Session 77 – “Shacklekeep Stories”

 

Location(s)

• The ravine (dangerous cave)

The party

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Sweeney (halfling fighter/thief)

XP

• 250

Treasures

• 1 jewelled goblet

Summary

• First of the “Shacklekeep Stories”

  • Dernard and Sweeney told about the time they went to explore the mystery cave in the ravine

• Entered cave, path split into left and right side

• Went to the right side and found a cave with a large pool of waterproof

  • Filled with white, blind fish

  • Saw a goblet lying in the pool

  • Tried to use unseen servant to get goblet

    • Servant vanished (dispelled?)

  • Tied rope around Sweeney, so he could get the goblet

  • Got attacked by a corrosive slime that was hiding in the water

    • 11 HP damage

    • Many items were destroyed (inclusive the business card)

  • Didn’t explore the area further, to avoid getting too close to the pool

• Return to the entrance and went to the left side

  • Found a bunch dead ends

  • Found a large cave filled with branches and bones

  • A large “lump” was seen in the distance (a sleeping monster)

  • Found a scroll case (cleric spells) amongst the bones

  • Woke the monster (big and furry, so a “bear”?, couldn’t see properly)

  • Fled the caves

• Returned to Shacklekeep

  • Encountered four undead monks at night

  • Avoided a fight by fleeing and hiding

Session 76 – “Only you can prevent forest fires”

 

Location(s)

• Brewery goblins lair

• Lake flake

• Pyramid tomb (aka underwater tomb)

The party

• Bob (human cleric)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Kaya (dwarven fighter/cleric)

• Nigel (dwarven fighter)

• Valis (elven fighter)

XP

• 31

• XP for session 75 handed out

Treasures

• From pyramid tomb

  • Metal spears, 6x (from wooden statues, not sure if valuable)

  • Necklace (from black statue)

  • Gemstones, 2x (Tigereye)

Summary

• Tried to kill brewery goblin leader

  • Set brewery on fire

  • Goblins didn’t show up

  • Centaurs did and gave us a lesson on preventing forest fires

• Returned to lake Flake

  • Nixes gave us another circlet (was in pieces, but Nixies fixed it for us)

  • Nixies opened another portal on the shore of the lake

• Entered portal

  • Was the same underwater tomb we encountered in session 33

  • Explored various, formerly unexplored rooms

  • Room with wooden statues

  • Room with rotten stuff on the floor

  • Room with large statue of woman and smaller cat statues

  • Room with unopened sarcophagus and solid gold throne

    • For safety reasons didn’t open the sarcophagus

    • Couldn’t get the throne out because of its weight

  • Nixies told us the portal would stay open for another week

  • Left the dungeon via the three portcullises

  • Found ourselves in a large plain of black sand and a pyramid behind us

  • Planned an expedition to something we saw in the distance

Session 75 - "Overthinking goblins"

Location(s)

• Weird Weir

• Unda’s river

• Brewery goblins lair

• Gem door dungeon

The party

• Bob (human cleric)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Kaya (dwarven fighter/cleric)

• Nigel (dwarven fighter)

• Valis (elven fighter)

XP

• 31 (handed out in session 76)

Treasures

• None

Summary

• Talked to Salvic the talking fish

  • Goblins drain river to catch him

  • Gravelneck (goblin chief) has a grief with Salvic

• “3 giants” (three tall standings stones)

  • Toppled one of them

  • Encountered giant spider nearby

• “Biting tree” (goblins bite into it?)

• Brewery goblins lair (Cave and outbuilding on hill)

  • Outbuilding is goblin beer brewery

  • Cave leading into goblin lair

  • Talking giant rat led us through maze to goblins (payed it with food)

  • Freed Unda (water spirit) the goblins had captured

  • Stand-off against goblins

  • Wager with Gravelneck to let us go

• Gem door dungeon

  • Goblins lead us here

  • Wanted us to open the door (wager was we wouldn’t be able to)

  • Opened first door and entered dungeon

    • Combination: Opal – Pearl – Emerald – Nephrite (spells: OPEN)

    • Hid behind door from goblins

  • Failed to solve second door puzzle

  • Waited out the goblins and left the dungeon

• Brewery goblins lair

  • Reclaimed Nigel’s ponies from nearby the goblin lair

  • Made plans to assassinate the goblin chief

Session 74 - "Are you going to clean the sticky princess?"

Location(s)

• Tomb of Cotum

• Wood elves den

• Lake flake

The party

• Bob (human cleric)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Kaya (dwarven fighter/cleric)

• Nigel (dwarven fighter)

• Ryan (half-elven thief)

• Valis (elven fighter)

XP

• 15

• XP for session 73 handed out

Treasures

• None

Summary

• Tomb of Cotum

  • Party rested for two days to recover

  • Only rubble was left of the tomb when we returned

• Wood elves den

  • Went upstream from the tomb to find a hill with a tall tree

  • Dasid went inside some openings to scout, found living quarters

  • Three wood elves came back to their home

  • Didn’t like Dasid

  • Weren’t interested in trade routes

  • Didn’t know Merith

  • Might be interested in trade relating to mushrooms

  • We told them about the elves at the tower of the heavens

  • When we left, Ryan noticed that the tree on top of the hill had shifted somehow

• Lake Flake

  • Returned to the lake to meet the nixies

  • Lake was partially dried up

  • Nixies told us Goblins had blocked the river upstream

  • Offered to deal with the goblins

  • Went upstream

  • Fought a swarm of horseflies and an owlbear

  • A fish in the river started to talk to us (end of session cliffhanger)

Session 73 - "We suck at riddles"

Location(s)

• The Hill (monastery, ogres caves, witches cottage)

• Tomb of Cotum

The party

• Bob (human cleric)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Kaya (dwarven fighter/cleric)

• Nigel (dwarven fighter)

• Ryan (half-elven thief)

• Valis (elven fighter)

XP

• 192 (handed out in session 74)

• XP for session 72 handed out

Treasures

• Dagger (magical?)

• 2 crystals (eyes from statues)

Summary

• Journey back to the monastery

  • Dog got attacked in the middle of the night.

  • Attacker wasn’t found.

• At monastery (at the hill)

  • Petrified ogre discovered. Saved with the ring of Aris.

  • Fought a centipede infestation.

  • Researching the silver princess in the barons book.

    • Baron was searching for the palace of the silver princess.

    • A map is needed to get there.

    • According to the witches, Ryan has the key.

• At ogres caves (at the hill)

  • Ogres told us about a woman that came to our monastery. Didn’t know who she was.

  • Ogres didn’t know anything about Merith

• At the witches cottage (at the hill)

  • Didn’t know anything about Merith.

  • Had met the silver princess long time ago in the past.

  • Told us Ryan has the key to find her palace.

  • Wanted the head of the ogre.

• Journey to lake flake

  • Pony got attacked in the middle of the night.

  • Attacker wasn’t found.

• Discovered the tomb of Cotum

  • Saw smoke in the distance as well as a structure nearby.

  • Went to the structure. A building in a lake with doors on all sides.

  • Inside were two large, bronze statues, with crystal eyes and four figurines in their palms (red, blue, green and amber)

  • A long inscription was at the pedestal, where parts of it could be pressed like buttons.

    • Some text made the figurines shine with light.

    • Some text opened a secret door, leading downwards.

    • Some text turned on light in the room downwards.

  • Downwards was a big sarcophagus

    • Inside was a skeleton, a bag of gems and a dagger.

    • Dernard took the dagger, Kaya the gems (she had a bad feeling about them).

    • Kaya smashed the skull of the skeleton, per tradition.

  • Ryan found a secret door, leading further down.

    • Found two dozens of smaller sarcophagi (more like coffins).

    • Opened the first, and smashed the skeletons skull.

    • All other coffins opened and skeletons came out.

    • We went back upwards to create a bottleneck for the fight.

  • The big sarcophagus opened

    • Started to fight the skeleton from the big sarcophagus.

    • The skeletons from further down bowed to Kaya and fought against the bigger skeleton.

    • When it was defeated, all skeletons turned to dust.

    • Returned back down and collected some gold from the coffins.

  • Went back to the very first room.

    • The doors were gone.

    • Many shadows appeared and started to attack us.

    • Dernard tried to push various texts in the pedestal, which didn’t seem to help.

    • Ryan returned the figurines to the statues

    • Nigel took the gems from Kaya and brought them back to the sarcophagus.

    • The doors reappeared.

    • Nigel took two of the crystals from the statues eyes.

    • Everybody left the tomb and we closed the door behind.

    • Plans were made to return to get what we had to leave behind.