Welcome!
Hello and welcome to ‘The Wandering Bard Plays’, a Let’s Play Blog charting my first foray into a solo table-top RPG – specifically Tim Hutchings ‘1000 Year Old Vampire’.
Come in, have a look around, hopefully stay for the ride! I’ll be playing the game in the full journaling mode, with the aspiration of one entry per week as a minimum (maybe more, time permitting), no set post length, just whatever feels right to tell that particularly part of the story.
All feedback, comments and constructive criticism welcome, as indeed is general chat – just use any of the buttons in the header to get in touch.
Now let’s go sink our teeth into this…
– The Wandering Bard
For a quick gameplay overview click here.
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- 21st July 1191 – Day 15The caravan remained tense and on edge for the few days immediately after the incident with Bertrand. My actions in saving the young girl, Zara as I learned she was called the next morning, had, somewhat unsurprisingly, endeared me to the group. The women of the caravan fussed over me like a favourite nephew, constantly… Read more: 21st July 1191 – Day 15
- 14th July 1191 – Day 8Having resolved to leave the cave and the village, partially for the safety of the villager, given my understanding of my new nature, but equally for my own safety lest I should be discovered, I endeavoured to set out early on the morning of the 12th July.
- 11th July 1191 – Day 5The days following my miraculous reawakening have been no less revelatory in nature than that first moment of consciousness after what I presumed was certain death. As I record them now I am still struck by a sense of astonishment and revulsion. Had I not lived them myself, I do not think I would truly have believed them to have taken place! For it was during these few monstrous days that the true nature of my new self was revealed to me in all its shocking majesty, and the path I now walk laid out bare before me…
- 7th July, 1191 – Day 1I awoke in darkness, a great weight pressing down on me, a burning sensation in my throat.
- InitiumMy name is Sir John Brailsford, an English knight of the realm, serving at the pleasure of King Richard, the Cœur de Lion, of England.
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