Session 153 – “Stag night”

 

Alternative titles

• “Nigel is a snack”

The party

• Dan (human ranger)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Inesh (human thief)

• Ryan (half-elven thief)

XP

• Not yet decided

Treasures

• None

Summary

• Left the site of the ambush

  • A white stag approached our camp at night

  • Apparently just wante
    d something to eat

• Examined the parchment

  • Elvish writing plus a map

  • “Testimony of ...”

  • “Spot is final ... of Beregan the coward”

  • “Stole keys to sacret/secret library ... binder of books and demons”

  • Map showed

    • Five columns in a pentagram

    • A hill in North-east with an opening, labelled “Final hiding place of Beragan ...”

• Next morning stag leaves to east

  • We follow

  • Mid afternoon it took a nap

  • We camp nearby

  • From top of tree saw a clearing nearby

• Next day went to the clearing

  • Stone slab in centre

  • More stones around it

  • We assume it’s one of the pillars of the map

• We try to go North

  • Encounter the stag again

  • It blocks our path

• Head East

  • Stag doesn’t block this route

  • Find some stones in the woods

  • Presumably another pillar

• Try to see if we can find more stones, but fail to do so

• Head north where we suspect the hill is

  • Find the hill and an opening

  • Large footprints nearby

  • Old statue of a stone in the shrubs near the entrance

• Search for alternative entrance into hill

  • Find one on the opposite side

  • Inside is a flooded area that sparkles

  • Find a skeleton buried in sand

  • Throw some meat inside and pull it back

  • Something looks wrong with the meat, but we can’t say what

• Build a raft to cross the water

  • Manage to reach the other side

  • Something in the water attacks Dan and Dernard as we are about to leave

• Escape from the flooded area deeper into the hill

Session 152 – “A berry/beary good outcome”

 

Alternative titles

• “Someone will hear that you looked at those elvish girls”

• “”XXX: Axe of executing the ex-living”

The party

• Dan (human ranger)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Inesh (human thief)

• Nigel (dwarven fighter)

• Ryan (half-elven thief)

XP

• 42

Treasures

• 120 GP

Summary

• Looked from top of a tree to surrounding areas

  • Lake to North

  • Large stone column in West

  • Large blood red tree West-south-west

  • Smoke close in the North

• Went to smoke

  • Remains of camp site

  • Decided not to pursue

• Went to tree

  • Red stream of water originating from tree

  • Met a few strange elves

  • Offered them berries and they invited us into the tree

  • Might be fay

  • Met their elder

  • Didn’t like that we were there

  • Asked us to leave and lead nobody to them

  • We left, afterwards the tree couldn’t be seen any more

• Went to column

  • In reality a very tall statue (only the head) of a dwarf

  • Inesh climbed on top and looked around

  • Some magic allowed her to see more then she should be able to

    • Lake to the north

    • The red tree was visible to her

    • Mountains in the South

    • Centaurs in the South

    • A group of five men from the Empire in the North-east

      • Presumable from the camp site we had encountered

    • A panther creature in a tree North-West

    • A dead creature (head of crow with black wings) in the North-East

  • Decided to ambush the Empire people

    • Youngest of them escaped, four others dead

    • Found a parchment amongst them

Session 151 – “The tree-ty”

 

Alternative titles

• “Mercenaries & Midwives”

• “The real treasure was the trea
  sure we found along the way”

• “We are Dans teenage trauma”

The party

• Aelorya (elven druid)

• Dan (human ranger)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Inesh (human thief)

• Nigel (dwarven fighter)

• Ryan (half-elven thief)

• Sweeney (halfling fighter/thief)

XP

• 0

Treasures

• 1 GP

• Cursed chime

Summary

• Headed towards spider elves

• Encountered tree with chimes and skulls

  • Aelorya acquired one of the chimes

• Met the spider elves

  • Still around and happy to see us

  • Might help in the conflict with the empire

  • Mentioned the “Cave of Tokan” after asking about the lost cavern

    • Somewhere “Between North and South”

    • So presumably somewhere in the mountains

• Headed further West

• Found weird trees (twisted trunks; tiny leaves) and double headed squirrels

  • Found an old well

  • Found purple trees

  • Trees talked and moved

  • “Tree riders” stepped out of them

  • Don’t like the empire (after we told them about the empire burning trees)

  • Want us to stop them

  • Mentioned the “mother of beasts”

    • Older than the trees and evil

  • We asked about the chime

    • They didn’t like it and it seems to be evil/cursed

 

Session 150 – “Boomza! Our new safeword”

 

Alternative titles

• “He was a bimbo, but now he is the bosses husband”

• “Druid Guevara”

The party

• Aelorya (elven druid)

• Dan (human ranger)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Inesh (human thief)

• Nigel (dwarven fighter)

• Ryan (half-elven thief)

XP

• 2

Treasures

• None

Summary

• Saw some fire in the woods

  • Approached it and encountered soldiers of the Empire

  • They had killed some centaurs

  • We started a small fight and then fled because they were too many

• Hammer found in last session shattered

  • A red stone fell out of it

• Visited Aeloryas tribe

  • They were not happy with Aelorya joining us

• Visited the witches

  • Unhappy they weren’t invited to Dans wedding

• Tried to talk to dragon

  • Dragon was gone (including the treasure)

• Visited the Nixies

  • They agreed to stay vigilant

• Came up with the idea to restore the barrier

Session 149 – “The great shovel VS spade debate”

 

The party

• Aelorya (elven druid)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Inesh (human thief)

• Ryan (half-elven thief)

XP

• 966

Treasures

• Gold

• Copper bell

• Copper necklace with gemstones

• War hammer (magical?)

• Magic book (divine)

• Gemstones (rubies, diamonds)

Summary

• Failed to solve the twelve doors puzzle

  • Opened one after another until we had all the treasure

  • And until another passage opened

• Followed passage

  • Found room with a sarcophagus and six statues

  • Accidental fireball demolished the room

  • Acid-filled undead came out of sarcophagus

  • Used the slime that had been stored in the statues to destroy the undead

• Followed a hidden passage under the sarcophagus

  • Found another room with a sarcophagus

  • Killed the undead and found lots of treasure

Session 148 – “The maggot-fall”

 

Alternative titles

• “Puzzles are the banana slugs of D&D”

The party

• Aelorya (elven druid)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Grimnir (dwarven thief)

• Inesh (human thief)

• Ryan (half-elven thief)

XP

• 384

Treasures

• Gold and platinum coins

• Jewels

Summary

• Continued down corridor

  • Fought a figure who stepped out of a wall painting

  • Attacking the painting on the wall helped defeat the being

• Found a triangular room

  • With some apparent hidden door and a pedestal

• Corridor turned back and went further downs

  • Ground turned to sand

  • Found some undead in the sand, too many to kill

  • Crossed the sand via rope

• Reached another chasm

  • Noticed above our heads the original bridge

  • Another corridor on other side

  • Used ropes to go downwards the chasm to another area below

• Entered corridor and reached a crystal wall

  • Apparently full of maggots behind it

• Went up/down the chasm to avoid undead that had come after us

  • Reached other side of chasm

  • Another triangular room

  • A sealed off area (via crystal walls)

  • Apparently filled with acid on the other side (like some undead were leaking)

• Shattered the original crystal wall via arrow shot from distance

  • Set the flood of maggots on fire

• Continued the passage

  • Found a room with two statues

  • One of a dwarven man in an aggressive position

  • One of a dwarven woman holding a cornucopia full of treasure, food and other goodies

• Continued into a room with twelve doors

  • Large carving on ground (depicting the same figure we had seen throughout this dungeon)

    • Some silhouette behind the figure

  • Image on our entry door showed six dwarven woman and five dwarven men

  • Assumed that behind six doors would be treasures and behind five would be combat

  • Door twelve was the one we entered through

  • Found two of the treasure doors, and one of the combat doors

 

Session 147 – “Widdling while walking”

 

Alternative titles

• “Everyone is Aelorya”

• “Doad the dude”

• “The staff of staffiness”

The party

• Aelorya (elven druid)

• Dan (human ranger)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Grimnir (dwarven thief)

• Inesh (human thief)

• Nigel (dwarven fighter)

• Ryan (half-elven thief)

XP

• 40

Treasures

• Magic axe

Summary

• Solved the door riddle by shining sunlight and moonlight on it

• Found a corpse on the other side

  • Picked up an axe head that Aelorya attached a handle to (it’s a magic axe)

• The way split into the “Path of sons” and the “Path of daughters”

  • Of course we obeyed and split by genders

• Found a pentagonal and a hexagonal room respectively

  • Both had pedestals

  • Nothing of interest, so we moved on

  • Behind us some walls opened up and we were followed

• Reached an ornate hallway (where both groups met up again)

  • Fought a group of undead dwarves that had followed us

  • Had some weird maggots in them that tried to bury into some peoples skins

 

Session 146 – “Retroactively correctly made stew”

 

Alternative titles

• “I’m not deeply immersed in Lassie lore”

• “The session lasagna”

The party

• Aelorya (elven druid)

• Dan (human ranger)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Grimnir (dwarven thief)

• Inesh (human thief)

• Nigel (dwarven fighter)

• Ryan (half-elven thief)

XP

• 0

Treasures

• None

Summary

• Setup a base camp and started to explore the mountains

  • Discovered giant eagles

  • Saw something hunting giant eagles

    • Later revealed to be a great white dragon

  • Encountered a cyclops, scared it away before it could eat our ponies

• Camped at night

  • Via moonlight and magic light activated the map

  • Folded itself and flew away

  • We chased after it

• Reached a crest in the mountains

  • Map had landed there and wanted to go down

  • We started to dig

  • Found some rocks with dwarven writing: “Keep away”, “Son”

  • Aelorya talked with an eagle

    • Called “Farseer”

    • Soft agreement not to mess with each other

  • Reached a cavern down

    • Climbed down

    • Crossed a half broken bridge and reached a door

  • The door

    • Three circles with dwarven ruins

    • Middle one: “Breaks but never falls”

    • Lowest one: “Falls but never breaks”

Session 145 – “The wedding episode”

Alternative titles

• “Tourism & Dragons”

• “Dragons & Weddings”

• “Dan’s an Amber now”

The party

• Aelorya (elven druid)

• Dan (human ranger)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Helena (human druid)

• Inesh (human thief)

• Nigel (dwarven fighter)

• Ryan (half-elven thief)

XP

• 36

Treasures

• None

Summary

• Aeloria returned

  • Brought Helena with her

  • Dan received a letter from his dad

  • Found a map to some place in the East

• Hired some people for Shackle keep

  • 6 footmen

  • 4 archers

  • 2 builders

  • 1 midwife

• Returned to Shackle keep

  • Saw some half-human/half-lizard creatures in the swamps

  • Dan married Isadora (he is Dan Amber now)

  • Tried to examine the map, might need moonlight to read it properly

  • Noticed that somebody might have been in the monastery

• Left for the place marked on Dans map

  • Found a moat around Shackle keep

  • Made by Isadora(?)

• Wanted to stop by at the tower of the heavens

  • It was only a ruin, apparently for many years

  • Scrying sphere couldn’t find Shelfie (head monk)

• Continued journey

  • Had an encounter with something large

  • Initially thought to be a treant, but might be something else

• Reached the mountain base

Session 144 – “Jean-Jeff the donkey and the Australian Elf”

 

Alternative titles

• “Dan the usurper”

• “I like where this is going ... everyone is going to die”

The party

• Aelorya (elven druid)

• Dan (human ranger)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Nigel (dwarven fighter)

• Ryan (half-elven thief)

XP

• None

Treasures

• None

Summary

• Identified spells, potions and some magic items

• Returned to silver princess

  • She was worried about soldiers roaming around (bandits as well as knights of the empire9

  • She agreed to make us envoys

    • Either find allies against the empire

    • Or negotiate with the empire

  • At night, ghostly eyes entered the palaces and started to search

    • Presumably it’s the Ambers searching for Isadora

    • We left the next day

• Headed south back home

  • Met Feradic again, he was as useful as always

  • Found some signs of an excavation (maybe a month ago)

    • Didn’t stay to investigate

• Reached Aeloryas home

  • They weren’t happy about her joining us

  • Told her to keep following us

• Returned to the keep

  • Walls had been repaired, monastery sealed off

  • Delf and Araxis were still around

  • We talked about hiring more people

• Went to the border keep

  • It had been fully repaired and expanded

  • Aelorya was allowed to enter

  • Dernard (under the alias Dustaf) wasn’t allowed to enter

  • She sold some gems

  • She brought news to the guard captain and to Dans dad

Session 143 – “I want to believe in a magic bucket”

 

Alternative titles

• “Banana Slug of Salty Doom”

• “Reptile Pimps”

• “Make like a bucket”

• “Equal opportunity doesn’t exclude abuse”

• “Digging is hard if it’s a lake”

• “Lets give killing the god a try”

• “Treasure peninsula”

• “You don’t mess with being a reptile pervert”

• “Bagging a broad”

• “Mount her and bag her”

The party

• Aelorya (elven druid)

• Dan (human ranger)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Nigel (dwarven fighter)

• Ryan (half-elven thief)

• Sweeney (halfling fighter/thief)

XP

• 622

Treasures

• 1300 SP, 890 GP, 110 PP

• Spell scroll (magic user)

• Spell scroll (cleric)

• Boots (magical?)

• Horn (magical?)

• Gold ring

• Silver ring

• Jewelled Bracelet

• Ruby Ring

• Various smaller stuff

• Potions

Summary

• Sounds at night lead us to a drainage system

  • A series of buckets that went via a tunnel underground to keep the dungeon dry

  • Manned my undead operating a crank

  • Climbed down the tunnel to second layer of dungeon

• Started to explored and discovered the hatchery

  • Thousands of eggs, that were about to hatch

  • Managed to get out of a stand-off with lizard folk by threatening the eggs

• Continued and found a huge cave with a boat

  • Expected this to be the cave of the reptile god

  • Used the boat to cross the cave

  • Escaped the indoor spell of the reptile god and swam to the island

  • Started fighting

  • Had to free some of our allies from some form of charm effect that kept them parallelised

  • Others tried to pull a bag over the reptile god, so she couldn’t use that effect again

  • Managed to kill her in the end

• Found lots of treasure (see list above)

• Escaped the dungeon

  • Destroyed the dyke and the drainage system to flood the dungeon

  • Returned to Orlein

  • People who had turned now had reverted to normal

  • Everything seems to have worked out fine

 

Session 142 – “Reverse Ratatouille”

 

Alternative titles

• “Reptile gods and rat friends”

The party

• Aelorya (elven druid)

• Dan (human ranger)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Inesh (human thief)

XP

• 37

Treasures

• None

Summary

• Found a room with an altar

  • Fought an undead and a priest

  • Found 6 keys on the priest

  • Found a hidden passage behind the altar

    • Switch hidden on statue on altar

• Followed passage into a huge cave

  • Saw a huge stash of treasure

  • Saw a huge snake creature with a woman’s head

  • Discussed fighting it but decided against

  • Smart decision, this turned out to be the god of this reptile cult

• Found prison cells

  • 4 of the keys used to enter the room and to open the cells

  • Told us more about what had happened to them

  • Known cultists: Constable, Carpenter parents

• Decided to lead the prisoners out of the caves

  • Encountered our rat friends

  • Bribed them with food and they let us pass

  • Left via the harpy den

• Returned to the swamp

  • Gave the prisoners some weapons (thank you Nigel)

  • Gave them instructions how to return to Orlein

Session 141 – “Team Mayor”

 

Alternative titles

• “Ever skinned a reptile? Axe body spray!”

The party

• Aelorya (elven druid)

• Dan (human ranger)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Inesh (human thief)

• Ryan (half-elven thief)

XP

• 68

Treasures

• None

Summary

• Had left the dungeon and camped

  • Noticed some travellers through the swamp at night

  • Lizardmen with two humans (mayor and priestess of Orlein)

  • Attacked them before they could enter the dungeon

  • Captured both humans

  • Interrogated them

  • Both claimed the other one was working with the lizardmen

  • Based on prior information, the priestess seemed to be the one lying

• Next morning approached the dungeon and heard mutterings

  • Assumed an ambush and entered via the harpy den

  • Scouted the entrance where we confirmed an ambush

  • Lizardmen as well as humans

• Ventured deeper into the dungeon

  • Assuming not many lizardmen would be here now

  • Killed a lizardman to get the boat

• Eventually found the den of the lizardmen

  • Many sleeping ones

  • Played around with the idea of attacking them in their sleep

  • Couldn’t come up with a plan that would backfire

• Ventured and found stairs down into the second level of the dungeon

• Eventually found actually built rooms

  • Defeated an undead that seemed only to be killable by magic

• Session ended here

Session 140 – “Fish?”

 

Alternative titles

• “Dan – Skeleton slayer”

• “Elf on a shelf”

The party

• Aelorya (elven druid)

• Dan (human ranger)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Ryan (half-elven thief)

XP

• 255

Treasures

• Jewellery from harpees nest

• 30 GP, 80 SP

Summary

• Returned to the dungeon

• Encountered a bunch of skeletons

• Found a strange room with a pool full of small fish

  • Did seem harmless and didn’t really react to anything

• Found a door marked with an X

  • Apparently a warning from the harpee that had her den in the rooms behind

  • Defeated the harpee and found some jewellery in her nest

• Crossed a crocodile filled cave

• Found a small cave with a pool, full of skeletons

  • They were lying around, to be save we just left this place alone

• Encountered some more lizard folk

  • They fled, we decided not to pursue, in case they had allies

• Some encounters with a snake and a giant weasel

• Left the dungeon

 

Session 139 – “Food diplomacy”

Alternative titles

• “I ready the kraken kibble”

The party

• Aelorya (elven druid)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Inesh (human thief)

• Nigel (dwarven fighter)

• Ryan (half-elven thief)
  

XP

• 62

Treasures

• Green figurine

Summary

• Started to explore the dungeon

• Met some villagers that Inesh recognised

  • They mentioned “Explitica”, who might be the leader of their group

  • In the end they got killed

• Met some rats that Aelorya conversed with

  • Warned us about the mud

• Continued exploring

  • Met more villagers (some dead now, some escaped)

  • Met some lizard people (dead now)

  • Encountered some frog monsters hiding in mud

• Decided to retreat for now from the dungeon

Session 138 – “Plan by 8:00, failure by 9:00”

 

Alternative titles

• “Is this a plan?”

The party

• Aelorya (elven druid)

• Dan (human ranger)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Ryan (half-elven thief)

• Valis (elven fighter)

XP

• 39

Treasures

• None

Summary

• Returned to the farm

• Next day

  • Learned that the jeweller had gone missing

  • Met two knights from the silver princess

  • Hatched a plan to use the knights as bait

  • Noticed some people leave the temple at night

  • Started to follow them

• Followed tracks for a few days, eventually reaching a swamp

  • Had some encounters with a bear, some mosquito bats, and giant leeches

  • Reached a dyke

  • Found a hole with a staircase downwards

  • Started to descend

Session 137 – “Lets do this... but I’d appreciate if you not call this a plan”

 

Alternative titles

• “Gravitational field of the temple”

• “Valis rising”

• “Valis fondles the wall”

• “Whitespace portals”

• “Charades”

The party

• Aelorya (elven druid)

• Dan (human ranger)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Inesh (human thief)

• Valis (elven fighter)

XP

• 89

Treasures

• None

Summary

• Approached temple

  • Setup the elves to guard the outside

• Encountered a guard with two wolves patrolling the ground

  • Planed a lot but in the end just killed the guard and alarmed everybody

  • Valis fled from the wolves and found a secret door into the temple

  • The rest of us hid but got stuck on the temple roof

  • Used the ferret to inform our elven buddies to cause a commotion

  • Used the commotion to leave the roof and follow Valis

• Traversed the ground floor until we found a way upstairs

• Found a room with a bunch of skeletons that almost killed us

• Found a torture room where some minions (no idea what they were) attacked us

  • We miraculously didn’t die

• Continued and encountered the cleric Abrama

  • According to Inesh a good guy

  • But he attacked us and we killed him

  • Tricked some of Abramas buddies that were following him and killed them in an ambush

• Found the hidden temple room

  • A bunch of snake and reptile statues

  • One statue of a snake with a womans head

  • Broke the jade statue

  • Found a trap door down into the sleeping quarters of the priestess we had met before

  • Fled the temple because we were in a really bad shape

• Progress?

  • Well, at least we didn’t die

 

Session 136 – “We just have not to do crime for one night”

Alternative titles

• “Baked blackmail”

• “Valis knocks, and Nigel doesn not not not knock?”

• “We’re playing breaking and entering the game”

The party

• Aelorya (elven druid)

• Dan (human ranger)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Inesh (human thief)

• Nigel (dwarven fighter)

• Ryan (half-elven thief)

• Valis (elven fighter)

XP

• 0

Treasures

• None

Summary

• Entered the temple

  • Eventually got caught by the priestess

  • Priestess did something on the dead wolves

    • Magic?

    • She might know we killed them

  • Were escorted out

• Next day

  • Learned that the seamstress went missing the night before

  • Searched for traces of the seamstress

  • Followed some tracks

  • Talked with some not cooperative and unfriendly villagers

  • Found an abandoned farm of the richest farmers in the village

  • Talked with widow Wilma Herodi

    • Didn’t know anything and was friendly

    • Suspicious?

• Stakeout of Wilmas house and the temple

  • People approached the temple with a large package

  • Followed them to the temple