Tuesday, July 21, 2026

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

  • None so far

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

 

Friday, July 17, 2026

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

 

Friday, July 10, 2026

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”

Saturday, June 13, 2026

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


Monday, June 8, 2026

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

Friday, June 5, 2026

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

 

Monday, May 25, 2026

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

Monday, May 11, 2026

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

Monday, May 4, 2026

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

 

Saturday, May 2, 2026

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

Monday, April 27, 2026

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

Monday, April 20, 2026

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

 

Sunday, April 12, 2026

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

Monday, March 30, 2026

Session 135 – “It’s all kimchi now”

 

Alternative titles

  • “I’m trying to run a creepy scenario... but I can’t compete with Valis”

  • “Valis checks out the widow”

  • “Dog and necromancer – Both interested in digging up bones”

  • “Valis (the unhinged) opens the (unhinged) door”

  • “Nobody wants to wake up Valis”

  • “The Southern triangles of war”

  • “Maybe it’s not vampires after all”

  • “Whatever floats your toad”

The party

  • Aelorya (elven druid)

  • Dan (human ranger)

  • Dernard (human magic user)

  • Inesh (human thief)

  • Ryan (half-elven thief)

  • Valis (elven fighter)

XP

  • 46

Treasures

  • 7 PP, 18 GP, 12 EP

  • 1 gemstone

Summary

  • Stakeout at night

    • Saw some shadows

    • Fond footprints the next morning

  • Constable Ruskatel Groove visits farm to say hello

  • Visit the Foaming Mug tavern

    • Talk with neighbour

    • He recommends not to enter, we enter anyway

    • Signs of a fight

    • Search the cellar and fight some lizard folk

    • Find a little bit of treasure

  • Get the constable

    • He arrives with two buddies

    • Together we burn the lizard folk

  • Visit the Golden Grain tavern and listen to rumours

  • Another stakeout that night

    • Capture two people observing us

    • Two elves from Aelories people

    • Dorian and Luvillan

    • Followed a magic user who had tried to kidnap some of them

    • Suspect the blacksmith and the constable are affected

  • Visit the temple at night

    • Fight some guard wolves on the temple grounds

    • Hide the bodies of the wolves

    • Prepared to enter the temple

Monday, March 16, 2026

Session 134 – “The fellowship of the bling”

 

Alternative titles

  • “Succession war between Dan and Valis”

  • “The Shackle Kids”

  • “Valis sees regret in woman often”

  • “The protoheist”

  • “Arrow of the week club”

  • “Toad vs ferret? No, this isn’t Pokemon!”

The party

  • Aelorya (elven druid)

  • Dan (human ranger)

  • Dernard (human magic user)

  • Frederick II (halfling thief)

  • Inesh (human thief)

  • Valis (elven fighter)

XP

  • 0

Treasures

  • Emerald gem

Summary

  • We learned we had been gone for over a year

  • Dernard searched the library

    • Lots of history of Averoign

      • Gohan the wise, Hazah the blind, etc.

      • 5 visitors from somewhere

    • Tales of wizards

    • Tales of a hill that smokes like a volcano

    • Sorceres Igwilf

    • Summoned demon Grazzt

    • Owned 7 tombs

    • Somewhere in the lost cavern of ...

    • Her most powerful item “D...d” was never found

    • Dernard took a scrap of a map that could us help find these caverns

  • Final dealings with the Ambers

    • Isabella was the new queen of the Ambers

    • Others weren’t happy about this, but scared of her

    • Richard gave us a green emerald as a reward

    • Camile offered Inesh to draw a card

      • She drew “Knight in full armour striding purposefully”

      • Card vanished, nothing initially happened

  • Left the mansion the next morning

    • Returned to Ineshs village Orlein

    • Surin had left to the palace of the silver princess

    • Heard stories about people going missing and some appearing again

    • Started to investigate

    • Family of the “foaming mug” inn had disappeared

    • Family of the general store had disappeared, but returned

    • People in the “serpent” inn mentioned marks on the necks of some people

    • People in the “golden grain” were unhelpful and suspicious

    • Blacksmith of town was surprisingly hostile

    • People were interested where we stayed

    • Decided to place guards at night in Ineshs home

 

Thursday, March 12, 2026

Conclusion of sessions 122 to 133

XP

  • 636

Summary

  • Bonus XP given for concluding sessions 122 to 133

  • Given to everybody who played more than one session

Session 133 – “I’m weaponising the ferret”

Alternative titles

  • “This is not that kind of therapy”

The party

  • Aelorya (elven druid)

  • Dan (human ranger)

  • Dernard (human magic user)

  • Frederick II (halfling thief)

  • Inesh (human thief)

  • Valis (elven fighter)

XP

  • 93

Treasures

  • 7 magic rings

Summary

  • Dealing with fallout of last session and healing people

    • Manage to heal Aelorya with the cup Kaya got from the tarot cards

    • Luckily this worked and Kaya once more provided healing

  • Dernard explores the fog

    • It’s in a large room

    • Finds a partially open casket

    • Five sitting statues behind it

    • Sitting figures look strange

    • Statues stand up and approach

  • Battling the statues

    • Statues get fought

    • Hitting their weak spots on their heads easily destroys them

  • Ghost of Stephen Amber appears at the casket

    • Offers a wish

    • Isadora recommends against taking it, so we don’t

    • Stephen and the casket vanish with it’s content

    • 7 magic rings remain

  • 7 rings

    • Red: Protection from fire

    • Orange: Provides healing (but will be eventually used up)

    • Yellow: Magic can’t restrain you

    • Green: Never be cold

    • Blue: Anything you want (a wish?)

    • Indigo: -1 AC

    • Violet: -1 AC

  • Two magic portals appear, one leading back to Averoign, one back to the Amber mansion

    • We head back to the mansion

  • Meet the Amber family again

    • Isabella is wearing a crown, apparently she is the new head of the Amber household

Sunday, March 8, 2026

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

  • 73

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

Session 148 – “The maggot-fall”

  Alternative titles “Puzzles are the banana slugs of D&D” The party Aelorya (elven druid) Dernard (human magic user) Grimni...