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