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

Session 86 – “I did not expect the hobgoblin Red Cross”

 Map of the orc cave

Alternative titles

• “The whitespace saved us”

• “To be rootly disturbed”

• “The oversnack problem”

Location(s)

• Cult cave (upstairs)

• Orc cave

The party

• Dan (human ranger)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Gaorin (human fighter)

• Kaya (dwarven fighter/cleric)

• Nigel (dwarven fighter)

• Ryan (half-elven thief)

• Valis (elven fighter)

XP

• 111

Treasures

• 1 copper bowl

• 2 black gems

Summary

• We camped in the owlbear cave

  • During the night the roots started to encroach

  • Saw the orcs and gnolls gets wiped out

• Met up with surviving hobgoblins in ravine

  • Formed an alliance to defeat the source of this evil

• Returned to the cult cave

  • Started to shoot down the roots protecting the source

  • Eventually started to attack the source directly

  • The source exploded at some point

  • Several of us were unconscious

  • Moved back to the outside

  • The corrupted trees seemed to have withered

  • Hobgoblins left us and returned to their cave

• Camped again in the owlbear cave

  • Saw the hobgoblins loot the gnoll cave

• Went to the orc cave to loot it

  • Besides of a trap and some centipedes, the cave was abandoned

Session 85 – “Which turns Siegfried into Digfried”

 

Alternative titles

• “The triangle of warning”

Location(s)

• Cult cave (upstairs)

The party

• Bob (human cleric)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Kaya (dwarven fighter/cleric)

• Oriana (dwarven fighter)

• Ryan (half-elven thief)

• Valis (elven fighter)

XP

• 16

Treasures

• None

Summary

• Bob and Ryan reached the ravine

  • Brought Oriana with her

  • She is sister of Kaya

  • Had travelled with the other dwarves we met at the keep

• Inspected markings in ravine

  • Wanted to destroy them

  • Mostly gone because of weather though

• Went into cult cave to destroy altar

  • Initially resisted our dwarves

  • After casting Bless onto it, we could destroy it

  • Moved the rubble out of the cave

  • Seemed to have done nothing

• Encountered another faery which fled

  • Later found a dead faery in the cave near the place we found the first one

• Camped in the cave near the place we found the first faery

  • Saw some glowing red dust

  • Got attacked by vampire-chicken-thingies at nightmare

  • Relocated camp to abandoned scribes chamber

• Next day tracked the dust towards the collapsed corridors

  • Somehow couldn’t touch the dust with our hands

  • Excavated the corridor (took some days)

• Went into the dark tunnel behind

  • Full of tree sap

  • Fought some rats

  • Sap tried to eat Dernard and managed to eat Kaya

  • Is it really sap, or slime?

  • Fired magic missiles at sap which retreated

  • Valis and Ryan scouted ahead

  • Found a room full of roots and sap

    • Seem to cover something (a cocoon?)

• Left the cave to return to the hobgoblins

  • Planned to get reinforcements to fight the thing in the cocoon

• The trees near the ravine started attacked

  • The hobgoblin cave was cut off, couldn’t reach it any more

  • Saw an orc getting dragged away

  • Session ended with a cliffhanger here

 

Session 84 – “The ground that eats you”

 

Alternative titles

• “The triangle of peace”

• “There is also a triangle of war”

• “Kayas denial: The dogs are fat”

• “The trauma is real”

• “You poked the bear”

• “My rod stiffens up in the morning”

• “They die twice”

• “I’m trying to trick the stone”

• “Memory lane”

• “Who let the dogs out?”

• “4 players, 2 dogs, 9 hobgoblins and 7 gnolls walk into a bar”

• “Chefsache”

Location(s)

• The keep

• Bloated forest (near ravine)

• Dangerous cave

• Hobgoblin cave

• Cult cave (up and downstairs)

The party

• Dan (human ranger)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Kaya (dwarven fighter/cleric)

• Valis (elven fighter)

XP

• 162

• XP for sessions 65, 66, 67, 68, 78 and 79 was handed out

Treasures

• Bronze goblets (2), shallow bowl and ewer from cult altar room

• Silver chain from gnoll

• Silver armbands from gnoll

• Bag of gems from skeleton in secret passage

Summary

• Kaya tried to hire dwarves at the keep to rebuild ours

  • We left before we could get an answer

• Traversed the bloated forest to the ravine

  • Discovered animals (most of them dead) captured by the trees

  • The ground tried to capture one of our dogs

  • Saw a tree burst and lots of sap come out

  • Sap dripped on Dernard, started to itch, washed it off with cooking oil

  • Got attacked by a shadow

• Went to the dangerous cave to camp there

  • Fought off an undead owlbear

  • Stayed a few nights to recover from the fight

• Met the hobgoblins

  • They can’t go hunt because of the changed forest

  • Reformed our alliance

  • Planned an expedition with the hobgoblins into the cult cave

  • Got attacked by shadows on the way there that dragged people away

• Revisited the whole upper cult cave

  • Found a dead faery (Kaya burned it)

  • Kaya tried to trick the evil altar, but wasn’t able to

• Revisited the lower cult cave

  • Encountered a gelatinous cube

  • Found a secret passage leading to a room full of gnolls

  • Lured the gnolls into an ambush with our hobgoblin allies

  • Still got almost killed

• Returned to the hobgoblin cave

Session 83 – “Rotten bear underwear”

 

Alternative titles

• “I show you mine, you show me yours”

• “Dan and the dogs”

• “Don’t eat the undead soup”

• “I don’t want them slurping undead bone marrow”

Location(s)

• Bloated forest (near ravine)

• The keep

The party

• Dan (human ranger)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Gaorin (human fighter)

• Kaya (dwarven fighter/cleric)

• Nigel (dwarven fighter)

XP

• 24

Treasures

• None

Summary

• Met Gaorin who had followed us from the desert

• Returned to Shackle keep for a while

• Went towards the ravine to talk to the hobgoblins

• Encountered a bunch of bloated trees

  • Trees were twisted and oozed red sap

  • Like the ones we had seen at the ravine

  • But there were much, much more

• Encountered a group of undead knights of the empire

  • Assumed this somehow related to the spread of the trees

• During night encountered an undead bear

  • Camped away from the trees, so the undead seem to wander

• Returned to the keep

  • Wanted to warn them about the trees and things happening at the ravine

  • Still were not allowed to return to the keep, our exile persists

• Learned what had happened at the keep

  • Keep is still being repaired and extended

  • The old castellan was replaced by Lord Tarquin

  • Captain Valizar is in charge of the safety of the keep

  • The old guard captain is still around

• Started to make plans what to do next

Session 82 – “He is going to loot himself”

Map of Amon-ra's tomb (level 2)

 

Map of Amon-ra's tomb (level 3)

 

Map of Amon-ra's tomb (level 4)

 

Map of Amon-ra's tomb (level 5)

Alternative titles

• “Lets go over the edge”

• “It’s an awesome death! You were killed by a pineapple”

Location(s)

• Tomb of Amun-ra (levels 2-5)

The party

• Bob (human cleric)

• Dernard (human magic user)

• Kaya (dwarven fighter/cleric)

• Nigel (dwarven fighter)

• Ryan (half-elven thief)

• Valis (elven fighter)

XP

• 189

Treasures

• 1 staff (magic, transforms into snake)

• 1 gem

Summary

• Level 2

  • Continued to explore the second level of the tomb

  • Eventually found two minotaurs, one got killed, the other one fled

  • Through a hole in the ceiling we managed to climb up to level 3

• Level 3

  • Found a giant statue with a (fake) gem stone

  • Ryan took the stone and the statue started to scream

  • Fought some undead

  • Discovered a waterfall that healed us (1d10)

  • Explored a bit before returning to the waterfall

  • Found an octagonal room behind the waterfall

    • It had palm trees with strange looking “pineapples”

    • The pineapples exploded

    • Activated four altars (speaking the magic words of the altars “Tur”, “Log”, “Reg” and “Neg”)

    • Reversed gravity and flew up to level 4

• Level 4

  • Found a huge hall with stairs

  • Walked up the stairs and faced various challenges

    • Two figures we had to fight

    • A wall of fire (we drenched blankets in water and jumped through)

    • Mirror copies or ourselves (Valis was very happy to kill “Nigel”)

    • A giant fist. Ryan jammed it’s mechanism so it couldn’t move

  • Found a room with a waterfall

    • A voice asked us some questions

    • We answered correctly and the waterfall reversed

    • We swam up the waterfall to level 5

• Level 5

  • Found a room with a reed boat and a painting on a wall

  • In the next room we found a sarcophagus

    • We burned the mummy inside, because we didn’t want to fight it

  • Found a magic staff (turns into a snake)

  • Discovered the painting in the room before was magical and we could walk through

  • There was a flying boat with a gem

  • Using ropes we managed to get to the boat and get the gem

  • Kaya took the staff and the gem; and abandoned us for a while

• Taking the staff and the gem broke the curse of Amun-ra

  • We were allowed to use the flying boat to return to the pyramid tomb and return to Lake Flake