Welcome to this year's TTRPG Club! I will be using this space for public-facing announcements and helpful links.
Housekeeping
Club Size
With our 5th member likely joining us today, I'm still interested in inviting 1 more member into the club. If you know anyone who may be interested, pass along a permission slip.
Upcoming Mondays (Including non-meeting days for staff meetings and holidays)
10/21, 10/28, 11/4, STAFF MEETING 11/11, 11/18, 11/25, 12/2, STAFF MEETING 12/9, 12/16, WINTER BREAK 12/23 & 12/30, 1/6, STAFF MEETING 01/13, MLK JR DAY 1/20, 1/27, 2/03, STAFF MEETING 2/10, PRESIDENT'S DAY 2/17, 2/24, 3/3, STAFF MEETING 3/10, PD DAY 3/17, 3/24, 3/31, 4/7, SPRING BREAK 4/14 & 4/21, 4/28, 5/5, STAFF MEETING 5/12, 5/19, MEMORIAL DAY 5/26, 6/2, 6/9, 6/16
Session 4 Recap
Characters:
- Xytar, the Risk-Taking Dragon Warrior Who Looks for Trouble
- Hyoto, the Charming Chimera Hermit Crab Explorer who Talks to Machines
- Finthetic Eian, the Artificial Intelligence Empathetic Adept who Looks for Trouble
- Uravity the Creative Felis Adept who Travels Through Time
Plot:
The spwal took the captured party to see their elders, and Uravity's time travel powers meant they knew they would soon be let go, but didn't know how or why.
The elders all exited a ruined Space Walmart wearing strange helmets and tried putting one of them on Finthetic. A low roll made them black out as their mind was assailed by a more powerful will.
Hyoto managed to use their ability to speak to machines to turn the helmet off, bringing Finthetic back around and making the helmet useless when the elders tried to put it on the other party members.
With that, the elders had no interest in the party and all went back inside the ruined Space Walmart. The younger spwal cut the party loose and Xytar helped them roast marshmallows, possibly inadvertently.
Because Xytar is Xytar, they decided they wanted to break through the reinforced front door of the Space Walmart. This was a Difficulty 7 task, making it impossible under normal circumstances, but Xytar was able to bring it down to a 6 and then use an ability that allows them to automatically succeed on a Difficulty 6 or lower task provided that there is then a free GM Intrusion.
For the GM Intrusion, the spwal elders used a mental attack that compelled everyone but Uravity (who rolled high enough to resist) to walk out of the village for an hour. Not wanting to be alone, Uravity followed and tried unsuccessfully to get the rest of the party to come to their senses before the hour was up.
With no food, water, or shelter, the party had to decide where to go. Given various choices, they decided that hazy area in the distance might be a forest and walked that way.
When they arrived, they found not a forest but a mist-shrouded freshwater lake. Those who needed to drank their fill (Finthetic, being an artificial being, does not need to drink or eat) and celebrated.
As the session came to a close, a large ship approached out of the mists.
Session 5 - Cypher System
Character Options
Character creation should be finished for now, though if our new player attends they will be selecting one of the pre-mades I've prepared to get them into the game quickly.
Some players may choose to spend 4 XP to increase certain character abilities before we get into the plot.
Gameplay
The large ship is staffed by rat-people who are somewhat dismayed that they've gotten too close to shore, and are worried for the safety of anyone who is actually not on the ship. (The shore is not on the ship, and is therefore assumed dangerous.) They offer to help the party climb aboard so they can rest and eat.
What happens next is up to the players.
Games so far: Lasers & Feelings, Cypher System