Date: 30 May, 22 p.p.
Moon: Full - Clean Face
Zenith: Eris
New Backstory:
- Odo Grumblebelch tried to lead his clan of Dwarves to safety, but they were cornered and slain by a rival clan. Odo was the only survivor. +1 to rolls when salvaging a situation that just went horribly wrong.
- Odo Grumblebelch tried to lead his clan of Dwarves to safety, but they were cornered and slain by a rival clan. Odo was the only survivor. +1 to rolls when salvaging a situation that just went horribly wrong.
Events:
--- The Sword in the Orb
- The party of Odo, Jojo and Julian are somewhere in the Drudge Wastes. Low mountains loom over the polluted bog. The air crackles with static, wispy cirrus clouds are far overhead, and crawling insects are everywhere. Occasionally a bug will fizz into the air and get zapped with a crackling pop, murdered by the static.
- Odo feels the call of the mountain in his Dwarven bones, and so they set off in that direction! This "marlingspike" they're planning to investigate is in that vague direction after all.
- Crossing the foothills, they see an enormous glass orb on a hilltop! They investigate and discover it's hollow, with a smaller orb within that contains a gold sword!
- Jojo bypasses the puzzle with Passwall, headbutting straight through and letting Odo grab the sword-orb!
- The sword speaks loudly about how he's a disgusting hairy man. Odo interjects that he's a Dwarf, but then the sword perceives Jojo and gets all lecherous. You can free the sword by kissing the orb, you see.
- It turns out we've been misgendering Odo this whole time, she's a girl! She "kisses" the orb with her bum and the glass boils away, leaving the lecherous sword in her Dwarven hands. It's enchanted to kill men! Also a real sexist piece of work. The sword is possessed by the spirit of one Andrew Lothario, cursed into the sword by the Elf Hero Archaeopteryx, then sealed in the orb when he got too annoying. The Elf Hero's temple is nearby, and the sword knows the way!
--- The Sword in the Orb
- The party of Odo, Jojo and Julian are somewhere in the Drudge Wastes. Low mountains loom over the polluted bog. The air crackles with static, wispy cirrus clouds are far overhead, and crawling insects are everywhere. Occasionally a bug will fizz into the air and get zapped with a crackling pop, murdered by the static.
- Odo feels the call of the mountain in his Dwarven bones, and so they set off in that direction! This "marlingspike" they're planning to investigate is in that vague direction after all.
- Crossing the foothills, they see an enormous glass orb on a hilltop! They investigate and discover it's hollow, with a smaller orb within that contains a gold sword!
- Jojo bypasses the puzzle with Passwall, headbutting straight through and letting Odo grab the sword-orb!
- The sword speaks loudly about how he's a disgusting hairy man. Odo interjects that he's a Dwarf, but then the sword perceives Jojo and gets all lecherous. You can free the sword by kissing the orb, you see.
- It turns out we've been misgendering Odo this whole time, she's a girl! She "kisses" the orb with her bum and the glass boils away, leaving the lecherous sword in her Dwarven hands. It's enchanted to kill men! Also a real sexist piece of work. The sword is possessed by the spirit of one Andrew Lothario, cursed into the sword by the Elf Hero Archaeopteryx, then sealed in the orb when he got too annoying. The Elf Hero's temple is nearby, and the sword knows the way!
--- Turn Around Demon
- They follow the sword's directions and head towards the temple but... suddenly they realise they've gone the completely wrong direction! How strange!
- They try again and... they're back at the orb! What's going on?
- Jojo casts Detect Magic and, wouldn't you know it, there's some magical trickery going on! Jojo also sees a floating figure, mirrored in the middle like a king on a playing card. Jojo tries attacking to no avail.
- The invisible figure introduces himself as Szimcath, and says he's escaped from the temple. He and Andrew Lothario know each other of old. The figure grants Jojo a playing card that will create a similar effect, and warns the party that the static in the air heralds a dangerous storm known as The Hive! It seems that even the weather was changed during Gifflewim's time under the influence of the Idea of Thorns...
- They follow the sword's directions and head towards the temple but... suddenly they realise they've gone the completely wrong direction! How strange!
- They try again and... they're back at the orb! What's going on?
- Jojo casts Detect Magic and, wouldn't you know it, there's some magical trickery going on! Jojo also sees a floating figure, mirrored in the middle like a king on a playing card. Jojo tries attacking to no avail.
- The invisible figure introduces himself as Szimcath, and says he's escaped from the temple. He and Andrew Lothario know each other of old. The figure grants Jojo a playing card that will create a similar effect, and warns the party that the static in the air heralds a dangerous storm known as The Hive! It seems that even the weather was changed during Gifflewim's time under the influence of the Idea of Thorns...
--- Regular Mountain
- They hurry on in case the weather turns, finally going the right direction now that they've made friends with some sort of demon. They come to a mountain which is clearly unnatural, the shape too smooth and regular. There's a symbol above a set of three doors, which the sword informs everyone is the symbol of Archaeopteryx
- Leading towards the doors are thick wriggling entrails in a variety of lurid colours. Gross.
- Odo picks through some of them and finds a small silver key! Nice!
- Odo picks through some of them and finds a small silver key! Nice!
- They approach the temple and Odo chooses the leftmost door, kicking it and discovering that it's actually a curtain of entrails! Extra gross! The sword tells everyone to watch out for the petrified centipedes that fire out of the walls if you go in the wrong entrance. Hmm.
- The door opens to a short flight of stairs going downwards. At the bottom is the corpse of a Flitting Gad - the Featherfall Elf species. It's very dead, and its insides were liquefied. Julian takes his armour of gull wings, which is pretty rad.
- The centre door has frosted glass, and through it they can see a small army of Gads preparing for battle!
- The rightmost door is another entrail curtain, and the stairs lead down into a little corridor. Jojo suspects a trap, so crawls up above the door on the ceiling. Strong core muscles, you see. Odo pushes the door open ever so slightly... and oil pours down from above as a sparking device sprays her with sparks! She jumps back, only slightly singed, unlike pour Jojo above who gets oiled up entirely! The oil bursts alight, and she drops down covered in flames!
- Odo and Jojo manage to douse the flames, while outside Odo looks up to see winged figures speaking in fluted voices coming in to land...
- The door opens to a short flight of stairs going downwards. At the bottom is the corpse of a Flitting Gad - the Featherfall Elf species. It's very dead, and its insides were liquefied. Julian takes his armour of gull wings, which is pretty rad.
- The centre door has frosted glass, and through it they can see a small army of Gads preparing for battle!
- The rightmost door is another entrail curtain, and the stairs lead down into a little corridor. Jojo suspects a trap, so crawls up above the door on the ceiling. Strong core muscles, you see. Odo pushes the door open ever so slightly... and oil pours down from above as a sparking device sprays her with sparks! She jumps back, only slightly singed, unlike pour Jojo above who gets oiled up entirely! The oil bursts alight, and she drops down covered in flames!
- Odo and Jojo manage to douse the flames, while outside Odo looks up to see winged figures speaking in fluted voices coming in to land...
--- Blood of Gads
- Luckily, it turns out that Odo speaks Gaddish! The Elves tell her that they are coming to the temple to scavenge some magic weaponry to fight enemy Gads who've allied with the Red Elves.
- Odo considers this... and attacks! Twice-Stolen Sword in one hand, Lothario Blade in the other, she... fumbles! Notching the magic weapon activates one of its powers, hitting all men in the area with a blast of man-hating energy!
- Jojo uses her new spell Polymorph Elf to transform one of the Elves into a giant african land snail! The other unfurls its beautiful wings and begins to captivate the party...
- Julian's wrestling the Gad, too close to be affected by the magic mesmerising wings. He grapples it, and it begs to be let go. Thinking quickly, Julian extracts a promise not to just turn back and attack the party, then lets the Elf fly off in a cloud of glitter.
- Jojo crushes the snail. Poor snail, or elf. Poor snelf.
--- Aximander Comes in Clutch
- They try the middle door again, and realise that the shapes they can see are repeating the same actions over and over. It's an illusion! They go through and find a slim corridor with floating glass bubbles, each containing some fire.
- Julian tries to touch one and... it explodes! The fire bursts out and Aximander bursts into Julian's body! He casts Pyrokinesis and immediately contains the explosion, pushing it out and up while the others make a hasty retreat!
- He brings the fire outside, and they use it to light a campfire. It's cooking time!
- Luckily, it turns out that Odo speaks Gaddish! The Elves tell her that they are coming to the temple to scavenge some magic weaponry to fight enemy Gads who've allied with the Red Elves.
- Odo considers this... and attacks! Twice-Stolen Sword in one hand, Lothario Blade in the other, she... fumbles! Notching the magic weapon activates one of its powers, hitting all men in the area with a blast of man-hating energy!
- Jojo uses her new spell Polymorph Elf to transform one of the Elves into a giant african land snail! The other unfurls its beautiful wings and begins to captivate the party...
- Julian's wrestling the Gad, too close to be affected by the magic mesmerising wings. He grapples it, and it begs to be let go. Thinking quickly, Julian extracts a promise not to just turn back and attack the party, then lets the Elf fly off in a cloud of glitter.
- Jojo crushes the snail. Poor snail, or elf. Poor snelf.
--- Aximander Comes in Clutch
- They try the middle door again, and realise that the shapes they can see are repeating the same actions over and over. It's an illusion! They go through and find a slim corridor with floating glass bubbles, each containing some fire.
- Julian tries to touch one and... it explodes! The fire bursts out and Aximander bursts into Julian's body! He casts Pyrokinesis and immediately contains the explosion, pushing it out and up while the others make a hasty retreat!
- He brings the fire outside, and they use it to light a campfire. It's cooking time!
- Odo briefly goes hunting in the wastes and comes back with a Hollow Eel... basically a big lamprey that's hollow all the way through like a tube. He uses this, the dead snail's remains, and a trickle of milk from the demon goblet to cook "L'Eel du Snielle Milque". Despite the sound of this, it's tasty! Plus it gives everyone a bonus against poison!
- They spend the night in the flame trap antechamber, being very careful not to set it off...
--- Hedylidae, Boar Slayer
- They spend the night in the flame trap antechamber, being very careful not to set it off...
--- Hedylidae, Boar Slayer
- In the morning they awake to the smell of petrichor, and soon the beat of heavy rain. Plants are visibly going more quickly, and it's great for Odo's beard and Jojo's burnt eyebrows!
- They head back into the dungeon. The fire orbs have returned, but they're small and nonthreatening for now, so the party travels through.
- They find urns haphazardly stacked and search them. Jojo finds some anaesthetized throwing bats wrapped in thin netting. Aximander finds a "Locket of Acrimony" which makes people dislike you intensely when you show them the picture in the locket. Odo finds an elaborate scalpel and instructions in an unknown language...
- They head in further and find another dead Gad, this one stabbed through the middle. Aximander takes the butterfly brooches from the body because they're dead cool.
- The sound of someone laughing and celebrating drifts down the corridor... and they go to investigate!
- In the middle of the room, in a bloodstained fountain, sitting on a dead winged boar, is a Gad! She's peeling feathers from the boar's wings and attaching them to her sword, which is made up of loads of feathers.
- She apparently knows the Lothario Blade, and turns down a swap for her feather sword - he's too annoying!
- She informs them that she's a Rebel Gad who's trying to fight back against the Red Elves who want to mine all the magic from the Earth with their marlingspike and break all bonds of felllowship.
- She used to guard the temple herself, but was kicked out when the Red Elves turned a load of Gads against their own kind. Now she's breaking back in the get the weapons she once protected!
- She points the party in the direction of the central chamber, but says she needs to sit tight for now and go around disarming traps. Fair!
- We end with the party sharpening their steely knives... lot of meat on that there boar...
- They head back into the dungeon. The fire orbs have returned, but they're small and nonthreatening for now, so the party travels through.
- They find urns haphazardly stacked and search them. Jojo finds some anaesthetized throwing bats wrapped in thin netting. Aximander finds a "Locket of Acrimony" which makes people dislike you intensely when you show them the picture in the locket. Odo finds an elaborate scalpel and instructions in an unknown language...
- They head in further and find another dead Gad, this one stabbed through the middle. Aximander takes the butterfly brooches from the body because they're dead cool.
- The sound of someone laughing and celebrating drifts down the corridor... and they go to investigate!
- In the middle of the room, in a bloodstained fountain, sitting on a dead winged boar, is a Gad! She's peeling feathers from the boar's wings and attaching them to her sword, which is made up of loads of feathers.
- She apparently knows the Lothario Blade, and turns down a swap for her feather sword - he's too annoying!
- She informs them that she's a Rebel Gad who's trying to fight back against the Red Elves who want to mine all the magic from the Earth with their marlingspike and break all bonds of felllowship.
- She used to guard the temple herself, but was kicked out when the Red Elves turned a load of Gads against their own kind. Now she's breaking back in the get the weapons she once protected!
- She points the party in the direction of the central chamber, but says she needs to sit tight for now and go around disarming traps. Fair!
- We end with the party sharpening their steely knives... lot of meat on that there boar...
Total: 7000 exp
Treasure:
- The Lothario Blade - When wielded by a woman: +3 to hit men, -1 to hit women, 1d6 blast damage to all men in 20' on max damage or notch.
- The Lothario Blade - When wielded by a woman: +3 to hit men, -1 to hit women, 1d6 blast damage to all men in 20' on max damage or notch.
- Set of three anaesthetised bats.
- Locket of Acrimony
- Locket of Acrimony
- Mysterious Scalpel
Foes:
- A Flitting Gad, turned into a snail then devoured. (100 exp)
Total: 100 exp
Total: 100 exp
OOC:
Chronicler: Kitty
Expedition Leader, Chef, and Paymaster: Tom
Quartermaster and Vanguard: Ollie
Chronicler: Kitty
Expedition Leader, Chef, and Paymaster: Tom
Quartermaster and Vanguard: Ollie
Exp Totals:
- Ollie / Jojo Fullbeard, Level 5 Muscle Wizard: 31888 (Level up at 36000)
- Kitty / Julian & Aximander, Level 3 Languid Wastrel: 8957 (Level up at 9000)
- Tom / Odo Grumblebelch, Level 3 Dwarven Barbarian: 5867 (Level up at 8000)
Level Up! +1d10 HP! +1 to Saves! +Lorebond! +Backstory
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