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2024-02-15
- climb up stairs to see what's above
- stairs end at a stone door that seems sort of concealed
- Wrelen opens door into a room of empty wine cellar
- trapdoor in the ceiling
- Wrelen can't open the trapdoor
- pulls a hamstring
- Bayden flips the trapdoor open
- rubble scatters everywhere
- ceiling above seems caved in
- we exit the house
- we're in a ruined village
- it's about 10am
- no landmarks or well-traveled roads
- Mo and Bayden recognize some giant footprints
- explore another ruined building
- branches and brambles mostly obscuring a hole in the ground
- digging is easy since soil is loose
- get about 6 feet down
- seems to keep going
- different house
- door at bottom of stairs
- Bayden and Mo spend awhile clearing it
- there are some cylinders
- kind of smells like oil
- Bayden pries off the stone lid
- cylinder appears to be empty except strange oily sheen coating interior
- Bayden sets it on fire and it burns out pretty quickly
- Bayden opens another, and then the last two
- One has a passage below and is not oily
- Wrelen checks what's in the passage below
- the door feels a little cold to the touch
- gives Luka undead vibes
- Luka opens the door and sees spirits
- 3 sarcophagii - boy, knight, maiden
- Luka talks to spirits
- offers to help them rest
- request that Luka find their killers
- they are giants
- the spirits will know if we find them
- Mo lowers Wrelen down a hole to investigate
- Wrelen sees a skeleton
- party ties the rope around a ruined wall
- nothing obvious on the skeleton
- Bayden sees a pile of items ruined by acid
- Daimaan picks up a scroll case and finds a scroll of fire shield
- Wrelen wonders what is digging
- an ../Creatures/Ankheg bursts out of the ground
- Mo defeats it
- We hear tremors of more approaching
- 2 more burst out
- another comes after Luka up top
- we kill one below
- Luka casts fear on one
- it burrows
- party defeats both
- continue exploring buildings
- find a house with giants inside
- defeat 2 giants
- they have some money and a decorative jade paring knife
- Luka feels like the spirits can rest now
- Daimaan enters the crypt
- lids are removed now
- no remains inside
- star-shaped pendant encrusted with emeralds on a gold chain
- xp to 22335
- gain 534G
2024-04-17
- short rest
- everyone but Wrelen thinks this is the town of ../Places/Nin
- find a pile of rubble in the ruins
- Bayden feels compelled to dig
- party digs for an hour
- find a ring
- Mo identifies as battle ring
- combines
- mantle of spell resistance - advantage on spell saving throws
- ring of protection - +1 to AC and saving throws
- combines
- spend an hour exploring the rest of the ruins
- head back to the underdark
- approach ogre ../People/Klusko from the south
- find cave 10S scattered with broken bones, pots and pans, empty chests
- halfling bound and gagged, creature standing over them
- creature is 4-5 feet tall, red and scaly
- Wrelen asks what the creature is doing
- wants to lay its eggs in the halfling
- try to talk him into using giant's body
- must be live host
- defeat the creature
- halfling is ../People/Fraxel
- kidnapped by the creature - a Xill
- creature slashed him, laid eggs inside, and sealed him up
- they're going to burst out of his butt or something
- Daimaan wants to try to remove the eggs
- Bayden whacks him on the head
- Daimaan cuts him open
- sees a bunch of orbs on the inside
- goes well at first
- accidentally cuts another one
- hear sizzling
- next one comes out clean
- nicks another one, more acid
- find a small wooden box in the corner
- spell book
- 45 gems
- bury ../People/Fraxel's body
- Daimaan tosses an egg on the Xill's body
- it bursts and embryo squirms and perishes
- Xill's body disintegrates a bit
- this cheers Daimaan up for some reason
- pond in the middle of large cave is fed from an underground spring
- cave on the side is remains of a campsite
- trapdoor under the remains of the fire
- drops down about 6 feet
- see tunnel with stone floor
- Bayden holds Wrelen upside down to inspect
- doesn't see anything moving
- we explore and find some old furniture
- Bayden finds scroll of Staggering Smite
- explore another side cave
- continue down for awhile
- cave ends in a rounded room
- Bayden finds a secret door
- leads to a hallway
- Daimaan goes first and falls into a pit trap
- falls onto an old, wooden spike
- thin, muscular ogre at the end of the hall
2024-05-01
- Daimaan climbs out of the pit
- pit is 5 feet across
- ogre is named Gurnosh, ../People/Klusko's cousin
- would like us to leave his home
- Bayden asks if Gurnosh is alone
- ../People/Klusko is evil
- smart
- consumes flesh of intelligent beings
- partnered with this dragon ../Creatures/Thuskamasker
- came here with Klusko
- tried to talk him out of this path
- Gurnosh has nowhere else to go
- has made a reasonable home here
- band of 10 ogres
- Klusko and Thuskamasker feed them well
- has no desire to assist us
- tosses vial to Wrelen
- potion of invisibility
- asks us to reset the trap before we leave
- Luka wants to go on a scouting run
- goes invisible
- 10E sees 2 ogres that are supposed to be guards
- they're picking their noses
- 10A next 2 ogres are picking their butts
- 10D another cavern has 5 ogres
- statue of dwarf holding a battle axe
- 4 are sleeping
- one is awake and playing with a toy
- sees ornamental dagger sitting on a bedroll
- 10B large wolf starts sniffing around
- 10C cave covered with ritualistic paraphenalia
- padlocked wooden chest 1.5ft in length
- ogre is dressed differently
- wears more clothing and is practicing spells
- Luka considers using the ../Things/Darkling Lanthorn to take the chest
- he's not really looking at the chest
- Luka waits a bit
- Klusko is doing something
- Luka puts the treasure chest in the bag of holding
- treasure chest appears out of nowhere
- Mo opens the chest with thieves' tools
- chain mail underwear
- 3 daggers wrapped in silk
- gold
- leather pouch
- fist-sized hexagonal shaped sapphire
- we think is one of the 3 keys
- fist-sized hexagonal shaped sapphire
- we leave
- travel a few hours
- pass a stream
- head towards "behir lair"
- cross it successfully
- head to Crus' Tower
- Wrelen remembers a secret knock that Crus taught us
- lets us into the stairwell under the tower
- Crus waves his hand over the door, casting a spell
- head up 50 feet to the landing
- Crus opens a locked iron grate
- we enter Crus's tower
- see stores of shelves holding odd and exotic fluids
- then a wine cellar
- then the ground floor
- Crus makes us tea
- he seems upset at not being able to use mage hand to serve us tea
- ask about ../Creatures/Thuskamasker
- red dragons employ minions to protect their horde
- covet treasure such as gold and gems
- ask about ../Places/Bard's Gate/Rogue's Island
- spirits absorbed the strength out of us
- Crus says a cleric could help us
- ../Places/Clan Silverhelm clan are the big source of deeproth