Re: [FoTOR] Online Games and Actual Play Reports
Posted: Fri May 16, 2014 9:50 pm
Here's a report of our regular monthly TOR sessions ; we play in South West of France, close to the Pyrenees and the Garonne river, a beautiful area that sometimes feels like being close to Anduin and the Misty Mountains...
We recently played a variation of Don't Leave the Path, where instead of encountering the Thing in the Well (which I save for later), the adventurers got lost outside of the Elf Path and met with Raen, an intriguing figure who became the chief of dispossed farmers who hid into the woods to flee Viglund's persecutions.
In the long run, how characters behaved with Raen during that encounter will play a very important role in the evolution of Viglund's overall control of Northern Anduin Vales, and it remains to be seen whether they can bring Beorn into an alliance with Raen, or if they choose not to meddle in these affairs since now their priority is to learn more about the Wolfbiter axe.
On the last bit of the journey characters attended the Anduin Fair (Baldor's destination), close to the Bear Island on the Anduin River. During this beautiful gathering of merchants from North, South, East and West (rumors were that some travellers had come all the way from Bree!), they could find a bit of respite at the Blissful Wanderer, an itinerant pleasure house held by an affable Dwarf, where beauties from various parts of Middle Earth ensured that weary travellers could get a Hope boost and a bath while sipping Dorwinion wine.
The characters had to enjoy this while it lasted (it felt as if their Fellowship phase had started) since the day after, the Fair was attacked at night by a Hill Troll. Heroic defense from the characters amidst collapsed tents, and discovery that the Hill Troll was in fact one of those enslaved by Viglundings to farm their land (- I've borrowed this from another culture in HotW -), and brought to the Fair for an obscure revenge...
As Viglund obviously grows in power in the Anduin Vales, what are characters going to do ? Apparently a trip to Beorn's house seems to make sense...
We recently played a variation of Don't Leave the Path, where instead of encountering the Thing in the Well (which I save for later), the adventurers got lost outside of the Elf Path and met with Raen, an intriguing figure who became the chief of dispossed farmers who hid into the woods to flee Viglund's persecutions.
In the long run, how characters behaved with Raen during that encounter will play a very important role in the evolution of Viglund's overall control of Northern Anduin Vales, and it remains to be seen whether they can bring Beorn into an alliance with Raen, or if they choose not to meddle in these affairs since now their priority is to learn more about the Wolfbiter axe.
On the last bit of the journey characters attended the Anduin Fair (Baldor's destination), close to the Bear Island on the Anduin River. During this beautiful gathering of merchants from North, South, East and West (rumors were that some travellers had come all the way from Bree!), they could find a bit of respite at the Blissful Wanderer, an itinerant pleasure house held by an affable Dwarf, where beauties from various parts of Middle Earth ensured that weary travellers could get a Hope boost and a bath while sipping Dorwinion wine.
The characters had to enjoy this while it lasted (it felt as if their Fellowship phase had started) since the day after, the Fair was attacked at night by a Hill Troll. Heroic defense from the characters amidst collapsed tents, and discovery that the Hill Troll was in fact one of those enslaved by Viglundings to farm their land (- I've borrowed this from another culture in HotW -), and brought to the Fair for an obscure revenge...
As Viglund obviously grows in power in the Anduin Vales, what are characters going to do ? Apparently a trip to Beorn's house seems to make sense...
