From 2017-03-05 

Yoshimi harvested a mountain ape penis and wearing it for a necklace/totem. Tip is pointing down. 

The party confirms the stairs go down in one room.

Another secret door leads to a room with a cliff face that goes down. Yoshimi clambers down 150 feet of rope and doesn’t find it’s bottom. 

They have Kellen check for traps and secret doors where they’ve looked before and find one. This leads to a room with a hole in the ceiling and Vandall looks up it and can see some light. 

Kellen finds another secret door and Vandall goes through it. Kellen finds no locks or traps on the door at the end of it. Vandall opens that. In that room is a chest. Kellen doesn’t find any locks or traps. Vandall opens and gets a dart. Making his save takes only half damage from the poison. In it he finds 2 potions, 2 gems, and a piece of wood looking thing. Maybe even petrified wood. It looks like a 3d tetris piece. They go back to the room with the 30 foot wide staircase. It goes down, down, down. 

They descend into an ornate room with many columns. The opposite side of the room has a large archway that opens into another room. In that room is a door on each side and between them is a floor to ceiling window looking into yet another room. Yoshimi approaches the leftmost door. It is made of brass and opens into the next room. Looking through the window she sees that there are doors opposite the brass ones that appear to be made out of quartz. She goes through the brass door as everyone else hides behind the columns. The hope is for Yoshimi to lead anything she finds back to them into an ambush. Finding nothing they go through the quartz doors into a wide hallway.

In their searching (down the hallway to the left) they find large, glass display cases inset into the hallway walls. In one set are rather pedestrian taxidermy. The next has slightly abnormal taxidermy. Reptile heads on mammals, bird heads on reptiles, and mammal heads on fish. Another case has normal taxidermy of fantastical beasts like orcs and kobolds. They find another display with orc heads on kobolds and such, an owlbear, and even a minotaur. The last display case contains creatures they’ve never heard of nor could have imagined. A bear with multiple tentacles for arms and its head replaced with a conical looking thing with multiple horns protruding from it. There is even a large ape with 4 arms and what looks to be a metal bucket for a head. Determining that there is no treasure nor danger to be had they continue roving the hallways. 

Kellen finds a secret door. Thoggy walks through it immediately is engulfed with flames but avoids slipping on the fiery oil under his feet. As he is the room he briefly sees what is in it. It looks like it contains beds, that are now on fire. He retreats out of the room and after thick, black smoke starts filling the hallway they close the secret door.

The party no cautiously explores down the hall. He also avoids slipping on some oil as a torch falls near him and sets it on fire. They briefly see 4 men run away from the pyrotechnics. =The party splits in two to cover both hallways that are connected to each other by cross corridors that are home to the taxidermy displays.

We pause the session here since the DM and others are tired.

Last edited by gizmomathboy (2/03/2018 10:23 pm)

From 2017-04-23

Poor bunch of notes for this session, but here's what I have.

In Khromarium looking for mooks.  

Got a poor reaction from the mook markets. Their reputation precedes them.  

The party takes the stairs to the upper left from the 1st level. They descend into a room with broken bits of wood.  They cautiously explore the dungeon the find themselves in.  The party is jumped by a bunch of ape men. They are dealt with eventually.  The party finds in their lairs  5 jewelry, 7 gems, and 4 potions.

We will pause at the loot gathering phase. Prior to any healing and planning

From 2017-05-21

So after 5 weeks of rest and such the party heads back to the room with the devils.

The party comes to the door, checks for traps, and Vandall opens it Moghrabi casts stinking cloud into the room. A hand casually reaches out of the cloud and closes the door. The party rushes in after the cloud is gone. They beat on one devil and kill it once Thoggy and Vandall beat the crap out of it. The other devil gets his turn and at one point gates in another devil. This one teleports between Moghrabi and Kellen and gives him a killing blow. The second devil is vanquished after the newest one gets caught amidst a fire web cast by Kellen. Once that second devil is killed the third (newest one) disappears. 

They heal up quickly and check the room. They find 4,500 sp, 1,500 gp, and a white penrose tile (refer to the courtyard tiles for shape). They waddle back to town under the load of their loot. 

Casting identify on white penrose tile. They determine it’s magical, with a fairly strong dweomer but can’t ascertain any specific magic properties or powers. They decide to take it to town and have a sage identify look at it. They agree to pay 900gp for the sage to look at it. He says it has a strong magic aura. It has something to do with a puzzle or a pattern. When asked if was a teleporter the sage says, no it doesn’t. The question seems to jog something and he says that explains the odd dweomer he couldn’t identify. The tile does have something to do with a portal or portals.

From 2017-08-06

They leave the room with the bed and go through the plain door in the room they entered the leave at. They hear some faint rhythmic sounds. They explore around hallways until they open a door that looks to be some kind of temple.

There are several people standing around the room. In the center is a two tiered dias/platform. On the first level are 4 people drumming. In the center of that, on the second tier, a single man drumming as well.Spunky enters the temple and talks to a priest. The priest talks about the mission of Skarl and MĀNA-YOOD-SUSHĀĪ. The party gets some education about their religion. They then leave an scout around to find what they think will be corridors leading to another door of the Temple of Skarl. The enter a room with 5 square columns. Yoshimi and Vandall fail saves vs sorcery rolls. They are freaking out and having a nervous breakdown, like a severe fear reaction. Spunky decides to slap Yoshimi, connecting hard. She decides to punch back. The rest of the party comes in and makes their saves.

The walls are covered in murals. The "start" is to the right of the door they entered the room. Each mural is a series of 3 panels. The first set shows a man sleeping with a man drumming near hear and group of people gathered nearby, the next panel had one of them get up and leave, the final has another one getting up and leaving the group. In the series of murals around the room has the second individual entering a scene, he walks out of the scene, the final always have a number of anything in the second panel being dead. The second wall looks to be mostly humans and at least creatures the party has scene or recognize. The second and third walls are creatures of nightmares and wild fantasies. in all cases there is death behind the form entering and leaving the panels. The last half of the last/first fall is blank (it is the wall to the left of the door they entered).

Kellen finds a secret door in a column. He opens it and 4 wights walk out of the murals, from a depiction of the death figure/god. Moghrabi and Yoshimi get hit, fail their saves and lose a level. Spunky and Trevo successfully turn them and Thoggy and his shiny halberd make short work of them. Kellen finds 8 gems, a scroll case, a book, a wooden case that is large enough to hold a deck of cards and a 2 handed scimitar. The blade isn’t so much metal as looking like the night sky. Kellen catches a glimmer of light or something but can’t make it out. 

Pause the session here and decide what to do next session 

Ghul wrote:

Notes from a year ago! Good stuff.

I still have lots of sessions summaries to go through. I just stopped since I'm still sick with something and decided to get some sleep.

Maybe later today I'll get to them.