Harrowed Halls

Ben – GM
Owen – Harlow Hinde, Masaquani
Mike – Kratos, Kraken
Evil Mike – Ankas, Scurillian
Alex – Reconaki “Green”, Kehana
Steve – Potts, Grael

This week we continued with our “plan” to break Tomas De Orinjo out of the prison at Kiera. To bring you up to speed on where everyone is, here’s a short recap. Evil Mike got himself captured and placed in a cell. Mike and Alex are sneaking in the back way. Alex has since gone back to guard our escape route. (Alex was a no-show this week.) This left Mike to wander alone. Owen and I, accompanied by six crewman from the Valiant along with a lieutenant named Milo, sneak into the prison hidden inside barrels. Let’s see how we are doing…

Evil Mike easily escapes from his cell and begins looking for Tomas. Evil Mike is nearly out of power points and out of Bennies. Still he manages to take out a few passing guards. No luck finding Tomas though.

Mike begins wandering around the rooms of the prison until he’s caught by some guards. Mike easily takes down a few of the guards, but the fighting continues.

Owen and I “sneak” into a tower and immediately run into some guards. During the noisy battle that follows, an officer and 10 more guards appear outside the tower.

Time passes…

Mike finds the remaining guards have more experience and better dice rolls that his character. His character is killed, leaving behind a mound of magic items all bequeathed to Evil Mike.

Shortly after that, Evil Mike makes a new acquaintance with someone who looks like a trustworthy fellow and we ask him to join the party. Evil Mike and the new guy (Mike’s new character) continue to fight their way out of prison, all the while looking for Tomas.

Owen and I are in a pickle. Owen tries to parlay, but with no luck. The Kieran officer has formed up his men and is hell bent on capturing or killing us. I make a d4 Smarts decision and rush the line while intimidating the officer. This works…for six seconds. Then the first row of guards fires their muskets at me. Fortunately my magically enhanced toughness of 15 is enough to get me through it with only a Shaken.

Owen is conflicted. On one hand he knows that my move was completely idiotic and I deserve whatever fate awaits me. On the other hand, he’s Heroic. Meanwhile the men from the Valiant have taken the stairs to the top of the tower. They thinned the guards out a bit with a few shots from their pistols and muskets. Owen finally resolves to help me, and rushes out into the fray. We eventually kill them all except for the cowardly officer who has run inside. I believe that it was Evil Mike and Mike who eventually get him. They also find a very grateful Tomas.

We all gather at the assigned rendezvous spot and escape the prison…but not before Evil Mike loots Mike’s dead character of all of his magic items.

Tomas is very happy to be rescued and gives us the next quarter of the medallion we are searching for.

Note: during the game there were several things of note that people mentioned that I must put in the write-up. If I included any of them, it’s by accident.

Chaos Steve