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Re: Session Summaries
« Reply #20 on: April 18, 2015, 12:18:00 PM »
Session 21

Encounters
Ria-tell (noncombat)

Information
The Vault of Beasts is common knowledge in elf land.
-Only elves can pass the secret paths that lead to it.
-The monster of the Vault has been loose of late, and nobody in their right mind is going close. I have no idea who could possibly have freed it.
Humans in elf land pay extra for everything.
Master Deirfirr's opinion on firearms: They'll never catch on.

Loot
Elf guide, Riathelle.
Mandrake root mixed with shambling mound root to brew four potions of superior healing [8d4+8 hp regain when consumed].
A ballista for the new carriage.
-Really.

Expended
Rooming and food: Peanuts compared to our other expenditures.
Three coins from Lien's share for miscellany.
50 gp for mandrake root.
50 gp for a guide to the Vault.
10,000 silver exchanged for 100 platinum.
5,000 silver for the new carriage.
2,000 copper plus 100 silver more to Master Deirfirr for the ballista.
Dragon skull and ribs as materials for the new carriage.

Experience
Level 5 - 6,760+ROLEPLAYING IS INEFFICIENT/14,000
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Re: Session Summaries
« Reply #21 on: April 25, 2015, 01:04:24 PM »
Session 22

Encounters
Titan of Beasts - 4750 AFTER SPLITTING FIGHT ME

Information
The sky above the Vault was not actually sky, but a giant void with spiderwebs visible. According to Alyssa.
Goodsky apparently thought it was a great idea to breach the Vault of Beasts with explosives when he couldn't get in easily.
-The piece of fang being removed also ended up rousing an angry primordial, titan, whatever. GOOD JOB
After fighting it long enough for it to come to its senses, it took the fang back.
-Asked it to return the cat.
--Why did I do something nice for Zeni again?
---It was her own damn fault
-At least it dropped some cryptic clues, the currency of adventures.
Quote
"<Triple>What was asked is given. </Triple>" It's eyes go from crimson to silver mirrors, as the shard flares to a scarlet flame, crumbling to ash"<Triple>The ancient bonds fail. The night weakens. Every dawn tears at the Compact.</Triple>"
"<Triple>Guardian of balance, keeper of the scales, preserver of time. The keepers keep that which they should not. The wyrm will leave the labyrinth. The spiral path falls into the light. </Triple>"
Zeni's lesson to be taken from this: There's no such thing as consequences.

Loot
Blood of one great.

Expended
The shard fang.
Lien: Mood.

Experience
Level 5 - 6,760+1,187/14,000
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Re: Session Summaries
« Reply #22 on: May 09, 2015, 02:26:15 PM »
Session 23 & 24

Encounters:
Your singing is almost as bad as your face - 225 xp
Oh snap, netherworld hunting dogs - 1,400 xp
EllisxLien OTP (noncombat)
It's not groping, it's surprise hugs - 250 xp

Information
Sudden attack by otherworldly horrors after leaving the Vault. Part of what the titan was talking about? Need to get to that nexus of thread soon.
Attack by hell hounds out of nowhere after dispatching the horrors. Doubt these were there for the same reason; most likely Last Blood's fault.
Fell into chasm. Options to get out:
-Back up. Potentially still swarming with hell hounds, plus assorted native critters. Probably ruled out.
-Up the ravine. Overgrown with probably carnivorous plants. Probably ruled out.
--Attacked in the night by murderous vine monsters, relocated to mouth of cave.
-Down the ravine. Overgrown with sharp-looking crystal plants. Needs loud bushwhacking to advance without bleeding to death.
-Cavern. Populated by earth elementals that move around, giving the impression of changing tunnels. Deeper in, it gets hotter, and there's a shadow way leading to unknown parts, probably near reaches of the elemental planes (earth/fire).
Sparklestar has discovered she enjoys trolling Zeni.

Loot
Nah

Expended
Carriage: totaled.
Good thing I skipped last lootpost so I can handwave everything else with the long rest again!

Experience
Level 5 - 7,947+1,875/14,000
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Re: Session Summaries
« Reply #23 on: May 16, 2015, 03:15:36 PM »
Session 25

Encounters:
"Snake in his pants" isn't a euphemism this time - 450 XP

Information
Went through the shadow way to the near border between the planes of fire and earth, probably.
Xithera is a salamander metalworker, apparently advised by a jerk raven. Believes in enslaving the weak and demonstrating strength. We did.
-Is willing to give away one item from its collection as a token of submission. Taking more is unwise because it's immortal and the type to hold a grudge.
--Figurine that conjures a messenger bird. Looks really evil. [Acts as animal messenger.]
--Ring of protection from the cold. [Yeah.]
--Amulet of warding from scrying. [Protects from divination spells, bearer feels pain when it shields them.]
--Javelin that transforms to flames. [1/day fire-shifted lightning bolt.]
--Gauntlets of superior might. [Gauntlets of ogre power, also act as +1 weapons.]
--Circlet of blasting flames [1/day scorching ray.]
-Xithera is acquainted with a crystal spider named Cyimiris. Had a long conversation about things.
--Let's not trade the evil demon sword to an evil elemental metalworker with fiendish slaves.

Loot
Soon™

Expended
Zeni: 2 hit dice (short rest), two 3rd-level spells, three sorcery points.
Lien: 2 hit dice (short rest)

Experience
Level 5 - 9,822+450/14,000
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Re: Session Summaries
« Reply #24 on: May 23, 2015, 10:23:50 AM »
Session 25.5

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Re: Session Summaries
« Reply #25 on: May 30, 2015, 01:40:58 PM »
Session 26

Encounters:
Wrecking Yeenoghu's Shit - 400 XP
FEAR NOT - 225 XP

Information
Last Blood had a core of white crystal.
Shattering Last Blood resulted in an explosion and released several evil spirits, kind of like a fragment of the Wild Hunt maybe.
-They possess molten brass (or probably whatever else is handy) to create hound bodies and can combine or split up.
-Not too durable, but they don't stay dead unless you destroy the spirit itself. Notably not immune to fire.
A tribe of goblins lives near a portal back to the material plane.
-Used to be Yeenoghu worshippers. Now Lien worshippers.
--The tenets of Lienism: Eat well, hydrate properly, exercise frequently, be nice to people, no live sacrifice, be hygienic and temperate.

Loot
Fragments of Last Blood's blade, core, and hilt.
Alyssa: Gauntlets of ogre power.
Lien: Cult of 300-odd goblin worshippers (likely short-lived).
Zeni: Amulet of proof against detection and location. What are you even going to do with this?

Expended
Last Blood: Shattered.
Goblins: The old, heretical faith.
Alyssa: 42 hp; Potion of superior healing
Ellis: 15 hp; 1 superiority die, second wind
Lien: 15 hp
Zeni: 31 hp; Potion of superior healing, some more spell slots

Experience
Level 5 - 10,272+625/14,000
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Re: Session Summaries
« Reply #26 on: June 06, 2015, 12:07:48 PM »
Session 27

Encounters:
Don't Hail Hydra - 975 XP
Angry About Owlbears - 525 XP

Information
Yeenoghu is pissed.
-Really, really pissed.
--"Make a hydra out of scores of agonized souls and send it to destroy us" pissed.
-We killed the hydra anyway.
--Lien killed the hydra anyway, thank you very much.
---Lienism is now solidly established.
tfw rolling 44d8 damage
The source of goblins occasionally dying in droves after passing the portal has been found: A mated pair of owlbears.
-Mated owlbears get really, really angry when you hurt their partner.
--Angry enough for Yeenoghu to possess them and take another shot at us, apparently.
The clearing the portal leads to has three wide paths and a dozen trails leading away from it, and a clear pond reflecting the starry night sky. Even though it's not night and there are branches overhead.
-Also, lots of blood.

Loot
Hydra's blood. Blood of three greats: Complete. Purpose: ???
Hydra butt skin.

Expended
Breath weapon gland.
Approximately 20 goblins.

Experience
Level 5 - 10,897+1,500/14,000
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Re: Session Summaries
« Reply #27 on: June 20, 2015, 01:03:03 PM »
Sessions 28+29 This time I remembered to change the number before writing the rest suck it

Encounters:
Blue Giant (not the star kind) - 500 XP
Cat and Mouse - 175 XP
Arachnophobia - 175 XP

Information
The other side of the goblin portal is unseelie shidhe territory. No wonder they consider it dangerous.
Giants with blue body paint are employed to guard ways within and between these territories, but the one we ran into had decided eating trespassers works just as well as turning them away.
The specific territory we passed through belongs to the Prince with Tawny Eyes, a mid-upper range fae. His hallmark are the namesake eyes, and his nature is based on both plants and animals, rather than just one as with most fae.
-He is, however, supposed to be enforcing the aspect of animals eating plants and vice versa, not messing around with random mortals.
For winning the game of cat and mouse, Lien was granted a short blackout and a few minutes of unconsciousness a wish both.
-Her wish: ???
Finally found gate back to the mortal world. Led to phase spider-infested forest.
Ended up at the edge of Brightstone Valley, so named for its crystal overgrowth that reflects enough light to blind during the day. It's just bright, not hot, as evidenced by grass growing within, but it's still not advisable to travel during the day.

Loot
Ellis: Manticore spines (72) (Can be used for crossbow bolts)
Ellis: Phase spider spinnerets (Can be used to make bowstrings that allow ammunition to ignore cover, but requires two more components, one of which is a suitable magical wood or metal frame, the other "some material of sufficient magical potency to power it")
Lien: Speak With Plants 1/day, Nature proficiency, ??? proficiency

Expended
It's cool guys we got a long rest :^)

Experience
Level 5 - 12,397+850/14,000
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Re: Session Summaries
« Reply #28 on: June 27, 2015, 01:09:54 PM »
Session 30

Encounters:
Cockatrices - 300 XP
Possessed Elves - 287 XP

Information
During the day, the crystals of Brightstone Valley reflect and intensify sunlight so strongly as to sear anything above waist level. Below that it's relatively safe. Except for the cockatrices.
Yeenoghu's possession, for those who aren't cultists or already hostile in the first place, is a leash threaded around the victim's throat. Destroying this leash will cut the link.
-What do you mean, you can't see the leash?
-I'm not crazy, you're crazy.
The druid we met thinks Last Blood would have saved the world in the right hands. I think he's full of shit.

Loot
Two more unconscious elves.

Expended
This time we really did get a long rest!
Ellis: Like three manticore spines three regular bolts. keep your bonuses straight
Lien: 2 ki points; sanity?

Experience
Level 5 - 13,247+587/14,000
inb4 exactly 165 XP next session
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Re: Session Summaries
« Reply #29 on: July 04, 2015, 11:50:11 AM »
Session 31

Encounters:
I'm not making the fucking bees joke - 125 XP

Information
Found a full bee hive after fleeing from angry bees.
-Sparklestar can be kind of annoying.
Zeni and Ellis recovered the refurbished carriage.

Loot
A lot of honey.
Zeni: New carriage. Sports a ballista and a function for striking terror into the hearts of your enemies.
Ellis: Restocked on crossbow bolts.

Expended
A chunk of patience for fairy antics.
All hope of ever leveling up.

Experience
Level 5 - 13,834+125/14,000
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Re: Session Summaries
« Reply #30 on: July 11, 2015, 12:34:33 PM »
Session 32

Encounters:
ADOM flashbacks - 997 XP

Information
The sun is hollow at the heart, its core burned out. Light and heat gnaws at the heart of the sun, consuming its essence and spilling out venom, but you can't see more than that.
You see the threads of the sun twining down into earth, wood and water, and those threads blacken as the source of power reverses the flow,  deep within the core of the sun, there is a stain of souls spilled out over a bladed scar.
Somewhere, something hurts

Loot
...

Expended
Lien: 5 ki points; 6 hp; Alyssa's inspiration
Alyssa: lots of hp; inspiration
Zeni: 2 2nd-level spell slots; 2 sorcery points; all her :I
Ellis: 1 superiority die, chance to ride in like a boss.

Experience
Level 6! - 13,959+997/14,000
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Re: Session Summaries
« Reply #31 on: July 18, 2015, 05:06:47 PM »
Session 33

Encounters:
We Florida Now - 1,750 XP
Veekie's Fetish Time - 450 XP

Information
Next stop: Grey forest.
-Good news: We found a shortcut through a cave.
-Bad news: Caves have ropers.
-Good news: Ropers have treasure, apparently.

Loot
An excessively long and wide longsword, just barely within the size, made entirely of crystal. [Giant Slayer]
A shield of black steel. [+2 shield]
A golden rod, decorated with flames patterns and topped with a large ruby. [Rod of Rulership]
A gleaming steel axe with serrated edges and a sunburst in the middle of the blade. [Berserker axe, cursed]
Three yellow and two pink pearls, worth 100gp each.
Two amethysts, one chip of jet, two pieces of jade, also 100gp each.
16 gold pieces, 20 platinum coins


Expended
FUCK THE POLICE

Experience
Level 6! - 14,956+2,200/23,000
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Re: Session Summaries
« Reply #32 on: July 25, 2015, 03:01:53 PM »
Session 34

Encounters:
rip - 1,150 XP

Information
The average adult human has a blood volume of approximately 5 liters (11 US pints), accounting for 7% of body weight. Blood's average density is very close to that of pure water, and it is composed of plasma (54.3% by volume) and several kinds of blood cells (red cells 45%, white 0.7%). The combined surface area of all red blood cells of the human body would be roughly 2,000 times as great as the body's exterior surface.

Loot
Inspiration for everyone
Bracers of Archery
Quiver of Ehlonna
Quote
(18:13:07) [DM]: Inside is also two silvery metal items still strapped to thin bones, and a quiver around what looks like a former hip.
(18:14:52) [DM]: Both on closer inspection, appear to be of faerie work, with delicate traceries of vines and the moon over them.
(18:15:28) [DM]: The quiver is tastefully ornamented by opals cut into moons, and golden leaves.
(18:16:23) [DM]: The bracers meanwhile are marked by numerous birds  clinging to the vines.
(18:17:07) [DM]: As ellis watches, the leaves on the quiver sway and shift.
(18:17:43) [DM]: The bracers, as she touches it, sing out in a beautiful, clear tone.
Quote
(18:19:29) [DM]: "<Syl> Silver huntress stalks the stars, lightning owls strike afar. Swift as the hunter, countless the prey. Sing the shadows at the end of days."

Expended
Lien: 26 hp, 5 ki points, Wholeness of Body; Staff stun, lightning damage, lightning bolt
Alyssa: Literally all the hp, 1 spell slot
Zeni: 3 second-level spells, 1 third-level spell, 5 sorcery points
Ellis: 4 superiority dice, 2 luck points, Action Surge
Sparklestar: Sanity, polymorph
Vanilla: Sanity

Experience
Level 6 - 17,156+1,150/23,000
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Re: Session Summaries
« Reply #33 on: August 01, 2015, 10:55:16 PM »
Session 35

Encounters:
Dicebot In A Nutshell - 2,500 XP

Information
oh god

Loot
A lot of regrets

Expended
Alyssa

Experience
Level 6 - 18,306+2,500/23,000
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Re: Session Summaries
« Reply #34 on: August 08, 2015, 04:50:47 PM »
Session 36

Encounters:
I Want To Get Off Lien's Wild Ride - 0XP
A Shell Of A Man - 450XP

Information
You can drive a carriage through a rabbit hole if you just know how.
Quick rest stop in not-really-anywhere so Lien could get her bearings and get us to the somewhere we wanted to go.
-What do you mean that doesn't make sense? It's like climbing up when you're lost in a forest.
Quote
(15:42:51) Lien: "Well... Um." Lien scratches her head. "Say, an apple can be red or green, right, and you can put it here or there." She gesticulates. "So it's got a color, and it's got a where. If you had a jug of water, that doesn't really have a color, right, but you can still put it here or there. This place sort of has a color, but it doesn't really have a where."
(15:43:22) Ryla: That totally fucking went over Ryla's head like a rocket.
(15:43:29) Zeni: "..... Really."
If you go too far out, the gap that remains where you were supposed to be can gain a life of its own and try to fill itself.

Loot
A ride that never ends

Expended
Zeni: 1 3rd level spell, a bunch of hp, 3 hit dice

Experience
Level 6 - 20,806+450/23,000
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Re: Session Summaries
« Reply #35 on: September 26, 2015, 06:09:35 PM »
Session 37-40

Encounters:
Odysseus pls go - 1,250 XP
Poaching on private property - 450 XP

Information
Everything's fucked, game over
Space-spiders amicable but grumpy. Have been trying to fix space for literal ages, new holes keep opening.
-Grandmother Spider is asleep to heal. She won't be waking up any time soon for the same reason.
Primordial Knowledge is the kind of lover that considers keeping a shelf of body parts in formaldehyde preferable to letting anyone else close to you.
According to Knowledge, the world got started when a mortal seduced all the primordial powers and had a kid with them, all at the same time (something something Big Bang). Now it's crumbling because none of them can be bothered to take responsibility, and dad is long gone.
Attempting to talk sense into Knowledge went exceptionally poorly.
Current in-between stop: Auritius, a wizards' city to the north. Restocking and resting before trying to talk to Heaven next.
There's a big tear in the sky, and the wizards don't seem to have done it. Definitely not our fault.

Loot
Purchases pending. Tentative:
Ioun Stone of Agility
Cloak of Charisma
Necklace of Fireballs

Expended
Purchases pending. someone go through the numbers on gold expenditures with me. Tentative:
Berserker Axe
Giant Slayer
+2 Shield
Stored Reincarnate
??gp lab rent
200gp lab deposit (we get that back)
20gp inn stay (per day)
10gp bath cleaning
1000gp ingredients for 8 greater potions of healing
?? cheap fried chicken
?? potions of healing

Experience
Level 6 - 21,256+1,700/23,000
>44 XP short
>44 XP short
>44 XP short
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Re: Session Summaries
« Reply #36 on: October 16, 2015, 01:56:33 PM »
Session 41

Encounters:
Zeni did nothing wrong - 1,475 XP

Information
Zeni did nothing wrong

Loot
Zeni did nothing wrong

Expended
Zeni did nothing wrong

Experience
Zeni did nothing wrong
Level 7 - 22,956+1,475/23,000
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