Session 92 – “Technically we all belong in prison”

Map of Laserkeep Interior

Map of the Place of the Guardian

Alternative titles

• “I lick the water”

• “Some people say fun raft, some say bait”

• “H.M.S. Fun Raft”

• “Do you think it’s a good idea to tie a magic gem stone tom my head?”

• “It’s an evil priest, but it smells bad”

• “As you bömpf”

• “I was ready for violence”

• “You can lick it and find out”

• “I carefully smash it”

• “Why do we do anything?”

The party

• Dan (human ranger)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Kaya (dwarven fighter/cleric)

• Valis (elven fighter)

XP

• 0

Treasures

• 1 wooden staff (magic?)

• 1 talisman

• 1 glass vial with a green liquid

• 1 golden ring

• 1 medallion

Summary

• Arrived at the place of the guardian

  • Torm and Nigel didn’t arrive with us

  • Guardian was a frog like stone creature

  • Sat on top of a stone chest on top of a stone throne

  • Dan angered the creature, it attacked and we fled down some stairs

• Arrived at a flooded cave

  • Lured half a dozen skeletons out of the water and defeated them

  • Valis went swimming to explore the lake

    • Too wide for a rope

    • Stairs end under water

    • Valis almost got lost in the cave

  • Considered the cave a dead end

• Returned to the guardian

  • Agitated it, it started to approach us

  • Retreated to the stairs

  • Dernard used magic wand, the guardian started to grow

  • We jumped into the water before it could attack

  • Seems the guardian exploded, because it was gone after we returned

  • Opened the stone chest

    • 1 wooden staff

    • 1 talisman

    • 1 glass vial with a green liquid

• Returned to the shrine to rest

  • Saw somebody in the altar room

  • Thought it was Torm and attacked

  • Was the demon guard though

  • It created magic darkness

  • Dan convinced the demon it was all Nigels fault

  • The demon left

• Returned to the place of the guardian to rest for three days

  • We were in very bad shape

• Returned to the shrine, and teleported back to the tower

• Tried to teleport to the mountain, but it didn’t work

• Got attacked by the mage and the archer we had fled from before

  • Dan used the teleporter at random

• Ended up going to the dungeon

  • Dungeon was mostly abandoned and little of value left

  • Found a ladder up

• We assumed the dungeon was under the tower

  • So the room above would contain three trolls

  • This was correct

  • Managed to fight off one of the trolls

  • Other two trolls got dealt with by Dernards magic wand

    • With a large amount of luck involved

• Managed to climb up back into the tower and fled

  • Stayed the night in one of the outer towers

  • Managed to return to Shackle Keep

  • Home, sweet home!

 

Session 91 – “The particle-wave theory of Nigel”

 

Alternative titles

• “I do not support this message”

• “In hindsight, I shouldn’t have pointed it at Nigel”

• “She is the mad one now”

• “Even the mad door agrees”

• “Get a grip on your timeline dude”

• “Come child, come”

The party

• Dan (human ranger)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Kaya (dwarven fighter/cleric)

• Nigel (dwarven fighter)

• Valis (elven fighter)

XP

• 280

Treasures

• Lots of silver coins

• 3 bundles of silk

• Magic wand

• Magic potion

Summary

• Returned to the first round door

  • Opened it by force after greasing it

  • Found four statues: Centaur, armoured man, robed man, woman

  • Several contains: 4 wooden chests, 1 iron chest, 2 crates

  • Looted the containers

    • Found lots of silver coins

    • Gold painted copper coins

    • Daggers

    • Rotten cloth

    • 2 vials wrapped in silk (we broke one vial)

    • 1 wooden box wrapped in silk

      • Contained a magic wand

  • Freed first the robed man

    • Man called “Torm Blackmace”

    • He’s an ass and not very helpful

  • Freed the woman

    • Woman called “Theandra”

    • The magic ring is now depleted

    • She mentioned being a servant of the silver princess

• Tried to open the second round door but failed

• Played around with the magic wand

  • Pointed at Theodoor: Slowed him down, maybe failed petrification magic?

  • Pointed at Nigel: Created a rain cloud above him

  • Pointed at empty corridor: Fire ball(?)

• Nigel almost swallows and suffocates on a coin

• Returned to the second teleporter

  • Torm triggered something in the altar room before

  • The ruby Nigel had taken turned into a monster we fought

  • We tied Torm up better up

  • Used the teleporter and moved on to the next place

 

Session 90 – “You didn’t expect we befriend a door?”

 

Alternative titles

• “Facing the face”

• “I will not die in a watery grave … DM: Yet”

• “Emotionally supporting a metal face”

• “Suckers do it for free”

Location(s)

• Laserkeep Shrine

The party

• Dan (human ranger)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Grimnir (dwarven thief)

• Kaya (dwarven fighter/cleric)

• Nigel (dwarven fighter)

• Ryan (half-elven thief)

• Sweeney (halfling fighter/thief)

• Valis (elven fighter)

XP

• 18

Treasures

• Ruby from altar room

Summary

• Party got joined by some of our friends who had followed us

• Dealt with the entrance room

  • Teleporter platform labelled WROTE (anagram for TOWER)

  • Talked with the door with face (now named Theodoor)

  • He mocked us, but we still want to hire him

  • Escaped from the water trap into the corridors

• Found a round metal door we couldn’t open

  • According to the rescued humans there are more petrified people behind

• Found a large room with two petrified humans

  • Returned them to normal (the magic ring seems to lose its power)

  • The humans are Delf and Araxis

    • Wearing some black stone amulets

  • Were once guards who got petrified as punishment

  • Both joined us

• Found another round metal door at the end of another corridor

• Found a room of magical darkness with a pit in the middle

  • The pit monster tried to attack us, but we might have killed it

• Found a room of sarcophagi, which we didn’t open yet

• Found a dead-end corridor with a fire trap

• Found an altar room full of various items

  • Iron skeleton with a cloak

  • Small chime

  • Large ruby (taken by Nigel)

  • Brazier with magic black fire

  • Black frog statue

  • Altar with a book (which almost killed Dernard)

• Found another teleporter behind the altar room

  • CLAPE OF THE DRAGUANIA

  • Anagram: PLACE OF THE GUARDIAN

  • We rested in this room as it seems the only really safe place

  • Session ended here

 

Session 89 – “Is anybody not going to the outhouse?”

 

Alternative titles

• “It’s quite a deep shaft”

• “Foreplay is basically done”

• “This is not the outhouse I was expecting”

Location(s)

• Laserkeep

The party

• Dan (human ranger)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Grimnir (dwarven thief)

• Kaya (dwarven fighter/cleric)

• Ryan (half-elven thief)

XP

• 130

Treasures

• None

Summary

• Party continued from where we left of last time

• Followed light into another room

  • Found a deep shaft down

  • A will-o’-wisp appeared and flew into the shaft

  • Dasid went down the shaft scouting

  • Saw some treasure (in particular a crown) at the bottom

  • Had to retreat because of damage from the will-o’-wisp

• Continued into the next room

  • Two large empty cabinets and some trash

  • Fought two giant centipedes

  • Found some arrow slits pointing to the corridor we originally entered

  • Wend up stairs to next level

• Reached a corridor

  • Fought a warrior that seemed to have been cursed

  • Took the helmet and runed sword from the warrior

  • Avoided a door where whining was audible

  • Entered the next room

• Found a bedroom

  • Two adjacent smaller rooms: closet and “outhouse”

  • Found ivory key in closet

  • Found round stones with runes in “outhouse”

  • Fought a mimic (disguised as a night stand)

  • Found some books with magic writing we needed to make sense of (all were anagrams)

    • Writings

      • ANNOTIUM (MOUNTAIN)

      • SHINER (SHRINE)

      • PAWMS (SWAMP)

      • DALINS (ISLAND)

      • NOUDENG (DUNGEON)

    • The mountain and dungeon swamp anagram hadn’t been found yet during the session

  • Decided to rest in the bedroom

• Got ambushed by an archer and a magic user

  • Diplomacy failed

  • Combat went bad quickly

  • We decided to retreat

  • The stone in “outhouse” was a teleporter

  • Used the ivory hey to flee to the shrine

• Appeared in a small room

  • Four doors, one with a demonic face

  • Four statues in the corners

    • Effrit, Kelpie, Raven, Blob with eyes

  • One stone like the one we had just used, but only with one inscription

  • Session ended here

 

Session 88 – “I like seeing half-elves in the mud”

 

Alternative titles

• “Safety of the military camp on the borderlands”

• “Safe space hill”

Location(s)

• Laserkeep

The party

• Dan (human ranger)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Grimnir (dwarven thief)

• Kaya (dwarven fighter/cleric)

• Oriana (dwarven fighter)

• Palindrom (half-elf fighter)

XP

• None

Treasures

• None

Summary

• Party had spent resting on “safe space hill” to recover

  • Two new adventures found their way into the swamps (Palindrom and Grimnir) and joined the party

• We scouted the outer walls of the keep

  • Lizard people were standing around it chanting

  • No lizard people were at the back of the keep

  • We entered through a gap in the walls

• Explored the first tower

  • Empty, except for some big spiders

• Explored the second tower

  • Empty, inner floors collapsed

• Explored one of the smaller buildings

  • Fully overgrown, nothing of value remained

• Entered the inner keep through a staircase on the outside

  • Lots of arrow slits

  • Dan crashed through the floor in the first room

  • Pulled him out before the giant monsters in the room below got to him

  • Next rooms contained eery mist and some ominous light

  • We avoided the mist and hadn’t yet went to see to see what caused the light

  • Session ended here

 

Session 87 – “A real life secret door”

Alternative titles

• “The quasit-periscope”

• “I can’t ride humans”

• “You were almost killed by a pumpkin-beaver”

• “First, lets kill Chris”

• “I have an oily bag of oily muffins”

Location(s)

• Swamp

• Laserkeep

The party

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Kaya (dwarven fighter/cleric)

• Nigel (dwarven fighter)

• Oriana (dwarven fighter)

XP

• 26

Treasures

• None

Summary

• We saw a green light in the distance

  • Followed the light which lead into the swamp

• Entered the swamp

  • Avoided various large groups of lizard people and undead

  • Found a ruined keep in the swamp

  • Green light originates from inside the keep

  • Keep christened “Laserkeep”

  • Keep surrounded by swamp and river

    • Two consecutive bridges leading to keep

• Saw a white light in the distance

  • Approached it but it retreated

• Approached the first bridge

  • Several figures were there

  • Turned out to be undead

  • The white light had started following us

  • Fought the undead and the white light (a will-o’-whisp like creature)

  • Fight almost ended badly

• Nigel wanted to see what was under the bridge

  • Nothing was there

  • DM spoiler: We were so lucky!

• Crossed both bridges and approached the keep

  • Lots of lizard people in the front

  • Retreated to a find a safe place to rest