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Hi- Just wanted to post up my very first post here- am very excited to contribute to the community here after all the help its given me via reviews etc.
Information/Warning before reading-
1)Its a script format
2)it's an action-comedy style of writing
3)language does get a bit foul- the most severe of which has been censored.
4) NOTE- the intro bit has excerpt snippets from the actual scenario book of the game- just wanted that out there.
Act 1: The Ravenloft Menace
After centuries of quiet existence, the feared Count Strahd is finally ready to unleash his war upon the world from his fortress Castle Ravenloft. Across the land, peace has made weaklings of warriors and bullies of knights, and it seems that there are none to oppose them- but the world always has some willing to oppose the evil.
The first wave of monsters is about to be unleashed, guided by Count Strahd’s powerful icon of Ravenloft. As a pre-emptive strike, the council elders of Barovia send out the call for heroes to save them. Only two arrive on time, the others are caught up in a war involving a ring. The two available heroes, recruited from the inn as they always are, set off for the ominous talk dark castle in the distance.
(Adventurous music builds up) The Dangerous Duo burst through the double doors, striking heroic poses, before relaxing and walking into the dungeon-
Fighter Jaizo: Alright! Its arse kicking time- and time to find the watchamacallit
Ranger Jorran: Strahd
Fighter Jaizo: No, no, no, it was some sort of icon thing
Ranger Jorran: Wait a minute, you said-
Fighter Jaizo: aha- that's right, it's the icon of Ravenloft!
Ranger Jorran: HOLD ON- aren’t we here to fight Strahd?
Fighter Jaizo: No we’re not fighting Strahd
Ranger Jorran: You said we were fighting Strahd
Fighter Jaizo: Well we’re not fighting Strahd
Ranger Jorran: I want to fight Strahd
Fighter Jaizo: I can’t believe this. Of all the guys to be my side kick you’re it. Damn that stupid war with the stupid ring taking all the useful heroes-
Ranger Jorran: What?!
Fighter Jaizo: I know right? How stupid is that? its for a bloody ri-
Ranger Jorran: No, what do you mean I’m a sidekick?!
Fighter Jaizo: Yeah. The sidekick. I’m the tall strong hero who does the hard stuff, and you’re the sidekick. The guy who helps and stuff.
Ranger Jorran: I’ve done this more times than you-
Fighter Jaizo: Yet here you are tricked by me into this. Isn’t that something?
Ranger Jorran: Lame.
Fighter Jaizo: So anyway sidekick guy-
Ranger Jorran: Well hey, guess what? The ‘sidekick guy’ is carrying the two healing surges
Fighter Jaizo: ... The what?
Ranger Jorran (irritated sigh): Whenever one of us dies, the healing surge brings us back to life.
Fighter Jaizo: And when all the healing surges are gone?
Ranger Jorran: We get teleported to safety outside the dungeon, probably in some inn, continuing our pointless existence.
Fighter Jaizo: Better be careful with the healing surges then.
Ranger Jorran: You p**sed me off. I’m not giving them for you to use.
Fighter Jaizo: Too bad man, I know that all quest items are automatically shared whether you want to or not, especially if it’s a magic item like that. You should know- it’s in the Adventurers Rulebook.
Ranger Jorran: Darn it.
Fighter Jaizo: Alright, lets go find this- Icon of Ravenloft
Ranger Jorran: I better get paid good for this.
Fighter Jaizo (glares): Just shut up. Seriously, just- ok, look just in time, some loser wraith just appeared there, let me show you just how awesome I am-
Enter heavy metal music as in slow motion the Fighter Jaizo swings his axe in a skull splintering blow on the wraith and the shockwave from the strike moves up his rippling biceps and his eyes simmer with bloodlust after the blow.
Ranger Jorran: He’s still not dead.
Fighter Jaizo: WHAT?!
Ranger Jorran: Here this is how you do it-
Enter fast paced action music as the Ranger Jorran leaps forward and summersaults over the wraith, carefully striking his sword into its skull as he’s just above it, before landing smoothly a distance away, and coolly sheathing his sword as the wraith disappears with a shriek-
Fighter Jaizo: SHIT-what the- are my ears bleeding?
Ranger Jorran: Yeah well you and me both pal, let’s just be thankful we can still hear and stuff. Was I not awesome just then?
Fighter Jaizo: Yeah, let’s just look over the fact that you almost made us both deaf. Anyway, I softened him up for you, and I was obviously more awesome.
Ranger Jorran: Whatever.
Fighter Jaizo: Where was I before that- oh yeah, healing surges you have to share them. Whoever needs them uses them- and in this case it should be me since I’ll be doing most of the work. I hope I keep my scars though. Chicks totally dig scars.
Ranger Jorran: Well if it’s whoever needs them- maybe I should stab myself twice and then come back twice. Then who’ll be screwed?
Fighter Jaizo: Both of us.
Ranger Jorran: Yeah... Would be worth it though. But seriously, you could’ve been cleric you know? I mean-
Fighter Jaizo: What and waste my rugged, handsome features on being some do gooder cleric? I look good swinging an axe- did you not see the awesome slow motion montage of me slicing the wraith?
Ranger Jorran: dude-
Fighter Jaizo: Being a Cleric is side-kicky stuff- which is what you’re perfect for.
Ranger Jorran: shut up- ooohh what does this do.
Fighter Jaizo: NO dude DON’T PULL THAT LEVER
There was silence, and then a cacophony of noise exploded, as the hallways echoed with the fowl screeches of the dark creatures of the night. But the dangerous duo exuded their bravery and, focused on keeping each other alive-
Fighter Jaizo: To think I’m the newer guy here- which idiot pulls a random lever! Of all the idiotic...
-sort of. The Fighter’s long Halberd split the skull of a wolf before clanging loudly on the mouth of a stone gargoyle.
Heavy metal music as axe smashes the skull of a wolf
Ranger Jorran: I do it all the time, that lever pull was totally intentional, what’s the point of exploring if we don’t, well explore?
Fast paced action music as Ranger Jorran stabs the eye of a skeleton
Fighter Jaizo: Look, I’m new and even I know exploring doesn’t mean touching everything. And you know what? You’re touching the wrong things-
Heavy metal music as Jaizo's axe slices off a Blazing skeleton’s arm
Ranger Jorran: what do you mean I’m touching the wrong things?
Fast paced action music as Ranger Jorran repeatedly stabs down at rats quickly.
Ranger Jorran: You couldn’t do that with that big crappy axe.
Fighter Jaizo: Ok, seriously, you touch the lever but you don’t touch your bow?
Ranger Jorran: Why do I want to touch my bow?
Fighter Jaizo: Dammit Jorran, you’re a damn archer- touch your bow- touch it!
Ranger Jorran: You touch it!
Fighter Jaizo: Dude- no, I’m not touching your bow.
Ranger Jorran: Actually yeah that's not- woah!
Jorran ducks a swipe from the skeleton as Jaizo swings around to the side of the skeletons and decapitates it.
Ranger Jaizo: Teamwork b**ches.
So, after 10 minutes of hacking their way through waves of enemies and 'kicking arse-
Ranger Jorran: Heck yeah!
The Ranger Jorran ducks the sweep of a skeleton’s blade and stabs it in the groin. The skeleton gives him the finger before it falls.
Fighter Jaizo: He was talking about me kicking arse, not you
The Fighter Jaizo swings his axe around and decapitates two Kobold Skirmishers
Ranger Jorran: No it’s me, watch-
The Ranger Jorran slices through a wolf’s neck and then kicks the Fighter Jaizo: in the ass
Fighter Jaizo: woah-
As the Fighter Jaizo hits the ground, a swarm of rats instantly attack his head, chewing their way through his skull.
Fighter Jaizo: Son of a-
...that was kind of petty wasn’t it?
Ranger Jorran: shut up
AHEM- so anyway the last healing surge is used to bring back the Fighter Jaizo (the first one was used earlier already) and ANOTHER 10 minutes of hacking their way through waves of enemies and kicking ass- a great tragedy occurs-
Fighter Jaizo: That’s great narration (rolls eyes)
Alright look man- I’m just doing my job
Fighter Jaizo: Yeah well I’m doing my job, but you don’t see me being a ja***ss-
A GREAT TRAGEDY IS OCCURRING YOU MORON-
Ranger Jorran: Hey IDIOT, I’m dying here!
Fighter Jaizo: oh right
Insert emotional music, as Fighter Jaizo runs over to the Ranger Jorran’s side.
Ranger Jorran: I’m not going to make it man *cough*cough*, damn that spider *cough*cough*
Fighter Jaizo: The Healing surges!
Ranger Jorran: We’ve already used them all *cough*cough*
Fighter Jaizo: If you hadn’t literally kicked my arse and forced me to use a healing surge after those rats chewed through my skull we wouldn’t be in this situation-
Ranger Jorran: If you hadn’t accidentally stabbed me *cough* when you were trying out ‘combos’ in killing, I wouldn’t have died *cough* before. Damn that’s a lot of blood.
Fighter Jaizo: Look, don’t worry man we’ll figure something out- maybe if I swish a bit of my leftover booze in those healing surge containers, it'll-
Ranger Jorran (grabbing Fighter Jaizo and shaking him): No listen, you got to focus! Get the icon and-
Fighter Jaizo: I know you’re dying and everything, but seriously, you’re being really lame- 'go save the world' I know. I hear that sh** all the time-
Ranger Jorran: No you moron, the icon can bring me back to life!
Fighter Jaizo: Oh.
Ranger Jorran: And you better do it- I want to hear what our ‘outro’ music sounds like
Fighter Jaizo: Outro music?
Ranger Jorran: Like you know how we came in it was intro music and narration- well I want to hear the outro music and the narration as we leave.
Fighter Jaizo: It’ll probably be the same as the intro music-
Ranger Jorran: I beg to diff-
Fighter Jaizo: whatever, conversation over. Hurry up and die.
Ranger Jorran: bleargh
The Ranger Jorran died.
Fighter Jaizo: Yeah, nice way to put it Shakespeare.
Just go get the icon.
Fighter Jaizo (rolls eyes): Yes mom.
Heavy metal music as the stone gargoyle in front of the crypt opens his bland eyes and stretches its wings, the floor shuddering as he rumbles towards the Fighter Jaizo. The Fighter Jaizo runs forward, both hands bringing the axe down for a huge attack, the Gargoyle swipes with an enormous arm but the Fighter Jaizo quickly hurls his axe forward, sliding with his knees forward, and leaning far back, narrowly dodging the arm, before leaping upward, quickly drawing his sword and stabbing one of the Gargoyles eyes, whilst the axe he threw earlier slices through the other stone arm. The Gargoyle is still for a moment before it shatters into a hundred pieces, and the Fighter Jaizo gets up slowly, with the stone pieces settling into a dusty mess around him, triumphant. He tosses the icon to the corpse of Ranger Jorran, who slowly gets up after a moment of waiting. A beam of light shines on the Fighter Jaizo through a nearby opening crack. He poses dramatically.
Fighter Jaizo: And that’s the end of yet another heroic adventure of FIGHTER JAIZO and his sidekick.
Glances back to where the Ranger Jorran was- only to find him gone.
From a distance, along with a bit of fast paced action music- Ranger Jorran: Guess who doesn’t get the reward now loser!
A moment of silence, as the pattering of feet of the Ranger Jorran moves further away.
Fighter Jaizo: HEY SMART PERSON, I SUPPOSE YOU REMEMBER THE WAY OUT?
The footsteps stop.
Ranger Jorran: Ah dammit
Ranger Jorran runs back to where the Fighter Jaizo is
Fighter Jaizo: Thought so.
Insert outro music as the two heroes slowly make their way towards the exit, stepping over the bodies of the hundreds of creatures they killed. A normal yet extraordinary adventure of two heroes-
Ranger Jorran: DAMMIT- I had a potion here the whole time! Why the heck do they pack it below the map-
Fighter Jaizo: You had a map?
But as night falls within the walls of the castle, the sound of a coffin lid is heard to scrape slowly… and the dark laughter of the Count
THE END- or is it...
*edit-
changes up to 10/2/12-
-Changed prelude section to be more short and to the point.
-Changed format, corrected some dialogue (may change further)
-Censored more words considered too vulgar to be explicit.
Thanks admin for moving this to sessions area, and being so quick to reply and act
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Sean Shaw
United States
Georgia
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Re: Review/Session Report
Just so you know, though there are games that have session reports and reviews mixed when I can see the parts of it that cover it as a review...I didn't approve this session report. Nice session though.
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Rob White
United States
Richmond
Virginia
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Re: Review/Session Report
GreyLord wrote: Just so you know, though there are games that have session reports and reviews mixed when I can see the parts of it that cover it as a review...I didn't approve this session report. Nice session though.
Huh?
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Sean Shaw
United States
Georgia
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Re: Review/Session Report
Rob in Richmond wrote: GreyLord wrote: Just so you know, though there are games that have session reports and reviews mixed when I can see the parts of it that cover it as a review...I didn't approve this session report. Nice session though. Huh?
Don't see this as a review, but definately a session report.
Been accused before of being too lax on what I allow through in regards to reviews vs. session reports so wanted to make sure that this one wasn't due to my approval!
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Sérgio Iglésias
Portugal
Porto - V.N. Gaia
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Re: Review/Session Report
GreyLord wrote: Just so you know, though there are games that have session reports and reviews mixed when I can see the parts of it that cover it as a review...I didn't approve this session report. Nice session though.
I also declined it but I guess moders were not paying enough attention to the submissions they approved. Awesome session by the way!
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Re: Review/Session Report
Thanks! I do see now, in reflection, the bits I thought were review weren't really and weren't enough. It's just a session report then, as you all say 
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Posted Tue Jan 31, 2012 11:15 am
