Jason R Brown

Session 1

2022-07-14

• Covered rules, player guidelines, GCS, Tabletop Simulator
• Read Intro
• Players described their characters
• At the party outside Jorave’s House:
  • Godwin conversed with Jorave, learned that the last thing to break forth from the hole was a goblin raiding party. That was nigh upon five years ago now. He also spoke about the in-fighting among the Thorn Tribe dwarves that live inside the mountain.
  • Father Esser spoke to Old Man Lew, asked him if he knew what traps or dangers might lurk in the mountain. Old man Lew could only speculate. It’s clear that his expertise is in the historical state of the mountain, not so much the current state.
  • Winnoa pick pocketed some dried mushrooms from Old Man Lew’s pouch.
  • Father Esser witnessed this and was able to bite his tongue and not immediately right the wrong for the sake of party unity and getting off on the right foot.
  • Hector was generally insufferable ;p
• The next day before descending, Godwin made a donation to the local temple, The Church of the Crimson Bridge
• The party descended into the dungeon
  • Godwin showed off by climbing down into the hole without even a rope.
  • The party noted the severed bell cord.
  • Godwin disregarded it, not worrying due to his exceptional climbing ability.
  • Royce alerted the people on the surface to the state of the rope and a new length was affixed to the bell and lowered into the hole.
• The party gathered in the circular room at the bottom of the shaft and inspected the remains of the adventurers who had met their end there.
  • The porters Emmett and Henry were ordered to clear aside the corpses and bone piles so that the room could be used as an initial base camp (Royce graciously assisted and profited, finding a gemstone in the hand of a corpse)
  • The corpses were place into the chests. Unfortunately for the party, one of the corpses was placed in the chest with the false bottom and the putrefied corpse goo has leaked into the hidden chamber and destroyed the scroll there.
• It was decided that the vanguard would scout out the area while the base camp waited in the entry way.
  • Chrissy the cartographer and Billy the torchbearer were brought along for the scouting.
  • The party took great delight in Billy’s naivete and he would become significantly more deflated in the brief time he has spent underground with them so far
• The vanguard ventured down a hallway and encountered a puddle full of excitable large leaches that sprung from the puddle to attack Royce as he drew near
  • Several leaches latched onto Royce’s exposed flesh and chewed away but the iron dwarf was unfazed.
  • He calmly picked them off and squished them, going back through the puddle several times for good measure to make sure they were all gone.
• The party continued down the hallway and entered into a chamber filled with stone houses.
  • There were signs of a massacre here, slaughtered dwarves skeletons lay strewn about and bore weapon marks.
  • Father Esser found a silver bracelet hidden under a dwarves skeleton
  • Godwin was first to spot the ragged hole in the cavern wall.
  • Hector was able to discern that the apparent forceful breach of the chamber wall was indeed the work of a powerful caster.
  • The party debated how or if to proceed and settled upon extinguishing all lights, and following along the left hand wall of the tunnel with Godwin leading

Session 2

2022-07-19

• The party journeyed down the tunnel and emerged in the barracks cavern
  • The cavern was well searched but no loot was found.
  • Winnoa was first to observe the group of dead humans in their sleeping gear.
  • Royce spotted some movement in one of the holes along the back of the cavern.
• Godwin peeked ahead in the dining room and then the rest of the party followed there.
  • Royce ate some of the white musty powder from the kitchen. It tasted like moldy bread and there seemed to be no ill effects.
• The party moved on into the pottery workshop
  • While looting several of the larger pots, Winnoa and hector both spot two kobolds peeking at them from behind a cabinet
    • The kobolds run for it.
    • Royce throws a hatchet but just misses.
    • Hector takes a moment to aim his flintlock and fires, striking the rear kobold in the back.
    • The kobold stumbles and falls to his knees giving Godwin time to race up and crack his whip against the kobold, finishing him off.
    • The other kobold scurries off and is lost.
    • For good measure, Royce picks the dead kobold up by the head, shakes it around snapping it’s neck, and tosses it aside.
• The group returns to the dining room and decides where to set up the base camp
  • It is decided that the base camp will be moved to this dining room as the multiple doors provide various escape routes
• The group ventures back to inform the base camp and assist in moving them
• They stop in the barracks cavern to peek at what Royce saw in the hole earlier
  • They spy a very large rat, gleaming eyes and large yellow teeth at the back of one of the holes
  • Hector stands a short ways away and fires his flintlock at the rat
  • Crit fail; misses, temporary “crippling” of shooting arm; firearm malfunctions; the gun has a mechanical failure and is unable to fire
  • Hector is able to quickly determine what is wrong with the gun but will need an hour or two to make repairs
• The party makes it’s way back to the base camp
  • Chrissy finds that her prized compass is missing!
  • The combined party gathers up the equipment and provisions and walks back to the dining hall
• With the base camp now established in the dining room, the vanguard opts to venture down the spiral staircase
  • The group reaches the landing and is confronted by the ghost demanding their authorization paperwork
  • As a dwarf, he simply allows Royce to pass
  • The others talk to him briefly, asking if anyone else has passed
  • He lets them know about lots of kobolds and a few goblins carrying digging equipment
  • With this new information, the party attempts to simply walk past him
  • He responds by casting thunderclap; Everyone successfully avoids deafening
  • Father Esser casts effect spirits on Royce and he slaps the ghost.
  • The ghost looks absolutely shocked by this rebuke and dissolves away, at least for now
• The party walks down the meandering tunnel and reaches the room with the large portcullis
  • Royce attempts to brute force lift the portcullis before it is pointed out to him that it is locked
• The party opts to venture down the tunnel with the skull warning, but not before Royce smashes the skull on the ground
  • They quickly find the dead end and the dwarvish inscription on the wall
  • They poke around at the cave-in for a bit and make a determination that it would not be worth trying to excavate
  • Chrissy offers to make a rubbing of the inscription so that someone at the base camp can later decipher it
• The party walks back and heads down the other tunnel
  • They spot the green light ahead in an alcove; Godwin sneaks forward to scout it out
  • He’s fortunate to catch the poor, foolish goblins unawares and deftly decapitates all three in their sleep
  • The group continues on down the tunnel and finds themselves at the entrance to another dining hall
  • Blocking the doorway is an armed and armored dwarf
  • Father Esser isn’t certain but he thinks it may be a Draug
• The group discusses for a minute but since the dwarf doesn’t seem to be able to or want to negotiate, they decide to fight their way past
  • Father Esser volunteers to attack first and begins to approach
  • The Draug interrupts with a held action and rushes forward to attack but is blocked by Father Esser
  • Full on fighting breaks out with the rest of the party charging in to fight
  • The Draug seems largely focused on Esser and swings at him a few more times, finally connecting with his torso and inflicting a heavy ax chop that fells Father Esser to the ground, unconscious, overwhelmed by pain and shock.
  • Royce moves to the defense of Father Esser, standing over his fallen form and bashing the raging dwarf back with his shield
  • Hector also lends aid, casting a healing spell on Esser to maintain his life
  • Blows are landed on the Draug by Godwin and Royce as the dwarf maneuvers back and forth through the fray
  • The Draug takes a swing at Godwin and gets lucky. A critical success lets him land a blow on the agile Godwin and he deals a whopping 18 point rend to Godwin’s torso
  • Godwin’s body gives out on him and he too succumbs to unconsciousness after failing a health roll.
  • Royce keeps bringing the fight to the Draug and with a single hand, chokes down on his long ax and brings it down on him, leaning forward over Godwin’s still body
  • Winnoa also makes her way into the fray here, nimbly making her way around the Draug side and towards his back all while probing for weak points with her smallsword
  • The furious dwarf shows no mercy and brings his ax down on the unconscious Godwin, smashing into his face and mangling flesh and chipping bone
  • Godwin makes a HT roll to avoid dying and manages to do so, clinging to life despite his grievous wounds
  • Royce once more steps to stand over his wounded comrade, confronting the monstrous dwarf head on while Winnoa and Hector circle around the sides searching out weaknesses
  • Royce takes a risk and rushes in landing a hefty ax strike on the Draug ax arm that splinters the bone and slices the muscle and tendons away
  • The Draug ax clatters to the floor as it’s crippled arm flops uselessly at the shoulder

Session 3

2022-07-28

• The party finishes off the Draug in horrific fashion
  • Winnoa abandons her sword thrusts and leans in to bite the Draug in the neck, tearing away bloodless veins and sinews
  • Royce brings his ax down in a two handed swing right into the bite mark left by Winnoa and kills the Draug
• After defeating the Draug, the party began attending to the wounded to stabilize and treat them
  • Godwin was placed in a magical coma to allow him to be stable and heal quickly
• The party returned to their base camp and rested for 8 hours.
  • Rations were consumed
  • Godwin awakened near the end of the rest period, in terrible pain. His screams and shouts muffled by the bandages covering his face
  • Another 8 hour magical coma spell was cast on him
• the party brought the porters back down to the Draug village and cleared out the workshops of valuables
• On the return trip, Father Esser performed a 15 minute exorcism ritual on the bureaucrats ghost, banishing him from existence
• Upon unloading the loot, the party decided to venture down the hall to the dormitories
  • They heard an animal grunting or huffing down the hall, but instead of rushing to see what it was, they proceeded methodically
  • The group proceeded to quickly kick in every single door on both sides of the hall and clear every room, making tremendous noise
  • They found the dissected kobold corpses, and found the incision wounds on their chests
  • Rounding the corner, the group found the barricaded doorway, with more kobold corpses near it.
  • Royce cleared the barricade and ripped the door off it’s hinges to reveal that the entryway was packed tightly with a huge amount of furniture
  • Royce lead the party around the corner and through the trapped hallway, bulldozing most of the traps out of the way
• Upon reaching a clearing in the debris and traps, an ambush was sprung with four kobolds leaping out of doorways and attacking
  • Billy was caught in a highly unfortunate position and was skewered by spears from both sides.
  • The spear to his right dug deep into his shoulder, severing tendons and causing him to drop the lantern
  • Royce dispatched the two at the front
  • father Esser, hector, and Winnoa took care of the two attacking billy
  • Winnoa did some more chomping
  • All the kobold ambushers appear to have been slain…

Session 4

2022-08-04

• We picked up right after the party had slain the last of the four kobold ambushers.
  • A bit of looting was done, though they didn’t carry much of interest.
  • Billy was stabilized, though his arm is still crippled until he reaches full health
  • Lucas arrived, having heard the sounds of battle and knowing that the party was down a member with Godwin injured
  • Hector was feeling a bit worn out from the battle, and retired to the camp with Billy
    • He sent Colin in his stead
• The party then continued on as they had before to the end of the hallway
• The group then entered the chapel
  • A brief search was conducted, and the rune on the altar was discovered.
  • The group asked Chrissy to take a rubbing on the rune and the moment she touched the altar, a black flash filled the air
  • Chrissy was surrounded by a dark, gloomy, aura for the next few hours
  • A rubbing is taking by Lucas using is telekinesis to manipulate the parchment and charcoal
• The group then entered the kobold warren
  • With Royce at the front, the party reached the glass embedded blanket blocking the tunnel.
  • Royce looked under it with his periscope and spotted the kobold klan arrayed on the other side in ambush
  • The group backed off, opting to wait about 3 hours to rest before engaging the kobolds
  • During this time, the murky aura surrounding Chrissy dissipated
• After their brief rest, the party gathered themselves to assault the kobold nest and formulated an entry plan
  • A runner was sent back to grab one of the bottles of Alchemists Fire possessed by Hector
  • It was decided that Royce would lead into the den, with shield cast on him by Father Esser, grab the blanket, yank it from the ceiling, throw it onto the kobolds, and follow it up with the alchemists fire
  • The kobolds were stunned by the ferocity of the onslaught and the bottle of Alchemists Fire turned the area into a raging circle of fire filled with burning and fleeing kobolds.
  • The kobolds guarding the entrance were mostly slaughtered where they stood, caught off guard and dazed by the roaring fire
  • A few escaped into the dark winding passages
  • The party pressed on, exploring the tunnels and confronting several traps, all the while being harassed by blowpipe wielding kobolds from around every corner and dark nook
  • The party reached an incubation chamber, filled with nests of kobold eggs. The lone guard and sole remaining Kobold of the klan, begged for mercy and was struck down.
  • The party briefly debated what to do and decided to stomp all of the kobold eggs and the little half developed kobolds inside
  • After a bit more exploration, the party located the kobold treasure horde!