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

• Not yet handed out

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

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

• Not yet handed out

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

 

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

 

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 91 – “The particle-wave theory of Nigel”

 

Alternative titles

• “I do not support this message”

• “In hindsight, I shouldn’t have pointed it at Nigel”

• “She is the mad one now”

• “Even the mad door agrees”

• “Get a grip on your timeline dude”

• “Come child, come”

The party

• Dan (human ranger)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Kaya (dwarven fighter/cleric)

• Nigel (dwarven fighter)

• Valis (elven fighter)

XP

• 280

Treasures

• Lots of silver coins

• 3 bundles of silk

• Magic wand

• Magic potion

Summary

• Returned to the first round door

  • Opened it by force after greasing it

  • Found four statues: Centaur, armoured man, robed man, woman

  • Several contains: 4 wooden chests, 1 iron chest, 2 crates

  • Looted the containers

    • Found lots of silver coins

    • Gold painted copper coins

    • Daggers

    • Rotten cloth

    • 2 vials wrapped in silk (we broke one vial)

    • 1 wooden box wrapped in silk

      • Contained a magic wand

  • Freed first the robed man

    • Man called “Torm Blackmace”

    • He’s an ass and not very helpful

  • Freed the woman

    • Woman called “Theandra”

    • The magic ring is now depleted

    • She mentioned being a servant of the silver princess

• Tried to open the second round door but failed

• Played around with the magic wand

  • Pointed at Theodoor: Slowed him down, maybe failed petrification magic?

  • Pointed at Nigel: Created a rain cloud above him

  • Pointed at empty corridor: Fire ball(?)

• Nigel almost swallows and suffocates on a coin

• Returned to the second teleporter

  • Torm triggered something in the altar room before

  • The ruby Nigel had taken turned into a monster we fought

  • We tied Torm up better up

  • Used the teleporter and moved on to the next place

 

Session 90 – “You didn’t expect we befriend a door?”

 

Alternative titles

• “Facing the face”

• “I will not die in a watery grave … DM: Yet”

• “Emotionally supporting a metal face”

• “Suckers do it for free”

Location(s)

• Laserkeep Shrine

The party

• Dan (human ranger)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Grimnir (dwarven thief)

• Kaya (dwarven fighter/cleric)

• Nigel (dwarven fighter)

• Ryan (half-elven thief)

• Sweeney (halfling fighter/thief)

• Valis (elven fighter)

XP

• 18

Treasures

• Ruby from altar room

Summary

• Party got joined by some of our friends who had followed us

• Dealt with the entrance room

  • Teleporter platform labelled WROTE (anagram for TOWER)

  • Talked with the door with face (now named Theodoor)

  • He mocked us, but we still want to hire him

  • Escaped from the water trap into the corridors

• Found a round metal door we couldn’t open

  • According to the rescued humans there are more petrified people behind

• Found a large room with two petrified humans

  • Returned them to normal (the magic ring seems to lose its power)

  • The humans are Delf and Araxis

    • Wearing some black stone amulets

  • Were once guards who got petrified as punishment

  • Both joined us

• Found another round metal door at the end of another corridor

• Found a room of magical darkness with a pit in the middle

  • The pit monster tried to attack us, but we might have killed it

• Found a room of sarcophagi, which we didn’t open yet

• Found a dead-end corridor with a fire trap

• Found an altar room full of various items

  • Iron skeleton with a cloak

  • Small chime

  • Large ruby (taken by Nigel)

  • Brazier with magic black fire

  • Black frog statue

  • Altar with a book (which almost killed Dernard)

• Found another teleporter behind the altar room

  • CLAPE OF THE DRAGUANIA

  • Anagram: PLACE OF THE GUARDIAN

  • We rested in this room as it seems the only really safe place

  • Session ended here

 

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