## 2025-07-24

  Present

    - Jason (Xenokrates - cataphract)
    - Shawn(Dai - barbarian)
    - Jenn (Saghano - priest)


  not present

    - Dave (Agathe - fire thief)
    - Marge (Niamh - legerdemainist)
    - Yanick (Tentheta - fighter)


## 577-06-25

Weather:
    conditions:
      base: Cloudy
    temp: 35
    temp_c: 1.7
    wind:
      effects:
        - missile fire at -2
        - flying creatures at 1/2 MV unless moving with wind
      wind_direction: Northeast
      wind_force: strong breeze
      wind_speed: 29
      wind_speed_kph: 46.7

The party walks the balcony in watches. Trying not to catch the attention of the
guards patrolling the court yard.

During Dai's and Xenocrates' watch Xenocrates hears struggling from what he thinks is the room
below.

He jumps over the balcony and successfully rolls as he hits the ground minimize the impact.

Xeno sees a window and looks in. The faint light from the 2:20am sunrise does little to help
see inside, but he does make out some movement. He clumsily jumps through the window cutting
himself on the shards.

He can see 2 of the beds empty with the blankets messed up. The people that were sleeping
were awakened with Xeno's crashing.

The door to the room is ajar and Xeno goes to it and looks around.

He sees the empty dining hall but does see the door to the kitchen slowly swinging to a stop.
He goes to it and peeks in and can't see much, but goes in. The dim light shows only a
stove with embers, a door to the outside and another door.

Xeno checks the door and finds a larder with only food in it.

Just then a guard comes into the kitchen from the door to outside.

Xeno answers the guard's questions, trying to explain he heard someone struggling and went to
help. The guards sends him back to his room.

When he gets back he shares what he saw.

Agathe decides to go sneaking about.

She goes down stairs and into the kitchen.

She is able to find a trap door in the ceiling of the larder and goes up.

She finds herself in a stair case and she takes them up.

At the end of the stairs is a door. She listens at it. She hears snoring and two voices
speaking very low and quietly. She can't understand what they are saying.

She tries to open the door put it's locked. This causes the conversation to stop.

Agathe casts invisibility and steps back from the door. She hears it unlock and then it
is opened with a guard looking out. She recognizes him as one of the people standing around
a greasy, doughy man in the dining hall.

The guard looks back into the room and shrugs at someone inside. He closes and locks the door.

Agathe goes back down the stairs and into the kitchen. She investigates more.

She does find a hidden alcove next to the larder. Inside she founds a trap door in the
floor. There she finds a tunnel.

Agathe goes back and gets everyone.

They follow the tunnel until it ends in the ruined foundation that is filled with sand.

The tracks are relatively easy to follow.

Barefeet and Large bare feet head roughly southwest deeper into the ruins of the city. Other bare feet meander and have dragging steps.

Eventually only the large bare feet tracks are left and the party keeps following them.

As the trudge on they start to hear drums in the distance.

Getting closer they hear screams as well.

They crest a dune and look down into a gruesome encampment. Four victims are tied to a pyre. Eight  men in loin cloths, some in chains, are howling, chanting, flagellating themselves, and crying out to Kthulu.

As they dance they can be heard saying, "“Great Kthulhu sent the masters to free us from captivity!", "We eat the flesh of man in dread Kthulhu’s honour, as the masters teach!", and "We will rule again in Xambaala, and all shall revere mighty Kthulhu, devourer of our enemies!"

The pyre is lit.

We pause the session here.

## 2025-08-07

  Present

    - Jenn (Saghano - priest)
    - Marge (Niamh - legerdemainist)
    - Shawn(Dai - barbarian)
    - Dave (Agathe - fire thief)


  not present

    - Yanick (Tentheta - fighter)
    - Jason (Xenokrates - cataphract)



## 577-06-25

Weather:
    conditions:
      base: Cloudy
    temp: 35
    temp_c: 1.7
    wind:
      effects:
        - missile fire at -2
        - flying creatures at 1/2 MV unless moving with wind
      wind_direction: Northeast
      wind_force: strong breeze
      wind_speed: 29
      wind_speed_kph: 46.7


Decide to go back to the caravanersai and sneak in via the secret tunnel.

They go out the kitchen door to the outside an walk in to the dining hall.

Talk to to some traders. They are discussing the disappearances and how
much it might affect their business.

Xenocrates and Agathe join the conversation. He asks if the disappearances
are normal for Xambaala or what? They answer that it is unusual and
only here. Nothing like it in Yithorium or at the various places they
trade with.

With that everyone decided to call it a night.


## 577-06-26

Weather:
    conditions:
      base: Clear
    temp: 35
    temp_c: 1.7
    wind:
      wind_direction: West
      wind_force: becalmed
      wind_speed: 1
      wind_speed_kph: 1.6

The trek back to the palace ruins is without incident.

They walk up to the large double doors and Agathe picks the locks
and goes in. Niamh's owl flies in a bit and comes back.

Tentheta and Dai lead the way in and fall into a covered pit 15 feet inside
the door. It's 12 feet deep and 7 feet wide.

As Xenocrates lowers a rope he feels a sting as a dart hit him. He has a reaction
to it but nothing beyond that. They can't see where the attack is coming from.

Agathe casts Invisibility a goes exploring.

Two more attacks and they notices small holes in the south wall. At the same time
Agathe sees 4 of the loin cloth clad men leaving a room and attacke Dai and Tentheta
just after they get out of the pit.

The are quickly killed by a Tentheta, Dai, Saghano's Weird War Hammer, and Xenocrates' bow.

As they do that 2 more come out of the room but they are killed quickly.

The group now has time to take in the courtyard.

It is open to the sky with intact and crumbled columns. There are remains of frescoes on the walls
and there are stairs leading to nowhere. The stairs are choked with vines and have human skeletons
in them at the bottom of the stairs.

Sand chokes the south end where the wall has fallen in

Agathe checks the door in the northeast of the courtyard.

Finding no traps or locks she opens it into a long hallway.

pause here.

# 2025-08-28

  Present

    - Dave (Agathe - fire thief)
    - Jason (Xenokrates - cataphract)
    - Marge (Niamh - legerdemainist)
    - Yanick (Tentheta - fighter)


  not present

    - Jenn (Saghano - priest)
    - Shawn(Dai - barbarian)


## 577-06-26

The party looks for footprints on the shoreline but there
aren't any.

A buxom, red haired woman exits the hut and stands on its porch.

Niamh sends her owl to fly near the hut. The lady looks
intently at it.

They ask her if she has seen any orange robed women lately.

"Nope".

She sits down and picks up one of the many frogs around the hut.

"You go over here now" as she sets it away from her.

"You smell nice" states Niamh, "The incense".

The lady leans over to a censor next to her, blows into it,
and waves around the smoke generated.

"Yeah, it is a nice smell"

"We are dungeon crawlers looking for treasure", offers Tentheta.

"Interesting", she replies.

She brings up that there is a gem she's been looking for and
asks if they might be interested in finding it for her.

"It's a diamond about the size of fist and blue. I could offer
you very nice gem if you would find it for me"

The group seems amenable to this offer.

"Well come inside and we can sort out the details and have a drink
to seal it"

She turns around goes into the hut and the party follows here.

She is busy rummaging around some cabinets and shelves, "Ah, here
it is" she says holding up a ceramic jug and sets it down on a table.

"Now to get some cups" as she continues her looking.

"Here we go", she says, putting them on the table and filling them.

"Drink up, it's mulled wine" she says as she takes a sip.

Everyone but Tentheta takes a sip, she waits a few seconds to see what
happens to everyone else before taking a sip.

"Well, how is it?" she asks.

"You know what, I really love you and love you for looking for the gem" she
states.

Everyone but Tentheta nods and reply back that they love her and look
forward to helping her find the gem.

"You know, there are some dwarfs on the other side of the river.
They have some info about the gem but we don't along so well.
I think you should go ask them what they know, and if it so
happens they end of dead from your questioning, that would be
good, too".

Everyone but Tentheta is rather enthusiastic about the plan.

"You can use my punt to get across the river to their cave.
You can't miss it, there a raft tied up nearby."

The party takes the punt and goes across the river to the cave.

Xeno and Tentheta lead the way into the cavern. A nauseous stench
is come from it.

They get to a cavern with 4 dwarfs in it.

They ask about info regarding a large diamond that glows blue.

The dwarfs say they have heard of it.

The party gives the dwarfs 20gp for info about the diamond

The dwarf points "that way", which is north north east from where everyone
is standing.

Once the group gets the info they attack and kill all of the dwarfs in the
cavern along with the two reinforcements.

It is decided to camp on the beach outside the dwarf cave for the night.

## 577-06-27

Night passes by without incident

Last edited by gizmomathboy (9/11/2025 9:48 pm)