After Session 187, Includes stuff from before

After Session 187, Includes stuff from before

46 Total Entries. See link to Google Sheet I used. I couldn’t find the shared sheet to update it.

23 People:

Aldith

Reyne

Ansure

Emeric

Nigel

Drueta

Imagantia

Daughters of The Matriarchs

Admiral Sarkandur

Auriel

Roc 1

Roc 2

Taimo

Azra

Cerida

Brita

Feldma

Oswitha

Suttung

Dark King (Steelhand)

Golden Eagle

“Mother Of Heaven”

13 Places:

Shemm

Montoa

Hizzou

Cave Shrine of the Matriarchs

Pool of Healing

Pool of Bad

Maze of the Matriarchs

Covered Walkway

Hidden Shrine/Sanctuary of the Matriarchs.

Necropolis

Orbital Command Center

Treasure Stash in former Cockatrice Nest

Giant bee nest

1 Business/Institution:

The Bronze Wizard

9 Items Of Note:

The Shard

The Chest of Infinite Spiders

Golden Feather

Dwarven Apocalypse Clock

Personal Countdown Clock

Probability Sword of Dark King

Ancient Dwarven batteries

Modern Suttung Batteires

Kauri’s Mask

Bookkeeping Notes, Session 187 (1/24/18):

Bookkeeping Notes, Session 187 (1/24/18):

– We will continue at 5PM on the 6th of Senrilden with the representatives of Shemm and Montoa having just entered the chieftain’s building to hear the party’s news

– Intends to Bring Peace to the Tribes: Rallion, who has an Equal Chance of Sparking Genocide

– Doesn’t Need Any Fancy Rock Sword: Bavmorda, Backstabber of Dragons

– Showing the Same Trusting Nature as Ronan: Nash, Mourning the Loss of his Nest-mate

– Comparing the Size of his Daemons to the New Guy’s: Kauri, Quietly Assessing

– Reassessing his Choice of Joining vs. Starving in the Jungle: Laris, Who Should have Remembered to Never Talk with Strangers (Especially when They’re This Strange)

– Killer of Rocs and Dragons: Oskar, Still Most Proud of his Tea

– “I’m Lamber … Sam! My name is Sam!”: Lambertus, Very Proud of his Improved Deception Abilities

– Dwarven Apocalypse Clock: 00.000.02.09!

#exploration-bookkeeping

SESSION 187 – JANUARY 24,2018

SESSION 187 – JANUARY 24,2018

After Jardin smashes the mirror, Auriel, the green dragon tells us to pile up Serithaz, Kalgun, and tell him where Prix is.

Bavmorda rushes into the mist in an attempt to get around the dragon, and is overcome with burning eyes, nose, and lungs.

Nash tries to talk with Auriel. The dragon tells us that the admiral in charge of the airship, Sarhedan(?), suspected that Jardin was not truly loyal to the Dragon Emperor, and this just proves it. We will deal with him. There is no need for you to risk your life.

During the talking the Roc attacks the dragon, the flap of its wings disperses the mist, but drives it towards us. Lambertus, and Oskar are both overcome.

The dragon breathes a stinking green vapourous cloud at the Roc, who is overcome as its face melts and it caughs up internal organs and dies.

Rallion sees one chance, and drops his magic weapons, items, and pack. He rushes to the chest with the shard, next to the incapacitated Oskar, and drags it away from the party while cutting the rope that binds it shut. Rallion manages to get it open and rush the dragon before it can do anything, and misses. The dragon tries to breath on Rallion and nothing happens. While Rallion rushed the dragon, Kauri saw the daemons bound to the armor get ripped to pieces.

Nash casts bless, and Kauri takes the magic items and armor off Bavmorda so when she recovers, she can aid Rallion.

Oskar recovers first and rushes in with his spear to aid Rallion.

The dragon tries its claws and massive jaws against Rallion, and only manages to scratch him with its claws. Rallion manages to touch its wing with the shard, and it causes great pain and he pulls the wing in close to his body. Oskar gets in a hit.

Nash uses speak with animals to ask the hawk to round up some help from among the local animals. The hawk leaves.

Kauri removes the magic items and magic armor from Lambertus, so he too can join in the fight when recovered.

Rallion is again only hit by the claws of the dragon.

Rallion misses, Bavmorda gets in a backstab with massive damage, and Oskar delivers the killing blow to the surprised dragon.

The dragon then melts and implodes into a pool of acidic residue. Any items or wealth Auriel carried are gone.

Soon after recovering from the battle, Oskar makes tea and we gather around the fire.

We are approached by a wide-eyed half elf, Laris, a sneaky type magic user, who witnessed our battle with the dragon.

We allow him into camp. We used the liar box to verify he isn’t working for our enemies. Laris is from Vargen and left when the tidal wave hit. He is hoping to make it to the coast and catch a ship to better prospects.

We move camp about an hour West, near the edge of the foothills and jungle to be away from the stench of the decaying dragon and dead roc. As well as, away from anything that might investigate the site of the fight.

Laris joins Rallion in the first watch. Rallion tells him of the clock and uses the liar box to prove that what he tells Laris is true. Laris is amazed at these tales of space dwarves from beyond the sky who will arrive when the countdown in your eye reaches zero.

Laris remains with us as we are awaked by cries from Oskar. A giant bee is approaching us. Rallion fires two arrows into it, Bavmorda one, and Kauri finishes it with 3 bolts of pure energy.

Laris attempts to recover the poison sack from the bee, but botches the attempt. He hears the sound of more bee wings in the distance to the NW. The party debates investigating, but decides it is a distraction that will only waste resources, and perhaps get us killed.

Rallion leads the party along a stream. We hear drums for a bit, but they stop. We continue along the stream towards the village. It must be the village we saw between the mountain and the coastal village. We come upon a man at the edge of the village at the stream fishing with a net.

He asks us if we are workshipers of the Matriarchs like those of the village of Montoa. Bavmorda says we just came from the sanctuary, as Rallion clarifies that his friend is a fool, only trying to mimic what Reyne the fisheman/guard just said.

Laris steps in and charms Reyne, making a new friend. Reyne fills us in on the situation.

This is the village of Hizzou, with Chief Aldith, who are hosting two other villages, Montoa, and Shemm. Shemm is the village by the coast with the ship. Montoa calls its inhabitants Daughters of the Matriarchs and are seeking an alliance to fight the Dark King. The people of Shem brought with them the captain of the ship, who is deathly ill, both Shemm and Mantou allege by poison. He tells us not to trust the shaman.

Laris has Reyne return to fishing as he insists we will see ourself to the chief.

Rallion leads the way begging the rest to follow his lead. Rallion sees a way to fulfill his charge from the druids of the Verdant Fellowship, who sent him for answers about the Dark King.

The guards of the chief announce our presence to the chief and we are invited in. We meet the chief, and get the particulars of what each village is about, each dlegation, etc. Rallion insists that all meet at once to hear the message at the same time. The chief is concerned that we not cause offense or make things worse, regarding the poisoning, or tip the balance that might lead to war.

The chief, Aldith, relents and sends for the representatives of the two villages. While we wait for their arrival he fills us in on the scenario.

Ansure the village shaman of Hizzou introduces himself, adn offers us food, as the hungry Laris stares at the food on the sidelines.

Chief Aldith tells us that Shemm is ruled by a council of elders, and has no chieftan. The council selected the members of their delegation, including an Elder, Emeric. Captain Nigel of The Bronze Wizard was head of the delegation until he fell ill. Emeric thinks this whole thing is a ploy to get Shemm under the sway of Mantoa.

Montoa is represented by Druette the lieutenant to the Chief Warrior, Imagentia, who has the unsavory reputation of being very bloodthirsty. Her mother, the prior chief, tried to unite the tribes ten or twenty years ago. Druetta is followed by three who position themselves around Druetta.

Rallion prepares to speak….

Thoughts on the prophecy from the Stonespear shaman:

Thoughts on the prophecy from the Stonespear shaman:

“What was lost and must be unfound lies in the halls of those who came before you! She searches in honour of her liege, and will bring forth the storm of ruin.”

I see two possible options for the prophecy. I lean strongly towards the first, all about the ogres, and Alosha is a side quest of sorts.

Once we get the Mydius situation resolved, this will be our next focus, either back to Alosha or the Ogres.

1.) Lost and Unfound item is whatever the ogres are seeking?

She is the ogre lieutenant, servant of the chief ogre.

2.) Lost and unfound item is whatever Alosha is seeking?

She would be Alosha, but we are not aware of her having a liege.

SESSION 33 – January 21, 2018

SESSION 33 – January 21, 2018

At our last session, we went up against the bugbear allies of the regional wizard, Mydius. We took out the first camp of bugbears, with minimal losses.

We began this session with a celebration at the Stonespear’s Hall in the town of Crossing, a man with a male and female attendant/guard approach, and all the warriors look concerned. The man is an obvious wizard. Otiben tosses his trident, but enchantments prevent it from causing harm.

Mydius asks if that is the way the Stonespear chief treats his guests. Urman spoke up and mentioned that the bugbears we fought claimed that he invited them here. Mydius dropped his pretensions of innocence, and the fight was on.

First to fall was the male guard, who broke like pottery and fell into dust. Then the same happened with Mydius, and lastly with the woman. (The man and woman had changed a bit into beastmen type creatures.) After the fight Urman examined the remains and determined that it had been made of some sort of magic infused clay.

It was decided to strike the other, main bugbear camp before they could get ready for us. Otiben attempted to scout ahead, but he was heard in a fight with a bugbear scout who shouted a warning. We heard a horn in the distance.

We moved towards the sound and found only tracks that lead to the base of trees with platforms in them.

After a bit of backtracking and change of direction, we walked towards the camp. We were not surprised and evaded the stink bombs they threw at us. We quickly engaged having success in the battle of blades. Urman lit up the night sky by casting fireball on one of the large platform with archers. The bugbear’s morale held, and they continued the fight.

Frike was laid low by an arrow, his horse ran off, and Thogi stabilized him. The chief of the Stonespears was affected by the shaman’s fear spell, and sat atop his horse, paralyzed with fear til the battle’s end.

Puk and his riding dog, Hades, and Rip attacked and felled a bugbear on the left flank of Urman. They did the same to another.

The Stonespear warriors, Zho Ni, and the dwarf held the flank on Urman’s right.

Urman used one of his scrolls to once again light up the night with a fireball cast upon the other platform with archers. Many more huts and tents were fired, and many more bugbears fell. Still their morale held. Zho ni lost his target of the shaman, as the shaman went invisible.

Urman was hit stopping him from casting magic missile at a bugbear he felt was too close.

Otiben and Gunner were working with some Stonespear warriors to get past a few bugbears barring their entry into the camp.

Zho Ni and his war horse and dwarf henchman were making progress.

The tide of battle outside the camp was turning in our favor as we were slowly overcoming the bugbears.Urman got off a sleep that helped clear the way for Otiben’s team to move in. The morale of the bugbears finally broke.

Just then, the shaman showed up with Mydius. Somehow he was able to contact Mydius and bring him here. Mydius cast fireball dropping Stonespear and Bugbear alike. Poor Frike was burnt up in his sleep, never knowing his final fate. Thogi died in the blast while standing over Frike. Both Thogi’s and Urman’s horses died. Urman managed to evade the worst of the blast, but was severly hurt, and ran for cover and an opportunity to use the healing salve.

Urman estimated that Mydius was half again as powerful as himself.

Batukahn charged and got a good hit on the wizard. Mydius had some sort of amulet he used to flee. That left the shaman, who was silenced by Zho Ni. Batukahn got a solid hit on the shaman. Otiben did not manage to connect, but Gunner took down the shaman by ripping out his throat.

The bugbears, and the surviving females and children fled into the night.

We found a glass orb on the shaman that had what looked like a forest in it.

Puk managed to round up Frike’s horse.

Urman set to making a travois to haul out what gear and treasure they manage to find.

Bookkeeping Notes, Session 186 (1/17/18):

Bookkeeping Notes, Session 186 (1/17/18):

– We will continue at 9PM on the 5th of Senrilden with the party having just finished their conversation with Thornton/Jardin while hemmed in by supernatural mists and Auriol

– Best Buds with Animals, Gods and Monsters: Nash, Hawk Master, Roc Rider, and Lysander’s Champion

– Prixithalma’s fine; we’re all fine here: Rallion, Calming Down the Man in the Mirror (and Avoiding a Spider-pocalypse)

– Let’s Erase the Heavens with the Shard!: Kauri; also Kauri: Let Me Read Up on Resurrecting Dragons to Bring Back the Queen of Heaven!

– Die, Fowl Chicken! Die!: Bavmorda, Petrtified of No Poultry (or Dragon)

– Not Sure What a Coxswain Is, but Sees a Bright Future with the Parlement: Fiebras the Heroic Hawk

– New Bunch of Madmen, Same Old Madness: Jardin, Looking in the Mirror

– Dwarven Apocalypse Clock: 00.000.02.10!

#exploration-bookkeeping

Treasure Gained, Session 186 (1/17/18):

Treasure Gained, Session 186 (1/17/18):

– 6000GP

– Wrought Platinum Armbands with Coral and Green Stone (Jade?) Adornments

– Silver Ring with Large Translucent Red Gemstones

– Golden Torc with Green Gemstone

– Wrought Gold Necklace (Plain)

– Silver Chain with Ivory Songbird Pendant

– Scrollcase (Scroll of Protection from Possession)

– Potion Stuck in Petrified Hand

– Magical Broach Styled as an Elven Shield: 2500XP

– Petrified Field Mouse Statuette

– Writ from Lord Mayor Ardwine Thornton (Aide from Midmark Forces)

PC GP/XP Shares: 2125XP*

* Henchman Shares should be distributed as agreed from total

#treasure-gained

SESSION 186 January 17, 2018

SESSION 186 January 17, 2018

We find the roc nest wrecked and the egg smashed. The roc is seen in the distance and will not return.

Nash uses speak with animals to get his hawk friend to talk tot he roc. The roc will not return as it is too dangerous. It has food in a peak to the south where it lives now.

We wait for the roc to come, but it only sends the hawk who tells us it will not come back. We make arrangements to have it meet us in a safe place.

We wait for Bavmorda to finish training, part of it includes climbing while we wait around at the roc nest.

Once trainins is finished, we head down the mountin. The first night we camped where we first saw the golden eagle. We are attacked by some strange bird that looks like a cross between a chicken and a lizard. We Kill it.

The next morning, Rallion follows the tracks to where Bavmorda first saw it, and finds that there are tracks from more of them, but no more are seen.

We go until about mid day and two more of these odd bird lizards attack, and go for Bavmorda. We manage to kill them both before they can even damage any of us.

Rallion follows the tracks which are along a game trail in the general direction of our planned travel to the village with a ship. We find the nest of these creatures surrounded by tiny exquisite statues of little animals, many of them missing parts. We discern that these animals have the ability to petrify those it bites.

We find much gold and jewelry, and a magic broach, and an extra healing potion. We swap out our electrum for gold and load up the bag of holding to capacity with gold.

We hide what we can’t take with us, including the statues. Rallion keeps out an exquitie field mouse statue. We collapse the earthen roof to their hole, and disguise it and Bavmorda traps it.

We move on. That night during his watch, Rallion notices an unusual mist, and wakes Bavmorda and then the others. A voice calls out, and we learn that it is the green dragon we met on the walkway. He tosses us a mirror and we talk to “Lord Thornton” who we know is really Jardin, but “we don’t know that.”

Jardin and some of his allies seek Prix, who if alive, will change the balance of power in the Draon Empire.

AFter much back and forth, we let on that Thorfus is dead. Possibly that other members of the “Keepers of The Council” are dead, and that we are trying to save the world. WE ask if they did the thing with the explosion in the harbor, and Jardin says that wasn’t him.

We learn that Jardin replaced one of Thorfus’ hirelings with a Dervish with an inquisitor mask. When we drove off the dervish, she reported that Prix is alive and the word got to the dragon emperor instead of to Jardin. He was not involved with sendint dragons to go after her.

We didn’t answer most of his questions to Jardin’s satisfaction. We left him with the impression that she is still alive.

jardin gives us a new writ for the keepers of the council.

He also tells us that if he officially knows we are alive, we are to be killed. So he can’t get us on the airship.

They are focused on getting past the orbital defenses.

Rallion tells Jardin that the dark king is connected to the dwarven council of 12 and that they are beneath Glavnone.

Jardin smashes his mirror when he is done talking to us, and we are free to go about our business.

The first night we made camp, a woman in blue visited Nash and identified herself as Lysander. She has tasked him with finding the “Mother of Heaven” AKA Prixithalma. Prix created the gods to keep the evil fals god Xentellar under control. Xen Tellar got loose and is making war on the gods. Lysander said that she is so thankful that we opened up the lines of communication, they have tried since the beginning to talk to their followers. [This is probably the Dragon Emperor corrupting her code.] Nash does not tell us of this vision.

Bookkeeping Notes, Session 185 (1/10/18):

Bookkeeping Notes, Session 185 (1/10/18):

– We will continue with the split between the cavern city and mountain top; it is 9AM on the 1st of Senrilden.

– UP, UP, AND AWAY!: Nash the Roc Rider

– Offered a Deal with a DVL: Kauri, Not Yet Ready to Bargain Away his Soul

– All Set to Bargain Away her Soul: Bavmorda, Soon to Be Sneakier

– Providing Aerial Reconaissance of a Different Sort: The Man with No Name

– Not the Smoothest Liar: Bamlartus … I mean Sam!

– Disaster Zone: Just about Everywhere the Party Knows or Has Been

– Dwarven Apocalypse Clock: 00.000.02.14!

#exploration-bookkeeping