Post by littlewars on Aug 23, 2010 0:45:50 GMT -6
I'm very happy to say in today's Planet Algol campaign, we found a portal to Carcosa!
We encountered the portal in an installation of the Ancients on Algol. It was located under an ancient bunker that featured a guardian robot we had to trick to gain entry. We encountered a Synthezon (pretty lady android) and freed her from stasis. She acted aggressively towards the party, so we backed off. As an aside, Blair (the DM) informed us there was a minor chance Synthezon could fall in love with, and follow a character. Even with our 18 CHA mutant, it just didn't pan out.
Moving along, we found some ancient star chart books and a party member ended up infected with parasitic "mind worms" that left them operating under a death wish mentality. We came across a "window" to an alien vista and the death wish character brazenly entered the portal. We tried to establish an escape route for him with the trusty 10' pole and got sucked into the portal too.
We were greeted with a black-light coloured world with a couple of extra colours we could not identify. Exploring the hexes we encountered a few settlements. Interesting thing about the settlements, we figured out that we could barter the star chart books for food and water. None of us could converse with the Carcosans so I tried to cast Comprehend Languages in one settlement, but my casting was broken, and we were kicked out of town. Obviously the men we encountered were (understandably) suspicious of all sorcery.
Other than that we successfully evaded a shoggoth (tekeli-li!) and spawn of Shub-Niggaruth. How will we get back to Algol? I don't care! It was a fun session on both worlds, and I've only detailed a small portion of our encounters.
We encountered the portal in an installation of the Ancients on Algol. It was located under an ancient bunker that featured a guardian robot we had to trick to gain entry. We encountered a Synthezon (pretty lady android) and freed her from stasis. She acted aggressively towards the party, so we backed off. As an aside, Blair (the DM) informed us there was a minor chance Synthezon could fall in love with, and follow a character. Even with our 18 CHA mutant, it just didn't pan out.
Moving along, we found some ancient star chart books and a party member ended up infected with parasitic "mind worms" that left them operating under a death wish mentality. We came across a "window" to an alien vista and the death wish character brazenly entered the portal. We tried to establish an escape route for him with the trusty 10' pole and got sucked into the portal too.
We were greeted with a black-light coloured world with a couple of extra colours we could not identify. Exploring the hexes we encountered a few settlements. Interesting thing about the settlements, we figured out that we could barter the star chart books for food and water. None of us could converse with the Carcosans so I tried to cast Comprehend Languages in one settlement, but my casting was broken, and we were kicked out of town. Obviously the men we encountered were (understandably) suspicious of all sorcery.
Other than that we successfully evaded a shoggoth (tekeli-li!) and spawn of Shub-Niggaruth. How will we get back to Algol? I don't care! It was a fun session on both worlds, and I've only detailed a small portion of our encounters.
