Episode 34: Alpena Game Part 3
Our players traveled as far north in Michigan as we could go without leaving troll country (a.k.a. south of the Mackinac Bridge, yes, in Michigan one who lives under a bridge is known as troll). We stayed in the land of Alpena, which is at the forty-fifth parallel, or halfway to Santa! Alpena is where Maura grew up and where coincidentally Troy and Lauren lived for 6 years. We had a fantastic group vacation and even had our game at Maura’s parents’ house. We were also joined by a special guest player: Christie!
Our gang of murder hobos sailed their commandeered pirate ship to a Soul Well to destroy an altar and stop the summoning of the Deep Father. After all, what good would it do to escape Hell if there is Hell on Earth. Thanks to a magical amulet, Ellywick’s succubus body is being controlled by guest player Christie, a demonic entity named Blrr, and Ellywick is stuck in one of the pirate’s bodies. But Ellywick has bigger problems than that. A whale-lizard monster started ramming the ship and just made a lunge for her.
Enjoy!
Table of Contents:
1. Ellywick loses a foot, but gains a sea creature through Song of Servitude (which sounds like a creepy version of “London Bridge is Falling Down...”)
2. Ellywick commands the whale-thing to prop the ship up just long enough to save her and Gari… (R.I.P. the N.P.C.s)
3. Neato! We are in a dungeon now!
4. Blrr contemplates suicide and Gari encourages them to learn how to juggle or start a farm instead.
5. What?! Water is rolling UP the sides of the dungeon walls.
6. THE FLOOR IS LAVA! A lava of SOUL JUICE, that is…
7. We demonstrate what “gibbering” sounds like.
8. Vermillion suggests we “cleanse” the cultist, and by that, she means to kill them with fire, of course.
9. Gari casts Spirit Guardians, so now he has little cabbage baby cherubs floating around him.
10. W.W.F.R.D. = What would Father Ralph do?
11. Wait, why is Gari protecting the cultists who are trying to summon the Deep Father instead of the green lizard guys who are trying to protect the gibbering soul bits? Oh yeah, that’s because he’s dumb! (There’s a song about it and everything.)
12. After FAR too much debate about the merits of Step of the Wind versus running to the gate, Father Ralph holds his turn.
13. Blrr decides to blow off some steam by hitting a cultist with a 2” x 4”.
14. Vermillion casts Fire Bolt.
15. “Do we have to kill the well people [or is it just inevitable]?”
16. Eulalie changes into a Dracula Parrot. Too bad she can’t turn into a key like Plastic Man so we can unlock that gate!
17. Pup-pup wants to murder!
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