I’ve began a brand new Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Soulbound role-playing sport marketing campaign. Besides, nobody is enjoying a Soulbound character. As an alternative all are enjoying unbound undead characters utilizing the Champions of Loss of life ebook and ignoring the binding guidelines, principally…
The background is that they’re a gaggle of Vampires within the courtroom of Blood (and their mortal and undead minions!). All ostensibly serve Neferata, Mortarch of Blood. The Vampires within the group are the Aristocracy that initially held titles and land in Neferatia. Through the Age of Chaos the land was invaded by a Horde of Khorne Daemons and Bloodbound and the characters lands have been misplaced. For a time lived as refugees in Nulhamia – the capital of Neferatia – as company of different vampire lords, however rapidly wore out your welcome and have been getting pressured an increasing number of to go and take again their ancestral lands!
Ultimately they got depart to journey to Ulgu, Realm of Shadow, the place they have been to rebuild, conquer new land and lift a military to ultimately assist Neferata in taking again their lands.
Passing by means of a Realmgate close to Shadowvell, introduced them to Ghyran and so they found a brief march of a day or so would deliver them to a realmgate that will ship them to Ulgu, on Cape Tenerax, close to Misthåven.
Upon arriving in Ulgu, they discovered an outdated dilapidated preserve, only a days march from the realm gate. The fortress had been constructed through the age of delusion, however lengthy since deserted by its builders. On the time they found it, it was inhabited by a small pack of skaven. The skaven have been cleared out, some minimal repairs have been made to make it considerably livable and reasonably defensible.
It’s a relatively shabby wanting place that the majority passersby would nonetheless assume deserted – or HAUNTED – as many within the area do!
And there they’ve remained for a century or extra. Sometimes murdering calmly protected service provider caravans, stealing their stuff and taking any prisoners to empty at their leisure again at their preserve. Once in a while they might journey into Misthåven to commerce their stolen wares and purchase something they wanted.
Nick is enjoying Woman Esmerelda (She/her) – a Vampire Lord
Orion is enjoying Sir Raven the Dour (They/them) a Blood Knight (additionally a Vampire)
Finnegan is enjoying Sir Renmould of Sylum Subject (They/them) a Grave Guard Wight (primarily a magically an animated swimsuit of armour with a skeleton inside.
Amanda was away throughout session zero and so earlier than Session One made up a Spirit Torment character – a spooky Nighthaunt ghostie factor that hunts down wayward souls and drags them again to the deepest darkest underworld. Her character doesn’t have a reputation but.
There was a quick encounter in Session Zero a couple of weeks again (after making Characters) which began with a Home Assembly throughout which Woman Esmerelda complained about SOMEONE plugging up the bathrooms. Sir Renmould identified it clearly was not them. Sir Raven blamed the 2 mortal Duardin familiars.
Instantly they realized that Woman Mereneth was additionally within the room with them, although none had seen her enter, and none had observed her once they entered!? Woman Mereneth is Neferata’s Grasp of Spies and she or he had come personally to tell the group that Neferata was calling her banners and so they have been to march with the military they’ve raised again to Shyish and take part a marketing campaign to eject the Bloodbound squatters from the realm, and retake their very own ancestral lands!
And so… Session One started with preparations, the place the group gathered up what they might by way of liquid forex and as lots of Woman Esmerelda’s attire and robes and different outfits that their Skeletal and Zombie horde may carry – together with a cask of blood and a chest of gravesand. Sir Raven the Dour gathered up all 5 of their skeletal horses and his further armour and lances.
The group marching out additionally included ten Deadwalker Zombies and ten Deathrattle Skeletons (we hope a fifth participant might be a part of subsequent week and play a Necromancer…).
Amazingly, they’d NO TROUBLE discovering the realm gate!? (I would set a DN of 5:2 as none of them had been there in over a century… and it’s the Realm of Shadow… and regardless of not ONE of them having a single degree of coaching in Survival – the ability used for land navigation – they ALL succeeded, some with EXTRA successes!?)
Upon arrival, nevertheless, they found {that a} small fortified Watch Tower had been constructed up across the realmgate and was garrisoned by a troop of Duardin gunners!
Fortunately, being members of the Court docket of Blood, they have been ALL Masters of Disguise! the vampires and grave guard HAD stated earlier than they left that they have been disguising themselves as “mortals”… The three of them went ahead and have been hailed by the sentries atop the tower and the silver tongued Woman Esmerelda managed to persuade the guards that they have been dwelling human nobles that simply wished to go by means of the realmgate. The Duardin allowed them to method.
As they received near the tower, the entrance gate was opened and some of the Duardin got here out to greet them. Upon nearer inspection, nevertheless, Sir Raven and Sir Renmould’s weren’t fully holding up. However, once more, Woman Esmerelda’s attraction and fast speaking satisfied the Duardin that nothing was amiss…
Realizing there was no means they’d have the ability to persuade these Duardin that they Zombies and Skeletons – nevermind the Spirit Torment – have been simply their retinue of completely alive men-at-arms and various servants… they attacked the Duardin as soon as they entered the Tower.
When the primary photographs rang out, the Spirit Torment raced to affix them… and all of the Zombies and Skeletons began shuffling within the normal path of the tower.
Extra Duardin rushed in from the barracks upstairs and STILL extra Duardin dwelling in a mirror tower on the opposite aspect of the realmgate in Ghyran arrived to dam the attackers from getting by means of…
All have been slaughtered…
And that is sort of the place we left off on the finish of Session One!
Subsequent Session they are going to be travelling by means of a part of Ghyran, the Realm of LIFE, to get to the realm gate that can deliver them again to Shyish, the Realm of Loss of life!
The Group thus far…
Entrance row, Left to Proper: Amanda’s unnamed Spirit Torment, Sir Raven the Dour, Woman Esmerelda, and Sir Renmould of Sylum Subject, Behind them is their small drive of Zombies and Skeletons.
Sir Raven the Dour has a mounted model!
I actually ought to have run up and received the higher digicam…
Subsequent time, possibly…
Optimistically this will probably be a weekly kind of factor…? It was meant to be a brief marketing campaign – simply to check out enjoying Vampires and different undead. I’ve about 5 or 6 classes roughly sketched out… we’ll see the place it goes from there. If we solely get by means of the 5 or 6, that will be nice.
It has been lots of enjoyable thus far. They are a hilarious group to play with.
Finnegan has been figuring out extra backstory for Sir Renmould who despises Sir Raven and is extraordinarily jealous of his undead nightmare mount and the bond they appear to have. Sir Renmould is set to accumulate some sort of mount for themself, however every try ends in catastrophe, with the mount both not bonding and operating off or being destroyed in probably the most ridiculous and preposterous methods!?
I’m wondering if Sir Raven has one thing to do with it!
