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Last night's Judge Dee game was a bust as two of our players were unable to make it. We instead chatted to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
marzut via Skype and had a nice 'like the old days' sort of rambling conversation.
Aftermarzut rang off we had a quick game of TransAmerica just so we could say we did some gaming on Thursday night. It was much as usual, but amazingly I won. Final score: Myles 8, sammywol 6, alaimacerc 4.
Unfortunately this means I don't have 'loser stays on' privilege in choosing our next game, so we'll all be suffering Funkenschlag again on Sunday.
marzut via Skype and had a nice 'like the old days' sort of rambling conversation. After
marzut rang off we had a quick game of TransAmerica just so we could say we did some gaming on Thursday night. It was much as usual, but amazingly I won. Final score: Myles 8, sammywol 6, alaimacerc 4. Unfortunately this means I don't have 'loser stays on' privilege in choosing our next game, so we'll all be suffering Funkenschlag again on Sunday.
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'Judge Dee game'? Tell me more.
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My wife,
Judge Dee: The White Lotus Rebellion
Sam has taken the helm of the Thursday night gaming group and has kindly offered to GM a game from the casebook of Judge Dee. Drawing on the books by Robert van Gulik, she has the PCs in the employ of the good magistrate Di Renjie, in the district of Lan Fang, on the Northwest border close against the Uyghur hordes.
Recent events have thrown the whole district into disarray. A rebellion led by the mysterious White Lotus Brotherhood has shattered the local Imperial Army, driven the judge from his tribunal, and left the town under the brutal martial law of the rebels.
Into this mess come the player characters. They are an odd assortment of assistants, followers and hangers-on to the tribunal of Lan Fang. They are:
Miss Ting/Mrs. Kang (Kate Sheehy): the wife of missing Mr. Kang, she is an ex-acrobat, now respectably married, who lost contact with her husband during the recent unpleasantness after falling into a river.
Bo Jiang (Marie Lane): ex-soldier with a heavy conscience and a habit of singing drunken songs. He has an unfortunate weakness for 'ripe fruit' (buxom lasses).
Win Gao (Alex Ferguson): disgruntled ex-bureaucrat and herbalist. The only local in the group, now fled from Lan Fang and offering help to the magistrate.
Chen Mi (Peter MacHale) : Sensitive poet and ladykiller, sporting sleeve arrows and a winsome smile.
Zui Quan (Myles Corcoran): Drunken fallen Daoist priest with a sturdy constitution and mighty drunken monkey style gong fu.
The judge set up camp in the woods some distance from the city, and there began to organise the resistance. Our band were put to the task of investigating strange marks on some of the trees, evidence of a secret society at work perhaps? I hope to get to that nextish.
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