Session 12: Cragma Castle

General Summary

Looking for treasure.
Taking a look beyond the door in the throne room.

treasure!

3 potions of healing!

We heal the dwarf and share about Arabeth. His name is Gundrun Rockseeker

They stole his map of wave echo cave

His brother will meet them at wave echo cave

Thoradin not know Gundrun. Does he know of Therin who left to look? Has seen him.

He's not part of the clan.

Serin discovered the cave too.

wants us to help him

Thoradin can tell you Gundrun is serious about starting a mine - we can trust the plan that he will setup the mine.

The mine contains sleeping magics.

Stormy wants to make a copy of the map

he'll let us hold on to the map

but he has to come with us

Famous mine - no one has mined it in forever! Best steel, silver and gold.

we help them clear it out and make sure Serin doens't make his claim.

We rest.

Middle of the Night

On stormy's watch. A tenative knock at the door. "King Graul?" Little whispers and they go away.

Investigating the Castle

Early morning. Stormy and Shimmer still sticking with Rashid. Cernan awakens the monster - accidentally. Thoradin son of Thorlum looks for places for gobos to hide.
Stormy and Shimmer want to talk with it. Languages - no response but scratching on the door.

big beam across the door and it bends

wooden door not allow communication

it's BIG and sounds scary

Beyond that with the snake room

Cernan blesses - self, Thoradin, and Stormy

(attack and saving, +1d4) - room was part of chapel or shrine - pitch black room - Cernan - vague sense of tentacles - Stormy - sculptures angelic, the tentacles NOT! - ceiling 25 feet up - Rashid will put light on a rock, Cernan sees a very thick snake with tentacles and looking down on us. 8 feet long. ON ceiling. - It looks like rock. - It drops down. - Cita's arrow does nothing, but Shimmer's lightning hits - Only magic weapons work. - It attacked Thoradin - Thoradin takes the kill! Holy symbols around in the room. - nothing like a tree or demonic. Used to be a positive temple. Stormy sneaks into the back room with the curtains. - N tower - stone altar, blood stained black cloth, chalace, knife, and censor. Kneeling at altar are 3 gobos. - Stormy demands their surrender.

Fight!

- Stormy attack the one looking like doing the sacrifies and hits. - 'Maglubiate (gobo god) will kill you!' he screams. - Thoradin kills one - Rashid kills one with cold - Cita sneaks up and kills the priest - We've seen the

Next Room - Hobgoblin room

Aladorian chainmail, heavy crossbow, and longsword (this OLDER than Sir Clark's)
One cask covered in white mold - not smell like mushrooms.

it's FROST - completely covering the cask

ice cream! (player bribe)

it's going into the bag of holding

Next room

Rashid preps Thamuaturgy (to make voice louder)

4 hobgolbins

Thoradin rushes in and gets pummeled.

Rashid webs the hobgoblins

Thoradin cleaves through one.

Stormy takes out one

2 more gobos come in

Stormy takes out hobgobo 3.

Rashid scared them with his voice.

Cernan smites the last hobgobo

Thoradin kills a gobo

Stormy takes out the other gobo

More Gobos come in

Shimmer takes damage

Thoradin goes down

Cernan heals Thoradin for 15 pts

Last gobo here goes down

We heal up as we can, and everyone takes a healing potion with us.

Rashid takes out one with ice

We have a hard time hitting for a while

Stormy takes one out

Cita takes out a gobo

Thoradin hits 2 at a time - taking one out

Cernan takes out a gobo

No more gobos

we search

only the monster door left

search - finds an elvish sun god statue - thrums with energy. How did an elvish artifat get here

Stormy climbs up to look and see the monster - an owl bear. It's an eating machine.

We let it go.

Rewards Granted

510 XP (we should have a total of 3080 and be level 4 now)

Notes

Stormy needs Knowledge nature! We want magic weapons!

TO DO

Level up characters to level 4

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Report Date

14 Jan 2023

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