Grimwild 0.5 + Symbareum
Played one character solo.
Jorliin is a young hot headed summer elf Cleric of Iron Pact. Hunter and Sage backgrounds.
Stats: BRA 2, AGI 3, WIT 2, PRE 1.
Jorlin selected a part of Davokar forest to call his own, but recently some Ambrian settlers founded a village of Queen’s Light in the south most region of his domain. At the same time, packs of corruption beasts are noticed advancing from the north. Jorliin wants to scare humans to abandon Davokar, but he also knows that he cannot defeat corruption beasts alone.
SCENE 1
Elf decided to start by investigating corruption on the north.
Story roll with 3D – 5 messy.
Traveling north, Jorliin noticed that forest is different than usual. Old tracks he used to walk no longer existed. Animal behaviour is strange. Using his Hunter background, he investigates to find out what is happening (no roll due to background, straight to GM Crucible)
Hidden Strife
Everything is different because forest fights its own battle against corruption advancing from the north.
Elf casts potent divination spell to reach the corruption source – 6 perfect, drop from 4 to 1 die.
Dwindling Boundary
Forest lets Jorliin pass to the corruption portal standing in a clearing. Several lesser corruption beasts looking like deformed spiders the size of the average dog are coming out of it. As soon as the last creature exited, portal closed.
I use story point – as Sage, Jorliin knows that such portals open at the same time periodically. It is 4D pool – on depleted portal will open again.
Elf decides to create a shelter close to the portal spot, in order to be close when it opens again.
With roll – 5 messy. Corruption energy influences Jorliin’s mind – mark on WIT.
Roll for portal pool – 4D to 1D.
Elf tried to disregard corruption energy and to concentrate on the prayers. PRE roll, 2 – grim.
He cannot concentrate. Furthermore, he misses the moment when the portal opened. 4D worth of monsters are coming out of it.
Elf casts potent Wrath spell with 2 thorns due to lack of concentration. 5 – messy (no cuts), spell pool drops from 6 to 1.
Portal explodes, and the force of impacts drops elf to the ground – mark on BRA.
Corruption monsters are upon Jorliin. He rolls save with AGI + 1 thorn – 4 messy (no cuts).
Elf avoids first attack, but has no time to take out his bow, combat will be at close quarters.
But Jorliin has another trick in his sleeve. He casts Warding spell to protect the zone around him. Double 6 – critical! (spell pool falls from 4 to 3).
Lucky break > forest comes to elf’s rescue and wild animals attack corruption. Enemy pool falls from 4 to 2.
Jorliin jumps into the fray with his knife – BRA roll + 1T for mark, 5 – messy, no cut.
Enemy pool 2D->1D + deleted mark.
Last corruption creature runs away into the night. It will start to create trouble after 6d time period.
End of scene 1.
