How Horsa Swore His Oath (an adventure write-up)

[Demetrio]

I'm afraid I've had to pull this as there's a (slim) chance that it might get published as part of a longer work. If anyone would like to read it in its finished form, I'll provide a way to do that when I've finished it (in a week or two).

Sorry if anyone was hanging on the next post, as I say I'll provide a way for anyone here whose interested to read it reasonably soon. But I'm using this idea as the start of a novel and there's been some interest in it being taken up so to avoid publishing complications, this has to disappear from open view, just to be safe.

 

[flatscan]

I dig it!

Your write-up has a great sense of style and the imagery is gritty and brutal. I envy your skill at writing as I generally don't have the time to spend on Howarding up my write-ups and they read more as accurate notes than a story. You should create an account on Obsidian Portal and publish your campaign write-ups, notes, etc.

 

[Demetrio]

Thanks very much. Unfortunately, I'm not certain I have the time for a full campaign write up - or even to write up more than this one, quite short adventure, which might take me a fortnight or two to finish.

I'd add that your write ups are a lot better than you seem to think!

 

[flatscan]

Thanks very much. Unfortunately, I'm not certain I have the time for a full campaign write up - or even to write up more than this one, quite short adventure, which might take me a fortnight or two to finish.

I'd add that your write ups are a lot better than you seem to think!

Thanks! Yeah, it's time consuming to write a full-campaign write-up. I try to do a write-up after each individual session in order to keep the task from overwhelming me. I've got all my notes on my laptop so I generally cut and paste into my Adventure Log, then look at whatever notes I jotted down during the session. Luckily one of my players is really good at keeping a PC Log that I can use as a refresher. Though it's not always accurate, it's kinda nice to see the variance between the official record and the way a PC would tell the story.

But I've only got write-ups for the last 2 adventures when I signed up to Obsidian Portal a year ago. Still need to get down what I remember for the first 7 adventures. Dreams of illustrating the tales have so far gone little beyond starting a script. But that...is another story!

 

[Demetrio]

The first 'scene' is now complete.

Just in case anyone is interested, the pcs are Artemo and Horsa. They are old acquaintances. Artemo is a Nemedian sword for hire with a scholarly bent. Horsa is a half-Aesir, half-Cimmerian (with some Zamoran blood somewhere in his family) who has been most things in his time but currently runs a criminal gang in Shadizar. Both have worked for Nestor in the past. Horsa used to be Nestor's right-hand man. Nestor is a semi-respectable businessman who uses his legitimate businesses as cover for his criminal interests.

 

[Clovenhoof]

Funny you should name your character Horsa. I haven't yet decided how to name my new character, but Hengist is on the shortlist. ^^

For anyone to whom this doesn't ring a bell, Hengist and Horsa were the two legendary brothers and leaders of the Angles and Saxons that were summoned to Britain by Vortigern to fight the Picts in the 5th century, then decided to carve out their own kingdom right there.

 

[Demetrio]

My character's actually Artemo but Horsa was indeed named for the Horsa who was allied with Hengist.

Scene two (or most of it) sometime tomorrow. Been a bit too knackered to concentrate on cleaning it up today.

 

[Demetrio]

Scene two finished, and I've added a bit too it as it seemed to need the sorcery bringing out a little more. I might add a little more description but it's an interlude really. tricky to get the balance right between not enough detail and just waffling.

Scene three opened. If work's not too gruelling tomorrow then most of it should be in a fit state to post sometime in the evening I hope.

 

[flatscan]

And why are you not posting this on Obsidian Portal? :wink:

 

[Demetrio]

Mainly because it's hard enough for me to get it posted on here... In time I'll stick it on OP but at the moment I have the ability to either write up the story or become au fait with the (admittedly slight) intricacies of OP.

OP does look like a great concept though.

 

[Vambelte]

Keep posting, I really enjoyed what I've read so far.

 

[Demetrio]

Thanks. Scene 3 ended. the fight is somewhat condensed for dramatic effect but the essence of it is true to what happened.

As Gorm and Bohyan were two of Horsa's henchmen and Horsa wasn't present, Simon (Horsa's player) fought them against Artemo, which made a nice change from it always being players vs GM. He was extremely narked to lose them but there was a rather good reason for their attack that we didn't know at the time - we just assumed it was because they didn't like Artemo, which had been established previously.