Heathy's Isle of Dread Thread

Game Master Heathansson

I gotta crash.

Even the usually stoic druid is wide eyed at the golden teardrop on the floor.

"Yeh, dat' might 'splain a lot dere'." He agrees, showing no interest in picking up the teardrop.

She asks;
"so, you all want to hunt a dragon with me?"

“It’s a date!”

"What do you think, Gjetost? Your contract exempts you from having to fight the dragon or even come with us to Bøddelskogen if you wish; I will certainly not hold it against you if you would rather wait for us back at this fellow Vuddgarm's steading. Having said that, do you know anything about the wyrm Svipdag?"

Two lazy days go by; the iceberg bar does a few stops on the Asgard side of the Iving then fords the river.

Three stops later is Jarl Vuddgarmsburg...a hectic cluster of wooden longhouses built on a islet bordered by two forkings of a river that spills into Iving. Wooden palisadeworks interspersed here and there with massive siegeworks made of massive blocks of ice, and at the highest point of the islet, an iglooblock keep made of the same chunks of ice.

The place is grimy, muddy; frozen puddles churned through by ox drawn wagons....and the population is a sight to be seen. Here two frost giants haggle with a dwarven arms dealer. There, a human warrior stands next to a bleating goblin panderer; business looks brisk at least.

Kjallr waves goodbye to his familiar, Altai, and is lost in the massive crowd.

Hnoss speaks; "we have five days' journey through hostile lands. If you want to buy something, now's the time, my cohorts."

Anybody wanna buy/sell/trade anything?.....

Would a knowledge check of the appropriate type reveal anything about this dragon? Maybe Altai or the Pipster have heard of it?

"What do you think, Gjetost? Your contract exempts you from having to fight the dragon or even come with us to Bøddelskogen if you wish; I will certainly not hold it against you if you would rather wait for us back at this fellow Vuddgarm's steading. Having said that, do you know anything about the wyrm Svipdag?"

Gjetost thinks, a long long while.

Would a knowledge check of the appropriate type reveal anything about this dragon? Maybe Altai or the Pipster have heard of it?

they can make the roll....I'll have to consult and come up with something.

Beldan Vale wrote:

Would a knowledge check of the appropriate type reveal anything about this dragon? Maybe Altai or the Pipster have heard of it?

they can make the roll....I'll have to consult and come up with something.

Loremaster gives Pip an auto 23 on ANY Knowledge checks. Or I can do a K:Local: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (5) + 15 = 20

Loot distribution:

Altai's pretty good on Knowledge (planes). Skill check 13+23=36.

The mushrooms....grant rage powers to those with rage.

No g.p. limit for all intents and purposes.

Pip's never heard of such a beast;
Altai has heard this:
Svipdag is a black dragon, dinjy, ugly and scarred as dragons go. Svipdag searches for something magical, and is secretive about what.
Svipdag hates other dragons, and has a spellbook made from leather gleaned from dragons' wings.
Svipdag casts magic,
Spipdag flies and rains pools of acid from his mouth.

I gotta take off for an hour.

huzzah!!!

"Heh. I think I've read about old Svipdag somewhere. We can prepare against his acid belches; more importantly, he's known to look for something. He should be amenable to at least some conversation."

Everyone should buy some potions to soak up some acid damage. Beyond that - who knows? I'll probably buy something here, but I'm not sure of what quite yet.

Right on....
seeing as
1) some folks aren't around much/at all,
2) there's stuff to buy, and...
3) I got to stat all this stuff up anyhow's (I didn't know if you guys would bite or not, so I didn't totally finish the job; just the idea of what's coming down the pike)....

no big hurry.

"Heh. I think I've read about old Svipdag somewhere. We can prepare against his acid belches; more importantly, he's known to look for something. He should be amenable to at least some conversation."

Everyone should buy some potions to soak up some acid damage. Beyond that - who knows? I'll probably buy something here, but I'm not sure of what quite yet.

What do you think? Maybe some protection from energy pots with some resist energy as a backup when the protection inevitably fails? Is there anything better than this that I’m not thinking of?

Yeah - but as it casts spells, we prolly need protection from fire, cold and electricity as well. Prepping for dragon showdowns is hard work...

I think I'm just going to buy and scribe some new spells. Wasn't there a spell in one of those dragon supplements that lowered the target's SR? Anyone remember what it was called (and, as importantly, would Heathy allow anything from those cheese-fests?)?

I think I'm just going to buy and scribe some new spells. Wasn't there a spell in one of those dragon supplements that lowered the target's SR? Anyone remember what it was called (and, as importantly, would Heathy allow anything from those cheese-fests?)?

I don't have any of the dragon supplements; I'll have to look at the thing to be sure.

I can't find the dumb spell, so it doesn't matter. Instead, I'll just buy and scribe Dust of twilight, Firefall and Sirocco from the APG and Animal growth, Cone of cold, Feeblemind and Wall of iron from the PHB.

right on.

Good...good....time to get my $$$ worth outta that APG....huzzah!

had a really fruitful night of n.p.c. building.....I'm just about ready; will be by the morrow for certain, to begin sallying forth into the Wood of the Hangman.

had a really fruitful night of n.p.c. building.....I'm just about ready; will be by the morrow for certain, to begin sallying forth into the Wood of the Hangman.

and....it keeps getting better.

Altai Iscarni wrote:

"Heh. I think I've read about old Svipdag somewhere. We can prepare against his acid belches; more importantly, he's known to look for something. He should be amenable to at least some conversation."

Everyone should buy some potions to soak up some acid damage. Beyond that - who knows? I'll probably buy something here, but I'm not sure of what quite yet.

What do you think? Maybe some protection from energy pots with some resist energy as a backup when the protection inevitably fails? Is there anything better than this that I’m not thinking of?

I liVE!

prot from energy/resists energy? duly noted.

Huzzah!!!

Sorry I didn't think I'd be offline the whole time. But traveling with a 5 year old and a complainy wife taxes the time. Plus I had to take care of all family medical care issues while in a civilized land.

It's all good; I'm in a building phase anyhow; just had a few days of "talk to the locals" and people are cashing in jink for stuff, so

Poor kruely's got a tonna s~%& to read.

Ha

He looks over at Stig

"Do you have anything to warm us Stig? Perhaps some nice schnapps?"

Pip strums Lucille, weaving an arpeggio of complex chords together as they wait.

Stig's neurons running a few days behind.

"Huh?"

8,000 exp each;

the giants combined have gold to the tune of 60,000 gp
and the 21 bugbears each have a +1 two handed weapon (medium) and each has a small bag of greasy, reeksome mushrooms.

The breakdown:
three falchions,
5 greataxes,
4 heavy flails,
6 great swords,
6 dwarven urgroshes
all +1, and they all are spikey, evil looking stuff with angels being fondled by quasits and that sort of purile artwork.

Huzzah!!!

That's what I was looking for. Are we selling this crap?

Stiggy placeholder; he'd have something to say.

Gittik too......

"huh?"

That's what I was looking for. Are we selling this crap?

Jah. Your share is 18000 gold.

Stigwold Mæch'Hæmmær wrote:

That's what I was looking for. Are we selling this crap?

Jah. Your share is 18000 gold.

WOHOO!

I think some creepy giant spiked Stiggy's drink with ketamine...

Slight recap;
the group got on a giant iceberg, with a tower on it. The iceberg was poled by two immense giants; it fords the River Iving which divides Jotunheim from Asgard.
Within the tower is a bar.
Altai spoke at length about philosophical matters with an extremely ugly, surly, scarred frost giant. Pip entertained the crowd, Stiggy drunk himself into oblivion...
Also, a group of firre eladrins, a hobbit Champion of Gwynharwyf, and their friends, two twin humans in plate armor claiming to formerly work for a "faction" called "the Harmonium" pawned a job off on you guys: escort a beauteous shieldmaiden, who was roomed upstairs from the bar, to search for her father.
Amongst other things, she related to you that she is one Hnoss Ottarsdotter, her father is imprisoned by a black dragon called Svipdag,
and.....the mountain fastness of said dragon is 5 days trek from a city on the Jotunheim side of the Iving, through a wilderness called "Deadman's Forest" which I translated on Google to give a Norwegian name.

So, at the moment, the group is spending loot; Altai was talking about making sure everybody had some way to protect against acid.

Maybe some magic baking soda.

....the mountain fastness of said dragon is 5 days trek from a city on the Jotunheim side of the Iving, through a wilderness called "Deadman's Forest" which I translated on Google to give a Norwegian name.

WARNING: tedious pedantry coming up.

A 'bøddel' is an executioner; if it s the "forest of dead men" rather than the "forest of men who make other men dead", it should probably be named "Dauingskogen", "De Dødes Skog", "Dødmannsskogen" or something like that. Google translations can be tricky like that - I went to a Scandinavian festival in Oregon that advertised, among other things, that they sold "ribben"; while that technically means "ribs", it refers to the ribcage rather than a food item.

Having said that, I like Bøddelskogen. It sounds like a rather unpleasant place.

That's cool;
I first said "Hangman's forest," but keep saying "Deadman's forest" for some reason.
That's what I searched on google; "hangman's forest," and liked the sound of what came up.

Okay; ready when youse guys are.

Does anyone know any magic items resources that has useless but amusing magic items? The kind of stuff a hammered dwarf might buy?

Or semi useful to him. Like a flying sofa chair.

Within the tower is a bar.
Altai spoke at length about philosophical matters with an extremely ugly, surly, scarred frost giant. Pip entertained the crowd, Stiggy drunk himself into oblivion...

Maybe a magic chalice that turns liquids (urine, water, etc...) into whiskey.

Or semi useful to him. Like a flying sofa chair.

Hmmm. What would Homer buy?

I'm walking around my house, looking at modern conveniences; going for Flinstone Tech i.e. a vulture that serves as a record player by putting his beak on a rotating stone plate....

One obvious thing would be to get a better Cloak of resistance. Maybe he could get upgrade for Tenser as well?

ayy carumba!

Welcome back Kruel.

Beldan purchases some potions, gearing up for acid breathing dragons.

Since this place seems pretty cold, I wonder if its worth the group investing in a wand of endure elements? It will cost 750gp, that’s 150gp each (there are 5 of us now aren’t there? I lose track). We could get a divine or arcane version.