{"id":512,"date":"2019-08-03T13:00:49","date_gmt":"2019-08-03T13:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cliffnordman.com\/blog\/?p=512"},"modified":"2023-01-27T11:26:19","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T11:26:19","slug":"chasing-the-sunset-shipwreck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cliffnordman.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/03\/chasing-the-sunset-shipwreck\/","title":{"rendered":"Chasing The Sunset &#038; shipwreck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cliffnordman.com\/blog\/ttrpg-campaign-reports\/chasing-the-sunset\/\">Chasing the Sunset<\/a> is a <a href=\"http:\/\/arsludi.lamemage.com\/index.php\/78\/grand-experiments-west-marches\/\">West Marches<\/a>-style exploration game using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1552912590\/fellowship-2nd-edition\">Fellowship 2nd Edition<\/a>\u2018s Horizon rules.<\/p>\n<h2>Melvin the Rain<\/h2>\n<p>He a slime person who can&#8217;t be hurt by normal weapons, and in fact keeps several normal weapons inside his gooey, malleable form to produce and weild when the need arises.\u00a0 The Rain (singular and plural) arrived on this world as fragments of an ice comet. Rain tends to live with other Rain and not in the cosmopolitian, multi-species cities that are common across the world.\u00a0 They all answer to the Ice King, and Melvin is exploring new lands partially because of some unpleasantness back at the royal court.\u00a0 Rumor has it that the Rainwant to create a great Ice City.<\/p>\n<h2>Lumen the Lantern<\/h2>\n<p>She appears to be a female humanoid accompanied by a small floating light, but really she&#8217;s an extradimensional traveller, and the light is closer to the &#8220;real&#8221; her than the humanoid form it projects.\u00a0 Maintaining the humanoid form is tiring, but makes interacting with others in this world much easier.\u00a0 There are not many Lanterns in this world.\u00a0 She&#8217;s exploring to right wrongs, enforce justice, and protect the innocent, and she&#8217;s focused all her skill into making her Little Light as versatile and dangerous as possible.\u00a0 Woe to the wicked! Rumor has it that Lanterns can possess other creatures, kind of like they &#8216;possess&#8217; their humanoid projections.<\/p>\n<h2>Grokch the Goblin Tinker<\/h2>\n<p>He&#8217;s a little Goblin in a big suit of power armor, equipped with a blaster gun and giant drill.\u00a0 Goblins are somewhat shy and stay in their technologically advanced underground cities, never venturing to the surface.\u00a0 Grockch (be sure to to pronounce the guttural &#8216;ch&#8217; after the hard &#8216;k&#8217;!) was voluntold to explore topside for new materials or power sources to help advance Goblin civilization. In addition to seeking scientific progress, he also wants the chance to show off his cool toys!\u00a0 Rumor has it that Goblins are redirecting underground streams.<\/p>\n<h2>Bungo Trotter the Squire<\/h2>\n<p>He&#8217;s not the champion of humanity. He&#8217;s just a guy who&#8217;s good at making friends and is a little over his head. He wants to see the sights and maybe discover more about who he is, deep inside.\u00a0 Rumor has it that humans are brainwashing the Goblin scouts that are sent to the surface, so they will go back and infiltrate the Goblin underground cities.<\/p>\n<h2>Rumors<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>There&#8217;s a new material that enables a new form of energy<\/li>\n<li>A swamp monster lurks inside a lake<\/li>\n<li>A mystical shrine that lets one recover from grief<\/li>\n<li>Drinking from a certain natural spring brings euphoric feelings<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Let&#8217;s Begin<\/h2>\n<p>Bungo, Grokch, Lumen, and Melvin did not take a ferry like the previous party.\u00a0 They took a charter vessel that was already carrying some cargo to Port Fennrick.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a small boat, with barely enough room for the six passengers and crew, plus the carefully wrapped, couch-sized cargo.\u00a0 The boat is pulled by two manatees, commanded by Jensen (a platyperson) and guided through an unconventional route by Sebastina (a mermaid). During the journey, some vast undersea creature passed by. A fast-moving hill of water, pushed up by the unseen monster, overtook the boat and threw it off-course.\u00a0 The manatees broke loose and fled in panic. Sebastina barely held on to the hull, and the boat and its six occupants washed up on an unfamiliar shore.<\/p>\n<p>Our heroes take stock of the situation. No one is injured, and the boat&#8217;s hull seems intact, but their propulsion is gone, and they don&#8217;t know where they are relative to their destination.\u00a0 Lumen surveys the scene. They are on a sandy beach.\u00a0 The water is shallow, dotted with many islands of strange, unnatural shapes: a hemisphere, a cube twisted at an odd angle, curlicues, and other shapes which wind, water, and time would never create.\u00a0 Inland, there&#8217;s dense jungle, and hills rising far beyond.\u00a0 Lumen&#8217;s sharp eyes detect giant spiders lurking in the jungle, hunting birds looking for stragglers overhead, and the tops of masts far away to the south.\u00a0 So the main shipping lane is to the south, but how can they get there?<\/p>\n<p>Melvin walks into the sea and shapeshifts into a manatee.\u00a0 He calls out, hoping to find the lost manatees.\u00a0 Instead, he finds strange fishes, as misshapen and twisted as the islands they swim among.\u00a0 They head towards him, and they don&#8217;t look friendly!\u00a0 Fortunately for Melvin. he&#8217;s hard to see when he&#8217;s immersed in water, and normal weapons like fish teeth can&#8217;t hurt him anyways. Bungo still throws rocks to distract the fish and pulls Melvin to shore.<\/p>\n<p>Just then, from behind a perfectly cylindrical island, a small racing yacht appears.\u00a0 It&#8217;s zooming dangerously close to the island, it&#8217;s lone occupant leaning so far off the side that the pontoon on the opposite side is out of the water.\u00a0 It&#8217;s do Rolo, the millionaire thrill-seeker!\u00a0 Bungo knows him!\u00a0 Bungo helped de Rolo select the perfect tree to turn into that yacht&#8217;s mast.\u00a0 Bungo hails the yacht and de Rolo swiftly heaves to.\u00a0 The castaways explain their predicament, hoping for a ride on the yacht, or for de Rolo to build a mast for their boat so they can finish their journey under wind power.\u00a0 de Rolo is excited by the strange, large creature that got them into this mess. He&#8217;s a thrill-seeker, so of course he wants to pursue the creature immediately. Of course he won&#8217;t leave them stranded.\u00a0 They can all accompany him on this grand chase, and then he&#8217;ll take them to Port Fennrick.\u00a0 The castaways are not interested in heading into danger, especially Captain Jensen, who really wants to deliver her cargo on time.\u00a0 It&#8217;s very important.\u00a0 They convince de Rolo to make a mast for them so that he can go chase monsters and they can go to Port Fennrick.<\/p>\n<p>de Rolo is now fixed on his new mission and marches boldly into the jungle to select a proper tree.\u00a0 He doesn&#8217;t see that he&#8217;s walking right towards a couple of giant spiders!\u00a0 The spiders&#8217; attention is all on de Rolo, so Melvin and Lumen blast one with their respective ranged weapons.\u00a0 The second Spider pounces on top of de Rolo, but Lumen drops that one with a single,well-aimed shot!\u00a0 Our heroes move forward to secure the area, and de Rolo finds a good tree.\u00a0 He and Grokch attempt to fashion a mast from it, but Grokch has only a blaster and a drill, tools better suited to other uses.\u00a0 He destroys the tree.<\/p>\n<p>de Rolo is frustrated and won&#8217;t try again.\u00a0 If the party wants to leave, they had better accompnay him on his yacht.\u00a0 They all return to the beach, but the yacht isn&#8217;t there!\u00a0 Neither are Jensen or Sebastina. They&#8217;ve stolen the yacht and stranded our heroes! Melvin can move through bodies of water at incredible speed, so he catches up with the yacht and pleads for Jensen to return and pick up the others.\u00a0 She reluctantly agrees, and Melvin owes her a favor.\u00a0 When everyone is onboard, their destination is hotly debated. Jensen wants to deliver the package to Port Fennrick immediately, but de Rolo wants to pursue the creature.\u00a0 During the commotion, Lumen sneaks a peek at the mysterious cargo.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a large wooden box, maybe 2m x 1m x 1m, wrapped in canvas and secured by rope.\u00a0 Lumen unites a few knots and lifts the lid. Inside, there&#8217;s a creature that has been reshaped so much that no original shape is left.\u00a0 Eyes, limbs, teeth at all angles.\u00a0 It lies perfectly still, because on the inside of the lid is a glowing Symbol of Sleep!\u00a0 Lumen manages to cover it with her hand just before it knocks her unconscious.\u00a0 Now she remembers Jensen&#8217;s mannerisms and her insistence on delivering the package.\u00a0 She&#8217;s smuggling this beast for some unsavory folks, and if it&#8217;s not delivered as promised, Jensen is in serious trouble.<\/p>\n<p>Just as Grokch is convincing Jensen to go on de Rolo&#8217;s adventure first and deliver the cargo later, Jensen spots Lumen messing with the cargo!\u00a0 Lumen reveals the secret of the cargo. She doesn&#8217;t uncover the Symbol of Sleep, of course, but explains the situation.\u00a0 She gives an inspiring speech about slaying this foul creature and fighting the mobsters who put Jensen and everyone else in danger with it.\u00a0 Most are convinced, but Melvin is dedicated to the freedom of all things, and sees the Chaos Beast as a prisoner. Everyone starts arguing as mutant fish start circling the boat, drawn to the Chaos Beast.<\/p>\n<p>Melvin prevails. They will release the Chaos Beast from its enchanted slumber, but they don&#8217;t want to deal with an active Chaos Beast on the crowded yacht.\u00a0 Grokch rigs some floats and a time-release spring so they can set the Chaos Beast adrift, and dump it into the water when the yacht is a safe distance away.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the spring goes off immediately, throwing the box high into the air. The lid opens, throwing the Chaos Beast clear, but also flashing the entire crew with the Symbol of Sleep!\u00a0 Jensen, Sebastina, de Rolo, and Bungo all collapse, but Grokch no-scopes the lid right out of the air with his blaster, destroying the symbol.<\/p>\n<p>With all immediate threats dealt with, the racing yacht heads for Port Fennrick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chasing the Sunset is a West Marches-style exploration game using Fellowship 2nd Edition\u2018s Horizon rules. Melvin the Rain He a slime person who can&#8217;t be hurt by normal weapons, and in fact keeps several normal weapons inside his gooey, malleable form to produce and weild when the need arises.\u00a0 The Rain (singular and plural) arrived &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cliffnordman.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/03\/chasing-the-sunset-shipwreck\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chasing The Sunset &#038; shipwreck&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,5],"tags":[58,25,57,55,54,74,59],"class_list":["post-512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-diary","category-chasing-the-sunset","category-rpg","tag-bungo","tag-fulheim-forest","tag-grokch","tag-lumen","tag-melvin","tag-session-report","tag-straits-of-transmutation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cliffnordman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cliffnordman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cliffnordman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cliffnordman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cliffnordman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cliffnordman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":733,"href":"https:\/\/cliffnordman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions\/733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cliffnordman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cliffnordman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cliffnordman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}