Session 81 – “Shacklekeep Stories II: This is the most average squirrel there is”

Alternative titles

• “A little pissing on the smouldering remains of your enemies”

• “But it is cleric piss”

• “How big is the squirrel? Squirrel sized!”

Location(s)

• Squirrel Square

The party

• Bob (human cleric)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Kaya (dwarven fighter/cleric)

• Valis (elven fighter)

XP

• 183

Treasures

• 3 tiger eye gems

• 1 sceptre

Summary

• Valis saw a lady ghost

  • When he told us about her, she was already gone

• One month later the lady ghost was back

  • We followed her, but got interrupted by a troll

  • So we lost sight again

• Another month later we saw her again and followed her

  • She lead us to a place with a stone block (an altar?) and four “angel” statues on top of some pedestals

• Found a sleeping squirrel

  • Kaya placed it on a tree so it wouldn’t get hurt

• Pedestal 1: Acid pool trap

  • Magic wall you can walk through

  • Shaft going downwards

  • Slimy handholds

  • Pool of water at the bottom with a metal plate at the bottom

  • “Water” is acid

  • Maybe there is a slime monster inside (it might be dead already)

  • Nothing of value could be found

• Pedestal 2: Locked room trap

  • Small locked room in the pedestals

  • Found a skeleton and some tiger eye gems

  • Kaya got locked in for a moment, but from the outside the door could be opened

  • Took the skeleton with us to give it a proper burial

• Pedestal 3: Slide trap

  • Four keyholes that didn’t do anything

  • Were just able to open a door

  • At the bottom was another door

  • Touching the floor created a slide

  • Managed to enter the door

  • Found three rooms

    • One was empty

    • One had a sceptre (taken by Valis)

    • One had an almost completely empty vial (taken by Dernard)

  • After taking the things this rooms collapsed

• Pedestal 4: Another trap?

  • One keyhole

  • Couldn’t pick it, so tried to break it open

  • Weren’t able though and just attacked some displacer beasts

  • Killed one of them before the others fled

  • In the mouth of the statue above was something (a half-sphere with a hole)

  • Maybe there is a trap that would have been triggered by picking the lock?

• Under the altar: Blade trap with illusions

  • Pushed the altar away

  • Lots of blades, some visible others triggered by unseen wires

  • Saw gold and firelight down

  • Threw a log down to break the blades and wires

  • Dasid went down, but the gold and light was gone, the room was empty

  • It was just an illusion

Session 77 – “Shacklekeep Stories”

 

Location(s)

• The ravine (dangerous cave)

The party

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Sweeney (halfling fighter/thief)

XP

• 250

Treasures

• 1 jewelled goblet

Summary

• First of the “Shacklekeep Stories”

  • Dernard and Sweeney told about the time they went to explore the mystery cave in the ravine

• Entered cave, path split into left and right side

• Went to the right side and found a cave with a large pool of waterproof

  • Filled with white, blind fish

  • Saw a goblet lying in the pool

  • Tried to use unseen servant to get goblet

    • Servant vanished (dispelled?)

  • Tied rope around Sweeney, so he could get the goblet

  • Got attacked by a corrosive slime that was hiding in the water

    • 11 HP damage

    • Many items were destroyed (inclusive the business card)

  • Didn’t explore the area further, to avoid getting too close to the pool

• Return to the entrance and went to the left side

  • Found a bunch dead ends

  • Found a large cave filled with branches and bones

  • A large “lump” was seen in the distance (a sleeping monster)

  • Found a scroll case (cleric spells) amongst the bones

  • Woke the monster (big and furry, so a “bear”?, couldn’t see properly)

  • Fled the caves

• Returned to Shacklekeep

  • Encountered four undead monks at night

  • Avoided a fight by fleeing and hiding