Friday, August 23, 2024

Session 85 – “Which turns Siegfried into Digfried”

 


Alternative titles

  • “The triangle of warning”

Location(s)

  • Cult cave (upstairs)

The party

  • Bob (human cleric)

  • Dernard (human magic user)

  • Kaya (dwarven fighter/cleric)

  • Oriana (dwarven fighter)

  • Ryan (half-elven thief)

  • Valis (elven fighter)

XP

  • 16

Treasures

  • None

Summary

  • Bob and Ryan reached the ravine

    • Brought Oriana with her

    • She is sister of Kaya

    • Had travelled with the other dwarves we met at the keep

  • Inspected markings in ravine

    • Wanted to destroy them

    • Mostly gone because of weather though

  • Went into cult cave to destroy altar

    • Initially resisted our dwarves

    • After casting Bless onto it, we could destroy it

    • Moved the rubble out of the cave

    • Seemed to have done nothing

  • Encountered another faery which fled

    • Later found a dead faery in the cave near the place we found the first one

  • Camped in the cave near the place we found the first faery

    • Saw some glowing red dust

    • Got attacked by vampire-chicken-thingies at nightmare

    • Relocated camp to abandoned scribes chamber

  • Next day tracked the dust towards the collapsed corridors

    • Somehow couldn’t touch the dust with our hands

    • Excavated the corridor (took some days)

  • Went into the dark tunnel behind

    • Full of tree sap

    • Fought some rats

    • Sap tried to eat Dernard and managed to eat Kaya

    • Is it really sap, or slime?

    • Fired magic missiles at sap which retreated

    • Valis and Ryan scouted ahead

    • Found a room full of roots and sap

      • Seem to cover something (a cocoon?)

  • Left the cave to return to the hobgoblins

    • Planned to get reinforcements to fight the thing in the cocoon

  • The trees near the ravine started attacked

    • The hobgoblin cave was cut off, couldn’t reach it any more

    • Saw an orc getting dragged away

    • Session ended with a cliffhanger here

 

Tuesday, August 20, 2024

Session 84 – “The ground that eats you”

 


Alternative titles

  • “The triangle of peace”

  • “There is also a triangle of war”

  • “Kayas denial: The dogs are fat”

  • “The trauma is real”

  • “You poked the bear”

  • “My rod stiffens up in the morning”

  • “They die twice”

  • “I’m trying to trick the stone”

  • “Memory lane”

  • “Who let the dogs out?”

  • “4 players, 2 dogs, 9 hobgoblins and 7 gnolls walk into a bar”

  • “Chefsache”

Location(s)

  • The keep

  • Bloated forest (near ravine)

  • Dangerous cave

  • Hobgoblin cave

  • Cult cave (up and downstairs)

The party

  • Dan (human ranger)

  • Dernard (human magic user)

  • Kaya (dwarven fighter/cleric)

  • Valis (elven fighter)

XP

  • 162

  • XP for sessions 65, 66, 67, 68, 78 and 79 was handed out

Treasures

  • Bronze goblets (2), shallow bowl and ewer from cult altar room

  • Silver chain from gnoll

  • Silver armbands from gnoll

  • Bag of gems from skeleton in secret passage

Summary

  • Kaya tried to hire dwarves at the keep to rebuild ours

    • We left before we could get an answer

  • Traversed the bloated forest to the ravine

    • Discovered animals (most of them dead) captured by the trees

    • The ground tried to capture one of our dogs

    • Saw a tree burst and lots of sap come out

    • Sap dripped on Dernard, started to itch, washed it off with cooking oil

    • Got attacked by a shadow

  • Went to the dangerous cave to camp there

    • Fought off an undead owlbear

    • Stayed a few nights to recover from the fight

  • Met the hobgoblins

    • They can’t go hunt because of the changed forest

    • Reformed our alliance

    • Planned an expedition with the hobgoblins into the cult cave

    • Got attacked by shadows on the way there that dragged people away

  • Revisited the whole upper cult cave

    • Found a dead faery (Kaya burned it)

    • Kaya tried to trick the evil altar, but wasn’t able to

  • Revisited the lower cult cave

    • Encountered a gelatinous cube

    • Found a secret passage leading to a room full of gnolls

    • Lured the gnolls into an ambush with our hobgoblin allies

    • Still got almost killed

  • Returned to the hobgoblin cave

Tuesday, August 6, 2024

Session 83 – “Rotten bear underwear”

 

Alternative titles

  • “I show you mine, you show me yours”

  • “Dan and the dogs”

  • “Don’t eat the undead soup”

  • “I don’t want them slurping undead bone marrow”

Location(s)

  • Bloated forest (near ravine)

  • The keep

The party

  • Dan (human ranger)

  • Dernard (human magic user)

  • Gaorin (human fighter)

  • Kaya (dwarven fighter/cleric)

  • Nigel (dwarven fighter)

XP

  • 24

Treasures

  • None

Summary

  • Met Gaorin who had followed us from the desert

  • Returned to Shackle keep for a while

  • Went towards the ravine to talk to the hobgoblins

  • Encountered a bunch of bloated trees

    • Trees were twisted and oozed red sap

    • Like the ones we had seen at the ravine

    • But there were much, much more

  • Encountered a group of undead knights of the empire

    • Assumed this somehow related to the spread of the trees

  • During night encountered an undead bear

    • Camped away from the trees, so the undead seem to wander

  • Returned to the keep

    • Wanted to warn them about the trees and things happening at the ravine

    • Still were not allowed to return to the keep, our exile persists

  • Learned what had happened at the keep

    • Keep is still being repaired and extended

    • The old castellan was replaced by Lord Tarquin

    • Captain Valizar is in charge of the safety of the keep

    • The old guard captain is still around

  • Started to make plans what to do next

Friday, August 2, 2024

Session 82 – “He is going to loot himself”

Map of Amon-ra's tomb (level 2)

 

Map of Amon-ra's tomb (level 3)

 

Map of Amon-ra's tomb (level 4)

 

Map of Amon-ra's tomb (level 5)



Alternative titles

  • “Lets go over the edge”

  • “It’s an awesome death! You were killed by a pineapple”

Location(s)

  • Tomb of Amun-ra (levels 2-5)

The party

  • Bob (human cleric)

  • Dernard (human magic user)

  • Kaya (dwarven fighter/cleric)

  • Nigel (dwarven fighter)

  • Ryan (half-elven thief)

  • Valis (elven fighter)

XP

  • 189

Treasures

  • 1 staff (magic, transforms into snake)

  • 1 gem

Summary

  • Level 2

    • Continued to explore the second level of the tomb

    • Eventually found two minotaurs, one got killed, the other one fled

    • Through a hole in the ceiling we managed to climb up to level 3

  • Level 3

    • Found a giant statue with a (fake) gem stone

    • Ryan took the stone and the statue started to scream

    • Fought some undead

    • Discovered a waterfall that healed us (1d10)

    • Explored a bit before returning to the waterfall

    • Found an octagonal room behind the waterfall

      • It had palm trees with strange looking “pineapples”

      • The pineapples exploded

      • Activated four altars (speaking the magic words of the altars “Tur”, “Log”, “Reg” and “Neg”)

      • Reversed gravity and flew up to level 4

  • Level 4

    • Found a huge hall with stairs

    • Walked up the stairs and faced various challenges

      • Two figures we had to fight

      • A wall of fire (we drenched blankets in water and jumped through)

      • Mirror copies or ourselves (Valis was very happy to kill “Nigel”)

      • A giant fist. Ryan jammed it’s mechanism so it couldn’t move

    • Found a room with a waterfall

      • A voice asked us some questions

      • We answered correctly and the waterfall reversed

      • We swam up the waterfall to level 5

  • Level 5

    • Found a room with a reed boat and a painting on a wall

    • In the next room we found a sarcophagus

      • We burned the mummy inside, because we didn’t want to fight it

    • Found a magic staff (turns into a snake)

    • Discovered the painting in the room before was magical and we could walk through

    • There was a flying boat with a gem

    • Using ropes we managed to get to the boat and get the gem

    • Kaya took the staff and the gem; and abandoned us for a while

  • Taking the staff and the gem broke the curse of Amun-ra

    • We were allowed to use the flying boat to return to the pyramid tomb and return to Lake Flake

Session 92 – “Technically we all belong in prison”

Map of Laserkeep Interior Map of the Place of the Guardian Alternative titles “I lick the water” “Some people say fun raft, some say b...