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

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

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