Session 19 - The God That Crawls

Well you escaped, and I was absolutely shattered at the end of that one let me tell you. Three way split in the fucking doom labyrinth? Fuck me, if I didn't have the jenga blocks I think I would literally be dead.
Chris, Marius, you are now the highest level anyone has ever been. Enjoy it while it lasts.

New guy, dubbed Chris2 in these annals, has turned up and rolled the highest statted character we've yet had. Presumably his goblin was one of the demonic artifacts down here or something.

Since Chris2 wants to know the rules (keep in mind that I am basically changing these session to session so don't go all rules mastery on me), the base game is a mouthful I generally shorten to LotFP (free download here) with a large variety of house rules and tweaks and sundry fucking around I've collated here.

I guess the other guys all escaped too but at the start the next session they're at 1HP due to presumed mishaps during their escape which mysteriously left no evidence anywhere in the dungeon. (From now on, if you get stuck in a dungeon by session's end and don't turn up the next week you'll have to roll on the Super Secret Dungeon Escape Chart of Very Probable Doom so watch out!!!?)

Also from now on all rations take up an encumbrance slot each, turns out I got that rule wrong.

Another thing - George wants to run a game called Everyone Is John at some point which sounds like a laugh. Everyone is one of an insane guy's multiple personalities and has to make him do horrible stuff to win. Aiming at 4ish players because he's never run a game before, let me (or him, he's southeastguy in the address line) know if you're interested. Should be fun!

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Session 19 - The God That Crawls

Campaign date:
Tuesday, May 4th 1549
Moon phase: Waning Gibbous

New characters:
- Tub, insanely buff and dextrous goblin and notable gambler

Enemies defeated:
- None (!) but at least you escaped.

Treasure and Equipment:
- Jewel worth 2500sp (2500 exp)
- Jewel worth 1000sp (1000 exp)
- Pearl worth 1000sp (1000 exp)
- Jewel worth 500sp (500 exp)
- Jewel worth 150sp (150 exp)
- 7 scrolls (all unidentified)
- 9 potions (1 protection from normal missiles, 1 gaseous form, 7 unidentified)
- Map marked with dwarven runic script, some sort of upside-down hammer symbol.

- 3 large blatantly cursed fertility idols

Exploration:
- A heap of wandering monster rolls (same thing every time but still... 100 exp)
- 17 dungeon rooms explored (170 exp)
- Endless corridor (0 exp)
- Secret door found (10 exp)
- 6 miles of travel (10 exp)

Misc:

- PETA bonus (50 exp)

- Split the party bonus (50 exp)

- Freed hundreds, if not thousands, of mini-gods from the chasm. (50 exp)

- Actually escaped holy shit (50 exp)

- Antagonist emancipator bonus (50 exp)
- Cartographer bonus (Mushroom Lover - 100 exp)
- Curse acquired bonus (Crocell - 100 exp)
- Quest complete: Release the God That Crawls from its long imprisonment beneath Oberon's Reach (500 exp, Crocell keeps his domination ability)

Quests and Rumours:
- Willibald Schwartz wants you to go back in time and destroy a ruby statue of an ant, says you can keep it as long as you break it.
--- Reward: 1000 exp, treasures of the past including ant statue carved from pure ruby, a unique spell
- Father McKenzie says he has some devil worshippers in Sayzel's Meadow and he wants them cleared out before they reduce the village's moral fibre.
- Reverend Elroy Bacon would like this horrible slime monster to stop eating him now oh god why

Death Toll and Injuries:
- Many retainers, but somehow no PC deaths. At least this time the retainer deaths were mostly not your fault. One of them teleported into the slime monster's lair which was the guy I went "ok yea he's fucking dead sorry guy".

Exp Totals:
Renzo / Mushroom Lover, Level 2 Elf (Alpdrucke): 5258 (Level up at 6000)
Chris / Crocell, Level 3 Halfling: 5146 (Level up at 8000)

*DING!* +1d6 HP! +1 to domination attempts!

Marius' Totally-Not-Necromancer, Level 3 Necromancer: 5111 (Level up at 9000)

*DING!* +1d4 HP! +1 level 2 spell per day! +1 free level 2 spell! +Affect Undead!

--- Faust, Level 1 Specialist: 823 (Level up at 1500)
Chris2 / Tub, Level 1 Goblin: 1366 (Level up at 2000)

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Recovering:
Tom / Olaf Tenderloin, Level 2 Dwarf: 2737 (Level up at 4400) ETA: 27 weeks
Tom / Baron Noel Pompadour, Level 1 Specialist: 1223 (Level up at 1500) ETA: 13 weeks

Absent or Retired:
Jacob / Wizard Khalifa, Level 1 Muscle Wizard: 430 (Level up at 2250)
George / Alan, Level 2 Barbarian: 3380 (Level up at 4000)
Liisa's Dwarf, Level 2 Dwarf: 2506 (Level up at 2200)
--- Socks, Level 0 Human
--- Trevor, Level 0 Human
Michael / Mist Urman, Level 2 Magic User: 3987 (Level up at 4500)
--- Stan, Level 0 Mercenary. (takes 1/5 of a share)
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
That one guy / Nadriel, Level 1 Barbarian: 293 (Level up at 2000)
That other guy / ???, Level 1 Fighter: 293 (Level up at 2000)

Session 18 - To Oberon's Reach

Hello all,

Not much treasure today but you did a lot of travelling to new places and also killed something scary and got trapped in a dungeon, so I'm pleased with that.

Investment rules attached. Due to Liisa's Dwarf's care and piemastery and your constant advertisement of Pie Mama's, the returns will come in every month (rather than every year) and she will get a +2% bonus to the roll. Got to go to Pillartown to collect earnings though.

Also attached - firearms! All is as per the sheet, save that flintlocks haven't been invented yet, guns do exploding damage, and I charge you a flat price to refill powder horns and stuff rather than making you count shots.

Yes you can buy firebombs and scattershot and things, munchkins.
I'm going to start putting the campaign date on here too, switching to regular days and months (rather than fantasy versions) because it's easier and saying "It is Towerday, 2nd of Palesun" makes me faintly embarrassed.

For Renzo: I have also put the phases of the moon. All months are 30 days long and your powers are at maximum on the 15th and minimum on the 30th, coinciding with the New Moon and Full moon respectively. The week before the New Moon increases your powers and vice versa on the week before the Full Moon.
I think I already told you this but might as well put it in writing.

For George: I just realised that I don't have Jay's email! Pass it my way so I can forward these things onto him!

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Session 18 - To Oberon's Reach

Campaign date:
Tuesday, May 2nd 1549

Moon phase: Waning Gibbous

New characters:
- Wizard Khalifa, Muscle Wizard and Slime Bearer

Enemies defeated:
- A bug-filled pig thing (500 exp)

Treasure and Equipment:
- A whole lot of shopping.
- Mushroom Lover researched a spell: Sleep
- Marius' Necromancer invented a spell: Sculpt Dead.
- Liisa's dwarf invested 1250sp into a bakery: Pie Mama's
- Marius' necromancer invested 500sp into the same bakery and will share in its fortune.
- Marius has hired Faust, a First Aid Specialist
- 200cp (20 exp)
- Scroll #19: Cyna's Pawn Mind
- A composite shortbow made with antler - Quality 2
- A flawed emerald found in a smashed glass bulb (100 exp)

Exploration:
- Travelled maybe 30 miles (50 exp)
- First party to cross the Wall (200 exp)
- First party to enter Sayzel's Meadow (100 exp)
- First party to enter Moondin (500 exp)
- 1 random encounter rolled (10 exp)
- First party to enter Bannershaw (100 exp)
- First party to enter Little Dashing (100 exp)
- First party to enter the Oberon's Reach Undercroft (100 exp)
- 5 dungeon rooms explored (50 exp)
- 1 wandering monster rolled (10 exp)

Misc:
- Met Father McKenzie, the holy man of Sayzel's Meadow (50 exp)
- Charm Person'd Reverend Elroy Bacon (50 exp)
- Increased the fame of Pie Mama's (50 exp)

- Beheld the God That Crawls (50 exp)
- Alan caroused (100 exp)
- Crocell caroused (300 exp)
- Mushroom Lover caroused (600 exp - was life of the party until he fucked it up by being creepy and wallcrawling and going off into the woods at midnight to do elf dancey things)
- Liisa's Dwarf caroused (300 exp)
- Marius' Necromancer caroused (100 exp, narrowly avoided venereal disease)
- Wiz Khalifa caroused (50 exp, gained a shitty reputation in this town forever after)

- Cartographer bonus (Mushroom Lover - 100 exp)
- Selfless charity bonus (Crocell - 100 exp)
- Near death experience bonus (Wiz Khalifa - 100 exp)

Quests and Rumours:
- Willibald Schwartz wants you to go back in time and destroy a ruby statue of an ant, says you can keep it as long as you break it.
--- Reward: 1000 exp, treasures of the past including ant statue carved from pure ruby, a unique spell
 - Crocell must free the God That Crawls from its long imprisonment beneath Oberon's Reach.
--- Reward: 500 exp, the Halfling God will let him keep his domination ability.
- Father McKenzie says he has some devil worshippers in his town and he wants them cleared out before they reduce the village's moral fibre.
- Reverend Elroy Bacon would like the mold bandits cleared out or otherwise prevented from raiding the village.
- "The people of Caspian's Delve found a giant crystal worth thousands of groats! They're rich!"
- "There was a mad old wizard asking after a group of thieves over in Glenshire. They killed him."
- "The people of Peaksy have turned their town into an anti-demon bastion! Nothing evil can get in!"
- "The monastery at Oberon's Reach has a whole heap of rare and heretical artifacts stored there. The undercroft must be the biggest black library in the world!"

Death Toll and Injuries:
- Wizard Khalifa has a swollen bug-bitey leg that itches like the fucking devil but is otherwise fine.

Exp Totals:
Renzo / Mushroom Lover, Level 2 Elf (Alpdrucke): 3792 (Level up at 6000)

*DING!* +1d6 HP! +1 lvl 1 spell per day! +1 free level 1 spell!
--- Trevor, Level 0 Human
Liisa's Dwarf, Level 2 Dwarf: 2506 (Level up at 2200)

*DING!* +1d10 HP!
--- Socks, Level 0 Human
Chris / Crocell, Level 2 Halfling: 3680 (Level up at 4000)
--- Big Bill, Level 0 Infantry (takes 1/5 of a share)
--- Trevor II, Level 0 Infantry (takes 1/5 of a share)
--- Lady Cecilia, Level 0 Archer (takes 1/5 of a share)
--- Mook Redshirt, Level 0 Archer (takes 1/5 of a share)
George / Alan, Level 2 Barbarian: 3380 (Level up at 4000)
Marius' Totally-Not-Necromancer, Level 2 Necromancer: 3755 (Level up at 4500)
--- Faust, Level 1 Specialist: 140 (Max level 1 until employer is higher level)

Jacob / Wizard Khalifa, Level 1 Muscle Wizard: 430 (Level up at 2250)

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Recovering:
Tom / Olaf Tenderloin, Level 2 Dwarf: 2737 (Level up at 4400) ETA: 27 weeks
Tom / Baron Noel Pompadour, Level 1 Specialist: 1223 (Level up at 1500) ETA: 13 weeks

Absent or Retired:

Michael / Mist Urman, Level 2 Magic User: 3987 (Level up at 4500)
--- Stan, Level 0 Mercenary. (takes 1/5 of a share)
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
That one guy / Nadriel, Level 1 Barbarian: 293 (Level up at 2000)
That other guy / ???, Level 1 Fighter: 293 (Level up at 2000)