Session 128 – “Nigel – the English word for Ablasshandel”

 

Alternative titles

• “Dungeons & Beavers”

• “Stay away from the C-word (it’s capybara)”

• “I will not touch your magic baguette”

• “Sailor dwarf would be an amazing series”

• “Use the handle!!!”

• “We can lick the unseen servant”

• “Nigel gives”

The party

• Aelorya (elven druid)

• Dan (human ranger)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Inesh (human thief)

• Nigel (dwarven fighter)

• Valis (elven fighter)

XP

• 233

Treasures

• Magic book

• Anti undead spell scroll

• Scrying sphere

Summary

• Saw giant undead approach the city

• Returned to the necromancers tower

  • Assuming there would be fewer undead now

  • Thinking we might be able to stop the undead

  • Isadora stayed behind to stop the undead

• At tower

  • No more undead

  • Encountered the bird headed monster again

  • Killed it via lots of oil, fire and the entanglement spell

• Found a hidden room with magic items

  • Book

    • Damaged the cover, so we didn’t know what it did

    • One time use, +1 INT to reader

    • Aelorya ended up reading it

  • Spell

    • Some form of anti-undead, only Aelorya seems to be able to use it

  • Crystal sphere

    • Can be used to scry on far places

    • Started to crack, so maybe limited number of uses

    • Dernard took the sphere

• Returned to the city

  • Undead were already gone

  • Apparently the giant undead just collapsed

  • Much of the city was destroyed

  • Isadora was missing

• Returned to the tavern to meet up with Morianis again

  • Met Isadora at the tavern

  • Prepared to travel further back into the past

Session 110 – “Vegetative confetti”

World Map

Moss Cave 

Alternative titles

• “I put the ring on”

• “Portable, pickled fairy”

• “I’m just trying to be nice to the nasty demon”

The party

• Bob (human cleric)

• Dan (human ranger)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Kaya (dwarven fighter/cleric)

• Valis (elven fighter)

XP

• 39

Treasures

• None

Summary

• Dernard and Dasid died

  • Temporarily

  • The ring received last session from the silver princess melted

  • Dernard and Dasid revived

  • Everyone suddenly was interested to put on their rings

  • Dasid was thankful for his safe and will provided his full service for a year (starting August 7^th 2025)

• Headed to the east to deliver the remains of the archambassador

  • Entered the fae realm

  • Met the archbureaucrat

  • We put blame on Yarin for the archambassadors death

  • Our debt (or at least Kayas) to the fae was forgiven

• Returned to the silver princess palace

• Headed North searching for the guard captain Travis

  • Encountered various people who had returned from the curse of the ruby

  • Visited the village Trowford

  • People had seen Travis

  • Thought he might have headed to an old shrine, or the Amber family

• Searched for the shrine in a cave

  • Fought some moss infected hobgoblins

  • Found Travis (maybe dead)

  • Escaped the cave via stupid us of magic wand and clever use of fireball

Session 109 – “Lets pickle the fairy”

 

Alternative titles

• “I’m calling dibs on the big Valis”

• “This has never stopped us before”

The party

• Dan (human ranger)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Grimnir (dwarven thief)

• Kaya (dwarven fighter/cleric)

• Valis (elven fighter)

• Ryan (half-elven thief)

XP

• 0

Treasures

• Rings from the silver princess (Note: Players from previous sessions might also have received one)

Summary

• The palace and the surrounding town had returned

  • Townspeople had been stuck, so for them only moments had passed

  • Met the queen of the elves and the dwarven stone lord

  • Archambassador of the fairies died by rapid ageing

  • Guard captain fled to the north

• Searched for the priest but didn’t find him

• Got a “star wards scene”

  • Each received a ring from the princess

  • Were declared “Protectors of the princessipality”

• Prepared for our next task

  • Wanted to bring the dead archambassador to the fey

  • Afterwards wanted to chase after the guard captain

• Got delayed because Dasid was still missing

  • Found him in the caves under the cellar

  • Fought the slime monster to free him

  • Did it work?

Session 108 – “Cultists are poultry”

Alternative titles

• “Lets wait for them to be less insane”

• “The corridors revenge”

The party

• Bob (human cleric)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Kaya (dwarven fighter/cleric)

• Valis (elven fighter)

• Ryan (half-elven thief)

• Sweeney (halfling fighter/thief)

XP

• 311

Treasures

• 11 gem stones

• The green mace

• Fragments of the ruby

Summary

• Started out in the treasure chambers

  • Ryan and Sweeney grabbed some gems

• Found silver princess in the courtyard with the captain and guards

  • Captain wanted us arrested

  • Distracted guards via illusion

  • We and the silver princess escaped

• Went to the rooms of Larks and the guard captain

  • Larks still missing

  • Discovered the green mace under the floors in the guard captains room

• Tracked the cultists down into the cellars where we originally entered

  • Fought and defeated the cultists

  • Claimed the ruby

  • Used the green mace to destroy the ruby

  • The red light started to recede and the palaces and the surrounding areas started to return to the real world

Session 107 – “As-salt the slug”

 

Alternative titles

• “Valis grows up”

• “Hey babe, Valis in the Palace”

The party

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Kaya (dwarven fighter/cleric)

• Valis (elven fighter)

• Ryan (half-elven thief)

• Sweeney (halfling fighter/thief)

XP

• 0

Treasures

• None

Summary

• Investigated the priest

  • Claimed he didn’t recognise the amulet we found in his room

  • Ryan follows him to the cultists room and listened in

  • They were talking about dealing with us and expediting their plans

• Search for Dasid

  • Tried to get Dasid back from the mistress of the hunt

  • Dasid was gone, presumably taken by the cultists

• Alarm in the palace

  • Guards were fighting a giant slug monster

  • It was an illusion which which we could demonstrate

  • One of the cultists was nearby

  • Tried to flee but got captured

  • Guard captain arrested her

• Search for things

  • Search for various people and things

    • Cultists, Priest, Larks, Silver Princess, the ruby

  • People could not be found

  • Guards in treasury had been killed, ruby was missing

Session 106 – “Kaya and the ducklings”

 

Alternative titles

• “Maybe we can just be descent people for once”

• “I can’t believe it’s not magic”

The party

• Bob (human cleric)

• Declan (dwarven fighter) & Arnold (human fighter)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Kaya (dwarven fighter/cleric)

• Valis (elven fighter)

• Ryan (half-elven thief)

XP

• 0

Treasures

• None

Summary

• Intended to break into the cultists room

• Got interrupted by Larks who had discovered something

  • A report about the 16^th silver princess not getting buried in the crypt

  • A book depicting the knight (of the green hammer) lying down (dead?)

• Inspected the crypt again at the location of the 16^th silver princess

  • Didn’t find anything

• Talked to guard captain

  • Wasn’t aware of the role of the ruby

  • Demonstrated this to him

  • Ryan inspected his quarters

  • Found weird, gibberish scribbles instead of writing

  • Found a parchment with a weird symbol under his bed

• Talked with Larks about the guard captain

  • Mentioned that the captain doesn’t seem to sleep well

• Talked to cultists

  • Offered to cooperate so we could escape the ruby

• Broke into priests room

  • Ryan and Dernard searched the room

    • Found silver amulet of the cult in the priests quarters

  • Kaya and Bob distracted the priest during dinner

  • Valis stood guard

  • Declan tried to kidnap and interrogate one of the cultists

    • A fight happened and Declan died

• Declans corpse was found by Arnold, a local guard

  • Arnold informed the guard captain

  • Corpse was gone, Arnold got demoted

  • Arnold informed the party about what he had seen

Session 105 – “A whoosh, not a boom”

 

Alternative titles

• “We are simulating the heat outside by means of fireball”

• “Why do we need exposition?”

• “The elven art of bouldering”

The party

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Kaya (dwarven fighter/cleric)

• Valis (elven fighter)

• Ryan (half-elven thief)

XP

• 0

Treasures

• None

Summary

• Fought the visitor of the crypt

  • Attacked us with a weird, liquidy-non-liquidy, greenish/yellowish, etherial flood

  • Defeated by fireball

  • Visitor was gone

• Searched the crypts for clues but found nothing

• Ambushed Larks at night to figure out where Dasid is

  • Dasid is with the hunt master

  • Larks told us he had spied on us, and knew we didn’t break into the crypt

  • We asked if he could check the cultists as well

    • They also didn’t break into the crypt

• At breakfast we counted the cultists, to see if one was gone (because of the fireball)

  • All were accounted formerly

  • Cultists also seem to be trapped here (they were able to catch an apple we threw at them)

• Talked to Breynar (priests assistant)

  • He didn’t have anything useful to say

• Talked to Kathrindamos (priest)

  • He didn’t have anything useful to say)

• Were asked to see the silver princess

  • She “apologised” for accusing us of breaking into the crypts

• Explored the palace a bit, found nothing that seemed important

• Decided to break into the cultists room while they were at breakfast

  • Session ended here at a cliffhanger

Session 104 – “Princessipality”

 

Alternative titles

• “The race for the mace”

• “Send the captain to my chambers … for a talk”

The party

• Declan (dwarven fighter)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Kaya (dwarven fighter/cleric)

• Valis (elven fighter)

XP

• 0

Treasures

• None

Summary

• Had summoned Ruinas ghost end of last game

  • Talked to her

  • Learned the story of the first guard captain

    • Got a magic weapon from a hag

    • A green mace

    • Supposed to safe the realm in times of need

• Asked around about the green mace

  • Talked with Captain Travis, Larks, the high priest

    • Assistant Breynar of priest tried to listen to our conversation

    • We assumed the weapon might have been buried in a crypt

  • Learned a slightly alternative version of the story

    • Person was a paladin

    • Used an emerald hammer

• Tried to go outside, but no longer were able to

• Later somebody tried to break into the crypt

  • We blamed for this

• Searched through Larks library

  • Found bad stories about Yarin

  • Learned that he was connected to the Amber family somehow

• At night Theandra warned us we would get arrested the next night

  • We snuck into the garden and then into the open crypt

  • One tomb had been disturbed

  • Somebody else entered the crypt after us

  • We waited in ambush

  • Session ended here

Session 103 – “Aggressive incendiary gardening”

Alternative titles

• “So the beaver is commenting about the bush”

• “If you need to trim a hedge, a morning star is the ideal tool”

• “Fireball might be seen as a hostile act”

• “I don’t think a fireball pisses of anybody”

The party

• Declan (dwarven fighter)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Kaya (dwarven fighter/cleric)

• Valis (elven fighter)

• Ryan (half-elven thief)

XP

• 0

Treasures

• None

Summary

• Lots of talking with different people

  • “The tragedy”

    • Name the people us for this situation they are in

    • People fell asleep that night, the next day they were stuck

    • Some guards on duty saw a flash of light before they fell asleep

    • Some guards mentioned some wind they felt when the flash happened

  • The egg of Coot

    • Mentioned by the silver princess

    • Before the tragedy she had sent out people to search for it

    • Came back changed, body parts had been replaced with metal

  • The suitor of the silver princess

    • Wandering knight

    • Rode on a white dragon

    • Brought a giant ruby as a gift for the princess the night before the tragedy happened

    • Hasn’t been seen since

  • Other suitors of the silver princess

    • Mentioned a sorcerer that was interested in her

    • Turns out it was Yarin when he was young

    • Studied a bit under Larks

    • Was searching for some magic to protect him

  • Ruina the harper

    • Harp we found matches the one Ruina was using

    • Ruinas harp had silver strings

• Silver princess showed us the ruby

  • On inspection with the ruby lens, we could see the palace inside the ruby

  • Could confirm it was the actual palace, as we could see e.g. Dernards dancing lights spell

  • Offered for one of us to carry out the ruby, to hopefully break the curse

  • Silver princess allowed this

  • Kaya carried the ruby, but it vanished and returned to the silver princess

• Tried to leave through the front gate

  • Didn’t work, turned transparent and felt as if something was holding us back

  • When leaving the way we came, we also turned partially transparent

• Inspected the overgrown garden

  • Fought some plants that attacked us

    • Wanted to clear the garden with fireball

    • Larks the court wizard didn’t allow it

    • The master gardener didn’t allow it

    • Elvisar, who is in charge of the household, didn’t allow it

    • The silver princess didn’t allow it

  • Inspected the fountain and the two status in the garden

  • Fountain has healing properties if you drink from it

  • Statue of a young girl holding a songbird

    • Apparently the first silver princess

  • Statue of a snake

    • Apparently a snake led the first silver princess to the place where the palace was built

• Returned to the harp with some string to restring it

  • String turned silver

  • Mist formed and a figure appeared, apparently Ruina herself

  • Session ended here

Session 102 – “We almost made pasta today”

 The party

• Declan (dwarven fighter)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Grimnir (dwarven thief)

• Kaya (dwarven fighter/cleric)

• Valis (elven fighter)

• Ryan (half-elven thief)

XP

• 0

Treasures

• None

Summary

• Declan stumbled across our group and decided to join us

• We re-entered the cave

• We returned to the hallway of doors

  • Theandra headed towards one door

  • Inside was an old kitchen

  • Filled with red ghosts that didn’t interact with us

  • Food was still fine

• Theandra lead us up the stairs into the upper palace

• Followed a servant (not a ghost) into a room with brandy

  • Asked for an audience with the silver princess

  • Servant fetched somebody else who we talked to

  • Learned that other people had arrived recently

    • People in dark robes

  • We told our story and more people were fetched

  • Larks and guard captain Travis

    • Retold our story again

    • They told us the leader of the dark robed people was called Aravan

    • The same name as the leader of the imperial soldiers we had met near the treant forest

• They brought us to the other visitors

  • We threatened them and made it clear we will stop them

• Tried to lead Larks and Travis down to the basement

  • They got transparent

  • The effect of the “curse” seems to be stronger down there

  • We returned to the upper floor

• Later we had a banquet with the silver princess and her household

  • This included the cultists

• Larks showed Dernard his laboratory

  • Larks didn’t want to talk about Yarin when he was asked

• We got some rooms

  • Later that night we got attacked by shadowy tendrils at night

  • We assumed it was caused by the cultists

Session 101 – “Valis puts his hand there”

 

Alternative titles

• “Wholesome adventure meets you people”

• “It would be nice to have Nigel now”

The party

• Bob (human cleric)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Valis (elven fighter)

XP

• Not yet decided

Treasures

• Silver ring with stylized wolf head

• Magic sword

Summary

• A small group went ahead to scout the cave

• Encountered various smaller dangers (like purple moss and slimes)

• Found a silver ring in a slime pit

  • Managed to open a secret door with the ring

  • Discovered a magic harp that (immobile, so we couldn’t move it)

  • Harp had to strings, but we still could play it

  • Theandra told us about a legend of Ruina the harpist

    • Not sure if related to this harp though

  • Fought off a spectre and gained a magic sword

• Found some clay vials, not sure what their content is

• Advanced towards a semi-transparent door

  • Adventure ended in a hall full of such doors

Session 100 – “We conga our way into the hill”

 

Alternative titles

• “One centaur lead to another”

• “The beaver wants to be sprinkled”

The party

• Dan (human ranger)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Kaya (dwarven fighter/cleric)

• Sweeney (halfling fighter/thief)

• Valis (elven fighter)

XP

• 0

Treasures

• None

Summary

• Left the fae realm and met Sweeney

• Continued journeying towards place of silver princess

  • Found place the map in the puzzle box showed

  • No traces anywhere of buildings

• Found a river

  • Inhabited by water elementals

  • Wouldn’t let us pass

  • Throwing silver coins into river calmed them down and we could pass

• Camped the night on hill where the castle was supposed to be

• Made a copy of the map

• Travelled to other hill that was marked with an X on the map

  • Found a small crystal disc, bound in lead

  • Kaya looked through it

  • Everything appeared red

  • Found a path of green

  • Followed the path back to the first hill

  • Found an opening in the hill

  • Entered the hill

Session 99 – “My axe thirsts for sap”

Alternative titles

• “We can try the blood thing”

The party

• Bob (human cleric)

• Dan (human ranger)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Grimnir (dwarven thief)

• Kaya (dwarven fighter/cleric)

• Nigel (dwarven fighter)

• Ryan (half-elven thief)

• Valis (elven fighter)

XP

• 125

Treasures

• Red jewel from fae

Summary

• The door

  • Smeared blood on the door, didn’t help

  • Valis got repelled trying to teleport, saw a room, and smelled some plants

• Visited the centaurs in the south

  • Tried to reach the hawthorn tree, to end the corruption of the forest

  • Got repelled by an army of treants

  • Convinced Yuticus to meet his brother (Thorvil)

  • They reconciled

• Thorvil lead us to a clearing

  • Told us to go counter clockwise to reach the fae

  • Dasid wasn’t able to enter

  • Kaya warned us not to eat or drink anything

  • She immediately drank what was offered

  • Made some deals that probably shouldn’t have been made

• Learned the story of the silver princess

  • Named Argenta

  • Suitor from the mountains far, flew in on a dragon

  • Suitor brought a red stone as a gift

  • Caused her land to disappear

• Learned that Ryan has the key to reach the silver princess

  • Found a map inside the puzzle box he had been carrying

• Left the fae realm

Session 98 – “It’s a fucking door”

 

Alternative titles

• “The only thing we tried is pee on it and violence”

• “You will touch the door tonight”

• “We just got beaten by a door … we take anything”

• “So we end, where we began”

The party

• Bob (human cleric)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Grimnir (dwarven thief)

• Kaya (dwarven fighter/cleric)

• Ryan (half-elven thief)

• Valis (elven fighter)

XP

• 0

Treasures

• None

Summary

• Tried to deal with the door in the statue room

  • Destroyed all statues

  • Touched the door a bunch of times

  • Elves (but not half-elves) and dwarves together could touch it

• Continued travelling

  • During one night our camp fire flared up for no apparent reason

  • Another night a section of the magical barrier seems to have dropped somewhere

• Encountered centaurs

  • Barely avoided a fight

  • They thought we had killed their friend Rothgar

  • He had been burned

  • Didn’t know more about silver princess

• Lead us to their sage Thorvil

  • Thinks the silver princess is a myth

  • If anybody knows it might be the fae

  • If we help him mend the rift with the other centaurs he helps us talk to the fae

  • Sent us to look for Ryans friend Yuticus

• We returned to the door … no progress

Session 97 – “Find weird stuff and poke it until it attacks us”

Map of Onion Tor

Worldmap

Alternative titles

• “Just don’t rub the bacon on yourself”

• “I have magic, I just forgot about it”

• “You suck at triggering traps”

The party

• Bob (human cleric)

• Dan (human ranger)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Eames (halfling thief)

• Kaya (dwarven fighter/cleric)

• Nigel (dwarven fighter)

• Valis (elven fighter)

XP

• 11

Treasures

• 38 GP, 16 SP

Summary

• Eames joined the party

• Continued towards the hill, arrived at a Tor

• Valid set a bounty on Nigels cloak

• Found dead bodies on top of tor

  • Most with white-yellow robes

  • Two with black robes

  • Tor seemed not to be natural

  • Something in the north was moving away

    • Centaurs? Riders?

• Found a cave opening in side of tor

  • Entered and started exploring

  • Session ended with us trying to figure out the statues room

 

Session 96 – “The fool who shat on a tree”

Alternative titles

• “He, She, Tree”

The party

• Bob (human cleric)

• Dan (human ranger)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Kaya (dwarven fighter/cleric)

• Nigel (dwarven fighter)

• Valis (elven fighter)

XP

• 46

Treasures

• Sapphire

• Silver ring with tiny mirror

• 6 small pearls (potentially worthless)

• 158 GP

• Note: Treasure above was received as part of previous session; Bob & Nigel were excluded from the recipients

Summary

• Looted the dead cultists

  • Took their amulets as proof for Sir Aravan

  • Found two maps

  • One of the current area

  • One of another area that Theandra recognized

• Returned to hobgoblins and received gold as reward

  • Left their caves

• Storm in forest remained

  • Asked the centaurs if there was something special in the center of the forest

  • They lead us to the Great Hawthorn, an ancient treant

  • Fought off some undead deer

  • We tried to communicate with the Hawthorn, but it didn’t respond

  • It became aggressive and started to walk

  • We retreated and returned to the camp of Sir Aravan

• Talked to Sir Aravan

  • He promised to mention us when he returned to the keep on the borderlands

  • We decided to stay a few days to recover

• The Great Hawthorn and other treants appeared

  • Attacked the shrine Sir Aravans people were building

  • Fighting was pointless

  • Treants started to destroy the shrine (a boulder)

  • We and Sir Aravans group retreated

  • Sir Aravan decided to return to the keep

  • We decided to continue our journey to the place mentioned on the second map

 

Session 95 – “I like caves … but this one tried to eat us”

Alternative titles

• “I hate Frank”

• “Bring forth the beavers of doom”

• “Demon … DM … same root”

• “Just the meat room”

• “Hobgoblins, Snakes and restraining orders”

• “Jaws 8 Kaya”

The party

• Dan (human ranger)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Kaya (dwarven fighter/cleric)

• Valis (elven fighter)

XP

• 131

Treasures

• 96 GP

• 49 SP

• 7 small pearls (potentially worthless)

Summary

• Searched for alternative entrance to cave, found none

• Entered cave through crack

• Encountered monster disguised as stalactites

  • Avoided the area of the monster and moved on

• Found a dead cultist

  • Had a weird pearl with him

• Found a flooded cavern

  • Something was in the water, so we considered it a dead end

• Continued in caves and found hobgoblins

• Continued to explore, but got discovered

  • Were brought to hobgoblin queen

  • Were tasked to kill the strangers hiding in their caves

  • Told us there were six strangers hiding

• Were brought to the cave

  • Encountered five cultists

  • Avoided fighting them for a while

  • Fight happened nonetheless

• Continued searching for the last cultist

  • Found him in a flooded cavern

  • He threw something into the water and summoned a kraken

  • Killed the cultist

    • Dying words: “You stole the box”

  • Escaped from the kraken

Session 94 – “It’s Frank”

 

Alternative titles

• “I’d totally love to touch that rock”

• “Dwarf and a hippie step out of a forest”

• “I am the shadow”

• “Touching grass is not enough, I have to hit rock bottom”

• “There is a four digit number of butterflies in your vision”

• “Mount a butterfly and ride into chaos”

• “A black hole is basically a tie”

The party

• Dan (human ranger)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Kaya (dwarven fighter/cleric)

• Ryan (half-elven thief)

• Valis (elven fighter)

XP

• 37

Treasures

• 1 silver chain

• 15 GP

Summary

• Discovered a serpent that was eating itself

  • “Killing” it caused the pieces to grow new heads

• Discovered a camp site of humans

  • Yellow/white robes

  • Big stone in camp

  • Masons carved the symbol of the empire into the stone

  • Approached the camp

  • “Greeted” by humans

  • Led by Sir Aravin

  • Came from the borderlands keep

  • Basically friendly

  • Heard Aravans version of the attack on their camp

• Followed tracks to search for the attackers of the camp

  • Ventured into the cursed forest

  • Encountered six centaurs

  • They were following the attackers of the human camp, but had lost them

  • Joined the centaurs to search for the attackers

  • Ryan makes a friend amongst the centaurs: Yuticus

• Follow tracks and find five robed figures

  • Black/purple robes

  • Assumed we had the upper hand and started to attack

  • They were five undead spellcasters, so this was a bad idea

  • Defeated the spellcasters in combat

  • Dernard explored more of the options of the wand of random things

• Followed more tracks

  • Discovered a crack in a crag

  • Assumed the undead had been heading here

  • Session ended here