Dawn, Session 1 - Clove goes scrounging

 

Some preamble: This was first attempt at playing solo. The idea was to start slowly, send my character on a simple scrounging mission, use the travel map I had created, and the tables and oracles I had gathered to see how it felt and what came of it. 

EPISODE 1 - March 13, 2024

Clove goes scrounging.

Scene 1

Month: March
Weather: Roll 1=clear; roll for previous day=6, ground dry; mobility, agl=no effect
Shift: Day, visibility=no effect
Setting: Surrounding area, The Uni; stress=no effect
NPCs: none
Settlers: 18, all healthy

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Thread: Having completed her chores, Clove decides to go out to scrounge, this time going a little further than she usually does. She gets on her bike and travels...

Roll

Roll N=1, E=2, S=3, W=4, Roll =3

Clove decides to go south, following the train tracks that lead east and south away from the settlement. The ground is rough, but dry, and she makes steady progress. She passes familiar debris, mostly trash, abandoned and stripped vehicles. She turns south...

Clove ventures south

Roll

Encounter roll on "Simple Mythic." Result=3 No, but...

Roll on Site Characteristics table from T2K4 referee manual=29, propaganda leaflets

Clove sees a piece of paper on the ground and stops to examine it. She notices it because it doesn't look old or worn down like other trash you would normally find. The piece of paper looks like it's been left there for a day or two.

She gets off her bike to examine it more closely. It's folded into three folds like a pamphlet, the kind she used to see at the nurse's office at school or at the dentist. And just like a pamphlet, it has a bunch of text on it. It's in a hand-written style but it doesn't look like ink but photocopied. This surprises her. She decides to pick it up and scans the text.

Roll

Roll on Ironsworn, Oracle 1: Action and Oracle 2: Theme. Result=41 and 2; reject, ability

The text is pretty dense, but she picks up a few phrases: "We must choose to return to nature...Mother Earth punished us and now we must submit...Reject your urge to build and instead embrace your desire to destroy..."

Roll

Roll for stress, 1 point assigned. Roll 1D6, 1D8; Result: 4, 3=fail; gain 1 point of stress

Clove is slightly disturbed by the text and quickly looks around her, a sudden feeling of being watched overtakes her. But she sees nothing, just a few crows. Just as quickly, she shakes off the awful feeling--feeling a little silly instead. She stuffs the paper in her backup. "Dawn and them will want to see this," she thinks.

Result of Scene

NPC: none
Stress: Increased to 1

Scene 2

Shift: Day, visibility=no effect
Setting: North of the port, edge of warehouse area, see Overworld map
NPCs: none

Roll

Roll for Site Charactersitcs, Site Characterstics table, T2K4. Result=42; Prisoners on display

As her habit, Clove took out her binoculars. The warehouse section of the port was mostly empty, with a few cars and construction-type vehicles scattered about. In a parking lot section, out in the open, she saw a...

Roll

Roll for how many prisoners she sees, D6. Result=4, 1; twist die success, so roll again on D6. Result=3, 3; Organization, Helps the hero

A group of four people, two of them are tied up and the other two are kids. The kids aren't tied up but they don't look like they want to go anywhere. There's a guard with them but the way the guard is watching them, the kids could probably easily get away. If they ran a few feet, behind a car or something, they may be able to slip away, especially if they tried at the same time.

Roll

Ask Simple Mythic Oracle, are there guards? D6. Result=4, Yes But...Roll for # of guards, D4, result=1

Clove scans the area but can only see one guard.

Roll

Roll on Further Elements table, T2K4. Result=8, J, Q; New, Genius, Kid; Roll D6 for gender. Assign odd for man, even for woman. Result=6

The guards is wearing glasses, and she's well dressed, at least for the apocalypse. She's not wearing the kind of gear that suggest she's some post-apocalyptic wanna-be warrior that you sometimes come across. Her clothes look relatively well taken care of, like she's going to work. Apocalypse hipster?

Roll

Roll for weapon and armor coverage using Tables and generators; Result: Hunting Rifle, that pulls hard to the left (imablanced), and armor for arms and torso

She's got a hunting rifle slung across her shoulder and some type of armor on her arms and body.

Clove assesses the situation. All she's got is her bow and knife. That's no match for a well-armed guard, even if there is only one of them. And that pamphlet she found has her a little creeped out. She decides to go back to the Uni to get some help.

Result of Scene

NPCs: 6;

• 4 prisoners, 2 adults 1 kid;
• 1 decently armed guard
• 1 person or group who created pamphlet
  Stress: 1