Session 37 - Not the beeeees! AAAARRRRRHHHH!

In the continuing saga of squeaking by on player count, a wandering player showed up for his first D&D session ever!

Welcome Aaron who is playing a Halfling called Aaron. I didn't know charcoal was a cure for poison but wikipedia says it is so that sounds legit. Wait, ingested poisons only? Oh well, it didn't help poor Carl Sburg in the end anyway who had his face bitten off even without the poison.

Poison is bad. Just be glad nobody got stung by those fist-sized bees!

As for the session itself, upon hearing a rumour that Lonville Marsh is the source of the mold monsters, our intrepid band of adventurers schlepped it to the ugliest village in all the land.

There they were accosted by mold men who attempted ever-so-subtly to make them eat some mold-encrusted bits of dry skin and mushroomy hair chunks. To escape they sprinted to the delapidated yet defensible Church, barred the door with pews, and nearly got eaten by spiders.

They also found more valuables than they have in a while, and I discovered that the thing I was thinking of when trying to describe a religious ornament was "monstrance" which is just the best word.

Session 37 - Not the beeeees! AAAARRRRRHHHH!

Campaign date:
Saturday, July 20th 1549
Moon phase: First Quarter
Zodiac: Gemini

New characters:

- Aaron, Halfling charcoal burner. Bag of activated charcoal came in real handy.

Enemies defeated:

- 2 giant spiders, eventually shanked (100 exp)

- A number of obnoxiously large bees and their hive, smoked out (100 exp)

Treasure and Equipment:

- 13sp, 6cp (14 exp)

- 7 standard rations from Sayzel's Meadow

- Silver candlestick (800 exp)

- Silver monstrance (1000 exp)

- Small silver hammer necklace (250 exp)

- Quality 2 leather armour (75 exp)

- Loads of softly glowing honey in waterskins, cooking pots, other makeshift containers (2000 exp)

- Spider fangs w/ venom sac still attached

- Mallet and chisel

- Skull and 2 femurs
- 20g of pocket lint

Exploration:

- Travelled 12 miles (20 exp)

- Random encountered (10 exp)

- First party to enter the Church in Lonville Marsh (100 exp)

- 4 dungeon rooms explored (80 exp)

- 1 secret door found (50 exp)

Misc:

- Met Davos the Cleric and his buddy Griff - shared info, pie shop location, etc. (50 exp)

- Escaped the mold men in Lonville Marsh (50 exp)

- Smoked out the bees w/ makeshift smoking torch (50 exp)

- Set giant killer bees on Lonville Marsh (50 exp)

- Bee fishing (50 exp)

- Inventive use of charcoal (50 exp)

- Horrifying realisation bonus (Mushroom Lover - 100 exp)

- Cartographer bonus (Fungonius - 100 exp)

Quests and Rumours:

- "Out in Layriding they're stocking up on weapons and food and they're not sharing, the cunts. Next one I see at the Drunken Carp gets a black eye."
- "The mold creatures all come from Lonville Marsh. It's the source of this evil."
- "Bears have begun shucking their hides and moving through the trees all bare muscle and bone."

Death Toll and Injuries:

- Carl Sburg, murdered by a spider while trying to block off the spider hole alone

Exp Totals:

Dominic / Fungonius, Level 3 Cleric: 5479 (Level up at 7000)

Renzo / Mushroom Lover, Level 4 Elf (Alpdrucke): 19498 (Level up at 24000)

Aaron / Aaron, Level 1 Halfling: 1637 (Level up at 2000)

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Absent or Retired:

Matt / Sheik, Level 1 Barbarian: 767 (Level up at 2000)

Shaun / Nagash, Level 1 Necromancer: 817 (Level up at 2250)

rhhjdghjdshgjbleeeh / Elric, Level 1 Cleric: 817 (Level up at 1750)
Michael / Mist Urmun, Level 4 Magic User: 12881 (Level up at 18000)

Pawel / Devein, Level 1 Dwarf: 1160 (Level up at 2200)

Liisa / Peggy Pigrider, Level 4 Dwarf: 13395 (Level up at 17600)
-- Mr Burg, Level 1 Fighter: 655 (Level up at 2000)
Marco / Sauron, Level 1 Necromancer: 1530 (Level up at 2250)
Tom / NWA Chuck Langley, Level 1 Cleric: 951 (Level up at 1750)

Ros / Rhea, Level 1 Elf (Capriped): 850 (Level up at 3000)

John / Level 1 Magic-User: 1500 (Level up at 2000)

Dana / Bingo, Level 1 Muscle Wizard: 1461(Level up at 2250)
Chris / Crocell, Level 4 Halfling: 12318 (Level up at 16000)
-- Belial, Level 1 Fighter: 1047 (Level up at 2000)
Michael / Mist Urmun, Level 4 Magic User: 9129 (Level up at 18000)
Renzo / Gastani, Level 2 Barbarian: 3000 (Level up at 4000)
Chris2 / Gadling, Level 3 Specialist (Assassin): 4738 (Level up at 6000)
Joanna / Artemis, Level 2 Specialist (Healer): 2250 (Level up at 3000)
George / Magnus, Level 1 Cleric: 1342 (Level up at 1750)
Lisa / Bella, Level 1 Magic User: 1951 (Level up at 2250)
Jacob / Wizard Khalifa, Level 1 Muscle Wizard: 430 (Level up at 2250)
Marius' Totally-Not-Necromancer, Level 3 Necromancer: 5111 (Level up at 9000)
Nadav / Frog, Level 1 Fighter: 732 (Level up at 2000)
Charlie / Losh, Level 1 Elf (Habberjock): 309 (Level up at 3000)
Jack / Uldric, Level 1 Magic User: 409 (Level up at 2250)
Kate / Khaleesi, Level 1 Muscle Wizard: 37 (Level up at 2250)
Emmi / Lyrel, Level 2 Necromancer: 2891 (Level up at 4500)
--- Schmidt, Level 0 Human