The One Room Session (Almost)#

When the chiming ended, the carvings on the walls cease their infernal undulations. The footsteps we heard outside the room became louder and suddenly 4 subhumans dressed in archaic scale mail broke through the door - three carrying odd, curved battleaxes, one wielding a glistening, dripping dagger. The subhumans launched into the room among us while a creature, human-sized but like a large octopi, ambulating with a sickening undulating gait on its tentacles, glaring eyes in its large head, stayed in the doorway. The creature began to wave its tentacles and the familiar reality distortion field filled the room. The cleric failed his save vs. spell and was incapacitated and disoriented. The rest of the party made their save.

We found ourselves in possession of Abigail’s hand, and the claw-like gauntlet that contained it. As we gazed upon it while pondering the significance of slicing off a vampire’s hand, the hand itself began to dissipate in a sulfurous mist. Presently, the hand completely disappeared, though it left behind the gauntlet, intact and seeming to smoke as the hand dissolved.

We gave Heimdell’s crowns to Harald and Maeve. Menka returned the holy symbol of Odin to Harald’s curate, Olaf Iverson.

Kyril

• 2 vials of holy water
• Oil of Fiery Burning

Cathal

• Gamred the Golden (+3 two-handed sword, double-damage vs clerics in case Menka gets mouthy, plus user can Detect Magic and Remove Fear 30’ radius 1x/day)

Hall crew returns on day 13.

Day 8:

Tim trained Lycovyne for one full week and he gained 2 hp, (56/56).

We decided as a party to keep the coin we acquired on solo quests and to share out magic items.

We have 11 pearls (pg. 349, Session 48). For some reason they were deemed too spendy to come from Zagyg’s Spell Component Case, though the case could produce the live miniature carp. Detect magic was required for some of ther loot.

Harald and Ninax, Menka and Cathal discussed the orcish incursions . Cragenheim will be levying troops from the surrounding area in the near future. Priest and knight assured them we would be back through at some point.

Menka, Cathal and Seamus planned to travel to the Hall of Seven Pillars the following morning. Ninax offered to ride with us to the block house. With the cessation of the frigid, lingering winter the road to Westkeep was re-opened, though only a well-protected caravan dare make the journey.

Since Flint was not leveling-up, he killed time in Markheim at the Diamond Spider Tavern, drinking ale and ‘assisting’ the dancers (i.e. attractive thieves wearing translucent silks) there with robbery of certain customers (“marks”), most of whom were out-of-towners passing through on caravans, merchants or farmers selling their goods in Markheim.

The Diamond Spider was, as you know, the local Thieves’ Guild in Markheim, headed by the owner/proprietor, Spider Braz, and the retinue of dancers, bouncers and barmaids, all of whom were guildmembers, or at least non-thieves in the know and on the payroll. There was a complex system regarding who called be “rolled” and who should be left alone, and Flint neither fully understood nor got involved in that.

At the Temple of Thoth, Father Malai had described the Hall of Gods to Menka and stated that it would be a good idea to show proper veneration to the gods if we entered that sacred hall. Father Yuyu had described the prayers and intonations for proper sacrifice and veneration to Osiris for this purpose and Menka made note of it (see 5.6.6).

With the portal below the tower closed and danger at least temporarily averted, Creel advised the party that he had sent messages out to his fellow 8 wizards (of ‘The Nine’) asking for assistance. While the party bivouacked at the tower, some of this aid arrived.

From Session the 35^th:

We have 300 gp left, as well as 15 pearls (??).

Beasties#

• Pg. 223, 5 minions of set (no hp)
• 6 yeti 35, 33, 31, 29, 27, 25 (pg. 224, St35)
• 4 wolves, 2 huge, charmed by Kyril (pg. 225, St35)
• 3 perytons (30, 29, ?), pg 227, St36
• some number of yeti, all fireballed (St36, pg. 228)
• 2 creatures “with six legs, emanating cold. [They were] like a foul mix of a snow leopard and a rhino or unicorn. No hps. pg.229, St36
• 5 yeti (55, 29 x 4), pg. 230, St36
• Worshippers of Ithaqua (37, 37, 37, 38, 38, 38, 60), pg. 232 St36
• wizard, worshipper of tjhe Wind Walker, pg. 234, St37
• two undead dwarves, turned then chopped, pg. 234-235, St37
• Dzialo on tequila gibbering mouther, 70 hp
• 6 shadows, 25 hp each, destroyed utterly by the power of Thoth! pg. 242, St39
• 2 tenebrous worms (66, 64) pg. 242, St39
• gloomwing (36), pg 243, St39
• 8 cave crickets, probably XP negative, (8 hp each), pg. 243, St39
• ancient white dragon (56 hp - is this correct?), pg. 244, St39
• 40 grimlocks (13 hp each), 4 lieutenants (24 hp), 1 champeen (88 hp!!), pg. 247, St40
• hook horror, (35), pg. 248, St41
• 11 hook horrors, (35 hp each, one leader at 45)
• super coffer corpse (60), pg. 252, St41
• 7 slime creatures from outer space (36 hp each), pg. 255. St42
• gibbering mouther, (32), pg. 257, St43
• 20 grimlocks (13), 2 grimlock leaders (23), 1 champeen (75)
• 3 cave fishers (23, 22, 21), pg. 259, St43
• lich, 138 hp, St44, pg. 270

Loot#

• cold monster loot, pg. 229, St36
  • 102 cp
  • 70 ep
  • 24 gp
  • 15 pp
  • 50’ of rope in good condition
  • 1 potion
• ancient dwarven coins, 200-300 years old
  • 500 gp
  • 250 pp
• undead (?) wizard’s loot, pg. 236, St37
  • iron rations
  • pile of neat clothing, including an unholy symbol: an antlered wooden humanoid effigy, disturbing to look upon, with a suggestion of red eyes
  • the wizard’s robe (magic)
  • the flail (magic)
  • the wizard’s dagger (magic)
  • spell book with the pages torn out (magic)
• gibbering mouther loot (4 gems)
  • 2 x 1000 gp
  • 1 x 200 gp
  • 1 x 2000 gp
• Dragon loot!
  • white dragon’s necklace with a gem in it
  • 4 very large gems
  • a magical flail, praise Thoth!
  • a small crystal item, a sexualized figure of an elven woman, magic
  • a magical drinking flagon
  • a pile of armor and broken weapons, not magical
  • 4 magic arrows
  • 2 potion bottles, magical
  • 1 magical wand
  • vial of white dragon blood (Menka)
  • white dragon scales for a shield (Gonchar)
  • white dragon teeth for Seamus
• grimlock loot
  • 58 ep
  • 66 gp
  • 96 sp
• hook horror loot
  • Lots of coin
  • Broken chain mail
  • Huge pile of glittering My Little Pony stickers
• Rotted corpse loot!
  • Bag of Holding, a new one!
    • Funerary trappings
    • coin, clothing, rotted food
    • flask of wine
      • enchantment of a different sort, keeps altering, shifting holy enchantment
      • divination magic - chaotic, though
    • boots
    • small wooden rack containing 4 flasks (radiated magic)
• peryton loot
  • vial of liquid
  • scroll (protection from cold?)
• mossy pillar (pg. 242)
  • 2 diamonds (6,000 - 9,000 gp. ea.)
• gloomwing and tenebrous worm loot
  • 4 tenebrous worm mandibles (ivory)
  • 2 gloomwing mandibles (ivory)
• slime creature loot!
  • chain mail
• Lich loot!
  • along the east wall stood 5 huge, 3’ tall golden vases, flanked by 5 pitchers
  • along the northern wall, a wooden chest with a silver lock and a wooden box
    • wooden chest
      • 21 gems and over 3,000 gp
    • wooden box
      • old clothing
      • very nice leather armor (magic)
      • silver spear (magic)
  • along the west wall
    • long, plain box
    • 3 bejewelled silver (plates? plaques? flanges?)
    • golden sickle and bowl
    • staff with a pine cone on top
  • snow leopard statue, stuffed with large sapphires, with great gems for eyes
  • in the south room
    • solid white gold of a snow leopard, worth a lot of money
  • wooden table in the shrine
    • silver platter with a silver lid
    • silver pitcher, full
    • persian rug (magic below or within)
    • rolled up within we found a small box
    • 12 scrolls within, 3 radiate magic
      • flame strike
      • speak with monster
      • (see below)

A Word From Our Sponsor#

So I’ve run the numbers to date, and the party really has gotten a LOT of experience. Just over 22, 000 xp each so far (with 10% bonus factored in), plus every character got a 2000 xp bonus each for deposing the wen-di-go’s magic, and individual members got some various bonuses for feats related to character classes (fighter feats of bravery, paladins being selfless, clerics turning, druids charming beasts, thieves backstabbing creatively, creative spell use for spellcasters, and so on). So, to date, everyone’s getting between 24,000 - 25,500.

Osgoth Map Key#

Note to players: this is a map of the ‘known world’. The major regions are denoted by numbers, with descriptions of each set forth below. Each region is summarized in terms of political situations, rulers, gods, terrain and some description of note to adventurers. It is all ‘common knowledge’ a resident of Osgoth such as yourselves would know. Only major cities are noted (and described below) - no cities are named on the map, because an 8x12 piece of paper didn’t allow room. Major geographical features (large mountain ranges, hilled areas, forests (temperate and pine), large lakes, huge swamps, major deserts/steppes, significant islands and the largest rivers) are noted. This is not to say that ‘clear’ areas on the map do not include smaller forests, mountain/hill regions, lakes, ponds, smaller rivers, swamps or other terrain. Only the major areas are noted. Further, countless smaller keeps, cities, towns and villages exist throughout the continent, and none are noted on this map.