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As we left our adventurers they were just settling in for the night inside a shallow cave they had located in the wilderness. After setting up numerous early warning systems in place they rested with the first watch keeping a close eye on things. All was not calm during that first watch though as it was broken by a large Dragonkin and robed rider flying in and alighting near the cave. The parties peaceful nights sleep was interrupted by the insistent nudging of a silenced watcher. the parry arose and went to face this intruder. The Dragonkin taking no prisoners it blasted its breath weapon into the cave.As the party left the cave to attack the creature Ryder went into cover and took pot shots at the robed rider as Thorsen, Ignacio and Verrick went out to face the Dragonkin, Shinigami lagging back a little and using range to blast away. It took a combined effort of the party to take down the Dragonkin but not before it had done a decent amount of damage to the party almost killing Thorsen. With the Dragonkin down everyones attention was drawn back to the rider, whom it appeared was some kind of magic user. Shinigami and he traded spells whilst the rest of the party moved in. After a hectic skirmish the robed rider fell to the party and Thorsen approached and checked the rider finding several interesting items on him. Shinigami paying close attention to the Dragonkin removed several scales from it and stored them away with the ones he had previously collected. The party reset all traps and then settled back down to what would end up being an uneventful remainder of the night. The next morning, Shinigami checked over the map and pointed the party in the correct direction then off they headed. the fort appeared to be about half a days travel away from them and it was reasonably heavy going trekking through the thick snow that covered the ground. About half a mile out from the fort Thorsen stopped the party and motioned to an area of snow that wasn't quite the same as the rest, it was almost quicksand like and after Shinigami detected magic on it he noted a faint magical aura down in the slush. Thorsen dived in and after some work managed to reach the source of the aura a small rock that appeared to be emanating light from it. After collecting the rock it was retrieved and handed to Shinigami for safe keeping. Several more hours of traveling brought the party to an area where to their North and South they could see the smoke of campfires, immediately they stopped and slowly headed forward trying to avoid raising the alarm they kept moving slowly until they came to a very steep vertical wall of rock and cliff, large Dragon bones littered the area as did three dead bodies and catapult like war-machines. Ryder and Verrick went to check on the bodies, something felt slightly wrong about the area, like the party were being watched. Shinigami as quietly cast a see invisibility spell and immediately spotted three large daemon type creatures that he didn't recognise. As soon as they realised that they had been spotted they attacked circling the party using some form of dimensional teleporting to get into position. After dropping a few well placed fireballs Shinigami was caught between two of the creatures and taken out of the fight through their combined efforts. As he was down and slowly bleeding out the rest of the party continued to fight valiantly taking down two of the creatures and a fourth swarm of eyes that also joined the fight. Thorsen stepped forth and healed Shinigami helping him get back into the fight. The numbers had by now become overwhelming and the remaining Daemon decided to run, teleporting away, presumably to his own plane. The party slowly healed up and gathered themselves and Shinigami collected some of the horns of the creatures before they all headed towards the cliff-face. the fort according to the map was at the top of this cliff and using various methods including fly spells the entire party made it up to the top of the cliff and there it was standing tall in front of them the fort of Spurhorn, now the only trouble was how where they to announce themselves, should they just walk up and approach the gates... It was then that Thorsen came up with the best idea and they had Shinigami send a message using the Whispering Winds Scroll to one of the guards saying in Draconic "We approach in peace, please fetch Bescalye, tell her the people she requested have some to assist her." How well this goes over is unsure as the alarm was raised and the sound of approaching flying creatures is heard and that is where we leave it for this session. What is going to happen, will Shinigami actually get to ride a Dragonkin, will the party be able to reclaim the two headed Eagle find out next session.
As we left our adventurers they were just done with seeing off Thugar after he fell to the Denizen of Leng finishing him off as he was dying on the floor. Scouting the immediate area the party came across a room to the South containing several jugs of apparent;y fresh water which the party refilled their water-skins from and the most interesting inhabitant a elven male tied up in one of the corners. The party approached and after freeing him engaged him in conversation finding out that he had been there for an unknown length of time and that he had a hatred for the Wolf in Sheep's Clothing that they had encountered earlier. It was about now that Ryder noticed that the Northern room had a fireplace that had not appeared to have been used in a long time and seemed to have a set of ladders heading upwards hidden within it. Shinigami was the first one to climb up and once he told the party that the room above was clear he was joined by first Thorsen, then the remainder of the party. Whilst Ryder, Verrick and Ignacio spent their time searching around the room Thorsen and Shinigami headed off to the hidden Library to investigate where they were currently located in the world. It took them several hours of study but using the geography they had seen from outside the hut and location of the sun in the sky Thorsen was able to determine that they were no longer on Golarion and where in fact now on a planet called Traxius. Whilst Thorsen continued to read up on their current location Shinigami returned to the party a confused and worried look in his eyes. The party all regrouped in the main room in the hut and as Thorsen was informing the group of what he had learned Shinigami was investigating first the items they had found in the room and then his gaze moved back to the large gem they had found on the Denizen of Leng and the humanoid looking creature inside it. Placing it in a small bag Shinigami stamped on it to break it to pieces and release the captive soul. No sooner was the gem broken than a large blue skinned tall creature appeared that Shinigami immediately recognized as a Mercane who introduced himself as Zaraat and went about thanking the party for releasing him. Under questioning from Ignacio and the rest of the party he told them a little of the planet that they were now on and finally offered Ignacio an Obsidian Raven that he could use as any time to call upon him should they have magical items that they wished to buy or sell. With that said he went off to spend time with his wife and children whom he hadn't seen in a very long time, the party wished him a safe journey and upon his leaving they rested up regaining their strength before venturing out into the cold, frozen wastes of Traxius. The area surrounding the hut was devoid of much except snow but one thing caught the eye of Ryder and Thorsen, tot he North their was a small ruin and they headed off, Ryder investigating the area first and reporting back several minutes later before both he, Thorsen and the rest of the party headed into the ruin, as they approached a large partially sealed well towards some bones in one corner of the ruin they were surprised to see two pink looking Oozes exit the well and begin attacking the party, Shinigami who had stayed behind a little used several fireballs that he imbued with the cold elemental magic from a new rod he had appropriated from the Centaur village back in Iobaria. The Oozes where rather quickly dealt with and Ryder investigated the humanoid looking bones and found a large book written in Draconic which was promptly handed to Shinigami to keep and read through later. It was about this time that Thorsen spotted a strange sight to the West, a Dragon-kin type creature with a humanoid rider flying high and circling the party. Shinigami tried to shout a greeting out to it in Draconic but it either didn't hear or understand as it flew away heading to the West. The party decided that they were going to follow it and headed off in the same direction lead by Thorsen and Ryder one watching the sky and the other watching the snow and ice covered ground... It was several hours later that they approached a slightly more rocky mountainous area that they were quickly surrounded by three blue tinted flying Dragon creatures they recognized as Frost Drakes. Ryder trying to vanish into the shadows as the rest of the party engaged them in battle fire flying from Shinigami and Thorsen, whilst the Drakes through back ice and melee attacks, Verrick and Ryder and Ignacio all engaging in more hand to hand style combat with the large blue Frost Drakes. It took several minutes but one by one the Drakes fell under the barrage of steel, arrow and flame. It was at this time that Thorsen noticed the Red Dragon-kin he had spotted earlier was circling them again still a distance off to the West of them as if leading them somewhere. The party began heading West again as they discussed the creatures intentions several of the party feeling the creature had something to do with the Frost Drakes but Shinigami who had a slightly deeper understanding of things of a Draconic nature and remembering the words of Zaraat realizing that they were on opposing sides of the war that had been raging for generations. It was several hours later that the party as they were still trudging to the West encountered the creature again... This time it appeared to be more bold and actually landed nearby them, Shinigami remembering the parties distrust and assuming that he was the only one that could speak Draconic called out a greeting to the Dragon-kins Rider and engaged her in conversation informing her of the parties reasoning for being here and trying to ease her worries about their intentions as well as translating everything to the rest of the party, one thing of great interest that as mentioned was that she was headed to a fortress called Spurhorn, this immediately made Shinigami realise that it had something to do with one of the keys that they were after and he asked about anything she may know of two headed eagles related to there. After several more minutes of conversation the party had offered to meet the commander of the fortress and offer their assistance. Bescaley flew off to the fortress to inform them of the newcomers arrival and drew out a map of the area for the party before leaving warning them of some invisible creatures as well as telling them of the current local situation. The party continued heading West and as it began to become night they followed a bloody trail North a little way bypassing a large looking bear trap and found their way to a cave to stay the night in after setting up several traps and warning systems they settled in for the night and Shinigami began reading through the book they had found on the skeleton as night moved in. How will the party be received at Spurhorn, will they find the hut keys, will Shinigami find his Dragon Companion here after all, Dragons, dragons and dragons, Shinigami feels right at home here...
Welcome to the asylum Gaetam all that we ask is please dont allow your character to get turned insane. (Inside joke, Thugar (a previous player) was made insane by the effects of a pit at the end of book three) We are a good fun group that I am sure you will enjoy playing with and havent had a rogue since the first book so will be nice to have one for those pesky traps and locked doors that usually have caused us problems. Very quick introduction I play Shinigami a Draconic Sorcerer who is slightly inept but tries his best. All he wants is a large pet Dragon to ride is that too much to ask for I ask you ha?
First of all welcome to the asylum Rider, dont let Thorsen know that you can cast Bestow Curse or he will panic he is a curse magnet... Secondly Steven I would like to purchase the following two items that are shown as available in the town: Headband of Alluring Charisma +2 Priced at 4000 GP
The second item might seem weird but it will up my ranged attacks and AC as well as improving Strength my worst statistic a little increasing carry capacity and removing negatives to melee stuff. Once we have released Ratibor I will at that point also sell the following item: Cookbook of Arcane Augmentation Priced at 10750 GP sale price covering the cost of the belt and leaving me 6000 GP. I will spend that on the following items if they are available. Lesser elemental meta-magic rod 3,000 gp Availability: 1d4 ⇒ 3 (Originally 3)
As we left our adventurers they were just done with seeing off Fafnir and the flames where still a glowing ember on the surface of the small pool of water, the party look to the hour-glass and decide to head towards the door with the same symbol on it, determined to not let Fafnir passing go in vain they head to the doorway and after an uneventful journey Shinigami hands the two halves of the hour-glass to Thorsen who stands in-front of the doorway and places the two halves together... They glow momentarily and lock in place making a singular hour-glass, looking to the door the party see a indent approximately the same size as the hour-glass and Thorsen approaches and places it in the indent... The door glowing brightly for a moment and then slowly begins opening revealing a passage way with several steps downwards which the party slowly descend down. As they approach the bottom of the steps they spot a large Frost Giant wandering around with his back to a large door. Upon spotting the Giant Thugar and Ignacio immediately run in and engage in combat whilst Shinigami and Thorsen hold back for the moment with Shinigami firing Scorching Rays at the Giant hurting it deeply.
Thorsen shifts into elemental form and slips through the wall at the side of the door, loud cries of pain and crashes are heard by the party and a slightly worse for wear Thorsen reappears telling them a little of what is beyond the door. Hearing of the several large creatures in there Thugar appears to brighten up a little and begin smashing at the sturdy looking door with his axes again and again then again... Finally the door crashes open and the party come upon a huge Svathurim and Vsevolod himself... Vsevolod casts a spell and Shinigami suddenly goes blind and is concerned for a moment until Thorsen sees the problem and cures him of the blindness. Shinigami immediately readies his magics and Ignacio runs into the room, whilst Thugar follows him and Thorsen begins summoning a large arctic looking rhinoceros, Ignacio and Thugar both attack separate creatures and Thorsen sends his summon after the Svathurim doing a decent amount of damage. Shinigami sends several scorching rays towards the Svathurim also really hurting it badly. The Svathurim is taken down by a combined effort mainly from Shinigami and Thorsen and as it collapses Vsevolod shouts out in anger and casts spells making Thugar and Ignacio start screaming and running away from him. Thorsen runs in to meet Vsevolod head on and Shinigami backs up slightly bringing down Vsevolod after several minutes of back and forth and several fireballs. Ignacio and Thugar both return and the party venture further into the room coming upon a deep pit with a circle of stairs heading down it... Before Shinigami can say anything Thorsen and Thugar both start heading down into the darkness... Shinigami and Ignacio looking around the area until the other two come back with the Dragon Scale they are after. As soon as they appear an old version of Jadrenka appears and after handing over the gold ingot she simply vanishes into nothingness.... Heaving the dungeon with the two keys that they came for the party return back to the Dancing Hut and release the guardian from his servitude and then head back to the Centaur encampment to replenish their supplies and make any purchases before seeing where the hut will take them next in their search for Baba Yaga. Where will the hut take them next, will the newly insane Thugar act any different than normal, will the party even notice... Find out in the next session....
Items that are being sold. Item QTY Price
This is the party loot only if anyone has a personal item that they would like to sell please add it to this list, but everyone thus far has approximately 10 K available to spend. Plus if anyone definitely wants to keep any of these items please say so.
Twentieth Third Session:
Twentieth Fourth Session:
Alchemy Kit 2
As we left our adventurers they were face on with a set of locked doors and half of a hourglass that they were told was the key to that door. Heading off the party went to explore the areas that they hadn't yet seen. After walking up a long corridor the party enter a room with a large steaming cauldron in the center of the room and a set of shelves on one wall containing jars with various spices on it. As the party enter the room and venture towards the cauldron the steam suddenly began to form and then several tentacles shot out from it grabbing onto Thorsen and Thugar as it revealed itself to be a Mihstu and began attacking the party. Having grappled and attacked several of the party an already weak feeling Shinigami attacked with his magics and Ignacio swinging with his weapons. Then the rest of the party manage to free themselves beaten and bloodied they all attacked the Mihstu and after a long arduous encounter the Mihstu is slain and the party pause or a moment to catch their breath. Shinigami goes over to examine the cauldron and sees runes that state "Spice is the variety of life" and experimenting the party use the spices on the shelves and make several potions.
Also can I have a list of items that we collected over the last 2 sessions so I can add them to what I have then I will give a complete list of the "party loot" we have.
When we first meet up with our heroes they are stood in the same room that we left them in after having just defeated the strange children and rock and fire in the lava throne room. Thugar was sat on the throne and the party had just finished gathering the monies lying around on the floor.. Slightly lost for direction the party headed around the area finally comming upon a box sat in the middle of the hallway by the stairs.Opening the box the party find a small key shaped in the form of a ear of corn. Ignacio thinking quickly points out that it may be the key for the door they had previously been unable to go through in the puzzle room so the party head off for it and after arranging the room in the same way that they had before the party try the key in the door, there is a click as the key works in the lock and the door swings open.
The room although an illusion appears to be well furnished and contains two doors within it. The party used the Chime on the Northern door and entered heading up into the large cavernous area, Thugar entering and exploring first he comes upon a heavily pregnant looking woman who it turns out is the Warden in another form, they have a slight argument and then the Warden vanishes and the party are attacked by a group of Korred, the first has its frustrations but Shinigami once removing the effects of the Korred drops a fireball which turns the tide of battle killing two of the Korred. The other four are quickly dealt with and most of the party head up towards the staircase that heads upwards whilst Ignacio and Shinigami wait downstairs, the majority of the party come upon another area similar to the area that they came into the Maiden portal in but quickly head back to the rest of the party. During their absence a second box with a key in it had appeared and was in the possession of Ignacio, this was mentioned to the party and the group return to the bedroom before checking out the door to the East, the key they got from the bo appeared to work in it and the door opens. In the room they come upon is a surprise, two of the daemon creatures they have now encountered a few times as well as a Frost Giant, the first of the daemons is easily dispatched by Ignacio, whilst the remainder of the party fight the remaining two. When the fight is nearing its final phase Thorsen steps forward to enter the fight but out of nowhere he is hit and falls under the blow, this rallies the party and they quickly dispatch the final creatures. Thorsen is laying still and the party initially believe that he is passed on and the conversation takes on a somber note, they go as far as arranging a funeral pyre for him but just as they are about to set it alight they hear a loud snoring sound coming from Thorsen, what he was simply sleeping but he had been dead he group where sure of it and then they see the pendant around his neck and it all becomes clear. "I`ll sleep when I m dead." Was almost very pertinent. Collecting themselves the party headed to the ladder and found themselves looking from one of the mothers hands, it was then that a strange flying creature appeared and we leave our heroes for the time being.
As we left the party last session they had just arrived in a room occupied by several of the strange other-world creatures that they had last seen attacking them in the centaur camp. the party remembering them were aware of several things about these creatures, during this encounter the creatures immunity to magic and similar attacks would make this fight drag out longer than would have been usual. The combat mainly involved Ignacio Fafnir and Thugar taking the physical attacks to the creatures, but it began with Shinigami attempting to assist the group using haste but a creature all in dark hooded robes appeared and appearing to counteract the spell with one of his own causing Shinigami all kinds of frustration this frustration would continue and heighten with every failed spell attempt. Added to that the effect of the magical tiredness caused by several magic heavy encounters since the parties last night's sleep. The journey to this point had been long and arduous thus far and was appearing only to get harder. Had it not been for the high damage output by the three more physical party member this battle could have gone far worse but as it turned out the two otherworldly creatures finally were slain and the party looked around the very dark room for the third creature, but it was nowhere to be see, Fafnir spoke up and informed the party that it had probably returned to its own realm as he figured that it was from the same place as the other creatures. Looking around the room the party find some strange markings on the wall and Shinigami and company investigate them recognising them and explaining their meaning... To the North of the room was a large table with a map on it and to the South a chest just sat. Thorsen wary after all of his incidents as of late checked the chest a little without approaching too close and had a bad feeling about it. Shinigami used his hand of the mage to try and open the chest and found that it was locked but Thugar in his typical style smashed away at the lock on the chest, finally breaking it, but even though Thorsen flinched nothing happened.... The party were beginning to wonder if it was just Thorsen being over cautious but just to be safe Shinigami opened the chest with mage hand and pulled out some of the items, then still nothing had happened Thorsen himself also began to wonder if it was just his nerves so he picked out several items to check them for any special properties as did Fafnir and Shinigami.
As we left the party last session they had just finished off a group of skeletons and two blackened skeletons. Recovering from the battle the party took a few moments to gather themselves before they continued heading towards Artrosa and the Maiden entrance to the dungeon it contained. they could see the three imposing figures a mile or so away and began working their way towards it. As they initially approached the area surrounding the base of Artrosa most members of the party began to feel something in the shadows was there but none of them could quite put their finger on what exactly it was. Thorsen decided to turn into the form of a bird and flew around the area reporting back to the group that he hadn't seen anything in the immediate area but that on the top of the high mountain area there was a sinister looking tree in a grove with the recently dead body of a centaur laying in it.
When we last left our heroes the party had just found themselves surrounded by eight, yes eight Frost Giants and Shinigami had just taken control of the Dancing Hut. As the Frost giants attacked the party tried to find any vantage point so they could assist in the battle from the inside. They need not have worried though as Shinigami expertly controlled the Hut and immediately grabbed one of the Frost Giants and made it disappear into the Huts extra-dimensional space after already causing it plenty of damage. Suddenly the act of disposing of the largest Frost Giant so easily caused all the Frost Giants that had seen it to begin shaking and become concerned for their own safety, two of them in fact began running away. the remaining five Frost Giants approached the Hut and attempted to attack to little or no effect as now the Hut under the guidance of Shinigami struck out again grabbing the nearest two Frost Giants, one in each hand and swallowed them whole as well... The others had dumbfounded looks on their faces and decided that enough was enough, turning to run they did not see nor expect the attacks that came from inside the tower from Fafnir and Ignacio. Two more Frost Giants fell as the remainder of them ran away as if their lives depended on it, which as it turned out they did... The Hut slowly began to wrest back control and cam to a soft but definite resting position once more resembling a regular hut if not for the large beak. The party began to collect themselves and taking several deep breaths were left in awe at the power of their new found transport. Not wanting to waste much time they headed to the library via Shinigamis magical book and entered deciding that it would be a good idea to do some research on several topics, including this place called Earth, but no information could even be found in reference to earth making the party wonder what Baba Yaga was hiding. Thorsen looked up Dragons in the area and found that there was in fact a giant Dragon that resided far to the North and held all of the lands of Dvezda Marches as its own and is
Putting two and two together most of the party realised that the riddles told the party that depending on which phase the moon was in at that time would denote which figure contained the portal that allowed entrance into Artrosa. Gathering up various supplies the party decided that now would be a good time to venture forth and after one final time trying to convince the guardian to allow them to return unharmed they left the Hut and began the long trek towards Artrosa... During the journey the group used their knowledge of the dates and lunar calendar to realise that the portal would currently be located in the figure of the Maiden. As they made steady going towards Artrosa the group entered a small forested area and began to feel eyes upon them coming from all directions in the trees. Ignacio raised a hand to stop the party and they caught sight of several Centaurs surrounding them in the treeline. Attempting to be diplomatic Ignacio called out to them
After a brief conversation during which Ignacio managed to convince the Centaurs that the group meant them no harm, the Centaurs "requested" that the group accompany them back to their camp and meet with their leader Korak. This request was not exactly made as an offer than could be refused and the party with half smiles on their faces agreed and decided to accompany the Centaurs back to the camp... Upon arrival at the camp they seen numerous Centaurs around, males and females all armed who also looked upon the party with suspicious eyes and a level of distrust and fear that the party were becoming to feel familiar and comfortable with. They walked through the camp until they came upon main camp fire and a rather impressive looking Centaur who was introduced to the party as Korak Kaag the leader of this clan of Centaurs. He informed them of the current situation in Iobaria and also some of the fears of the Centaurs relating to Baba Yaga and the return of the Hut. Thugar and Ignacio spoke to the Cheiften and tried to put his mind at ease regarding their intentions with being there and Thugars hatred of Giants and all allies of Giants. This combined with the honesty the party showed put Karaks mind at ease and he invited them to stay in the camp for the night and set off towards Artrosa in the morning where he would send his best scout to help them on their way and keep a watch out for them. The party accepted this proposal and headed to a smaller set of tents a little away from the main camp to settle down for the night. As the party settled down for the night though a sudden ruckus was heard from the main camp, cries of pain, the sounds of metal clashing and this raised until it was unmistakably the sounds of battle. Just as the party were beginning to ready themselves several unusual looking creatures appeared surrouding the party, they turned out to be otherworldly demons called Andrazku... They immediately picked up on the party and began attacking. Shinigami found that his magic didnt appear to effect the demons but their attacks definitely hit and hit hard... Thugar was the first to feel these attacks they quickly began to overpower the group. But thugar began fighting back taking one of them down prone constantly slowly hurting it with blow after blow. Shinigami using magic missile to hurt and take another one down whilst Ignacio took out the third... As the battle reached a tipping point one of the Andrazku got a half lucky hit in on Fafnir an he went down in a bloody mess... The blood slowly seeping out of his wounds, Thorsen tried to step forward to help him but
The party begin mourning but the Centaurs who are in awe of the parties fighting spirit and thankful for their help inform them that they have a healer and some stock of scrolls and they trade Ember-chill for the resurrection and also at the same time get some curing for Thorsens curse which was slowly draining his Willpower (what is it about Thorsen, curses and blindness anyone would think that he was cursed!). The party finally settle in for the night and sleep uneventfully, thus night becomes morning and at the next morning the whole party arise. The next morning they are informed that they are to be escorted to Artrosa by one of the clans best trackers a young and wild looking female Centaur. Several hours outside of the camp the group come across a weird cauldron in the middle of the pathway, inside it is a rather strange sight, a twenty sided dice... Not much of a one for gaming in general Shinigami is more interested in actually getting moved towards Artrosa but the rest of the party are curious and approach the cauldron... Four of them roll the dice and going third Thorsen after rolling appears to pass out making the party who are unsurpised by this sigh... The group pull along Thorsen and continue heading towards Artrosa. It takes several hours but finally Thorsen recovers and the group continue until they come upon a pair of towers stretching into the sky. Four skeleton archers stand atop the tower two large blackened skeletons approach the party and a fight breaks out. They kill off the archers and Shinigami kills one of the blackened skeletons. The others fall too, then the party find a dead body wearing an icy piece of armor, which Thorsen takes an feeling comfortable with it not being metal of any kind puts it on... This time nothing bad happens and no curse... Has he broken his curse with curses we shall see... This is where we leave our party for this session, will they get to Artrosa, what will they find there and will they ever get back into the Hut and maybe find the item that can help release the guardian from his slavery...
Alchemy Kit 1
As we left the party last session they were in the main room of the dancing hut gathered around the chest, Shinigami upon hearing of this considers and wonders if maybe they should recall Zorka and ask her about the chest and how to open it. But before they do Shinigami gives the chest one further attempt at opening it, this time the chest opens and the party look inside, what they see shocks and surprises them, a desiccated hairless cat with a blank face is found inside. After a few moments the creatures began moving and climbed out of the chest Beginning to clean itself its face slowly began to take the form of Shinigami. The creature turned out to be Migrus and Shinigami began wracking his brain to see what he could remember about these creatures and remembers that it considers the last creature to release it from the locker is its master which basically means it had become the property of Shinigami for the moment. As the party where beginning to settle in the hut they became aware of a disturbance coming from the entrance way and the doors burst open and a short Dwarven individual walked in, the party immediately felt a kinship with this individual and recognised him as carrying the mantle of one of the other riders of Baba Yaga and after a short conversation they agreed to travel together and filled each other in on their experiences to date.
(Sorry if I screwed up any of the riddles, clues or the history of Ratobour, if I made any mistakes please let me know so my mistake doesnt send the party in the completely wrong direction. I may have the maiden, mother, crone, waning, waxing, moon being full things mixed up I wrote them too close together.)
I havent looked into the new classes but I would say pick Slayer if you like the mechanics of it, if it doesnt break the game and if it is something you think would be fun to play and would suit your preferred play-style. I know that advice probably isnt helpful but it is the stock answer I give ha. Good damage output with someone that can tank is always a welcome addition considering we have a few spell-casters anyway. But who knows the kind of things we are going to come up against where-ever the hut takes us next.
Thanks Steve I appreciate that, I wished I had written a little more about the interaction with the Hag in the Hut though I just couldnt remember exactly what you said sorry. Below is a list of items the party currently has please let me know if any of these items are taken. Or if we are dumping anything before we use the keys on the hut. Alchemy Kit x 1
As we rejoin the party from last session they were just relaxing down for the evening in the abandoned hut in the North East corner of the overgrown market district. Just as the group were settling down for the night a noise is heard outside and the approach of footsteps, the party ready themselves but it is just Ignacio returning from guarding the entrance where apparently a large winter wolf had left a short while before and mentioned the party describing where he had encountered them and this had led Ignacio to find the party. Back to full strength again the party went back to resting up for the evening.
The party put the White and Red Riders to rest and then approached the four thick chains holding down the hut, once they touched them something in the mantle that they carried enabled them to break the chains and when they had broken the party entered the hut which appeared to open and welcome them in. The room they found themselves in was dominated by a large cauldron in the centre of the room which was bubbling lightly, the rest of the room contained almost every alchemical component one could imagine, one corner of the room was dominated by a fireplace which after further investigation was adorned with a strange glowing symbol that the party ignored for now choosing to investigate instead the door to the North, as they approached and opened it they were surprised to sense that this door too opened to welcome them and the mantle seemed to be acting like their key. The room beyond this was like an observation room dominated by a large see though glass floor where a map was there showing an unknown location. As Ignacio approached one of the first chairs around the room the bones on it came to life, the bone golem stood up and attacked the party... After several failed attacks from the entire party Fafnir had an idea and began channelling positive energy this seemed to harm and slow the creature and the party began to attack the creature in a more positive way... Thorsen became trapped in a cage and it took him a few rounds to manage to escape after a concerted effort by the whole party the Bone Golem feel to the ground dead.
(Did someone take note of the items we collected this session and does anyone want the Emberchill or Hyperboreal Robe and if not could I use them?)
We first find our heroes as they are finishing up the large humanoid giant and the troll that appeared and blocked their path to the entrance of the market district and the dancing huts current location. Climbing over the makeshift barrier the party enter into the market district, the sounds of battle slowly drifting off into the distance. Ignacio has a moments pause and is unable to ignore the cries of pain coming from the Iron Guard behind him and he informs the party that he is going to for the moment stay behind and assist the Iron Guard in holding off the Queens winter Guard and he will join them when he has satisfied his ethical mind. The party understand this and agree, Shinigami letting him know that they will try to get word to him when the market distract is clear before advancing to the Dancing Hut itself. With Ignacio helping the Iron Guard the party one man down advance into the Market Distract, they are surrounded on three sides by trees, the cleric of the Heralds of Summers Return was not wrong, the trees had grown tall and strong and definitely appeared to be un-natural and magical in appearance. As the party began its advance into the market district an eerie silence filled the area, this put the party on edge and they attempted to match this quiet and stillness being as stealthy as possible. Paths branched off in several directions in-front of them and Thorsen noted several fresh tracks heading off in one particular direction and some older ones heading off to the West. Slightly cautiously the party opted to investigate the area to the West. The pathway opened up into a large area, the sight that met them was weird to say the least, in the middle of a large pool of water stood a fey like creature with blazing burning red hair, it appeared to be lost in some kind of trance. Such has the parties adventures been thus far that this wasnt actually the weird thing, the weird thing was that surrounding the area where the fey was water appeared to be defying the natural laws and actually raining upwards towards the sky. From the Northern part of this area Fafnir noticed a large creature step into view, it also noticed him but strangely enough it didnt say a word and simply turned back and walked back to the North leaving the party curious and Shinigami internally noted that he would have to investigate that area later. Trying to keep as much in cover as possible the party discussed their course of action, Florizel passed on some of his knowledge on this type of creature to the party and then taking the initiative stepped forward and attempted to engage it in conversation, the creature at first ignored him totally but then it turned and looked at him, telling him, "Leave, do not interrupt me.. Leave this area you are not allowed passage.." No matter what Florizel tried the Fey would not let him passed and insisted that the party leave the area or she would have to make them leave.. The party decided to heed its warning for the moment and headed of to the East this time taking the pathway that headed to the North... Once the area opened up the party saw a strange large distortion and this appeared to be blocking their goal the Dancing Hut... Approaching the distortion the group investigate it, Shinigami recognised it as a Reality Siphon and informed the group of the knowledge he had of these un-natural phenomenon, quickly they realised that it must be the Fey they had encountered earlier that was creating this Siphon. Knowing that the only way to remove this siphon was to kill of its source of power, the three Fey they decided to investigate the area off to the East. Here the party encountered the second of this blazing haired female Fey, this one was stood on top of a large boulder as several other sizable boulders floated several feet above the ground around him. Unlike her ally to the South West this Fey haughtily and sarcastically engaged the
The party quickly led by Thorsen and Farnir attacked the creature. In very quick succession the Fey made a large spiked pit appear under Thorsen who quickly disappeared down the pit landing with a thump and a screech of pain. Meanwhile a humanoid rock creature appeared next to Shinigami and Florizel who engaged it in combat. Fafnir found himself alone and trapped on the wrong side of the spiked pit face to face with the Fey without his party for backup, this was to be a short lived thing though as quickly Thorsen appeared from the pit in the form of a medium sized owl and flew over to where Fafnir and the Fey were. The party split into two engaged both of their enemies in combat. Shinigami and Florizel taking out the humanoid rock taking little or no damage at all and once this creature fell Florizel and Blondie leaps across the pit to assist their friends in their combat with the Fey whilst Shinigami used his magical abilities to support from a distance. The Fey used several flute based magical attacks to quickly damage Thorsen and Farnir, actually taking both of them down to the ground knocking them unconscious only to have them revived by Florizel. Fafnir who was now in up and fighting found his reprieve short lived though as a second spiked pit appeared underneath him and he fell into this one impaling himself on the spikes below. The dynamic of this battle seemed to go back and forth for a short while, until the pit holding back Shinigami left and he was able to enter the fray, stepping forward a flurry of magic missiles leaving his hands slammed into the Fey, the combined efforts of the party pushing the Fey back until she has to drop down from the rock and attempted to run for cover behind a second stone. The party quickly took advantage of this and gathering itself attacked the Fey, blow after blow landing until the creature fell under the final killing blow... Thorsen looking up at the last moment spotted the large boulder that had once been floating in the air come crashing down to the ground, hitting him a glancing blow but luckily missing crushing his head. Taking a moment the heroes collected their thoughts and took a second to calm themselves before they headed off towards the North. Walking along a long tree lined pathway the party where initially unaware that two pairs of beady eyes watched them every step of the way, Fafnir and Floriel felt something and managed to spot two large flying creatures ad turned to warn the party a moment too late as Shinigami and Fafnir where quickly marked out by them and attacked, one of the creatures managed to back up Shinigami almost back to the previous area whilst the other three heroes worked on attacking the second creature felling it after several minutes of continuous blows. Thorsen and Shinigami has meanwhile been working on the first creature and after Shinigami strategically circled around a boulder leading it back towards the party it also fell down dead.... Collecting themselves the party kept pressing to the North and soon came upon a small wooden hut, upon closer inspection it appeared to be unoccupied and its windows were boarded up but Thorsen noted several footprints over a week old heading into the house and none leaving it. After several moments the door creaked open and the large head of a Winter Wolf looked out, spotting the party it emerged from the hut looking and attempting to act in a superior authoritarian manner it insisted that the group escort him back to the Winter Guard. Quickly Shinigami assessed the situation and using the fact he was still wearing the Rimpelt acted himself insisting on knowing what had brought the wolf here, demanding the wolves identification and also what intelligence he had to give on the current situation within the market district. the wolf named Bragda has apparently been stuck in the hut with his troops for the last few weeks since the forest had appeared... They had tried to escape several times yet had always been unsuccessful due to the Fey creatures that the heroes had encountered earlier. Bradga had in the end been forced to sate his hunger by ending the lives of his own troops, a sentiment that Shinigami pretended to understand being a Winter Wolf himself, "Survival is of course paramount..." Bradga then dared to question the way that Shinigami allowed his troops to talk to him which brought a quick, "I am not the one that lost my entire group am I? So please do no question my methods..." response from Shinigami. After quickly investigating the hut and its contents the party agreed to escort the Winter Wolf to the exit of the market district and they then parted, with the party hoping it would mean the Winter Wolves quick demise. The party now had to decide what to do now and opted to head off to the West back towards where they had encountered the first Fey creature. this time with little or no conversation the party attacked, Florizel charging in as the Fey stepped back and created a humanoid creature from the mud surrounding the pool of water she was stood in. Fafnir and Florizel engaging this creature in battle, whilst Thorsen was battling a large orb of water that had appeared in-front of him and was in the process of trying to drown him. After he finally managed to escape from its clutches the sight he came upon was of a battle hanging in the balance... The mud creature had damaged Florizel and Fafnir, whilst Shinigami was firing off magic missiles and a fireball at the Fey creature. Suddenly behind the mud creature Shinigami summoned an eagle which attacked and hit the creature but died quickly afterwards... The creature was to fall soon after and this marked a change in the flow of the battle.. The party quickly pressed home their advantage and the Fey eventually fell causing the water to all return to normal. By now the party was both physically and mentally exhausted and it was suggested that they return back to the house in the far North East of the market district to set up camp and begin a secondary assault the next morning... Shinigami as they were walking up to the camp began to think up a strategy for what tomorrow might bring... And this is where we leave our heroes for the time being, will they arrive at the Dancing Hut... What will the third Fey have in store for them and what will happen to the group during the evening, will it be uneventful, will Greta turn up again, how is Ignacio faring these and may other questions will be answered in the next session. (Sorry I am not as happy with this as with previous write-ups but I believe I got all the information down ha)
We first find our heroes as they are finishing up the trolls and troll hound, burning them to ensure that they dont rise again to flank the heroes. Shortly after the fire burns out they begin searching around the area, in the room to the South they find a chest, once opened it has in it several potions as well as a few less savory items such as the occupants spare nose ring and a rather macabre collection of small childlike looking human skulls. Searching through the main central room that they had first encountered the hound in the party find mainly broken and unusable items and weaponry, however two items do stand out, a nice suit of scale-mail and a rather nice looking longbow. This also has a secondary door leading from it to the West which is also checked and searched through by the party... the main item of interest found here is a hand haging fro a necklace that a quick check by Shinigami shows is a Hand of the Mage, which quickly finds its way around Shinigamis neck... Well how often have you wished that you had an extra hand... Fiinally the party enter the Northern most room upon entering they find two young girls both in obvious states of distress and when Shinigami approaches they back away, whether it be from fear or something else is unclear... Florizel approaches them and after a brief interaction finds out their names are Samantha and Yennifer and they have been captives of the trolls for a while now... Feeling a sense of compassion for the girls the party release them from their cells and tell them all about the Heralds of Summers Return and Florizel offers the girls a few coins before sending them on their way. The girls gratefully escape the tower and the party assume head off the the bathhouse... Shinigami at this moment has the idea of using the troll corpses to block the inward opening main doors to ensure that it would be as difficult as possible for any external guards or trolls to enter the tower and flank them. The party now approach the door to the West of the main entrance hallway and Ignacio quietly opens it.... Inside this next area faint noises of snoring can be heard and a quick look shows the party that three large troll hounds are fast asleep, what do troll hounds even dream about Shinigami wonders to himself, playing fetch with entire baby saplings or maybe tearing the innards out of a large elk... Before anything can really either be said or done Thorsen fires a snowball at and Florizel and Blondie charage into the fray attacking the furthest most hound... Shinigami sends a ball of acid at the nearest hound and all cause damage. The sound of the attack and battle bring unpleasant sounds from the large double doors to the south of the room and they open... Two large trolls lumber out of them, one immediately going after Florizel and the other backing up the closest hound in attacking a now engaged in battle Ignacio. Florizel is effectively cornered and tries to back up taking damage as Ignacio suggests a retreat to the hallway in an attempt to create a choke point... When Ignacio and Florizel finally do manage to separate themselves from their attackers and head back towards the door Thorsen in a moment of genius (Not back for a 10 int character) drops a perfectly placed fireball behind the encroaching trolls and hounds, badly damaging three of them and killing one of them outright. The party make reasonably short work of the now very badly damaged enemies and they quickly fall under a collection of blades and magic. Whilst the rest of the party are assessing their condition Ignacio starts a search of the area, in one chest he finds hidden under a pile of troll underwear a intriguing sketchbook which makes his eyes grow to the size of saucers and jaw hit the floor, between the covers of the book are many and various provocative illustrations of several beautiful members of the Jadwiga ruling family in various states of undress and acts of coitus. Shinigami still curious quickly flicks through wondering if there are any that may contain Greta she was a beautiful young lady and who knows may have caught the eye of one of these young ladies... Sighing he is frustrated as none of them do, guess he will never know what exactly he has missed. The party head upstairs after completing their healing and ensuring that everyone is ready for the next encounter they may have. Once upstairs they find themselves in a long corridor and enter the Eastern door. Once inside, from the North Thorsen heard a small girls voice crying and mentions this to the party. Immediately Farnir opens door and they were approached by a small semi wraith life girl, obviously not human she has a long dead animals skull where her head should be. Shinigami holds off on his action wondering if the creature will make an aggressive move. It does approach the party still crying and combat begins... Whilst the main force of the party is engaged with the undead girl Shinigami from the corner of his eyes notices through the open door of the room a door on the other side of the corridor open. A voice is then heard from Granny Nan asking what was happening asking if the trolls had brought the girls from downstairs yet, however upon seeing what was happening she insisted that the party leave her young girl alone. Shinigami informed the party of this. The undead girl fell and the party moved in to attack Granny Nan who had moved out of sight. Thorsen ran in the room first and found himself face to face with a large construct in the shape of a stove type cauldron which attacked him as Granny Nan cast spells from the corner of the room. The construct appeared to not take any damage from the various melee attacks except for Florizel who used the adamatine longsword and then Shinigami wracked his brain to try and find if he knew anything about this creature... He did as it turned out and was able to tell the party that its main weakness was cold which caused a shift in fighting style... Florizel was grabbed and engulfed by the construct as it appeared to swallow him whole into its large mouth shaped opening. A combined effort of both Thorsens cold spells and Ignacios attacks destroyed the construct and Florizel emerges slightly singed and the worse for wear... The party then switch their attacks Granny Nan and several minutes later she falls to the floor dead. Collecting themselves the party search the area in the small area where the undead child where they find amongst a collection of childrens books one titled The Labyrinth and decide to keep it handing it to their book-keeper Ignacio, a second inanimate cauldron is found in the main room
They enter a door on the East wall and this is where they encounter a beautiful young woman, approaching gently Shinigami engages her in conversation and quickly learns that this is the Bella that Solveig requested the group locate and attempted to return back to the Heralds. it is also revealed that this woman is in fact the lover and partner of Solveig which to some degree explains why Solveig was willing to offer them the level of help she did simply for attempting to return her safely. After a short conversation she agrees to wait there for the party after they inform her that they are going after the Dragon who she confirm is on the top floor.They go up to the actual frozen clock tower, ice covers the ground and a large pile of gold and gems are seen over to one side. The party having prepared themselves before entering the topmost floor spread out and begin looking around the area. The tower shakes and the white Dragon Logrivich appears, he is a medium sized white Dragon and asks the party how they dare to encroach upon his lair and breathes cold at the group hitting a number of them and inflicting cold damage. Fight ensues. Thorsen uses Sphere of fire, Shinigami fails with several Scorching Rays. Florizel and Ignacio and Fafnir fight the dragon close up.The dragon is hit by attack after attack and Burning Hands until he dies from a collective effort of fire and blades. They fire off the firework as signal and the rebellion begins, numerous other fireworks setting off around Whitethrone. The sounds of steel and other metals clashing rising above the city. After searching the large pile of chocolate gold (in pathfinder chocolate is actually rarer than diamond and therefore actually more valuable) the party walked down to the lower floor and met back up with Bella, informing her what happened to the Dragon she follows them back to the bathhouse and the Heralds of Summers Return safe-house. Bella and Solveig have an emotional reunion and Solveig goes on to explain the current situation in Whitethrone and that the Heralds and Iron Guard would do all they could to hold them back until the party were ready to attempt too get into the Marketplace and ultimately to the Dancing Hut. The party decide to rest up and head off towards the Marketplace and their contact. Once they meet up with him they are appraised of the situation and head off towards the entrance to the Marketplace. Once they arrive there they are confronted by a huge troll who the party immediately begin to attack not even a few seconds after he asks for papers. A short time into the battle a large humanoid giant appears behind the barrier and climbs over it standing on top and casts a large area frost spell knocking half of the party down... They quickly get back up and after a flurry of blows the trolls falls leaving just the humanoid Giant, one well placed Scorching Ray and several of Thorsens fire spells later the Giant was weakened and a flurry of blade blows later the Giant fell and the party headed into the market. This is where we leave the heroes for this session , Fafnir wondering if the Heralds of Summers Return will allow his newly founded cult a place in the new Whitethrone, Ignacio the damage dealing, troll killing meat shield, Shinigami who gets to act first and miss every shot or act last and hit everything... Thorsen the king of fireballs and finally Florizel and Blondie, the newest members of the group yet fast becoming one of the boys... Will they get to the Dancing Hut, we will find out next session.... (Sorry if I missed things out of this, I am blaming it being 7.40 am and me just not being able to sleep until I finished this ha.)
Thanks, if I may say my write ups can only be as good as the DM running the game and the players playing in it so really it is nice job everyone as they give me the content I just put it in words. Yeah I notice it tries to strike a nice balance, I think I just over-think situations sometimes, this is I think because of my limited number of spells I try to use them as sparingly in a day as possible ha.
Thanks, for 10 intelligence he has some really good ideas... As a draconic character my character is looking forward to the encounter with the Dragon, I do hope that we have the chance of some meaningful dialogue with it as it might give a little bit of information about my characters back-story as well as find out a little bit more about his and the dragons motivations etc. I dont think we will be able to get it to leave without a fight but it would be fun to, depending on our interaction with it have the encounter play out in a fun and different way, I have tried to balance between fighting and diplomacy/ intimidation but I think Pathfinder is more geared to straight up killing the enemies rather than having them see your side of things... On a side-note Shinigami would love a dragon as a pet.. maybe we will even find some Dragon eggs in the clock-tower, I doubt it though ha. Had Greta been Draconic in nature rather than Winter Wolf the date would have probably happened, but the wolf thing just put too many problems in the way.
This week we find the heroes standing outside of the hut they delivered the fish to at the end of last session, when a stranger approaches ridding on what appears to be a large snow leopard.... Ringir looks over at him appearing to recognise him and introduces him as Florizel a member of the Heralds of Summers Return. he dismounted and introduced his Snow Leopard as Blondie. The party felt a sense of kinship with the newcomer and for some reason it felt right for him to be a part of their small tightly knit group. Ringir waited until all of the introductions were made, a special connection appeared between the newcomer and Fafnir when they found that they were both from the Linorn Kingdom... Shinigami wondered to himself what they fed them there to grow them so small but put the thought to one side for the time being. Once they group quietened down for a moment Ringir informed them that they would need to now head over to his forger friend Mortin so that he could forge some papers in order that they could gain access to Whitethrone itself. The party agreed and began following Ringir towards his forger friends house... As you would expect though this journey did not go easily at all, their first obstacle came in the form of two cloaked figures, both in an obvious state of inebriation, Shinigami for a moment wondered if they old man, the priest of the cult of Fafnir had managed to get himself some followers already, but not life couldnt be that easy. The two strangers began hassling Ignacio demanding papers and insisting that he pay them five gold... Quickly this escalated and they two removed their cloaks revealing themselves to be Wolf-weres and they attacked, the party with their new found comrade made reasonably easy work of them, Fafnir quickly dispatching of one of them, the second fell soon afterwards... Looting the bodies the party found a number of gems and also a strange stone which on further inspection turned out to be a Steadfast Gut Stone. From further North the party heard an argument going on and upon closer inspection spotted two very large ice trolls arguing with either each other of two smaller individuals, the group quickly grabbed the wolf-were bodies and carrying them around the back of a building hid them in a deep snow drift. Once they were sure that they had not been seen they came out of hiding and headed to the East towards Mortins. Finally a break you may think but no, as they rounded a corner a human in obvious fear of his life ran into them and collapsed saying that "his master" had gone crazy... Who was this master is a question that would be quickly answered when a huge Winter Wolf appeared, apparently chasing after the human. Upon seeing the group and in particular Shinigami in the Rimpelt he stopped and made a great deal out of saying "I am Korgin. This thing is part of my house, until he decided to question how I manage mine. Im sure you understand that Sometimes you just cant break their defiant streak..." Realising quickly that the creature thought he was one of his own Shinigami who felt that he needed to atone for all the death he had dealt out whilst in the Howlings stepped forward and with an eloquent speech attempted to imply that he was himself looking for a fun human to break and train himself and if Korgin wished he would take him off his hands... A price was set and agreed upon, the wolf leaving happy and the human pleased at being saved, had another surprise coming to him when Shinigami set him immediately free with a few silver in his pocket and Ringir telling him to go to the Fishcamp and begin a new life full of freedom there. Just around the corner was Mortins abode, a small hut with boarded up windows and no real signs of life, Ringir knocked yet receive no reply, the party heard noises coming from inside and Ringir tried again, this time a small bald bespectacled man opened the door and after some back and forth allowed them in... He was a strange little man, who had a thing for silver having lost his wife to a werewolf some years before he had become a hermit, never leaving his house unless he simply had to. After much haggling a price of 3500 silver pieces was finally agreed upon for the travel documents, one would be for a honored guest for Shinigami and the others would be slave papers, Florizel who himself was a skilled linguist stayed with Mortin and assisted in the forging of the documents which took several house... Finally several hours later the party approached the main through way between the Howlings and Whitethrone proper. The only thing stading in their way now was two mirror men who seemed to speak with some form of telepathy. They challenged Shinigami who according to the forged documents was the owner of the others to approach and attempted to un-nerve him, keeping calm he handled the mirror men with a relaxed air and after several agonising moments wondering if Mortin was as good as he said he was he was proven to be as the mirror men allowed the party access to Whitethrone. Quickly upon arriving in Whitethrone Ringir led the party to a area called the Flows and to one particular bath-house there... A shrine was hidden underneath it and the party were taken to this shrine, once inside they found Solveig, the cleric of the shrine and member of the Heralds of the Summers Return infront of them... She began questioning them as to their reasons for being there and when it was finally revealed by Ignacio that they sought the Dancing Hut so they they could rid Whitethrone and the world of the Queens dictatorial reign Solveig softened towards the party, especially when Florizel spoke up regarding their character. Over the next few hours the situation was laid out to the party and a plan put in place.... The party would invade the clock-tower and take out a white dragon (whose name I forgot) and then the Iron Guard who were friendly towards both the Heralds and Babba Yagga would attempt to attack the Ice Guard and at least create enough of a diversion for the party to be able to get into the market area where the Dancing Hut was on display as unmolested as possible. the party agreed but Shinigami also had a second request, two party members were suffering with cursed afflictions and a further deal was struck whereby they curses were removed and the party offered both financial compensation and also promised to do all that they could to find and return and young lady called Bella who was a captive in the clock-tower.... Late the next evening after a hectic day of buying and selling the party found themselves leaving the Shrine with several items Solveig gifted to them and heading out for the clock-tower. Upon arrival the tower stood tall in-front of them, four storeys high, they decided to approach by the courtyard, this turned out to be a mistake as when they set foot towards the front doors two statues came alive and attacked them... Florizel quickly dispatching of one of them but breaking his lance a the same time... The second also crumbled and it was found that both were using adamantine swords that the party happily took. The thought, "This is just too easy..." passed through several party members heads... Famous last words we think.... Entering the tower the party were assailed by the sounds of moving mechanisms, cogs and mechanical parts... Thorsen tried listening for sound at one of the doors but couldnt hear anything... Entering the room beyond the doorway a large troll and his huge hound spotted the party and the hound attacked, allowing the Trolls to run off and alert a large female troll of the attack... The party dispatch of the hound and Shinigami enters the room, firing some magic missiles at the troll he spots the female troll and warns the party. A hectic battle ensues during which Shinigami takes out the male troll whilst a Bugbear appears from the Northern room and is taken out by a combined effort of Thorsen, Florizel and Blondie both of which have proven themselves to be top notch fighters. Whilst the party fight with the female troll Shinigami heads into the room to the North after spotting some children in cells in the hopes of freeing them... The female trolls falls deal under the parties combined efforts and that is where we leave the heroes for this session.... Fafnir still trying to add to his ever lengthening list of miracles for his cult to worship, Ignacio now better armed and armored becoming the ass kicking meat shield that Shinigami has been calling him for weeks. Thorsen the brains of the operation, Florizel and Blondie the dynamic duo quickly becoming highly valued members of the party and Shinigami being how only the bipolar Shinigami can be, one moment killing a dozen people and the next randomly freeing a slave... (Dont think I missed anything, if I did let me know)
Updated list of group items Alchemy Kit 1
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As we come upon our heroes we find them surrounded on three sides a heavy sense of deja-vu filling the air. A large white wolf speaking to them telling them that he has been sent by Queen Nazhena to locate and return the heads of the party that sacked the Pale Tower and killed her apprentice Radosek. To the North several armored archers stand controlling a falcon each.... A still silence fills the air and then all hell breaks loose, the falcons attacking Shinigami and Thorsen but they are quickly dispatched by two well placed burning hands (finally burning hands does something). The large imposing white winter wolf attacks Fafnir and Ignacio, heavily damaging them with his cone of cold. The party separated single out their targets, Fafnir going down an Ignacio getting low on health after several archer strikes and winter wolf attacks. Seeing the danger Ignacio is in Shinigami changes his target to the Winter Wolf and several magic missiles later the Wolf finally collapses. This leaves just the few archers left and prompting the party to revive Fafnir and attack the archers dispatching them with some ease... Nadya once revived notices something special about the Winter Wolf and informs the party that its pelt is quite valuable, the party expertly skin the beast and claim the Rim-pelt. Nadya is revived and informs the party that they are about half a day outside of Whitethrone and the Fishcamp that she believes her husbands uncle lives in and that he being a smuggler might be able to find a way of getting them into Whitethrone. After a good night rest the party break camp just out of view of the Fishcamp and head on in, their first encounter with a local doesnt go exactly to plan and he runs away wary of the strangers.... Their second encounter is far more enlightening, a slightly inebriated dwarf is sat in an alley enjoying a bottle of something. The party approach him and have a quite jovial conversation with him during which time they discover that Ringir, the person they are looking for may have had a disagreement with a local "tax collector" of sorts called Marcian. The Dwarf leaves with a drunken flush in his cheeks and a heavy coin purse whistling away to himself rather unsteadily. The party begin to approach a large fire pit in the middle of the Fishcamp when they spot a altercation going on between several "shoddily armored" guards and an old man whom it appears owes them some kind of tax money... Angered at the way this man is being treated Fafnir approached the group insisting that he is the mans grandson and demanding to know how much is owed... The "guards" make some insane claim about the value of the taxes and this quickly breaks out into a battle, Ignacio quickly sends the captain of the "guards" running away crying leaving behind himself a little trail of urine. The rest of the guards are quickly dispatched by Fafnir and Ignacio one running into the sea and drowning, never to be seen or heard of again. The old man recovers and begins hailing the party as saviors and angels, proclaiming them to be gods, walking away he is heard to be calling, "All hail Fafnir" and thus the cult of Fafnir was founded, millions will later claim that they were there on this day but very few actually were.... Going on information that the "priest of the cult of Fafnir" gave to them the party approach a rough looking dwelling with boarded up windows and a makeshift "guardhouse" sign hanging over the doorway, Ignacio knocks and demands an audience with Marcian, noises can be heard from inside and two large ogres can be seen walking nearby. When the door to the "guardhouse" opens a rather harassed guy stands there proclaiming he knows nothing of this Ringir. Ignacio looks shocked for a moment when he spots an individual fitting the description tied up under the bed (S & M maybe, hey I am not going to judge, each to their own). When Ignacio finally gets the courage to call Marcian on this a battle ensues. Thorsen quickly tangling the two Ogres and incapacitating them whilst Ignacio goes after Marcian, after a drawn out and bloody battle, Ignacio kills the two ogres and Shinigami offended at being called a "wizard" destroys Marcian. After the party loot the "Guardhouse" they free and reunite Ringir and Nadya and retire to Ringirs house to plan their next move. A plan of action is quickly decided upon, a toast is given to their fallen comrade Gundar as the party lose another traveling companion as Nadya leaves with everyones well wishes to be with her children. Ringir promises to help them get into the city and suggests that they enter via The Howlings as it is the least guarded and he suggests that they go in under the guise of delivering fish to the starving poor in the Howlings, further he informs them that he has several contacts, one of which might be able to help Thorsen and Fafnir with their afflictions and another that might be able to get them documentation to get them access to Whitethrone itself. Upon hearing about the parties desire to gain access to the "Dancing Hut" he tells them about the situation in Whitethrone at the moment and offers the possible services of a group called "The Heralds of Summers Return" who may be able to help them in their quest. The next morning the party rise early and storing away all of their armor and weapons under Ringirs suggestion they head towards the Howlings entrance under the guise of fish transporters. At the gate a stunningly beautiful white haired woman approaches them and requests they submit themselves to a search and tell her what their business is in the Howlings. This check goes by without any problems then she approaches Shinigami who (in his single dumbest idea ever, and there have been alot of them is wearing the Rimpelt). She proceeds to introduce herself in a very provocative manner as Greta mention that "it is mating season" and inquire as to whether Shinigami would like "a cup of tea later.." After an awkward silence Shinigami tries to smile slightly flirtatiously (dont judge she is really stunning looking) and offer that if his current assignment finishes early enough it would be his pleasure to spend the evening having tea with such a beautiful companion, causing her to blush and with a smile on her face wave them through.... Once inside the Howlings the party rearm themselves with their easily concealable weapons and delve deeper into the area... They are accosted by a small group of goblins calling themselves "The Back Alley Boys", who demand "Fishes..." The leader attacks quickly using some bombs damaging several members of the party and ultimately knocking out Ringir. Shinigami still in two minds and slightly distracted by the appealing offer from Greta takes a few moments to come to his senses and tries to get the group to submit to him using his new found sense of confidence (See my intimidation checks did have a storytelling purpose ha)... Realising quickly that this is futile the party attack the Goblins and "The Cult of Fafnir" gains a new tale of the Goblin Slayer as he cuts his way through Goblins one after another... The bodies are quickly looted and hidden away from prying eyes. It is then that Ringir spots and points out to the party their is a Mirror Man doing his rounds... The party quickly hide the cart and themselves managing to evade the Mirror Man patrol then Ringir delivers the fish to his contact in the Howlings. And there we leave our heroes Fafnir with his new found cult, Thorsen, Ignacio wishing he had taken the Rimpelt and Shinigami with a potentially life changing choice to make..... (Let me know if this write up makes sense and if you would like any future write ups to be done any differently or if I spelled any names wrong which I probably did.)
Damn was looking forward to starting the next book today and what I assume would be our journey to Whitethrone. Did Wragnaroq roll his new character yet and if so do we have any spoilers regarding class, back-story etc of is it to be a surprise? Secondly MarvelWolf, I am just curious do you know any further information as to if you are able to continue or has that pesky thing called real life managed to get in the way?
RIP Gundar.... Although Shinigami did have an idea about maybe using the soul focus gem taken from Thora and one of the dolls to make Gundar a construct or maybe even storing him on ice until they get to Whitethrone maybe in a block of ice and see if someone there can help him.... I am intrigued how the party are going to meet your new character. In defense of Thorsen and Shinigami both of them were up in the tower and couldn't see Gundar fall. Don`t worry though something epic I am sure will be role-played for his funeral. Tales of his single handed crusade and battle with the Dragon and the Witch will be told for generations to come, Gundar the Great will live on.
Would everyone be OK and think it best if I have the following: Elixir of Fire Breath.
I think the Cauldron of Overwhelming Allies suits Thorsen better as he will hit the right level to use it to the best of its ability earlier than me. Not sure who would benefit from the Cloaks of Resistance x 2 that we have. Will leave the tokens and the Ring of Protection and Armour Amulet to who the party thinks will best use them. The party currently has 3799 GP in coinage plus about 3000 GP in gems and jewelry. Also a 1000 GP Spyglass and 2500 GP in Silver Trade Bars. As well as numerous other items of which I have a list but most of it isnt priced since we left Waldsby, maybe that is something we can do, get the stuff appraised when we go back to pick up Nadyas children. Out of game, am I reading that Ring of Regeneration right, it says the market value for it is 90,000 GP, that cant be right.
Trader Woman is called Nadya or Nadia. Her daughter that was taken (The Doll) was called Thora. The blue skinned woman was called Merul or Merril something like that. The innkeeper was called Emile or Emil and his wife was called Catrina or Katrina. I don't remember the names of the other two children of Nadya/ Nadia sorry. Would the GM be OK with during downtime the party were to teach Gundar enough Skald for him to have a rudimentary understanding of it? Not so much that he is fluent (Wouldnt need linguistics then) but enough that he can "get by". if Tavie wants the Snowshoes she may of course have them, just grabbed them as wasn't sure they would benefit anyone else more. Will wait and see if Tavie wants them.
The party also still has the following: Blue Ice Diamonds x 4 @ 100 GP each
Cure Moderate Wounds Potion (Someone taking or taken it?) Feather Step Potions x 4
Nice Scabbard x 1 @ 125 GP
Thunder-stone x 2 @ 30 GP each. Plus 865 GP in coinage. Sorry if I am wrong on any of these prices I tried to remember them to the best of my knowledge.
"Shinigami being Shinigami" Hey now, it was not Shinigami running away it was a strategic retreat in order to attack from a more advantageous location ha. I get the feeling that Shinigami is being misrepresented, you missed out the whole fight with the flying winter touched that we had encountered previously at the bridge by the High Sentinel Lodge, in which Shinigami was integral in intimidating the creature and causing lots of damage as well ha. Just giving you hell, awesome write up... No idea how you remember all of that detail.
Quick question, a Sorcerer using a scroll, does the scroll have to be just on my list of spells that I can select or does it have to be a spell that I actually know and are able to currently cast? (Edit - Nevermind I think I answered my own question it only has to be in my class list of spells, so it appears I dont need to know it.. If this is incorrect please let me know though.) That being said I would like to take the scrolls - Ray of Enfeeblement and Unseen Servant and Animate Dead HD 10 (for later) please.
lastgrasp wrote:
I already have a light crossbow with bolts. Now if there was a masterwork light crossbow I would take that and change it for the crossbow I already have.
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