Session Summary: 2015-11-15
Party Members:
- Spunkmaster Flasher (cleric)
- Stabby (placeholder character until he gets this one sorted out)- Spankos (monk)
- Thog (barbarian) 

Forking to an adventure 

Party is in Khromarium. 

They go to the Silvery Eel Tavern. The place is bereft of customers at the moment. The innkeeper offers a reward to the party if they get rid of his rat problem. They take him up on it. 

They proceed to go into the kitchen and investigate. They hear what is probably the sound of rats crawling around in the walls. Spankos finds a hole (happens to be the wall adjoining the common room), and proceeds to widen it with his dagger. 

He notices that exceptional size of the hole before he begins. Easily the size of a large cat. As he gets it wide enough to stick his head in he notices the s***. From the size he would guess a small dog or large cat made it. It is also crimson colored. Spankos is able to stick his head in the hole while avoiding all of the rather large rat droppings. 

Further investigation doesn’t find much so they head into the basement. A cursory check doesn’t find much beyond the crates and casks stored here. They contemplate ways to block the holes. While doing so they find a secret door under a flagstone. 

Their initial, individual efforts don’t budget the iron door that appears to be rusted shut. Collectively they are able to pull it open. They continue forth down the cobweb filled spiral staircase down. 

At the bottom they get to what appears to be a temple like area. A foul stench is coming from stairs to their south. A soapstone statue is north of them on a dais that is miraculously free of rat crap. 

Spanky tears down the curtains east of the dais and discovers a secret door. On the other side is a room with a cage with floor to ceiling bars and on the far side of it a pentagram/magic circle is inscribed on the floor. In the cage looks to be the skeletal remains of a daemon. With a pork like head, protruding shoulder blades and tall (almost 9 foot tall) frame. 

Spunky checks out the pentagram and sees a silver dagger in the center. He uses his flail to knock it out of the circle. Doing so causes the eyes of the skeleton to glow. In a female voice they hear, “You have failed, sorcerer. In your absence I have taken a new host, and soon I will have another.” Mocking laughter follows these words. 

This briefly freaks folks out a bit. 

Spanky decides to rip off a finger of the skeleton in response. 

Spunky scoops up the dagger in a sack. 

They return to the main room and rip down the rest of the ragged, moldy curtains. They find yet another secret door. Behind it is a room with a bed, desk, and bookcase. To either side are maroon curtains. Stabby steps in to check it out better. As he does so, 5 7 foot tall skeletons step from behind the curtains and attack. 

The party does well to eliminate them all but not before one drops Spanky. Spunky decides to heal him after the battle. Thoggy takes a halberd that appears to be shiny and silvery as opposed to rusted and old. 

They investigate the room and find a small alcove on the east side of the room. In it are 5 purple robes with tiny gemstones sewn into them in what appears to be a constellation. They take them. 

Examination of the bookshelf finds a cedar box and a book. They open the box and Spanky decides to drink a chunky, green potion. Saving the rest for later. 

Spunky checks out the book and finds out it is a prayer and ritual book for Aurorus, “The Shining One”. He is able to determine one ritual is a sacrifice. It is chained in front of a likeness of Aurorus and then she takes him, body and soul. 

They decide to retreat to the tavern upstairs and recovery for the night. 

Spanky goes to Xill and accuses him of not having rats but having daemons. 

For getting accused of having daemons vs rats, and saying this in front of what few customers he has, Xill is pretty chilled. More like speechless. 

He offers them a magic shield in addition to the treasure already promised. He lets them stay the night in his room. 

Spanky heals himself before the settle down for the night. 

Last edited by gizmomathboy (11/28/2016 1:10 pm)

Session_Summary:2016-03-20

 Spunkmaster Flasher (Spunky) and his new adventuring companion, Vandall, take a job from a cleric to explore and map a lost temple. The commission is 50gp each to map into the second level. He will also buy any interesting items that might be returned.

 Spunky and Vandall decide to hire some sell-swords: 2 swordsmen, 2 axemen, 2 bowmen, and a spear men.

 They follow the directions given to them to the lost temple in the Lug wastelands.

 They get to a low hill where the courtyard greets them. It is tiled in a weird, not symmetric pattern. There are trees growing in the southern half that breaks up the tiling as does brushes and scattered piles of leaves.

Vandall and the spearman warily cross the tiled courtyard and up the stairs. At the top is a large arched doorway. The doors are long gone, even the hinges are missing, only the holes in the stone is the only evidence to their existence.

 They continue through the doorway along a short hallway that leads into a largish room. Little debris is scattered about. There are 2 doors on the right and left walls along with 2 more on the far wall. Also near that wall is a low dais, 6-12 inches high. On it is a pedestal with what look to be the remains of a statue. Possibly the feet. All of the doors seem to be missing their handles/levers/knobs but the hinges are mostly intact. They all look beaten up.

 There is some graffitti scratched, drawn, or otherwise made on the walls. Mostly “f*** you”, “Korgoth was here” and similar.

 This room looks cleanly scavenged with little of interest in it. Vandall listens at the door on the right side of the far wall. He discerns nothing. Kicking in the door he sees a narrow hallway proceeding northward and then angles to the northeast.

 It ends in a room with a large set of double doors in the center of the wall on the left. On the walls to either side are long, narrow stone work tables. Near the right hand wall are 2 stone tables. On closer inspection there are some stains on them. It isn’t possible to determine if they are blood or not. Each table has a small, stone object that might be a headrest or something similar.

 Vandall peers through the mistreated double door and there is a short hallway that ends in a large set of double doors.

 That leads to room with 6 low, stone benches with a table or altar. Behind the table/altar is an exit. This leads into a hallway that looks more natural than the rough shod halls and rooms they’ve been in so far.

 They follow the passageway until it opens into a largish room with exits to the north and east. Both roughly in the northeast corner of the room.

 As Vandall proceeds farther into the room he hears the *twang* of trip line break. He is able to dodge the spear shot towards where he was. The spearmen behind him isn’t so lucky. He is skewered by a spear. The rest of the sell-swords are mildly put off by this but they stick to their agreement.

 Further investigation suggests there isn’t a second trap.

 The room is searched and mostly intact skeletons are found. As the party is checking out the bones 6 fire beetles come wandering down the north entrance to the room.

 The party loses an axeman to the vicious bite of a beetle. Vandall takes a couple bites buy Spunky is able to keep him in the fight with a well timed cure.

 The hired help is able to get in some critical hits and splatter some of them.

 The party decides to cut out the glowing glands and use them for lighting. Maybe even sell to a wizard, alchemist, or other party that might be interested in them.

 That is where we left them, deciding which way to go and what to do. 

Session_Summary:2016-04-03

 The party went back to town to heal up a bit and get more mooks.

 They have the gems appraised and the net value is 800gp. This gives everyone a total of 500 xp from last session ( 300xp before plus 200xp more because of the gems).

 The archers are jettisoned and a total of 2 spearmen, 2 swordsmen, and 2 axe men are hired on. They surviving swordsman and axe man hire back on (those copper pieces add up). For the same price (1gp/man/day paid up front). They are quite happy with the bonus copper thrown their way.

 The party is able to uneventfully get back to almost the room they left (burned door room). A new door has replaced it. However, it doesn’t look any more or less sturdy. It still takes several attempts to break it open. When it is, a volley of arrows peppers the mooks. They are savvy enough to charge into the room and attack the orcs. Short work is made of them. No treasure if found. The room is looked at closely. The door was barred with a wooden plank that was broken when the door was forced open.

 The other door, out of the room, is equally tough to bust down. They follow it around a hallway to another door.

 Vandall and a mook attempt to bash the door open. This time it wasn’t barred and they stumbling it a room with 8 orcs. They have tables and bunks positioned as cover for the arrows they unleash on the surprised men.

 The party rushes in and take out some orcs. Vandall and Thoggy and an axeman go down. Spunkmaster Flash rushes in and vaults over the barrier just as the orc captain stammers out “We Surrender” in a very crude common.

 The session was halted here.

grodog wrote:

Thanks for sharing these, Joe! :D

I've got a few more still to come.

Session_Summary:2016-07-31

 They kill the orcs.

 During watches a gelatinous cube oozes through the door and the mooks and Vandall kill it.

 Digging through the cube’s innards they 17cp, 9 sp, 7ep, 2gp, 2pp, and 4 vials

 They group finally loots the bodies of the orcs and find 16ep and 2gp. They also find a key ring with 3 keys on it.

 They open the door that leads to a room with a bed and a chest. One of the keys open the chest. In it are 14 gems and 3 vials

 When you get back to town you determine that the gems are worth 1,400gp.


 For xp everyone gets 900xp

 Spunky will take time to level up (2 weeks and 200gp cost)

 So roughly 3,400 gp in loot for big costs.

Moghrabi is gonna try to learn unseen servant and identify. This will eat up 1,600gp. Learned both spells
 Spunky will also learn a spell.

 So 1,700gp will be burned for the big ticket items, so far.

 Learning the vials.
 Potion of extraordinary healing - Vandall takes posession
 Poison (half dose), Yoshimi neutralizes poison
 Wait a week
 Potion of invisibility - Moghrabi takes posession
 Potion of Fire Resistance - Spunky takes posession
 Potion of Water Breathing - Yoshimi takes posession
 Poison (half dose), Yoshimi neutralizes poison
 150gp for splint for Vandall. Total spent: 1,850gp

 Leaving 1,550gp (of the big stash of loot)

 Moghrabi decides to learn detect magic and charm person.

So down to 550gp left in big stash.Spunky buys some chainmail for 75gp475gp left in big stash

 Rested and healed and ready for next outing. 

Session_Summary:2016-11-13

Picking up where we left off...

 6 fire beetles are defeated but not until spear1 goes down.

 They take the glands, 15 glands.

 They head back to town.

 Tallying up loot:

 5,500 cp (after 500cp to survivors and 500cp to family of the fallen)
300 gp
1,700gp in jewelry after fees and handling
15 fire beetle glands, sell for 5gp each

 Gross total: 2,110gp

 XP for the last session and the current foray: 750xp each before taxes and title

 Vandall rolled a 10 for hp for 2nd level
Thoggy rolled a 8 for hp for 2nd level

 2 weeks plus 2 days pass

 Need to use 400gp of party loot

 So net gain to party treasue: 1,710 gp
Previous big stash was 475gp

 Total is: 2,185gp

 3 more sellswords are hired on

 The dungeon area is further explored. find some empty stone coffins.The found a door that was barred (determined after hacking through the door). Then a voice booms as they enter the room:

 "Deeper and deeper searched, the more arcane the knowledge perched."

 Some backtracking is done and then 6 skeletons that were in alcoves come out the group. Axe2 is horribly rended then Spunky turns them all and then all the skeletons are killed. 5 gems are found.

 The session is paused here. 

PC's in session: Vandall, Spunky, Thoggy, Yoshimi, Moghrabi (Moggy to me now :-)

 Moghrabi takes 2,000gp out to try to learn Web and Knock, and 2 weeks Web is learned as well as Knock.

 Spunky acquires: Cure Moderate, Hold Person, Weird War Hammer for his 2nd level spells upon gaining 3rd level.

 They also get 4 new sellswords: Axe4/5, spear4/5.

 They go through a high cavern room and several stalactites fall on the party. They right themselves and start crawling back up the walls. After about 10 fall (and badly hurting Yoshimi) the party rushes through the cavern into the next room.

 They see a stone coffin on a raised platform/dais. A deep, unnatural chill is felt by all. They send  spear5 across to the other side to see what happens. It stays silent.

 They go past it and in the next room the fanciest skeleton any has ever seen with nice looking armor and the biggest sword gives them an evil grin. The sight of it causes all that face him to run screaming back to the main temple area.

 Once they regroup they go back through a different branch. They run into 5 wights (as identified by Spunky once he sees them). Spear5 is clawed down. Vandall cleaves into one with his +1 sword. as does Thoggy (from the second row with his +1 halberd), quickly killing one. Moggy web ensnaring the 2 wights. Thoggy makes short work of them. Thoggy tries to attack one through the web but gets his weapon stuck. When he does make a hit they back out from his reach.

 The group goes back to their rally point in the temple barracks area.

 The night goes by uneventfully leading to the 2nd day in the dungeon.

 The group makes their way back to the wights. They wights get the drop on them. Sword3 is killed by level drain.

 Moggy webs the remaining 2. Thoggy makes quick work of them.

 They find 1,000gp and 6 gems in the room.

 They make their way back to the room with the skeleton and run screaming back to the temple. 

My notes for the room with the vampire:

 just wants to sleep. Trusts the skeleton warrior to take care of things. Will summon him if disturbed. He has the undead to watch s*** for him.

From: 2017-01-15

The group hangs out waiting for Spunky to get more bad ass (leveling up). 

The party has been going to the mook market from the merchant quarter generally. 

Spunky changes his chainmail for splint.

The party heads to the adventurer’s guild bar and grill. They hire a priest.

On the way to the mook market the group is approached by a prostitute, Barbara, asking for help. Vandall is the one she talks to. 

The rest are skeptical but tag along. She explains that she works at a brothel that just asks for a cut but doesn’t pimp. A bouncer is pressuring her to work for a pimp. The house doesn’t care if there is a pimp they just want their cut. 

When they get to the brotherl a guy propositions Yoshimi. She points out to the the gentleman that her gods are more about kicking ass than grabbing ass. Vandall then gets in a bit of fisticuffs with bouncer pressuring Barbara. The bouncer gets a shot in trying to overbear him. Vandall fails to dodge aside. He does however break free. They get up and Vandall proceeds to get the bouncer, Jafar, in a head lock and starts choking him. Jafar breaks free after a few rounds. This doesn’t stop Vandall from pummelling him into unconsciousness. 

Vandall tries to awaking Jafar with a pitcher of water but fails to rouse him. Eventually he recovers and Vandall tells Jafar to leave Barabara alone or else he'll be back to finish the job.

They get to the mook market market in the upscale part of town. They generally have better armor and seem a bit more capable. They cost 3 gp per day. 

They add to their cast of mooks:

    * 1 spear man (spear_6)
    * 2 axe men (axe_6, axe_7)
    * 1 sword man (sword_4)
    * 1 sword/crossbow guy wearing studded leather and shield
    * yes, that's how many of each type they have gone through, for the most part

Give 100 XP go Vandall for beating up a bouncer for Barbara. 1 XP to spunk for pointing and laughing. 1 XP Yoshimi for not beating the crap out of everyone. 

From 2017-02-26

The group decides to head back up to the other level.

They kill a gray ooze. 

They take out 18 ape-men. 139 ep found on their bodies. 

They go into another cave and are jumped by 4 big apes. They announce their presence by throwing a stone down the passageway.  After Thoggy gets surprise punched by one Spunky Holds 2 of them.  They are eventually defeated.  The party finds: 150gp and 12 gems and 4 potion vials   

Kellen finds several secret doors and the party takes the the most direct route out. 

They go back to town and identify the potions: 
Potion of Water Breathing (Spunky)
Potion of Healing (Moghrabi)
Love Potion (Yoshimi)
Potion of Super-Speed (Thoggy)

Moghrabi does spell research: Spider Climb (51 rolled), Strengthen (82 rolled). So both learned.