SESSION REPORT - SWORDS OF THE INNER SEA, SESSION 25
SESSION REPORT - SWORDS OF THE INNER SEA, SESSION 25
Intrigued by the mysteries uncovered before, the Barbarian ROBARD THE THIRD, FOLG SON OF FOLG, the Sorcerers WEND WITHER and ZATAN-GOHR, and THE HERMIT RINPOCHE set out with their henchman, the cannibal MINO to plunder the TOWER OF DUST. After stopping on the way to spy on the lone warrior fishing in the MYSTERIOUS LAKE south of the dunes, they arrived at the tower complex, and scaled the large tower to the northeast, leaving Mino, with whom the bold and genial Zatan-Gohr had made fast friends, to guard their mounts. Finding a pair of great, gilded gates at the top of the tower, and wary of the elaborate patterns limned onto them, they leaned the weight of several sandbags against the gate, and, taking cover around the curve of the wall, left Zatahn-Gohr's UNSEEN SERVANT to press them forward. Abruptly there was a great booming sound, and sand wents spraying over the edge of the tower. Robard hurried forth and through the gate he saw a GREAT BLACK SERPENT, reared up as high as he was tall, facing him. He and his companions rushed into battle and the serpent, turning away the waves of Rinpoche and Wend Wither's magic, and, fearless of Zatan-Gohr's cracking whip, spit forth a great CLOUD OF BLACK FOG, filling the adventurer's lungs with bitter sickness. Grunting guttural threars, and bleeding darkly from Robard and Folg's blades, the creature emerged again from the cloud, this time in the shape of a HUGE DARK SPIDER and vomited fog again, wracking Zatan-Gohr and Rinpoche with terrible pain. But it was not enough, for it fell beneath their assault, melting away into the form of a dark snake a fraction of the size they had once seen.
Pushing downward, they fought a fierce battle on the spiral stairs to the base of the tower with a lumbering CRYSTAL SWORDSMAN and a pair of TWO-HEADED HOUNDS. As Folg, Robard, and Rinpoche tossed javelins from behind a scatter of caltrops, Zatan-Gohr cracked his great whip, briefly cowing the hounds. Still, the warrior inexorably pressed onward, and, after Folg bound its legs with a tossed bola, Zatan-Gohr saw an opportunity. The great gray sorceror charged forward, leaning his bulk into the crystal figure, which, freeing itself from the bolas shifted out of his path. The warrior whirled and slashed him the back with his crystal blade and then brutally drove a fist into his ribs, piercing his heart. As he coughed blood, he spent the last of his strength to shout out his own name in boldness and defiance - Zatan-Gohr! As the warrior, bloody-handed, ascened, Folg avenged his companion, bringing down his sword into the crack from Rinpoche's javelin. The warrior shattered, and crystal rained down into the tower's floor. They slew the hounds, and , wary of the skeleton-strewn courtyard, climed down their rope where they met the scout DOHRCOARÇ, with whom they scaled the southeast tower.
Within the top level of that tower, they were faced with three DISEMBODIED SKULLS. Folg jostled one with his spear, and it began to whirl into the air at a dizzying speed, pulling up the thief into a frightening vorted. As Wend Wither and Rinpoche worked to pull him free with a rope, Robard and Dohrcoarc battled the other two - one wearing a sinister EBONY MASK - with their Executioner's Sword and Great Hook. Continuing downward, they found the remains of what seemed to be an aviary, and Folg gathered up a great bronze cage. Pressing below into a musty room full of old alchemist's gear, where there lay a CHARRED SKELETON in a pile of ashes, Folg spotted the flash of golden and orange feathers dashing behind a table. Thinkg such a bird must be of great value, he tossed bolas, tangling it up. Robard, meaning to catch it in a great sack, rounded the table and saw a FIERY-EYED GOLDEN BIRD. The creature met his gaze with hatred in its eyes, and Robard scarcely had time to sweat before bursting horrifically into flames, and within a moment little was left other than a second charred skeleton to match the one in the room's center. His companions shocked, Wend Wither regained his senses, and trusting in his power to resist the EVIL EYE, quickly rushed to snatch up the bird in a leather sack, and forced it, hissing and kicking, into Folg's cage. Dohrcoarç covered up the cage, lulling the bird into a slumber. Collecting themselves at the loss of their great friend, they gathered up his remains and hurried from the tower, and made haste through the night for GUNN LATTH.
Arriving before dawn at the tower of the scholar VOKK RINUAH, they persuaded the old bird-fancier to purchase the creature from him, and perhaps despite his better judgment, he capped the hissing beast with a bronze blinder, and eager to study the new prize of his collection, bid the adventurers farewell.
CREATURES BESTED
A SHAPE-SHIFTING SERPENT
A CRYSTAL WARRIOR
A PAIR OF TWO-HEADED DOGS
Three WHIRLING SKULLS
A BLAZING BIRD
TREASURES RECOVERED
CRYSTAL SHARDS - 30 GP
An EBONY AND AMETHYST MASK - 500 GP
An array of excellent ALCHEMICAL EQUIPMENT - 450 GP
A BLAZING BIRD in a BRAZEN CAGE - 1400 GP (Sold to VOKK RINUAH)
Two additional BRONZE CAGES - 50 GP Each
A GOLDEN CHALICE, studded with malachite (Magical)
A DEAD SERPENT (Magical)
A Vial of SERPENT ICHOR
GRAND TOTAL - 2480 (2030 if Alchemical Gear is kept)
XP PER CHARACTER - 1205 XP Each (ROBARD, FOLG, WEND WITHER, RINPOCHE); 267 (ZATAN-GOHR); 938 (DOHRCOARÇ)
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Intrigued by the mysteries uncovered before, the Barbarian ROBARD THE THIRD, FOLG SON OF FOLG, the Sorcerers WEND WITHER and ZATAN-GOHR, and THE HERMIT RINPOCHE set out with their henchman, the cannibal MINO to plunder the TOWER OF DUST. After stopping on the way to spy on the lone warrior fishing in the MYSTERIOUS LAKE south of the dunes, they arrived at the tower complex, and scaled the large tower to the northeast, leaving Mino, with whom the bold and genial Zatan-Gohr had made fast friends, to guard their mounts. Finding a pair of great, gilded gates at the top of the tower, and wary of the elaborate patterns limned onto them, they leaned the weight of several sandbags against the gate, and, taking cover around the curve of the wall, left Zatahn-Gohr's UNSEEN SERVANT to press them forward. Abruptly there was a great booming sound, and sand wents spraying over the edge of the tower. Robard hurried forth and through the gate he saw a GREAT BLACK SERPENT, reared up as high as he was tall, facing him. He and his companions rushed into battle and the serpent, turning away the waves of Rinpoche and Wend Wither's magic, and, fearless of Zatan-Gohr's cracking whip, spit forth a great CLOUD OF BLACK FOG, filling the adventurer's lungs with bitter sickness. Grunting guttural threars, and bleeding darkly from Robard and Folg's blades, the creature emerged again from the cloud, this time in the shape of a HUGE DARK SPIDER and vomited fog again, wracking Zatan-Gohr and Rinpoche with terrible pain. But it was not enough, for it fell beneath their assault, melting away into the form of a dark snake a fraction of the size they had once seen.
Pushing downward, they fought a fierce battle on the spiral stairs to the base of the tower with a lumbering CRYSTAL SWORDSMAN and a pair of TWO-HEADED HOUNDS. As Folg, Robard, and Rinpoche tossed javelins from behind a scatter of caltrops, Zatan-Gohr cracked his great whip, briefly cowing the hounds. Still, the warrior inexorably pressed onward, and, after Folg bound its legs with a tossed bola, Zatan-Gohr saw an opportunity. The great gray sorceror charged forward, leaning his bulk into the crystal figure, which, freeing itself from the bolas shifted out of his path. The warrior whirled and slashed him the back with his crystal blade and then brutally drove a fist into his ribs, piercing his heart. As he coughed blood, he spent the last of his strength to shout out his own name in boldness and defiance - Zatan-Gohr! As the warrior, bloody-handed, ascened, Folg avenged his companion, bringing down his sword into the crack from Rinpoche's javelin. The warrior shattered, and crystal rained down into the tower's floor. They slew the hounds, and , wary of the skeleton-strewn courtyard, climed down their rope where they met the scout DOHRCOARÇ, with whom they scaled the southeast tower.
Within the top level of that tower, they were faced with three DISEMBODIED SKULLS. Folg jostled one with his spear, and it began to whirl into the air at a dizzying speed, pulling up the thief into a frightening vorted. As Wend Wither and Rinpoche worked to pull him free with a rope, Robard and Dohrcoarc battled the other two - one wearing a sinister EBONY MASK - with their Executioner's Sword and Great Hook. Continuing downward, they found the remains of what seemed to be an aviary, and Folg gathered up a great bronze cage. Pressing below into a musty room full of old alchemist's gear, where there lay a CHARRED SKELETON in a pile of ashes, Folg spotted the flash of golden and orange feathers dashing behind a table. Thinkg such a bird must be of great value, he tossed bolas, tangling it up. Robard, meaning to catch it in a great sack, rounded the table and saw a FIERY-EYED GOLDEN BIRD. The creature met his gaze with hatred in its eyes, and Robard scarcely had time to sweat before bursting horrifically into flames, and within a moment little was left other than a second charred skeleton to match the one in the room's center. His companions shocked, Wend Wither regained his senses, and trusting in his power to resist the EVIL EYE, quickly rushed to snatch up the bird in a leather sack, and forced it, hissing and kicking, into Folg's cage. Dohrcoarç covered up the cage, lulling the bird into a slumber. Collecting themselves at the loss of their great friend, they gathered up his remains and hurried from the tower, and made haste through the night for GUNN LATTH.
Arriving before dawn at the tower of the scholar VOKK RINUAH, they persuaded the old bird-fancier to purchase the creature from him, and perhaps despite his better judgment, he capped the hissing beast with a bronze blinder, and eager to study the new prize of his collection, bid the adventurers farewell.
CREATURES BESTED
A SHAPE-SHIFTING SERPENT
A CRYSTAL WARRIOR
A PAIR OF TWO-HEADED DOGS
Three WHIRLING SKULLS
A BLAZING BIRD
TREASURES RECOVERED
CRYSTAL SHARDS - 30 GP
An EBONY AND AMETHYST MASK - 500 GP
An array of excellent ALCHEMICAL EQUIPMENT - 450 GP
A BLAZING BIRD in a BRAZEN CAGE - 1400 GP (Sold to VOKK RINUAH)
Two additional BRONZE CAGES - 50 GP Each
A GOLDEN CHALICE, studded with malachite (Magical)
A DEAD SERPENT (Magical)
A Vial of SERPENT ICHOR
GRAND TOTAL - 2480 (2030 if Alchemical Gear is kept)
XP PER CHARACTER - 1205 XP Each (ROBARD, FOLG, WEND WITHER, RINPOCHE); 267 (ZATAN-GOHR); 938 (DOHRCOARÇ)
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I am a jackal.
ReplyDeleteA WEEPING BULL. A HORNED VIPER. A NAME LOST IN SAND. A PARCHED EXPANSE THAT KNOWS ONLY ITS OWN RAVENING.
ReplyDeleteor something
From Max's thread, an item of note previously unaccounted for: ROBARD'S FANCYLANCE (150gp). So for FOLG, RINPOCHE, DOHRCOARÇ, and WEND WITHER, do we want to...
ReplyDelete• count it as a FUNERAL expenditure (+19xp each),
• sell it for MONEY (+37.5gp each),
• allow a party member to BUY IT OUT (-112.5gp from one that keeps it, +37.5gp to those that don't), or
• just let someone KEEP IT without a buyout (no gains).
I incline towards either the 1st or the 4th option, and 2 & 3 would be weird precedents that run counter to how the possessions of dead party members have been treated in the past (pointing towards buying out magic items and such).