TFT First Session Summary – Our first game of TFT was going to be a one-shot. Bruce ran and four of us played:
Chris – Harbben, Tough Warrior
Ernest – Karla Dawn Spark, Feisty Mage
Patrick – Taetzelwisp, Elf Archer
Tim – Agbor Ironfoot, Dwarf Axeman
The setup was pretty simple, there’s a tower nearby that housed the priesthood of the moon goddess Lukariel until some crazed necromancer invaded, and now it’s a ruin. But a local noble’s daughter has ventured there to find goodies and hasn’t returned, so they want someone to go find her.
Taetzelwisp has taken the “Sex Appeal” talent, which makes him popular while we are in town. After some silver gearing up, as we hear there’s werewolves galore (or at least there used to be), we head to the place we can get a ferry across the lake.
The icon on the map looks like a bunch of teepees, which leads us inevitably to a reenactment of the classic Cannibal: The Musical (Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s pre-South Park movie) scene where a bunch of Japanese folks try to convince the settlers they are Indians. https://youtu.be/YEjpKBDMk8I?si=XhmTLMaDvcsvn3Oz
When we get to the tower, Karla casts her first spell, Summon Scout, to summon a rat to go look inside. She critically fails and the rat drops over dead immediately after arriving. This bodes ill, and we mill around a little until we go inside. We are immediately bearded by another batch of ruthless adventurers and a fight begins.
Karla uses “3-hex fire” for crowd control and that works pretty well, we work them down one by one in relative safety. After looting them, we get attacked by rats, to reinforce the fact we’re “first level” (there’s no levels in TFT, but you get the vibe).
Then it gets weird. We come across a ballroom with zombie musicians and dancing ghosts – they grab Agbor and drag him off dancing, which causes him to keep taking fatigue damage. A complex fight ensues where we have to pull the zombies off the balcony and outside the room so we don’t get danced to death by ghosts. We manage to finish them off before Agbor dances himself to death Lady Gaga style.
We find an obviously turned-to-stone elf woman, and sure enough there’s a cockatrice hiding behind a barrel in the room – we thought it would be in the barrel, so Karla set it on fire with her magic, but alas it was not singed. After a quick scuffle we emerge with the statue, and we set the menfolk to wrestling it up the stairs for later carting to civilization to see if anyone wanted to stone to flesh her.
Well, the good news is we find a shrine to Lukariel with a well that can undo enchantments, the bad news is we have to fight a werewolf and then Harbben gets turned into a werewolf compelled to protect the shrine until the next full moon. Luckily, a random 1d30 roll indicates that’s in a day.
The party hangs out. Taetzelwisp canoodles with the now-fleshy Sharilyn the elven huntress. Karla spends the time praying at the shrine – she finds the faith of Lukariel compelling. “Lukariel Sherikira, The Howling Huntress. Her portfolio included love, hunting, dance and wolves.” Pretty standard moon goddess kind of stuff. Plus, she develops a bit of a werewolf fetish.
We end up going back to get water from the well to disenchant things a bunch. You just have to put in a silver piece first to not get cursed. We also find a sexy werewolf.
Long story short we find and free the girl but discover there’s really no way for us to kill the ghost of the necromancer as being incorporeal is basically a TFT “win button” so we skedaddle with the girl, some loot, and our lives! Success.
Karla decides to bring back the cult of Lukariel, and dudes herself up in the priestess robes and holy symbols and magic staff and such found in the tower. This is the way old school games go – your character’s rules chassis isn’t very different from another’s, but adventuring gives you weird abilities and goals and such. So she gets a little cash and XP but comes out of the adventure pretty significantly transformed.
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We thought this was just a one-shot, but turns out our adventures were continued shortly – I’ll share that soon!
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