Cancelled Class Actual Play Report: Kids of the Borderlands

 Yesterday there was a storm called Eunice rampaging through the country.

Nothing as bad as storms in the USA seem to get, but enough that parents went to pick up kids from school before school was out. It made it so that I had only one pupil left of the three I normally had. This means that I skipped the normally planned lessons and we played a game.

She liked the weird games with the dice I sometimes play with kids, so I opened B2-Keep on the Borderlands and ran it for her using RISUS. I helped her make a character, which ended up being the following the following one:

The picture the girl chose
for her character.

Eliza-B

Huntress (4)
Sweet Danser (3)
Make-up Artist (2)
Lumberjack (1)

Asking her what she wanted to do and pointing out the areas on the map, she decided to head into the forest to look for friends to do a make-over with. Not what I was going for, but I like it. We did some encounter rolls, but none of them were pretty enough for her. 

As if it was a story about a girl with golden lock in a house owned by bears, she found some dwarves, but they were too old. Then she found some priests, but they were too male, and then she found some bandits, but they were too ugly.

The bandits —besides being too ugly— also tried to steal the goat she had hunted after giving up on finding friends for a while and take some time to eat. I feel ya, sometimes when things get rough, you just need a little snack. There was a chase as she hunted the bandits and shot them in the back until they dropped her food and ran off.

By then, we had to wrap things up for the game since the bell was going to ring, marking the start of the weekend.

She seemed happy with the game, but there were some points in the game that were kind of disappointing. For one she tried and tried and couldn't find a friend. Next time I should get her a friend and the random encounter roll might tell what trouble that friend was in. She had some bad luck rolling, and playing RISUS with a single PC is kind of hard, since some of the ways you could influence enemies with cliches that are equal or higher than yours are not available. So next time I might give her a friend that was visiting to help. Something like that.

All in all, it was a successful little session.