The Upcomming Sessions

So what to say? Well, I was supposed to do several things today but for one or another reason I didn’t do it. Yesterday broke a new record on the hits per day list with 189 hits on one day! But the simple explanation for that is that me and Drak was trying to fix the calendar and always refreshing the site from two different directions for a couple of hours to see if he managed to fix the style-problem gave about all of those hits, hehe. So actually almost nobody checked the site that day most likely… we’ll never know…

However I was supposed to play with Ankan today. Well, due to the lack of food I didn’t have the energy until evening and then it was just in small bursts. Without food for a couple of days, or at least without a steady meal every fourth hour and without a good food supply the energy tend to disappear pretty quickly. Even so it went fairly well even though you really should try to take control over your character’s situation when you can or things will go in a different direction than you want. Use your imagination, just start up the engines with a little thing and let it just escalate from there. Otherwise you might end up in hell all over again.

I’ve actually been working on the next session for the “group” which will take place in a Winter Pension of Hornheim. This is actually brought up by a suggestion or a request from one of my players even though it’s not really a straight answer to that request, which will come later. What I can say is almost the obvious; the players are stuck in this pension during the hard winter of the Hoarfrost Period with a lot of other people, mostly the lower kind but also a few noblemen. So let me give you a little background information about the Hoarfrost Period and the pensions.

Hoarfrost period is the period that occurs in almost all parts of Lanticka, with an exception to the far southwest, and all of Deben. It has sometimes even occurred in the most northern parts of the northeast Meno too. However what it’s believed that the harsh winters are caused by The Crack up in Icea that’s absorbing the warmth of the world. This is a period that is highly disliked by mages when it’s almost impossible for most of them to throw spells. The Ice Dragons on the other hand seem to have no problem to use magic and either does other magical creatures and demonical structures.

This period however is about two to three months long and under this period and almost all the way to spring most of the citizens and humanoid habitants of Lanticka spend indoors. The prices goes up quite a lot during this period and afterwards it’s always more expensive than before the period. This expensive period lasts until the first harvest when the prices finally drops again until the next winter. Ever since the foundation of the Mages Guild it seems like the prices are the same in the big cities even during winter and hoarfrost when they can grow and harvest almost any time of the year.

Pensions are something that exists mostly in Lanticka and Deben. There are a great vierity of pensions in both countries although the pensions in Deben are a lot fewer and mostly used by soilders and warriors. The most common pensions in Lanticka however are used for longer stay in a region and a county often has one or two different pensions. The pensions are relativitly expensive and during hoarfrost they often raise their prices even higher. The pensions are controlled by the nobles and have almost nothing to do with The Guild, even though some of them are owned and controlled by nobles from The Guild.

Most of the time there’s artists and nobles living in these pensions and in the pensions in the mountains even miners. But during wintertime most pensions hosts travellers and those who can pay for a long visit. Some of the miners that can afford to stay during winter sometimes go to a pension although most of the miners are either stuck in the mines during winter or goes back home before The Hoarfrost Period begins. Pensions are all privately founded and protected and inside of the pensions’ there is different rules that applies as hard as laws.

Well, about the pension where the players are staying its pretty new and for some reason it’s pretty cheap, cheap enough for a commoner to live in. This pension will have about thirty residents, twenty guards and about five keepers/hosts. There will be some noblemen living in this building but there will be mostly mercenaries, merchants, travellers and workers. And of course, this won’t be a completely uneventful three months. It won’t be too much, but I’ve planned some things long before this pension even existed (in my mind) that will happen. Note that you also now have one epic bound character in the group, Jayde. Jayde’s agreement with The Scytheman made the last few sessions for Jayde a little more epic. Although all in all, it won’t be that epic, it just tend to be some activities going on around Jayde even if she wants to take it easy. But like the saying; “Death never rests.”

And one last thing about sessions; I prefer to play with the “group” this wednesday if they feel up to it. But if they don’t feel up to it or is uncertain about their possible performance, then I rather play with Ankan and David instead and now I’m back on track with energy and all so it most likely I have both time and energy for two single-sessions during one day. But as I said, I prefer if we try to get started on the Pension-thing when I still have it in fresh mind and have the energy to play it out otherwise it will mostly be story-telling in the end.

Best regards,
Herid Fel