Date: 13 January 1626
Zenith Deity: Minerva
Moon Phase: Waning Crescent
Moon Face: Dragon Face
Moon Phase: Waning Crescent
Moon Face: Dragon Face
Events:
--- Gifts for Havarti
- We return to the party where we left them - in the outskirts of the Winter Wonderland.
- Havarti has arrived, so they send her to Zulu Claus who is still giving out gifts. Havarti receives a long-lost artifact - the Shield Of International Day Of! This shield grants the wielder immunity to whatever nonsense corporate International Day Of it happens to be on the day of the session!
- Havarti has arrived, so they send her to Zulu Claus who is still giving out gifts. Havarti receives a long-lost artifact - the Shield Of International Day Of! This shield grants the wielder immunity to whatever nonsense corporate International Day Of it happens to be on the day of the session!
- Havarti has crafted her ghost-eating hyena a saddle so it's easier to ride on the ceiling, and Ghost Snels has obtained an invisible dog (or is it just a trick leash that looks like an invisible dog??..hmmm)
--- Draugr Loot
- Nieval the Good is whinging about the lack of loot recently, and hey! The map has a location called Draugr Loot marked right on it!
- They approach and find a gnarly cave in the icy wastes. The floor has a map of the area in relief upon it.
- There's a preserved corpse of a fancy Santa. Some sort of distant past Santa where he's all forest themed. An ancient pre-coca cola Santa. Sulphur raises it as a zombie and finds a bauble necklace with a square hole around its neck. Loot already!
- There's a preserved corpse of a fancy Santa. Some sort of distant past Santa where he's all forest themed. An ancient pre-coca cola Santa. Sulphur raises it as a zombie and finds a bauble necklace with a square hole around its neck. Loot already!
--- Snowfall
- The way forward is very low, so Havarti goes first due to being short. At the end of the crawlspace is a little door with a square protrusion. Perfect for the bauble to become a doorknob! It works, and they enter.
- Inside it's a proper little dungeon carved out of the rock. There are festive pre-Christian shapes and symbols in relief on the walls.
- There are also levers! Pushing them causes rumbling from deeper in.
- They leave the levers for now and try a nearby room. There are barrels of what turns out to be Yak Oil made from rendered yak tallow, old Viking-style shields and spears, and a mysterious nook which is blatantly a secret door.
- Hidra opens himself to the dungeon with his Mentor Bonus and discovers the dungeon has 19 rooms. Good to know!
- Hidra opens himself to the dungeon with his Mentor Bonus and discovers the dungeon has 19 rooms. Good to know!
- Sulphur finds the secret door latch and CLICK! A massive amount of super-cold snow drops from the ceiling, dealing massive cold damage!
- Nieval and Sulphur administer Terry's Chocolate Orange to the wounded.
--- Circular Logic
- The room that made grinding sounds is next, and they discover a classic puzzle where the rings rotate to create a full image. In this case, a symbol that's somewhere between a snowflake and a pentagram!
- Operating the (noisy) levers, they manipulate the puzzle into place.
- A square peg pops up in the middle, and the bauble key opens it. Part of the walls grinds down to reveal a golden statuette of Santa... but with a squat pose and a beard of tentacles. Ghostly faces phase through the wall and look upon it dreamily.
- Sulphur uses ghost vision to see what they are. Four spirits, tied to the statuette by ephemeral bonds!
- Good thing they've got a ghost-eating hyena, a ghost-punching Boogilist, and a few magical nonsenses to help beat a ghost's face in!
--- Icy Grip
- Ghost Snels casts See No Evil to become unaffected by (and unable to affect) Chaotic beings, thus winking out of sight for like half the party. He drags the golden idol away, pulling the confused ghosts forward!
- The battle is fierce, but short. The ghosts' rending icy claws no match for the teeth and fists.
- The battle is fierce, but short. The ghosts' rending icy claws no match for the teeth and fists.
- While the hyena chomps down immaterial ghostflesh, Nieval gathers ectoplasm. It's good eatin'!
- The idol says "the gifts of the deep are for all those who are good" in old Norse, which loads of people can read apparently.
- The door past the idol opens and a cold breeze rolls out...
--- Trapped Chest?
- Rather than go further in, they decide to head back and try a side door they missed earlier.
- There's a string of smaller rooms. One has a Mjolnir necklace (or is it an Old Miner symbol?). The next has preserved corpses lying on plinths, dressed as Christmas Elves. They shrink down over time as the dress become more modern. Christmas elves... are human?
- The last room has a bunch of barrels and a very obvious unlocked chest. The others wait outside the room as Hidra opens it from a distance with a pole...
- He sees the gleam of treasure and SHUNK! A claw scrapes down Hidra's back from behind!
- He sees the gleam of treasure and SHUNK! A claw scrapes down Hidra's back from behind!
- The barrels are in fact some sort of barrel spider crab thing! There are three of them! Disney inspired music presumably begins playing.
--- Battle of the Barrels
- Hidra smashes open on of the barrels, revealing that the creature's body is actually quite tiny. He uses his Santa powers to magically vanish up the barrel-hole of one of them... and spends the next little while trapped in there with his crabbish foe!
- Ghost Snels sends in his invisible dog... but it's not trained to fight. They hear occasional whimpering as it accidentally gets underfoot.
- Ghost Snels sends in his invisible dog... but it's not trained to fight. They hear occasional whimpering as it accidentally gets underfoot.
- Nieval lays down covering fire with his mounted repeater crossbow from the doorway.
- Sulphur magic-punches the exposed spider, then shoves a handful of teeth into the other. The Teeth Bomb explodes, hurting the creature within!
- Sulphur magic-punches the exposed spider, then shoves a handful of teeth into the other. The Teeth Bomb explodes, hurting the creature within!
- Havarti tries to explode its barrel with a gambit... but fully fails. The Shield of International Day Of is destroyed! She keeps the automatically updating data counter thing from the front. Maybe she can recreate it one day.
- Hidra finally breaks his way out of the barrel, ripping off the crab-monster's legs as he does so! Its one-eyed head ponks to the ground like a volleyball... where it is immediately grabbed and killed by the invisible dog!
- Hidra finally breaks his way out of the barrel, ripping off the crab-monster's legs as he does so! Its one-eyed head ponks to the ground like a volleyball... where it is immediately grabbed and killed by the invisible dog!
--- The Feasting
- With various people somewhat injured by the battle against the barrel spiders, it's time to cook! The legs are very much like big ol' crab legs, and they've got some extra ingredients ready to go.
- The result is "I Ate This Once Outside of a Nigerian Haunted House" which really trips off the tongue. It contains Jollof Rice, ectoplasm, human skin, Ibex meat, and spider crab legs.
- Hidra refuses to eat it due to the human content, but his Santa powers require him to eat milk/brandy based foods anyway so whatever. The others find that it is absurdly delicious, and furthermore means they don't actually need shelter to sleep tonight! Convenient!
- The result is "I Ate This Once Outside of a Nigerian Haunted House" which really trips off the tongue. It contains Jollof Rice, ectoplasm, human skin, Ibex meat, and spider crab legs.
- Hidra refuses to eat it due to the human content, but his Santa powers require him to eat milk/brandy based foods anyway so whatever. The others find that it is absurdly delicious, and furthermore means they don't actually need shelter to sleep tonight! Convenient!
- The rest outside in the cave mouth, warmed by delicious food.
Total: 9000 exp
Treasure:
- Bauble-Key necklace (100 exp)
- Gold "Cthulhu Santa" idol (8000 exp)
- Gold "Cthulhu Santa" idol (8000 exp)
- Mjolnir/Old Miner necklace (7 exp)
- Norse gold coins (1500 exp)
Total: 9607 exp
- Norse gold coins (1500 exp)
Total: 9607 exp
Foes:
- 4 spirits (300 exp)
- 3 barrel spider crabs (750 exp)
Total: 1050 exp
- 3 barrel spider crabs (750 exp)
Total: 1050 exp
OOC:
- Carter the Chronicler (100 exp/level)
- Kitty the Expedition Leader (100 exp/level)
- Charles the Paymaster (100 exp/level)
- Ollie the Vanguard (100 exp/level)
- George the Chef (100 exp/level)
Exp Totals:
- Kitty / Sulphur, Level 6 Boo-gilist: 59297 (Level up at 72000)
- Charles / Nieval the Good, Level 6 Specialist: 31540 (Level up at 56000)
*LEVEL UP!* +1d6 HP! +1 to Saves! +2 Skill Points! +Backstory!
- Carter / Hidra, Level 5 Fighter: 31498 (Level up at 32000)
*LEVEL UP!* +1d6 HP! +1 to Saves! +2 Skill Points! +Backstory!
- Carter / Hidra, Level 5 Fighter: 31498 (Level up at 32000)
- George / Ghost Snels, Level 5 Denialist Cleric: 30198 (Level up at 36000)
- Ollie / Havarti Honeybun, Level 5 Halfling: 16032 (Level up at 32000)
*LEVEL UP!* +1d6 HP! +1 to Saves! +1 to Mind Control! +1 to Cooking! +Backstory!
*LEVEL UP!* +1d6 HP! +1 to Saves! +1 to Mind Control! +1 to Cooking! +Backstory!
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