The Goddess Of Fate Summoned Us To Another World To Be Her Champions, But She Won't Tell Us What To Do! - Episode 8 (Isekai Campaign)

Previously on The Goddess Of Fate Summoned Us To Another World To Be Her Champions, But She Won't Tell Us What To Do!:

Four Japanese High School students were hit by a truck and brought to a magical world by Bruni, the Goddess of Fate to be her champions. After defeating some lightning mages sent to kill them, they discover that the guildmaster not only sent the mages to kill him, but is in league with the Demon Lord cult, and they make plans to bring him to justice.

Our heroes:

• Sato - carries a katana and dreams of being a samurai
• Tobe - carries a bow and enjoys tracking and sneaking
• Okita - has two companion animals, a spark rabbit named Yokai-chan and a wind hawk named Riku-chan, and enjoys the creepy things
• Akuto - wannabe gangster who talks with his fists

Tonight's session:

I finally got some worldbuilding I had been putting off done this week, so I started the session by sharing some basic information about the area that they would have learned from NPCs. Namely that the town, Bakri, serves as a hub between various villages, including Poppybrook, around Sald valley, which is rich in medicinal plants. Each village has a resident herbalist or apothecary.

The team infiltrated the house of Brod, the corrupt guildmaster. While searching, they discovered tracks in the floor showing that the bookshelf opens up. (Edit: It is important to Tobe that she be acknowledged as the finder of the tracks) Tobe and Akuto tore everything off the bookshelf trying to find out which was the hidden key until Sato just stepped forward and just tried pulling the bookshelf open, which worked.

In the basement, they found Brod and Dansh (Dansh previously fought the team and had his nose broken by Sato). Before he could be taken, Brod activated Dansh's Demon Lord tattoo which turned Dansh into a 3 meter tall demon. They managed to kill Dansh, but Brod turned out to be the more difficult adversary. Tobe could not land a single shot on him and Akuto fainted under Brod's spear thrusts. After whittling him down, Tobe managed a shot through his foot, he was finally paralyzed by a spark tackle from Yokai-chan and they tied him up.

After they tied him up, they searched the basement and discovered another room with Brish, the missing Adventurer's Guild receptionist, along with the mayor's daughters, which explained why he was working with the Demon Lord cult. While Brish took the mayor's daughters home, they put Brod in the town jail (the sheriff was in one of the other villages) and Pezel (a catfolk adventurer NPC) and Tobe set up to guard the jail, in case any other cultists got any ideas. Brish took them to the accommodations at the Adventurer's Guild to wash off and get some sleep.

Lessons:

• Battles will take longer than you think. Like, twice as long.
• When you are starting out, you are going to keep learning details about how combat works, and it will make things more interesting.
• If you realize you made a mistake a moment ago, just live with it and move on. We realized that a couple of players had been giving lower attack rolls than they should have. We played it off as their characters eating donuts when they should have been fighting.
• You don't have to plan the complete world before you start playing, but a little bit of world building goes a long way and will lead to more interesting play.

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