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<blockquote data-quote="Rukaiko" data-source="post: 8431283" data-attributes="member: 7029574"><p>We started with a <strong>lot </strong>of oneshots.</p><p>(Again sorry for my notsogood english T.T)</p><p></p><p>Each player played a solo session on wich we discovered together how they would like to roleplay the character and if there was a skill profiency to change.</p><p></p><p>I introduced them to the RHC (DSN in italian), each one met one member of the Team B (They all hate Carlao now) and the interview with Saxby started.</p><p></p><p>Saxby wanted to grasp who would be a better leader and asked each one of them the same trick questions (I took an advice from someone here)</p><p></p><p><em>1) During a mission you witness an attempted murder of a woman. Do you intervene at the risk of blowing your cover, or do you ignore the fact and focus on the mission?</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>2)</em> <em>You believe that an Agent in your group is not delivering items recovered on a mission to the Department. What would you do?</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>3) In time of war, an enemy officer comes to you with a risky plan to achieve peace. Would you arrest him so that you could then exchange him with one of our Risuri officers held prisoner, or would you find out where this leads, risking being accused of treason?</em></p><p></p><p>And in the end:</p><p><em>If you die in the workplace, who should we contact to give them your body?</em></p><p></p><p>Then the Magical Test Powered By Risur TM started.</p><p>Saxby made a ritual and the magic entrusted her by the king started to check in their memories if they are loyal to Risur.</p><p></p><p>So I used this excuse to play a moment of their past, something they wrote where I added a bit of a personal twist.</p><p></p><p>And this was just the one to one oneshots!</p><p></p><p><strong>We played 3 other sessions before starting</strong>.</p><p>I LOVE to start a campaign with an horror story. I think if made well an horror one shot can form a group that doesn't know and trust each other better than anything.</p><p></p><p>There were some troubles on the Pine Island.</p><p>The mayor, Roger Pepper, was a war veteran and in a mission on Axis Island he brought back a creature... a Gidim.</p><p>This baby creature lied dormient in stasis, still not born, and his body was muted over the years by the thoughs on the island.</p><p>The creatured grew inside the mayor, silent and slowly and at some point found a way in his basement.</p><p></p><p>What kind of creature is this?</p><p>I took the freedom to reskin and reimagine a False Hydra as a Gidim.</p><p></p><p>If you want to know more on this creature check this:</p><p style="text-align: center"><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/dndnext/comments/9szb2i/i_ran_a_false_hydra_this_week_it_was_amazing_if/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 26px">FALSE HYDRA</span></a></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]145468[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>TLDR? The False Hydra eats people and everyone forgets that this people ever existed in the first place. I found this kind of powers over the mind fitted well with the Gidim, a mutated one of course, but it's a good foreshadow.</p><p></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 18px">I would love if anyone has some interesting ideas to justify/implement this creature on the Zeitgeist lore or future interactions with the Gidim!</span></p><p></p><p>I formed 3 groups:</p><p></p><p>Dayan and Jhonatan</p><p>Philippe, Etiee and Artemys</p><p>Aire and Aron</p><p></p><p>1) Dayan and Jhonatan investigated on <strong>Kell's </strong>guild. They were meeting in secret in an old warehouse with some workers, trying to smuggle some weapons. But most of the Kell's guild people were eaten by the Hydra and only one of them remained alive, confused because he couldn't bring back all these weapon alone.</p><p></p><p>2) Philippe, Etiee and Artemys investigated on a murder on the Battalion Academy. A professor was murdered, there were two students involved but one of them was eaten. They caught the murderer bur some questions remained unanswered. Here I introduced <strong>Greg Masterson</strong>.</p><p></p><p>3) Aire and Aron met with <strong>CopperHat</strong>! The fey asked as a favor for the Court to escort some tiny fey (like the Soot Sprites from Totoro and spirited away) to a secure location. He asked the local police on Pine Island but they forgot? The RHC needed to avoid a diplomatic incident.</p><p></p><p>I printed a newspaper with some hints on characters/future interactions. I plan to do one for each chapter (of course it's in italian, sorry!)</p><p></p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]145471[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>After this group sessions where they met with part of the team we finally made the last one shot: Solving the Mistery.</p><p></p><p>For this special occasion I made an interesting handout.</p><p>Two letters, perfectly identical. Same stains, same folds. BUT one of them had some different sentences, like</p><p></p><p style="text-align: center"><strong>HELP ME</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>HE'S BEHIND ME</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>I DON'T WANT TO GET EATEN</strong></p><p></p><p>These were written by the mayor's secretary that is now dead.</p><p>The funny thing about the False Hydra is that your brain will erase every evidence of his existence as long as it sings.</p><p>So I handed them this letter where the mayor was asking th RHC some help because they had a lot of resources but not enough guards ec...</p><p></p><p>Here I involved one of my players.</p><p>I gave him the folded letter befor the session and told him</p><p>"When everyone is distracted, switch it. No question asked."</p><p></p><p>The idea is that sometimes the monster would stop singing and they could read the original letter.</p><p>And as a plus, I had a static noise on background, along with the music.</p><p>When they were getting close to the solution I turned up the volume, when something creepy happen I stopped the noise and a strange silence filled the room.</p><p></p><p>So Jhonatan was the first one to read it out loud to everyone, and they started moving to the Pine Island.</p><p>Aron's player switched it and Dayan took it by curiosity.</p><p>Fist thing he watched Jhonatan.</p><p></p><p>"Did you read the letter?"</p><p></p><p>"Yes, why?"</p><p>...</p><p></p><p>And then Dayan's player watched me as I watched her with a confused look</p><p></p><p>"What?"</p><p></p><p>The AMAZING thing is that she didn't say anything and thought that Jhonatan was trying to hide the creepy messages for a personal reason.</p><p>Then I made a wink to Aron's player and he switched them back and the other players, while talking to each other, consulted the letter.</p><p>When they arrived on the Pine Island Dayan sayd</p><p></p><p><em>"Ok, we need to go to the Mayor, something weird is happening here"</em></p><p></p><p>Everyone looked at her "<em>Why</em>?"</p><p></p><p><em>"Come on guys, the letter, you read it too"</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>"What's wrong with this letter?"</em></p><p></p><p>...</p><p></p><p>Dayan’s player looked at me "<em>This wasn’t the letter I read…</em>”</p><p></p><p><em>“Yes? That’s the one I gave you right?”</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>“But it had some creepy things written on it”</em></p><p></p><p>Everyone started looking at her confused and than at me.</p><p></p><p>I switched off the static volume and the silence creeped the naughty word out of Aire’s and Etiee’s players.</p><p></p><p>The funny thing is that I NEVER touched the letter and I avoided to getting close to it, so they were REALLY confused.</p><p></p><p>Then long story short they went to the mayor, asked some questions, he told them to get tomorrow morning since it was late.</p><p>They convinced the guards to stay there all night and watch the mayor’s house.</p><p></p><p>After I described a couple of weird things (cats that would watch behind them and then run away, fishing gear left abandoned ecc…) they stopped at an Inn (il “Bel Bayou” or B&B).</p><p>Here they met the guards that were at the mayor’s house, eating an ice cream.</p><p></p><p><em>“What the hell are you doing here?</em>” asked Jhonatan</p><p></p><p>“<em>What do you want agent? It’s late, we are enjoying an ice cream”</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>“You were supposed to guard the mayor!</em>” replied Philippe</p><p>....</p><p></p><p><em>“What mayor?”</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>“What?”</em> they all looked at me as I said “<em>Mh, that’s strange. Why you said mayor? There never was a mayor on pine island”</em></p><p></p><p>And there I concluded the session.</p><p></p><p>Long story short they solved the case with a clever use of screams and glasses, but that’s less interesting</p><p></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]145469[/ATTACH]</p><p><em>We play in person but I love to use the projector for the battles</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rukaiko, post: 8431283, member: 7029574"] We started with a [B]lot [/B]of oneshots. (Again sorry for my notsogood english T.T) Each player played a solo session on wich we discovered together how they would like to roleplay the character and if there was a skill profiency to change. I introduced them to the RHC (DSN in italian), each one met one member of the Team B (They all hate Carlao now) and the interview with Saxby started. Saxby wanted to grasp who would be a better leader and asked each one of them the same trick questions (I took an advice from someone here) [I]1) During a mission you witness an attempted murder of a woman. Do you intervene at the risk of blowing your cover, or do you ignore the fact and focus on the mission? 2)[/I] [I]You believe that an Agent in your group is not delivering items recovered on a mission to the Department. What would you do? 3) In time of war, an enemy officer comes to you with a risky plan to achieve peace. Would you arrest him so that you could then exchange him with one of our Risuri officers held prisoner, or would you find out where this leads, risking being accused of treason?[/I] And in the end: [I]If you die in the workplace, who should we contact to give them your body?[/I] Then the Magical Test Powered By Risur TM started. Saxby made a ritual and the magic entrusted her by the king started to check in their memories if they are loyal to Risur. So I used this excuse to play a moment of their past, something they wrote where I added a bit of a personal twist. And this was just the one to one oneshots! [B]We played 3 other sessions before starting[/B]. I LOVE to start a campaign with an horror story. I think if made well an horror one shot can form a group that doesn't know and trust each other better than anything. There were some troubles on the Pine Island. The mayor, Roger Pepper, was a war veteran and in a mission on Axis Island he brought back a creature... a Gidim. This baby creature lied dormient in stasis, still not born, and his body was muted over the years by the thoughs on the island. The creatured grew inside the mayor, silent and slowly and at some point found a way in his basement. What kind of creature is this? I took the freedom to reskin and reimagine a False Hydra as a Gidim. If you want to know more on this creature check this: [CENTER][URL='https://www.reddit.com/r/dndnext/comments/9szb2i/i_ran_a_false_hydra_this_week_it_was_amazing_if/'][SIZE=7]FALSE HYDRA[/SIZE][/URL] [ATTACH type="full" width="362px" alt="6t7Nb2weyhSQfEO-UIg7aiDzdbCIk5r2AX5VvoeuWbk.jpg"]145468[/ATTACH][/CENTER] TLDR? The False Hydra eats people and everyone forgets that this people ever existed in the first place. I found this kind of powers over the mind fitted well with the Gidim, a mutated one of course, but it's a good foreshadow. [CENTER][SIZE=5]I would love if anyone has some interesting ideas to justify/implement this creature on the Zeitgeist lore or future interactions with the Gidim![/SIZE][/CENTER] I formed 3 groups: Dayan and Jhonatan Philippe, Etiee and Artemys Aire and Aron 1) Dayan and Jhonatan investigated on [B]Kell's [/B]guild. They were meeting in secret in an old warehouse with some workers, trying to smuggle some weapons. But most of the Kell's guild people were eaten by the Hydra and only one of them remained alive, confused because he couldn't bring back all these weapon alone. 2) Philippe, Etiee and Artemys investigated on a murder on the Battalion Academy. A professor was murdered, there were two students involved but one of them was eaten. They caught the murderer bur some questions remained unanswered. Here I introduced [B]Greg Masterson[/B]. 3) Aire and Aron met with [B]CopperHat[/B]! The fey asked as a favor for the Court to escort some tiny fey (like the Soot Sprites from Totoro and spirited away) to a secure location. He asked the local police on Pine Island but they forgot? The RHC needed to avoid a diplomatic incident. I printed a newspaper with some hints on characters/future interactions. I plan to do one for each chapter (of course it's in italian, sorry!) [CENTER][ATTACH type="full" width="536px" alt="Il veggente settimanale (1)_pages-to-jpg-0001.jpg"]145471[/ATTACH][/CENTER] After this group sessions where they met with part of the team we finally made the last one shot: Solving the Mistery. For this special occasion I made an interesting handout. Two letters, perfectly identical. Same stains, same folds. BUT one of them had some different sentences, like [CENTER][B]HELP ME HE'S BEHIND ME I DON'T WANT TO GET EATEN[/B][/CENTER] These were written by the mayor's secretary that is now dead. The funny thing about the False Hydra is that your brain will erase every evidence of his existence as long as it sings. So I handed them this letter where the mayor was asking th RHC some help because they had a lot of resources but not enough guards ec... Here I involved one of my players. I gave him the folded letter befor the session and told him "When everyone is distracted, switch it. No question asked." The idea is that sometimes the monster would stop singing and they could read the original letter. And as a plus, I had a static noise on background, along with the music. When they were getting close to the solution I turned up the volume, when something creepy happen I stopped the noise and a strange silence filled the room. So Jhonatan was the first one to read it out loud to everyone, and they started moving to the Pine Island. Aron's player switched it and Dayan took it by curiosity. Fist thing he watched Jhonatan. "Did you read the letter?" "Yes, why?" ... And then Dayan's player watched me as I watched her with a confused look "What?" The AMAZING thing is that she didn't say anything and thought that Jhonatan was trying to hide the creepy messages for a personal reason. Then I made a wink to Aron's player and he switched them back and the other players, while talking to each other, consulted the letter. When they arrived on the Pine Island Dayan sayd [I]"Ok, we need to go to the Mayor, something weird is happening here"[/I] Everyone looked at her "[I]Why[/I]?" [I]"Come on guys, the letter, you read it too" "What's wrong with this letter?"[/I] ... Dayan’s player looked at me "[I]This wasn’t the letter I read…[/I]” [I]“Yes? That’s the one I gave you right?” “But it had some creepy things written on it”[/I] Everyone started looking at her confused and than at me. I switched off the static volume and the silence creeped the naughty word out of Aire’s and Etiee’s players. The funny thing is that I NEVER touched the letter and I avoided to getting close to it, so they were REALLY confused. Then long story short they went to the mayor, asked some questions, he told them to get tomorrow morning since it was late. They convinced the guards to stay there all night and watch the mayor’s house. After I described a couple of weird things (cats that would watch behind them and then run away, fishing gear left abandoned ecc…) they stopped at an Inn (il “Bel Bayou” or B&B). Here they met the guards that were at the mayor’s house, eating an ice cream. [I]“What the hell are you doing here?[/I]” asked Jhonatan “[I]What do you want agent? It’s late, we are enjoying an ice cream” “You were supposed to guard the mayor![/I]” replied Philippe .... [I]“What mayor?” “What?”[/I] they all looked at me as I said “[I]Mh, that’s strange. Why you said mayor? There never was a mayor on pine island”[/I] And there I concluded the session. Long story short they solved the case with a clever use of screams and glasses, but that’s less interesting [ATTACH type="full" alt="Immagine 2021-10-19 121710.jpg"]145469[/ATTACH] [I]We play in person but I love to use the projector for the battles[/I] [/QUOTE]
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