{"id":3726,"date":"2020-10-27T10:22:55","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T00:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.olympusrpg.org\/?p=3726"},"modified":"2020-11-03T04:13:25","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T18:13:25","slug":"gurps-banestorm-embers-of-defiance-book-iii-session-3-01","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.olympusrpg.org\/?p=3726","title":{"rendered":"GURPS: Banestorm: Embers of Defiance, Book III, Session 3.01"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none; padding: 0px; box-shadow: none; border-radius: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.olympusrpg.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/bs3banner.jpg?w=600&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"  \/><\/p>\n<fieldset class=\"PCs\">\n<legend>Dramatis Person\u00e6<\/legend>\n<ul>\n<li>GM: Rigil Kent<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?title=Aslam_al-Khalaf\">&#8220;Abyad&#8221; al-Khalaf<\/a> (Gigermann)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?title=Aramis_de_Sauvons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aramis de Sauvons<\/a> (Andricus)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?title=Haruki_Nakasato\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Haruki Nakasato<\/a> (Commjunkee)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?title=Ilanna_Hawkeye\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ilanna Hawkeye<\/a> (Ronnke)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?title=Ismir_ibn_Al%27Xavier\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ismir ibn Al&#8217;Xavier<\/a> (Fronjavier)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Live Stream<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DLSiaqEO3bY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a><\/fieldset>\n<p><strong>Wherein a Caravan is Attacked&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A scouting party was sent from Castle Defiant, including <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?title=Haruki_Nakasato\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Haruki Nakasato<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?title=Ilanna_Hawkeye\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ilanna Hawkeye<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?title=Ismir_ibn_Al%27Xavier\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ismir ibn Al&#8217;Xavier<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?title=Aslam_al-Khalaf\">Abyad al-Khalaf<\/a>, to locate an inbound caravan.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?title=Aramis_de_Sauvons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aramis de Sauvons<\/a> is the last remaining fighting-man in Proximo&#8217;s caravan, inbound to Castle Defiant, bringing many freed slaves from the <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?title=Djinn_Lands\">Djinn Lands<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The Defiant scouting party finds the caravan under attack by Gnollish thugs, believed to be under Kardswann\u2019s orders to slay them all. The Gnolls are defeated and scattered, at the cost of several of the freed-slaves, and Proximo himself; Ismir is also injured.<\/li>\n<li>Aramis is gifted a ring by a dying friend, one of the freed-slaves who was felled.<\/li>\n<li>The combined parties return to Defiant to find a giant raven speaking with <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?title=Gestlin_the_Unpredictable\">Gestlin the Unpredictable<\/a> in the courtyard. The master-wizard is here to find <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?title=Finn_Sardock\">Finn Sardock<\/a>, who is not present, having been lost to the sands of the Djinn Lands\u2014though only Haruki has any idea of this, from a dream.<\/li>\n<li>Gestlin discusses with the PCs, deciding the symbol from Haruki\u2019s dream is a symbol of a djinn, and suddenly casts a great spell\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><strong>Player Notes:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rigilkent-online.com\/Blog\/2020\/10\/26\/gm-commentary-banestorm-3x01\/\">GM Commentary<\/a><\/li>\n<li>This session consisted almost entirely of a combat, intended to introduce the new PCs and let everyone re-acclimate to the campaign<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--Precis - First episode the third \u201cseason\u201d for our ongoing GURPS: Banestorm campaign using Fantasy Grounds and streamed on our Olympus Twitch channel. In the aftermath of the destruction of the Lost City, Finn Sardock has been lost. The warband means to do something about that.--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dramatis Person\u00e6 GM: Rigil Kent &#8220;Abyad&#8221; al-Khalaf (Gigermann) Aramis de Sauvons (Andricus) Haruki Nakasato (Commjunkee) Ilanna Hawkeye (Ronnke) Ismir ibn Al&#8217;Xavier (Fronjavier) Live Stream YouTube Wherein a Caravan is Attacked&#8230; A scouting party was sent from Castle Defiant, including Haruki Nakasato, Ilanna Hawkeye, Ismir ibn Al&#8217;Xavier, and Abyad al-Khalaf, to locate an inbound caravan. Aramis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,19],"tags":[42,38,36,39],"class_list":["post-3726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banestorm","category-bs_logs","tag-banestorm","tag-campaign","tag-gurps","tag-recap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3726"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3734,"href":"https:\/\/blog.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3726\/revisions\/3734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}