As mentioned here, I spent this weekend in Blackpool at a Beyond meet.

Beyond meets differ from the others in that we don’t just sit around and get drunk.. we sit around and get drunk whilst playing the game, which generally lasts about 10 hours on the Saturday and about 8 on the Sunday.

The basic plot for this weekend was..

There is a council of the gods, they are meeting to decide on whether H’ragle should be allowed to enter the Panatheon and become a fully fledged god.  The vote was close, but was going against… until two of the gods were bribed…

I won’t go into the full story, but the spiritual servant (Madara) doing the bribing called forth a number of heroes to set out on a mission and rescue the daughter of the two gods involved.

That’s where Shaggy came in.

Shaggy is my mage, he is absent minded, clumsy, and loves his conjouring tricks.

Also along for the ride were:
Maiyart (WrongMark) – a dwarvern ninJA assassin,
Linstram – A powerful mage turned priest, who got magically turned into a toucan a few meets ago and now has to wear a ring of shapechange to maintain his human form
DarkOne – A mummy
Fatty – An overweight native american type
Shayde – a fighter

These heroes have been adventuring for years, and are significantly badass .. so when we were teleported to our destination, and found ourselves trapped in the bodies of Darkkin (with 5 hit points, instead of the 260 Shaggy normally has) .. we were screwed.

Much adventuring ensued, we joined an army, saw our real bodies inhabited by Darkkin, imprisoned and tortured, broke into prison, survived traps and monsters, regained our bodies, escaped, journeyed through dark forest, riddles, enter the dark oak, Shaggy, Madara, Darkone and Shayde all killed by Treants.

Importantly tho, as Shaggy found out, in the afterlife, women are naked.

Maiyart was ripped to shreds (but survived), bodies carried through the mist.. which dispelled the ‘deatheyes magic’ .. we were back to life, yay.  Killed some geriatric guards, called the daughter of a god ugly.  Rescued her, fought an army (6 of us against more than 300 of them) .. we won (eventually) by manipulation of the deatheyes magic in the area.  And escaped just as reinforcements arrived.

I’ve never been killed at a Beyond meet before (WrongMark dies a lot), and for a loot whore like me, dying really sucks, cos you lose loads of stats.. luckily this was a ‘deatheyes’ death and not a real one.  Which means I got all the benefits of death (naked women gagging for it) with none of the downsides (maggots and stuff).

Saturday night was very drunken, the poor landlady was woken up at 4.30 in the morning when WrongMark, Rich and Spud realised that none of them had a key to get into the hotel..

A great weekend, hopefully the next two will be just as much fun! 🙂