I role-played last nite. Old skool version: 2nd ed AD&D.

It was fun. It has been so long since I've RP'd in person tho, that it wasn't easy at first. Dawn and I just kinda stared at eachother for a bit, not really knowing what to do LOL. It was funny. We haven't really played since Steven quit playing with us all or even talking to us, and even then, we played over MSN messenger. There's a different style to doing it online than in person--and it makes u a lil shy goin' back to person hehe.

I guess the biggest thing was the pacing. We were just used to slower games online and it just wasn't picking back up too easy. Plus the old rule sets, old chars that you have to reaquint urself with, ect.

We did get back into the swing of things, tho. Teagan, Laura and Jame explored the town, trying to figure out how to communicate with everyone--before they slowly started picking up the local dialect. It was so unusual that it sounded like a new language, but eventually they caught on after they started making jokes to eachother and the barkeep overheard them and laughed.

Jame didn't believe Teagan and Laura that they were speaking in Common and locked herself in the inn room cuz she was upset that eveyone was 'making fun' of her. LOL It was great. They all convinced her to open the door and she's all sittin there with a big string of tissue paper, wiping her puffy, red eyes and snot drippin'. Such a drama queen LOL NEwayz, they convinced her to come out and they all sat at a weekly performance that the Harmonic Hall puts on at the Ampitheater of Harmornia.

The Ampitheater is a huge tiered stage with an overhang from the cliff it is built into, creating a clamshell effect that seemed to amplify the singers voice, so that if someone were standing on the top tier, their voice would actually be able to carry over the whole town. As the sun set and night came like a blanket over the village, the master singers would step on stage and do their performances. The people working the ampitheater lit bonfires across the top of the cliff and across the clamshell-like overhang, lighting up the stage and the huge crowd that gathered.

They overheard some people talking and realized that these concerts were HUGE events every week and that some of the crowd had traveled from miles around just to listen to them. Teagan had payed for Jame, Laura, and her to sit in some of the top tier seats--the best seats in the house. They were a platinum piece donation each. Seriously, just donation, but Teagan payed it anyways. It ended up being worth it. Laura was screaming by the end of the performance and Jame had already thrown her top on the stage. ROFL The meistersinger (mayor and chief educator, not to mention a great bard) even made an appearance.

Not wanting to travel the roads of Kartakass at night, they ended up staying another night before deciding to head to Skald, a city to the north. As they were leaving town the next day, a man came running out of a building up ahead, carrying a drawn short sword--and, even tho their grasp of the local speech was still shakey, they could make out his words.

"HELP! HELP!" he said. "One of me inmates has escaped and 'e's a mean one, too!" He had a bad gash across his hairline that caused blood to run down his cheek and with his sweat, dripping down on his tunic, ruining the already worthless garment.

Jame healed the guards wound with a quick spell and they all agreed to help, so he led them into the jail house and explained that he needed them to advance slowly down the dark, cramped halls within towards the escaped inmate, while he went to another room and opened and closed the steel portcullises that he had trapped him with. Led by two other guards, they did as he asked. When they reached the end of the long hall that worked itz way around the building, they saw a shadowy shape crouched in the darkness. He avoided the light of the small window that spilled out from his old cell, through a door that looked nearly beaten off its hinges and into the hall.

Teagan sternly demanded, pushing up towards the guards leading them, that he get back in his cell. In a deep, growling voice he refused.

"We don't want to have to hurt you, sir! Please, just do as we ask..."

He stood up tall, his hulking shape shifting angrily in the shadows. "Well, maybe I DO want to hurt YOU!" he snarled and leaped forward towards one of the guards ahead of the heroes.

As he passed thru the light, they could suddenly make out his face. He was no human at all! His face was more like that of a wolf. His face was furry and had a long snout. His lips were drawn up in a threatening, hungry-looking sneer and saliva dripped off of the wicked, sharp teeth. Shocked, Teagan and the others drew their swords and Jame began to chant a magical prayer; but, not before the creature had already lunged forward to attack.

The beast made short work of the first guard and the other guard was seriously injured. Teagan had cast a barrage of magical energy into the monster and Jame continued to work her priestly magic to call upon the Morninglord's aid in their battle. It was difficult to move around and fight together in the cramped hall. At best, only one person was able to confront the creature at a time. When Teagan realized the grave danger to the guard in front of her, she got him to back off behind her and with a final casting of her arcane magic, she slew the already wounded creature with a final spell--draining his life force to strengthen herself with but a touch. A shiver ran down her spine, like something wasn't right--like an invisible, cold claw scraping across her neck--but looking around there was nothing there.

Quickly, Jame cured the injured guard; it was too late for the first. Teagan called out for the other guard, telling him that the werewolf had been killed; but, he refused to let them out, for fear that they may have been infected in the battle. After an arguement, they all tried to escape. Teagan tried to bend the bars with her magical strength but the bars were too strong on the windows and on the portcullises. Laura tried to pick the locks on one of the doors and after that failed, Teagan tried to bash it down, but couldn't do it. It looked like they were stuck.

They ended up spending 3 long days in that jail house. On the 3rd night, they heard movement outside the barred window of the werewolf's cell. Moving quietly to the window, Teagan looked out. She could see no one, but she could hear a man and woman speaking quietly. After a moment, the conversation ended and the woman walked into view in the dark alley beside the jailhouse. As she walked, a man came out from a shadowy alleyway between the 2 buildings beside the jailhouse. As he walked forth, a dark evil filled the alley like a fog. It was so overpowering.

He shouted, "YOU HAVE DEFIED ME FOR THE LAST TIME AKRIEL!" and began to whip her. She pleaded for him to stop and began to cry, but he just kept on. It was hard to make out what he was saying after that, but Teagan was able to make out the words "change" and "vampire".

Teagan ducked down and thought quickly on how to stop it. She began to howl like a werewolf and just as quickly, the beatings stopped. The alley was silent except the soft sobbing of the girl. She borrowed Laura's small handheld mirror from her backpack and held it at the window to look out. The man was gone and only the girl remained, huddled and crying on the ground into her hands and completely oblivious to anything around her.

Teagan began to try to grab her attention with a quick PSSST!

...and that was where we stopped for the night. Dawn was like... "Damn you, Jimmy!" :P I think my lil sly tatic of getting her all ready for the next game worked in reverse tho. LOL I'm all like... I would RP right now if i could! LOL That was a good spot to stop. Grabs ur attention and makes u want to know more hehe. --but this game was really good with setting up the story. Stopping the game right there also lets me introduce Jeff's character. He had to work and we just really wanted to play, so this lets me get his char in before too much happens, so he won't be confused on the story.

I'm gonna play a quick game with him and he'll walk in at the same time, but he won't be in prison. He'll just be nearby and hear the commotion in the alley. That way it'z like 2 diff stories coming together. He could even help Teagan and her henchmen escape from the prison, if they can convince him to. He's Lawful Good, so his character would be sure that they aren't criminals who belong in jail before he lets them out LOL.

Teagan is a lvl 11 bard. Her 2 henchmen are Jame (lvl 7/7 fighter/cleric) and Laura (lvl 8 thief).

Jeff's character doesn't have a name, yet. We just have a few things to do to finish it, but he's a lvl 7 psionicist (think like a psychic). His primary discipline is psychokinesis. So he moves things with his mind and stuff--and he can do that kewl firestarter thing, too. ROFL He's perfectly equipped to get them out if he's convinced tho. There's alot of options that he has to help them escape, just from his powers alone--it'll just take a lil creativity on Jeff's part.

I'm so excited tho. *leaps up and down* This adventure has a really great story. I'm really getting into it hehe. I was excited before I even started, but it'z more fun then I thought it would be even hehe. It'z fun to play a higher lvl game too.

Most likely, we'll be playing this weekend. I hope it all works out. I was kinda shakey last time tho. I also hadn't read the first part in so long, cuz i read the adventure slowly, so i forgot alot, so i kept just reading things and looking over it LOL. I'll have to get myself nice and prepared tho. Right now tho, everything is looking great. I solved the problem with the prison tho. (the way it was written, it kinda had a hole in the plot. They get securely locked in. It'z at a difficult spot now, but introducing Jeff's char the way I said makes it run perfectly. The last one that has a flaw is at the end of the adventure, so i have to work that one out, but it'z not as hard to do. Just have to read about the NPC's in the story and figure out how it was supposed to work out. :P hehe)

WOW I love D&D! LOL It'z a great creative outlet from the storytelling part and it'z a WHOLE lotta fun getting everyone together and just hangin out rollin' dice together.

Ok, but I'm gonna end this post... It'z turnin out to be waaaay too long ROFL. Peace ya'll!