Session 119 – “It can be good, or bad, or disco”

 

Alternative titles

• “You’re pimping him out?”

• “They put you into that cocoon thing … and then something sexy will happen”

• “The woods are alive, with the sound of music”

• “She is taking the beaver hostage”

• “Who’s a good boy?”

The party

• Dan (human ranger)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Inesh (human thief)

• Kaya (dwarven fighter/cleric)

• Valis (elven fighter)

• Ryan (half-elven thief)

• Sweeney (halfling fighter/thief)

XP

• 168

Treasures

• Spell page (from Library)

• Small cup (from tarot cards)

• Twisted stick (from tarot cards)

• Magic sword (from green giant)

Summary

• Valis let something in, we didn’t notice it

• Started to explore the east wing

• Found the green room

  • Had a green giant

  • Asked us to fight him to pass through the room

  • Ignored this for now

• Returned to the west wing to rest the night

  • Joined a conversation amongst the Ambers about them hunting a deer in the garden

  • Learned about Camilla Amber, who can predict the future

• Returned to the east wing

• Found the library

  • Had a conversation with Claude Amber

  • Mentioned the “ring of eyeban” and the “serpent encircled mirror” that might help break the curse

  • Paid 1000 GP to go through his library

  • Found a spell page

  • Found a book about Averion:

    • Mentioned the ring of eyeban

    • Luke Ceciard Le …

    • Perion

    • Vion Mirror Gaspard

    • Enchanted sword

    • Sephera?

    • Malekai?

    • Xim?

    • Lesibu?

    • Potion

• Found Little Ape in the library, bud didn’t interact with him

• Found Camilla with her tarot cards

  • Started to draw cards

  • Upside down coin (Sweeney)

    • Effect: Lose all money

    • But Sweeney had lost all his things, so the card had no effect (see Session 77 – “Shacklekeep Stories”)

  • Skeleton (Valis)

    • Effect: Instant death

    • But Valis still had his silver ring, so he was saved

    • Additionally, he had been secretly possessed by Catherine Amber earlier, so she got killed/banished instead

  • Empress (Kaya)

    • She received a small cup, no idea what it does

  • Guy wrestling Lion (Dernard)

    • +4 STR temporarily

  • Old Guy (Inesh)

    • She received a twisted and burned stick

    • Maybe a wand? Not tested yet

  • Learned from Camilla that we’d need to collect three keys to undo the curse

  • Already had one

• Returned to green giant, and Valis fought him

• Found the “brother of the sun”, a servant of Claude

  • Had a chest of molten gold in his room

• Found a secret passage to the cellar

• Found a puzzle room with a grid of letters

  • Crossed via the NEHOG path

  • Came up in the previous session (“Nehog the gorgeous”)

  • Ryan +1 CHA

• Found a room with four cells