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  Session Notes (3/12/22) Game: WFRP Scenario: Curd Your Enthusiasm Players: 5 We concluded our adventure in the corrupted cheesemonger’s shop. The crew: Harteena, halfling bawd Roderick, racketeer Romilda, thief Vaenteur, priest Verena, bounty hunter We began in the cheese shop, after discovering the opening behind Herbert Herzert’s cheese bust of his wife.  The halfling and the thief decided to sneak in, and walked along the sewer, just a few feet from a nasty sludgy river.  They heard voices around a corner: one that sounded like the ghost of Herbie’s wife, and two more snarly, guttural, squeaky voices, all chatting about poisoning the man-things. After a slip up, the rat-men came through the tunnel, and the resulting ambush/sewer fight was very flip-floppy.  The old “fire in a bottle” trick worked very well to block two of the rat-men from getting to the fight, and after some fumbles with Romilda and Verena, Roderick was able to KO one of the Rats with a knuckle sandwich.  In an ac

  Session Notes (3/11/22) Game: Call of Cthulhu Scenario: Pride of Yirrimburra Players: 5 Our second foray into the bush was much more open ended and freeform.  Our investigators: Abigail, Jack Ramsey’s nephew and Boundary Rider Millie, American Geologist Liam, American Hypnotist (fakes it, is actually a grifter) Vena, Tasmanian Cleverman Polly, Aussie Jillaroo In the previous session, the group disembarked and discovered that Abigail’s uncle had passed in his sleep.  After the funeral, Abigail found herself in possession of the farm and town patriarch Fred McKenzie asked the investigators to look into the mine: he thinks someone is stealing from it. The investigators had two mysteries: what was the cause of Uncle Jack’s death?  And Was someone stealing from the mine? They split up and hit the town.  Vena and Liam had a mostly unsuccessful visit to the mine during the daytime, where they were reminded that they would have to go down at nighttime, when all the shifts were over.  They me

Session Notes (2/20/22) Game: WFRP Scenario: Curd Your Enthusiasm Players: 5 Two weeks prior we met online in discord.  We spent 2ish hours creating WFRP characters for our intended 3-6 session game arc.  I’ve always wanted to try playing the game.  I own WFRP 4e, Zweihander, Warlock! And WFRP 1st edition, but have never played any version of the game (unless you count Warhammer Fantasy Battle, which I ate up as a middle and high school kid.  Which would have been the 6th edition of the game… but I digress).  I’m familiar with the world, and my OSR sensibilities had me thinking that Warlock! Or WFRP 1st would work best, but I made the decision to just “go with it” and try 4e out: lots of players online do like it, maybe as many that dislike it! We used jodri the bot to help us out during character creation and during play.  Our characters were Harteena the halfling bawd, Roderick the racketeer, Romilda the thief, Verena the bounty hunter, and Vaenteur the priest.  Verena’s player asked