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<blockquote data-quote="Weiley31" data-source="post: 9783844" data-attributes="member: 7017196"><p><em>Apologies in advance, this is gonna be a bit of a long read</em></p><p></p><p>I've been gming a series of an ongoing session of Mork Borg for Thursday game nights lately. Which have been quite popular and been told by the one player to keep it running as long as possible while he works on his campaign ,Some of the highlights from the last series of sessions were as followed:</p><p></p><p>-A Pyromaniac Heretical Priest pc whose fires, whenever she starts em, <strong><em>NEVER GO/DIE OUT. </em></strong>I've made it a thing to point that out whenever somebody looks in the area of the flames or ones recently started compared to flames made by somebody else. A Wickhead Prophet seems to be HEAVILY interested in her for reasons unknown <em>as of yet.</em></p><p></p><p>-A Fanged Deserter PC whose hungry all the time and greatest enemy is trees. Everytime he "fights" one, I specifically always say "The Tree will remember this." However, he has encountered one tree, who the player has dubbed Treeresa, that has taken a shine to him. All because the one tree he fought and slayed killed Treeresa's fave human. Ah, forbidden love ala Montesques and Capulets.</p><p></p><p>His best friend is a Skull who is the ONLY voice of reason when said character(and player) decides to go off the rails(which is what happened at the end of the latest session and when he does random "Skull Checks").</p><p></p><p>-An Executioner npc, the ONLY actual friendly person encountered thus far or not motivated by greed or trying to kill the party, whose the most happy/content in life after lopping off a head or two. Knows the Wretched Noble pc. Not the brightest and affectionately rambles a bit when the topic of head lopping comes up.</p><p></p><p>-Barrister, the talking Magical Horse (Wretched Noble pc feature). It has been suggested/pointed out by a number of NPCs that there is something <strong><em><em>off/wrong</em> </em></strong>about said Horse. But nobody can put their fingers on what it is exactly that gives off such a feeling. The Wretched Noble gets a kick whenever Barrister eats the faces off of corpses or badly injured people. At one point, it laughed, like a human, at a PC that rolled poorly during STR test to climb to safety. (Spoilers: It's not a guy wearing a horse suit. But it sure as hell <em>isn't</em> a Horse. Only certain things/beings, like Bunnies from BunnyBorg, can truly see what Barrister actually is. And No, the Wretched Noble isn't one of em. <em>Smirks</em>).</p><p></p><p>-Mr. Spooder: A giant talking Spider NPC/monster who is in possession of a very fine and regal looking, wide brimmed top hat. When said hat is worn by Mr. Spooder, everybody "sees" no spider, but, a sharply dressed and regal looking figure wearing such a fine top hat. There is <strong><em>NO </em></strong>Illusion magic at work and if this was a tv show, the audience would be seeing a giant spider wearing a top hat on its head. But to everybody else, no spider at all. Why the hat works this way for Spiders (only), nobody knows. Mr. Spooder got the hat off a guy he pounced on and ate after said guy wandered into his wet, damp cave some time ago. Ever since learning what the hat could do when worn (by Spiders), Mr. Spooder uses it to go into the nearby village to abduct a person, whenever he needs a meal to "stockpile," or to buy something at the village store. Apparently he knows, according to the one player, the Fanged Deserter PC.</p><p></p><p>-Last sessions' ending: the first session opened up with the PCs as prisoners being escorted to the Executioner's cliff where said Nice Executioner was supposed to behead em. The Wretched Noble started an impromptu escape, which lead to a fight, which lead to the Heretical Priest causing a fire, which burned all the prisoners alive and made quite a scene with death, corpse eating(Fanged Deserter), and only the PCs surviving the incident*(real talk, this wasn't supposed to happen and was off the rails. I had a whole sequence planned out that was suppose to be a quasi-<em>An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge</em> minus the ending but having drowned maidens in the river being an obstacle to deal with alongside pursuing soldiers. None of that ended up happening thanks to the Wretched Noble's Player's very first action*</p><p></p><p>What does all that have to do with the last sessions' ending? Well, our party of 3(+Barrister+A Skull+a Talking Ancestral Sword+Hamm/not food) are kinda wanted now by the Church of the Twin Headed Basilisk. After encountering three groups of soldiers hunting em down, they go the the village nearby Mr. Spooder's cave. The Fanged Deserter PC is <em>always</em> hungry. So, he goes in the village Tavern, goes up to the Tavern Keeper, and attacks em. Let's just say, <strong><em>there's a lot of dead bodies. </em></strong>Like, even the Wretched Noble pc is rolling their eyes, and grabbing the Heretical Priest to hightail it outta there. On the plus side, during the chaos, Mr. Spooder was able to snag a Tax Collector and a villager running for their life. (He's gonna be good on food for the next three month in his cave tho).</p><p></p><p>Everyone seems to be having a blast.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Weiley31, post: 9783844, member: 7017196"] [I]Apologies in advance, this is gonna be a bit of a long read[/I] I've been gming a series of an ongoing session of Mork Borg for Thursday game nights lately. Which have been quite popular and been told by the one player to keep it running as long as possible while he works on his campaign ,Some of the highlights from the last series of sessions were as followed: -A Pyromaniac Heretical Priest pc whose fires, whenever she starts em, [B][I]NEVER GO/DIE OUT. [/I][/B]I've made it a thing to point that out whenever somebody looks in the area of the flames or ones recently started compared to flames made by somebody else. A Wickhead Prophet seems to be HEAVILY interested in her for reasons unknown [I]as of yet.[/I] -A Fanged Deserter PC whose hungry all the time and greatest enemy is trees. Everytime he "fights" one, I specifically always say "The Tree will remember this." However, he has encountered one tree, who the player has dubbed Treeresa, that has taken a shine to him. All because the one tree he fought and slayed killed Treeresa's fave human. Ah, forbidden love ala Montesques and Capulets. His best friend is a Skull who is the ONLY voice of reason when said character(and player) decides to go off the rails(which is what happened at the end of the latest session and when he does random "Skull Checks"). -An Executioner npc, the ONLY actual friendly person encountered thus far or not motivated by greed or trying to kill the party, whose the most happy/content in life after lopping off a head or two. Knows the Wretched Noble pc. Not the brightest and affectionately rambles a bit when the topic of head lopping comes up. -Barrister, the talking Magical Horse (Wretched Noble pc feature). It has been suggested/pointed out by a number of NPCs that there is something [B][I][I]off/wrong[/I] [/I][/B]about said Horse. But nobody can put their fingers on what it is exactly that gives off such a feeling. The Wretched Noble gets a kick whenever Barrister eats the faces off of corpses or badly injured people. At one point, it laughed, like a human, at a PC that rolled poorly during STR test to climb to safety. (Spoilers: It's not a guy wearing a horse suit. But it sure as hell [I]isn't[/I] a Horse. Only certain things/beings, like Bunnies from BunnyBorg, can truly see what Barrister actually is. And No, the Wretched Noble isn't one of em. [I]Smirks[/I]). -Mr. Spooder: A giant talking Spider NPC/monster who is in possession of a very fine and regal looking, wide brimmed top hat. When said hat is worn by Mr. Spooder, everybody "sees" no spider, but, a sharply dressed and regal looking figure wearing such a fine top hat. There is [B][I]NO [/I][/B]Illusion magic at work and if this was a tv show, the audience would be seeing a giant spider wearing a top hat on its head. But to everybody else, no spider at all. Why the hat works this way for Spiders (only), nobody knows. Mr. Spooder got the hat off a guy he pounced on and ate after said guy wandered into his wet, damp cave some time ago. Ever since learning what the hat could do when worn (by Spiders), Mr. Spooder uses it to go into the nearby village to abduct a person, whenever he needs a meal to "stockpile," or to buy something at the village store. Apparently he knows, according to the one player, the Fanged Deserter PC. -Last sessions' ending: the first session opened up with the PCs as prisoners being escorted to the Executioner's cliff where said Nice Executioner was supposed to behead em. The Wretched Noble started an impromptu escape, which lead to a fight, which lead to the Heretical Priest causing a fire, which burned all the prisoners alive and made quite a scene with death, corpse eating(Fanged Deserter), and only the PCs surviving the incident*(real talk, this wasn't supposed to happen and was off the rails. I had a whole sequence planned out that was suppose to be a quasi-[I]An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge[/I] minus the ending but having drowned maidens in the river being an obstacle to deal with alongside pursuing soldiers. None of that ended up happening thanks to the Wretched Noble's Player's very first action* What does all that have to do with the last sessions' ending? Well, our party of 3(+Barrister+A Skull+a Talking Ancestral Sword+Hamm/not food) are kinda wanted now by the Church of the Twin Headed Basilisk. After encountering three groups of soldiers hunting em down, they go the the village nearby Mr. Spooder's cave. The Fanged Deserter PC is [I]always[/I] hungry. So, he goes in the village Tavern, goes up to the Tavern Keeper, and attacks em. Let's just say, [B][I]there's a lot of dead bodies. [/I][/B]Like, even the Wretched Noble pc is rolling their eyes, and grabbing the Heretical Priest to hightail it outta there. On the plus side, during the chaos, Mr. Spooder was able to snag a Tax Collector and a villager running for their life. (He's gonna be good on food for the next three month in his cave tho). Everyone seems to be having a blast. [/QUOTE]
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