your humble DM is a long term player (40 odd years) from the days of Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 1st edition. I’m from Australia and am an old fart who is retired (63). This game is experimental and I’ll be trying different things and if they work then fine otherwise we drop them and move on.
Hi I’m very new to d&d, this being my first game. I’m excited and hope I don’t screw up too much. My character is Eva Fae. She grew up in San Diego, but life become too much so she decided to move to a small town in Oregon to get away from it all.
Hello fellow players, nickname is Ven, I've been playing D&D for about a year and a half almost two years, all 5e. I usually tend to play melee characters I find, mostly monks as they are my favorite class. However Uthvern is a different take on something. Uthvern Mikael is an American wrestler who wrestles for fun and entertainment to make joy with others. He did have a past as a trouble teen, as he was in juvie a few times in his teens, but grew out of the hatred. As such he is a capable fighter with his hands and is a charming fellow.
Hello fellow players, nickname is Ven, I've been playing D&D for about a year and a half almost two years, all 5e. I usually tend to play melee characters I find, mostly monks as they are my favorite class. However Uthvern is a different take on something. Uthvern Mikael is an American wrestler who wrestles for fun and entertainment to make joy with others. He did have a past as a trouble teen, as he was in juvie a few times in his teens, but grew out of the hatred. As such he is a capable fighter with his hands and is a charming fellow.
And how did he end up in Yachats on this auspicious day?
He happened to literally be passing through on the way to his next match. His friend and partner had told him about a match with some other wrestler in a few towns over and he just happened to be driving through 😂😂😂
Herman is a 40 years old man who drain his wage carving woods, climbing the Rocky Mountains. He is passionate about mountains and it’s legends.
he is funny and considerate strange.
He always thought the civilization pushed too hard.
on this latest adventure, he wanted to re-perform hitchhiking tour like Kerouac , he arrived in this little city and, searching for his next passage, he wanders the town up and down , realizing no car or truck is moving.
MYSELF: I am Italian, played several role playing for twenty years, appreciating this version of D&D because it is smooth and not too over complicated
My character is George Romero. A junior level intelligence agent who is in Oregon on a hunting trip, he finds himself alone and stranded at the moment of the Change.
He's a lifelong bowhunter having learned the art from his Uncle - both over long summers working at his Uncle's Summer Camp and deer hunting trips every fall. Having studied various martial arts (both as a hobbyist and as a practical matter) he fell in love with the long slow grace of bo kata.
This hunting trip was supposed to be a time for him to recharge and re-evaluate his life. At 45 he finds himself alone and adrift in the world. The end of the cold war (assume we're set in 1997 like the books) has brought his career in intelligence work to a natural close. After having spent most of the last 20 years working across South and Central America he's ready for the next chapter in his life. Passionate about history and martial arts he's been debating taking a more academic bent for the second chapter of his life.
I imagine the Change finding him in a rental car passing through this small town in Oregon on his way to hunt and hike in the foothills. Fortuitously he has his full kit with him - including a hunting knife, a hatchet, his hunting bow (and arrows) and a full packed backpack with supplies for a week of camping.
My character is George Romero. A junior level intelligence agent who is in Oregon on a hunting trip, he finds himself alone and stranded at the moment of the Change.
He's a lifelong bowhunter having learned the art from his Uncle - both over long summers working at his Uncle's Summer Camp and deer hunting trips every fall. Having studied various martial arts (both as a hobbyist and as a practical matter) he fell in love with the long slow grace of bo kata.
This hunting trip was supposed to be a time for him to recharge and re-evaluate his life. At 45 he finds himself alone and adrift in the world. The end of the cold war (assume we're set in 1997 like the books) has brought his career in intelligence work to a natural close. After having spent most of the last 20 years working across South and Central America he's ready for the next chapter in his life. Passionate about history and martial arts he's been debating taking a more academic bent for the second chapter of his life.
I imagine the Change finding him in a rental car passing through this small town in Oregon on his way to hunt and hike in the foothills. Fortuitously he has his full kit with him - including a hunting knife, a hatchet, his hunting bow (and arrows) and a full packed backpack with supplies for a week of camping.
Not set in 1997. The date of the change is 11:38 AM 3rd of March 2019.
Lets begin
I've slightly changed the landscape around Yachats to give you all a better chance to survive. The 101 highway running north is inland about 5 miles. The exit that comes into town is the Yachats River Road which passes through a cutting in some hills. This is in the Suislaw National Forest so the terrain is rough apart from the road. There is the Old Coast Road that runs north to Waldport. The southern part of the road is in disrepair at present because there are no other towns to the south on the coast for 20 30 miles so no one was willing to spend the money to keep it up after the 101 was built.
Romero, Uthvern and Herman are all in town playing tourist and Eva is walking to her favourite restaurant for lunch when you are all struck by a blinding flash of light and a headache that makes you wish you where dead. It hurts so much you don't really know how long it lasts and then suddenly its over as if it was never there.
Eva hears a crash and looks up to see that 3 cars have crashed together (that would be you other three). The cars weren't travelling that fast so the occupants look okay. Otherwise everything else is silent. No cars are moving. The traffic lights on the corner are dead. Many people are climbing to their feet with dazed looks.
Introduce yourselves and describe your character.
your humble DM is a long term player (40 odd years) from the days of Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 1st edition. I’m from Australia and am an old fart who is retired (63). This game is experimental and I’ll be trying different things and if they work then fine otherwise we drop them and move on.
I'm new to 5e but played AD&D and Basic as a teen. Huge fan of the Emberverse and looking forward to this campaign.
Hi I’m very new to d&d, this being my first game. I’m excited and hope I don’t screw up too much. My character is Eva Fae. She grew up in San Diego, but life become too much so she decided to move to a small town in Oregon to get away from it all.
Hello fellow players, nickname is Ven, I've been playing D&D for about a year and a half almost two years, all 5e. I usually tend to play melee characters I find, mostly monks as they are my favorite class. However Uthvern is a different take on something. Uthvern Mikael is an American wrestler who wrestles for fun and entertainment to make joy with others. He did have a past as a trouble teen, as he was in juvie a few times in his teens, but grew out of the hatred. As such he is a capable fighter with his hands and is a charming fellow.
And how did he end up in Yachats on this auspicious day?
He happened to literally be passing through on the way to his next match. His friend and partner had told him about a match with some other wrestler in a few towns over and he just happened to be driving through 😂😂😂
Herman is a 40 years old man who drain his wage carving woods, climbing the Rocky Mountains. He is passionate about mountains and it’s legends.
he is funny and considerate strange.
He always thought the civilization pushed too hard.
on this latest adventure, he wanted to re-perform hitchhiking tour like Kerouac , he arrived in this little city and, searching for his next passage, he wanders the town up and down , realizing no car or truck is moving.
MYSELF: I am Italian, played several role playing for twenty years, appreciating this version of D&D because it is smooth and not too over complicated
My character is George Romero. A junior level intelligence agent who is in Oregon on a hunting trip, he finds himself alone and stranded at the moment of the Change.
He's a lifelong bowhunter having learned the art from his Uncle - both over long summers working at his Uncle's Summer Camp and deer hunting trips every fall. Having studied various martial arts (both as a hobbyist and as a practical matter) he fell in love with the long slow grace of bo kata.
This hunting trip was supposed to be a time for him to recharge and re-evaluate his life. At 45 he finds himself alone and adrift in the world. The end of the cold war (assume we're set in 1997 like the books) has brought his career in intelligence work to a natural close. After having spent most of the last 20 years working across South and Central America he's ready for the next chapter in his life. Passionate about history and martial arts he's been debating taking a more academic bent for the second chapter of his life.
I imagine the Change finding him in a rental car passing through this small town in Oregon on his way to hunt and hike in the foothills. Fortuitously he has his full kit with him - including a hunting knife, a hatchet, his hunting bow (and arrows) and a full packed backpack with supplies for a week of camping.
Ooc: reading Romero incipit I assume Romero and Herman can meet together at the car rental asking why everything has...stopped working
Not set in 1997. The date of the change is 11:38 AM 3rd of March 2019.
Lets begin
I've slightly changed the landscape around Yachats to give you all a better chance to survive. The 101 highway running north is inland about 5 miles. The exit that comes into town is the Yachats River Road which passes through a cutting in some hills. This is in the Suislaw National Forest so the terrain is rough apart from the road. There is the Old Coast Road that runs north to Waldport. The southern part of the road is in disrepair at present because there are no other towns to the south on the coast for 20 30 miles so no one was willing to spend the money to keep it up after the 101 was built.
Romero, Uthvern and Herman are all in town playing tourist and Eva is walking to her favourite restaurant for lunch when you are all struck by a blinding flash of light and a headache that makes you wish you where dead. It hurts so much you don't really know how long it lasts and then suddenly its over as if it was never there.
Eva hears a crash and looks up to see that 3 cars have crashed together (that would be you other three). The cars weren't travelling that fast so the occupants look okay. Otherwise everything else is silent. No cars are moving. The traffic lights on the corner are dead. Many people are climbing to their feet with dazed looks.
Eva gets to her feet and seeing the car crashes goes and check to see if everyone is okay.
You see three out-of-towners that appear to be unhurt.
I'm going out to run some errands. Be back in about 4 hours. I'll respond to post then.
Uthvern gets out of the wreckage and whistles, "Well, I'll be. The hell was that?"
George stumbles clear of the car and surveys his banged up rental car.
'Everybody ok?'
Perception check to see if I notice anything unusual - 20
Uthvern holds both hands out thumbs up, "I'm good. How 'bout ya'll? Ya'll good?"
Eva nods her head. “Yeah, I’m good. Did you guys feel that pain too?”
I also want to do a perception check
11
Uthvern nods, "I can't even begin to describe it!"
I'm gonna go ahead and assume we've failed those perception checks at '9'.
George reaches into the car to grab his cell phone to call the police:
'Strange, my phone seems to be dead - anyone else have a signal?'