Deeper into the strange garden, a fight with spiders in and out of court, a new goat friend, and a surprisingly friendly dryad.
See you tonight!
Oh and Ollie gifts us this version of post-COVID Red with rad new mask. Hell yea!
Session 271 - Court in a Web of Intrigue
Loot:
- A golden chandelier (3000 exp)
- Book #394 - POWERLAD Untamed (100 exp)
- 4sp, 20cp (6 exp)
Total: 3106 exp
Foes:
- Three very big spiders (750 exp)
- A goat statue (25 exp)
Total: 775 exp
- Three very big spiders (750 exp)
- A goat statue (25 exp)
Total: 775 exp
Events:
--- Spider Persecution
- The party enters the web-laden dining hall and looks up to see clusters of unblinking eyes, shining in the glow of Jeremy’s Light spell! The spiders chatter amongst themselves - fresh meat!
- Beepbox leaps forward, gun ready, and is assaulted by the spiders due to his dress sense! The spiders attempt to web him and one gets thrown into the wall, while another succeeds and drags him into range of a spiderbite! Only his shield saves him from the venomous sting.
- A melee ensues, Red’s classic parry technique leaves her hurt by a spider’s venomous crit, Beepbox continues to wrestlemania the spiders’ webs, and Jeremy Wizard unloads a powerful Magic Missile on another.
- The party enters the web-laden dining hall and looks up to see clusters of unblinking eyes, shining in the glow of Jeremy’s Light spell! The spiders chatter amongst themselves - fresh meat!
- Beepbox leaps forward, gun ready, and is assaulted by the spiders due to his dress sense! The spiders attempt to web him and one gets thrown into the wall, while another succeeds and drags him into range of a spiderbite! Only his shield saves him from the venomous sting.
- A melee ensues, Red’s classic parry technique leaves her hurt by a spider’s venomous crit, Beepbox continues to wrestlemania the spiders’ webs, and Jeremy Wizard unloads a powerful Magic Missile on another.
- The party decide to nip back through the door to limit the spiders’ options. Red and Beepbox unload beams downrange as others slam the door shut. From within they can hear only one voice - a spider who mourns for his dead brethren.
- Red distracts the spider by shittalking while the others sneak round the corridors to a door on the other side of the dining room. They kick the door down and unload on the poor grieving spider!
- Red hears its screams and has a sudden change of heart, throwing the doors open to let it run out to safety… then tries some true bullshit!
--- Spider Prosecution
- Red cuts her palm and summons forth… a spider lawyer! They begin discussing the spider’s grievance while the rest of the party smash through the door, flattening Red against the wall!
- The legal spider projects an electrical field to prevent the murderous party members from breaching client/consultant confidentiality, and Scarlet Eclipse counters by summoning forth his own spider-lawyer. It works!
- A legal battle ensues!
- Prosecution says the party murdered his brother. Defence says it was self-defence. Evidence is given - spider corpses weighed against the signs of struggle.
- The spider judge rules in favour of the party! What an upset! The last spider is put into multiple pairs of handcuffs and led away to infinity prison. Justice is served.
--- Classic Downtime
- The lower the golden chandelier from the spider room and carry it back to Shrub Nigeria’s house via the mirror, deciding to spend a bit of time with some classic admin adventures.
- The lower the golden chandelier from the spider room and carry it back to Shrub Nigeria’s house via the mirror, deciding to spend a bit of time with some classic admin adventures.
- Jeremy Wizard and Scarlet Eclipse spend a full 8 weeks swapping spells between each other in case of future badness while everyone else gets high with Shrub Nigeria and his stoner Iounian mates. Time well spent!
--- The GOAT
- On their return, they find themselves face to face with the ghost of the old lady clutching the black rose. She tells the gang a rambling story about how she came to be obsessed with this rose, and how she hired a team of seven Dwarves to help her dig for it.
- She comments on Red’s familiar dress and heads upstairs to go find the one she’s got that’s just like it. The party move on and keep exploring.
- Inside a ballroom, Red is suddenly assaulted by a stone goat! She tries to wrestle it, it escapes, and then charges again and gets wrestled to the ground. It brays an apology and they chat for a bit, Red calling it out for not actually needing to eat the grass it was pretending to eat.
- The goat seems pretty chill now actually and tags along. Red is, obviously, thrilled.
--- The GOAT
- On their return, they find themselves face to face with the ghost of the old lady clutching the black rose. She tells the gang a rambling story about how she came to be obsessed with this rose, and how she hired a team of seven Dwarves to help her dig for it.
- She comments on Red’s familiar dress and heads upstairs to go find the one she’s got that’s just like it. The party move on and keep exploring.
- Inside a ballroom, Red is suddenly assaulted by a stone goat! She tries to wrestle it, it escapes, and then charges again and gets wrestled to the ground. It brays an apology and they chat for a bit, Red calling it out for not actually needing to eat the grass it was pretending to eat.
- The goat seems pretty chill now actually and tags along. Red is, obviously, thrilled.
--- An Ancient Tree
- The gardens are pretty cool and open enough that the party can see quite a few areas of interest scattered around. They’re first drawn to a stand of trees surrounding a large hole, another larger tree is growing inside a large chamber below, its leaves poling up out of the hole.
- They take the stairs down and reach the underground chamber. Beepbox casts his Universal Translator miracle and speaks with the tree. It speaks slowly, tells him it was grown hundreds of years ago by long fast men in this stygian garden, and hasn’t been sacrificed to in many many years.
- Giggling cherubs can be heard from above, and Beepbox tells the tree enemies are coming! The tree tells them to go, it’ll protect them! It lashes out at the cherubs with razor leaves and the gang head through a door, deeper into the underground garden…
- The gardens are pretty cool and open enough that the party can see quite a few areas of interest scattered around. They’re first drawn to a stand of trees surrounding a large hole, another larger tree is growing inside a large chamber below, its leaves poling up out of the hole.
- They take the stairs down and reach the underground chamber. Beepbox casts his Universal Translator miracle and speaks with the tree. It speaks slowly, tells him it was grown hundreds of years ago by long fast men in this stygian garden, and hasn’t been sacrificed to in many many years.
- Giggling cherubs can be heard from above, and Beepbox tells the tree enemies are coming! The tree tells them to go, it’ll protect them! It lashes out at the cherubs with razor leaves and the gang head through a door, deeper into the underground garden…
Total: 6000 exp
Exp Totals:
- Tim / Red, Level 7 Duellist Fighter: 111724 (Level up at 128000)
- Charles / Jeremy Wizard, Level 6 Magic-User: 62073 (Level up at 72000)
- Ollie / Beepbox Strawberry Stars de Moor, Level 6 Cleric of the New Eden: 44690 (Level up at 56000)
- George / Scarlet Eclipse, Level 5 Muscle Wizard: 18141 (Level up at 36000)Level Up! +1d4 HP! +1 Mana! +free spell! +backstory!
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