Category: The Dungeon World Tavern: Actual Play

Now for the fun parts:

I am a Good Cleric. The thief poisons a guard and I watch him die by interrogating him. I realized at the end of the session that I did not fulfill my alignment as I watched an innocent person die while I interrogated him.I have Cure Light Wounds as a Rote spell. No XP for alignment. (See the backstory in the previous post.)

In my defense, my cleric worships a god of knowledge and secrets, yet has a INT 9. I guess I am the Maxwell Smart of Clerics.

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After we were freed, the captain of the guard says to the Dwarven Paladin, “I don’t like you and I don’t trust you. I will not give you even an inch!”

The Paladin replies, “An inch of what?”

It took me 10 minutes to stop laughing.

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The thief spent all night attempting side quests to retrieve her tiger.

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The Dwarven Paladin kept asking everyone, including the King(twice!) about the presence of other Dwarves in town.

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I have a bond with the Paladin that I implicitly trust him. When I got a sword as a gift from the captain of the guard, I refused to tell him its powers.

No XP for the bond. Yup, it’s me, Maxwell Smart of Clerics.

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Yes, the Dwarven Paladin has a harpoon gun stored in a bag of holding that the Thief stole from me. I remark about the similarity of the bag and harpoon gun constantly.

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The king asks if we know anything about a Black Dragon attacking the northern lands. Apparently, the Dwarven Paladin was an old friend of hers. Unfortunately, the Paladin’s old friends couldn’t resist steeling from her treasure trove and the dragon blames the Paladin.

We told the King that we didn’t know anything about the Dragon.

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The Paladin convinced the Thief to make a shiv out of her chamberpot in an attempt to pick the lock on her cell door. She decided not to use it. (The shiv, I mean.)

Tonight’s session:

Keep in mind that tonight’s session was supposed to be the journey’s end of a very long quest. We had been “dropped” into another world and thanks to the giants, they were casting a ritual spell to teleport us back home.

We appear inside the King’s Ballroom of our world. Immediately upon arrival, one of our non-player companions charges for the King and wounds him.

The Dwarven Paladin attacks him with a harpoon gun and hits. The harpoon goes through its target and sticks in the diaz just below the King’s throne.

A partygoer then begins throwing knives at the queen. I take him out only to find one of the King’s Guards is now charging the King. I figure out that our foe, whatever it is, possesses different people with the goal of killing the King and Queen.

Our human thief (with a pet tiger) uses her poison arrows to dispatch with the guard. I catch up with him to interrogate him, but he dies after my third question.

We are arrested and left to rot in our cells for 10 days. Although we are questioned, we don’t feel any closer to freedom. One of the guards is possessed by whatever-the-bad-thing is and threatens to kill me.

One day, the castle is racked with explosions. They are close enough to knock us off-balance. The thief’s door opens. She lets us out after finding all our stuff.

The dwarven paladin finds a barbed devil upstairs destroying the King’s guards. He harpoons it and the thief and I come up as reinforcements. The thief performs a series of spectacular acrobatics only to fail at the end. As the last of the guards are slaughtered, I get knocked across the room. Despite this, we defeat the devil only to watch it evaporate into mist.

Then the captain of the guard appears. So does the possessed guard.

Fortunately, the captain of the guard saw the demon, so he knew what we had done.

The king gives us his thanks, but he is still very wounded. The thief begs the King to let me heal him. He agrees over the objections of the captain of the guard.

Our reward is to be sent on a quest. It was a very fun evening.