Session 105 – “A whoosh, not a boom”

 

Alternative titles

• “We are simulating the heat outside by means of fireball”

• “Why do we need exposition?”

• “The elven art of bouldering”

The party

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Kaya (dwarven fighter/cleric)

• Valis (elven fighter)

• Ryan (half-elven thief)

XP

• 0

Treasures

• None

Summary

• Fought the visitor of the crypt

  • Attacked us with a weird, liquidy-non-liquidy, greenish/yellowish, etherial flood

  • Defeated by fireball

  • Visitor was gone

• Searched the crypts for clues but found nothing

• Ambushed Larks at night to figure out where Dasid is

  • Dasid is with the hunt master

  • Larks told us he had spied on us, and knew we didn’t break into the crypt

  • We asked if he could check the cultists as well

    • They also didn’t break into the crypt

• At breakfast we counted the cultists, to see if one was gone (because of the fireball)

  • All were accounted formerly

  • Cultists also seem to be trapped here (they were able to catch an apple we threw at them)

• Talked to Breynar (priests assistant)

  • He didn’t have anything useful to say

• Talked to Kathrindamos (priest)

  • He didn’t have anything useful to say)

• Were asked to see the silver princess

  • She “apologised” for accusing us of breaking into the crypts

• Explored the palace a bit, found nothing that seemed important

• Decided to break into the cultists room while they were at breakfast

  • Session ended here at a cliffhanger

Session 104 – “Princessipality”

 

Alternative titles

• “The race for the mace”

• “Send the captain to my chambers … for a talk”

The party

• Declan (dwarven fighter)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Kaya (dwarven fighter/cleric)

• Valis (elven fighter)

XP

• 0

Treasures

• None

Summary

• Had summoned Ruinas ghost end of last game

  • Talked to her

  • Learned the story of the first guard captain

    • Got a magic weapon from a hag

    • A green mace

    • Supposed to safe the realm in times of need

• Asked around about the green mace

  • Talked with Captain Travis, Larks, the high priest

    • Assistant Breynar of priest tried to listen to our conversation

    • We assumed the weapon might have been buried in a crypt

  • Learned a slightly alternative version of the story

    • Person was a paladin

    • Used an emerald hammer

• Tried to go outside, but no longer were able to

• Later somebody tried to break into the crypt

  • We blamed for this

• Searched through Larks library

  • Found bad stories about Yarin

  • Learned that he was connected to the Amber family somehow

• At night Theandra warned us we would get arrested the next night

  • We snuck into the garden and then into the open crypt

  • One tomb had been disturbed

  • Somebody else entered the crypt after us

  • We waited in ambush

  • Session ended here

Session 103 – “Aggressive incendiary gardening”

Alternative titles

• “So the beaver is commenting about the bush”

• “If you need to trim a hedge, a morning star is the ideal tool”

• “Fireball might be seen as a hostile act”

• “I don’t think a fireball pisses of anybody”

The party

• Declan (dwarven fighter)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Kaya (dwarven fighter/cleric)

• Valis (elven fighter)

• Ryan (half-elven thief)

XP

• 0

Treasures

• None

Summary

• Lots of talking with different people

  • “The tragedy”

    • Name the people us for this situation they are in

    • People fell asleep that night, the next day they were stuck

    • Some guards on duty saw a flash of light before they fell asleep

    • Some guards mentioned some wind they felt when the flash happened

  • The egg of Coot

    • Mentioned by the silver princess

    • Before the tragedy she had sent out people to search for it

    • Came back changed, body parts had been replaced with metal

  • The suitor of the silver princess

    • Wandering knight

    • Rode on a white dragon

    • Brought a giant ruby as a gift for the princess the night before the tragedy happened

    • Hasn’t been seen since

  • Other suitors of the silver princess

    • Mentioned a sorcerer that was interested in her

    • Turns out it was Yarin when he was young

    • Studied a bit under Larks

    • Was searching for some magic to protect him

  • Ruina the harper

    • Harp we found matches the one Ruina was using

    • Ruinas harp had silver strings

• Silver princess showed us the ruby

  • On inspection with the ruby lens, we could see the palace inside the ruby

  • Could confirm it was the actual palace, as we could see e.g. Dernards dancing lights spell

  • Offered for one of us to carry out the ruby, to hopefully break the curse

  • Silver princess allowed this

  • Kaya carried the ruby, but it vanished and returned to the silver princess

• Tried to leave through the front gate

  • Didn’t work, turned transparent and felt as if something was holding us back

  • When leaving the way we came, we also turned partially transparent

• Inspected the overgrown garden

  • Fought some plants that attacked us

    • Wanted to clear the garden with fireball

    • Larks the court wizard didn’t allow it

    • The master gardener didn’t allow it

    • Elvisar, who is in charge of the household, didn’t allow it

    • The silver princess didn’t allow it

  • Inspected the fountain and the two status in the garden

  • Fountain has healing properties if you drink from it

  • Statue of a young girl holding a songbird

    • Apparently the first silver princess

  • Statue of a snake

    • Apparently a snake led the first silver princess to the place where the palace was built

• Returned to the harp with some string to restring it

  • String turned silver

  • Mist formed and a figure appeared, apparently Ruina herself

  • Session ended here

Session 102 – “We almost made pasta today”

 The party

• Declan (dwarven fighter)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Grimnir (dwarven thief)

• Kaya (dwarven fighter/cleric)

• Valis (elven fighter)

• Ryan (half-elven thief)

XP

• 0

Treasures

• None

Summary

• Declan stumbled across our group and decided to join us

• We re-entered the cave

• We returned to the hallway of doors

  • Theandra headed towards one door

  • Inside was an old kitchen

  • Filled with red ghosts that didn’t interact with us

  • Food was still fine

• Theandra lead us up the stairs into the upper palace

• Followed a servant (not a ghost) into a room with brandy

  • Asked for an audience with the silver princess

  • Servant fetched somebody else who we talked to

  • Learned that other people had arrived recently

    • People in dark robes

  • We told our story and more people were fetched

  • Larks and guard captain Travis

    • Retold our story again

    • They told us the leader of the dark robed people was called Aravan

    • The same name as the leader of the imperial soldiers we had met near the treant forest

• They brought us to the other visitors

  • We threatened them and made it clear we will stop them

• Tried to lead Larks and Travis down to the basement

  • They got transparent

  • The effect of the “curse” seems to be stronger down there

  • We returned to the upper floor

• Later we had a banquet with the silver princess and her household

  • This included the cultists

• Larks showed Dernard his laboratory

  • Larks didn’t want to talk about Yarin when he was asked

• We got some rooms

  • Later that night we got attacked by shadowy tendrils at night

  • We assumed it was caused by the cultists

Session 101 – “Valis puts his hand there”

 

Alternative titles

• “Wholesome adventure meets you people”

• “It would be nice to have Nigel now”

The party

• Bob (human cleric)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Valis (elven fighter)

XP

• Not yet decided

Treasures

• Silver ring with stylized wolf head

• Magic sword

Summary

• A small group went ahead to scout the cave

• Encountered various smaller dangers (like purple moss and slimes)

• Found a silver ring in a slime pit

  • Managed to open a secret door with the ring

  • Discovered a magic harp that (immobile, so we couldn’t move it)

  • Harp had to strings, but we still could play it

  • Theandra told us about a legend of Ruina the harpist

    • Not sure if related to this harp though

  • Fought off a spectre and gained a magic sword

• Found some clay vials, not sure what their content is

• Advanced towards a semi-transparent door

  • Adventure ended in a hall full of such doors

Session 100 – “We conga our way into the hill”

 

Alternative titles

• “One centaur lead to another”

• “The beaver wants to be sprinkled”

The party

• Dan (human ranger)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Kaya (dwarven fighter/cleric)

• Sweeney (halfling fighter/thief)

• Valis (elven fighter)

XP

• 0

Treasures

• None

Summary

• Left the fae realm and met Sweeney

• Continued journeying towards place of silver princess

  • Found place the map in the puzzle box showed

  • No traces anywhere of buildings

• Found a river

  • Inhabited by water elementals

  • Wouldn’t let us pass

  • Throwing silver coins into river calmed them down and we could pass

• Camped the night on hill where the castle was supposed to be

• Made a copy of the map

• Travelled to other hill that was marked with an X on the map

  • Found a small crystal disc, bound in lead

  • Kaya looked through it

  • Everything appeared red

  • Found a path of green

  • Followed the path back to the first hill

  • Found an opening in the hill

  • Entered the hill

Session 99 – “My axe thirsts for sap”

Alternative titles

• “We can try the blood thing”

The party

• Bob (human cleric)

• Dan (human ranger)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Grimnir (dwarven thief)

• Kaya (dwarven fighter/cleric)

• Nigel (dwarven fighter)

• Ryan (half-elven thief)

• Valis (elven fighter)

XP

• 125

Treasures

• Red jewel from fae

Summary

• The door

  • Smeared blood on the door, didn’t help

  • Valis got repelled trying to teleport, saw a room, and smelled some plants

• Visited the centaurs in the south

  • Tried to reach the hawthorn tree, to end the corruption of the forest

  • Got repelled by an army of treants

  • Convinced Yuticus to meet his brother (Thorvil)

  • They reconciled

• Thorvil lead us to a clearing

  • Told us to go counter clockwise to reach the fae

  • Dasid wasn’t able to enter

  • Kaya warned us not to eat or drink anything

  • She immediately drank what was offered

  • Made some deals that probably shouldn’t have been made

• Learned the story of the silver princess

  • Named Argenta

  • Suitor from the mountains far, flew in on a dragon

  • Suitor brought a red stone as a gift

  • Caused her land to disappear

• Learned that Ryan has the key to reach the silver princess

  • Found a map inside the puzzle box he had been carrying

• Left the fae realm