Session 42 - Banor's Quarry - Zellandria's Notes

General Summary

WEST ISLES DND 9/3/20 Oh hecking yes we playing that deendeed
At some point in the wibbly wobbly time line we’re about to go on an adventure yo!
I think there’s some complaining that we can’t keep importing building materials, but I like, don’t see what’s wrong with that at all
Supply and demand, bitches
The group that have been making friends with the Drow have told us about a quarry in the mountains
The mountains are called Banor’s Pass or something
We’re gonna go secure it for the town
I’m gonna go secure it for House Orien or something I don’t know, that’s what I do yo
Something about the Iltani drow who are more peaceful than the Vulkoori or something
They live in the rainforests near the pass
Something about Chimera that hunt out in the pass?
I’m sure we can deal with some big dumb birdos
You know what would help here?
Bait.
A fluffy white goat is leading the flock around the hills
Perfect.
The people will riot if we take Pecorino
Though what if this was Pecorino’s destiny?
Forge acquires a different goat.
Verusa lets us know some #CHIMERAFACTS
Turns out one of the heads is usually a red dragon, another is lion and another is a goat
The goat head probably doesn’t want to eat goat.
It’s probably vegan.
Verusa also knows that it has 100+ HP and has fire breath that recharges
Finishing that research she packs up some stone working tools
Elenora receives a letter with a black wax seal on it, stamped with the kings of the Areneni
Written in beautiful elven calligraphy, the letter
Elenora Sekhill?
I hope this me-
You know what steve will just give me this text in a bit.
They are worried about her being in Xendric
Please return promptly within the next 12 months.
Signed by like 8 or 9 people and someone called Cayleth Albrinetti?
Elenora files that away for later
Elenora: Well, shit.
At least she’s got some time and friends waiting for her?
Like .. 12 months.. Is.. no time.. For an elf..
She puts the scroll away and pretends she didn’t just get that and returns to studying with Cornelius for her map making skills
She packs her surveying tools, no sextants
Zell receives a letter in the mail!
She was starting to think they didn’t care about her being out there
Turns out it’s a VIP invitation to the baths
Well that’s nice to be appreciated
Zell goes and plans to enjoy a nice day at the spa
Oh yay, Diiroehn is there
Zell: Can you like, tell me what you’re putting in his hair and like, order me one of those treatments?
Massage Therapist who does not have a name: I mean, he won’t tell us, if you could find out we’ll have it organised..
Zell: Neat. So like, isn’t this so relaxing?
Dii: I learned to relax out of necessity
A moment later Zell’s head is pushed into the massage table
Oh come on
Guess we have to burn the building down
Diiroehn casts zone of truth.
Charisma save
15.
Sucker
Dii passes a piece of newspaper to Zell
Make another Charisma Save
NATURAL 20.
The clipping is from a broadsheet paper from the Sharn Inquisitive dated 2 weeks ago
“The baron and his eldest daughter”
So ok I wasn’t there for that
Legit
That was like, during the time of the seige
OH my god I missed the gala
Dii: Tell me your full name
Zell is still naturally resisting
Zellandria Elizabet Marguerite d’Orien.
There it is, buddy
That’s my name and I’m writing it down just in case.
Dii: I like you Ze-
Zell: Woah ok and that’s a wei-
Dii: Shut up.
Zell glares
Dii: Why would you want to be a Baron back there when you could be a Queen here?
Oh no, this is appealing but also what the fuck is going on back home
But also fuck you Diiroehn and your shitty massuse
/Apologies to Tim here, I keep meaning to fill your epic talking to to Zell but I've not sat down and had the chance to finish it/
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Ket apologises for the shitty massage service
Zellandria Elizabet Margeruite d’Orien leaves the Glass Anchor and goes back to her house and furiously writes a letter home about this situation of this some other eldest of the house
Zell imports a random magic potions and gets a potion of hill giant strength
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Diiroehn upgrades the town centre
He gets some new people in the town?
Oh jeez this is the beginning of the end
The next rank of the headquarters means we can build roads?
Oh hell yeah
Diiroehn procures some nets
Ok so let’s get the fuck out of this shitty town and it’s shitty massage parlours
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We travel through the similar routes pass the grassland and moving upriver, the same way we headed on the way to the Foundry
Forge waves at some gnolls
They wave back
That’s nice
A few days of uneventful travel is pleasant
Zell hangs on to the piece of paper and is trying to rationalise that maybe Diiroehn had it forged to stir her up or something and maybe it’s all a lie or whatever
That’s definitely it
No one else would have gone with father.. Right?
There’s some description here about the scenery but Zaph is busy rage thinking about the whole Sharn thing
Verusa scouts ahead and rolls for scouting with a
NATURAL 20
She shifts into a ruby wolof
She’s a big red dog
As the sun catches her crystal form sparkles of red glint across the rocky terrain
Verusa notices very large, smooth worn slabs of stone line the path
An old road?
Neato
She spots maybe an hour off in the mountains a side path that winds up the side
Maybe .5km away is a gaping hole of a doorway or cave?
Framework or something is affixed into the stone
Yo I guess this is our stop
There’s a vague humanoid shape carved into the rock
On the other side is a green fabric lean-to style tent?
She returns to the group and performs an interpretive dance to explain what she’s found
Forge: Stop.. just.. Stop.
He ritual casts
Verusa: Woof
Forge: Use your actual words
Verusa: Bark..
Verusa: Oh.. right. So there was all this stuff and all this other stuff
Forge conveys it to us
Verusa scouts ahead and points out tent
It looks like there’s maybe a person in there?
Oh heck
Some kind of mountain haggos?
Why do
Zellandria is like: Why don’t we leave hte horses as bait?
Forge: that is why we brought the goat.
Zell: Er… I thought we have the goat to provide us with fresh milk and cheese..
Dii: Zellandria, that is a male goat.
Zell: Oh no.
Sooooo anywayyyyyy
Let’s maybe see who’s in the tent?
Forge: We should go see who is there, just in case there is one of the Iltani
Zell: Did you want me to throw a rock at them?
Verusa passes a large rock over to her
Forge has already walked up to the tent
Oh yeah and up on the hill is some kind of chimera maybe
Forge stomps closer
A moment later there’s a scuffle at the tent and a figure falls out tangled in the fabric holding a sword up
A female drow, not Vulkoori
Drow woman: Oh fuck, I thought you were the chimera!
Forge: Not the Chimera. I am Forge from the town of Beacon
Drow woman: So what are you out here for?
Forge: We are here from the town seeking the quarry, more stone and materials to help build the town.
Drow: My name is Cloudagh, I’m here for stone too but not for building, more for art? Looking for some marble from up there
Oh neato
Verusa is still padding around in her big red dog form
She notices there’s bandages around Cloudagh’s forearms and legs
Clodaugh: I tried looking around there, up the switchbacks, looking for some smaller pieces to take home. Probably should have listened to my parents, there’s definitely a thing. The Chimera. It scratched around me and then like, sniffed the tent and I’m shit scared to leave.
Verusa nods
Clodaugh: I’m not much of a fighter… If you’re looking to deal with the chimera that might be ok..
Dii: If you do stay here, the Chimera may see you as a combatant.. You may be better off hiding.
Elenora: How much marble did you need, anyway?
Clodaugh: A small amount, it’s heavy, but I can just lash it down and drag it home
Elenora: I’m sure you’ve got it sorted
Clodaugh smiles
Forge: I for one think this is a brilliant idea!
Clodaugh: Really? It sounds pretty stupid now I’m saying this out loud now.
Forge: !! Take the marble! Create things with your hands! It is the greatest gift!
Elenora: Have you worked with marble before, dear?
Clodaugh: Only in small pieces
Elenora: Perhaps you should take a bit more than what you need, it’s hard to erase mistakes from.
Dii: We don’t have need for marble, feel free to take all you can carry
Zell is currently down at the cart. If she was up there she would be flailing to get some so she can redo her bathroom at home.
Elenora: Did you only see the one Chimera?
Clodaugh: Yes.. should there be more than one?
She pales.
Forge: How many heads did it have?
Clodaugh: Three. I know what a chimera looks like.
Forge: I mean no offense, it’s just to be sure what we are dealing with
Dii: What colour was the head?
Clodaugh: Er.. it’s hard to say with the dark vision at night.. It could be anything..
Forge: Important question: Did it seem like it had a proclivity for goat?
Clodaugh: I.. I did not bring goat with me.
Forge: I am jesting. I would not assume you to have goat with you.
Clodaugh: Er…
Dii: He’s practicing his standup. It’s not very good.
Clodaugh: So… um…
Forge: I’m going to go fight chimera, you have fun
Dii: Just put yourself away from the bait.
Forge is walking towards the cart again
Clodaugh stares at the slab of living crystal wolf as Verusa pads back towards the cart
It’s about 4-5pm now
So let’s just throw Diiroehn up there or something
Oh no we’re going to have to kill the littluns
Diiroehn talks to his horse again because he’s weird
Clodaugh: I don’t know if I was imagining it or what but I thought I heard snoring from inside teh cave..
Forge: I would be more inclined to fight these one at at time. I wish I had brought another goat.
Verusa: it may be sleeping having just fed..
Verusa knows that they are slow breeding creatures and would be likely to only have one young rather than a whole brood
The goat head chews and regurgitates food
They mostly hunt in mornings and nights but they’re not strict to a schedule
Dii proposes having Tenebrae lead the goat a mile away and then we strike the one in the cave
This is a solid plan
Let’s have a short rest or something and then wait for dusk
Forge: should we perhaps cut the goat a little to make it more fragrant?
Dii: What? That’s monstrous. I’ll just have Tenebrae trample the goat when it gets to the waiting site.
Holy shit we’re the worst
MAybe we’ll just rub some rations of it to make it more appetising or something?
Wait that would have the opposite effect.
Tenebrae leads little Bait Forge off to it’s death
Just look at the flowers little Bait Forge. You’ll be fine..
Elenora casts prestidigitation on the horses that we’ve had pulling the cart and they smell like lilac and gooseberries
Forge and Diiroehn leads the horses to their new drow friend Clodaugh
Dii: We figured it would be in your best interests to stay away from the chimera and you could mind these for us while we deal with things.
Clodaugh: What.. what are these? They're bigger than alpacas..
Forge: These are horses
Clodaugh: Neat. I’ll move off to one of the small alcoves that I saw on the way in
Elenora: Here take these, they’ll like you if you give them these
She hands a small bag of oats
Elenora: Make sure you hold your palm flat and they’ll sort of nibble..
Dii reaches out and casts lay on hands on her, healing her wounds
Alrighty let’s do the thing
Stealth checks!
Elenora: 30000 Zell: NATURAL 20 Diiorehn: SOME NUMBERS Forge with disadvantage: NATURAL 20 and .. 12.. Verusa: 18!
We look up and see a large bulky shape fly overhead
It glides down towards the barrens
We hustle on up the slope
Small slides of rocks fall down as Forge moves up
This is fine
More stealth
This didn’t go so well.
Forge rumbles up the mountain and we hear a change in the breathing in the cave up ahead
Oh noooo
ROLL INITIATIVE
Verusa: NATURAL 20 Diiroehn: 11 Chimera: 10 Zell: 8 Forge: 7 Elenora: 5
Verusa scrambles up the rock slide
Rocks flow around her as she moves
A huge roar booms from the cave
Oh dear
She reaches the top and tries to hide awkwardly
Diiroehn climbs up the slope and preps his poison dagger and a thunderous smite
From the door into the entrance of the mountain there comes another mighty roar
Verusa tries to make herself look big to scare the chimera but it is not afraid
It chomps into Verusa with the lion head for a
NTRL 20
Oh no
15 damage
The goat rams her in the head for another 10 damage
The claws dig into her and try to carry her away but she matrix dodges
She smacks it in return with her quarterstaff
Zell dashes and rages leaving a trail of fire behind her cause she’s the goddamn flash and tries to stab at the chimera but misses because she sucks just like the goddamn flash
Forge tries to climb up and dang he’s noisy
Everything within the area can definitely hear him
We all scream and run that maybe we should lure it back to the entrance
Elenora climbs up and moves towards the cavern
She can see inside now where there’s almost a nest or something and also SHINIES
Dii moves up to where Elenora and Verusa are
He channels divinity and readies an attack
The Chimera sets fire to Forge and Elenora
OH hey guys make a dex save
Zell with advantage!
Cool cool cool a 1 and a 2 cool
They both take 29 fire damage
The goat head rams Forge and he loses concentrating on his shield of faith
Zell’s dragonmark flares as she zooms up into the cave
In the nest is a tiny three headed little baby chimera
Zell is immediately enchanted
It’s so cuuuuuuute
Her cloak billows.
The baby chirups and pounces on her cape
Elenora reaches the nest inside
Elenora looks towards the baby: Is.. that you mommy?
She asks in draconic
It chirps and vomits acid on Zell’s cloak of billowing
Oh no it’s cute
Elenora scoops it up in her arms and carries it over to the pile of rubble in the corner to hide it
Elenora in draconic: Now little one, some very bad things are coming but we’re friends, you just stay quiet here.
Verusa raises her hands and lines them up with where the Chimera is in the air
She draws a pattern and gold threads start to sparkle between her fingers as she prepares to earthbind the chimera
Diiroehn holds waiting to strike
The chimera flies over Forge and it catches the sound of the baby inside.
It soars over Forge in the direction of the cave entrance
Verusa releases the golden web but the chimera struggles for a moment and frees itself from the web
Diiroehn throws his mega poison smite dagger attack
Something ungoldy like 53 damage in that hit holy shit tho
A blast of thunder detonates as the dagger hits and the Chimera twitches and slams into the ground, skidding along the dirt
The goat head has red eyes and is like baaaaaaahhhbb
The chimera stumbles towards Diiroehn and raws and rams him
The lion head bites onto his shoulder and the
BAHHHHHHHHBBB
The goat head headbutts Diiroehn for 24 damage
Zell moves up and glaives the fiery chimera friend
From the distance we hear a big old roar
A darker chimera shaped.. Shape.. Appears in the distance
Forge tries to drop the hammer but can’t quite break its hide
Elenora fires an arrow but it splinters off the goat head
Verusa raises her hand and brambles explode from the ground and begin to wrap around the chimera
It’s restrained by the roots!
Heyooo
Verusa: Stay here..
Diiroehn takes out the big old blackfury edge and cleaves it into the neck of the dragon
26 damajjjjeeeee
He cleavers it straight down
HOW DO YOU WANT TO DO THIS?
They call him Diiroehn the orphan maker.
The red death strikes again
Zell puts the pleated spear down and has a weird feeling as she releases her grasp on it
Taking her longbow she fires an arrow at the dark chimera that’s flying in
It hits yay
The chimera sees its dead mate and roars
It vomits acid in a line through Diiroehn and Forge
Forge fails his dex save and collapses on the ground, acid bubbling at his sides
Diiroehn takes a bunch of acid damage but not as bad as Forge
Elenora looses an arrow and catches it right in the goat mouth
Baaaaahahhahahahhhhhhrbbbb
Forge make a death save
16
He ok
Verusa looks up and releases another golden net out of her hands which captures the acid chimera
She heals Forge and he breathes back into life
The chimera slams into the rocks and begins to tumble towards Forge
Oh no
Make a dex save, Forge
7
He looks up
There’s a chimera rolling directly in his path
Oh no
Forge just takes his shield and pulls it over his face
The chimera slams the shield into Forge’s face for 10HP
Forge groans and is unconscious again
It continues to roll
Next up is Diiroehn
NATURAL ONE
He also gets slammed by the tumbling chimera
Zell jumps on the back of it but can’t quite get the glaive in the back as the it writhes around
Elenora quietly steps forward and skewers the lion head through the for 48 damage
Elenora: Right.. Have at you, foul beast.
She disengages back towards the other pile at the back of the cave
Verusa looks up and casts healing word on Forge again
That dude
He breathes again and recovers 6hp
Forge: nnnnnnngghhhhhhhhh
Verusa runs inside
Diiroehn thunderous smites the restrained chimera for like a billion damage
27 damage
He stab again
Another 17 damage
+ smiteo
24 damage
Zell drives the glaive into the neck of the goat head
13 damage
Another stabbo into the dragon head HOW DO YOU WANT TO DOO THIIIS
She steps on the end and drives it further into the dragon head
Diiroehn takes out his leather tools and tries to skin the creature
Elenora moves back to rubble where the baby is screeching and she coos to it in draconic to calm it
Verusa checks out the nest to find any bones and other interesting things in there
Diiroehn removes some pseudo dragonscale from the chimera
He recovers 1000g worth of chimera hide
Zell investigates the shiny things and finds a bunch of random things
There’s a cache of silver coins
A single very polished blade, the handle is a bit mangled but is slightly gnawed on
It catches the light in a strange way with a light red sheen
She sees some elven writing on the side
It’s called “Vein Seeker”
Zell calls over to Elenora for it and gives it to her to look at
Elenora moves into the back area where there’s this whole other series of rooms we had no idea was there
It looks like a giant facility but there’s not any makers marks for the Sul’at League
This probably belonged to Scora Bael.
There’s a massive shaft that would have once most likely held a basket elevator.
Verusa finds bones that are fairly humanoid and maybe a skull that once belonged to an actual lion.
She also finds a single black ring, still on a skeletal finger, with faceted spikes protruding from it
Oh neeeeato
It doesn’t look comfortable to wear but man it’s like, peak fashion right now.
Verusa takes the entire hand it’s attached to
We sit and rest for now
There’s enough stone here for a shipment or two before we have to properly start quarrying it
The dragon hoard has 450g worth of coin and artefacts so 90g for everyone
Forge casts identify and detect magic
He looks over the rapier
Once per short rest it can be thrown about 30ft or it can pull you forward towards a creature that has taken damage
Ahaha
Neato
Just rebrand that spooky name
The ring shows up strangely with Forge’s identify spell
The working seems to be ancient elven?
There’s a name “Ravener”
Tiny needle like marks line the inside of the ring.
It steers blades towards throats.
Elenora looks at it and realises what it is
They’re very cursed. Each critical strike they help land pulls the band of the ring closer around the finger and makes it harder to remove.
SUUUUUUPER CURSED.
Eventually it’ll sever that finger.
Forge calculates about 500g worth of stone
Clodaugh comes up to the cave now she’s stopped hearing the screaming
Zell: did.. Did you like.. Leave our horses and caravan just unattended down there?
Clodaugh: No no no! I left them tied up!
Err.. sure..
We all expect to return and find them hog tied.
Verusa looks over the bones and with Elenora’s help identifies the body of a large Auroch
She can now shape change into those and a Lion!
Diiroehn calls to Tenebrae and a few minutes later the black horse leads a very stressed out looking goat up to them
Verusa scoops up the little chimera bubling and with Forge’s help they get it back to town together
Forge tries to explain to the little chimera bub that it can’t throw acid on people
Forge: You are very cute but only little for now but you will be very big and strong and it is ok
Verusa calls it Saburo
Forge: Do you like these rations? They will help you grow little one
Welp let’s head back to town and do some fooking work or something
Forge: I would have called him “Bitey” “Blastie” and “Butt’e”
Verusa, Elenora and Forge level uuppppp!
Heyooooo
END SESSION

Report Date

20 Mar 2020