We played are first session of my darkest gaul campaign this past Saturday. Had 4 players 3 of them very experienced role-players and the 4th only had some experience with 3e d&d. All the players spent about an hour rolling up characters and asking questions about the setting etc. and came upon this party.
As an odd note i seem to have lost their character names.. but i will give you the run down none the less..
so we have a
Cleric- young priest who has come from the Vatican and has decided to leave the constraints of the church in favor of a life of wandering and ministering.
Specialist (rogue in this game)- A witch hunter or hunter of heretics. Does not have any official ties to the church just feels a strong pull to hunt heretics of any type.
Specialist- Romanian gypsy who is really quite literally off his rocker
Fighter-a generic soldier type.. this player has not really given me any character archetype yet or demonstrated any besides just a brute force soldier.
So the party started off as prisoners on board a British privateer/smuggling vessel. I let them come up with why they where captured. The only other on board was a infamous pirate that some of them recognized. Some of the players immediately tried to break free and the fighter did so with brute strength and started releasing the others. In the middle of their escape their ship was attacked by 2 pirate ships. They decided to free the pirate captain as well and made their way to the deck just as the pirates started to board. Before that they managed to get into the stores and found some hidden treasures along with their valuables.
After some brief skirmishes the pirate captain offered to bring them to safe port after helping him escape. After a few days of sea travel they ended up at the port of Nauntes. When they disembarked everyone went separate ways to do whatever they wanted. The priest went to the cathedral, the gypsy went to the nearest inn/tavern, the witch hunter went around looking for information and rumors, and the fighter went and had a drink.
The witch hunter discovered many rumors and happenings going on in and around the city but decided to lead up on one. That one being that apparently young women where being taken in the night for the past couple of weeks and strange robed men where seen taking them. After finding this info he went looking for the others. The fighter ended up getting drunk in an alley and arrested he resisted but got away without his weapons and ran into the witch hunter.
The gypsy meanwhile was doing all kinds of crazy scheming about trying to break into the duchesses palace...
The priest after praying and eating went and found the others. After the witch hunter related all his info to the others they decided to fallow up on it and went to see the captain of the duchess guards at the palace, (by this time the gypsy had joined them), after arriving at the inner walls to the palace the gypsy tried to carouse himself into the gates by saying he was a rather important someone but the guards had none of it and kicked him out.
The rest of the party was admitted after stating they wanted to help find the missing girls. They went to the captain and he told them most of the kidnappings was happening around the old roman ruins outside of town and that they had actually captured a cultist. They decided to go check out the captured cultist and question him. the gypsy on the other hand was arrested for trying to resist being kicked out and imprisoned. He did manage to escape.
The rest of the party went to the dungeons located on an island just off the coast of the main city and where escorted into the cell containing the cultist. Also i forgot to mention they did actually encounter one of the cultist on the way in an alley running from something. They hurried after him and after a vicious attack managed to subdue him but not before he melted away into a pile of ooze that in return attacked them as well. They managed to kill the ooze and took the robes and a dagger from the cultist. This was pretty much the end of the first session. Unfortunately the priest character can only make it to the game once or twice a month so we have decided to do another game on the off weeks that he is not there.
In the off weeks i will be running Vampire: The masquerade more details on that campaign soon enough..
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