Session 98 – “It’s a fucking door”

 

Alternative titles

• “The only thing we tried is pee on it and violence”

• “You will touch the door tonight”

• “We just got beaten by a door … we take anything”

• “So we end, where we began”

The party

• Bob (human cleric)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Grimnir (dwarven thief)

• Kaya (dwarven fighter/cleric)

• Ryan (half-elven thief)

• Valis (elven fighter)

XP

• 0

Treasures

• None

Summary

• Tried to deal with the door in the statue room

  • Destroyed all statues

  • Touched the door a bunch of times

  • Elves (but not half-elves) and dwarves together could touch it

• Continued travelling

  • During one night our camp fire flared up for no apparent reason

  • Another night a section of the magical barrier seems to have dropped somewhere

• Encountered centaurs

  • Barely avoided a fight

  • They thought we had killed their friend Rothgar

  • He had been burned

  • Didn’t know more about silver princess

• Lead us to their sage Thorvil

  • Thinks the silver princess is a myth

  • If anybody knows it might be the fae

  • If we help him mend the rift with the other centaurs he helps us talk to the fae

  • Sent us to look for Ryans friend Yuticus

• We returned to the door … no progress

Session 97 – “Find weird stuff and poke it until it attacks us”

Map of Onion Tor

Worldmap

Alternative titles

• “Just don’t rub the bacon on yourself”

• “I have magic, I just forgot about it”

• “You suck at triggering traps”

The party

• Bob (human cleric)

• Dan (human ranger)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Eames (halfling thief)

• Kaya (dwarven fighter/cleric)

• Nigel (dwarven fighter)

• Valis (elven fighter)

XP

• 11

Treasures

• 38 GP, 16 SP

Summary

• Eames joined the party

• Continued towards the hill, arrived at a Tor

• Valid set a bounty on Nigels cloak

• Found dead bodies on top of tor

  • Most with white-yellow robes

  • Two with black robes

  • Tor seemed not to be natural

  • Something in the north was moving away

    • Centaurs? Riders?

• Found a cave opening in side of tor

  • Entered and started exploring

  • Session ended with us trying to figure out the statues room

 

Session 96 – “The fool who shat on a tree”

Alternative titles

• “He, She, Tree”

The party

• Bob (human cleric)

• Dan (human ranger)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Kaya (dwarven fighter/cleric)

• Nigel (dwarven fighter)

• Valis (elven fighter)

XP

• 46

Treasures

• Sapphire

• Silver ring with tiny mirror

• 6 small pearls (potentially worthless)

• 158 GP

• Note: Treasure above was received as part of previous session; Bob & Nigel were excluded from the recipients

Summary

• Looted the dead cultists

  • Took their amulets as proof for Sir Aravan

  • Found two maps

  • One of the current area

  • One of another area that Theandra recognized

• Returned to hobgoblins and received gold as reward

  • Left their caves

• Storm in forest remained

  • Asked the centaurs if there was something special in the center of the forest

  • They lead us to the Great Hawthorn, an ancient treant

  • Fought off some undead deer

  • We tried to communicate with the Hawthorn, but it didn’t respond

  • It became aggressive and started to walk

  • We retreated and returned to the camp of Sir Aravan

• Talked to Sir Aravan

  • He promised to mention us when he returned to the keep on the borderlands

  • We decided to stay a few days to recover

• The Great Hawthorn and other treants appeared

  • Attacked the shrine Sir Aravans people were building

  • Fighting was pointless

  • Treants started to destroy the shrine (a boulder)

  • We and Sir Aravans group retreated

  • Sir Aravan decided to return to the keep

  • We decided to continue our journey to the place mentioned on the second map

 

Session 95 – “I like caves … but this one tried to eat us”

Alternative titles

• “I hate Frank”

• “Bring forth the beavers of doom”

• “Demon … DM … same root”

• “Just the meat room”

• “Hobgoblins, Snakes and restraining orders”

• “Jaws 8 Kaya”

The party

• Dan (human ranger)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Kaya (dwarven fighter/cleric)

• Valis (elven fighter)

XP

• 131

Treasures

• 96 GP

• 49 SP

• 7 small pearls (potentially worthless)

Summary

• Searched for alternative entrance to cave, found none

• Entered cave through crack

• Encountered monster disguised as stalactites

  • Avoided the area of the monster and moved on

• Found a dead cultist

  • Had a weird pearl with him

• Found a flooded cavern

  • Something was in the water, so we considered it a dead end

• Continued in caves and found hobgoblins

• Continued to explore, but got discovered

  • Were brought to hobgoblin queen

  • Were tasked to kill the strangers hiding in their caves

  • Told us there were six strangers hiding

• Were brought to the cave

  • Encountered five cultists

  • Avoided fighting them for a while

  • Fight happened nonetheless

• Continued searching for the last cultist

  • Found him in a flooded cavern

  • He threw something into the water and summoned a kraken

  • Killed the cultist

    • Dying words: “You stole the box”

  • Escaped from the kraken