Session 28 - Fear the Cube

Lots of running around this session! In truth I feel kind of bad about how little exp you guys got, but that's the price of staying on the (relatively) low risk low reward first level I guess.

At least you know some more about the dwarfs around here, including that due to the lack of Dwarven females they carve their sons from stone.

You have also made some potential allies in Surly's dwarf guys. They are currently mourning the loss of Shorty and Silly, but they might come back once they've done whatever dwarfs do with their stoney dead. Maybe carve them into tasteful furniture who knows.

See you next week!

Session 28 - Fear the Cube

Campaign date:
Saturday, June 28th 1549
Moon phase: Waxing Gibbous
Zodiac: Gemini

Enemies defeated:

- 15 rough-hewn dwarfs, generally abused (30exp)

- 8 skeletons, slain with help from Surly's dwarf gang (80 exp)

- 3 mutants, two surprise-attacked and another fled (30 exp)

- 1 gelatinous cube, chopped up into jelly. (100 exp)

Treasure and Equipment:

- 1 gold, 13 silver, 132 copper (74 exp)

- Wineskin with a strange angular design etched into it.

- Bingo has put 45 gold pieces in the bank (interest rate - 2% p.a.)

- Bingo has put a map book of the Exarchate of Theana and a half-burnt scroll of Magic Warding into secure storage. (5cp/week)

- Mushroom Lover has put 2 spellbooks, a book on the Theory of Puppetry, and a book on Surviving the Interorbular Ether into secure storage. (5cp/week)

- Pie Mama's has had a good month, yielding a big 37.5sp to collect.

- Faust has returned as a retainer. His earnings this week - a mere 10 silver. Not sure if he believes this is a fair wage for what he's been through.

Exploration:

- Approx 18 miles of travel (30 exp)

- 6 dungeon rooms explored (60 exp)

- 4 groups of wandering monsters rolled (40 exp)

Misc:

- Activated and escaped the combat training room (50 exp)

- Helped Surly's dwarfs recover their dead and find out what happened to the previous exploration team. (50 exp)

- Successfully avoided blame for using a dead dwarf as a doorstop. (50 exp)

- Ruined that one guy's oil trap (50 exp)

- Popped a lot of explosive bubbles. (50 exp)

- Long deliberation bonus (50 exp)

- Cartographer bonus (Mushroom Lover - 100 exp)

- Failed saving throw bonus (Mushroom Lover, Peggy - 100 exp ea.)

- Near death experience bonus (Bingo, Mushroom Lover - 100 exp ea.)

Quests and Rumours:

- "Dwimmermount used to be the mightiest dwarven fortress in the world. It's gone through many owners in that time, and great wars have been fought over it."

- "Huge, strange beasts stalk the mountain passes. They can't be undead or monsters from Moondin, so what are they?"

Death Toll and Injuries:

- Due to Faust's ministrations, nothing permanent.

Exp Totals:
Liisa / Peggy Pigrider, Level 4 Dwarf: 10715 (Level up at 17,600)
Renzo / Mushroom Lover, Level 3 Elf (Alpdrucke): 10813 (Level up at 12000)

Dana / Bingo, Level 1 Muscle Wizard: 1461(Level up at 2250)

--- Faust, Level 1 Specialist: 933 (Level up at 1500)

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Recovering:
Tom / Olaf Tenderloin, Level 2 Dwarf: 2737 (Level up at 4400) ETA: 21 weeks
Tom / Baron Noel Pompadour, Level 1 Specialist: 1223 (Level up at 1500) ETA: 7 weeks

Absent or Retired:
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)
Tom / Eli, Level 1 Cleric: 409 (Level up at 1750)
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

Session 27 - Through the Red Door

Alright, so it turns out that fighters are actually super good at killing lots of little guys which uh... I guess is actually working exactly as intended.

There's a new guy, Dana, who briefly played as a wizard before he and his familiar turned into demons and got shanked by Crocell's retainer. Now he's a Muscle Wizard who nearly got shanked accidentally by Crocell's retainer.

The guys entered fabled Dwimmermount whose doors have long been sealed. Recently strange lights and figures have been seen upon the mountain which means, of course, that this megadungeon is open for business.
The Red Door near the mountain's peak was found slightly ajar and were mystified as to why things weren't making sense until I realised I had the wrong map open... then they went around and basically killed a bunch of guys and mapped a bunch of dungeon.

I'm sure they can fill you in on the thing with the statue heads and the mutants and stuff next time you're around.

For Mushroom Lover, in-game tomorrow is the first day of the week before the full moon, so you'll have one less spell per day for the duration.

For Mist Urmun, the sun is now in the house of Gemini so your zodiac summoning spell will net you a pair of identical twins. No idea whether they're sexy ladies or not but the wikipedia article has them as a pair of lumpy redheaded guys wearing nappies.

So! Mondays seems to be an ok day for D&D, if you have any issues with rescheduling let me know, and hopefully see you all next time!

Session 27 - Through the Red Door

Campaign date:
Saturday, June 24th 1549
Moon phase: First Quarter
Zodiac: Gemini

New characters:

Bingo Augustus-[something illegible], Muscle Wizard and Wainwright, comes with his own pushcart (Dana)

Enemies defeated:

- 1 poisonous crab spider, shot a lot. (50 exp)

- 2 demons, murdered by Belial. (100 exp)

- 26 (!) dwarfs of poor workmanship, webbed, shattered and otherwise maltreated (130 exp)

- That one dwarf who looked like a real dwarf instead of a crudely worked one, forced to flee (50 exp)

- 2 ugly mutants and their leader, generally slain (30 exp)

- 4 ugly mutants, fled instead of flanking (40 exp)

Treasure and Equipment:

- 40 silver, 900 copper (130 exp)

- Two mysterious white pills (200 exp)

- Quality 1 Chainmail (200 exp)

- Quality 1 Warhammer (40 exp)

- 6 bronze Roman-style war-masks (1200 exp)

- Old chain armour, usless but possibly valuable to a collector (100 exp)

- An old book - "Arto Bellumoi" - a Fighter or Barbarian studying the text for a week gains 500 exp. (100 exp)

- An old map - "The Exarchate of Theana" might be worth something to a sage or librarian. (500 exp)

- An old book - "Checkmate: A Fool's Guide to Chess", bookmarked is a section called "Asana's Challenge". (100 exp)

- A partially burnt scroll of warding against magic. (100 exp)

Exploration:
- 15 dungeon rooms explored (150 exp)
- First party to enter Dwimmermount (100 exp)

- First party to enter level 1 of Dwimmermount (100 exp)

- 1 group of wandering monsters rolled (10 exp)

Misc:

- Took rubbings of the old dwarf runes on the alleged back door. (50 exp)

- Discovered the statue heads are detachable (50 exp)

- Discovered things about the mutants (50 exp)

- Saw some soldier-ghosts endlessly hanging out in the long-ruined barracks (50 exp)

- Viewed memories of Dwimmermount's past (50 exp)

- Breach and clear bonus (50 exp)

- Cartographer bonus (Mushroom Lover - 100 exp)

- Death's Witness bonus (Mushroom Lover, Crocell - 100 exp ea.)

- Died in the first five minutes bonus (Bingo - 100 exp)

Quests and Rumours:
- A female Nonanist priest wants you to find evidence of Terms Termax's heresy and false-godhood.

- A male Termaxian priest wants you to find evidence of Terms Termax's godhood, or if you find the opposite, bring it to him so he can destroy it.

- "There's a secretive Dwarf civil war on - the Stoneheads are at war with the Glimmersmiths."

- "Goblins and Dwarfs live side by side in the mountain holds."

- "Goblins are considered to live in both Edge and Dwarrow, they're hated by both city-states."

- "A secret back entrance leads to the first level of Dwimmermount"

- "Never read anything on the wall in Dwimmermount, it is likely an ancient Roman curse."

Death Toll and Injuries:

- Dana's wizard whose name I already forgot, turned into a demon along with his familiar due to a botched Summon.

Exp Totals:
Renzo / Mushroom Lover, Level 3 Elf (Alpdrucke): 10206 (Level up at 12000)
Chris / Crocell, Level 4 Halfling: 12318 (Level up at 16000)
-- Belial, Level 1 Fighter: 1047 (Level up at 2000)

Dana / Bingo, Level 1 Muscle Wizard: 1152 (Level up at 2250)

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Recovering:
Tom / Olaf Tenderloin, Level 2 Dwarf: 2737 (Level up at 4400) ETA: 22 weeks
Tom / Baron Noel Pompadour, Level 1 Specialist: 1223 (Level up at 1500) ETA: 8 weeks

Absent or Retired:
Michael / Mist Urmun, Level 4 Magic User: 9129 (Level up at 18000)
Renzo / Gastani, Level 2 Barbarian: 3000 (Level up at 4000)
Liisa / Peggy Pigrider, Level 4 Dwarf: 10504 (Level up at 17,600)
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)
--- Faust, Level 1 Specialist: 823 (Level up at 1500)
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)
Tom / Eli, Level 1 Cleric: 409 (Level up at 1750)
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