The Forsite Irregulars

Treasure of the Broken Hoard (2)

Mission 2: Upon the Stones

Treasure of the Broken Hoard

This adventure is NOT part of the Foresite Irregulars storyline, skip to Lost in Sigil to pick up the latest in that chapter.

This is Mission 2 of DDAL05-01 Treasure of the Broken Hoard. You can start at the beginning if you want.

THIS POST CONTAINS SPOILERS

Preamble

Our heroes follow the second note-scroll to:

In the distance, at the base of two of the massive Greypeak Mountains in the central range, you see a large pyramid comprised totally of boulders. The structure is at least 60 feet high, and from this distance it looks as though there might be an opening at the top.

Between you and the base of the boulder pyramid is a solid stone field. The field is flat and smooth with a slight upward incline, but in places the stone is rent with deep gouges – so deep that it is impossible to tell how deep the gouges go. Even the widest gouge is less than 3 feet wide and easy to cross if care is used.

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The Rent Field

As they move across the stone field and easily cross a few gouges, Giant Badgers climb out and attack! Mercy and Aiindol fall before they know what hit them, and Kandry is soon knocked out!

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But the professor, Nym, and Abcde quickly administer aide, eventually tipping the tide of the battle in their favor.
The net result is several dead Giant Badgers and one of them a friend (for an hour) of the Professor.

They approach the pyramid..

An Awkward Climb

The pyramid, upon closer inspection, is indeed comprised of gigantic boulders that must have rolled down the mountainside over the centuries. Whatever stacked them like this must have been very strong or used powerful magic.

The boulders at the bottom appear to have been fused together in some way, while the ones further up are simply stacked carefully or held together with mortar. Many of the boulders are etched with runes.

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Aiindol and Nym make climbing the shifting boulders look like child’s play…

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About 3/4 up, Nym’s handhold surprises him by speaking “Hey! Be careful. That’s my eye socket!”. It unfolds into a Galeb Duhr (rock man.)

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The party speaks with it [plot explication went here] and got a clue about the pyramid.

(Abcde’s player got a story reward!)

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A Phrase Unspoken

The approach the top of the pyramid to gain entrance, only finding that it is plugged with the body of a dead stone giant.

With the help of their new rock-friend, they drag the body out, and it tumbles down the pyramid!

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They solve the omitted puzzle, and Nym looks into the entrance, and sees a pit, plummeting down 60 feet. Throwing down a torch he sees:

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“Looks like some dead kobolds and some treasure chests, at least two are shattered!”

Using ropes anchored to their friend, the climb down to inspect the loot.

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Again, it seems the giants (this time the Storm giants’ agents) got here before either the Stone giants or our heroes. They recover a few items and discover the tunnel that the kobolds used to get in? out? of this chamber.

Too small for human passage, they send Mercy’s cat through to see where the tunnel leads – and it’s in the same direction as the third treasure cache, so they exit the pyramid and climb down the opposite side deeper into the Greypeak mountains.

Next time, our heroes go Against the Frost.

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Build notes

The pyramid is a simple reskin of a sengment of: The Coliseum by Mystic Mountain Productions
The mountains are from Highland Adventures by Fat Dragon Games

The pyramid and the mountains fold flat – needed since I use mass transit to get this stuff to Games of Berkeley

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Treasure of the Broken Hoard

Mission 1: Beneath the Hills

Treasure of the Broken Hoard

This adventure is NOT part of the Foresite Irregulars storyline, skip to Lost in Sigil to pick up the latest in that chapter.

Starting September 2016, I (OldSchoolDM) started running D&D 5e’s Adventure League quests for Storm King’s Thunder at Games of Berkeley. The next few posts will log that adventure.

THIS POST CONTAINS SPOILERS

Preamble

The first adventure is DDAL05-01 Treasure of the Broken Hoard, by Shawn Merwin

One of the most famous treasure hunters in the Realms, Veradda Stoor, has put out a call for assistance in tracking down caches of treasure hidden by the now-defunct Cult of the Dragon in the Greypeak Mountains.

Through luck, skill, and the intervention of your faction, you have been chosen to assist her. You were told to meet her in a clearing along the Black Road, east of the village of Parnast.

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The chosen party first meets along the Black Road – all heading to meet Veradda…

They are: Sister Mercy Marceline Persephone DuMort (Wizard), Abcde (“[rh]apsody”) Copperbottom (Halfling Ranger), Assistant Professor Anthond Wellsalt (Druid), Nym Coda (Half-Elf Paladin), Aiindol “Aiins” Tahlib (High Elf Rogue), and Kendry Ghent (Rogue).

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But, she’s not at the appointed place at the appointed time. They all spread out to search Kendry finds some (goblin?) tracks and follows them more deeply into the wood…

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…to a dead body, hastily hidden under a great evergreen. He searches the body, concluding this is their intended host – and then calls the others over.

She was killed, and most of her items were taken or destroyed – especially her journal. Luckily, her murderers didn’t have the time to search her thoroughly – and there were 5 small scrolls with notes about where they were to look for the former Dragon Hoard’s treasure…

The first note reads:

The First Cache. The first treasure cache was hidden by the Cult of the Dragon in an abandoned cave at the base at of the southernmost mountain in the Greypeak range. While it was thought to be the smallest of the caches, it is also not thought to be protected by any traps or magic. The caves and tunnels of the complex, according to my sources, are not very structurally sound. Goblins are known to inhabit the area.

Abcde (rhymes with rhapsody) says “The tracks head off in the same direction…”

Nym: “So, we continue the mission, yes?”, and the party agrees “For my Faction! For Glory! For Veradda!”…

Mission: Beneath the Hills

Many Small Problems

After traveling a few hours, they come to the cave – and there are signs of many tracks – goblin tracks and at least one giant – going into the cave. They enter:

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The large cavern is empty of living creatures, although several lanterns around the room provide light. Rubble is piled up three feet high in several places throughout the cavern, and two tunnels lead out. The tunnel on the south wall is clear, but the tunnel to the east is chocked with debris. Dust still rides the zephyrs circulating through the cavern, leading you to believe the cave-in to the east was recent.

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Nym moves across the chamber toward the cave-in and notices something, “I found a giant! Well, a dead one – if there’s a body to go with those feet under that cave in.”

Just then, goblins attack from behind several stone piles…

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Sister Mercy quickly puts several of the goblins to sleep as the heroes are nimbly reposition to take down their foes – a few move to the south end of the chamber…

Even More, Even Smaller Problems

A scurrying sound and some high-pitched squeaking echo from the south tunnel. You look, expecting to see rats or some other vermin swarming toward you. Instead, you see an angry looking swarm of goblins. These goblins, however, are no larger than mice. Their tiny scimitars and shields seem almost comical at first, until you realize just how many of them there are.

They quickly swarm over Nym and Aiindol…

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Custom made goblin swarms made by me

There were was oil, fire, spells, and wild swinging to defeat the swarm (as each attack hit, the “shrunk” goblin returned to full size, causing quite a mess…

“Treasure’s not here…” so they move on through the south cave…

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The rogues enter the next chamber silently and scout ahead, seeing something very strange, indeed.

The Littlest Giant

This cavern, like the last, is lit with lanterns throughout. To the north, at the far end of the corridor, you can see a small creature dressed in ratty furs, wielding a club. He stands in front of a stone chest that is even with his eyes. His back is to you, and you catch the sound of angry rumbling coming from his direction, but it is too faint to hear clearly.

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As the party positions for a surprise attack, Nym notices a black creature the size of a house cat in the northwest niche – “Wait! That’s a tiny black bear!” he thinks.

“It’s noticed me!” – he lets loose an arrow – and it finds it’s mark – killing the cat/bear – which immediately returned to it’s full size.

“WHAAT! Blooddrinker! Who has slain you! Slayermighty will avenge you!” – Normally, this pronouncement from a Hill Giant would reverberate through the cave like thunder. But given Slayermighty’s decreased size, it sounded more like
it was pronounced by an irritated gerbil.

The mini-Giant charged the group, but was no match – and soon there was a huge giant body on prostrate before them.

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Epilogue

The stone chest was empty, except for a note:

“Stupid runt-giants of the hills, You are too slow and dim-witted to challenge us. The treasure is ours. You are probably feeling small now, aren’t you? If you think you are going to prevail, you are mistaken. By the way, prevail means win, idiots.

Clan True-Nimbus of the Clouds"

The professor pipes up: “That’s peculiar, damn’d peculiar. Giant’s aren’t supposed to fight with each other, or even harm one another.”

Nym – “Don’t worry Wellsalt, we’re going to investigate further – after all, we’ve got four more caches to find.”

Next Mission: Upon the Stones

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A Scream in the Night CORE 1-1

Run at SF ComicCon 2016

A Scream in the Dark

The following post contains detailed SPOILERS for A Scream in the Night

From Baldman Games not available on the DMsGuild and fully D&D Adventure’s League compatible. I ran it at San Francisco ComiCon on September 3rd for a group of 6.

The quoted and centered text below a small (and modified) selection of the gray-box text from the module.

Preamble (Meta)

[There were some scheduling snafu’s at the conference – it was their first year, so it’s to be expected – so it took an hour before a group of players was assembled. So this adventure was cut short by one encounter. Though I was prepared with some pretty cool effects, the players never knew what they missed…]

“Melvaunt is a city of merchants and metal smiths. The docks are constantly
filled with ships from Hillsfar, Mulmaster, and more distant ports. The
northern coast of the Moonsea is an inhospitable place, and its people
have a reputation for being rough and unfriendly. But they don’t go around
murdering one another in the streets. At least, not usually.”

A Scream in the Dark

Our heroes are from the Moonsea region and are potential recruits for a new chapter of the Forsite Irregulars. They arrive at Melvaunt by ship and by land…

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…and told to meet at seven bells at the Winking Narwhal, a tavern near the docks.

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Bosnun, tells them over ales that they are scouting the town to see if it would be a suitable base of operations for the Irregulars in the Moonsea region. They’ll start by scoping out the “Night Market” which opens after 8pm in the middle of town.

“Charley’s given you each some scrip that you can use to equip yourself with something special – make wise use of it!” He hands them each a note that simply states “Good for one favor from Charles Forsite, value in surplus of exchange.”

“Oh, yes” Bosnun adds, stroking his beard, “If you should encounter any of the local constabulary, we’re certain you’ll be of utmost assistance to them! Now eat up! It’s almost 8 o’the clock and you’ll have to hike across town.” He quietly departs the bar.

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At about 3/4 past 7 they head outside, knowing it will take some time to find their ways through the narrow alleys of the wharf district…

“As you exit the tavern, the stench of stale beer and sweaty bodies is replaced by the scent of burning coal and scorched metal.
They say that the forge-fires of Melvaunt never stop burning, and the local atmosphere is proof enough of that. The stars are faintly
visible in the night sky thanks to the haze that shrouds the city. Still, Melvaunt’s emphasis on trade and metalworking makes
it prosperous enough, a rarity in the harsh lands north of the Moonsea.
No matter what business you were planning to be about, you can’t help but overhear the distinctive sounds of a brawl coming from the nearby alley behind the tavern.”

Oh course they investigate and break up the fight. They deduce that some coins were ‘dropped on [the sailors] heads’ probably from a nearby window – though that seems to be sealed shut now.

As they are still sorting the ruckus out,
“The elaborate mechanical clock tower near the still distant market is audible from most places in the city.
Right on cue, it begins to chime eight bells. As the final peal fades into silence, you hear a scream
from the opposite side of the street.”

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They rapidly rush around to the next alley to find one of the brawling sailors murdered, face down in the mud, covered with metal caltrops.

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As they rush forward to give aide, they discover that the caltrops are magical – and they spring to attack link swarms of metal mosquitos – catching our fledgling heroes off guard, but not inept, as they quickly disable this very unusual trap.

After being certain that they’ve disabled them all, the approach the body again, noticing a note pinned to the victim’s back, held there with the murder weapon. These the rogue gathers when…

“You hear the shrill noise of a watchman’s whistle and the sound of booted feet
clomping on the cobblestones. A detachment of city watch surrounds the
alley at both ends, their halberds crossed to prevent you from leaving.
An older woman in the uniform of an officer steps carefully into the alley, avoiding
the blood and the caltrops. She studies the area with keen blue eyes and runs a hand
through her unruly white hair. “Hmm, well, now, what do we have here,” she murmurs,
as if to herself. “It seems that note was telling the truth after all. But we didn’t get here
by eight bells. Missed our appointment for murder! I’d have expected the killer to be
long gone. And yet…”
She looks expectantly at you, awaiting an explanation.”

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After some [fun roleplaying] the night watch commander explains how it was she came to learn that there was to be a murder exactly here, at exactly this time. The dragonborn quickly revealed their associating with the Irregulars, and their assumed commitment to service – and quickly they set to work decoding the just discovered second (bloody) letter.

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After some decoding, insight, and detective work the Irregulars reasoned that the murderer was declaring he was going to kill again, this time at 9-bells and that a certain merchant at the Night Market was the likely target.

Watch commander: “You have just enough time to make it to the Market before 9pm! We’ll be there with reinforcements just a little after the chimes… I’m counting on you to protect that merchant!”

Running behind a street urchin given a whisper by the commander, they arrive at the famous Night Market of Melvaunt with only a few minutes to spare…

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“The ‘smiths at the fa’ side o’ the market – on yer right…” is the last thing they hear as the waif disappears behind some stands…

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They quickly find the dwarven smith – who is too busy to be distracted with talk of random death threats. They get his attention by showing their special scrip from Charles Forsite “Well, why didn’ya say thaaat!” Here! Check out these SPECIAL weapons.

As he’s proudly distributing the weapons, the Gondsmen (domestic magic robots) in the adjacent booth go wild!

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They break through walls and other booths to attempt to attack the blacksmith.

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Our heroes quickly push the target back and form a protective wall in front of him. Using the new weapons they just received, were able to slice through the constructs metal hulls as easily as animal flesh.

And the tower starts to ring 9 bells!

At that instant, an arrow comes down from the sky and critically wounds the smith, who didn’t see it coming from the area of the clock tower behind him (and all the Irregulars.)

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It is only with skill and a bit of luck that they are able to defeat the Gondsmen, provide complete cover for the blacksmith, and revive him – barely saving his life.

“What’s that flying away from the top of the clock tower? Our assassin can fly!”

Again the arrow had a clue [details of the puzzle/clues omitted here because spoilers] that leads our crew to the next murder (guess when) which will take place at the dark temple located back (again) on the warf side of town.

After quickly stocking up at the market, they left the town guard to clean up the mess and headed to the temple.

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Again, there is resistance as “The Temple is Closed.” “There is no threat.” “Even if there were, I am not defenseless!” >Door slam<

The chime starts ringing and the party is out of patience. The fighter kicks the just – slammed door down as they rush in. “You don’t understand…” they plead…

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But as the final chime rings “the glass skylight that arches over the sanctuary shatters. A rain of broken glass
cascades down upon you. The priestess cries out in pain and drops to one knee. A massive shard
has impaled her shoulder.
Floating above you in the wreckage of the once-beautiful window is a spindly,
cloaked figure. You cannot make out its face or features, but its arms and legs are
very thin. It carries a bow, nocked with a single black arrow, aimed at the heart of the
priestess of Loviatar.”

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She’s mortally wounded before they can act! Sensing they have only one chance, the Forsite Irregulars release holy hell on the flying murderer – drawing on skills and talents truly worthy to be called Charley’s Agents.

“The cloaked figure recoils from the strength of your attacks, its aim ruined. The black
arrow skips harmlessly off the marble floor. You notice that there does not seem to be
another note attached to it.”

The cloak drops away from the now clearly wounded assailant reveal a small golden metal frame:

It speaks: “Mal-function!” in a metallic voice – similar to the sounds made by the Gondsmen they fought only an hour ago.

“Emergency Portal Activation Triggered”

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A portal appears on an upper terrace of the temple – showing a window to a strange golden world – covered with hundreds of strange metal beings like this one.

“Mission failure. Must… return… to … base…”

But our heroes will have none of it and continue the attack, deflecting the machine into the edge of the portal – which disappears with half of the attacker in each world!

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They revive the priestess and thwart the machines plans – but what, exactly WERE those plans? Since when do machines go insane and murder people for no reason? [See CORE 1-2!]

While they rest, the commander of the watch arrives to receive her briefing. “I’d heard tales of the amazing heroism of those Charles Forsite chooses for his agents, but until now I’d scarcely believed them! You’ve passed my test, and we’d be happy to officially sanction you as Protectors of Melvaunt! If you follow me, we’ll get you set up with a modest headquarters!”

I’d like to think my players for a great run…

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… and Shawn Merwin for getting me an early released copy of this module to run for SF ComicCon 2016 – and Games of Berkeley for hosting – and specifically Cassandra Witiver who invited me to run a game for them.

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Build Notes

I didn’t make any special items for this adventure. See my other posts here, and RPGNow for a complete listing of available paper terrain products.

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We Be Goblins

Adapted for Hero Kids (for my grandkids: 4 and 7)

We Be Goblins Hero Kids

This adventure is NOT part of the Foresite Irregulars storyline, skip to Lost in Sigil to pick up the latest in that chapter.

We Be Goblins

My granddaughters are 4 and 7 years old and know that their grandfather loves games, and to make things out of paper.

I recently volunteered to run an adventure for them and my son requested an adventure he’d heard about: We Be Goblins – a free-to-download adventure by Paizo. I’d already downloaded it and was eager to prepare it for my girlies and their dad.

The story was way fun (PCs play naughty young goblins instead of noble adult humanoids), mission was simple (go get the fireworks from the old shipwreck in the swamp), and there were only three encounter areas.

But, Pathfinder is WAY too complex a system for 4 year olds, so I looked for an alternative, and found it in Hero Kids by Justin Halliday. Why Hero Kids? The resolution mechanic is simply best-of-6d-dice-pool opposed rolls. No math! Kids Just need to know what the biggest number they rolled is and 4 year olds can do that. Better characters skills or gear means more dice in the pool. That’s it! The hardest part is remembering the ties rule. If you’re interested in how I adapted the module and the changes I made to Hero Kids, read on past the end of the photos.

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The 4 year old played Chuffy Lickwound – The sneaky-stabby one.

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The 7 year old played Rita Bigbad – The girl goblin who likes fighting and hates dogs.

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Their dad played Poogh of Zarongel – His hands burn and his wand make’s you feel better.

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Mogmurch got in trouble for blowing up the family kitchen, so he didn’t get to go on the adventure…

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Sribbleface’s Legacy

“You were out of the village playing all day…”

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“… you come back to discover that they have torn down the hut of that old crazy goblin everyone called Scribbleface because he wasted all his time learning that yucky readin’ and writin’ stuff. They are burning the bits of his hut at the center of town and are having big party!” [What do you want to do?]

Rita: “I want to find some dogs to chase around…”

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As the gang is getting the low-down about the kitchen incident with Mogmurch, a voice booms out: “Chuffy Lickwound, Rita Bigbad, and Poogh of Zarongel – report to the Chief at the bonfire, immediately!”

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[The group learns of their quest: To follow a map left by Scribbleface to the outer swamp to a shipwreck there and see if there are any more fireworks there.]

The chief continues: “But first! You mush face one a dare each! Choose one of them here and see if you can beat it – if you can I will lend you some useful stuff for your quest!” [These mini-games taught them the die-pool mechanic.]

Poogh (since he can heal) chose to face the Ear-Biter gauntlet – a very nasty tube of sharp knives and rusty poles!

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Though he did lose a chunk of his left hear, Poogh got through in record time and got his prize:

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Rita decides to accept the “Dance with Squeely Nord” and climbs into the pit to attempt to ride the ornery pig till the count of 10!

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She got a bit banged up trying to grab both the ears and the tail…

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but eventually succeeded, receiving:

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And Chuffy decided to play “Hide or Get Clubbed” and was tricky – instead of hiding out in the swamp, he hid right behind the chief’s tent!

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…and though people got close (and he did get clubbed by ‘accident’) he won:

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Chief: “Well done! Tomorrow morning you will leave with the map looking for the fireworks! Bring back all my stuff our you’ll be sorry!”

Leaving on an Adventure

The next morning they leave, but not before Mogmurch says “You know, there’s some scary things out there, like Lotsalegs Eats Goblin Babies Many – and then there is Vorka who will catch you and eat you!”

Rita: “Vorka is just something our daddies made up to scare us to go to bed. I don’t believe in Vorka!” Chuffy and Poogh both agree: “We don’t believe in Vorka!”

Mogmurch: “Well, OK. But watch out for Lotsalegs! I’ve seen her webs, so she’s real!”

About an hour later, they enter a wooded area half-way to the X marking the spot where the fireworks are supposed to be…

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Poogh: “Wow! There are a lot of webs, we’ll have to be careful to not get stuck!”

Rita goes one way, Poogh and Chuffy go another…

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.. and Poogh and Chuffy get stuck by a giant web shot by Lotsalegs Eats Goblin Babies Many – a giant spider when it appears out of a bush!

And they kill it quickly – though there are some injuries that are cured by Poogh’s wand and potions they got from the Chief.

Rita: “That monster should have a nest with lotsa stuff somewhere!”

Chuffy: “I can use my ring of Climb Real Good to go up the tree and look in the webs up there!”

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Yup! Lots of cool loot there:

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… the goblins head on to their destination …

The Ship in the Swamp

Poogh: “Why is there a fence around that shipwreck?”

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Chuffy: "I see a horse! It looks all sick and hungry. I want to feed it some candy! "

Rita: “And I smell dogs up on that deck! Let me at’m!”

Poogh: “I can use the ladder in the chief’s robe to get over the fence!”

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After getting inside the fence, Rita tries running straight to the gangplank at the front of the ship but sees that there is a big wasp nest at the top of it so heads back near the rear of the ship.

Chuffy throws some candy at the front of the deck to draw the dogs away as Poogh is putting the ladder up near the back. Chuffy runs up the ladder, and then straight up to the crows nest, using her Ring of Climb Real Good.

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Before Chuffy can really grab any of the cool stuff he finds, Poogh is up the ladder, and the dogs run back to attack. Soon Rita is up the ladder too and everyone is fighting!

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After they are done with the dogs, Chuffy recovers the stuff that’s up in the crow’s nest:

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Rita: “I smell another dog, a BIG one! Up on the upper deck, near that smokestack! Do you see it from up there Chuffy?”

Chuffy: “Yeth! Let’s go!”

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Poogh: “What is all this gross stuff up here? Someone has been cleaning goblin bones!”

Upon hearing giant dog cry its last in the fight, they can hear a voice coming from below decks: “Cuddles? Are they hurting you! NO!”

Chuffy: “Could that be Vorka? No way!”

Poogh: “There’s a trap door right here! Lets go down and find out who it is?”

As they drop through from the upper deck to the cabin the which Vorka, says: “I can’t wait to see what you children will taste like with the bottle of wine I have up in the crow’s nest…”

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[Last photo, because: batteries.]

The final battle involves Chuffy shooting fireworks at Vorka, who summons more dogs to fight for her and a Giant Toad eating Chuffy (oh noes!), and Rita cutting him out and Poogh healing him (oh yays!)

Ultimately they defeat her and find:

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and they did, and they were.

Adapting We Be Goblins adventure to Hero Kids:

Two things I was concerned about in the themes of the story: Rita’s hate of dogs (my granddaughters love their puppy) and Vorka’s cannibalism. I was more concerned with the dogs than the Hansel-and-Gretel threat Vorka posed.

After introducing the characters, I needed not be concerned – the 7 year old jumped at the chance to play Rita, saying “I love my dog, but I don’t like big dogs!” and she loved the special power to find them at a distance.
You can see from the narrative how we handled the dark aspect of Vorka.

Adapting to Hero Kids was all about simplifying and reducing everything to either the die-pool mechanic or simple single-use tokens. Since I have a large collection of Paizo Gamemastery item cards, I decided to reduce all the loot cards that had an art-back and simple goblin-speak names on the front. Some of those names are from the adventure, some aren’t.

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The kids really loved the art-side for getting a sense of what they had and what it looked like. Rita: “Good! I’ve got THIS armor! Since I like to fight…”

I was very concerned even about die-pool additions and wanted to reduce as math of it out of the game as possible, so I converted magic/special weapons to items with 3 dice. Pretty straightforward. But I made one change to Hero Kids to reduce die pool adds and confusion: I didn’t give the characters stats, only item cards and a single signature power.

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For the adaptation to Hero Kids (not very deadly, which is good) there was too much loot. You can cut it by half. One upgrade weapon per player, and one cool limited use item per player should be enough.

Using physical tokens for single-use items like the candy and the fireworks worked very well for the 4 year old – she used them whenever she could! (I wish my adult D&D players would use their inventory so well!)

Paper Terrain

Almost all of the terrain was things I’d built for other sessions – which you can find links to at oldschooldm.com Look through the posts to find a photo featuring the terrain you are interested in and scroll to the bottom where there is a Build NOTES section.

The one exception is Ear Biter, which I made out of a paper towel roll, toothpicks, tape, and paint…

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I’m sure you know what happened after the game was over – the kids wanted to play with the terrain…

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The Fetid Wedding

Our conclusion

The Fetid Wedding

This adventure is NOT part of the Foresite Irregulars storyline, skip to Lost in Sigil to pick up the latest in that chapter.
This is the final post from my run of D&D 5e’s Out of the Abyss at Games of Berkeley.

Recap

Our heroes successfully aided the deep gnomes of Blingdenstone to recapture their former seat of government, the House Center and old throne room, by defeating the Pudding King and driving off the few oozes they didn’t destroy outright.

The 2nd Battle of Blingdenstone

As they recover from the battle, Magda has a vision – it’s from Stool. Normally rapport spores are not supposed to cover this distance, but nothing is “normal” in the Underdark since Demons have started cropping up everywhere.

“We’re leaving the Grove now, headed to Araumycos. It’s very bad, most of my kin have been corrupted by her spores. Hurry to the place I’m showing you now…”

A vision of caves lit by spore-light passes through Magda’s mind. “… and hurry!”

The Drow concentrates a reply: “We will be there, little buddy!”

The Fetid Wedding

After several days travel, they (including a two squads of Svirfneblin with Dorbo and Senni in command) arrive at a cavern that appears to be miles on a side…

The Fetid Wedding

Stool and Rumpadump meet them

“Araumycos – The largest and greatest being of our world,” Stool says sadly. “All that you see before you is Araumycos; all this and much more. All is in danger from the corruption that will claim the whole of the world if you do not help us.”

“But we’re late! The unholy ceremony has begun! Behold, just at the edge of sight!”

The Fetid Wedding

As the party tries to cross the expanse, they find it is slow going, as Araumycos keeps the earth soft, wet, and loamy.

Kraum: “What are we supposed to do when we get there anyway? She’s got hundreds of allies at her beck and call.”

The party continues, with twisted music and dancing, and LOTS of spores filling the field like a thick psychedelic smoke.

The Fetid Wedding

While they are still too far away to act, Zuggtmoy screams out:

“Yes! My betrothed! YES! Let us merge in ecstasy and power!”

The Fetid Wedding

Suddenly a <boom> – a shock-wave of power that is centered on her.

Stool: “Oh no! We’re too late!”

The Fetid Wedding

A wave of green-spirit fire starts to spread outward.

Stool: “She’s already started to corrupt Araumycos!”

Bucephalus: “Aw, crap. What now?”

From within the colored gasses everywhere, a dark cloud coalesces near the Fungal Queen…

The Fetid Wedding

… and forms into a giant monster next to her (crushing dozes of celebrants underneath) – and it attacks!

Buppido: “Juiblex! He’s come to save us! I TOLD you we were on the wrong side!”

Magda: “Why did we bring him along again?”

Also slithering in are the remnants of the 2nd Battle of Blingdenstone – oozes, puddings, jellies and gelatinous cubes, even Glabbagool.

The Fetid Wedding

Darvon: “The wave is spreading slower – that may of bought us some time, but for what, I don’t know.”

Going is still slow, but the din of the battle between the demons and their minions is growing.

Stool: “While she’s distracted, we’ve got to break her hold on Araumycos! We must reach its brain, which is in the Gray Dream! Rumpadump and I can get us half the way there, but we’ll need a strong concentration of Araumycos’ spores.”

The Fetid Wedding

Eventually, the wave passes our heroes, and instantly Araumycos interprets them as a threat, and binds them all tightly with tight strands of itself.

The Fetid Wedding

The Myconid spores make the party start to feel drowsy – at least, they hope that’s what’s behind this strange sensation. Then they feel the ground beneath them shift as something moves – a number of thick, spiky tendrils bursting from the ground.

The Fetid Wedding

Stool: “These are the pods. Destroy them.”

And they do.

The creature bursts like an overfull wineskin, releasing a clear ichor and a cloud of dusty spores. The deflating bulk of its body sinks back beneath the shimmering fungal field. As vision starts to swim. and you feel dizzy and faint, your limbs are numb and your legs no longer support you.

The Fetid Wedding

They hear Shuushar’s voice and see (blurry) several Koa-Toa approaching them “Do not worry, we will guard your bodies while you are in the Gray Dream.” Darvon: “Is this real? Have the Koa-Toa returned?” Shuushar: “Yes, We have gone through the Open Door brother Darvon. You will not fail us.”

Entering the Gray Dream

The Fetid Wedding

You are floating, weightless, adrift. A gray, silvery light spreads around you like the dawn on a cloudy day, illuminating a peculiar realm. All of you are floating in a silvery haze that shimmers with swirls of color. Objects drift past in the distance, but whether they are small stones or rocks the size of mountains, you can’t say for certain. Your moment of reverie is broken by the sound of Stool’s voice in your mind. “We’re here!”

The Fetid Wedding

In the distance is a great neuron – made of what looks like a giant root-ball with thick tendril-roots running infinitely off in every direction. They they are translucent and bright bursts of lights pulse outward into the ether.

Stool: “Araumycos’ Brain, or Heart. We don’t have different words for that…”

Chant: “What do we do now? Talk to it? – Um, Hello?”

Nothing.

Magda approaches, and touches the brain attempting to heal it.

The Fetid Wedding

Tendrils branch off the branches and ensnare the party, but the attempts to communicate bear some fruit, as the brain turns to expose a dark black “dead” area on the far side. The area is growing as a thin line of green flame spreads..

Darvon: “We must cut out the corruption at all costs!”

But, this activity has been perceived by their foe:

“Who dares?” a voice shouts in your mind. “Who dares disturb the consummation of our lo-ve?” Spores and tendrils erupt from the surface of the brain. Coalescing before your eyes into the image of the Demon Queen of Fungi, her dead eyes glaring with inhuman fury.

She counter-attacks – nearly detaching several of our heroes from the dream…

The Fetid Wedding

After a tough battle, they succeed in destroying and/or healing Araumycos’’s brain, which unceremoniously dumps them back into the material world…

Fighting the Faceless Lord

The Fetid Wedding

Between the breaking of the bond, and the distraction caused by fighting the group in the Gray Dream, they arrive just in time to see the grotesque display of the Faceless Lord slurping up the defeated Zuggtmoy into the mass or its body – enveloping and dissolving her before turning its attention towards them. The great banquet is to begin!

Stool: “We aren’t finished! We must also defeat Juiblex, the oozes will easily consume all of the deeply wounded Araumycos!”

A horn blows in the distance!

The Fetid Wedding

Leading a group of Dwarvish fighters from the flank is Eldeth Feldrun! At the same time, the ground grows firm under everyone’s feet, and the plants actually facilitate movement instead of impairing it.

Lastly, the crazy colored spores are overpowered by a blue mist rising from Araumycos – which protects against poison.

Bucephalus: “He’s giving us a a chance against that beast!”

Kraum: “By the light of Dawnbringer! Charge!”

The Fetid Wedding

The Dwarves and newly released Myconids focus on engaging the oozes and makes a safe path for our heroes.

The Fetid Wedding

Many dwarf and Myconid lives are bravely sacrificed as they intercept attacks intended for the party.

The Fetid Wedding

Araumycos’ gift even allows Magda to mount the demon and strike a powerful blow.

Ultimately, the Faceless Lord is also defeated – now a large, deep puddle of ooze with half-digested Zuggtmoy bits protruding from the surface.

The Fetid Wedding

[Victory Group Selfie]

The End

Build Notes

Setting
- Araumycos: Hand made by spray painting a fish net with green and violet paint and flocking and applying gutter glue generously and spreading over a black cloth
- Backdrop: Photoshop large print of test build.

Special Figures
- Juiblex Hand made with foil, tape, thick wire, Model Magic, hot glue, sequins, and paint. Build Photos
- Gray Ooze/Statues/Black Pudding: Home made – it’s just glue stick or green stuff for the statues, a base, and paint.
- Fold-Flat ‘Seamless’ Gelatinous Cubes: Home made, I’ll do a video/post of the technique later.

Props
- Mushrooms from Mines of the Mountain King by Fat Dragon Games (resized/recolored by OldSchoolDM)

If you enjoyed the terrain posts and would like to see more, please consider starting at any of the threads on the home page

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Juiblex says “Bye-ee!”

Juiblex

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The Second Battle for Blingdenstone

The Pudding King Must Fall

The 2nd Battle of Blingdenstone

This adventure is NOT part of the Foresite Irregulars storyline, skip to Lost in Sigil to pick up the latest in that chapter.
This is the sixth post from my run of D&D 5e’s Out of the Abyss at Games of Berkeley.

Recap

Our heroes traveled to Neverlight Grove for two reasons: To re-unite Stool with its kind, and to gather the ingredients to make enough Oil of Acid Resistance to support the Svirfneblin to take Blingdenstone back from the oozes infesting their caves.

Neverlight Grove

While there, the discovered that Zuggtmoy the Queen Demon of fungi has moved in and is preparing to “marry” (corrupt?) the giant colony-life force Araumycos meanwhile corrupting the minds of fully half of the Myconids living there. They just barely escaped with the ingredients. They had to leave Stool behind (but not before it deep-mind-linked with Magda.)

After several days travel, they return to Blingdenstone. While they rest and recharge, the gnomes madly produce enough of the oil to coat all the weapons and armor – at least enough to last for some portion of the battle.

The Second Battle of Blingdenstone

As the party, dozens of deep gnomes, Chief Dorbo Diggermattock, and Quartermaster Senni enter the House Center…

The 2nd Battle of Blingdenstone

“By Garl Glittergold and his mighty axe Arumdina! That’s a LOT of ooze!More than yesterday – something’s changing, I ken feel it!” – Dorbo

The 2nd Battle of Blingdenstone

From the upper platform the Pudding King yells out:

“You’re back, just in time! Oh, and you brought my old friends with you! How fitting that we should eat a hearty meal before the long trip to help our Faceless Lord crash that dreadful wedding! We can’t wait to get a bite of that wretched scheming witch…”

He motions toward the ceiling and it briefly rains green slime…

The 2nd Battle of Blingdenstone

..catching several of them unawares and covered with slime. “The oil is working! No one was seriously hurt” calls out Darvon has he helps clear green slime from a nearby gnome.

The 2nd Battle of Blingdenstone

“General Glabbagool – feed my children and get them ready to go!”

The pudding king effects his escape through a cavern at the back of the platform….

Senni: “We’ve got to get to him! He’s the brain behind these oozes.”

The gelatinous Cube (which has eyes? and a glowing body?) at the front of the platform seems to speak, even with no obvious mouth: “Attack the fleshbags, my brothers! Eat hearty for we have a long trip ahead!”

The 2nd Battle of Blingdenstone

So begins what was later known as “The Long Climb” – with oozes flowing over the walls and down the stairs one after another – with no end in site.

The 2nd Battle of Blingdenstone

Foot by foot, the battle is fought on all sides…

The 2nd Battle of Blingdenstone

“This oil is giving us a chance!” Indeed, oozes are falling at a much higher rate than ally casualties.

The 2nd Battle of Blingdenstone

The first staircase is clear. Then the second. Even as weapons and armor start to fail as the oil is scrapped off by battle, the tide is clear.

General Glabbagool: “They are too tough. Retreat to the cracks! Begin the journey now.”

The Glabbagool retreats as well…

The 2nd Battle of Blingdenstone

Magda: "We’re going to make for the platform and then through the exit…

The 2nd Battle of Blingdenstone

“…Have your teams take out as many of these oozes as possible before they can leave – I have a feeling it will make a difference later.”

Dorbo: "We will…

The 2nd Battle of Blingdenstone

The battle continues…

The 2nd Battle of Blingdenstone

…while the heroes storm the staircase…

The 2nd Battle of Blingdenstone

…finally exiting the House Center…

The 2nd Battle of Blingdenstone

Ruined Stockade (Room 29)

…taking the caves into a chamber…

The 2nd Battle of Blingdenstone

… with more oozes…

The 2nd Battle of Blingdenstone

The sound of dripping water fills this dark cave, and various oozes slither across the walls and floor. Some sort of wall or partition on divided the cave, but that barrier has been destroyed. Beyond it lies more wreckage and debris scoured clean by the oozes. A pool has formed in a crater formed in the center of this room.

The 2nd Battle of Blingdenstone

The Pudding King peeks in from the door at the far end of the room…

The insane, slime-covered deep gnome points at you and cackles. “Prince Livid! Princes Ebermire! Devour them, my precious children! Make your father proud!” He then retreats further into the caves.

The 2nd Battle of Blingdenstone

After receiving a black-ooze-slime bomb from Princess Ebermire, Kraum practically vaults to engage the black pudding up close and personal.

The 2nd Battle of Blingdenstone

While those that are left deal with the Yellow Jelly that is Price Livid. Again the Oil reduces the thread these oozes pose, so combat is short, but there is a surprise waiting in the doorway behind them.

The 2nd Battle of Blingdenstone

“NO! You’re fighting on the wrong side! We need them!” screams Buppido as he charges and attacks Chant.

Everyone responds “What?”

A spellcaster says “Sleep” and the Derro is subdued, then disarmed and tied.

When they wake him, he says “Why am I tied? What happened?”

Bucephalus: “Until we can figure this out, you will stay with us with your hands tied. We’re too busy to deal with you any other way right now. Don’t speak unless it’s some sort of explanation.”

The 2nd Battle of Blingdenstone

They follow the Pudding King…

The 2nd Battle of Blingdenstone

The Throne Room (Room 30)

Phosphoresce lichen illuminates this cave. the floor of which is covered with pools of green slime. More green slime clings to the ceiling and forms hideous drapes along the walls. In the middle of the cave is a slime-covered throne.

The 2nd Battle of Blingdenstone

There is no sign of the Pudding King here…

Kraum: “Where is he? ‘General’?”

From behind the throne, the gnome cast wicked poisonous spell that immediately makes those nearest him choke on the burning…

“Callooh! Callay! Now you can join the party!” he cackles. “You can be one with the Faceless Lord – just let yourselves be eaten and disgorged!”

The 2nd Battle of Blingdenstone

Once exposed, our mighty adventures let loose every weapon at their disposal

The 2nd Battle of Blingdenstone

… and soon the defeated foe transforms into a black slime-pool…

“You haven’t won! No! We will rise from our children! We will be reborn from the Faceless Lord! Juiblex will consume the banquet of the Queen of Fungi and we will all grow! General! You know what to do! Lead them to the feast!”

With that, Glabbagool slinks out through a crack in the wall…

Blingdenstone is saved! But what of Juiblex, Zuggtmoy, and Araumycos? Are Stool and the Myconids OK?

Find out next time in our final episode: The Fetid Wedding

Build Notes

Setting
- Papeti’s Parc Guell: 3x scale, heavily modded kit of Gaudi’s Parc Guell in Barcelona, Spain. See this thread for construction details with home-made tiles and pillar mods.
- Cavern Tiles by Dwarven Forge

Props
- Mushrooms from Mines of the Mountain King by Fat Dragon Games (resized/recolored by OldSchoolDM)
- Water Effects: Mars Mud by Toysmith
- Grey Ooze/Statues/Black Pudding: Home made – it’s just gluestick or greenstuff for the statues, a base, and paint.
- Fold-Flat ‘Seamless’ Gelatinous Cubes: Home made, I’ll do a video/post of the technique later.
- Fold Flat Staircase by OldSchoolDM (FREE)

The Final Episode: The Fetid Wedding

The Fetid Wedding

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Neverlight Grove

How many demons is it now?

Neverlight Grove

This adventure is NOT part of the Foresite Irregulars storyline, skip to Lost in Sigil to pick up the latest in that chapter.
This is the fifth post from my run of D&D 5e’s Out of the Abyss at Games of Berkeley.

Recap

After defeating their captors once and for all, the plan to re-equip at Blingdenstone was successful, but revealed that several great demons have returned and are already wreaking havoc on the inhabitants of the Underdark, destroying a Kou-toa city and threatening (through minions) Blingdenstone – a deep gnome colony attempting to be restored 100 years after a great battle with the Drow devastated the city.

Oozes in Blingdenstone's House Center

The heroes discovered that the colony is overrun by oozes of all shapes, colors, and sizes, lead by a Svirfneblin calling himself the Pudding King. Some of the group left with escorts to seek others to help, but the core group has resumed their trek to the Neverlight Grove – where they hope to gather a large quantity of ingredients to create Oil of Acid resistance, so they can push through the 100s of minions of the Pudding King in an attempt to cleanse Blingdenstone.

Homecoming At Neverlight Grove

The gnomes supplied a cart, several empty casks and jars to collect the ingredients as well as a cart, horse, and two escorts for the journey.

After several days, they approach Neverlight Grove…

Neverlight Grove

… a canyon an forest of luminous fungi of all shapes and sizes…

Neverlight Grove

… strangely silent as the “people” here all communicate the same way Stool does – via spores.

The cart is sinking in the soft ground, so the gnome-escorts volunteer to work on getting it out and ready to leave at a moment’s notice.

Quickly, a green-capped Myconid approaches Stool and they come over near the cart together.

Neverlight Grove

Chant and Kraum are wary, and opt-out of the rapport spores.

Darvon shares: “Stool’s friend is Rumpadump.They are happy to see him again and are grateful.”

Chant: “Time is of the essence – we should attempt to collect the ingredients as quickly as possible.”

Harvesting from the Fungal Gardens

Looking around they see many Myconids gathered in circles wherever there is a high-place.

Neverlight Grove

The air is thick with spores – each circle has a clear connection within, and to adjacent circles: forming a spore-network.

Neverlight Grove

Magda: “We need some jars of each of the three primary lichen types, ochre, violet, and green. We also need full casks of liquid from the central lake and the easternmost pool. And some boards of zurkwood” It seems the Northern terraces are covered with Ochre Lichen, and the nearby southern terraces contain violet.

Stool will lead Bucephalus, Darvon and myself up here near the cart, and we’ll get some violet."

Neverlight Grove

Kraum:“I will guard the cart.”

Chant: “Buppido and I will cross the grove and try to collect some ochre fungi. Perhaps we can recruit a mushroom-guy to help us.”

Neverlight Grove

.. a tricky task, as Chant continues to refuse the rapport spores, but through some hand-signals and nods, they recruit an assistant and make it to the top to begin their collection.

Neverlight Grove

“ROAR!” – team violet is surprised as a Shambling Mound climbs out of the overgrowth!

Neverlight Grove

Combat ensues…

Neverlight Grove

Chant and Buppido abandon their collection prematurely in order to try to assist their compatriots – but they are too far away.

Kraum rushes up the hillside just in time to give the death blow.

The defeated shambler falls down the cliff…

Neverlight Grove

… and, quickly and silently, a number of locals move in to disassemble the carcass, and carry the remains to the far-end cave exit area.

Neverlight Grove

This activity has changed the “color/flavor” of the spore-network.

Stool: “The circle of masters would like to rapport with us.”

The Circle of Masters

Kraum: “You go, I will gather a cask from the central lake.”

Neverlight Grove

Chant: “I’ll like to still avoid spore-links. I will take a cask as well, and gather from the eastern pool.”

Neverlight Grove

The rest approach the central mound:

Stool:“This is the Circle of Masters. Not all colonies are structured this way. Unlike others, we are arranged by function. These are the leaders of the grove, by cast.”

Neverlight Grove

Sovereign Phylo (Blue cap, older, larger): “You are safe. friendly softers. You arrive at a wondrous time, for Neverlight Grove is on the verge of something great, something marvelous! Celebrate, as the day of joy is nigh!”

Bucephalus cocks his head at the strange welcome.

Sovereign Besaidia (Violet Cap) pipes up quickly: “Welcome! And our endless gratitude for returning Stool to us. It has told us already of your great daring and sacrifice. Our circle is enriched by your presence Stool-friends! Also, you do us a service by cycling that Shambling Mound. They are quite a nuisance.”

“Step up to the center of the circle, Stool! What service can we do for you friends?”

Neverlight Grove

Stool: “We need to harvest some of the groves riches to help a downtrodden people, and to destroy many of our enemies – the Oozes!”

Besaidia, steps down from the platform “Certainly, I will help, please come with me.”

Phylo mutters something: “Ha! The oozes can’t stop it. You’ll help! Good!”

Besaidia briefly breaks contact with the spore-net, but stays connected to the party. “You must be quick, something is very wrong here. Avoid the dark-spotted ones, they have been acting differently every since Zuggtmoy settled in the next cave and starting growing that giant mushroom palace…”

Neverlight Grove

Seems you only need the green lichen and zurkwood now, these are at the edge of the grove at the mouth of Zuggtmoy’s cave.

Having gathered the liquids, Chant and Kraum join the others at the east end of the grove.

Neverlight Grove

There are several zurkwood trees and tall mosses dividing the cave from the grove.

A Strange Celebration

But when they approach the cave mouth and start gathering the greens moss, they hear moaning and singing blending into a morose cacophony:

From rocky bed the toadstool rose
From chaos dark, her love She shows
Wish! Yearn! Laugh!
The Lady will be wed!
Crave! Hunger! Dance!
Her joyous spores will spread!
Youth is gone, beauty rots,
Araumycos and Zuggtmoy!
Joined together, heart to heart,
Becoming one ’til death do part!
Hail! Hail! Hail!

The moaning is coming from humanoids, buried up to their necks. They are infected and nearly-dead with rot covering most of their heads and faces. One barely recognizable Drow female daises a rotted hand from the muck, holding an amulet – bearing the crest of House Vandree! It’s Shoor’s sister! This is what happened to the other ambush party from Velkynvelve. “Kill me!” she rasps.

Magda says “You’re brother’s going to be waiting a long time for your rescue…” and he slays her with a single stabbing motion. Magda quickly does the same for the other trapped souls.

As the moans are snuffed out, the song from the floating creatures in the grove becomes clearer…

“That wasn’t nice! You’ll have to make up for that.” – a voice, an actual voice coming from something that was once a Myconid, but is now a fetal-like abomination.

Neverlight Grove

“I am Yestabrod. Are you here for the wedding rehearsal? Friends of the bride or her intended? No matter! Let the love of the Great Seeder embrace you as you become one with her chosen – the Great Body!”

With that – the zurkwood trees animate, and two carnivorous plants previously hidden in the bog attack!

Neverlight Grove

Between the corruption of Yestabrod, the sturdiness of the zurkwoods and the tentacles of the carnivorous plants, this seems like a losing battle. For some reason, the Myconids don’t enter the fight.

Neverlight Grove

It is touch-and-go, as most of the group focuses on taking down Yestabrod. Keeping the plants at bay is a challenge, one that ends up with Kraum ending up in the maw of the giant man-eater.

Neverlight Grove

A well timed Philater of Love changes that relationship in a hurry, and he is able to escape.

A hasty departure

When Yestabrod is defeated, the Besaidia-aligned Myconids use their pacification spores to the calm the aggressive plants, but now figures are coming from the cave in their direction. They need to flee, and quickly.

Bucephalus picks up zurkwood detritus from the battle, and puts it in his pack. “That’s the last ingredient!”

As they run as fast as they can through the boggy overgrowth, Magda picks up Stool “C’mon, buddy!”

Stool spores back: “No. I must stay. The Grove is under siege. I mush help Sovereign Besaidia and try to save the circle. But, if you let me, I’ll join us so we will not lose each other.”

“Yes.” – Stool lets out a very intense set of bright blue spores, and briefly Magda can see her own face – realizing that she’s been deeply bound to Stool and she knows that it will be able to reach her in an emergency, no matter how far away.

Magda sets Stool down. “Stay alive! I’ll be back some day!”

The gnomes were able to unstick the cart and get it reoriented for a hasty departure, with Sovereign Besaidia’s-aligned guarding their departure.

Darvon: “Stool’s going to be OK”
Magda: “I know.”

Epilog

Will they return to Blingdenstone with the ingredients in time? Will there be enough?
What will become of beloved Stool and the infected Myconids of Neverlight Grove?
What was that whole thing about Zuggtmoy and Araumycos - a country-sized colony-being - getting ‘married?’

Join us next time for The Second Battle for Blingdenstone

Build Notes

Walls & Map
- Backdrop Mushroom Castle by Victor Lam
- Vaults of the Underdark Map Pack by Wizards of the Coast
- Tiles Caverns of Fungal Chaos posted FREE by dethdragon in 2010
- Deadfall: Deadmans Canyon by WorldWorksGames
- Ancient Worlds: Hills by Lord Zsezse Works

Minis:
Mushroom Elementals by Reivaj Minis
Mushroom Men by Reaper Miniatures
Dungeon Decor: Stalagmites by Reaper Miniatures
Botanimoth by Gifted Vision

Props
- Mushrooms from Mines of the Mountain King by Fat Dragon Games (resized/recolored by OldSchoolDM)
- Caverns of the Underdark 3D Adventure Set by GaleForce9
- Cart from Carts and Wagons by Papierschnitzel

Next Time: The Second Battle for Blingdenstone

Blingdenstone

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Entering Blingdenstone

Revenge at the Mushroom Farm

Blingdenstone

This adventure is NOT part of the Foresite Irregulars storyline, skip to Lost in Sigil to pick up the latest in that chapter.
This is the fourth post from my run of D&D 5e’s Out of the Abyss at Games of Berkeley.

Recap

The Lost Tomb of Khaem

Having discovered, cleansed, and looted the The Lost Tomb of Khaem our survivors have decided to stop by Blingdenstone to trade and get appropriately equipped before heading to Neverlight Grove.

Revenge at the Mushroom Farm

Over several days of travel, Jimjar briefs the non-locals on the history of Blingdenstone. Short version: City sacked by Drow a century ago, and only recently (and partially) resettled. So, the Drow in their group, Magda, could present a trust problem. “We’ll have to deal with it when we get there.”

They approach the farms outside the city:

Blingdenstone

Jimjar says “One of the farmers here owes me on a bet, we can grab some decent mushrooms to eat here at is farm…”

Blingdenstone

But, before they can even get to the farms themselves, they are attacked from both sides by Quaggoth!

Blingdenstone

They quickly engage, using some resources in an attempt to end this encounter quickly, but are then surprised by a second wave: Darvon: “It’s Drow Ambush! These are our former captors!” Kraum activates Dawnbringer, and the sunlight quickly handicaps the denizens of the Underdark.

Our party spreads out, to engage the enemy, only to discover that Jorlan and Shoor have joined the fight, each from a different farm, flanking our group.

Blingdenstone

Shoor: “It seems the only way you will return with us is unconscious. So be it!”

Darkness falls on the center cavern, covering most of the group and giant spiders enter the chamber from above, and web-over the exits not covered by the Drow…

Blingdenstone

Things have gotten complicated. Kraum quietly says. “At least Ilvarra isn’t here” as he advances to engage Jorlan.

Jorlan replies: “You spoke too soon, orcish buffoon!”

Blingdenstone

In fact, Ilvarra was just out of sight, until she uses her Staff of the Tentacle to take him down…

After taking down the Quaggoth, Magda engages Shoor.

Blingdenstone

Meanwhile, Buppido, Stool, and Shuushar are trapped in the outer corridor with a flanking Drow – A pacifist, and Derro and a Mushroom walk into a Drow…

Blingdenstone

Bucephalus leads an attempt to recover Kraum’s body.

Blingdenstone

Only to discover that he is somehow conscious and can help with his own extraction.

Meanwhile, reinforcements from Blingdenstone arrive!

Blingdenstone

Only to have most of them pinned by an Insect Plague summoned by the Drow Priestess.

But the heroes rally and renew their assault, pulling out all the stops…

Blingdenstone

Taking down Jorlan. But Shoor is relishing the punishment he’s dishing out upon Magda. Darvon’s heals are keeping her standing…

The group in the hallway somehow defeat their Drow, as Shuushar removes the web covering their entrance cave.

Blingdenstone

Chant makes a decision. “Everyone but Magda, withdraw quickly!”

They know what he has in mind, and quickly retreat to the entrance deflecting all blows…

Blingdenstone

He grabs the Necklace of Fireballs from around his neck and hands it to Kraum – the strongest of them all, and instead of picking a bead or two to throw, he instead throws the entire necklace at Ilvarra as she comes in pursuit into the main chamber…

Blingdenstone

The explosion is massive! Instantly turning Ilvarra into a cinder. The cavern wall partially collapses, but is still passable. Shoor, the only remaining Drow, immediately surrenders to the now immerging deep gnomes. “I am a prisoner of war! Take me away from these villains!”

The gnomes also try to arrest Magda. Jimjar quickly pipes up “She’s with us, she helped us capture and kill Lady Ilvarra and these other invaders!” They reply: “That’s above our pay grade, Jimjar, the Chief will have to decide. For now, she’s you responsibility.”

In attempting to rescue the three mushroom farmers that were poisoned and restrained with webbing by the drow of Velkynvelve, Chant came down with some spore-born illness…

Entering Blingdenstone

[This account of the first visit to Blingdenstone is taken from the journal of Magda Rin’hae…]

They pass the outer gate and maze and are stopped in “The Gauntlet”…

Blingdenstone

Chant was carried off by the Deep Gnomes, along with the other sick and injured farmers. They promise they’ll return him when he’s better. Likely some trick just to make us behave.

Blingdenstone

The rest of us are forced to wait here as they cart off the pretty-boy Drow lieutenant, Shoor Vandree. Sorry I don’t to sit in on his interrogation. I’d have liked to see the uppity snig squirm. The guards take down our names, and are dismayed to hear mine – well, my last name at least. Back when the Deep Gnomes were driven out of Blingdenstone, my familial House led the charge. Yep. The Rin’hae.

Of course they’re gone now. Their destruction was why I grew up in the gutter, fighting for scraps. But these scribbly Gnomes don’t know that. And I’m not about to enlighten them.

Gem-sniffing Mushroom-munchers.

To pass the time I bet Jim Jar he couldn’t find us a deck of cards so we can teach Stool how to play. Because bored now. So of course he finds some. Worth the silver. The Myconid can’t play for mulch, but it was hilarious to try.

Eventually they let us into town.

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Not as conquering heroes but as barely tolerated guests (I got my own private guard-escort and everything!), and their leaders come out to tell us how we brought the Drow to their doorstep, put their people in danger, blah blah, whine whine. And then ghosts show up, but pretty much do the same – that must be hell, trapped to wander Blingdenstone as a lonely ghost, only to complain about it. you’d think they might try being proper undead and go haunt the actual Drow responsible.

Blingdenstone

Anyway, after the scolding we are finally allowed to shop. But the shop-keeps here are all distrustful bigots and wouldn’t sell us anything above 10gp.

Jerks.

At some point they took Shuushar, our pet fish, off – apparently he had a friend at the gate.

Blingdenstone

He comes back with another Fish-man – one who manages to look even sadder than he does – named Sloopydoop (yep, Sloopydoop). No wonder my race is trying to enslave everyone – its’ the only way they can stop other people from having stupid names! Anyway, long story short its’ a good thing we didn’t escort Shuushar to his home town, because it isn’t there anymore. Turns out that earthquake we felt a few days back was caused by a giant two headed Demon that rose up out of the water to destroy it all. Now the Kuo-Toa gill men don’t have a home, and are searching for survivors to let them know they’re all relocating to Neverlight Grove.

Blingdenstone

Well, we might have talked more, patted the poor orphan fish men on the heads and offered them some fermented worms or something, but the touching scene was interrupted by a pair of Gelatinous Cubes that followed in quietly behind them.

Blingdenstone

We killed one of them and drove off the other (there was a lot of stabbing going on. And fire), and none of us were killed. Yay!

Blingdenstone

But the leaders of Blingdenstone were like “hey, we think you suck, but why don’t you prove you don’t and go follow that jelly cube? We’ve been having ooze trouble for months, and they’ve been stopping us from colonizing the center of town here. Go see what’s what and maybe well let you get some cool stuff.”

Who doesn’t want to buy the cool stuff? So they gave us a few healing potions and off we went to the heart of Blingdenstone. Uptown. The Ritz.

Blingdenstone

The Ritz in this case was an ancient temple covered in five-hundred (plus) slimes and oozes of every conceivable stripe and color.

Blingdenstone

Led by none other than a lunatic calling himself the Pudding King.

Blingdenstone

He threatens us. Says “We’re not ready yet! Begone in the name of the Faceless one!” So we politely leave, struggling not to make eye-contact with the crazy person.

Blingdenstone

Back in the settled part of town the local yokels take it pretty hard, with Stool sporing out: “I gotta go ’ome! The Faceless One is danger!”, though our hope is rekindled when we see that Stool sweats blue goop when it’s nervous. Why hope over gross bodily secretions you ask? Because its blue sweat is acid resistant! Stool is cool!

So, given we risked our necks, and because we agreed to go to Neverlight Grove to acquire more of this goop, they’ve revised their opinion of us. They let us buy the cool stuff. They even gave us a wagon, barrels, and a beast to draw it with to go to Neverlight Grove to fetch the makin’s for enough Oil of Acid Protection retake Blingdenstone from the Pudding King and all those slime!

Nice.

Bonus for me? They gave me pretty boy Shoor Vandree’s armor. I’m totally replacing his House seal though. – Maybe I’ll just mark it with a big fat dirty worm.

But before we left, Edeth decides to take the gnome’s offer of escort to the surface, speaking to Kraum: “If you ask me to go with you to the Grove, I shall – but I beg let me go to Gauntlgrym and seek audience with the king. In one day we’ve heard of several great demons return. I must carry this news to the surface and seek aid.” Kraum says “I was just about to suggest that!” Jimjar: “I’ll take her, as witness and guide.”

Epilogue

What will the find in Neverlight Grove

— Will they make it back with enough Oil of Acid Protection in time to protect Blingdenstone?

Build Notes

Walls & Map
- Caverns of Chaos by Fat Dragon Games
- “Urban Underdark Tiles”: http://www.amazon.com/The-Urban-Underdark-Dungeon-Dungeons/dp/0786960418 by Wizards of the Coast
- Tiles: Dungeon Tiles and Cavern Tiles by Dwarven Forge

House Center
- Papeti’s Parc Guell: 3x scale, heavily modded kit of Gaudi’s Parc Guell in Barcelona, Spain. See this thread for construction details with home-made tiles and pillar mods.

Props
- Mushrooms from Mines of the Mountain King by Fat Dragon Games (resized/recolored by OldSchoolDM)
- Water Effects: Mars Mud by Toysmith
- Grey Ooze/Statues/Black Pudding: Home made – it’s just gluestick or greenstuff for the statues, a base, and paint.
- Fold-Flat ‘Seamless’ Gelatonus Cubes: Home made, I’ll do a video/post of the technique later.
- Market Props: Many suppliers. If you have a specific interest, contact OldSchoolDM on cardboard-warriors.proboards.com or facebook.

Next Time: Neverlight Grove

Neverlight Grove

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The Lost Tomb of Khaem

This adventure is NOT part of the Foresite Irregulars storyline, skip to Lost in Sigil to pick up the latest in that chapter.
This is the second post from my run of D&D 5e’s Out of the Abyss at Games of Berkeley.

Recap

Escaping from the prison cell and Velkynvelve cavern was just the beginning as they were aggressively pursued by their drow captors. With some quick thinking and misdirection, they hid themselves on The Silken Paths .

The Silken Paths

Though that route held dangers of its own – monsters and earthquake cost them the lives of more than one companion. Fortunately they were able to escape through a cave that opened in the cliff wall…

The Lost Tomb

Room 1: Entrance and Staircase

The rough passageway lead through a broken wall, to an ancient staircase. Bucephalus hears a disembodied female voice “Is anyone out there? Help me!”

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Entering the staircase, he stops to try to determine which way to go, but the voice is of no help,
as it seems to be unable to hear his cry to the central shaft of the stair.

Given no clear direction, “Up and out” is the order of the day.

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Soon they stand before a large ornate door – that pivots on it’s central axis. THe Thief quickly makes sort work of the latch, and they can see inside.

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They enter and explore:

“A stone diorama stands to the right of the entrance. depicting a sorceress – a Netherese noble in her prime. surrounded by attendants, slaves, and other trappings of wealth and power. A vista of fantastic floating cities covers the wall to the left of the entrance.”

The quickly discover that the exit will not open or budge. It seems blocked on the other side. “Perhaps a cave in from the earthquake?” It is quickly decided to explore downward, only returning here if necessary.

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Room 2: Shrine

“The stairs lead down to this shrine. where shreds of dusty tapestries lie scattered across the floor. Friezes on the walls are defaced with deep gauges, making them unrecognizable. An altar nr pale gray marble stands gauged and cracked against one wall.”

Darvon blesses one of the others, and promptly turns into a potted fern! Fortunately it wore off after 10 minutes. Phew!

Chant: “Apparently, this wizard left a wild-magic curse on her tomb. Only cast spells if we really need them!”

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There are two exits, and they manage to determine that one of them should lead to the servant’s chamber, and explore.

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Room 3: Servant’s Quarters

The chamber contains four coffins, one of them recently opened. “Perhaps that was the spirit that visited us on the Silken Paths” suggests Brother Darvon.

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The thief can not resist opening another coffin, triggering 3 ghostly forms appearing and attacking!

“We need equipment if we’re going to be fighting so much!” exclaims Jimjar.

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None the less, with some difficulty (and wild magic effects, such Magdat turning into blinding light, and Chant getting a 3rd eyeball in his forehead) the spirits were dispatched and they returned to the shrine to try the only other door.

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Room 4: The Tomb

“In the middle of the room is a wide stone sarcophagus atop a black marble bier. The lid of the sarcophagus is inlaid with dust-covered mosaics depicting great floating cities high above a beautiful landscape. The lid or the sarcophagus looks incredibly heavy.”

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Stone blocks standing against the far walls are carved with niches, inside which rest a dozen clay canonic jars containing desiccated organs.

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“This is it – let’s see what this great wizard took to the after life!” – it turns out that the lid was actually light due to magic, and Krom over-estimated the weight – shoving it totally off to the side.

I giant mouth appears on the wall…

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“You have disturbed the tomb of Brysis of Khaem! Accursed are you, most miserable creatures!”

This has started fully half the group. [with most of the frightened being the NPCs]

There is a statue inside just like at the top of the stairs, but nothing else.

Magda: “Let us withdraw to the Shrine – and those who are frightened can remain there while we search these chambers more fully.”

Leaving Edeth, Jimjar, Buppido, Stool, and Shuushar behind – the party returns to the servant’s quarters and, shoving a coffin aside, discover a secret passage. “You’re close! Come get me!” the female voice now rings in Krom’s head.

Room 5: The True Tomb

This chamber is smaller, and not as ornate, but still contains a large sarcophagus.

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As they approach the chest to investigate, A Wraith emerges!

“Your deaths will resurrect and free me! Come forward and meet your doom!”

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The fight is difficult, and one spell cast summoned a unicorn as a side effect. The Unicorn had the voice of the lady and said “Open it! I can help!” while head butting Kraum into the area of the sarcophagus.

He tears off the lid.

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There is a body inside, holding a sword hilt that speaks “Yes!” and the missing blade ape ears as flame! “Now!” – Kraum grabs the hilt and his hand moves at the power of Dawnbringer. It screams out “Die! Bitch!” as it strikes the wraith of Brysis, dispatching her spirit to the Shadowfell.

The unicorn disappears and the magic mouth fades. And they find a bunch of loot (Dawnbringer and a Neclace of Fireballs being most notable), and take time sleep and rest for the first time in what must have been days on the run.

Jimjar: “We should sell that jewelry at the Blingdenstone Trader’s Grotto and get some food and real gear. We’re gonna die before we get to Neverlight Grove at this point…”

All reply:“Good idea.”

The Way Out

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After resting, they return to the entrance hall at the top of the stairs.

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Bucephalus climbs the walls to inspect the pivot to see if he can unjam the door. He can see through the crack at the top. “Yup. Blocked by a landside. We’ll need to destroy this door.”

Chant: “Will a Shatter spell do?”

All: “Umm, let us clear the room.”

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BOOM, and the door is down and they can climb out over the slide…

“Now, to Blingdenstone to finally eat something and equip properly!”

Epilogue

Next Time: Entering Blingdenstone

Build Notes

Walls & Map
- Terraclips – Dungeons Rise – Vaults of Ruin & Dungeon Essentials by WorldWorksGames (out of print)
- Popup Staircase custom by OldSchhoolDM
- Cavern Tiles by Dwarven Forge

Props
- Gothic Coffins by Papercraft Dungeon
- Altar from The Lost City by Finger and Toe Models
- The Tomb FREE by Stone Edges
- EZ Dungeons Coffin by Fat Dragon

—Next Time: Entering Blingdenstone

Mushroom Farms outside Blingdenstone

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The Silken Paths

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The Silken Paths

Recap

Having taken the guard post carved into the nearest giant stalactite, and cutting the connecting bridges, our heroes escaped Velkynvelve , with some armor and weapons, but not without the loss of several fellow prisoners.

Velkynvelve

The chase

They only had a short lead while their former captors found a way to the canyon floor, so they ran a fast as they could through the narrow passages… dropping caltrops they found in the armory, at choke points all along the way.

The Silken Paths

They built up enough time to have a short rest, eat what little food and water they looted from the half-dozen drow they’d defeated, and to get armored and armed.

The Silken Paths

The rest was too short, as Jimjar soon reported that he could hear footfalls behind them. Once again, they run. No time to explore, no time to think.

The Silken Paths

As they run, Magda notices that there have been no branches to these caves. “That makes no sense”, since she herself was taken to Velkynvelve prison in along this vary route, and they took plenty of turns. Appealing to her deity, she learns that these walls are infused with some sort of illusory magic.

As she reports this to her fellow escapees, they turn a corner to a large opening…

The Silken Paths

When they reach the far side of the room, they see that they have reached a dead-end!

The Silken Paths

Limited choices

Not just any dead-end, but a giant jutting cliff leading off beyond their visibility outward, downword, or upward!

The only other feature of interest is more of the spider webbing about 30’ down, hugging the cliff walls and attached to craggy spires and stalagmites to the edge of their vision.

The Silken Paths

Unexpectedly Buppido, the suspicious Derro, steps up on a rock-platform near the edge and whistles out, loudly!

Several move close to the edge, contemplating their options.

Bucephalus starts acting strangely, mumbling about smelling food below and ties a silk rope to the platform and begins climbing down.

Clearly fighting the Ilvarra and her companions is a non-starter. The caltrops slowed them down, but made it very clear where they were headed – and the magic is a clear indicator that they were being herded to this deathtrap.

A few minutes later, two small figures can be seen slipping along the filaments of the spider webs below, to a location directly below this outcropping. Small humanoids… As they get close they call out “Buppido! What’s up?”

The Silken Paths

“Time for you to repay your debt!” is his reply.

Just then, Jimjar – who was on rear guard duty, comes running up to the edge, puffing “They’re dealing with the last set of caltrops. We’re out of time” – and with that he leaps over the edge down into the spider’s web below.

Quickly the smaller escapees leap over the edge while the others side quickly down the rope, which Kraum – by sheer strength – breaks by tearing it over the overhanging cliff edge above.

They are just hiding under the ledge when Ilvarra arrives, spitting curses about caltrops.
They can just make out: “Here’s the rope they used. It’s cut.”

The Silken Paths

Magda tries something risky and casts Dancing Lights at the edge of her range, deep into the webs – just for a few seconds and then dowses them.

Again they can hear the priestess scream as she shoots three bolts of lighting (from her staff?) ineffectively out at where the lights were.

After waiting a few minutes after there were no more sounds coming from above, Jimjar climbed up to be sure their persuer’s had retreated.

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One of the little blue gremlins speaks:

“Ilvarra’s after you? That’s not part of the bargain, Buppido. There’ll be more payment later.”

He continues, addressing the group: “I’m Yukyuk and this is Spiderbait, so where to?”

Afer a brief discussion, they decide to escort Stool to Neverlight Grove, several days travel away.

“We can save you several days by sticking to the Silken Paths…”

The Silken Paths

Traveling is awkward and slow, but apparently most direct. They don’t get very far before Spiderbait begins to tremble, sensing something on the strands… “Boss, crawlies! Looks like they got something big!”

The Silken Paths

A collection of spiders were wrapping something man-sized up, but the company disturbed them!

The Silken Paths

As they fight the giant arachnids, bolts of energy flare out from the partially completed cocoon, the Tiefling Warlock inside is still conscious and contributing to his own rescue! Yukyuk and Spiderbait, who aren’t attacking instead move quickly to release him.

The Silken Paths

And quickly they finish off the spiders.

Please return to your seats ,we’re experiencing turbulence.

Again, there is an earthquake – which is very dangerous on the webs. Several key supporting strands detach as cliff sides and stalagmites fall. Several party members lose their footing and fall, some into large openings in the webbing – but all are saved at the last moment by heroic actions.

The quake has damaged some of the surrounding clifs, opening holes and releasing gushers from underground streams…

The Silken Paths

“We need water, lets see if we can find that new waterfall…”

It’s still very slow going, so it takes a long time to travel a relatively short distance. As they approach the falls, the new Tiefling Warlock is attached by an invisible figure, set on tossing him into the depths below.

The Silken Paths

Hitting an invisible opponent is hard, and even when you do, it seems to pass right through. Brother Darvon manages to turn the ghost, which provoked the response “Don’t let this demon into the tomb!” It’s the last thing it said before it was completely banished by the party.

Do we ever get to stop running?

They reach the waterfall and start drinking and filling containers.

Silently, a Drider drops from the ceiling by a long strong cord and grabs Shuushar!

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Shuushar wiggles free and drops to the web – fortunately not falling through.

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The closest try to strike back, but they can’t get through the Spider-Man’s tough hide.

The Drider withdraws to a safe distance toward the ceiling, where the party can’t see him, and begins to let a rain of arrows fall.

Nearby is a just-created natural cave entrance – Kraum: “We should fight this creature in the cave, where it will lose it’s advantage.”

Darvon: “Run! Don’t fight! We cannot win!”

But there is a gap in the web in front of the cave – so the group splits up, Buppido grabs the end of a rope, and YukYuk and Spiderbite take it out to a nearby stalactite top to secure it, so jumpers can grab it if they slip.

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Magda attempts to intimidate the Drider to coming into disengage, and instead treated to a trio of arrow strikes, taking her down. Kraum quickly moves to carry her back to the cave.

The Silken Paths

Next Spiderbite is taken down, and as Kraum is taking Magda to the cave mouth-jump, Yukyuk makes a wild (blind) dagger through up above his head, only to be shot dead next.

The Silken Paths

Most of the rest make it over the gap and into the side of the cliff, except Sarith, who missed the jump and was shot by the Drider while hanging on the rescue line.

The Drider chose not to chase them into the dark unstable cave…

Epilogue

Where does the cave lead? What did that poltergeist mean by “Don’t let the demon into the tomb!”?

Find out in the next chapter: The Lost Tomb of Khaem

Build Notes

Walls, Stalagtites, and Waterfall
- Caverns of Chaos by Fat Dragon Games
- Cavern Tiles by Dwarven Forge
- Web: Japanese Ogura Lace Papers at Blick Art Supplies

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Campaign of the Month: June 2017

Mission 2: Upon the Stones

Preamble

The Rent Field

An Awkward Climb

A Phrase Unspoken

Build notes

Mission 1: Beneath the Hills

Preamble

Mission: Beneath the Hills

Many Small Problems

Even More, Even Smaller Problems

The Littlest Giant

Epilogue

Run at SF ComicCon 2016

Preamble (Meta)

Build Notes

Adapted for Hero Kids (for my grandkids: 4 and 7)

Sribbleface’s Legacy

Leaving on an Adventure

The Ship in the Swamp

Adapting We Be Goblins adventure to Hero Kids:

Paper Terrain

Our conclusion

Recap

The Fetid Wedding

Entering the Gray Dream

Fighting the Faceless Lord

Build Notes

The Pudding King Must Fall

Recap

The Second Battle of Blingdenstone

Ruined Stockade (Room 29)

The Throne Room (Room 30)

Build Notes

How many demons is it now?

Recap

Homecoming At Neverlight Grove

Harvesting from the Fungal Gardens

The Circle of Masters

A Strange Celebration

A hasty departure

Epilog

Build Notes

Revenge at the Mushroom Farm

Recap

Revenge at the Mushroom Farm

Entering Blingdenstone

Epilogue

Build Notes

Recap

The Lost Tomb

Room 1: Entrance and Staircase

Room 2: Shrine

Room 3: Servant’s Quarters

Room 4: The Tomb

Room 5: The True Tomb

The Way Out

Epilogue

Build Notes

Out of the pan, into ...

Recap

The chase

Limited choices

The Silken Paths

Please return to your seats ,we’re experiencing turbulence.

Do we ever get to stop running?

Epilogue

Build Notes