A while back I ran a game in Hodas, the first official one, to kinda get the player’s feet wet in the setting they created for us. I’ll post the story of that game a 1-2 sessions at a time depending on length.
Session 1:
It
all starts in the hamlet of Homlet. The Black Emperor has just killed
the much loved mayor, Mayor Brayor, and appointed a dark wizard to
oversee the village. This isn’t that abnormal, the Emperor comes once a
year to kill the old mayor who is usually evil and replaced him with
someone worse. Brayor was different, he was kind, he took care of his
people. This newly appointed Mayor, Jayor almost immediately rounds up
the town’s virgins to take them for sacrifice. This is the final straw
for the villagers of Homlet who take their torches and pitchforks and
storm the abandoned fortress on the edge of town that the mayor has
retreated to.
Upon storming the fortress they find strange magical trinkets, beast men, and a monstrous leviathan. The party pushes past all this and confront the mayor who has already sacrificed much of the village people he kidnapped. The mayor throws himself into a burning pit with the sacrifices and emerges as a burning demigod. The villagers, with revenge in their hearts, strike down the newborn god as it is still forming and vulnerable and flee as his form struggles to remain intact, still taking at least one more of the villager’s with it in it’s death throes.
The villager’s who killed the mayor and saw the demi-god realize they have been changed by this experience. They cannot simply return to their lives. Worse, the emperor will notice what they’ve done when the next year comes, like it or not, they have started something bigger than themselves, a rebellion. The surviving members of the mob agree to go their separate ways returning in a year to stand against the emperor.
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