Session 132 – “AD&D Bingo”

 

Alternative titles

• “You want to make the psychopathic beaver drunk?”

• “I don’t trust him, because I just sold myself”

• “Defamiliarisation event”

• “Bondage is on the bingo card?”

• “Makeup for a statue”

The party

• Aelorya (elven druid)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Frederick II (halfling thief)

• Inesh (human thief)

• Nigel (dwarven fighter)

• Sweeney (halfling fighter/thief)

• Valis (elven fighter)

XP

• Not yet decided

Treasures

• Copper bracelet with gemstone

• The ring of eyeban

Summary

• Valis sells Fred for 1000 GP

  • We safe Fred the next day

  • Seems the Ambers have done something to him

• Stake out the tower during the nightmare

  • A creature appears climbing the tower

  • We defeat it in a fight

  • It was the creature we had heard about

  • We conform the creature was Theophil

  • We find the ring of eyeban on his hand

• Next morning

  • Ambers aren’t really concerned with what happened

  • Maurice Amber, who suppositiously had died, is back alive

  • Ambers had mentioned the day before that Fred had been given into Maurice care

• Back to the monastery

  • We leave the mansion

  • Witness an altercation between the Ambers and the inquisition

  • Probably the start of the events that will get them banished

  • Stay a few days at the monastery

  • Touch all three items at the same time

  • A magic portal (for lack of a better word) opens and we leave France

• Reach a series of cavernous rooms, each with a huge statue and an inscribed bowl

  • Inscriptions match the grid we had found found in Session 119 – “It can be good, or bad, or disco”

    • See also Session 118 – “It’s a soap opera”

  • Pouring various things (water, oil, coins, blood) into the bowls just turns the statues alive

  • One after another we fight the statues

  • We barely get out alive

    • Sweeney saves Dernard via his ring from the silver princess

  • The final room leaves out into an amber mist

Session 131 – “CSI Averoigne”

 

Alternative titles

• “Valis chickens out”

• “Is this the cliffhanger: What’s under the tunic?”

The party

• Aelorya (elven druid)

• Dan (human ranger)
  

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Frederick II (halfling thief)

• Inesh (human thief)

• Valis (elven fighter)

XP

• 87

Treasures

• Orange gem stones

Summary

• Valis chickens out from the fight with the beast

• We agree to get some wine from the monastery as reparation

  • Get past some inquisitors by pretending to be a dysfunctional family

  • Can’t get some wine (but steal it later via the mirror)

  • Talk with brother Constantine

  • Tells us about brother Jerome getting killed by the beast about a week ago

• Return to the Ambers

  • Have a dinner (not great, but at least nobody died)

  • One Amber lady asked about getting the time travel potion

  • Searched for information in the library about Flosflam

    • Expedition by the Ambers there

    • Did not go well

    • Full of monsters and undead

    • Lots of treasure

    • A jewel encrusted chalice with 7 sapphires (apparently magical)

    • The ring

      • Red gold

      • Sombre gem

      • Bulbous purple stone at an odd angle

      • Hypothesised to be from ancient Hyperboria

    • Conflict at the expedition

• Talked to old member of the Amber family

  • Named Lucien

  • Member of the expedition

  • Somebody had the ring, doesn’t remember who

  • Expedition was together with Lord Bormond (from far in the North) and Lady Girard (close to the Spanish border)

  • Father Nicolas was the author of the book we had found in the library

• Next morning

  • Andre Amber had been killed in the night

  • He was the badger headed guy

  • Ambers weren’t really concerned

  • Couldn’t find any real traces

• Got approached by Lucien

  • Remembered that Theophil was another member of the expedition

  • Also wants to get the time travel potion

• Search for Theophil

  • Very old and bedridden

  • Lives in the tower

  • Secret entrance via library

  • Talk to him

  • He seems to pretend not to know who has the ring

  • We assume he lied

  • He starts to yell and we leave

 

Session 130 – “We’re running from the inquisition, and you’re buying cheese?”

 

Alternative titles

• “I still have the love potion, this is the big wild card”

• “I put the baguette where the sun doesn’t shine”

• “I’ll chug this, then I can handle you people”

• “I awake on the slightest taste of vinegar”

• “The Reichs-willow”

• “’You said oak!’ ‘No, you said oak’’ ‘No you…’”

• “Do willows grow in f***ing France?”

• “Perigon hohoho (french laughter)”

• “’Are we doing a home invasion?’ asks Valis hopefully”

• “Shackle Brie”

• “By the advanced technique of ‘asking’ you get a reply”

• “Do people kiss when they stand under the cow heart?”

• “Dan the lion – Dandelion”

• “Dernard spills the beans”

• “Nigel doesn’t need the gold”

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)

• Valis (elven fighter)

XP

• 0

Treasures

• None

Summary

• Dan and Isadora ride ahead to get help

• We run away and stay the night at a farm house

• Have a short skirmish with the inquisition in a town

• Manage to reach the Amber mansion together with Dan

  • Apparently he and Isadora stayed the night at a nice bed and breakfast instead of getting help

• Knocked and entered the Amber mansion

  • Met Jacques duke of Amber, head of the household

  • Didn’t believe our story

  • The duchess has the head of a duck, and there is a guy with the head of a badger

• Jacques invited Valis to fight the beast the Ambers had captured as a wager

  • Beast has many snake like heads

Session 129 – “We meet at reverse dawn”

Alternative titles

• “Valis has a love potion”

• “Unseen servant mud wrestling”

• “Valis feels threatened”

• “Valis is outraged”

• “I’ve a love potion, I’m not threatened“

• “Valis goes to the leather district … again”

• “Nigel – Interior designer”

• “Fish knives are racist”

• “Imagining a dragons butt”

• Secret censored title because our GM thinks all these titles start to give a bad impression of our game

• “A toadbag”

• “Dead of their spokes goon”

• “Dwarven looting song #2”

The party

• Dan (human ranger)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Inesh (human thief)

• Nigel (dwarven fighter)

• Ryan (half-elven thief)

• Valis (elven fighter)

XP

• 73

Treasures

• Serpent encircled mirror (again)

Summary

• Travelled back into past

  • Met Moriamis again as a child

  • Mother Camile

  • Instructed Moriamis magic lessons and set her on her path to become a sorcerer

  • Told her about her helping us

• Met a potion merchant some of us bought things from

• Journeyed to Viond

  • Met Gerard de la Tonge (a troubadour) on the way

  • Encountered some strange lights in the night, never figured out what they were

  • Heard from Gerard about castle of Flosflam

    • Inhabited by vampires

• Reached Viond

  • Gerard got us an invite to the party of Philipe Le Chandanrie

  • Chancellor of town, ancestor of Luc Le Chandanrie

  • Didn’t really lead to anything

• Investigated the mirror again

  • Realised Isadora or Dernard could grab into it

  • Imagined the original mirror in this time and pulled it out

  • Stored this mirror in the bank vault that Nigel had invested in

• Sold all the silk we had found some time ago for 2.400 GP

• Researched the ring

  • Research 1

    • “Foul ring”

    • “Great power”

    • “Slay a dragon … by Cedric …”

    • “Great misfortune”

  • Research 2

    • Original treasure of Flosflam

    • Recovered and sold to merchant

    • Sold to court in Paris

    • Stolen, owner died a pauper

    • Made from material not from this world

    • “Gold is redder than any this earth yields”

    • “Great treasure of the realm”

• Dernard summoned a new familiar

  • Welcome Doad the toad

• Learned about Ambers in this time

  • Live near abbey of St. Xenobi

  • Near Perigon

  • Decided to visit them so they could help us with the ring

• Journey to the Ambers

  • Avoided going near Perigon because of the inquisition

  • Headed towards a ferry

  • Encountered some inquisitors (red armour and antler helmets)

  • Combat ensued that we won

  • Crossed river via the ferry to get away

• Stayed night at an unfriendly in

  • Had heard a story about a beast near Perigon

• Continued towards the abbey

  • Saw more inquisitors in a village next to a pyre

  • Tried to avoid them

  • Encountered more of then on horseback

  • They instantly attacked

  • They have magic users (they don’t wear antler helmets)

  • Some of them escaped, probably to get help

  • We need to get away from here quickly!

Session 128 – “Nigel – the English word for Ablasshandel”

 

Alternative titles

• “Dungeons & Beavers”

• “Stay away from the C-word (it’s capybara)”

• “I will not touch your magic baguette”

• “Sailor dwarf would be an amazing series”

• “Use the handle!!!”

• “We can lick the unseen servant”

• “Nigel gives”

The party

• Aelorya (elven druid)

• Dan (human ranger)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Inesh (human thief)

• Nigel (dwarven fighter)

• Valis (elven fighter)

XP

• 233

Treasures

• Magic book

• Anti undead spell scroll

• Scrying sphere

Summary

• Saw giant undead approach the city

• Returned to the necromancers tower

  • Assuming there would be fewer undead now

  • Thinking we might be able to stop the undead

  • Isadora stayed behind to stop the undead

• At tower

  • No more undead

  • Encountered the bird headed monster again

  • Killed it via lots of oil, fire and the entanglement spell

• Found a hidden room with magic items

  • Book

    • Damaged the cover, so we didn’t know what it did

    • One time use, +1 INT to reader

    • Aelorya ended up reading it

  • Spell

    • Some form of anti-undead, only Aelorya seems to be able to use it

  • Crystal sphere

    • Can be used to scry on far places

    • Started to crack, so maybe limited number of uses

    • Dernard took the sphere

• Returned to the city

  • Undead were already gone

  • Apparently the giant undead just collapsed

  • Much of the city was destroyed

  • Isadora was missing

• Returned to the tavern to meet up with Morianis again

  • Met Isadora at the tavern

  • Prepared to travel further back into the past

Session 127 – “Identical to a real game”

 

Alternative titles

• “The game sucks, but we learn a lot”

• “Valis goes to market”

• “In case you come across a chicken”

• “Dernard takes you on a picnic”

• “I’m having so much fun off-screen”

The party

• Aelorya (elven druid)

• Dan (human ranger)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Grimnir (dwarven thief)

• Inesh (human thief)

• Nigel (dwarven fighter)

• Ryan (half-elven thief)

• Valis (elven fighter)

XP

• 0

Treasures

• Serpent encircled mirror

Summary

• Scouted the monastary, but found no other entrances

• Returned to town

• Went shopping and asked for information

• Learned about Nather

  • Supposedly the necromancer

  • Might have been set up

  • Was driven out of town by guard captain Luc Le Chandanrie

• Talked to captains

  • Mentioned the ring of eyeban

  • Learned it was stolen

  • Led us to the magistrates

  • Had a conversation that led nowhere

• Searched the cleric archives

  • No new information about ring

  • Monastery was abandoned 20 years ago when ghosts appeared

  • New monastery is 10 miles south

• Failed to summon a new familiar

• Nigel did some banking

  • Found the mirror in the vault with his name

  • Damn time travel shenanigans, that was too easy

• Tried to leave town

  • Heard a thud

  • A giant undead (~20 smoots high) appeared

  • Was made from many undead

Session 126 – “Garrett the ferret”

 

Alternative titles

• “What should I be? A fat kid?”

• “Chanel chicken bag”

• “Did you faceplant my [redacted] into the dice?”

The party

• Aelorya (elven druid)

• Dan (human ranger)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Inesh (human thief)

• Nigel (dwarven fighter)

• Ryan (half-elven thief)

XP

• 67

Treasures

• None

Summary

• Returned to location inn where we had met Moriamis

  • Past version of inn (“Sunrise/sunset” sign) still existed

  • Met Moriamis again

  • Told us about finding the mirror further in the past

  • In tower of Ilurn (north of town Viond)

  • There was supposed to be a necromancer there

• Journeyed to Viond

  • Avoided some highway robbers by using the time travel potion

  • Heard people talking about the dead rising (but apparently not having attacked anybody)

  • Stayed night in Viond

• Travelled to tower

  • Heard the tower was an old monastery

  • Belonged to a duke that was killed by his three children

• Explored the tower

  • Fought some ghosts

  • Found some undead manning furnaces (but they didn’t see us)

  • Found a wizards lab and took some stuff with us

  • Encountered a larger figure with a birds head and four arms

  • Had to retreat