Session 6: Old Owl Well
General Summary
After Northern Star's Hatching, we head south to Thunder Tree and watch for Wave Echo Cave and Old Owl Well.
a body, dead less than a day, beaten to death
wagon with empty cask
LARGE humanoid tracks
After burying the body, we search more. Cita climbs a tree and spots an ogre hiding behind an outcropping. It spots her too.
The Ogre, Thaco, demands, "Put treasure things in bag before die!". Rashid casts web on Thaco and we're able to take him down quickly.
Cernan decides to take a look at Thaco's bag. It's lumpy, but nothing comes out when we try to dump it out. So he sticks his arm in and pulls out a moldy rope. The bag still isn't empty. So we end up taking turns pulling out the items and learn it's a bag of holding). Sweet!
R.I.P. Thaco. (Mike misses you.)
Messy Notes
Day 2 on the road
We find:Day 3 on the Road
We rest and travel to Old Owl Well. There we encounter the smell of a camp fire. Cita sneaks off to investigate. She sees Captain Borland, Wrin Becklam, and Alistair Magnut III, with a group of undead. They're waiting for Seran and amassing an army. Cita sneaks back. We plan and wait for Borland's human crew to sleep. Then we lure the zombies out of camp to keep the noise down. As we fight them, we realize these aren't just ANY zombies. They shoot spores (about 5 ft) of that nasty Amanita Mushroom. Cernan gets hit by the spores. During the fight with the zombies, we take out several before Borland and Wrin wake up.Tactics included: putting a web on most of the zombies, setting them and the web on fire, attacking them with weapons. Northern Star's reaction with +1d6 lightning each time a member of our party attacked, helped too.
Will the intrepid adventurers survive the battle? Will Cernan be able to fight off the mushroom infection? Will it allow Borland to control Cernan?
Quotes
"Stupid Sticky string!" (in response to being caught in a magic web)
Messy Notes
going south
if went FAR and veeered east a bit = would hit capital
along way - will reach old owl well
-> watch for wave echo cave (with forge of spells
1 day deeper into the forest
routine setting in
Day 2
just after lunch
encounter wagon and dead person
stormy checks on the body - dead less than a day, bludegeoned to smithereens by something big (tree?)
cernan - checks body - was farmer. was tking goods to new heran
searching for tracks: LARGE bare footprints - BIG foot, humanoid. 18 inches. All over the place. Can't tell the direction. come and go from inside the trees. Ground - road = packed dirt and rocks. ground = many rocks.
eventually we can't find tracks. Some trees have gouges and damage.
bury the guy in a cairn?
cita climbs a tree: sees giant and he sees her.
Ogre - demands our treasure
Rashid - webs it
Thoradin - crossbow
Cernan - bless cita, stormy and thoradin = gain 10 rnds, +1d4 for attack and save
Stormy: hunter's mark and hits it
Cita: coats a dagger in poison and throws hits
"Stupid Sticky string!"
Stormy's last shot takes him down
his bag:
lumpy bag
Cernan reaches in to get 7.5 feet of moldy rope, jade wand (185 gp), 15 gp, wooden box of dried beans,
Thoradin pulls out a globe of intricately carved corral (100gp), 62 rusty nails, 80 sp, half an iron helmet (top)
Rashid - rusty pick axe, 3 carnelian (50 gp ea), giant wheel of moldy cheese
Stormy - vial w/ cool blue liquid (can taste to id by rules) - greater healing (4d+4), 1 quality boot (left)
cernan - scroll (to rashid) lightning bolt
BAG OF HOLDING!
you pull out what you want
can hold 500 lbs
2x4 feet size
always weighs 15 lbs
destroyed - falls out onto astral plane
creature - 10 min/#creatures (after suffocate)
100 XP for ogre (named: Thaco)
Inspiration point for Amy
We get away a bit and camp.
Old owl well - a day's ride (arrive tomorrow night)
smell campfire
cita sneaks ahead: a well, campfire, tents, big tent, people - a couple soldiers. Captain borland, Rin, alchemist, soldiers, and undead (waiting for Seran and amassing an army). Sneaks back.
We wait until the humans go to sleep
lure the zombies out to a rock
Cernan overwhlmed with smell of mushrooms - zombies (not undead)
Thoradin and Cernan - con save. Cernan inahles spores
Cita sees at least one of the guys in a small tent wake up.
We pick off zombies
First hit is spores, after that not.
To Do
Make horse stat cardsRewards Granted
Loot
Items
Valuables
Magic Items
XP
100 XP for ogre (named: Thaco)Contents
Report Date
27 Aug 2022
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