Session 135 – “It’s all kimchi now”

 

Alternative titles

• “I’m trying to run a creepy scenario... but I can’t compete with Valis”

• “Valis checks out the widow”

• “Dog and necromancer – Both interested in digging up bones”

• “Valis (the unhinged) opens the (unhinged) door”

• “Nobody wants to wake up Valis”

• “The Southern triangles of war”

• “Maybe it’s not vampires after all”

• “Whatever floats your toad”

The party

• Aelorya (elven druid)

• Dan (human ranger)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Inesh (human thief)

• Ryan (half-elven thief)

• Valis (elven fighter)

XP

• Not yet decided

Treasures

• 7 PP, 18 GP, 12 EP

• 1 gemstone

Summary

• Stakeout at night

  • Saw some shadows

  • Fond footprints the next morning

• Constable Ruskatel Groove visits farm to say hello

• Visit the Foaming Mug tavern

  • Talk with neighbour

  • He recommends not to enter, we enter anyway

  • Signs of a fight

  • Search the cellar and fight some lizard folk

  • Find a little bit of treasure

• Get the constable

  • He arrives with two buddies

  • Together we burn the lizard folk

• Visit the Golden Grain tavern and listen to rumours

• Another stakeout that night

  • Capture two people observing us

  • Two elves from Aelories people

  • Dorian and Luvillan

  • Followed a magic user who had tried to kidnap some of them

  • Suspect the blacksmith and the constable are affected

• Visit the temple at night

  • Fight some guard wolves on the temple grounds

  • Hide the bodies of the wolves

  • Prepared to enter the temple

Session 134 – “The fellowship of the bling”

 

Alternative titles

• “Succession war between Dan and Valis”

• “The Shackle Kids”

• “Valis sees regret in woman often”

• “The protoheist”

• “Arrow of the week club”

• “Toad vs ferret? No, this isn’t Pokemon!”

The party

• Aelorya (elven druid)

• Dan (human ranger)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Frederick II (halfling thief)

• Inesh (human thief)

• Valis (elven fighter)

XP

• Not yet decided

Treasures

• Emerald gem

Summary

• We learned we had been gone for over a year

• Dernard searched the library

  • Lots of history of Averoign

    • Gohan the wise, Hazah the blind, etc.

    • 5 visitors from somewhere

  • Tales of wizards

  • Tales of a hill that smokes like a volcano

  • Sorceres Igwilf

  • Summoned demon Grazzt

  • Owned 7 tombs

  • Somewhere in the lost cavern of ...

  • Her most powerful item “D...d” was never found

  • Dernard took a scrap of a map that could us help find these caverns

• Final dealings with the Ambers

  • Isabella was the new queen of the Ambers

  • Others weren’t happy about this, but scared of her

  • Richard gave us a green emerald as a reward

  • Camile offered Inesh to draw a card

    • She drew “Knight in full armour striding purposefully”

    • Card vanished, nothing initially happened

• Left the mansion the next morning

  • Returned to Ineshs village Orlein

  • Surin had left to the palace of the silver princess

  • Heard stories about people going missing and some appearing again

  • Started to investigate

  • Family of the “foaming mug” inn had disappeared

  • Family of the general store had disappeared, but returned

  • People in the “serpent” inn mentioned marks on the necks of some people

  • People in the “golden grain” were unhelpful and suspicious

  • Blacksmith of town was surprisingly hostile

  • People were interested where we stayed

  • Decided to place guards at night in Ineshs home

 

Conclusion of sessions 122 to 133

XP

• 636

Summary

• Bonus XP given for concluding sessions 122 to 133

• Given to everybody who played more than one session

Session 133 – “I’m weaponising the ferret”

Alternative titles

• “This is not that kind of therapy”

The party

• Aelorya (elven druid)

• Dan (human ranger)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Frederick II (halfling thief)

• Inesh (human thief)

• Valis (elven fighter)

XP

• 93

Treasures

• 7 magic rings

Summary

• Dealing with fallout of last session and healing people

  • Manage to heal Aelorya with the cup Kaya got from the tarot cards

  • Luckily this worked and Kaya once more provided healing

• Dernard explores the fog

  • It’s in a large room

  • Finds a partially open casket

  • Five sitting statues behind it

  • Sitting figures look strange

  • Statues stand up and approach

• Battling the statues

  • Statues get fought

  • Hitting their weak spots on their heads easily destroys them

• Ghost of Stephen Amber appears at the casket

  • Offers a wish

  • Isadora recommends against taking it, so we don’t

  • Stephen and the casket vanish with it’s content

  • 7 magic rings remain

• 7 rings

  • Red: Protection from fire

  • Orange: Provides healing (but will be eventually used up)

  • Yellow: Magic can’t restrain you

  • Green: Never be cold

  • Blue: Anything you want (a wish?)

  • Indigo: -1 AC

  • Violet: -1 AC

• Two magic portals appear, one leading back to Averoign, one back to the Amber mansion

  • We head back to the mansion

• Meet the Amber family again

  • Isabella is wearing a crown, apparently she is the new head of the Amber household

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

• 73

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