DW Session 22: Troubles at Castle Faouzia

General Summary

3/1/897

• Party has been at sea for several weeks on its way towards Faouzia
• Cereus has been seasick for most of it, Asuria's illness coming back with a vengeance combined with seasickness
• Jax flirts with sailor named Margaret, seduces her after losing to her at cards
• Flora prays a lot
• Queen Astrid also has semi-weekly meetings with RKB to review past missions
• She discusses the Elflands missions, and how lack of communication led to disaster
• Beleren and Jax still think it’s risky having Astrid at sea with them
• Astrid is adamant that she can’t leave the party at the mercy of Myltev and the sea
• One night Flora's cabin gets invaded by a couple of Sahuagin!
• Jax cuts the head off of one of them, Beleren kills the other through a porthole
• Beleren’s quite bossy, telling the crew to do things that the Queen already told them to
• But Flora’s safe, if only a little startled
• The sahuagin's 'Hold Person' didn't do anything to stop Jax

3/2/897

• Party makes it to Faouzia, the ruined castle that Fairouz turned into her base of operations in the 870's
• It used to be a lighthouse with a sprawling palace and atrium at its base
• The lighthouse toppled in the Battle of Faouzia in 876
• Jax, Flora, and Beleren make their way up the beachside cliff face up to Castle Faouzia
• They enter through the left wing, a dark passageway covered in cobwebs
• Jax’s driftglobe he got from Ozma’s comes in handy
• They notice that there are tombs all down the hallway, in honor of Coven members
• A spider jumps out of the webs, runs down the hallway into atrium
• In the atrium, the party goes up the still-intact staircase to investigate the promenade above
• Once they’re at the top, they notice that they’re surrounded by giant spiders
• A hulking half-spider, half-human monstrosity enters the atrium the grand doors
• He clicks at them in abyssal, nobody can understand him
• So it becomes a fight
• Enemy Encounter: 15 Phase Spiders and Fettercap the Ettercap/Drider
• It starts out good for the party
• Jax kills a spider almost every turn
• Beleren throws a sack of flower, blinds Fettercap and a couple of his giant spiders
• Flora summons her spirit guardians and an enchanted halberd in Erivo’s name
• But then a dozen spiders show up
• They cast a lot of webs, most of the party gets restrained
• Jax has to spend time freeing himself and the others
• Surrounded on all sides, having been KO’d several times, party decides to run
• Jax jumps down to atrium floor with Flora in tow (she was KO’d)
• Beleren uses a grappling hook to glide down, remembers to take the hook
• The spiders try to catch up, almost knocking out Flora a second time
• But Jax decides to stay behind and stop the spiders from catching up with the others
• He holds them off like a champ, hardly taking damage from half a dozen spiders
• But he can’t hold them off forever, his rage abates and he’s overwhelmed
• Beleren sees him get captured by spiders, restrained in mountains of webbing
• Flora, tearful, departs with Beleren back to the ship

Report Date

27 Jan 2020

Primary Location

Castle Faouzia

Secondary Location

Gulf of Gameth