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

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