Hi everybody,
Well looking at the other threads on here it seems I am jumping on a bit of a January band wagon!
A couple of my friends came around last weekend, and because we are a little bit burnt out with 40K decided we would do something a little bit different, and a little bit less intensive.
The plan was to play some board games, but I have to confess that even though I have been gaming for 25+ years I didn't actually have any, much to their disappointment.
However deep in my "magic cupboard" I remembered I had a copy of Warhammer Quest, which had remained untouched for quite some time (over 10 years).
I remembered this to be quite fun so dug that out, and much to my surprise realised I had all of the character packs except the Wardancer, as well as the Lair of the Orc Lord and Catacombs of Terror (I think, the undead one anyway).
I am a terrible horder in all honesty, and buy lots of stuff that sits around unopened in cupboards, and poor old WHQ was a victim of this, but we opened it all up and set to playing (of course if I had checked ebay first I may not have opened all of it....)
Anyway, the long and short of it is that we had an absolute blast and now plan to make it a weekly event every Thursday evening (with beer and pizza of course).
Hopefully we will manage to keep this blog updated with all of our adventures, and some pics too.
I had actually painted a fair amount of the models, but have to admit they were painted aaaaages ago and very much in the style of the now infamous "red period".
However the plan is to each buy a model for our own character and paint it up, and expand our dungeon monsters by buying some new figures and getting these painted up. These won't be limited to just GW figures, i already have my eye on some Mantic Zombies and Ghouls so we should get a nice varity of minis to show off.
I will post some pics later of the models painted so far, even if they are showing their age a bit now....
Our party consists of:
Warrior Priest of Sigmar
Chaos Warrior
Elf
Elven Ranger Mage
Our first week of adventuring was quite eventful.
We were tasked to enter a dungeon to find a sacred fountain, who's waters apparently held the cure for the Nurgle's Rot that was sweeping across our corner of the Empire.
We all suspected one member of our party, as he seemed overtly aggressive and kept well away from our Priest. However the Priest, our gracious leader seemed a little too cowardly to be an upholder of the virtues of Sigmar and was only too quick to run off with the lantern!
The two elves were no better, with the Noble arguing constantly with his silvan brother, who seemed only too keen to let us deal with the monsters and hide at the back claiming he would "pick them off with his bow".
More than one monster suffered an arrow in the knee!
So basically we spent a good hour or so trawling through our dungeon, and I have to say I have never seen so many 1's rolled!
Essentially we went through the entire event deck, facing off against all the horrors the basic deck can throw at you including 3 Minotaurs!
However 1 card before our objective room we hit a cave in, preventing us from going any further!
This meant we couldn't save the faithful citizens of Praag from Nurgle's Rot, but managed to crawl our way out of the dungeon with rather a lot of treasure and more than a few cuts and grazes.
So we set off to the nearest town, some weeks travel away only to discover that our noble leader's map was woefully out of date, and the town we saught turned out to be no more than a provincial back water village.
Obviously far from civilisation they didn't take too kindly to our leaders religious sermons and he was thrown out of the village on the first day, and had to await his companions whilst they spent their hard earned loot!
The Chaos warrior managed to get thrown in Jail for 2 days, but upon his release got very drunk in the local tavern, earned some gold looting the other patrons of their gold and in the process was challenged to a duel.
Our fellow Wood Elf was accompanying the Chaos Warrior in the same tavern, and whilst learning from a fellow adventurere how to grease himself in the fat of a wild animal (these country types never cease to amaze me) he could dodge an enemy's grasp, he leapt to the defence of our fellow warrior and also landed himself in a duel.
Meanwhile our High Elf Noble was relaxing in a comforting spa, but he must offended somebody as the following day the local children pelted him with rotten eggs and he fled the village to join the priest outside.
There they waited until the following morning whilst our compatriots faught their duels. However the duels went on longer than expected, and in the end were considered a draw.
And so after a few days rest we set off on our next adventure.
To be continued.....
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Originally Posted by StraightSilver
