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Failing At Life...
Apr. 25th, 2006 10:41 am...or how Pieter Karlssohn personally dropped his entire party on its @$$.
Last night's Warhammer was great fun from an OOC point of view, but involved Pieter being kicked more than a few times when he was down, responding in kind and managing to hurt people all the more.
It started when "Rex" (Jon's NPC, who would later turn out to be Magnus the Pious for those who know the system, who caused the beastman attack on Pieter's home village in order that Pieter would be saved) once again showed up to see how we were doing (maddening), Pieter took a swing at him and missed (brink-reaching), and Alaina somehow managed to say something that he understood as, "Well, if you're that depressed why don't you go and kill yourself?"
No sooner said than done...
Cue his approaching the nearby river looking to throw himself off, only stopped by Rex's gribbly powers that froze him on the spot while Felix dragged him back and pointed him away from the river. Rex vanished in a puff of flange just before Pieter was able to swing at him again. Pieter didn't talk to anyone much after that.
Managing to get to safety on the other side of the river, Pieter found comfort in work as he manned what had become the city's walls, getting drunk with the soldiers he got off duty with in what we found out later was the local gay bar (the Crooked Spear? Should have guussed). Mel and Ali then tried to smooth things over the following morning by taking him what Mel was sure was a hangover cure. In fact, it was liquid shit.
This did not improve Pieter's mood.
After a couple more days in that particular city, we headed out towards Middenheim, still looking to pick up the replacement Priest of Sigmar that we were sent to pick up in the first place. Getting to a village not too far along the road, we find a small village being protected by a barricade and (as Pieter saw it) some damn scary, badass looking farmers. With rakes. He backed off, looking worried. The rest of the party went into the village. Pieter kept Felix between him and those badass farmers.
The village was gathered to listen to a speech from a veteran soldier who had stayed with them to help them defend themselves. His speech was cut short by his being shot repeatedly by beastmen with guns. The party, of course, rushed to help, and Pieter managed to scoop up one of the beastmen and run him into a tree, breaking a lot of important things, like bones, and internal organs.
Then, things went a little wrong.
Pieter saw that Ali was covered in blood where she'd been going postal on the corpse of one of the beastmen, so, still remembering the liquid shit, picked her up and walked over to the horse trough. Alaina saw this happening and tried to grab Ali's arms to slow Pieter down. He kept moving towards the horse trough. Ali exclaimed, "Put...me...DOWN!", so he did.
Sploosh.
This caused Alaina to fall in as well, and Felix to dump Mel in for good measure (G&DP? S&G?). The girls then grabbed Pieter and dragged him in and the horse trough collapsed. Alaina had a hissy fit at Pieter and stalked off, and Pieter continued to be the big surly idiot he had been for several days.
Then Alaina realised her cards were in her bag.
The one link she had to her father had just been dunked into a horse trough. Cue much crying and depressed moans. Pieter walked in, saw this, walked out again. That night he got someone to write a goodbye message for him, waited until everyone had gone to sleep, then left the village intending to try to stop hurting people by being around them. The curtain fell on the session as the party read his note and Alaina turned purple.
So it's all gone a bit to shit.
Pieter sees himself as a big guy who used to beat up drunks and look after the tavern's girls. He's not a warrior, adventurer or anything else like that. All this bigger picture crap is too much for him to understand, so he ends up doing really stupid things and annoying people. He's either going to end up working for a card shop owner, or in the pit fights trying to earn enough money to buy a new deck for Alaina. Hopefully, he might survive long enough for them to find him and shout at him.
But he ain't holding his breath.
Last night's Warhammer was great fun from an OOC point of view, but involved Pieter being kicked more than a few times when he was down, responding in kind and managing to hurt people all the more.
It started when "Rex" (Jon's NPC, who would later turn out to be Magnus the Pious for those who know the system, who caused the beastman attack on Pieter's home village in order that Pieter would be saved) once again showed up to see how we were doing (maddening), Pieter took a swing at him and missed (brink-reaching), and Alaina somehow managed to say something that he understood as, "Well, if you're that depressed why don't you go and kill yourself?"
No sooner said than done...
Cue his approaching the nearby river looking to throw himself off, only stopped by Rex's gribbly powers that froze him on the spot while Felix dragged him back and pointed him away from the river. Rex vanished in a puff of flange just before Pieter was able to swing at him again. Pieter didn't talk to anyone much after that.
Managing to get to safety on the other side of the river, Pieter found comfort in work as he manned what had become the city's walls, getting drunk with the soldiers he got off duty with in what we found out later was the local gay bar (the Crooked Spear? Should have guussed). Mel and Ali then tried to smooth things over the following morning by taking him what Mel was sure was a hangover cure. In fact, it was liquid shit.
This did not improve Pieter's mood.
After a couple more days in that particular city, we headed out towards Middenheim, still looking to pick up the replacement Priest of Sigmar that we were sent to pick up in the first place. Getting to a village not too far along the road, we find a small village being protected by a barricade and (as Pieter saw it) some damn scary, badass looking farmers. With rakes. He backed off, looking worried. The rest of the party went into the village. Pieter kept Felix between him and those badass farmers.
The village was gathered to listen to a speech from a veteran soldier who had stayed with them to help them defend themselves. His speech was cut short by his being shot repeatedly by beastmen with guns. The party, of course, rushed to help, and Pieter managed to scoop up one of the beastmen and run him into a tree, breaking a lot of important things, like bones, and internal organs.
Then, things went a little wrong.
Pieter saw that Ali was covered in blood where she'd been going postal on the corpse of one of the beastmen, so, still remembering the liquid shit, picked her up and walked over to the horse trough. Alaina saw this happening and tried to grab Ali's arms to slow Pieter down. He kept moving towards the horse trough. Ali exclaimed, "Put...me...DOWN!", so he did.
Sploosh.
This caused Alaina to fall in as well, and Felix to dump Mel in for good measure (G&DP? S&G?). The girls then grabbed Pieter and dragged him in and the horse trough collapsed. Alaina had a hissy fit at Pieter and stalked off, and Pieter continued to be the big surly idiot he had been for several days.
Then Alaina realised her cards were in her bag.
The one link she had to her father had just been dunked into a horse trough. Cue much crying and depressed moans. Pieter walked in, saw this, walked out again. That night he got someone to write a goodbye message for him, waited until everyone had gone to sleep, then left the village intending to try to stop hurting people by being around them. The curtain fell on the session as the party read his note and Alaina turned purple.
So it's all gone a bit to shit.
Pieter sees himself as a big guy who used to beat up drunks and look after the tavern's girls. He's not a warrior, adventurer or anything else like that. All this bigger picture crap is too much for him to understand, so he ends up doing really stupid things and annoying people. He's either going to end up working for a card shop owner, or in the pit fights trying to earn enough money to buy a new deck for Alaina. Hopefully, he might survive long enough for them to find him and shout at him.
But he ain't holding his breath.
