[ShadowDark Solo] Rufus & Silas, session 03

Session three! I feel like this 'campaign' is really starting to pick up a little and I am in the groove, when I have mentally defeated all the "what ifs...", "do I use this, or this?", and a host of other decision paralysis thoughts that usually stop me from starting a game. On to the session!

I kick off this session with a little world building, using the ShadowDark Maps tables to develop some information on the Forge of Dendor. We get the rough size, that it is a tomb, and that it has something to do with the dead. This last fact makes Rufus and Silas a little nervous. I get a little ahead of myself and start to design a tomb...then I catch myself and head back to the gaming session...

The boys figure out that undead mean you need silver or silvered weapons. I borrow an idea from my friend Tim over at Gothridge Manor (described in the lower right corner). So we head to the local blacksmith shop to see about silvering. I use the tables in ShadowDark to whip up a quick shop and then use my oracle to handle the social interactions.

They settle up the account and realize all this chatter made them poorer and thirsty, so they head back to the Barnacled Dog to drink with Sixfingers a little. At this point I am feeling like I need an image of ol' Six so we know what we are dealing with. I get a wonderful reaction from Six when they walk in, he must like their coin. 

At this point I realize my guys are pretty poor and probably not ready to handle a large dungeon of undead, so an idea of smaller locations nearby hits me. I toss a prompt into MJ and get a wonderful looking tower high up on a mountainside and another idea hits me....

Another bar patron who knows some nearby, unexplored locations steps in.

This ends up becoming an entire valley with small tower forts high up, watchtowers of some sort. Gaspard (named after a guy who works for me) knows where they are and will guide them for a fee, 10% of what they pull out of the place. A deal is struck

I am really getting in the groove now, with things rolling along pretty well and easily. It is times like this that I enjoy solo gaming. It is a live creative jam session, rolling with ideas that come to me, rolling some dice, writing things up, and just going with the flow. I love it.

PDF version of the session: 
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FKxSw39_U28Gr8gKWypJ9hrleLTgihpT/view?usp=sharing