The Seal of Sigmund - Flame On campaigning in Vercuso again!

zelophahad wrote:

Never heard of him, sorry Alan! It's amazing how few famous theives there seem to be...

Theives do rather try to avoid a high profile profession image. However, Willy Sutton was a rather famous theif from the '30s throuogh the '70s when he passed away. His claim to fame was not for being a sucessful theif but for a LONG string of spectacular jail breaksfrom some VERY impressive prisons.
Another '30s theif who wound up being immortalized in song was Jimmy Valentine; billed as the "sentimental theif". I believe he left a rose behind as he absconded with M'Lady's jewels. He could be Jammy Valentine...or not.

The highwayman MacFerson is another folk song type theif, who fiddled & danced a jig around his own Gallows Tree.

Kommodore Deffgit and The Seal of Sigmund

Elven Ambush? Pirate Pounding!

"Haha!" laughed Kommodore Deffgit, "Nog, do ye remember the time that Dark Elf what called himself Darth More tried to ambush us near the Hook and Line inn?"

Barnacle Nog took a long pull on his pipe and thought hard for a minute or two before the glimmer of a smile crossed his craggy green face.

"Aye, I do too! We was scattered all over searching for that blasted Seal when five of 'em started shootin' at us." said Nog through the clouds of pipe smoke that swirled around him. "First thing we knew was Blind Fug getting hit and fell off the old town wall (I don't mind admittin' I laughed a bit) I was up in the bedroom of a ruined town house then."







"Bad Hook was caught in the walled garden and he yelped like a Grot caught by a Facebiter Squig and ran back towards Hogbreff..."



".. 'caus two of the Skinnies came right towards 'im."



"Yeah," said Deffgit "I was upstairs an' all. I jumped down sharpish and headed towards ye..."



"... and I collected Bad Hook on the way. I gave 'im a clip round the ear and he saw sense. I think them lead-swingin' Goblins was preoccupied with swattin' each other as usual!" the Kommodore continued. "The shooty Elfs was tryin' to sneak round us and the should have been dealin' with 'em..."





The crowd in the bar was listening intently know, keen to hear the gory details that Barnacle Nog was well know for relating.





"It didn't last long mind" said Nog, with a nostalgic look in his one beady red eye, "Once I tricked a bunch of 'em into charging me I dealt with 'em cold-like." he chuckled, "the Boss-Elf was all full of himself so I planted a steel toe-cap in his unmentionables and knocked him on the noggin as he doubled over. Then his she-Elf had a pop at me and I gave 'er a taste o' cutlass. It didn't quite seem sport after that, there only being three of 'em left."

"Ahhhh... good times!" sighed Deffgit.

ARRGH! More STIRRIN' TALES! Great stories & photos as always.

Yarr Kap'un,
Der Ded 'uns ar runnin' amok! Stomp 'em!

Great photos as always. (Where are the ships?)
js

I think only me and Zelophahad have ships out of the people who have so-far been involved in the Seal of Sigmund campaign! All the games have been played inour lunch-hours as well, so a naval game may be a bit of a squeeze time-wise!

I'm sure some nautical nonsense will occur soon though!

COOL! You've got a Stirgoi Vampire running amok, my personal favorite Vampire.

Kommodore Deffgit and The Seal of Sigmund

The Battle of Dumplington

Deffgit woke up with a start, sloshing grog from his mug and shouting; the twenty or so patrons of the Sunken Chest inn looked around with a mixture of surprise, trepidation and annoyance.

Not realising he was in a completely different pub, and three days had passed since he started his tale, he continued to recount the battle with Cormorant Rams-Eye and the Catering Corp.









"We was determined to take a slice o' the riverside neighborhood the walking lunch-boxes called Dumplin'ton. The scuttlebutt was that there was plenty of supplies, food an' the like, tucked away be them diminutive devils." he said. "We went in mob-handed. The crew was in fine spirits after given that Elf a bloody nose and they didn't fear no-one. Especially not a bunch a minnows!"

He thought for a minute, his one eye rolled around erratically. Then he snapped his gnarly green fingers and pulled a long clay pipe from within his voluminous beard. Once he'd packed and lit the foul-smelling tobacco, molasses and gunpowder mix he continued.





"They was hiddin' in the upper stories of several of the choices buildings. We figured that they must be were the stores was hid, so after securing a warehouse we made in that direction."















"The little bilge-rats was wedged in like limpets and, what with all their arrows rainin' down on us like a storm of the coast o' Lustria, we couldn't shift the blighters..." he tailed off slightly, staring into the dark rafters above and puffing on his pipe.

"Not even close." he muttered.

Ach, Adm'rul not the Furryfoots again?!! The little bliters! No respect for a proper orc, I say!


Hope to see some "nautical nonsense" from you all soon. I was jonesing for the sea so I got the lads to fight a night of ship duels only. Naturally the newbie won and the old salt was shut out! (Fewer Ghosts to face back in port!)

Fair winds and calm seas, mate!

Heh. Very nice, Warboss. Would be honored to have your opinions on some of the Sartosa Scenarios Master and I came up with, if you have a chance.

Speaking of which, the more I see of Slippery Jack, the more I love 'im. Is it alright I use his special injury table in the 'add-on' pdf I'm working on?

StyrofoamKing wrote:

Heh. Very nice, Warboss. Would be honored to have your opinions on some of the Sartosa Scenarios Master and I came up with, if you have a chance.

Speaking of which, the more I see of Slippery Jack, the more I love 'im. Is it alright I use his special injury table in the 'add-on' pdf I'm working on?

I'll get the guys to take a look at the scenarios - I'm not the best judge of that sort of thing!

Feel free to loot anything you like from our stuff! Credit Phil / Zelophahad with the Slippery Jack table!

Hey Phil, one of our new Guys had a character named Pink Floyd. It got me thinking [always a dangerous thing with moi ]; how about Stealy Dan as a new thief for your Brotherhood of Vertically Challenged Gluttons.

There are times for moi, when looking at all the pretty pictures is about all I'm capable of. THANKS GUYS!

Kommodore Deffgit and The Seal of Sigmund
Skull Bashers and Scurvy Dogs

The Lost Mariner inn, Vercuso.

“We ain’t seen them Skullbashas for a while Kommodore.” said Salty Ogbad as he put a tray of drinks down on the table by the fire.

“Whassat?” said Deffgit “Uglhog Eadkraka’s lot? Hmmm… remember the first time we crossed cutlasses with ‘em?”

Ogbad smiled to himself and said “Um, no I can’t say as I do Boss: When was it? What ‘appened?”

“We was after grabbing a chunk of the town, for a quite spot of looting like, and it seemed like old Eadkraka had the same notion. When we found we had a rival we charged in mob-handed. We took one of the three key buildings right on the jump (the corner of the old town wall) and sent a few hands into the second (a warehouse if I recall correctly). The rest of us circled round to starboard and aimed to storm the third vital building: the Pie Shop”







“Unfortunately Eadkraka’s ladz had the same idea and their main-force came round the same flank – right through the walled garden. Hogbreff went flyin’ into the warehouse to back up the Boyz in their but the Skullbasha’s Shaman turned up. It was like they was matchin’ us move for move! Uncanny like.”











“There was an almighty ruck, just in the breach in the garden wall. Most of both crews piled into it and a fair few lads on both side was knocked on the head – though none was fatal as I recall.”







“When darkness fell each warband had a building each and the warehouse was pepered with shots from both sides – the few hands what wasn’t injured in there fell back draggin’ their mates.”

Kommodore Deffgit mused for a few minutes as the battle replayed in his rum-addled mind “I guess you ain’t gonna get a decisive victory in such a circumstance... Not when both sides is proper green and Orcy, a frustratin’ly even match!”

SAD, even when both sides are Orcs, the Orc don't manage to win .
There DEFINITELY seem to be some new buildings about the board, or, at any rate, ones I don't recall [could be the onset on Imminent Senility however .
Another fine Battle Report AND WONDERFUL PHOTOS!