Screaming doghand

Lantern Year 10 hunt & showdown: Screaming Antelope level 2 

Twice Nameless bow user, Chybele, nameless daggerist and Volibala Fifaly begin the hunt for the antelope.

Hunt took a while to resolve, because both the antelope AND the survivors kept backing off. At least the hunt phase was bountiful, one basic resource, one vermin and two Large Flat Teeth before the showdown even began.

Showdown started well enough even if the gloom arrow shots were essentially wasted, as the four wounds the party did on the first turn ended up getting healed by Chow Down on the second turn. Kind of a classic opening for Screaming Antelope.

Both teams were steadily damaging each other. Bow user was overperforming with his crits, but everyone carried their weight until there was around four AI cards left. Then all survivors just decided to stop this silly hitting business. Every extra turn caused by the incompetence of survivors was terrifying, because three of them had zero survival left. And somehow the Great Kick managed to become the very last AI card in the deck.

Fortunately everything turned out fine. No permanent severe injuries, although daggerist had to skip next hunt. Survivors had picked three Fresh Acanthus, but two of them went into damage mitigation.

Resource haul was impressive, although almost no hides came out of the decks despite getting, what, five basic resources, two vermin and all but five Screaming Antelope resources. Four hides were barely enough to innovate and craft lost Rawhide Vest and a new Leather Shield.

Lantern Year 11: Gorm Climate out of deck

Settlement challenges The Hand for it's demands.

Hooded knight makes a matching wound for nameless Twilight Sword user. 

1: Settlement innovates Inner Lantern
2: Leather-working
3: Face-Painting
4: TERRIBLE matchmaking by Chybele, Polly died.
5: Failed augury.

Settlement develops Rawhide Vest (nameless daggerist lost it when she became a vestiphobe), Leather Shield and Dried Acanthus.

Lantern Year 11 special showdown: The Hand level 1

Lischentya, Benoira, nameless savior and Volibala accept the challenge.

While The Hand is usually a sort of a breeze with a couple dangerous rolls, a green savior removed even that aspect. Line Up did kill Lischentya, but everyone else escaped unscathed and even rolled 7+ for applause. Reward roll was also a 9+, so the settlement received a serious boon in middle of year 11.

Since Lischentya died, settlement gained two endeavors. Oh, and retroactively the one who donated the leather and skull, Tumbo, died as well.

6: Settlement built Weapon Crafter
7: Another Face-Painting
8: Chybele tries to scavenge the weapon crafter, but fails.

Chybele and Incognito chose a new family name, Hatchet. They received twins, Roocie and Hatchet. 

Settlement also developed Counterweighted Axe and Bone Pickaxe.

Lantern Year 11 hunt & showdown: Frogdog level 2

Senaus, Benoira, Twice Nameless and Pentska began hunting this scary new quarry. Scary because we were mostly going in blind. I had just once hunted a level one before. 

A pleasant surprise was to receive the drums innovation from hunt.

But for the showdown... yeah, were we ill-prepared. That automatic stink damage hurts so much without proper armor. 

A frogdog fart decapitated our bow trainee who was two slots away from mastery on the second turn.

I think both of us believed at that point that this was going to be a party wipe. However, if the frogdog was doing obscene amounts of damage, so were the survivors. The frog died on turn four, although this required some desperate measures by the survivors, like tossing a Founding Stone and spending a lifetime re-roll on a wound attempt, and taking out our only dried acanthus.

But yeah... in the end it turned out to be an epic victory. 

Lantern year 12: Slender Blight

Slender Blight zeroed the insanity of returning survivors, which was a problem for sentient sword wielding Senaus.

We chose Barbaric as our conviction, and then Benoira became the Mere Navi, losing an eye in the process. 

1: Settlement innovates Cooking.
2: Leathermaking
3-4: Face Painting for Matchmaker
5: Matchmaker, Grachio and Hoki take on the name of Emissio, and have a daughter, Emily.
6: Senaus drums alone to get a little insanity for his Twilight Sword.

Settlement develops a Long Club, Spiked Buckler, Lure Lantern and Leather Bracers. And even Monster Grease, because Molyland was going to lose a bunch of resources next year, so might as well spend them.

Lantern year 12 hunt & showdown: Frogdog level 2

Senaus, Benoira, Manaus Bo and nameless daggerist proceeded to hunt the beast. 

And right off the bat Senaus recognizes someone from the stone faces below and loses all his insanity. Apparently the one he recognized was a White Speaker of sorts, because the stone face whispered White Secret to him, making him Ageless as well. Nice I guess, although Senaus benefits the least from that ability thanks to his Twilight Sword. 

White Secret lunacy also gave him three insanity, which was barely enough to use the Twilight Sword.

... and later in the fight his insanity was reset again.

Showdown began, and there were three stinky survivors already, one of them being Benoira. She had taken Monster Grease along with her so that the monster would hit her only on 9+. However, she had picked up a minus evasion along the way. And either way, hitting on 9+ does you no good if you get automatically hit by your own stench.

Showdown felt a lot more manageable now, even if still oppressive. That, despite Gloom Arrows triggering  the trap right away with the first attack ever made by the survivors. And even if survivors hit less and wounded less. But the thing is, Frogdog seemed to match the survivors' fervor. 

In the end only one severe injury was needed. And that was for Benoira. And it was a head explosion. Again.

Well, at least Benoira was holding the Sleeping Virus Flower, so she'd be coming back. However, it was a huge bummer anyway, as she had the acid hands ability to train fist and tooth. 

Other than that, the showdown went down just in time before heavy injury levels started generating masses of severe injury rolls.

Lantern Year 13: Gathering Emissions

Returning survivors needed a little more time to deal with the gasses from Frogdog's putrid pond, and needed to skip next hunt. 

Hands of Heat branded the feet of Manaus, which cost twelve resources for the settlement.

The corpse of Benoira offered her flower to Vega, who transformed into Benoira Reborn. 

1: Settlement innovates Nightmare Training
2-3: Face Painting, but this time to do battle. Only one success, though.
4: Benoira Reborn drums for a bit of insanity for the upcoming showdown.
5: Hatchet Hatchet is appointed as the new Mere Navi.
6: Leathermaking to finally complete the leather armor set.
7: Theuvo tries to scavenge broken lanterns. Only tries.

Lantern Year 13 nemesis showdown: The Hand level 1

Benoira Reborn, Grachio Emissio, Pentska Bo and Chybele Hatchet defended the Moly Land... again. 

This time around Chybele managed to slap in a wound to The Hand with her axe, right before Soft Chuckle. Pentska tried to follow in her footsteps, and yeah, pulled the trap. Pentska took a warped pelvis. Nobody died, but for sure he didn't try to train his dagger during this showdown. He had such high hopes for his performance, that missing his shot made him Apathetic after hearing the soft chuckle.

Other than that the showdown went as usual. Grachio Emissio was the quota kill for Line Up. 

The Hand was sore loser and punted a lantern at Benoira. She survived, but went deaf.

Benoira and Chybele took a point of strength from Applause. Pentska received the highest rewards, but even that couldn't drag him away from apathy.

Lantern Year 14: Cracks in the Ground

Cracks took a re-roll to not lose anybody. Settlement had to dismantle Albedo to protect resources from Gorm Climate.

1: Settlement innovates Shrine
2: Benoira trains a point of weapon proficiency with Nightmare Training
3: Chybele tried to do the same, but doesn't succeed.
4: Pentska tries to either fix his brain or pelvis with Bloodletting, but gets only insanity.
5: Shrine gives +1 armor bonuses for departees.
6: Matchmaker gave Mackpie and Manda surprise twins, Strangela and Onni.

Next hunt is likely going to be frogdog again. Whenever that will be. 

Moly cow

Lantern Year 4 Showdown - Butcher Level 1

Senaus, Chybele, Theus and Omena set out to defend the settlement. With great struggle survivors did a point of damage in to Butcher on first turn, and I believe it was second Butcher turn when the nemesis disemboweled Chybele. 

But that was the extent of Butcher's threat. Despite mauling Chybele almost turn after turn, he wasn't able to kill the disemboweled survivor. Survivors got their act together and were able to score two to four wounds per turn. 

It looked like Devour Lantern might become one of the cards left in deck, which certainly could have made things difficult... but even that threat didn't turn real. Relatively clean showdown, if we discount one meager disembowelment.

 Lantern Year 5: Stranger in the Dark

We thought we had a population of fourteen, but there had been a guy who responded to the name of Incognito, all along.

Chybele was nominated for Hands of Heat, and eventually her feet were branded. She really tried to form a tradition, but other people felt more like using branding irons.

Gorm Climate took off some re-rolls, too. We were not keen on losing innovations.

Benoira took the Sleeping Virus Flower.

Endeavors: 

1: Settlement innovates Face Painting
2-3: Face Painting by Gravemind and Hoki
4: Senaus makes a match out of the painted people, Grachio is born.
5: Chybele does the same, and a green savior, Fortuna, is born!
6: Theus attempts augury with no results. 

Lantern Year 5 Hunt & Showdown: Gorm level 1:

Senaus, Fortuna, Omena and Theus hunt the beast. Hunt is uneventful. Survivors manage to ambush Gorm, which already carved four wounds off from the quarry before it had drawn a single AI card. A couple of retches did some heavy injury levels, but that's it. Gorm was a total pushover. However, gained resources matched the challenge.

Lantern Year 6: Open Maw, again!

Returning survivors forget their name with Memory Haze. 

1: We had four survivors with no name, and one guy called Incognito. That was almost 33% of the population, so settlement innovated Family to better structure their names that seemed to get lost.
2: Polly jumps into Open Maw, returning courageous and with Hissing Cockroach and Cyclops Fly. Omena places the fly into her empty eye socket, and doesn't die.
3: Settlement special innovates Citrinitas.
4: Face-Painting for Intimacy
5: Nameless guy did some matchmaking anyhow, Tumbo and Hoki becoming the first family, Fifaly. They were blessed with a baby girl named Yalcapallo.

Lantern Year 6 Hunt & Showdown: Gorm level 1

First two showdowns were played with Tabletop Simulator, but what comes next was live games. Nameless guy with Twilight Sword, Incognito, nameless woman and Theuvo begin hunt. This whole thing was nothing but an appetizer. Gorm chips munch munch.

Lantern Year 7: Slender Blight

Slender Blight was to invert the survival and insanity of departing survivors.

Hooded knight paid a visit, dueling now nameless Twilight Sword wielder. Duel was lop-sided, and ended up with a gaping chest wound for the wielder.

1: Settlement innovates Clan of Death
2-3: Face Painting for Manda and Theus Bo.
4:  Matchmaker for Manda and Theus, Manaus Bo is born.
5: Augury for Manaus Bo, giving her +1 understanding.

Settlement develops Bone Axe and Manda and Theus drink a love potion to give Manaus a little brother, Pentska Bo.

Lantern Year 7 hunt & showdown: Gorm level 1

We just didn't want to give up on Gorm just yet, wanting those sweet pieces of armor instead. So, 

nameless Twilight Sword, Chybele, nameless daggerist and Theus begin hunt. Hunt wasn't big of a deal, but thanks to Slender Blight and a couple of advanced AI cards that got stuck in the last few cards gave an actual challenge no-one expected at this point. 

Lantern Year 8: Gorm Climate out of deck

Gorm Climate took a bunch of re-rolls, because it threatened the loss of innovations.

While Benoira watches the meteor flying up high, Manaus gazes at the dung ball rolling around in the distance.  Not sure if that leads to any sort of camaraderie, though.

1: Settlement innovates Bloodletting
2: Settlement builds Leather Crafter
3: Settlement cures leather
4:Matchmaker, Tumbo and Hoki receive Volibala, little brother to Yalcapallo.
5: Stone Noses.

Settlement develops Leather Cuirass, Dried Acanthus and Rib Blade

Lantern Year 8 hunt & showdown: Flower Knight level 1

Twilight Sword, Benoira, nameless daggerist and Theus begin the hunt.

Which was an emotional rollercoaster of sorts, as twilight sword guy was constantly losing and gaining access to use Twilight Sword. 

Benoira, our luck machine, got the Unlucky disorder just to eventually lose it.

 Flower Knight opened the showdown with an advanced card that pulled two survivors inside the fairy ring, and incidentally those were the worst armored. The knight lopped off Twilight Sword wielder's inner ears, making him deaf.

Although exciting in other ways, that was the most severe setback of the showdown. Eventually the knight calmed down a bit, and became much easier to handle.

Lantern Year 9: Dark Seamstress

Well there sure seems to be a few endeavors this time around. 

1: Settlement innovates Bed.
2: Nameless daggerist sleeps in bed, healing broken rib. 
3: Matchmaker for Mossman and Yalcapallo forms a new family and receives Vega Greenery. 
4-5: Round-Stone Training for Pentska and Benoira, both gain Tumble
6-7:  Shared Experience for Pentska and Benoira
8: Twilight Sword does augury intimacy for Mossman and Yalcapallo - both die despite Mossman's re-roll.
9: Twilight Sword does augury for +1 Understanding.
 10: Twilight Sword does augury for +1 survival.

Settlement develops Skull Helm. 

Lantern Year 9 showdown: Slenderman level 1

Benoira, Chybele, Pentska and Theus defend the settlement from this unknown threat.

It's been a long time since I was against the Slenderman, and I had... almost forgotten how distressing showdown that is. Those dmg 4 hits are scary, and the feeling of powerlessness and futility that comes from not being able to really fight back until the posse is together. It certainly only added to this theme, when the Slenderman opened with the advanced card that pushes everyone to a corner and attempts to ensnare. Survivors had started by tossing a Founding Stone at a location that inflicted two wounds on a critical.

Survivors got only two Dark Water from pod imprisonment thing, and one of those had to be used to clear Benoira's disorders so that she was able to pull Pentska or Theus back from the darkness, because they had three bleed tokens already. Benoira suffered a few nonpermanent injuries, one of which has her skip next hunt.

Slowly survivors grinded through Slenderman's AI cards and were victorious. Reward check was not that thrilling, though, because a one dropped.

Lantern Year 10: Cracks in the Ground

After a few re-rolls, settlement regained the lost Founding Stone.

1: Settlement uses Light Forging to craft gloom arrows. 
2-3: Failed auguries
4: Shared Experience for Incognito

Next it's going to be a level 2 something. Lacking Surge be damned.

I seek the moly land

 A friend visited over, and since it had been almost a year since our last Kingdom Death campaign found it's conclusion, we started a new one.

Prologue went fine-ish. One survivor died, the permanent strength survivor survived, no crippling severe injuries. 

Settlement phase, however, was phenomenal.

Moly, the dead survivor from prologue, was commemorated in the name of the settlement, which was from then on called The Moly Land. 

Prologue rewards included two love juices, and starting population was thirteen. After the very first moment of intimacy between people of the settlement, Xenia was born. Raised as a stark raving warrior, she was to be the future leader and hero of the Moly Land. 

I suppose survived considered Xenia stark raving, because she was always talking about this utterly weird nonsense concept - death. Only three prologue survivors had witnessed death, and one of them was ogling the lantern hoard without talking to anyone. 

So it was easy for the settlement to Accept Darkness as their society principle. And that was when Xenia really got more fuel for her fire, when she became the Orator of Death. She was adamant on enlightening the settlement on matters of death and dying.

Settlement developed Symposium.

Lantern Year 1:  Xenia and a bunch of others hunted for level 1 White Lion. Bone Dagger and Bone Darts were the only weapons on top of Founding Stones. No wonder, then, that survivors were absolutely useless in attacking the beast. Fortunately White Lion didn't fare much better. It took a while, but eventually White Lion kicked the bucket. 

Rewards were utterly useless, though. At least settlement was able to develop Catgut Bow and some more rawhide armor pieces. Settlement developed Paint.

Gorm Climate forced hunters to skip next hunt, so Xenia was out when Moly Land set out to hunt for Gorm. 

Lantern Year 2: Open Maw Gorm level 1

We actually felt compassion for the Gorm. Its performance was so, so pitiful that it felt wrong to kill the giant baby headed beast. The beast just kept body-checking everyone and even missed most of those attacks. 

Once again survivors got a bunch of Love Juice. However, they were not used as Senaus, one of the prologue survivors, had become Matchmaker. Instead, after some Gormchymy settlement managed to snatch Wisdom Potion from abstinence. 

Since returning survivors were again denied further hunt, settlement bloated the innovation deck with Hovel so they'd not have to suffer that result again.

Lantern Year 3: Dark Dentist: Gorm level 1

Xenia leads her second hunting party, this time against Gorm. And while the showdown went rather well up until the last quarter of it, this showdown was the first time Xenia used the Orator of Death ability. That was a bad omen. Bad, bad omen. Because then a reaction caused Gorm to attack Xenia, deal a double hit which were none other than the dreaded double head. 

Well, she had Tough, so at least she had a pretty good chance of surviving with a 4+, with a re-roll?  

Nope. With her last words she encouraged the remaining survivors by telling them that this, this is the real meaning of death - while being decapitated by Gorm.

Gorm was put down, and Moly Land celebrated with death principle.

Lantern Year 4: Acid Storm

Year three was the last we got the time to play this time around. 

A quick list of development of Moly Land:

Innovation:

Language, Symposium, Paint, Hovel, Ammonia, Nigredo, Albedo

Locations:

Lantern Hoard, Skinnery, Organ Grinder, Bone Smith, Catarium, Gormery, Gormchymist

Principles:

Survival of the Fittest, Graves, Accept Darkness

Gear:

4x Cloth, 3x Founding Stone
Stone Noses
Bone Darts, Bone Dagger
Lucky Charm
Catgut Bow
Acid Tooth Dagger, Wisdom Potion
Rawhide Head, Vest, Gloves, Boots
Bandages

Resource:

3x Broken Lantern
Scrap
???
Perfect Bone
Acid Gland
Stout Heart
Handed Skull