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Fall – episode 4: “Never look a gift horse in the eye.”

Never look a gift horse in the eye, episode 4 of Fall started with a dream. Alex, it seems, has that unfortunate Slayer habit of having random dreams that appear to have an element of prophecy in them. In this particular dream the monstrous horse headed demon thing that she and Calvin had seen summoned was in the forest somewhere ripping into a park ranger. She awakens with a scream just after she sees said park ranger have his head removed. Not the nicest way to wake up on Sunday morning.

After calming down, but before pancakes made by her mum, Alex contact the rest of her “crew” telling them to meet at Darius’ (I’m thinking Alex is going to make it a habit to keep turning up at his house unexpectedly as pay back for the glowing green spell from last week) so they can look into this creature and stop it before it hurts any one else.

After an impressive research montage which included breaking into the Police system (thanks to Megan, just a cheerleader? Yeah right!), reading a bunch of books and looking into spells we discovered a few useful things:

• That some trampers had recently gone missing in the forest.
• That Darius had found a spell which would lead us to the book. .
• We were pretty sure that the big leather book we couldn’t find last week was still in the Casa du Ham.

There was then an impressive display of crime, once again showing that the Slayer and her pals are rather morally ambigous when it comes to other people’s property. For a full blow by blow of the break in go check out Jenni’s description, but to summarise:

• Alex gets Gwynth Ham (William’s mum) and William out of the house by pretending to be “The Club”.
• Papa Ham (Harry) didn’t leave so had to be distracted by Calvin putting the small rodent dog into a rubbish bin.
• Alex and Darius sneak in, find the book (thanks to Drama Points) and jump out a second storey window to escape notice.
• Harry Ham gets so sick of the obvious pranks that he grabs his shot gun and acts in a way that convinces Calvin and Megan to call the cops.

So there you go. We got back to Darius’ and he decided that another spell was in order, seeing how well the last ones had gone. He found one that would allow him to read the book (as it was in some ancient language) which, not overly suprisingly, back fired. There was bleeding from the eyes and he almost read out the summoning spell before someone (I can’t remember who) quickly closed it. However the team found out enough that they headed into the forest to track down Hurini, the horse-headed demon thing, and stop him ripping anyone else to shreds.

Once there they managed to find the body of the park ranger, which was unpleasant. However there was a twist. It seemed that there was some sort of parasite that had infested the poor guy. Darius had way more fun poking around than Alex thought very healthy, but eventually they carried on and found a very dark and menacing cave.

This was when twist two of the evening occured. After entering the cave the booming voice speaking in some demon tonuge confronted us. It turns out however that rather than Hurini being this evil beast in need of smiting he was actually a nice guy trying to get some peace and quiet. We gave him his book back so that pople couldn’t keep ripping him out of his home dimmension and chatted about a bunch of things. Including the park ranger, who it appears was infected by a Bon Sh’kar demon. He told us to come back and chat any time so we left him to it.

It was a great session, and I loved that the big bad demon was certainly big, but not at all bad.

Tags: actual play, Buffy rpg, Fall

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