Session 117 – “¿¡Yeeees!?”

 

Alternative titles

• “Snack Termiten”

• “I put a ring on it”

• “Spongebob can continue”

• “This is peek Valis”

• “Some kind of dwarven feminism”

The party

• Arnold (human fighter) & Kurton (dwarven fighter)

• Dan (human ranger)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Frederick II (halfling thief)

• Inesh (human thief)

• Kaya (dwarven fighter/cleric)

• Valis (elven fighter)

• Ryan (half-elven thief)

XP

• Not yet decided

Treasures

• None

Summary

• Emergency rescue of Dernard

  • Some attempts better than others

  • Thanks Kaya & Dan

• Why Arnold? Why?

• Explored the mansion further and met more Ambers

  • Richard Amber (lionhead, with golden crown)

  • Charles Amber (mentioned only, somewhere in the library)

  • Aunt Janet (mentioned only)

  • Isabel Amber (usually in garden, met in corridor)

• Stayed the night in guest quarters

• Ventured into the garden to search for library

  • Got attacked by trees

  • Crossed a bridge with a long armed monster underneath

  • Found some gargoyle statues with a treasure chest in the center of the garden (ignored for now)

  • Saw some squirrels collecting golden acorns (ignored for now)

  • Met Andre David Amber (goat head)

    • Riding on an elk

    • Accompanied by cat/lion headed riders on wolves

• Found a door and entered into a larger cross shaped building

Session 116 – “...”

 

Alternative titles

• “Bob the Bourgeoisie”

• “Arr-rachnids”

• “Upseil horizontally”

• “Valis doesn’t do salad”

• “I’ve a question to my death”

The party

• Dan (human ranger)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Frederick (halfling thief)

• Grimnir (dwarven thief)

• Kaya (dwarven fighter/cleric)

• Valis (elven fighter)

XP

• Not yet decided

Treasures

• 1010 GP

Summary

• Started exploring the mansion

• Found the salon

  • Two “golem” like guards around

  • Met Jean Louie Amberville

  • Mentioned his sister Isabelle

  • Offered us a boxing match and a wager

  • Giant spiders built the ring

  • Valis fought the champion

  • We won 1010 GP

• Found a room full of cat people

  • We just left

• Found a room full of spiders

  • Servants of this mansion

• Found a room full of slime

  • There was a stone treasure chest

  • Couldn’t get access to it

• Found ghostly dining hall

  • Some places were reserved for us

  • Joined the ghostly dinner

  • Hobgoblin guards served food

  • Yellow whine → Fully heals up

  • Soup → HP bonus

  • Chopped Salad → +1 one attribute, -2 some other attribute

  • Roast beef → Delicious, but no effect

  • Bread → No more food needed OR double food needed

  • Green beans → Delicious, but no effect

  • Mushrooms in wine sauce → +4 to poisons saves OR instant death (bye, bye Frederick)

  • Red wine → Unknown, nobody tried it

  • Strudel → Delicious, but no effect

  • Brandy → Fade and join the ghosts forever (bye, bye Dernard?)

Session 115 – “Do I need a donkey?”

Alternative titles

• “Smut! Pure smut!”

• “Foiled by the poverty”

The party

• Dan (human ranger)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Frederick (halfling thief)

• Grimnir (dwarven thief)

• Kaya (dwarven fighter/cleric)

• Valis (elven fighter)

XP

• 0

Treasures

• 0

Summary

• Met Frederick who wanted to join us

• Searched the area for traces of Dustin

  • Met a traveller who had seen a tavern keeper perform magic that seemed to be caused by Dustin

• Headed two days north to another village

  • Talked with the tavern keeper

  • Said he had seen Dustin head to the forest in the east

  • Learned that the mention of the Amberville family is nearby

  • They often hunt in the forest

• Headed to the mansion

  • Couldn’t find it

  • Found some flagstone

  • Camped nearby

• Awoke in the middle of the night inside a manor, surrounded by amber fog

Session 114 – “Lurin’ Surin”

 

Alternative titles

• “Perky Valis”

• “Aren’t we all a bit dead inside?”

• “Kinetically encourage the door to open”

The party

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Dominic (human cleric)

• Inesh (human thief)

• Kaya (dwarven fighter/cleric)

• Valis (elven fighter)

XP

• 190

Treasures

• 700 GP

Summary

• Had made it back to the village tavern

  • Met Dominic who wanted to join our mission

• Next morning interviewed Surin

  • He knew basically nothing but that we should capture Dustin

• Returned to the tomb

  • Surin didn’t recognise anything

  • Things had reset here

  • “Armadillo” monsters rust metal when they touch you

  • Kaya and Dominic lost their armour

  • Managed to lure them away with a bunch of metal

  • Went down the stairs and heard a voice “Awaken”

  • Re-encountered the black slime

  • Fireball dealt with it without collapsing the corridor

  • Found a room with lots of gold

  • There was a glyph of an hourglass under the gold

  • Didn’t manage to figure out what it meant

  • Dust motes appeared, so we fled

  • Had Dustin returned? Why?

 

Session 113 – “Dustin”

 

Alternative titles

• “The night of the living poo”

• “Dernard the destroyer”

• “Don’t defile the corpse now”

The party

• Dan (human ranger)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Grimnir (dwarven thief)

• Inesh (human thief)

• Kaya (dwarven fighter/cleric)

• Valis (elven fighter)

• Ryan (half-elven thief)

XP

• 22

Treasures

• Surins ring

Summary

• Opened coffin

  • The whole floor gave in

  • Nothing of value was here

• Continued down the stairs

  • Encountered a black slime monster

  • It split apart when attacked

  • Seems to have been fed by the armadillo monsters we sent down the stairs

  • Fireball became necessary

  • Collapsed the staircase

  • Dasid could get through the collapsed area, but it was too narrow for us

• Discovered that the fourth statue could boost your wisdom if touched

  • Not sure if something bad could have happened

• Somehow the tomb had reset

  • Floor in the coffin room was back

  • Armadillos were back

• Discovered a swirling mass of dust (we called it Dustin)

  • Lead us towards a secret passage in the coffin room

  • Lead to a hidden room with a casket

  • Dust became aggressive

  • We distracted Dustin

  • Ryan threw the casket down into the pit

  • Found a broken ring and a corpse

• Took the corpse back to the statues room to revive it with the second statue

  • Surin got revived

  • Told us about the elemental of time (apparently that’s Dustin)

  • Dustin escaped the tomb

  • We left the tomb to find a place to rest and plan our next steps

 

Session 112 – “Dernard the White”

Map of the Tomb of Surin

Alternative titles

• “The poking is leading nowhere”

• “T-15 minutes until fireball”

The party

• Dan (human ranger)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Grimnir (dwarven thief)

• Inesh (human thief)

• Valis (elven fighter)

• Ryan (half-elven thief)

XP

• 50

Treasures

• 500 SP

• 100 GP

Summary

• Met Inesh who had come to the tomb for some reason

• Threw coal from brazier into water

  • Water turned to normal water and we could pass

  • Took the hourglass with us

  • Left a rope behind to climb up

• Found a room with four statues

  • 1. A young boy

  • 2. An adult man holing a book

  • 3. An old man holding a staff

  • 4. A very old man holding a cane

• Found a cave with some dangerous ledges

  • Made it to the other side

  • There were three doors

  • Of course we managed to open the trapped door first

  • It was a wind trap that would have blown us down into the cave

  • Found a golem workshop behind one of the doors

  • Found a sarcophagus with a golem behind the next door

  • Defeated the golem and got some treasure

• Returned to the statues room

  • Nothing important happened and we found a secret door

  • There were some strange armadillo like creatures in the corridor behind

  • They approached, but fled from our torchlight

• Found a room with a coffin in side

  • Session ended before we could open the coffin

Session 111 – “Valis of the two swords … and the bleeding nose”

The party

• Dan (human ranger)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Kaya (dwarven fighter/cleric)

• Valis (elven fighter)

• Ryan (half-elven thief)

XP

• Not yet handed out

Treasures

• None

Summary

• Returned with Travis to the palace

  • Moss was growing on him

  • Handed him over to the court wizard

• Joined the princess in an audience

  • Learned about an issue in the village of head-woman Larna

  • Things seemed to age backwards

• Followed Larna to village Redfill

  • Stayed at the “Singing Serpent” tavern

  • Searched for cause of reverse ageing

  • Learned about the tomb of a sage

• Searched for the tomb

  • Found a marble dome with some columns on a hill

  • Roots had damaged the dome in areas, presumable breaking a seal that caused the reverse ageing

  • Near the dome was night, even during the day

  • Inscription on a pillar: “Here lies Surin of the order of the disciples of the bygone sage”

  • Entered the dome

  • Found an hourglass that moved backwards

  • Turning the hourglass had no visible effect

  • Somehow got rid of a magical barrier

  • Fought some animated statues near to a fake door

  • Tried to get past a water elemental guarding a passage further down