Session 132 – “AD&D Bingo”

 

Alternative titles

• “You want to make the psychopathic beaver drunk?”

• “I don’t trust him, because I just sold myself”

• “Defamiliarisation event”

• “Bondage is on the bingo card?”

• “Makeup for a statue”

The party

• Aelorya (elven druid)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Frederick II (halfling thief)

• Inesh (human thief)

• Nigel (dwarven fighter)

• Sweeney (halfling fighter/thief)

• Valis (elven fighter)

XP

• Not yet decided

Treasures

• Copper bracelet with gemstone

• The ring of eyeban

Summary

• Valis sells Fred for 1000 GP

  • We safe Fred the next day

  • Seems the Ambers have done something to him

• Stake out the tower during the nightmare

  • A creature appears climbing the tower

  • We defeat it in a fight

  • It was the creature we had heard about

  • We conform the creature was Theophil

  • We find the ring of eyeban on his hand

• Next morning

  • Ambers aren’t really concerned with what happened

  • Maurice Amber, who suppositiously had died, is back alive

  • Ambers had mentioned the day before that Fred had been given into Maurice care

• Back to the monastery

  • We leave the mansion

  • Witness an altercation between the Ambers and the inquisition

  • Probably the start of the events that will get them banished

  • Stay a few days at the monastery

  • Touch all three items at the same time

  • A magic portal (for lack of a better word) opens and we leave France

• Reach a series of cavernous rooms, each with a huge statue and an inscribed bowl

  • Inscriptions match the grid we had found found in Session 119 – “It can be good, or bad, or disco”

    • See also Session 118 – “It’s a soap opera”

  • Pouring various things (water, oil, coins, blood) into the bowls just turns the statues alive

  • One after another we fight the statues

  • We barely get out alive

    • Sweeney saves Dernard via his ring from the silver princess

  • The final room leaves out into an amber mist