Session Report #12
The last journal entry of my player Ragga.
Gwyndolin’s boat is what we came for.
We bribe a few of the boat’s crew to get the numbers in our favour.
We wake up the crew at spear point, and Gwyndolin announces, “We have no quarrel with any man not named Thorfin or Thorstein. Amnesty for all who do not interfere. There need be no bloodshed… but test us and there shall be.” All of the crewmen raise their hands and surrender, except for Thorfin who reaches for a blade.
Thorfin protests the cowardice manner of his circumstance, “Sleeping man at spear point? Meet me as an equal and I’ll gladly prove my right to this boat before the gods.”
Gwyndolin boasts, “I'll put Thorfin in the mud with nothing but a dagger.”
A duel is set, Thorfin armed with spear, shield, and leather armor, Gwyndolin standing armourless and dagger in hand. Drest presides over the duel.
After opening swings, Gwyndolin gets hold of Thorfin’s spear, pulls him off balance, and sweeps his legs out from under him. The two scuffle like mad dogs on the ground, a brutal affair. It is a tragic thing… to watch Gwyndolin, greater in battle, greater in cause (for the ship is rightfully hers), succumb to the ill fate of the cosmos. The final blow comes, a spear driven through Gwyndolin’s neck. Thorfin stabs, and stabs, and stabs again, littering her body with wounds. He is dragged away spitting on her corpse.
Dredd and Yelwyck, with great care, dress the body, say a prayer, baptize her soul, and send the body out to sea.
We are seething… knowing that the boat is not in the hands of its rightful owner. We gather more crew. Irwin boasts, “I'm going to steal this fuckin boat.” Hew boasts, “I'll be the first in the charge.” Dredd boasts, “Gwyndolin shall be avenged, Thorfin and Thorstein's head is mine.” Bribing the guards who keep watch over the docks, we rush the boat and its crew as they leave port. Dorgus’ blade of carnage and Yelwyck’s dance of the greatsword make short work of the crew. Dredd lands a killing blow on Thorfin.
Thorstein is now the sole survivor. Dredd is ready to make good on his boast to kill Thorstein too. Thorstein draws the anger of Dorgus and Dorgus slays Thorstein. Dredd eyes Dorgus and goes over to the Thor brothers to collect their heads, muttering, “My name shall be dreadful and terrible among the heathen.”
We find the ship holding 9 trees (now bathed in the blood of 9 men), a bag with 2 pieces of amber, and 200 silver. We leave dock, spotting a green island (with temple and idyllic beaches). We row onward, docking in Guthrem where we give the Pirate Queen her due.
This was the last full session of Reavers. The next one was short lived and just involved sailing up and down the coast. They did see the metal wandering island and one player stepped foot on it but then as the automatons surged out they all fled and that was essentially the entire session. This was actually the only time the players realized there was alien shit in Wolves for the players that where not also GMing their own games of it. After this we took a month long break as I was burning out from a heavy load of classes as I am going back to school and after a month of that I realized the game was in a decent point to leave off of it and I would really like to run some different games so I am planning on running a B/X campaign this coming up summer. Very different vibes.