Session 154 – “The only one using the safeword is the DM”

 

Alternative titles

• “We are future us now”

• “Pee minus ten seconds”

• “Peeing is a charisma check”

• “Nigel fingers the fantasy snot”

• “Nigel is our canary”

The party

• Aelorya (elven druid)

• Dan (human ranger)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Inesh (human thief)

• Nigel (dwarven fighter)

• Ryan (half-elven thief)

• Sweeney (halfling fighter/thief)

XP

• Not yet decided

Treasures

• 22 GP + Not yet counted number of coins

• Calcified staff

• Magic dagger

• Magic scroll

• Bow (magic?)

• Cloak (magic?)

• Copper ring (magic?)

• Key

Summary

• Started to explore the dungeon

• Encountered and/or avoided some monsters

  • Fought slime from pool cave that had followed us

  • Fought terror weevils that had ambushed us

  • Avoided fighting the troll that wandered around

• Found dead elves

  • Had a copy of the map we already had (though a bit more detailed)

• Found exit

  • Had to fight banshee to get out

  • Found quite a bit of treasure

Session 153 – “Stag night”

 

Alternative titles

• “Nigel is a snack”

The party

• Dan (human ranger)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Inesh (human thief)

• Ryan (half-elven thief)

XP

• Not yet decided

Treasures

• None

Summary

• Left the site of the ambush

  • A white stag approached our camp at night

  • Apparently just wante
    d something to eat

• Examined the parchment

  • Elvish writing plus a map

  • “Testimony of ...”

  • “Spot is final ... of Beregan the coward”

  • “Stole keys to sacret/secret library ... binder of books and demons”

  • Map showed

    • Five columns in a pentagram

    • A hill in North-east with an opening, labelled “Final hiding place of Beragan ...”

• Next morning stag leaves to east

  • We follow

  • Mid afternoon it took a nap

  • We camp nearby

  • From top of tree saw a clearing nearby

• Next day went to the clearing

  • Stone slab in centre

  • More stones around it

  • We assume it’s one of the pillars of the map

• We try to go North

  • Encounter the stag again

  • It blocks our path

• Head East

  • Stag doesn’t block this route

  • Find some stones in the woods

  • Presumably another pillar

• Try to see if we can find more stones, but fail to do so

• Head north where we suspect the hill is

  • Find the hill and an opening

  • Large footprints nearby

  • Old statue of a stone in the shrubs near the entrance

• Search for alternative entrance into hill

  • Find one on the opposite side

  • Inside is a flooded area that sparkles

  • Find a skeleton buried in sand

  • Throw some meat inside and pull it back

  • Something looks wrong with the meat, but we can’t say what

• Build a raft to cross the water

  • Manage to reach the other side

  • Something in the water attacks Dan and Dernard as we are about to leave

• Escape from the flooded area deeper into the hill

Session 152 – “A berry/beary good outcome”

 

Alternative titles

• “Someone will hear that you looked at those elvish girls”

• “”XXX: Axe of executing the ex-living”

The party

• Dan (human ranger)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Inesh (human thief)

• Nigel (dwarven fighter)

• Ryan (half-elven thief)

XP

• 42

Treasures

• 120 GP

Summary

• Looked from top of a tree to surrounding areas

  • Lake to North

  • Large stone column in West

  • Large blood red tree West-south-west

  • Smoke close in the North

• Went to smoke

  • Remains of camp site

  • Decided not to pursue

• Went to tree

  • Red stream of water originating from tree

  • Met a few strange elves

  • Offered them berries and they invited us into the tree

  • Might be fay

  • Met their elder

  • Didn’t like that we were there

  • Asked us to leave and lead nobody to them

  • We left, afterwards the tree couldn’t be seen any more

• Went to column

  • In reality a very tall statue (only the head) of a dwarf

  • Inesh climbed on top and looked around

  • Some magic allowed her to see more then she should be able to

    • Lake to the north

    • The red tree was visible to her

    • Mountains in the South

    • Centaurs in the South

    • A group of five men from the Empire in the North-east

      • Presumable from the camp site we had encountered

    • A panther creature in a tree North-West

    • A dead creature (head of crow with black wings) in the North-East

  • Decided to ambush the Empire people

    • Youngest of them escaped, four others dead

    • Found a parchment amongst them

Session 151 – “The tree-ty”

 

Alternative titles

• “Mercenaries & Midwives”

• “The real treasure was the trea
  sure we found along the way”

• “We are Dans teenage trauma”

The party

• Aelorya (elven druid)

• Dan (human ranger)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Inesh (human thief)

• Nigel (dwarven fighter)

• Ryan (half-elven thief)

• Sweeney (halfling fighter/thief)

XP

• 0

Treasures

• 1 GP

• Cursed chime

Summary

• Headed towards spider elves

• Encountered tree with chimes and skulls

  • Aelorya acquired one of the chimes

• Met the spider elves

  • Still around and happy to see us

  • Might help in the conflict with the empire

  • Mentioned the “Cave of Tokan” after asking about the lost cavern

    • Somewhere “Between North and South”

    • So presumably somewhere in the mountains

• Headed further West

• Found weird trees (twisted trunks; tiny leaves) and double headed squirrels

  • Found an old well

  • Found purple trees

  • Trees talked and moved

  • “Tree riders” stepped out of them

  • Don’t like the empire (after we told them about the empire burning trees)

  • Want us to stop them

  • Mentioned the “mother of beasts”

    • Older than the trees and evil

  • We asked about the chime

    • They didn’t like it and it seems to be evil/cursed

 

Session 150 – “Boomza! Our new safeword”

 

Alternative titles

• “He was a bimbo, but now he is the bosses husband”

• “Druid Guevara”

The party

• Aelorya (elven druid)

• Dan (human ranger)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Inesh (human thief)

• Nigel (dwarven fighter)

• Ryan (half-elven thief)

XP

• 2

Treasures

• None

Summary

• Saw some fire in the woods

  • Approached it and encountered soldiers of the Empire

  • They had killed some centaurs

  • We started a small fight and then fled because they were too many

• Hammer found in last session shattered

  • A red stone fell out of it

• Visited Aeloryas tribe

  • They were not happy with Aelorya joining us

• Visited the witches

  • Unhappy they weren’t invited to Dans wedding

• Tried to talk to dragon

  • Dragon was gone (including the treasure)

• Visited the Nixies

  • They agreed to stay vigilant

• Came up with the idea to restore the barrier

Session 149 – “The great shovel VS spade debate”

 

The party

• Aelorya (elven druid)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Inesh (human thief)

• Ryan (half-elven thief)

XP

• 966

Treasures

• Gold

• Copper bell

• Copper necklace with gemstones

• War hammer (magical?)

• Magic book (divine)

• Gemstones (rubies, diamonds)

Summary

• Failed to solve the twelve doors puzzle

  • Opened one after another until we had all the treasure

  • And until another passage opened

• Followed passage

  • Found room with a sarcophagus and six statues

  • Accidental fireball demolished the room

  • Acid-filled undead came out of sarcophagus

  • Used the slime that had been stored in the statues to destroy the undead

• Followed a hidden passage under the sarcophagus

  • Found another room with a sarcophagus

  • Killed the undead and found lots of treasure

Session 148 – “The maggot-fall”

 

Alternative titles

• “Puzzles are the banana slugs of D&D”

The party

• Aelorya (elven druid)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Grimnir (dwarven thief)

• Inesh (human thief)

• Ryan (half-elven thief)

XP

• 384

Treasures

• Gold and platinum coins

• Jewels

Summary

• Continued down corridor

  • Fought a figure who stepped out of a wall painting

  • Attacking the painting on the wall helped defeat the being

• Found a triangular room

  • With some apparent hidden door and a pedestal

• Corridor turned back and went further downs

  • Ground turned to sand

  • Found some undead in the sand, too many to kill

  • Crossed the sand via rope

• Reached another chasm

  • Noticed above our heads the original bridge

  • Another corridor on other side

  • Used ropes to go downwards the chasm to another area below

• Entered corridor and reached a crystal wall

  • Apparently full of maggots behind it

• Went up/down the chasm to avoid undead that had come after us

  • Reached other side of chasm

  • Another triangular room

  • A sealed off area (via crystal walls)

  • Apparently filled with acid on the other side (like some undead were leaking)

• Shattered the original crystal wall via arrow shot from distance

  • Set the flood of maggots on fire

• Continued the passage

  • Found a room with two statues

  • One of a dwarven man in an aggressive position

  • One of a dwarven woman holding a cornucopia full of treasure, food and other goodies

• Continued into a room with twelve doors

  • Large carving on ground (depicting the same figure we had seen throughout this dungeon)

    • Some silhouette behind the figure

  • Image on our entry door showed six dwarven woman and five dwarven men

  • Assumed that behind six doors would be treasures and behind five would be combat

  • Door twelve was the one we entered through

  • Found two of the treasure doors, and one of the combat doors