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Tristan lights up a hand rolled Berle tobacco cigarette using the oil lamp sitting on the Tavern table. His frock is damp from the calves down and his brand new boots are caked in filth. The justicar grimaces at the strange inclusion of the scent of whale oil to the usual mixture of clove, allspice and cinnamon his favorite Tobacco usually gives off.

Tristan looks into the camera, takes a drag and says “Here’s what you missed.”

The group ascended the boat that the shapeshifter was on. We discovered a few half-orc corpses that Tindar had cut down and a ruined magic circle lying on the deck. In addition next to the circle was the desiccated corpse of their wizard who sucked the life out of herself to teleport the survivors away.

We investigated below decks to find yet another group of slaves. Some of these ones had also been drained of their life forces but…in a different way.

Turns out that the shapeshifter was not what we originally thought, it is some kind of monster that can take on the appearance of people through a dread way. It sucks it’s victims clean of energy, talent, skill, and vivacity to bolster itself…and feed.

It then assumes their identity to disguise itself.

(Tristan takes a deep drag and flicks some ashes)

So we save the folk with the aid of the constabulary and some sailors he enlisted and continue to search the boat, all the while it’s sinking. We find it’s lair, and apparently it has a taste for finery. So we strip the whole thing and run for our lives while Sughust and Tindar attempt some foolish deed and go into the bilges.

We all escape and Sughust and Tindar tell us they’ve been tracking this thing for months, crossing paths with us where it leaves it’s victims…it’s stalking us. Specifically?

(Tristan takes a gulp of water and another drag off of his smoke, the plume he exhales perfuming the air)

It’s tracking Nix…she’s…tasty to it.

So? We have a chest, a load of books, and more questions than answers. But, we’re heroes, we’ll persevere.

(Tristan stubs out his cigarette)

“Get some rest. We’re going to go and see a man about a house tomorrow and I want you all to be ready.”

he Big Damn Heroes saved a member of a team that was sent after the missing cartography team. He informed us that his crew was captured by Hobgoblins enroute to the suspected location of the Dwarven tomb.

Through this we found our way to the suspected location where we discovered a secret door in the mountain that was locked by a sound based magical system. Nix was able to make it open at which point our group was ambushed by Troglodytes and a Dragonborn with black Scales outfitted with all magical arms and armor.

We defeated the ambushers, but the noise roused the guardian of the Tomb, a 22 foot tall Cyclops who proceeded to attempt to crush us. With good tactics and a whole lot of inspiration we defeated the beast and made our egress into the tomb.

Inside we discovered the Cartographer, who had been held captive as a snack by the Cyclops and freed him. We made a complete map of the Tomb and found a series of journals detailing the adventures and workings of this great Dwarvish hero who’s weapons had slain Tiamat herself.

We delivered the items to Lady Othel, stink bombed the tavern by being covered in Troglodyte blood, and after a celebration and goodbyes have made our way south toward New Bern.

Our group is going to commission a large wagon to assist in transporting all of our group safely from town to town, so while it is being constructed we are going to spend a week in New Bern before heading south to Saltmarsh to complete the very first
Mission we were tasked with.

Everybody has 40 hours of downtime in which to select jobs from the New Bern job board.

the next session is going to be this Sunday April 7th as a bonus session from 12:30 to 4pm. During which we will make our way to Saltmarsh.

Originally posted by Nix

When she was just 5 years old, Nix was already aware of how her ability worked and her parents have given her her first job. Her family wants to take over an elven family of royalty for the wealth and power. Nix was groomed from birth so that she can take the place of the youngest daughter. As night falls on the day of the switch, Nix is ready to please her family. Quiet and small, Nix slips in undetected right behind her older brother who has learned to be the master of stealth. Her brother quietly incapacitated the target and Nix changed into her and took her place in the bed. Over the next few years, Nix would gather information and relay it back to her family in the middle of the night. The plan to assassinate was soon. The closer the day grew though, the more Nix was having second thoughts though. She had actually grown to like the elven family. So much that Nix had started to report back to her family less and less. One day, an entertainer had come to the family estate. The sound of laughter filled Nix’s ears and it filled her with joy. Joy that made her forget her own family. Nix loved this feeling. She started delaying the assassination by giving false information. Finally she decided to leave her elven family at the age of 15 and joined the college of bards. She learned to play many instruments and perform many talents, she got very good with her words. During one night at the college, Nix heard a bump in the night and she immediately sprang out of bed just to come face to face with a quick dagger. Her reflexes have improved to keep up with the elves and she was able to dodge the attack just in time. She couldn’t see her attacker, but she had a trick up her sleeve that she had already learned. With a wave of her hand 4 lights lit up the corners of her room just enough so that she could see it was her own mother. She had found Nix and was taking her out for treason. Nix had learned another trick that helped her though, cutting words. She simply told her mother that she was a bad parent and her mother stumbled on the next attack which gave Nix the opportunity she needed. She lunged for an attack with her own dagger but missed, catching her pendant instead and ripping it off. Scared, her mother quickly escaped leaving Nix alone. She took the pendant to a wizard that she had become friends with and he enchanted the pendant to glow if her mother was to ever get close to her again. She left the bard college and used her skills to keep on the move as best as she can. Several more years past and Nix decided she wanted to do something better with her life and decided to be an adventurer. She signed up with the handlers and was sent on her first mission. She knew she would have to face her family one day but hopefully not alone.

“Denizens of Galismar; we gather today, not to mourn the passing of our fellow folk, but to celebrate the lives they lived. To honor the sacrifices they made to preserve our way of life….the people of Vegas did not choose to become the epicenter of this great catastrophe, it was through a series of unfortunate circumstances that led us to this calamitous end, but those self same circumstances showed the enemies of the light just how strong our will is.

Despite immeasurable odds we were able to secure the position of the Archdruid, and lay the body of Phlildaeus to rest. But these achievements came with a cost…a cost any of us would have paid just to lessen the burdens left on those who were remain. But fate had a different design, and the lives that were lost may never be reclaimed, never be exchanged, and from henceforth…never be forgotten.

Let this tree remain for all to see, to memorialize the people of Vegas, the warriors who fell, and the sacrifices made here in the Name of the Light.

Let any who wish to speak of the dead speak now. But let your stories be fond memories, remember them as they would wish to be remembered.

(People take turns telling stories of people who passed, anecdotes and funny tales. Feel free to insert any roleplay here)

Thank you all, know that from Talon our friends and families are smiling down on us in this moment. They hear our words and know in their hearts that we are safe.

Go forth from this place secure in the knowledge that our loved ones will forever be in our hearts and memories. Drink for them. Live because of them. Go at peace. And may Eldarr walk with you.

(Originally posted by Tristan)

For those of you who were frequenting the Bern It! Tavern During the last week you would have definitely heard the raucous party that happened on the evening of Wednesday. Gul’dan, Tristan, and Vandor had decided to go out to the place where the Oolitic caravan had been ambushed by the Kenku and hunt down their lair to try and secure the road between Vegas and New Bern. They come back with a wagon load of supplies and weapons that they had looted from an abandoned hunting lodge that had been overtaken by the Kenku and found a rather disturbing hidden room inside where several Travelers from Cobbleton, a town south of Saltmarsh, had been kidnapped and nearly starved in anticipation of their sale into slavery.

One of the items recovered was a coded book that had 241 check marks in various columns that we interpreted as counts of people that the Kenku had sold. Having rescued these people and securing the road we celebrated the night and any of you may have been there. The next morning Gul’dan and Tristan have a private conversation in the corner over breakfast after Tristan checks the job board. He takes the job to deliver a package from New Bern to Berle and seems to over prepare for the journey, buying a new set of lighter armor and a shield, getting a different horse to ride, and taking a very light amount of supplies for what would surly be a three to four day journey. He arrives back in town after a full six days at 8pm, exhausted, at the Bern It! Tavern with pieces of leather sewn into the thighs of his trousers and a silk horse blanket on the horse he borrowed from the hostler. He acts like he’s been through hell and after a short conversation with Gul’dan goes upstairs and passes out.

March saw the weather improve, and our gaming group attend more events.

The Activities

DC Museum Game Day, Saturday, 3/7, Daviess County Museum

Attendees – 4
New Attendees – none
Number of Games Played – 3 games played a total of 3 times

Games Played
Ascension, Rise of Vigil – played once
Black Market Warehouse – played once
California Water Rights – played once

New Games Introduced to the Group
Black Market Warehouse
California Water Rights

Friday Night Games, Friday 3/13, Daviess County Museum

Attendees – 4
New Attendees – none
Number of Games Played – three games played a total of four times

Games Played
Ascension, Rise of Vigil – played once
Bohnanza – played once
Dig Down Dwarf – played twice

New Games Introduced to the Group
Bohnanza
Dig Down Dwarf

EPIC Game Day, Saturday, March 28, Daviess County Museum

Attendees – 5
New Attendees – none
Number of Games Played – One game played one time

Games Played
Game of Thrones, the Board Game

New Games Introduced to the Group
Game of Thrones, the Board Game

Weekly Board Game Night, Daviess County Museum

Wednesday, 3/4, Cancelled

Wednesday, 3/11

Attendees – 6
Number of Games Played – 3 games played a total of three times

Games Played
Ascension, Rise of Vigil – played once
Pathfinder Adventure Card Game – played once
X Wing Miniatures – played once

Wednesday, 3/18

Attendees – 6
Number of Games Played – 3 games played a total of three times

Games Played
Ascension, Rise of Vigil – played once
Pathfinder, Adventure Card Game – played once
X Wing Miniatures – played once

Wednesday, 3/25

Attendees – 7
Number of Games Played – 4 games played a total of eight times

Games Played
Marvel Legendary – played once
X Wing Miniatures – played once
Imperial Assault – played once
The Resistance – played 5 times

New Attendees During Weekly Game Nights – one

New Games Played During Weekly Game Nights
Pathfinder, Adventure Card Game
X Wing Miniatures
Imperial Assault
The Resistance

In addition, members of the group attended:
-Thursday Night Game Nights at Game Knight in Huntingburg, Indiana
-Store Con, 3/14, Game Knight, Huntingburg
-Saint Peter’s Game Night, 3/20, Saint
Peter’s Church, Evansville, Indiana
-Various game nights in members homes

Upcoming Events at the Daviess County Museum

-Saturday, April 4, Museum Gamers Game Day, noon – 5pm
-Wednesdays, April 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, Board Game Night, 5 – 10pm
-Friday, April 10, Friday Night Games, 7pm -12am
-Saturday, April 11, International TableTop Day, 1pm – 8pm

Come game with us!

DC Museum Gamers meet at the Daviess County Museum, 212 Main Street, Washington, Indiana 47501. Admission is free, snack and pop are available on site.

For further information contact the Daviess County Museum at 812-257-0301, or contact via e-mail at dchistory@sbcglobal.net

Check out our Facebook page at Daviess County Museum Gaming Group.

Inclement weather had a big impact on our gaming this month. Two of our events were cancelled, and our monthly trip to Evansville to join the Saint Peter’s Church Community Game Night was also cancelled. So we had to make the most of our abbreviated schedule!

The Activities

DC Museum Game Day, Saturday 2/7

Attendees – 5
New Attendees – none
Number of Games Played – 3 games played a total of 5 times

Games Played
Munchkin – played once
Coup – played three times
Dead of Winter – played once

New Games Introduced to the Group
Munchkin

Friday Night Games, Friday 2/27

Attendees – 4
New Attendees – none
Number of Games Played – 2 games played a total of 2 times

Games Played
Village – played once
Bohnanza – played once

New Games Introduced to the Group
Village
Bohnanza

EPIC Game Day, 2/21 – CANCELLED

Weekly Board Game Night

Wednesday, 2/4

Attendees – 4
Number of Games Played – Two games played a total of 3 times

Games Played
Ascension – played once
Pathfinder, Adventure Card Game – played once

Wednesday, 2/11

Attendees – 5
Number of Games Played – Three games played a total of eight times

Games Played
Ascension, Rise of Vigil – played once
Descent – played once
Bang, the Dice Game – played six times

Wednesday, 2/18 – CANCELLED

Wednesday, 2/27

Attendees – 5
Numbers of Games Played – Two games played a total of four times

Games Played
Ascension, Rise of Vigil – played once
Descent – played three times

New Games Played During the Weekly Game Nights
Ascension, Rise of Vigil

Upcoming Events at the Daviess County Museum

-Saturday, March 7, Museum Gamers Game Day, theme is
Party Games, noon – 5pm
-Wednesdays, March 4, 11, 18, 25, Board Game Night, 5 – 10pm
-Friday, March 13, Friday Night Games, 7pm -12am
-Saturday, March 28, EPIC Game Day, 2pm to midnight
-Saturday, April 4, DC Museum Gamers Game Day, noon – 5pm
-Friday, April 10, Friday Night Games, 7pm – 12am
-Saturday, April 11, International TableTop Day, 1pm – 8pm
-Wednesdays, April 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, Board Game Night, 5 – 10pm

Come game with us!

DC Museum Gamers meet at the Daviess County Museum, 212 Main Street, Washington, Indiana 47501. Admission is free, snack and pop are available on site.

For further information contact the Daviess County Museum at 812-257-0301, or contact via e-mail at dchistory@sbcglobal.net

Check out our Facebook page at Daviess County Museum Gaming Group.

The DC Museum Gaming Group ended 2014 as a good first year. Initially Ken Graber decided to host an International TableTop Day event at the museum, and that got the ball rolling.

TableTop Day was a success: 20 gamers participated, playing 13 different games a total of twenty five times. A decision was made by the Director of the Museum, Vince Sellers, to hold a Museum Game Day once a month. From that decision, DC Museum Gamers Group was born.

In 2014, we have grown to include the following:

-Five regular gamers that attend our regular events
-A total of 34 different gamers have attended DC Museum events
-A Monthly Daviess County Museum Game Day, held on the first
Saturday of the month from noon to 5pm
-A weekly DC Museum Gamers Game Night, held every
Wednesday Night from 5pm – 10pm
-A Monthly Friday Night Games, held on a different Friday night
each month, from 7pm – 11pm, focusing card and board
games new to the group
-Played 125 different games during 2014
-Held 52 different gaming events at the Museum
-Several members attend seven Saint Peter’s Game Nights, at Saint Peter’s Church in Evansville, Indiana
-Participated In the Extra Life Event, a fundraiser for the
Children’s Miracle Network benefitting Riley’s Hospital for
Children

We have several ideas to usher in the new year, including an EPIC Game Day, a day to play those long games that take too long to play on our regular game nights. We also are planning some outreach, visiting local business such as coffee shops and out of town game stores.

Its been a great beginning and I look forward to more great things for the DC Gamers in 2015!

Jeff Chattin

Great Gaming Gang!

December brought an end to our inaugural year of gaming at the Daviess County Museum. We have grown from an idea from the mind of Ken Graber, to participating in TableTop Day 2014. We begin January with our usual first Saturday of the Month Game Day, weekly Wednesday Game Nights, monthly Friday Night Games, traveling to Evansville once a month for a meet up with an Evansville Game Group, and starting in January, EPIC Game Saturday. We have grown from one gamer, Ken, to five regulars and a couple of semi regulars.

On to the games!

The Activities

DC Museum Game Day, Saturday 12/6

Attendees – 4
New Attendees – none
Games Played – 2 games played a total of three times

Games Played
Stone Age – played twice
Love Letter – played once

New Games Introduced to the Group
Stone Age

Friday Night Games, Friday 12/12

Attendees – 4
Games Played – One game one time

Games Played
Sid Meier’s Civilization

DC Museum Gamers Board Game Night, Wednesday 12/3

Attendees – 5
Games Played – two games played a total of 14 times

Games Played
Pandemic the Cure – played four times
Bang the Dice Game – played ten times

New Games Introduced to the Group
Pandemic the Cure
Bang the Dice Game

DC Museum Gamers Board Game Night, Wednesday, 12/10

Attendees – 5
Games Played – two games played three times

Games Played
Pandemic the Cure – played once
Descent – played twice

New Games Introduced to the Group
Descent

DC Museum Gamers Board Game Night, Wednesday, 12/17

Attendees – 5
Games Played – two games played twice

Games Played
Paperback – played once
Snake Oil – played once

New Games Introduced to the Group
Paperback
Snake Oil

DC Museum Gamers Board Game Night, Tuesday, 12/23

Attendees – 5
Games Played – two games played three times

Games Played
Pandemic Contagion – played once
Descent – played twice

New Games Introduced to the Group
Pandemic Contagion

DC Museum Gamers Board Game Night, Tuesday, 12/30

Attendees – 5
Games Played – three games played a total of six times

Games Played
Dragon Slayer – played once
Texas Zombies – played twice
Descent – played three times

New Games Introduced to the Group
Texas Zombies

In addition, four members of the group traveled to Evansville to our monthly meet up to attend Saint Peter’s Game Night. This event was a fund raiser for Play Pandemic, raise money for Doctors Without Borders. The event raised over $450 for Doctors Without Borders to help fight Ebola in West Africa.

Games Played
Pandemic – played four times by the group

Upcoming Events at the Daviess County Museum

-Saturday, January 3, DC Museum Gamers Game Day, theme is
TV to Table Top, noon – 5pm
-Wednesdays, January 7, 14, 21, 28, Board Game Night, 5 – 10pm
-Friday, January 9, Friday Night Games, 6 -11pm
-Saturday, January 31, EPIC Game Saturday, 2pm to midnight
-Saturday, February 7, DC Museum Gamers Game Day, theme is
Lies, Deceit, and Treachery, Valentines Day Special, noon – 5pm
-Wednesdays, February 4, 11, 18, 25, Board Game Night, 5 – 10pm
-Saturday, February 21, EPIC Game Saturday, 2pm to midnight
-Friday, February 27, Friday Night Games, 6 – 11pm

Come game with us!

DC Museum Gamers meet at the Daviess County Museum, 212 Main Street, Washington, Indiana 47501. Admission is free, snack and pop are available on site.

For further information contact the Daviess County Museum at 812-257-0301, or contact via e-mail at dchistory@sbcglobal.net

Check out our Facebook page at Daviess County Museum Gaming Group.

Jeff Chattin

Great Gaming Gang!

November was a busy month for the Daviess County Museum Gamers. We continue to add events and gamers, if at a slow pace.

The Activities

DC Museum Game Day, Saturday, November 1

Attendees – 4
New Attendees – none
Games Played – 6 games played a total of 13 times

Games Played
Cthulhu Dice – played three times
Cardline Animals – played five times
Zombie Dice – played twice
Elder Sign – played once
Nightfall – played once
Legend of Zelda, the Board Game – played once

New Games Introduced to the Group
Cthulhu Dice
Cardline Animals
Nightfall
Legend of Zelda, the Board Game

Friday Night Games, Friday November 7

Attendees – 2
Games Played – one game played one time

Games Played
Civilization

New Games Introduced to the Group
Civilization

DC Museum Gamers Board Game Night, Wednesday 11/5

Attendees – 4
Games Played – two games played a total of twice

Games Played
Star Realms – played once
Ghost Stories – played once

New Games Introduced to the Group
Ghost Stories

DC Museum Gamers Board Game Night, Wednesday 11/12

Attendees – 5
Games Played – two games played a total of three times

Games Played
Elder Sign – played once
Evolution – played twice

New Games Introduced to the Group
Evolution

DC Museum Gamers Board Game Night, Wednesday 11/19

Attendees – 6
Games Played – two games played a total of three times

Games Played
Sushi Go – played twice
Eldritch Horror – played once

New Games Introduced to the Group
Sushi Go

DC Museum Gamers Board Game Night, Wednesday 11/26

Attendees – 5
Games Played – three games played a total of three times

Games Played
Sushi Go – played once
Pairs – played once
Eldritch Horror – played once

New Games Introduced to the Group
Pairs

In addition, four of the members attended Saint Peter’s Board Game Night at Saint Peter’s Church in Evansville Indiana, on Friday, 11/21

Games Played
Ave Caesar – played once
Donkey – played once
Sushi Go – played twice
Guillotine – played once
7 Card Samurai – played once
Jamaica – played once

New Games Introduced to the Group
Ave Caesar
Donkey
Guillotine
Jamaica

Future plans for DC Museum Game Day (tentative)

-Game Night every Wednesday at the Museum, 5-10pm
-December’s focus is Children’s and Family Games
-January’s focus is TV to Tabletop
-February’s focus is Lies, Deceit, and Treachery (Valentine’s
Special)
-Ongoing, Friday Night Card Games at the Daviess County
Museum, check our Facebook Page for details

Come game with us!

DC Museum Gamers Game Day – Held the first Saturday of each month from noon to 5 at the Daviess County Museum, 212 Main Street, Washington, Indiana 47501.

DC Museum Gamers Game Night – Held every Wednesday Night from 5-10 at the Daviess County Museum.

For further information contact the Daviess County Museum at 812-257-0301, or contact via e-mail at dchistory@sbcglobal.net

Check out our Facebook page at Daviess County Museum Gaming Group.

Jeff Chattin

Great Gaming Gang!