Sunday, March 30, 2025

Session 98 – “It’s a fucking door”

 

Alternative titles

  • “The only thing we tried is pee on it and violence”

  • “You will touch the door tonight”

  • “We just got beaten by a door … we take anything”

  • “So we end, where we began”

The party

  • Bob (human cleric)

  • Dernard (human magic user)

  • Grimnir (dwarven thief)

  • Kaya (dwarven fighter/cleric)

  • Ryan (half-elven thief)

  • Valis (elven fighter)

XP

  • 0

Treasures

  • None

Summary

  • Tried to deal with the door in the statue room

    • Destroyed all statues

    • Touched the door a bunch of times

    • Elves (but not half-elves) and dwarves together could touch it

  • Continued travelling

    • During one night our camp fire flared up for no apparent reason

    • Another night a section of the magical barrier seems to have dropped somewhere

  • Encountered centaurs

    • Barely avoided a fight

    • They thought we had killed their friend Rothgar

    • He had been burned

    • Didn’t know more about silver princess

  • Lead us to their sage Thorvil

    • Thinks the silver princess is a myth

    • If anybody knows it might be the fae

    • If we help him mend the rift with the other centaurs he helps us talk to the fae

    • Sent us to look for Ryans friend Yuticus

  • We returned to the door … no progress

Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Session 97 – “Find weird stuff and poke it until it attacks us”

Map of Onion Tor

Worldmap

Alternative titles

  • “Just don’t rub the bacon on yourself”

  • “I have magic, I just forgot about it”

  • “You suck at triggering traps”

The party

  • Bob (human cleric)

  • Dan (human ranger)

  • Dernard (human magic user)

  • Eames (halfling thief)

  • Kaya (dwarven fighter/cleric)

  • Nigel (dwarven fighter)

  • Valis (elven fighter)

XP

  • 11

Treasures

  • 38 GP, 16 SP

Summary

  • Eames joined the party

  • Continued towards the hill, arrived at a Tor

  • Valid set a bounty on Nigels cloak

  • Found dead bodies on top of tor

    • Most with white-yellow robes

    • Two with black robes

    • Tor seemed not to be natural

    • Something in the north was moving away

      • Centaurs? Riders?

  • Found a cave opening in side of tor

    • Entered and started exploring

    • Session ended with us trying to figure out the statues room

 

Monday, March 10, 2025

Session 96 – “The fool who shat on a tree”

Alternative titles

  • “He, She, Tree”

The party

  • Bob (human cleric)

  • Dan (human ranger)

  • Dernard (human magic user)

  • Kaya (dwarven fighter/cleric)

  • Nigel (dwarven fighter)

  • Valis (elven fighter)

XP

  • 46

Treasures

  • Sapphire

  • Silver ring with tiny mirror

  • 6 small pearls (potentially worthless)

  • 158 GP

  • Note: Treasure above was received as part of previous session; Bob & Nigel were excluded from the recipients

Summary

  • Looted the dead cultists

    • Took their amulets as proof for Sir Aravan

    • Found two maps

    • One of the current area

    • One of another area that Theandra recognized

  • Returned to hobgoblins and received gold as reward

    • Left their caves

  • Storm in forest remained

    • Asked the centaurs if there was something special in the center of the forest

    • They lead us to the Great Hawthorn, an ancient treant

    • Fought off some undead deer

    • We tried to communicate with the Hawthorn, but it didn’t respond

    • It became aggressive and started to walk

    • We retreated and returned to the camp of Sir Aravan

  • Talked to Sir Aravan

    • He promised to mention us when he returned to the keep on the borderlands

    • We decided to stay a few days to recover

  • The Great Hawthorn and other treants appeared

    • Attacked the shrine Sir Aravans people were building

    • Fighting was pointless

    • Treants started to destroy the shrine (a boulder)

    • We and Sir Aravans group retreated

    • Sir Aravan decided to return to the keep

    • We decided to continue our journey to the place mentioned on the second map

 

Wednesday, March 5, 2025

Session 95 – “I like caves … but this one tried to eat us”

Alternative titles

  • “I hate Frank”

  • “Bring forth the beavers of doom”

  • “Demon … DM … same root”

  • “Just the meat room”

  • “Hobgoblins, Snakes and restraining orders”

  • “Jaws 8 Kaya”

The party

  • Dan (human ranger)

  • Dernard (human magic user)

  • Kaya (dwarven fighter/cleric)

  • Valis (elven fighter)

XP

  • 131

Treasures

  • 96 GP

  • 49 SP

  • 7 small pearls (potentially worthless)

Summary

  • Searched for alternative entrance to cave, found none

  • Entered cave through crack

  • Encountered monster disguised as stalactites

    • Avoided the area of the monster and moved on

  • Found a dead cultist

    • Had a weird pearl with him

  • Found a flooded cavern

    • Something was in the water, so we considered it a dead end

  • Continued in caves and found hobgoblins

  • Continued to explore, but got discovered

    • Were brought to hobgoblin queen

    • Were tasked to kill the strangers hiding in their caves

    • Told us there were six strangers hiding

  • Were brought to the cave

    • Encountered five cultists

    • Avoided fighting them for a while

    • Fight happened nonetheless

  • Continued searching for the last cultist

    • Found him in a flooded cavern

    • He threw something into the water and summoned a kraken

    • Killed the cultist

      • Dying words: “You stole the box”

    • Escaped from the kraken


Monday, February 17, 2025

Session 94 – “It’s Frank”

 

Alternative titles

  • “I’d totally love to touch that rock”

  • “Dwarf and a hippie step out of a forest”

  • “I am the shadow”

  • “Touching grass is not enough, I have to hit rock bottom”

  • “There is a four digit number of butterflies in your vision”

  • “Mount a butterfly and ride into chaos”

  • “A black hole is basically a tie”

The party

  • Dan (human ranger)

  • Dernard (human magic user)

  • Kaya (dwarven fighter/cleric)

  • Ryan (half-elven thief)

  • Valis (elven fighter)

XP

  • 37

Treasures

  • 1 silver chain

  • 15 GP

Summary

  • Discovered a serpent that was eating itself

    • “Killing” it caused the pieces to grow new heads

  • Discovered a camp site of humans

    • Yellow/white robes

    • Big stone in camp

    • Masons carved the symbol of the empire into the stone

    • Approached the camp

    • “Greeted” by humans

    • Led by Sir Aravin

    • Came from the borderlands keep

    • Basically friendly

    • Heard Aravans version of the attack on their camp

  • Followed tracks to search for the attackers of the camp

    • Ventured into the cursed forest

    • Encountered six centaurs

    • They were following the attackers of the human camp, but had lost them

    • Joined the centaurs to search for the attackers

    • Ryan makes a friend amongst the centaurs: Yuticus

  • Follow tracks and find five robed figures

    • Black/purple robes

    • Assumed we had the upper hand and started to attack

    • They were five undead spellcasters, so this was a bad idea

    • Defeated the spellcasters in combat

    • Dernard explored more of the options of the wand of random things

  • Followed more tracks

    • Discovered a crack in a crag

    • Assumed the undead had been heading here

    • Session ended here

 

Monday, February 10, 2025

Session 93 – “Disclaimer: May contains beavers”

 

Alternative titles

  • “Ferad-Ale”

  • “It’s not a red ale, it’s a Fred ale”

  • “The fellowship of the pot”

  • “Mudonna”

  • “We got gold … potentially … maybe”

  • “I can’t see any way the cloud would be beneficial for us”

  • “There’s shackles, there’s beavers, there’s soup”

  • “That sounds very dangerous … lets to there”

  • “There is so much denial going on today”

  • “Fuck escapism, it’s plain old denial”

  • “Autopsy of a centaur”

The party

  • Bob (human cleric)

  • Dan (human ranger)

  • Dernard (human magic user)

  • Kaya (dwarven fighter/cleric)

  • Nigel (dwarven fighter)

  • Ryan (half-elven thief)

  • Valis (elven fighter)

XP

  • 91

Treasures

  • 300 GP

Summary

  • Went on a trip to the north

    • Searching for the silver princess

    • Accompanied by Theandra

    • Delf and Araxis stayed at Shackle keep

  • Encountered Feradic again

    • He now wants to become a leprechaun

    • He lost his pot of gold

    • We helped him get his pot back from some mud people

    • We got to keep the gold though

  • Discovered an ominously evil cloud

    • Saw it attack a crow mid flight

    • Found a wounded elf woman named Velin

    • She told us about people from the south that came here

    • They build a shrine and fought over it

    • Seems they caused something that is responsible for the cloud and other bad things

      • Dead animals everywhere

      • Things seem to lose colour and die

    • Started to head towards the shrine

  • “Centaurs” attacked us at night

    • Initially Velin said they are friendly

    • But seems they were overtaken by some parasitic plants

  • Discovered a healthy tree in a clearing (the surrounding woods were sickly)

    • Tried to inspect the tree

    • Surprise: It’s evil and attacked

    • We burned it down and moved on

  • Continued towards the shrine

    • Discovered some armoured men in yellow/white tunics

    • We had seen such people back at the borderlands keep

    • We hadn’t approached them yet

    • Session ended here

 

Sunday, January 19, 2025

Session 92 – “Technically we all belong in prison”

Map of Laserkeep Interior


Map of the Place of the Guardian


Alternative titles

  • “I lick the water”

  • “Some people say fun raft, some say bait”

  • “H.M.S. Fun Raft”

  • “Do you think it’s a good idea to tie a magic gem stone tom my head?”

  • “It’s an evil priest, but it smells bad”

  • “As you bömpf”

  • “I was ready for violence”

  • “You can lick it and find out”

  • “I carefully smash it”

  • “Why do we do anything?”

The party

  • Dan (human ranger)

  • Dernard (human magic user)

  • Kaya (dwarven fighter/cleric)

  • Valis (elven fighter)

XP

  • Not yet handed out

Treasures

  • 1 wooden staff (magic?)

  • 1 talisman

  • 1 glass vial with a green liquid

  • 1 golden ring

  • 1 medallion

Summary

  • Arrived at the place of the guardian

    • Torm and Nigel didn’t arrive with us

    • Guardian was a frog like stone creature

    • Sat on top of a stone chest on top of a stone throne

    • Dan angered the creature, it attacked and we fled down some stairs

  • Arrived at a flooded cave

    • Lured half a dozen skeletons out of the water and defeated them

    • Valis went swimming to explore the lake

      • Too wide for a rope

      • Stairs end under water

      • Valis almost got lost in the cave

    • Considered the cave a dead end

  • Returned to the guardian

    • Agitated it, it started to approach us

    • Retreated to the stairs

    • Dernard used magic wand, the guardian started to grow

    • We jumped into the water before it could attack

    • Seems the guardian exploded, because it was gone after we returned

    • Opened the stone chest

      • 1 wooden staff

      • 1 talisman

      • 1 glass vial with a green liquid

  • Returned to the shrine to rest

    • Saw somebody in the altar room

    • Thought it was Torm and attacked

    • Was the demon guard though

    • It created magic darkness

    • Dan convinced the demon it was all Nigels fault

    • The demon left

  • Returned to the place of the guardian to rest for three days

    • We were in very bad shape

  • Returned to the shrine, and teleported back to the tower

  • Tried to teleport to the mountain, but it didn’t work

  • Got attacked by the mage and the archer we had fled from before

    • Dan used the teleporter at random

  • Ended up going to the dungeon

    • Dungeon was mostly abandoned and little of value left

    • Found a ladder up

  • We assumed the dungeon was under the tower

    • So the room above would contain three trolls

    • This was correct

    • Managed to fight off one of the trolls

    • Other two trolls got dealt with by Dernards magic wand

      • With a large amount of luck involved

  • Managed to climb up back into the tower and fled

    • Stayed the night in one of the outer towers

    • Managed to return to Shackle Keep

    • Home, sweet home!

 

Session 98 – “It’s a fucking door”

  Alternative titles “The only thing we tried is pee on it and violence” “You will touch the door tonight” “We just got beaten by a ...