Session notes 1/29 and 1/31
No play on 1/24 due to 3/6 of party out of town. 3 hour makeup session on 1/29.
Day Tracker:
Start: Day 73 after resting in the forcefully vacated Quaggoth cave
End: Day 79 in BG, +3 days travel back to the keep after a quick stop at Murderglade, arrive in Smooth Caverns on
Day 85.
The party proceeded further into the hook horror caverns, shortly emerging into an enormous unlit chamber with a 10-15 ft. stone bridge covered in muck spanning a large chasm bounded by a 60 ft. drop down to swirling blue mists. The party cautiously moved onto the bridge and fell under assault from a staggered assault by 6 stealthy hook horrors climbing up from under the bridge, across the floor, and crawling along the ceiling. They managed to maintain their distance as the beasts slowly shambled in and escaped without too many casualties, though many spells were hurled.
They continued onward to engage three brutish hook horrors guarding a 10 ft. stone pillar emerging from the floor in the shape of a hook, only to come under assault by various mind effecting magics from an unknown source, highlights included Cowl babbling madly and fascinating a few others of the party. OrTree gets a big 'ole hook hug during the confusion and dies. After oddly hanging back (and displaying some Spell Resistance) the third hook horror was engaged in melee and discovered to be an oddly proportioned being with a female human body and snarling leopard head. Multiple layers of team disable later and she fell without much effort despite some fancy footwork and considerable DR.
Email synopsis from the session:
6x Hook Horrors -
2,400 EXP
2x Hook Horror Brutes and Amanusya Ra -
3,200 EXP
The amanusya (Erol and Rogtar both assure you is a type of Rakshasha) was wearing some torn and scuffed silks that are nonetheless a +1 resistance body slot item. She also had a distinctive golden necklace in the shape of an ouroboros with rubies for eyes. (750 gp)
Hidden beneath the a number of quaggoth furs in the back you discover 3 ornate wooden coffers filled with the coins of many lands. (6,000gp, 1,000pp) A fourth coffer contains two ivory hilted gilded daggers (1,500 gp per, functionally masterwork) a tiny golden gong (1,000 gp), and two diamonds (7,000gp and 5,500 gp). Tomoe is also seemingly chosen by an intelligent Ioun stone named Finfinder to be its wielder. She has not released its stats or capabilities to the party.
Two days into your trip up the tunnels towards the surface you run into a pack of somewhat smaller grell than you remember and dispatch them easily despite the lack of an Ortree for 850 EXP. They did not have lightning lances. You found them in the tunnels just to the north of the previous grell nest and they were seemingly out hunting.
The rest of the trip to Baldur's Gate was uneventful, departing on Day 73, it took you until Day 76 to reach the surface. Three further days travel sees you in BG (Day 79).
The party is now level 7.
The Ramblings of Jobin (Session 1/31)
Cleaning out murder glade: Nada, non-challenge due to CR (some ghouls followed by a wraith)
Vorshusis and Silent I: 1,600 EXP
Ropers at the front (2): 800 EXP
Ropers at the wall/statue chamber (2): 800 EXP
Xorn family at the food tree (3): 1,060 EXP
Verdurous ooze: 800 EXP
Xorn family at the gem shore (4): 1,330 EXP
Bonus EXP: Individual EXP is just for youuuuu, maybe it will be relevant in leveling you up between sessions before the party, maybe not. Bonus!
Chase, for contributing some nice work on the drive folder:
2,000 EXP
Chris R, for preliminary work on the fledgling town/base of Meowswitch: 1,000 EXP
Mark W - one-shotting Erol with a crit while dominated: 1,600 EXP (pre-split with roper)
DM Notes
Murderglade spoils brought back to the surface by earth elemental porters:
Potion of Fly
Potion of Lesser Restoration
broken shards of a longsword
Dragonslayer's Shield
+1 Expeditious Champion Field Plate
A couple of story related "boons" were earned by various party members in and around this session.
Tomoe received Finfinder, a lighthearted intelligent item of serious capabilities that sparked an eruption of latent magic resulting in another tail sprouting.
Mogtar seems genuinely repentant of his old ways and swayed by Rogtar's consistent heroics and non-evil chaotic behavior (dat debt). He has agreed to become Rogtar's cohort and shortly thereafter obtained some sweet Svirfneblin prosthetics including a crossbow arm. (Free Leadership feat, no followers)
OrTree exhibits some odd changes to his carapace/skin stuff after returning to life and seems to be more swole. (OOC: Some build/stat changes rather than re-rolling)
Cowl's unusual connection to growing things allowed him to "tame" one of the verdurous ooze remainders and make it his familiar (Gloopy - based on a leopard slug). He also began gathering craftsmen and a wizard cohort to set up a base of operations in the ranch compound granted to them by Darius Carman (OOC: Free Familiar feat and a strictly out-of-combat Leadership feat to support Meowswitch development)
