SESSION 187: Expanding Borders, Back to Monster Killing (June22)
Day 31 continued – cloudy (14.22à14.21- 0507/0607/0506/0606): After a quick turnaround in Greenland, we won’t cover Carla’s shock that Team Denethix had found and were in the process of repairing the fortress for her, Steve and a medium sized group set out to continue the clearing of the lands to the immediate north (14.21). Along with ole Stevie was Sasha, Dolec, Wendull, Mason, Wily (and Agolloch), Felix and Gurn Hammerhand. First stop was the giant wasp nest. The wasps had numbers and know not retreat when their nest is threatened. The damn things were tough and our gang underestimated the insects and took a beating for it. And! The stupid bugs had no treasure.. Pressing on they discovered an pink-veined granite deposit that was sure to earn more gold sometime in the future. Gurn was very impressed by the stone suggesting that it was very top notch. That evening Sasha observed another orc warband moving west past the camp site. The orcs did not notice the cleverly hidden camp.
Day 32 – clear and crisp (14.21 – 0606/0505/0605/0507/0604): Moving on the gang once more approached the lake when Felix came up with an idea, “Why don’t we get the wasp carcasses and offer them up to the thing in the lake?”. Many hobos just wanted to tell Felix to get bent on principle but it was a decent idea and so they back tracked to the wasps. This allowed Felix to once more be irritatingly correct, “Say fellows the queen did have a magnificent stinger. I wonder if it has some value?”. He was right and it was harvested along with packing away a gaggle of the dead insects into the portable hole. They returned to the lake with a plan in hand.
Steve, Dolec and Gurn approached the lake planning to drop the waspy offering along the shoreline. It was a reasonable plan but the watcher Goltulash was close at hand and did not wait for the hobos to set up the offering. Instead the humungous crocodile revealed itself and snatched Steve into its jaws and began thrashing the crap out of him. Goltulash immediately began to fall back into the lake to consume Steve. Mason attempted to negotiate Steve’s release but the ancient reptile had tasted fresh human blood and was not going to trade that for anything. Dolec chased into the waters after the creature while Gurn cursed from shore, he was just too short and armored to enter the waters. Goltulash held onto Steve crashing him further be the second, he refused to concede to death and found a way to continue to deliver blows. It came down to who was fastest. Either Steve would die at the bottom of the lake or Goltulash should have curtailed its blood lust and listened to Mason’s petition. It was the latter, Dolec was able to finish the ancient monster before it could escape and finish Steve off. Dolec freed Steve and brought him to shore for first aid and healing as he had numerous wounds welling copious amounts of blood where he had been impaled upon Goltulash’s monstrous teeth.
Afterwards they retrieved the crocodile's corpse and commenced with the salvaging of materials. Once Steve was back on his feet he was anxious to eat the beast. They camped just far enough away from shore to be safe from, or so they presumed, any possible progeny of the crocodile and enjoyed Steve’s barbecue.
Nothing to do with nothing just a spider at my grandmother's house or maybe a grim portent, only time will tell.
ROLECALL – XP Still Not Updated
Carla the Green High Priestess of TMB (C9) 263154 xp +10% <300001> CRT 1d12/III
Scars: permanent loss left index finger and scarring on arm
Bimbles the High Priest of GSS (C9) 232586 xp +5% <300001> CRT 1d12/III
Lasting injury: -1 STR, mashed arm
Hobo Steve the Superhero (F8) 225737 xp +5% <240,001> CRT 1d24/V
Brain Damaged: reduced mental capacity (tough night on the town)
Touched from Beyond the Grave (Sloth): Eating disorder (x2 food) -5’ mve
Blessing of Orcus (Consumption -1 CON)
Rahgnar the Dwarven Superhero (D8) 194659 xp <280001> CRT 1d20/IV
Serious wound: permanent loss of an eye (-1 to missile fire)
Critical Wound: disembowelled less able to process poison (-1 penalty)
Missing thirteen teeth
Raul the Voyager (MD8) 206613 xp +10% <240000> CRT 1d12/III
Serious wound: permanent loss of CHA -4,
Removed one of his own nostrils.
Boris the Dwarven Lord (D9) 326721 xp +10% <400001> CRT 1d20/IV
Serious wound: permanent loss of CHA -3, carved up face
Lasting injury: -1 STR, mashed arm
Wound: Bad leg (-5’ MV)
Multiple Injuries: lost 25 teeth (7 remaining), drools a lot CHA -1
Serious Injury: Brain Drain -2 INT
Ding-We the Peg-Legged Sorcerer (W9) 421256 xp +10% <470001> CRT 1d10/I
Critical Wound: Left leg obliterated, runs at ½ rate (peg required)
Bunny the Thief! (T9) 201863 xp <280001> +10% CRT 1d20/II
Light wound: permanent loss of pinky finger, off hand
Ramrod the Cloned Magsman (T8) 135477 xp +5% <160001> CRT 1d20/II
Serious wound: Bad Back (-1 stone CC)
Scars: Neurological damage to hip, noticeable limp (-5’ mve)
Missing eight teeth talks with a lisp
The Henchmen
Saffron the Mad Fairy Queen of Ribbits (FY7) 145428 xp <200001> CRT 1d10/III
Moderate wound: Scar on abdomen
Lasting injury: -1 STR, mashed guts
Sloth the Bopper (L7) 142397 xp +10% <178800> CRT 1d20/IV or 1d6/G (vs. s, m)
Mental Illness: Mummy-a-phobic
Missing ten teeth
Nara the Nearly Naked Purple Swami Girl (PS7) 78928 xp +5% <125000> CRT 1d16/II
Wraith Drained: -1 CON
Biff Bartley the Half-Orc Blackguard (HO7) 93463 <120000> +5% CRT 1d12/II
Lasting injury: Crushed spinal column -6”H, -5’mv, -10% thieving
Sasha Plasha the Warden (R7) 95323 xp +10% <100000> CRT 1d10/III
‘BOB’ the Deadly Shade (N7) 64817 <90000> +5% CRT 1d16/II
Felix Ignatius Hemlock the once skeletal Sleuth (I7) 45710 <80001> +5% CRT 1d16/II
Mason the Canon of Yrrrg. (C6) 43159 <50001> CRT 1d10/III
Charles in Charge the Myrmidon (F6) 51250 <64000> +10% CRT 1d16/IV
Critical Wound: Punctured lung (-2 CON)
Mostly DEAD. (-1 CON)
Gurn Hammerhand the Dwarven Swordsman (D4) 9948 <17000> +5% CRT 1d12/III
Wendul the Thaumaturgist (W5) 38297 <40000> 5% CRT 1d8/I
Dolec Da the Hero (F5) 27797 xp +10% <32000> CRT 1d16/IV
Missing five teeth
Camillus the Myrmidon (F7) 70711 <120001> +5% CRT 1d20/IV
Willy the Reformed Burglar (T5) 11302<20000>10% CRT 1d14/II
Brett & Germaine Kobold Cooks Extraordinaire
RESERVES
Yasser Imaphat the Djinn (D4) 30372 <32501> CRT 1d6/II – He didn’t want to come out of his lamp.
Greymin the Dwarven Hero (D5) 26295 <35000> +5% CRT 1D14/III – Gone Mining (Liwil)
Elapsed Campaign Time
481 days at beginning of session (also applies to recuperation)
Join us for session One-Hundred-and-Eighty-Eight when we ask the questions:
Who would have thought that 4’ long wasps would be such a problem?
Where are those orcs going?
Could we have played out that Crocodile encounter better, it was a unique and ancient creature after all?
What other foul things lair in this hex?
Tale of the Tape
Camillus, Bob, Rhags and Charles are still well stoned.
Exploration
Location hex 14.22à14.21
KILLS
Giant wasps (22)
Wasp Queen
Goltulash the Ancient
LOOT
Wasp queen stinger 500 gp
Goltulash’s hide 2400 gp
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