October’s Summary
There was a bit of background noise for
the first half of this session, but when all of the other gamers went
home it got a lot quieter.
Two new recruits (and one new player
Christopher): Claude the Wizard, and Harrison the Fighter stumbled
upon the group of adventurers and had heard of their exploits and
wanted to join their group. There was some discussion about the
campaign so far, and how they have been progressing through the
megadungeon. They also talked about some of their standard operating
procedures.
They heard some mucus-ladened voices
that they had heard the last time they encountered some Troglodytes.
They kicked in the door and they were ambushed by the Troglodytes but
the attacks missed by a mile. The smell was horrible and assailed
their nostrils in the enclosed room. Thimple killed off one with his
sacrificial dagger of Baenur, and the other one gave up but then
Thimple slaughtered him from behind in a very quick and painless
fashion.
They found a fancy looking carpet with
stuff on the inside of it. They unrolled it and it was 20’ by 10’
in size. The group was unrolling the carpet in a very tactical and
careful fashion. They found a dark Elf but all of the moisture
seemed to have been removed from the body, so it looked like a
human-like raisin. Dust and dried skin particles filled the air when
they removed the body from the carpet. They found a bastard sword, a
wand, and some jewelry around her neck, as the body turned out to be
a female. The wand had an emerald on one side and a ruby on the
other side. It had 10 flat edges that ran the length of it. It had
a name on the side of the sword that said Glorious Blood in the
ancient tongue. Thimple received a message from his sacrificial
dagger about what the sword did. The wand turned out to have the
Knock spell cast into it. Claude the Wizard put on the necklace and
seemed to improve in his looks, and had a lot more confidence it
seemed. He also informed them that enemy spellcasters would have a
difficult in affecting him with spells.
The group was looking forward to going
down deep into the dungeon to see what their Skull Chime of
Cannabalism did in the arena, but they wanted to wait for awhile to
let the effects take their toll first.
They rolled up the Troglodyte in the
fancy carpet and all of the water was removed from the body. The
Carpet of Dehydration was what it was then named. When they hit the
Troglodyte it turned into dust, and a key fell out of it. They
picked up the key and they discussed what they were going to do with
the red, blue, and black lined carpet. The carpet also seems to stay
completely clean.
The saw a giant sphere of green glass
and it filled the entire room. A smaller black sphere was rolling
around inside of it in seemingly random directions. An oil lamp was
hanging from the ceiling and it was the only light. “Lekorh,
Lekorh, Lekorh” was written on the wall in blood. A grotesque
looking demon figure popped into visibility and startled Harrison and
Claude and it was perched on Cyr’s shoulder. This was of course
Stinky the Quasit Demon, and Cyr’s Coin seemed to be repelled by
the sphere slightly.
They saw a small slit in the side of
the sphere, but it took them awhile to figure out that they could put
their newly acquired key into it. The black sphere inside seemed to
be moving faster now that they characters were in the room. Stinky
disappeared when the group tried to get him to put his finger in the
keyhole, he didn’t like the looks of it. Stinky handed the key to
Cyr.
Cyr put the key into the sphere and the
outer green sphere opened up, and the smaller black sphere rolls to
your feet and starts spinning. The black sphere was 6” in diameter
and it followed Cyr (since he put the key in the keyhole). The weird
thing was that when it rolled on the rocky ground it made absolutely
no sound. Stinky the Quasit Demon seemed to be terrified by the
sphere. Before leading the room they grabbed what they thought was
an oil lamp, but it seemed to be a small magical glowing creature
that was trapped in there. Cyr tried to put his coin near the black
sphere but he could only force it to about 6 inches away before he
couldn’t force it any closer. Cyr climbed up the wall and the
sphere rolled over to the wall and then followed him up the wall,
defying gravity.
The next Troglodytes they fought were
using poison tipped weapons and were looking for blood. They were
all slain brutally by the magical weapons of the party. They figured
out that whoever owns the key, controls the sphere. They also
learned that if the sphere doesn’t have an owner (by setting the
key down) it returns to its green sphere.
They went to another room that was
filled with tons of mushrooms and what they thought was a leg. They
found three 20 year old males laying face down in the mushrooms, and
they seemed to be half submerged in the mushrooms. When they dragged
one of the bodies out they realized that the mushrooms had grown into
the person’s face, and stomach. They looked like they needed more
help than the party could give them.
They learned that the mushroom covered
naked human was born a slave down in the Slave Pits which was located
somewhere deep down in the dungeon. They also dragged out the other
two humans from the mushroom room.
They found an exit to the surface from
the 2nd level of the dungeon that went up to one of the
buildings up on the surface. The humans were really pale, and they
had never been out on the surface of the world. The sky and the
lights in the sky scared them. When they peeked out of the building
they saw that the large Green Dragon had returned and was curled
around the Temple at the top of Darves Hill. The Dragon had lots of
fresh wounds and scars so they assumed it was possibly off fighting
something. They joked about using the Carpet of Dehydration to turn
the Dragon’s tail into dust.
The slaves were a bit unsure of what to
do with freedom, and they told the group that they had been mushroom
farmers for their slavemaster. Cyr pointed out that it was rather
ironic that they were mushroom farmers and now had mushrooms growing
out of their skin. They also told the group that the Fungal Dryad
had bought them to feed her mushrooms, and also to feed the
Troglodytes.
The group then traveled back to the
town of Nahm so that they could try to help out their newly freed
slave friends.
Nahm seemed to be getting back to
normal. They went to the Temple and talked with Ur-Masha. They
presented the three free slaves to him and asked for his wisdom. He
told them it would take awhile and that they could start here. They
were surprised that there were no mushroom farms in the area. Grunka
gave them some gold to start their own business.
Ur-Masha said that the sphere was a
Mordenkainen’s Sphere. He said it was some sort of protective
device for the owner against magic but he wasn’t sure what it did
exactly. Claude the Wizard cast Magic Missile at Cyr and the
missiles were sucked into the black sphere.
The group cursed Ordok Throon since he
left without a trace and took everything that was in the chainmail
bag of holding. The group then redistributed some of their
hand-me-down equipment to the new recruits and hoped that they might
get a discount at the local stores since they helped fend off the
Goblin hordes.
The group noticed some swirling clouds
that seemed to be around Darves Hill. The group named the three
freed slaves after mushroom species because they had no names, and
didn’t understand the concept. Shitake, Portabella, and Kerminee
were their names. They left for the hill and camped out in some
light woods by a creek, and through the night they heard the Dragon
flying overhead many times.
In the morning they saw that the
swirling pattern of clouds is about a 10 mile radius, and there were
light rains. They had to sneak past the sleeping Dragon to get below
to where they were before. It took them some time but they got back
down to Level 2.
All of the doors were kicked in
previously in the area they checked first, and they saw some old
blood stains and torn up sacks and bags. Several more rooms seemed
like they were ransacked several weeks previous, and they saw some
prints in the blood.
The next door they went to seemed like
it was kicked in only to set off a deadly trap. They guessed that
the person or thing that kicked in the door died, and then something
else came along and ate their remains.
The next room had a false door that was
a nasty trap that included a large spiked ball, but they managed to
figure it out before it killed anyone. They found a few bloody gems
beneath the trap as well set on the trigger for the trap.
They walked past the plant that was on
the stairs down to Level 3 and they were attacked by flying barbs
that were shot out of its blossoms. As they left the room a small
rust brown dragon-like creature was sitting in the hallway and looked
up in their general direction. It was 2’ long and about a 1’
tall at its shoulders. Grunka approached the creature with jerky and
fed the creature. It singed the meat first and then devoured it. It
kept sniffing for more meat.
They eventually found out that this
creature was a pseudodragon THAT WAS VERY HUNGRY! It ripped open
Grunka’s backpack to get at the jerky. They were pretty sure that
this creature was the one that probably ate the dead bodies.
The pseudodragon then lunged off of the
back of Grunka and then began to smell Claude’s spellbook and wand.
It seemed to be interested in the magic-user over the other
characters. It ate some of Claude’s hair and almost knocked him
over as it crawled up on his back.
They began to hear grinding noises from
the next room, but they weren’t sure what it might be. The door
was locked. They saw a Minotaur in the room sharpening a huge sword
on a grinding wheel, and they also saw some weapons hanging in the
room.
Grunka and Harrison charged into the
room… only to fall face first into a trap that was an illusionary
floor trap. The Minotaur then chucked his huge sword through the air
and nailed Claude right in the chest. It wound have killed him
outright if he hadn’t been wearing the amulet. Claude is healed
but he has a huge sword through him.
They threw Targ through the air out of
the hole with the goal of having him attack the Minotaur, but he
missed by about 5 feet. Thimple shot him from across the pit with a
shortbow. Harrison then bravely went up toe to toe with the Minotaur
and slashed him across the chest. It was a brutal battle that nearly
almost killed off several of the characters.
Most of the weapons on the wall were
too large to wield, and they believed that all of them were
masterwork weapons. They also found some cure serious wounds
potions. They also found 3,000 gps worth of stuff in the room as
well such as gems, gold, silver, etc.
We skipped Nov 2011.
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