11/4/22 - Session 83

* More fighting with Aruil and her gang * Her bird, Isra, keeps hitting me! * I smash Auril’s second form and she changes into a giant, floating ice diamond (third form) * Thakin’s healing aura is keeping us all alive * Quote of the game: “I wan...

* We camp outside of the castle for 3 days to clear all exhaustion effects * We run back upstairs to confront the last part of the castle and run into evil living stalactites * After defeating them, the King Chwinga and many of his court appear in the r...

* Sous and Lohengrin hear Twinkle call out. She makes fun of cloak for abandoning the Pixie Pals. * Twinkle tells us that every time we kill things under Auril’s power, the pixies grow stronger. She also says we’ve been here longer than a week. * ...

* We save the kid, [b]Aerix[/b], from the Preservation test and are warped back to the hall * [b]Southeast[/b]: Isolation - (Entered third) Transported to a full camp where warriors with tiger tattoos are sharpening weapons. Seeing us, they stand and mot...

* We see a tumbler lock with numbers written in giant on the two large metal prison doors * We’re attacked by some very nasty ice and wind creatures but manage to survive * In one of the cells, we discover Talia Ebonscale frozen in a block of ice * I...

* Lohengrin tries to pickpocket the nastiest Abominable Yeti we’ve ever seen and is unsuccessful * Titanius manages to talk the Abominable Yeti into taking the ring off and dropping it * Every night stars and northern lights emit from the top of the s...

* Galaxy tells us that Tallia came here to find loot and “dragon stuff” * The Chwinga asks us, “Are friends sure? Or want live?” * A 600 ft tall glacier, peaked with a skull wearing a crown, and 4’ high steps clearly made for giants * After a...

* Vellynne has a whale named Angajuk that has agreed to take us to the island. It has a massive ship tied to its head that we can ride in. * As we ride, the whale submerges and a magical bubble forms around us, providing protection for us to travel under...

* Building’s on fire! * Lots of Chwinga’s have barred, chained, and locked the door before setting fire to the place. * Chosin and Cloak bash out a window to escape the inside and get to the front door. * Once the doors open, the Chwinga’s retrea...

* Cloak falls to his knees, everything is too heavy for him, his legs freeze, and he hears a voice telling him that “You didn’t follow the rules of the spell.” * Titanius generously offers to let Cloak ride on his back which, for some reason, this ...

* The wish spell brings [b]Henry[/b] the horse back * [b]Danica[/b] returns and says she’s seen Swagger “traveling” with a bunch of orcs and a red Tiefling with black hair (We think it’s [b]Captain Skath[/b], the guy who sold Cloak’s cousin) *...

We begin mid-battle with the ToT * Many people go down: Swagger, Chosin, Sous but Chosin dies completely * Thorn takes Swagger and teleports away We rush him back to Bryn Shander in hopes of resurrecting him like Titanuis * We take Speaker Shane bac...

* Vellynne says she will meet us at the Sea of Moving Ice when we’re ready * Moe lays into Lohengrin, blaming him for leaving all of his friends to die at the hand of McGonnigaul * Sous and Lohengrin inappropriately wrestle Moe’s golden ring off of ...

* We think about leaving when Sally makes the decision for us by popping in and blowing the place up * We somehow manage to hold it together and defeat both the king and his fire demons * Opening the door on the other side of the room, we discover Moe, ...

(Sophie and Greg missed because of vacation) * Drow prisoner offers to take prisoners out of the castle while the party searched for the torturers. * Drow prisoner ends up stealing all the prisoners * Found a mutilated mind flayer they questioned be...

* Having exited the underdark cavern, we discover a small army of Myconids (mushroom men) battling with Duergar and some of the spiked devils who fireballed Sous’s face before * We discover all the “transported assets” from McGonnigaul’s list tha...

* Lohengrin is visibly upset because we’re so close to being able to kill McGonnigaul * We all make plans of attack * We somehow manage to kill McGolligaul * We all are close to death when the king reappears and offers to let us live if we leave...

* With the dragon defeated, Martina and Tommy fly off to recover * As we attempt to ride the evaluator down, the cable breaks and we fall through several floors. We could have died if Cloak didn’t use his magic to save us. * We’re in the underdark b...

* Fighting the Chardalyn dragon * The sissy dragon ran away! * The Sheriff turns into a zombie * Cloak kills the zombie sheriff * Scramsax stomps back home and locks himself in his inn * With nothing else left to do in Bryn Shander, we head back towa...

* Before Kenni is restored, she makes a note in her own blood that says, “i wILL fiNd yOuR sOul thE CHosin wAN! PoWer shALL ruLE ALL!” * Scramsax sends the townspeople home while we plan in his tower * We go to find the bartender from Loneywood who ...

* We travel towards Goodmeade in the hopes of finding a druid who can restore Sally * Vellynne Harpell wagon is actually being pulled by zombie kobolds * Good Meade’s ice wall has been crushed along with the buildings * The town is totally empty of p...

Moar fighting! * We kill several more Duregar and avoid an Umber Hulk * Lohengrin berates Swagger into giving her magical pearl to Cloak. So much arguing! The Chardalyn must be messing with everyone’s brain. * We find creatures who yell “Get out!...

We begin mid-battle * Lohengrin polymorphs Sous into a giant ape * So many fireballs to my face! * Giant Ape Sous deals 47 damage in one fist smash * McGonnigaul holds Kenny over a lava pit and threatens to drop her if we don’t leave. * All seems...

* We remember that we don’t want to kill all these guys so we start bonking them in the head * We fight. And fight. And fight, and fight, and fight… * Eventually, we kill them all and McGonnigaul appears clapping. She tries to negotiate with us but ...

* “Ow, my butt!” mimic is chewing by butt! * A Durigar appears and attacks before disappearing * I manage to kill the mimic but the Durigar returns for more battle * Cloak absolutely wrecks the guy * Quote of the night: “I’ve never done 44 dam...

* We begin in combat inside of the Duriagar fortress * We kill the seven Duriagar at the entrance and then two more in a western room * In a northern room, we discover a stone pillar with a map of the Ten Towns carved into it, the road between each town...

* We tell the speaker of Chosen Town that we are off to destroy the Duriagar and he gives Chosen a sealed scroll and tells him to only open it up at his most dire need or else it will dissolve. * Titanius and Chosen have an uncomfortable conversation wit...

* Kenni tries to get Cloak to leave us and free the underdark but we convince her we need to save the overworked first * Leave Bremen for Chosen Town * Katrina runs out begging us to take Sally away * Sally has figured out that the Chosen library books...

In Bremen… * Leaf serenades Swagger with an EPIC song! * In the hidden back room, Cloak heals Lizbeth and insists that we help his cousin first * Missy freed the slave women but doesn’t know what to do with them now. We sent them to Chosen Town. *...

Meanwhile, in Bremen * Titanius regains consciousness and barely manages to knock away a Chwinga in time to save his eye as it was using a fork to “wake him up” Meanwhile, in Targos * We manage to finalize our purchase of Kenni from [b]Speaker Na...

In the basement under the store... * Titanius falls down into the room under the store with Chosen * Chosen learns as much as he can about his trapped companions and they realize they might not be sold and just left for dead * He unsuccessfully checks ...

* Captain just inherited his father’s store the mob because his father died in an “accident” * The speaker made The Luskan Arms his home and is putting up his guards there as well * We leave as they close up and argue about how to get Kenni back ...

We realize the Goliath are still poised to raid the Ten Towns but we don’t need to get involved until they do We decide to: * Keep an eye out for the young Goliath named Kapanuk who went missing in the mountains * Visit Easthaven to give Dannika ...

* We leave for Skytower Shelter * Along the way the Chwinga’s follow us and start throwing snowballs filled with things like Infinite Bag of Beans and poisoned food * Arriving at Skytower, we are told Arn is not here * After arguing with the guards, ...

[b]Visiting the Thuunlakalaga Clan[/b] * Sous convinces Chosen to join in his new favorite game, GOATBALL * Lohengrin and Titanius follow the Goliaths into the main chamber and find a whole bunch of Goliath toddlers * They meet Chieftain Ogolai, a ...

We leave to broker peace between the Goliath clans: * Arn, chieftain of the Sky Tower Clan (Real name is Akannathi Clan) * Ogolai, chieftain of the Warm Doom Clan (Real name is Thuunlakalaga Clan) After many blizzards and a White Elder Dragon spot...

* The sheriff insists that he’s saving the town * The follower of Amanautra is already dead * Cloak warns the sheriff that going against a lawful god will mean a bad end * One of the sheriff’s men sneaks a note to Sous that reads, “The speaker is...

We dead! * Lohengrin and Chosen try and figure out a plan * Swagger and Titanius talk to the soul of Macreadus. He asks you to [i]“fix the Summer Star”[/i] with the [i]“third ring.”[/i] * Macreadus’s amulet is an [b]Amulet of Health[/b] tha...

* Derik’s brother had his 35th birthday so we moved the game to Wednesday * Titanius and Swagger continue to interrogate Scoop * Scoop says the Lucky Liar bartender told him to bring her poison mushrooms and live rabbits to make things * He makes...

The party travels north from Bryn Shander to search for the black cabin An east-west snowstorm is blowing in front of us so we turn back to Loneywood We arrive to see the Ramshackle inn totally on fire! * The speaker’s kids, Scoop and Dotty show...

The Cakey Bakey has suddenly changed! The goblins scream about “the great one” creating a private room for 5 GP per day so we rent the room and try to make a plan. We talk about going back to Scramsax’s inn and all the Chwinga amulets begin to gl...

* Basilisk battle! * Sous brutally slays two basilisks! * Chosen guts another like a fish * Lohengrin sends a fireball into the last one’s mouth * Swagger casts [b]Mishan’s Greater Restoration[/b] scroll and restores all the goblins and bandi...

* On our way to the speaker, we stop in the market to visit Kaylin, the blacksmith. * Sous shows her his dad’s sword and insists there is no name on it. (Only Sous can see his dad’s name on the blade?) * She gives Chosin the slashing monk weapons ...

* We search the halfling, Clovis Longfoot, and find a note: * His Ma is calling him back home * He was from a family of thieves from Easthaven * Ma is worried that when the Frostmaiden, Auril, finds out that Bryn Shander has stopped sacrificing peo...

* Mei spills the beans: * "It all started 4 years ago posted by the [b]Northlook Inn[/b] in [b]Bryn Chander[/b]..." * Rime begin 2 years ago and then her guard duty was moved to the [b]Town Hall[/b] * Doesn’t know why the sacrifices started but sh...

* After a full night’s rest in our safe and warm [b]Good Meade[/b] home. * Cloak and Chosen have a conversation and think that the chardalyn weapons Chosen has been carrying is giving him nightmares of a deamon offering him power. * We discover that...

* A lot of Chwinga show up with a note saying Swagger needs to get out of town * Group meeting in the cart: Chosen Wan tells us he’s just tired of dying all the time and that if we have a problem with him, we should come to him one-on-one * We go to t...

* WHERE ARE WE?!?! * A large hole opens in the ice and Cloak falls down into it * A large ice boulder pins and crushes his mechanical arm * As we try to free Cloak from under the rocks, Chosen Wan lights a torch and we notice three dead Duregar and a ...

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* We focus our efforts on one [b]Chardalyn Berserker[/b] at a time and manage to take a few down * Lohengrin doubles the size of our horse, we pile into the cart, and Cloak’s summoned orc chief provides the cover we need to escape. * On their bodies, ...

* 2 Polar Bears chase Chossen Wan out of the cave. * We hear a evil creature named [b]Ravisin[/b] yell, “Ten Towns will be destroyed. If not by my hand then by the Frost Maiden!” * [b]Ravisin[/b] hits the entire party with an ice ball for more than...

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* Quote of the game: [i]“Did you ever smell him?”[/i] * 1 trial of power: defeat a woman named [b]Deana[/b] * 2 trial of patience: settle a dispute between [b]Mahk[/b] (orc from statue store) and [b]Anna[/b] (waitress from tavern) because Mahk think...

* Chosen Wan is magically swept away to the speaker’s house to undergo the [b]Chosen Trials[/b] to determine if he is the actual Chosen One * The speaker tells us the Legend of the Chosen One             * Long ago, Ten Towns  (founded by ...

* [b]Chosen: The Secret Eleventh Town of Ten-Towns[/b] * [b]Katrina[/b], the Records Keeper, invites Chosen in and speaks to him with great reverence. The statue has an inscription of the town motto:             * [i]“Courage is not the abs...

* Sous attunes to his Bloodline Blade overnight and has a vision of the events that lead Sir Lamorak to becoming turned into a vampire * [b]Grit[/b] says that [b]Loneywood[/b] sacrifices food to the Frost Maiden * We visit Iris Cree, owner of the Happy ...

* We behead the white moose, processed the body into 500 lbs of meat, and save the hide * Lohengrin inspects the ruins:             * Carvings near the top of each pillar; from north to south, these images depict a twig, a pinecone, a flame, ...

(First session in Michigan) * At her request, we drop off Lizbeth in [b]Lonelywood[/b] * We learn that Lonelywood is a town full of shady characters * Titanius notices some thieves kant outside of the Lucky Liar: “Good drink, loosens tongues.” *...

Last session in Florida :( * The invisible creature is a [b]Grell[/b] and as soon as Sous gets a chance, he bursts out of the back room and kills it * The tribal guards who were guarding the East Side Inn * We manage to convince the remaining guards ...

* Sally appears in the cave so Sous brings her back to the tavern * Unbeknownst to him, an invisible monster follows them back to the [b]East Side Inn[/b] and attacks the patrons * Sous manages to get Sally, Lizbeth, Marta, and Marta’s Father Clyde in...

* At [b]Termalaine[/b] to explore the gem mine * At the [b]Ease Side Inn[/b] we give moose meat to [b]Marta[/b], the blonde haired human daughter of [b]Clyde[/b]             * Marta lets Sous cook the moose meat that we brought       ...

* On the way, we learn that Sally has naturally learned magic * We enter [b]Termalaine[/b] and immediately go to [b]Nippet’s Cakey Bakey[/b] where chaos ensues             * 10 Lemon Liron             * 3 supersized Lemon Liron ...

* The polar bears try to eat us but Chosen Wan “handles” them and reattaches them to the sleds             * Sled #1 has 600 lbs of iron ingots             * Sled #2 is just a large lead sled with room for everyone * Chosen Wa...

* Component pouch containing a pearl of 50gp * The temple of the Morning Lord has decided that it’s bad for the town to kill people in attempts to end the winter. It is resurrecting long dead bodies to use as “disciples” * We return to [b]Scramsax...

* Swagger catches up with Sous and Chosen Wan to tell them about about Titanius dying. They rush to the Temple of The Morning Lord * [b]The Morning Lord[/b] brings Titanius back from the dead. The priest thinks she did it. * Lohengrin punches Titanius i...

* Lohengrin’s teacher, [b]Mynera McGonnigaul[/b], is interested that he is back in town. * The Mayor of Bryn Shander is now [b]Duvessa Shane[/b], former head of the merchant’s guild * [b]Sally’s[/b] godfather is [b]Scramsax[/b] * Sous leaves Lock...

* [b]Perrywinkle[/b] (the fairy that helped us save Lockheed) * We follow [b]Perrywinkle[/b] to help rescue a reindeer’s mate from a cave * Rest in our house in Good Mead * Return to Dougan’s Hole to learn that [b]Sally[/b] went off with a caravan ...

* Woke up in cave of Cawngas and Pixies * Twinkle left a note that Swagger and Sous ran off chasing a Chawinga * Group fell into a cave where the Pixies and Chawingas were at war * Twinkle locked a door cutting off the two groups to fight * The group ...

* On the way to Good Meade, we meet Longrin’s owlbear, [b]Barry[/b] * We had back to the [b]Verbeeg[/b] lair and slaughter them             * They were eating a dwarf from [b]Brinshander[/b]             * In their cave, we find ...

* The pixie, Twinkle, appears and tells us three words [i]“The Fairy Queen will be mad she told”[/i]:             * [b]Castle[/b]             * [b]Chardalyn[/b]             * [b]Dueragar[/b] * The waitress passes L...

* We all manage to sneak out of the cave past the Frost Giant Skeleton * Swagger manages to convince [b]Scython[/b] to wait for us * We all make it to the middle cave when Titanius’s book starts to glow: [i]            3 holes are better t...

* We set out on [b]Lac Dinneshere[/b] on our boat along with [b]Scython[/b] * Titanius deciphers the book he got last time to try and give us directions but only reveal a riddle:             * “3 holes are better than none. The middle is wh...

* Sous goes down to the cave with his girlfriend, Dree and somehow manages to not get trapped:             * Dree offers him leaves that she says will “heal” whoever picks them. Sous politely refuses because people are so hurt. (Pretty sur...

* Sous barters with the bartender, [b]Nymetra Myskin[/b] to sell one of her wolf pelts * The batender is very interested in learning the location of the bees in Good Mead * We meet with [b]Imdra[/b] in the Wet Trout             * She needs u...

* The Veerbeeg’s wife [b]Gog[/b] appears with Lohengrin * [b]Doug[/b] is still upset about the sheep * The ogre, “[b]Friend[/b],” nearly kills Cloak * We all very nearly die! * Pun of the night: [i]“You have Wan, not two!”[/i] - Lohengrin *...

* Meet [b]Fef[/b], the Good Mead scout who saw the Giant Kin take the mead into the woods * A woman, Fef comes running out of the woods with foxes trapped on her back * Titanius buys the fox [b]Fef[/b] trapped for 2 gold to keep as his companion * Chos...

* Titanius and Chosen follow Swagger into the woods to chase after Twinkle, the green pixie and end up in the middle of a field surrounded by Chwingas * The Chwingas have 3 bronze boxes and 1 of the same kind of metal we saw before * The Chawingas give ...

* Kidnapped by Durigar and we awaken in a cave filled with the sound of bees * The green Pixie [b]Twinkle[/b] lets us out of the prison * We discover that Cloak has been making fey honey this whole time with his magic * We meet a Forest Druid wearing t...

* Sally and several villagers have “been taken by large white wolves” in the middle of the night * “Bring ransom of food and money to border of Good Meade” * Meet large white wolves (Coran and Canan) who say their master, Garagai kidnapped 4 vil...

* Sous attempts to trade his wolf pelt for snow shoes from a druid bartender who is offended that he would kill an animal * Titanius manages to work out a deal for the shoes * We follow a duergar from the tavern to a house and investigate the sound of b...

[b]Good Mead[/b] is the rival town to [b]Dougan’s Hold[/b] * Cloak offers to fix Sally’s broken rock that Talia gave her and it become a black egg-like stone. * We meet [b]Dannika Greysteel[/b] (half elf female) outside of the tavern. She is looki...

[b]Dougan’s Hole[/b] * Inbread people who sharpen their teeth * No shops * Kids want pet rocks Searching for fule for fires. We were out in a blizzard so we couldn’t find the wood we came out for. Chosen Wan is leading us when the black dragonbo...