and Kaylani Shadowborn – as they confront new dangers, new challenges… and one angry chicken.”
<The eye closes, revealing the words ‘Season Two begins 04/05/2011>
Thanks, guys. =)
The players thought it was a winner, too. (And watching them try to figure out things like 'What's happening to Akiros?' or 'Is that blood being washed away literal and metaphoric?' or 'WTF is up with those bees?' or 'Daddy? Which one of you guys has a daughter?' is making my night every time we play.)