Hill Cantons - Session 01

After having recently become burnt out running our somewhat weekly Night Below campaign I decided to take a break with a smaller campaign set in the world of the Hill Cantons - a personal favorite of mine. Since I myself LOVE reading play-reports from other peoples campaigns I figured I would do a series of these myself. 

The system used is OSE, using the character creation method outlined in the Hill Cantons Compendium alongside a couple of additional equipment rolls made per the rules in Mörk Borg. The classes available are all those which are included in Advanced Labyrinth Lord as well as those appearing in the various Hill Cantons supplements. 

Characters

• Asim "Ace" Bakir (New) - Level 1 Mountebank
• Luka Winograd (New) - Level 1 White Wizard
• Frankopan Vladislav (New) - Level 1 Psychonaut
• Lasryn Thunderhammer (New) - Level 1 Cleric

Followers

• Nosewise (New) - Old but loyal dog
• Mojo & Mavi (New) - Baboons
• Sir Duke (New) - Squirrel Monkey

Action Report

In a previous one-shot run by yours truly, another party of characters had managed to rescue a guild official from the vicious clutches of the Cult of the Blood Jesus, gaining much notoriety in the city of Marlinko. Our party of ne'er-do-wells; Luka Winograd, a monkey-wrangling magician; Asim "Ace" Bakir, a sailors son from Himyar; Frankopan Vladislav, a psychic courtier from the corelands; Lasryn Thunderhammer, a holy-woman raised by dwarves; all decided to try and one-up these upstarts and so investigate rumours of the so called Tree Maze of the Twisted Druid deep in the weird wilderness. 

Arriving at the entrance to the maze, the part spent a little time speaking to Stumpy the entrance gnome, warning them of the great dangers within, and taunting them with cries of "Who dares brave the PERILS of the TREE MAZE of the TWISTED druid?". 

Having successfully overcome their first obstacle of a snare trap the party managed to lure some of the mazes morphsuit-like guardians into that very same snare, triggering it with a sling stone and killing those who avoided it. Most of the party was much dismayed seeing that instead of bleeding, the wounds of the green men spilled fourth peas - Lasryn however, simply proceeded to feast upon the peas in front of the eyes of the now snared and throughly traumatised survivors. 

After having looted the guard room of the pea-men, the party proceeded to a room wherein they found a giant wingless bird tied up to the wall with a great chain. The party proceeded to run rings around the creature slinging stones at its eyes even as it was so enraged as to break free of its bonds. Some clever use of the partys own chain used to trip the beast alongside a high backstab roll by Ace eventually slew the creature, leaving its sizable horde of gold for the party to loot. 

As the party was investigating the next room which contained a strange pillar with treasure atop it, they were ambushed from behind by an arboreal gelatinous cube rolled as per a random encounter. The party managed to save Lasryn from the clutches of the creature and fled further into the maze as the session ended.