Session 22: Licking the Giant Stone Eye | January 2529

Played on April 5, 2023

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Dramatis Personae

Domain Phase:
Baron The Kleptographer (Chris)
Bathsheba (Elias)
Mysterious Figure Giving Orders From The Shadows (Marcia)

Adventure Phase:
Udon (Chris)
Reprogrammed Robot Spider
Target “the Chef” Dugan (Elias)
The Congolese Charging Devil (CC For Short)
Hellby (Marcia)

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Domain Phase Recap

Progress Bars

Water Repair
DISASTER: Water rises by 2d8” each session. Currently at 27”. For each foot, food production reduced by 4.

Hell’s Tenants War: Roll d6: 6 gain 3 blocks, 5 gain 2 blocks, 4 gain 1 block, 3 gain 1 block, 2 gain nothing, 1 gain nothing

Flouridated Water
Work is underway to Flouridate the Dome’s water supply. This involves finding a good source of Flouride, establishing mining operations, processing, and adding it to the water supply. When completed it will result in a good reputation roll since everyone in the Dome will enjoy having good water. It will be particularly appreciated by Ashgar the Resurrector and his Chums, improving the party’s reputation with them by 1.

Guild of Dentists will do you a solid.

Domain Turn 1
Baron The Kleptographer (Chris)
Event: Word reaches the party that anytime someone dies lately their ghost becomes visible, and is pulled down into the ground.
Action: Continue the territory conquest in the North. Claim 2 new blocks of Redstone Lord territory. Defeat and destroy 1 Rookie weorod.

Domain Turn 2
Bathsheba (Elias)
Event: A block war breaks out in the South. Because the party has so many Weorods stationed there, they’re able to stop things before they get out of hand.
Action: Use the air elemental favor the party has beeen sitting on since session 129 of old-orwa was used to identify the source of the water level issues (a faulty pump management program). This advanced the clock by 2, solving the crisis!

Domain Turn 3
Mysterious Figure Giving Orders From The Shadows (Marcia)
Event: One of the aliens reaches out to attempt to open relations with the EGA, hoping for a more peaceful coexistence.
Action: Attempt to learn about the alien in hopes of helping him establish a political party. Unfortunately he’s just not a charismatic fella, and it doesn’t seem likely. Convince alien to download TikTok.

Set clock of 4, for the next 4 sessions the party will learn spy info about the aliens.

Domain Resources
Food: 27 / 27 [31 if water levels are brought back down.]
Changes: None
Funds: 9
Changes: 8 + 1 for session

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Adventure Phase Recap

Turn 1: The party took a long-ish path through the corridors in order to approach the loop through which the stone lozynges patrolled from the northmost point they were aware of. As they approached, they spotted one of the little green fellows, but he didn’t notice them. They kept quiet and let him waddle on his way.

Turn 2: Target separates from the party and dashes through a gap in the lozynge patrols. He encounters a 3.5 diameter stone sphere in a room, rolling around in a little divot in the floor. It has a single circle carved in it like an iris, and it looks at Target. Back in the other corridor, Udon trades some armor to Hellby so she isn’t so vulnerable.

Turn 3: Target thoroughly examines the eye with his ability to detect magic, and learns that it collects an immense amount of visual data. All across the light spectrum, at various magnifications, etc. The information is then transmitted somewhere else. Target considers how he might take this sphere, but nothing simple occurs to him for now. The party decide to leave retrieving it to later.

Turn 4: The party regroups and moves to the north. They find a room with 3 long tables surrounded by chairs. (Scaled to 12′ occupants, obviously). Udon searhces under the table for any buttons, and discovers one! It appears to be a slapdash addition. A hunk of rock floating in a divot under one of the tables. Beside it is a carving which very roughly translates to “Fuck that guy.” When pressed, an invisible forces shoves one of the chairs away from its place at the table. The effect targets only one specific seating area, and is tied to the table, not the chair.

Turn 5: The party moves into a room filled with tall sarcophagi embeded in the walls. One of the small green fellows is there, and is disappointed that he needs to kill the party now. Silver tongued Target recognizes that it’s a contractual obligation, and suggests that perhaps they could be “killed” some other way? As in a “little death,” french style, wink wink? The little green guy is open to the idea! He and target step behind the pillar for a bit. In the throes of passion the little green guy lets slip something about how they hope the wizard doesn’t find out about this! (After the fact they insist this means nothing. It’s just a common expression among their kind. He is clearly lying.) After Target and the Little Green Guy have both “died,” the little green guy departs to the West. Atchaw, the martian the party is traveling with, is strongly opposed to them opening any of the sarcophagi, since the dead inside are “not sleeping”.

Turn 6: A criss-cross of stone bars covers an oubliette on the floor. Looking below the party sees skeletons for a variety of creatures covered in horns and spikes and other totally cool and very metal attributes. The party opt not to fuck with it.

Turn 7: A room with a number of control panels, and a large glass bay for the glass golem (encountered near the end of last session) to rest in. Atchaw struggles to translate anything the controls say. Every concept fails to fit into the limited vocabulary he shares with the party. However, he does appear animated, like he has a very good understanding of what they controls mean, even if he can’t communicate it. He spends some time moving switches around, and eventually manages to tell the party that the golem will obey HIM now. While waiting for Atchaw to do his work, the party find a scrap of paper with a rubbing of one of the control panel’s markings on it. The control panel’s contents is pretty boring. Not one of the more critical controls.

Turn 8: The party comes upon a skeleton of a martian—one which is sleeping properly, according to Atchaw. A dagger the size of a short sword lays in its lap, and a chain of delicate green is wrapped around its neck several times as a layered necklace.

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Skill Points

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Loot

Guild of Dentists owes the Electric Gorilla Association a solid.

Delicate Layered Green Neck Chain (600cc)

200cc each for Hellby, Udon, and Target

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Injuries

Udon (Chris) Save @ 14
Reprogrammed Robot Spider Save @ 14
Target “the Chef” Dugan (Elias) +1hp Save @ 15, -1 use of Dispel magic, -1 use of Turn
Hellby (Marcia) Save @ 9
near death experience: Save starts at 8 each day.
Norman “Normie” Atomic (Pollux) -1hp Save @ 14
Gel, springhaired specialist. Save @ 14
Martian: Save @ 13
Tommy Crystals Save @ 13
Schlorp: -2hp, Save @ 13 (Must carry Schlippy)
Schlippy: hp @ 0, Save @ 13.

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Next Session

The party begins in the room with the murdered martian.

Session 23: Somehow Pollux Was Not Party To The Session In Which The Electric Gorilla Association Built a Trolly | February 2529

Played on May 3, 2023

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Dramatis Personae

Domain Phase:
Baron The Kleptographer (Chris)
Bathsheba (Elias)

Adventure Phase:
Udon (Chris)
Reprogrammed Robot Spider
Target “the Chef” Dugan (Elias)
The Congolese Charging Devil (CC For Short)

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Domain Phase Recap

Progress Bars

Hell’s Tenants War: Continue to steadily gain territory bit by bit!

Alien Getting Spied on by TikTok
Party learns secret information about the aliens once every session for 4 sessions.
1. The aliens cannot fly away! They’re stuck here!

Domain Turn 1
Baron The Kleptographer (Chris)
Event: The Overunder Duchy completes construcrtion on a public bath house. It’s very popular with his people, and he’s doing very well. Meanwhile, there’s a bunch of construction workers who are freshly out of work right near the border of your territory. If you were inclined to hire them for a Public Works peroject, the clock length would be reduced by 1. (So much time goes into just gathering everyone with the relevant skills together!)

Action: Hire workers to build a trolly that circuits the EGA and goes through the park. Will face 1 trouble. Clock length 3. (5 -1 for boon -1 for spending 1 extra funds) Outsiders join in! They build a trolly with clock length 5.

Domain Turn 2
Bathsheba (Elias)
Event: Aliens and the Redstone Lords are starting to associate. A potential alliance…?

Action: Continue the war in the North, crossing the lane and claiming two new blocks. The EGA is aiming to reach the edge of the Dome, then expand outward.

Domain Resources
Food: 27 / 31
Changes: None
Funds: 7
Changes: 9 + 1 for session -3 for Public Works

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Adventure Phase Recap

Turn 1: Backtrack to the room with the horned bones in the oubliette. Atchaw refers to the the horned skeletons as “Tools” or “Machines.” Party inquires if they were slaves, but the language barrier is too strong to make that distinction.

Turn 2: Reach intersection. See room to the North filled with uncut glass of the type used in the golem’s construction. Stone lozynge approaches from the south, but does not detect the party.

Turn 3: Party discovers a room filled with stone tablets which Atchaw can show them how to use. When placed on a corresponding table, carvings appear on the table which can be navigated through, revealing immense libraries of information. The tablets are recordings of what the eye near the building’s main entrance perceives. (Encountered in session 22). Target finds the tablet with observations of himself on it, and takes it with him.

Turn 4: Leaving the data storage room, the party encounters the Glass Golem. Atchaw instructs it to proceed them along their intended travel path. This almost immediately comes in handy when the party encounters a Lozynge. The Golem is a great help in destroying one, then an even greater help in destroying another. Also I really gotta do something about that time stop sword. It’s a problem.

Turn 5: The party comes upon a room with a huge half-sphere in the ceiling, which Atchaw explains is how the martians execute the condemned. If you stand in the little divot underneath the weight it’ll come down on you with speed and force sufficient to obliterate you in the blink of an eye.

Turn 6: The party comes upon a room with a grooved path in the floor, which the condemned would follow into the execution chamber. There’s also a bunch of no-brand cleaning supplies behind a curtain. The curtain is nice though. Jade chips connected by little metal rings.

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Skill Points

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Loot

Jade Chip Curtain – 1200cc

Tablet with visual data on Target. (Only usable with Martian table reader)

That’s 600cc each for Target and Udon

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Injuries

Udon (Chris) Save @ 14
Reprogrammed Robot Spider Save @ 15
Target “the Chef” Dugan (Elias) +1hp Save @ 15, -1 use of Dispel magic, -1 use of Turn
Hellby (Marcia) Save @ 9
near death experience: Save starts at 8 each day.
Norman “Normie” Atomic (Pollux) -1hp Save @ 14
Gel, springhaired specialist. Save @ 14
Martian: Save @ 13
Tommy Crystals Save @ 13
Schlorp: -2hp, Save @ 13 (Must carry Schlippy)
Schlippy: hp @ 0, Save @ 13.

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Next Session

Start in cleaning supply room.

Session 24: TITLE | March 2529

Played on May 31, 2023

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Dramatis Personae

Domain Phase:
Baron The Kleptographer (Chris)
Bathsheba (Elias)

Adventure Phase:
Udon (Chris)
Reprogrammed Robot Spider
Target “the Chef” Dugan (Elias)
The Congolese Charging Devil (CC For Short)

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Domain Phase Recap

Progress Bars

Party’s Trolly around their territory and through the park

Outsider’s trolly that connects to the EGA’s trolly

Hell’s Tenants War: Roll d6: 6 gain 3 blocks, 5 gain 2 blocks, 4 gain 1 block, 3 gain 1 block, 2 gain nothing, 1 gain nothing

Result: 2. Stalemate this month, no new territory claimed.

Alien Getting Spied on by TikTok
Party learns secret information about the aliens once every session for 4 sessions.

The aliens cannot fly away! They’re stuck here!
Info on the way the alien’s technology interacts with their physiology. When the party hires engineers and starts making their technology usable by non-aliens, the clock length will be reduced by 1.
3.
4.

Domain Turn 1
Chris
Event: 7, Friends of Needletooth Jack. They claim 3 new blocks of territory (clock face: 9, 10, 11) moving towards the Overunder Duchy & the EGA.
Action: Continue the war in the North, gain 2 new uncontested blocks. EGA now stretches to the edge of the dome.

Domain Turn 2
Elias
Event: 9, Hell’s Tenants. Word reaches the party that the Hell’s Tenants have offered a non aggression pact to the Overunder Duchy, and the Overunder Duchy has taken the offer.
Action: Bathsehba gets in contact with the one Alien they have contact with and asks what the EGA could send to the alien ship to improve the lot of the common aliens on the vessel. Their contact thinks textiles would go a long way, for clothes and bedsheets and such.

The EGA dedicates 2 funds to sending textiles to the alien ship, and additionally communicates the location and time that a sewing circle meets in their territory, in the hopes of getting some aliens to mingle with their people. The EGA funds that sewing circle for 1 funds with extra supplies to make it easy to accomodate the aliens.

The Alien bosses are not happy about it, but there is now a bit of cultural communication between the EGA and the Vengeful Alien faction.

Domain Resources
Food: 27 / 31
Changes: None
Funds: 5
Changes: 7 + 1 for session, -2 for textiles for the Aliens, -1 for Sewing Circle Plan

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Adventure Phase Recap

Turn 1 (Local Effect): West then North. Check out the cell where Atchaw was held. Move to the room full of “demon machines” on tables and tool column in center of room. Party opts to not mess with it. Atchaw learns the word Demon.

Turn 2 (Get Drop on Encounter): Head to large northern corridor and heads West. Get the drop on a lozynge and backtrack to hide in smaller corridor. It passes them by. They go to the mars model room. Press one button and mars unfolds to show internal structure. They record with their phone. Get three big sections before it crumbles, including directly around the Dome!

Turn 3 (NPC Chitchat): Atchaw lamments what is people did to their planet. Party moves West, finds the high relief depicting the discovery of undead stuff and the surpression of Atchaw’s dissidents. They go down a hallway of simple carvings of many different martians, come to a big door with many identical carvings of the martian “everymartian” figure. Beyond is…a smashed up room that has been burned to bits. “Jack Wuz Here” written in the soot.

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Skill Points

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Loot

4 chunks of rock with recognizable surface features on them.
1 chunk of rock with recognizable sewer features.

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Injuries

(HP, Saving Throw, and Permanent Injury)

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Next Session

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Ruling
If enemy blocks are completely surrounded by conquered territory, Weorods may attack 2 blocks with a single action.

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Questions:
WHAT GETS ADDED TO THE SETTING BIBLE!?
What needs to be restocked?
Does anyone need to be added to Recurring Characters?
Who did the characters wrong?
Does anyone owe the party a favor?
What reputational effects might impact the Domain game?
What tools would help the rough parts of this session work better?
What Hooks should be added for player actions during the domain phase?

Session dlk;jsfgedljk;: Holy Heck We’re Outta This Dungeon! | April 2529

Played on July 12, 2023

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Dramatis Personae

Domain Phase:
Baron The Kleptographer (Chris)
Bathsheba (Elias)

Adventure Phase:
Udon (Chris)
Reprogrammed Robot Spider
Target “the Chef” Dugan (Elias)
The Congolese Charging Devil (CC For Short)

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Domain Phase Recap

Progress Bars

Party’s Trolly around their territory and through the park

Outsider’s trolly that connects to the EGA’s trolly

Hell’s Tenants War: Roll d6: 6 gain 3 blocks, 5 gain 2 blocks, 4 gain 1 block, 3 gain 1 block, 2 gain nothing, 1 gain nothing

They gain 1 block of territory.

Alien Getting Spied on by TikTok
Party learns secret information about the aliens once every session for 4 sessions.

The aliens cannot fly away! They’re stuck here!
Info on the way the alien’s technology interacts with their physiology. When the party hires engineers and starts making their technology usable by non-aliens, the clock length will be reduced by 1.
Epilepsy is extremely common among the aliens.
4.

Domain Turn 1
Bathsheba (Elias), Event 10
A bacteria almost fucked up the party’s food supply, but the Food Inspectors caught it. AND (because Elias helped) while solving the problem they manage to isolate the bacteria in such a way that it could easily be injected into an enemy population’s food supply. Gotta act now though, there’s no good way to preserve the bacteria. The party opts not to do anything with the bacteria, but send warning to the Outsiders to be on the lookout for similar issues with their own food just in case.

Continues the war in the North. Takes 2 large blocks of territory without meeting any resistance.

Domain Turn 2

Baron The Kleptographer (Chris), Event 2 Ashgar the Resurrector Faction Action
Ashgar, recalling something he once heard about how to gain respect, attacks the Redstone Lords. His chums seize 7 blocks, and declare it to be the center of “Bone Town.”

Confer with Ashgar about what he’s been up to. Inquire as to whether his chums would be willing to explore areas outside the Dome. Ashgar says some may be, but it’s not something he thinks makes sense as something for him to make a faction goal at this time. Baron none the less finds some and begins to plan and outfit an expedition, which the PC group will lead out to Hex 1205 when they return.

Domain Resources
Food: 27 / 31
Changes: None
Funds: 6
Changes: 5 + 1 for session

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Adventure Phase Recap

Move to adjacent room. Discover carvings on walls depicting the martian masses all going to get undead-ified. A variety of post-death fates are shown. There’s also a pile of 7 dead humans in environmental suits. All shot in their torso. The party digs through the bodies and finds some pre-apocalypse clothes and personal items. One of the bodies starts talking! He says his name is Graham Porter. He was a surveyor hired by some Canadian researcher guy named Jack Gibson who brought him out here to help survey this place, then he got really excited about finding one of the nearby rooms.

Turn 2: The party investigates to the South. Graham Porter is able to let them know the room is trapped. The party peeks into it, and Atchaw realizes that it’s a trap designed to lure his former compatriots

Turn 3: Statue fountain.

Turn 4: Party retreats out of the dungeon!

Gets all their loot, and their living martian friend and their talking pre-apocalypse corpse man, loaded onto their ATV and they travel back to the Dome.

Skill Points

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Loot

19cc
7 Smartphones
7 Environment Suit Helmets

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Injuries

(HP, Saving Throw, and Permanent Injury)

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Next Session

Session 26: TITLE | May 2529

Played on August 9, 2023

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Dramatis Personae
Baron The Kleptographer (Chris)
Bathsheba (Elias)

Adventure Phase:
Udon (Chris)
Reprogrammed Robot Spider
Target “the Chef” Dugan (Elias)
The Congolese Charging Devil (CC For Short)

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Domain Phase Recap
Party’s Trolly around their territory and through the park
Nice and quiet.
Has a different jingle for each train stop.

Outsider’s trolly that connects to the EGA’s trolly

Hell’s Tenants War: Roll d6: 6 gain 3 blocks, 5 gain 2 blocks, 4 gain 1 block, 3 gain 1 block, 2 gain nothing, 1 gain nothing

Domain Turn 1
Bathsheba (Elias)
Event Die: 8, Vengeful Alien Emigraes Action
A tiktok trend emerges among the aliens where they dance near the energy core. One falls in and dies, and now the authorities are looking at the app more closely to ensure a similar tragedy does not occur.

Bathsheba continues the war in the North. Claims 2 blocks. Alfred’s Fallen Lords and Security Force A encounter a veteran weorod and drive it from the field. Both gain 1xp, and Security Force A becomes a veteran weorod!!!

Domain Turn 2
Baron The Kleptographer (Chris)
Event Die: 8, Vengeful Alien Emigraes Action
The Aliens attempt to make peaceful contact with Friends of Needletooth Jack; roll a 3 on their diplomacy check. They totally fail.

Baron meets with two of the four contenders for seizing leadership of the Redstone Lords: Gabriella Marry-Us and Davidson Kronker. These two are both more progressively minded and think the Redstone Lords ought to embrace less slavery in order to enable them to make alliances with other factions easier. Baron makes a pitch to them: move to the Eastern section of Redstone Lord territory. The party will not take any territory there, and will support them in their bid to gain the executive office if they will agree not to contest the territory the party has claimed so far, or any territory to the West of it.

Further, they should break with the past and establish themselves as a new, revitalized faction!

The two agree to work together, and to to the party’s terms, IF the party offers them some real support in the form of Funds. The party agrees to pay 2 funds: 1 now, 1 after a public declaration that they’re establishing a new faction is made.

Domain Resources
Food: 27 / 31
Changes: None
Funds: 6
Changes: 6 + 1 for session – 1 for agreement with Gabriella and Davidson

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Adventure Phase Recap

The party returns to town!

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Skill Points

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Loot

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Injuries

(HP, Saving Throw, and Permanent Injury)

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Next Session