SESSION 38: What are Halflings Good for Anyway? (12Jan17)
Having finished stripping the now smoldering re-corpsed corpse of its fineries and dressing some hobo in the still warm plate, we press on. Fell back to the Mongrelmen encampment to recharge. Later, working into some tombs there were rats, then giant rats and finally a bunch of ghouls starved for flesh. This led to a darkened room with a pile of purpling tomb robbers and their sacks of spoils. The reason for their purpleness is that they were being aged by the resident scorpions of un-natural size. They didn’t take the intrusion to their larder well and chopped Odo into a number of pieces and nearly loaded Mar with poison, if he wasn’t so agile. Taking the treasure and leaving the mess they moved on.
Eventually coming to a room with a mirror on a pedestal as its centre-piece and a pile of runic tablets in the corner. “Hot ding-dongs!”, drooled Ding-We at the prospect of reading more tablets “The knowledge of everything must be mine!” Krisko was sent in to take a look. He approached the mirror, when his eye glanced at the surface of the mirror a pit appeared beneath his feet, he fell into it. As a matter of fact he is still falling, best of luck in that bottomless pit you festering ankle biter. The triggering of this magical trap also caused the pile of tablets to glow and then rise into the shape of a humanoid giant. This runic golem was going to make Ding-We fight to get his reading in. The creature lunged towards the party, Ding-We and Calvin jumping on its back in an effort to read tablets as the rest of the horde met the golem head-on. The fight raged, a couple of tablets were read. Finally the party beat the golem into dust. “Nooooo”, lamented Ding-We as he grabbed handfuls of destroyed tablets “Yessss” as his hands discovered three more tablets buried in the wreckage. He read another, maybe two. A strange look came across his face, “well I think I have learned enough”. Saffron of the keen eye and mad mind tossed a frog at Ding-We and remarked, “Slug on the brain, lucky puss fucker is full of salt”. Still feeling flush the party pressed on into another chamber full of burial alcoves. The hobo-rummage stirred up a corrosive cloud of mold gas. A significant portion of the band dropped to the floor choking to death as the cloud burnt eyes, throats and lungs. After resolving and recovering from this near death challenge the horde came to the conclusion that it might be a fine time to make tracks back to Helix.
They made their way out stealthily and then slipped into the ever present fog of the moor making it back to Helix just as dusk approached.
EXTRA INFORMATION (This was learned by Ding-We from reading tablets)
Nergal, God of the Underworld, received a vision. He knew his sons, Orcus and Set, desired his throne and wanted to depose him as Lord of the Underworld. One of the Anganach (old gods), Nergal once ruled the Underworld and the spheres of Death and the Undead. He was deposed and presumably destroyed by his sons Orcus and Set. Prior to his presumed death, Nergal ensured his followers interred his most powerful artifact deep within Barrowmaze.
Set and his brother Orcus deposed their father Nergal for control of the underworld. After completing the task they turned on each other to establish complete control over their father’s spheres of power. A war for control of the underworld began. A stalemate ensued with each son controlling a portion of Nergal’s power. But there was a third missing piece the would tip the scales in favour of one of the brothers to become the Lord if the Underworld. They sent their minions across the lands to ransack their father’s earthly palaces in search of the repository of Nergal’s power.
ROLECALL
Carla the Green Canon of TMB (C6) 28318 xp +10% <50001> CRT 1d12/III
Scars: permanent loss left index finger and scarring on arm
Ding-We the Thaumaturgist (W5) 26478 xp +5% <40001> CRT 1d10/I
Bimbles the Canon of GSS (C6) 26256 xp +5% <50001> CRT 1d12/III
Hobo Steve the Swashbuckler (F5) 23487 xp +5% (101) <32501> CRT 1d24/V
Rahgnar the Dwarven Swashbuckler (D5) 19185 xp <35001> CRT 1d20/IV
Serious wound: permanent loss of an eye (-1 to missile fire)
Raul the Wayfarer (MD5) 21756 xp <30000> CRT 1d20/II
Serious wound: permanent loss of CHA -4, Removed one of his own nostrils.
Calvin the Bold Architect (MM5) 18338 xp <22400> CRT 1d12/III
Serious wound: permanent loss of INT -1
Boris the Dwarven Swashbuckler (D5) 21433 xp <35001> CRT 1d20/IV
Serious wound: permanent loss of CHA -3, carved up face
Bunny the Filcher (T6) 20364 xp <40001> CRT 1d24/II
Saffron the Mad Fairy Queen of Ribbits (FY4) 27712 <32501> CRT 1d10/II
Moderate wound: Scar on abdomen
The Henchmen
Mar the Buffoon (J4) +5429 CRT 1d16/II
Arnd Cobblestone the Dwarven Hero (D2) 4110 <4375>
Brule Armstrong the Warrior (F2) 2837 xp <4065>
Torvik Calanon the Elf Warrior Evoker(E1) 3413 xp <4065>
Odo the Halfling Veteran (H1) +522 <2035>
Krisko the Halfling Anti-Hero(H4) +522 <16251>
RESERVES
Mighty Yord the Slayer (B3) 10801 <16251> CRT 1d14/III
Mighty Nord the Slayer (B3) 11714 <16251> CRT 1d14/III
Hrolga the Violent Vixen Amazon (CC4) +1338+526+512 CRT 1d16/IV
Ramrod the Burglar (T5) 18060 xp +5% <20001> CRT 1d20/II
Serious wound: Bad Back (-1 stone CC)
Scars: Neurological damage to hip, noticeable limp
Missing six teeth talks with a lisp
REMAINING RECUPERATION: 8 DAYS
Sloth the Charger (L4) 11989 <16800> CRT 1d20/IV or 1d6/G (vs. s,m)
REMAINING RECUPERATION: 8 DAYS
Lenardo the Technician (S5) 15059 xp <25000> CRT 1d10/I
Light wound: permanent loss of two fingers (pinky and next) left hand
REMAINING RECUPERATION: 8 DAYS
Elapsed Campaign Time
90 days at beginning of session (also applies to recuperation)
Join us for session thirty-nine when we ask the questions:
With two more dead and a total death count at 50, will we be able to hire more scumbags?
Are we halfling racists?
Tale of the Tape
Odo, chopped and diced by a scorpion of unusual size.
Krisko discovered a bottomless pit, he will be falling long after we forget him.
KILLS
Rats (14)
Giant rats (5)
Ghouls (4)
Giant scorpions (3)
Fossil skeletons (7)
Ravenous zombies (7)
Runic Golem
Yellow mold
LOOT
Silver statuettes (2)
Platinum bracelets (2)
5309 sp
4286 gp
White pearls (2)
Potion of "specific" undead control (????)
Potion of Big heal
Potion of growth
87 ep
Sapphire
Tome of Clear thought
Bottle of ancient perfume
Silver holy symbol of Nergal
Diamond ring
Platinum cloak clasp
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