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Session Notes (05/21/22) Game : Runequest: Roleplaying in Glorantha Module : The Broken Tower Players : 3 I’m lucky to have lots of friends that want to play RPGs online.  Part of the group that played through “Curd Your Enthusiasm” with WFRP gathered to play Runequest! Characters : Elfriede (homebrewed character), an Ernaldan Farmer, from the Tarling Clan of the Colymar Tribe  Vasana (pregenerated character), a Vingan Warrior, from the Ernaldoring Clan of the Colymar Tribe Mago (pregenerated character), a Storm Bull Mercenary, from Wilmskirk Session : After the shortest possible bullet point “this is the setting of Glorantha” list I could possibly make, the adventurers began with a summons to the Chief of the Ernaldoring Clan’s home in Clearwine.  There they met Zarah, the wife of chief Baranthos, and two other women: Emane, a runner, and Bara, an injured herder. Bara told how the Greydog clan had raided them, and slain her brothers and stolen 60 cattle.  She recogn...

Session Notes (05/08/22) Game : Mothership Module : The Danse Macabre (Homebrew) Players : 3 After some discussion about how we want to play mothership, we settled on an “anthology” style though it might dip in and out of narrative depending on how we feel. Characters : Lee, Engineer, “Biohazard” patch, and flint hatchet trinket, high score 1 Marli, Planetologist, “SUCK IT UP” patch, and DNR beacon trinket, high score 0 Antheridium 420 (Anthony), Android, “Plays well with others” patch, and calendar of military battles trinket, high score 0 Session : Lee’s new crew picked up the following mission: The moon Katje V was set up by the Paxton-Vibe Corporation to grow grain products (rye, bread, whiskey, etc.) and cattle inside an agricultural station (Callsign “Control 13”).  The latest cargo ship did not return, and there are no responses via long range comms.  It is suspected that a disaster of some kind has occurred, ceasing production.  You must go to the station, and fin...