Session 3: Scrutin' & Scroungin' & Baby Mimic Snugglin'

General Summary

Our intrepid heroes venture on past the room with poor Gerome Figeroth tied up for his own safety, traveling through one final hallway into what appears to be the central treasure room. Evidence for this includes a panel on the back wall that appears to trigger a transportation circle, ample lighting, and a large collection of chests. (A suspiciously large collection, to be frank--Kitanya immediately guesses it's a family of mimics.)
ALEK51 displays promise for a future fantasy-baseball-equivalent career by yeeting Rockroot at some of the chests from afar to see what happens, hitting 2 large ones and a small jewelry-box sized one dead center. Two do not react or act mimically, while one of the large chests is suspiciously sticky and deemed a mimic (though it does not attack yet).
Amanita Guttata flies into the room and surveys for traps, noting two in the corners and one in the doorway that they direct the party around. In coming into the room, it turns out there are six large chests, and 3 small jewelry-box-sized ones. Amanita borrows a few rockroot from Alek to drop onto each chest, testing its stickiness (and thus, mimicness). 3 large chests are deemed Mimics (though they still remain inert) and 3 large plus the smalls are deemed safe.
The party also names each of the small boxes in order to reference them, going from A, B, and C to Albert, Bob, and Carl. (This will be important later, I swear.)
The party sets about looting, getting a nice amount of equipment and goodies in the act. However, when Num goes to loot one of the small jewelry boxes (Albert), he discovers that this chest...is blepping. Which is to say, a tiny little sticky tongue is peeking out. Num alerts the party and cautiously tests feeding some rations to the box, which responds in a toothless, adorable, Mimic-y way. Albert is a mimic...and as it turns out, so are Bob and Carl. (See? It was serendipitous they named them!)
Amanita immediately takes a liking to Carl and Num to Albert (as they share a name). Amanita rolls high enough to know how to pacify them and safely store them away until they find someone who knows how to care for a mimic, but Wynnie Bishop rolls even higher and is able to remember a specific book that detailed How To Care For Your Mimic Baby.

Note: Annie was unavailable this session, but Salem (DM) rolled for Wynnie in moments where it's likely Wynnie would have participated, like this mimic roll. Bailey was also out so Salem rolled for Tervik Likkus where relevant as well, but that came up in less dramatic acquire-a-new-pet ways.

Bob, the third mimicling, is a little feistier but Num is able to sedate it and safely stow it away. (For the record: Bob is currently without a loving caretaker, as Num took to Albert and Amanita to Carl.)
The team is now acutely aware that Kitanya Evermoon is bizarrely good at predicting things to be right, only to be ignored for much like Cassandra of ancient Greek myth, her bimbo wisdom too precious for mortal minds to comprehend fully.
The group debates heavily on whether to kill the other Mimics in the room (for loot or a job well done) or leave them. They eventually opt to leave them, collect their Guy-form Gerome, and rift their way back to the entrance where they summon Zedron with an angry bell ring.
Thus begins a retelling of the adventure along with a firm-to-vicious cross-examination of Zedron to see if his gross ethics violations in the dungeon were through malice or ignorance. The party eventually determines it's the latter and though they promise to tell Gleddy Goodvine about this, they seem mostly placated.
During this confrontation with Zedron and Ourelios:

• Gerome is given clothes and a small chest brimming with more gold than he's ever held before. Ourelios fails to convince him they meant him no harm, but Alek consoles him enough to get him to stop trying to escape through a bathroom window and instead come back to the AHARRG Guild Hall with them. Alek becomes his emotional support Warforged.

• Kitanya and Alek convince-timidate Zedron to give them the name of the person he acquired the mephits from, a merchant in Sekre Glimmre, the speakeasy-esque underground district of the City of Mercy where more taboo things play out. Kitanya vows vengeance for her little Mephit buddies.

• Kitanya educates Zedron on how to respectfully give a city version of a sky burial to the Mephits, lest their ghosts haunt him and teach him the meaning of family or something.

• The party acquires an extra 150 GP for Tervik Likkus to offset the cost of what it may take to remove his wererat curse before it takes permanent root.

• Zedron scribbles a bazillion notes on dungeon improvements, tries not to cry that his wife is Not Angry Just Disappointed, and generally is a pitiful sort.

• The party outlines their theory that there was no theft in the dungeon, only one Mimic proliferating into a little colony that gleefully nommed Ourelios' goods.

• Num and Amanita begin to suspect that the baby mimics do, in fact, understand speech. This raises fun questions about sapience that everyone certainly won't have to address ever again, right?

The party leaves the Eefis/Eefissa home with Gerome in tow, headed for the AHARRG Guild Hall. The whole thing took about six hours, resulting in 3 new baby Mimic pets/children, 1 case of therianthropy, a ratnapped trauma victim, and hopefully lasting friendships. Plus a lot of cool loot.
Finally, on the way back, Num and Amanita stop by a gift shop to buy some of those pyrite and cheap tumbled/polished agate stones as Mimic Chow for their new bebbehs.

Rewards Granted

From chests:

• Potion of Hill Giant Strength

• Spell Scroll: Blindness/Deafness

• Silk embroidered handkerchief (25 GP)

• Set of bone dice (25 GP, gleefully claimed by Amanita Guttata)

• Wand of Conducting (given to L0L4

• Small mirror set in a painted wooden frame (25 GP)

• 144 GP worth of coins (85 SP, 11 PP, 26 GP)

• Curious trinket: Stumbleglobe. Magical snowglobe that is opaque until shaken. Shows a frozen snapshot of another location in the world. Image is static, taken from present, and cannot be interacted with nor directed (location chosen etc.).

• Gemstones (each worth 50 GP ×6 = 300 GP total): Carnelian (opaque orange to red-brown Jasper (opaque blue, black, or brown), ×2; Zircon (transparent pale blue-green Star rose quartz (translucent rosy stone with white star-shaped center Bloodstone (opaque dark gray with red flecks)

From quest reward:

• 25 GP each

• 150 extra GP for Tervik Likkus

From shops:

• Three bags of "Mimic Chow" (cheap souvenir stones and fake coins). Each bag will feed a baby Mimic for 2 weeks (preventing it from stealing from the owner's belongings).

Homebrew

Wand of Conducting

Wand

Common Requires Attunement

This wand has 3 charges.

While holding it, you can use an action to expend 1 of its charges and create orchestral music by waving it around.

The music can be heard out to a range of 60 feet and ends when you stop waving the wand.

The wand regains all expended charges daily at dawn.

If you expend the wand's last charge, roll a d20. On a 1, a sad tuba sound plays as the wand crumbles to dust and is destroyed

Missions/Quests Completed

Mission 1: Test this fancy certainly-autistic guy's dungeon setup.

Character(s) interacted with

• J/Gerome

• Zedron

• Ourelios

Notes

• Kitanya has almost certainly gotten high off of mimic slime before.

• "Amanita plays with Carl" action variant count: 7

• Conning (/lovingly) the DM into letting "poggers" be canon language (Owlin for "causing happiness")

• G/Jerome doesn't remember how to spell his name post-Animorphing...that or the J and G are the same glyph in Common. Who's to say?

TCE + Homebrew adjustments

Babby Mimic

Tiny monstrosity (shapechanger), unaligned, issa baby.

Armor Class: 11

Hit Points: 7 (d24+2)

Speed: 10 ft , climb: 10 ft

STR

1 -5

DEX

12 +1

CON

13 +1

INT

10 +0

WIS

13 +1

CHA

10 +0

Skills:

• Spider Climb. The mimic can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make an ability check.

• False Appearance (Object Form Only). While the mimic remains motionless, it is indistinguishable from an ordinary object.

• Hungry Pocket. The mimic can hold the equivalent of a jewelry box worth of items of any weight. If the mimic is not fed 3 small items a day (ex: coin, rock, charm) it will feed itself from its environment, prioritizing shiny metal items. When properly fed, it will gladly hold items for its owner and can be taught a command word to use the Bite attack on any who try to loot it.

Damage Immunities: Acid

Condition Immunities: Prone

Senses:

• Darkvision (60 ft.)

• Passive Perception: 11

Languages: Common, Undercommon

Proficiency Bonus: +2

• Command: The baby mimic is capable of learning one Command, a one-word order to complete a simple action (ex: Hide). The command is taught over 1d4 hours and is consistent. To train a new command, the old one must be unlearned over a short rest before the new one is taught. Additional commands may be learned later as the mimic ages. The DM may need to approve the Command.

Actions

• Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 1 piercing damage plus 2 (1d4) acid damage.

• Shape-Shift. The mimic polymorphs into an object or back into its true, amorphous form. Its statistics are the same in each form. Any equipment it is wearing or carrying isn't transformed. It reverts to its true form if it dies.

• Adhesion. The mimic secretes a sticky saliva and is developing sticky pseudopods. Using its tongue and/or pseudopods, the mimic can cause small objects to adhere to it or hold firmly to things.

• Gummy Bite. The mimic's teeth are still growing and rather than damage it can latch onto someone to hold on tightly. For 1d6 rounds, the mimic latches onto a creature's hand, causing them disadvantage on attacks. The creature can make a contested Strength check to pry the mimic off. While latched like this, the mimic cannot use its Bite attack.

• Plaintative Wail. The mimic can solicit the Help action from any bonded creature or its siblings by emitting a cry. The cry can be heard up to 40 feet away and cannot be used if the mimic is using its tongue or bite actions (gummy or not).

A tiny mimic, handheld-sized and resembling an ornate wooden jewelry box with golden hinges and latch. The inside is lined with dark pink "velvet" and newly emerging teeth.

Campaign

Ostelliach Campaign

Protagonists

L0L4

Neutral Good Warforged (Entertainer)
Bard 4

29 / 29 HP

STR
15

DEX
10

CON
13

INT
11

WIS
11

CHA
15

ALEK51

NG/CG Warforged (Cloistered Scholar (Sage))
Artificer 5

43 / 43 HP

STR
7

DEX
18

CON
8

INT
17

WIS
14

CHA
16

Amanita Guttata

True Neutral Owlin (Hermit)
Druid - Circle of Spores 3

25 / 25 HP

STR
8

DEX
16

CON
14

INT
12

WIS
16

CHA
8

Wynnie Bishop

Kitanya Evermoon

Neutral Good Satyr ()
Cleric 1
Stars Druid 1

15 / 15 HP

STR
14

DEX
8

CON
13

INT
8

WIS
18

CHA
11

Player Journals

A Blessed Day by Amanita Guttata

Report Date

20 Mar 2024

Primary Location

Cities of Mercy and Wrath

Related Characters

• ALEK51
• Amanita Guttata
• Kitanya Evermoon
• L0L4
• Ourelios Heia Eefissa
• Zedron Eefis