The Animosity Weekender 2024 - UK Meet-Up

I ran my first narrative Warcry event at Warhammer World for the UK Animosity Discord meet-Up event on Sunday (21st January 2024). And it was really enjoyable! I want to do it again.

It was for the Animosity Weekender 2024: Rolling Thunder which (by design) coincided with the Las Vegas Open - a huge convention, where Naro, who is also one of the Animosity GMs, ran the AoS narrative event.

The Animosity Weekender there consisted of a one-evening Warcry event, followed by a three-day AoS event. An entirely grander affair than mine! It was at a ticketed convention, with the AoS narrative run for 24 players, over 3 days, and included doubles games, one-against-one games, and a huge multi-player siege game finale.

My little event was just a one-day, 10-player, 3-game narrative. But still a much more structured thing than the previous Discord Meet-ups, or any other events I've hosted: They have always just been "lets get together and play a few games".

For the first time ever, I asked players to pre-submit rosters, I scheduled rounds, I recorded match-ups and results, and wrote an evolving subplot that was to be decided by the results of the games each round.

The Ironfang Pirate Fleet - The Plunderblades and the Portwreckas, part 7

Hurdygurgy

The Ironfang Fleet are a ragtag band of orruk sky-pirates that cruise the airways of the Mortal Realms, in a ramshackle flotilla of wooden vessels that barely look able to fly, let alone fight. They are not usually a single coordinated force, but a collective of individual ships that prey on whatever merchant sky-shipping that they find sailing over the less-travelled areas of the realms, or on the shipping routes between Free Cities.

They have gathered at the Ashfall Delta in greater numbers than have been seen for a generation. Kaptain Mogrum and the Cleavermaws made a handsome profit last time they were in the Prime Dominion and they have passed word to the other ships in the fleet. The prospect of the gathering storm that is about to beset the hidden archipelago in Haixiah (via the Realmgate in the delta) offers unequalled opportunities.

The Ironfang Fleet have been incentivised to join the fighting with the Longblades in the Ashfall Delta. They have employed a squadron of piratical sky-ships to rain-down fire on their enemies, and stand watch over their advance from above. It might be somewhat inaccurate cannon-fire, but it's spectacular and there is enough of it that the quantity has a quality of its own.

Hurdygurgy was a Warchanter on the Plunderblade. He joined the crew somewhere along the journey between Andtor and the Gnarlwood.

He probably had another name at some point before then but everyone just referred to him by the strange crank-driven musical instrument he always carried and that name just stuck.

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The Ironfang Pirate Fleet - The Plunderblades and the Portwreckas, part 6