GoCorral

This session was attended by Trajan, Avery, Jamie, Ben, and Will. It was held at Ben’s house. Every year we do an all-nighter on New Year’s Eve where we play D&D and other games. This year a lot of us were going to be out of town on New Year’s, so we had our “New Year’s” party on Dec 17th. The first event of the night was D&D.

Hounding the Alpha Wolf

Gregor, Korjak, Sivirdm, Stanton, and Wu were congratulated once again and given a choice for their next mission. They could either go after the wolves and attempt to get their part of the prophecy, or they could attack the Xorian tower in the Riverton and free the village from the Xorian influence. The characters choose to go after the wolves and the dragovinian alpha wolf.

A few days travel and they’d reached the hole where the wolves lived. The party approached peacefully and the speak with animals necklace was handed to Wu. Wu talked with the normal looking wolves and asked them where the dragovinian alpha was (The wolves didn’t attack because the party was accepted into the pack during their last visit). They said he was inside and asleep. The wolves weren’t going to wake him up, but Wu could if he wanted. Wu and everyone else decided that waking up a beast that dangerous was a bad idea. They waited until nightfall when it awoke on its own.

At nightfall all the other wolves came out of the den followed by the dragovinian alpha. It walked over to the party and demanded to know what they had come again for. Wu said they were hoping to get the secret of the druids.
Alpha said, “Ha! No. You are still weaklings.”
Wu said, “Well, what about him?” He pointed to Korjak. “He’s new. He’s not a weakling.”
Alpha went over and sniffed Korjak. “Meh. Still a weakling like the rest of you.”
After a conference among the characters about what to do, Wu tossed the speak with animals necklace to Korjak. Korjak put it on and said, “I challenge you to single combat!”

Alpha’s scales bristled and he took his place amid the circle the wolves were forming. Korjak stepped into the circle as well and the other party members took places around the edge with the normal wolves. Sivirdm went up a nearby tree with his crossbow to observe.
The fight started with Korjak calling on the might of his inner god. He raised his greatsword above his head and lightning flashed down from the cloudless sky. Baldr, God of War, took his place on the battlefield!

Unfortunately, Baldr was not yet fully in sync with Korjak. The fight went poorly for him and the party had to step in to save him. Gregor joined the fight against Alpha. Wu and Sivirdm shot arrows at the wolves on the edge of the combat. Stanton blasted a few wolves with color spray. Dragovinian Alpha breathed fire, but everyone dodged it quite effectively. Sivirdm came down from his tree for some flanking sneak attacks. Eventually, all the wolves were on the ground bleeding or unconscious due to Stanton’s pretty lights. Alpha took enough damage that it seemed he shouldn’t be able to move, but his body responded anyways. He began to run away. Sivirdm, Gregor, and Baldr/Korjak ran after Alpha. Gregor was finally able to decapitate the fleeing wolf. The party claimed victory and leadership over the three living adult wolves and the wolf children.

There was some discussion over how to sew the dragovinian wolf’s head back on so they could ask it what the druid’s secret was. Thread could be obtained by fraying rope, but no one had a good way of making a needle. Gregor realized that the other wolves might know the druid’s secret though. He took the necklace and asked them. The wolves said,
“Go to where the Creator of Men hung
To where the eagle to its dinner would come
Take a piece of blood-red stone
And add it to the cauldron when it begins to foam.”
Each member of the party memorized the verse. They then stayed with the wolves for the night before heading back to the Rebel Base.

We ended the D&D part of Fake New Year’s there. We then played Illuminati which, as everyone who has played it knows, takes forever. After that we went to the local elementary school to play with fake swords. We have a game where one of us goes and hides with the spear, the best weapon. Everyone else takes one sword each and splits up to find the hidden Assassin. The Assassin then attempts to take everyone else out one by one. The Assassin usually loses. I was the first Assassin and I had eliminated everyone else except Will. Then the security guard showed up and kicked us out. We were hoping this would be the night he doesn’t work, but it wasn’t. The school has motion sensors to prevent people playing games on it at night. Next time we’ll go to a park without motion sensors instead of the school even though the school is super cool for playing Assassin.

After coming back from Assassin we played Samurai. Samurai is a great game that is no longer produced. Everyone is in a race to get to 400 honor first. The Shogun card gives you 150 honor per turn, so there is a continual fight for the Shogun card. Ben, Jamie, Will, and I all got close to winning. The Shogun card must’ve changed hands 50 times before the game ended in Will’s victory. Samurai is supposed to take 1 hour, but this game took 4 hours.

At that point we decided to break up for the night. It was around 2:30AM. I took Avery and Trajan back to Avery’s house to sleep, so we’d have more space. I played Skyrim on Avery’s computer for a little bit before going to sleep (I hadn’t had a chance to play it yet as my computer wasn’t good enough to run it). I woke up first and played Skyrim for another hour and a half. After that the party broke up. I went back to Will’s place. We played a game of Magic and then I left.