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In the Lon’s Thicket of It, S3E4

2024-06-26T00:00:00-05:00

Current Objectives

+Jekyll2024-07-01T22:57:07-05:00https://ttrpg.theinternetvagabond.com/feed.xmlVagabond’s TTRPG SiteA collection of my tabletop roleplaying game writings.Bill NiblockStormed Heims, S4E12024-07-01T00:00:00-05:002024-07-01T00:00:00-05:00https://ttrpg.theinternetvagabond.com/journals/seventh/stormheim-01Current Objectives +

Travel to the old Dwarf capital, north-east of Vuln, Stormheim!

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Events

We head back to Rhyme, identify our magical loot, and split up the gold.
Resting for the evening, Taliah’s memories of the past adventure is modified slightly. +
- We explore a ruined town. We dug up some elvish graves. Boobahs made a fool of himself. We found some magic items. And then we came home. As for the complex, I remember the first floor.
- Boobahns and Withatwist also have their memories altered.
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The next day, Boobans gets a sending, asking for his presence with the King of Altasia, with regards to the loss of his paladin, Sir Beet. +
- Boobhans reports on the fight with the fallen Dammerich paladins.
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Naynay finds us and shows us a rat which has been obviously corrupted by the dark tapestry. He reports that there are many more, and other creatures, being created by disgusting cult activities. We return to my lab. +
- Taliah stuffs the rat in a jar, for samples and study.
- Taliah identifies that the journal/diary/book was written in with an ink made from squid ink and pureed fish.
- Taliah and Boobons determine that the journal/diary/book is an attempt to draw a non-Euclidian shape. The end of the book is just solidly filled with the weird ink.
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We go talk to the Ratcatcher’s Guild. We show them the rat, and tell them where it was found, and urge them to be careful.
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Fast-forwarding to the next night, we prepare to crash the Nyarlathotep meeting. +
- Taliah scouts forward. At the fork, she finds a cloth scrap, painted the same as the floor, and hears metal scraping from a side tunnel. She avoids the scrap, making her way down the side tunnel, and finds a large man dragging a large metal weapon, wearing bulky clothing, possibly armor, and muttering to himself.
- Reporting back, the party moves forward. At the painted scrap cloth, Boobons detects magic of necromancy coming from the scrap, or near it.
- We move past, continuing to the eventual meeting cave. At the back, it is open to the air, and there are spores floating in the air. Within the cave are planters, with mushrooms and other plants. Two of the planters are empty. To the left, the ceiling drops, and there are smaller caves. Within the main cave, there are cloaked figures, openly carrying knifes, and wheeling about around the planters. On the right, there is a figure plastered to the wall with fungal growth. Most of his limbs have rotted away, or been eaten by the fungal, but his head is still free to move, and he is gesturing with his one remaining limb. There is a lady standing in the room, with odd scars and stained teeth; she is obviously the sojourner that Hugo Lamb asked us to retrieve. +
  - In one of the planters, we identify a dormant fungal creature.
  - We begin! SURPRISE ROUND! Boobons protects us from the spore with life bubble. Taliah launches a bomb at the dormant fungal creature, incinerating it. Withatwist moves to flank a target, and Sheila G moves to complete the flank.
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    - Sheila G casts blessing of fervor. Boobons dimensionally anchored the sojourner. A cultist flanks Withatwist. The sojourner begins chanting, and summons a whole bunch of weird shadowy birds in a swarm before her. Taliah bombs the shadowy swarm. A cultist fists a mushroom, and shoots Withatwist with an exploding firery mushroom spore ball. An invisible fungus creature bites Taliah in the bum. A cultist moves up to strike Withatwist but misses. Withatwist cuts down two cultists. A cultist fists a mushroom, and shoots at Boobons with a fire mushroom spore ball, but misses. The Fungal Man calls lightning down on Withatwist. From the small caves, a rat with a human face emerges ahead of a figure with the upperbody of a humanoid lady, and the bottom of a pulsating corrupted mass of fungus.
    - Sheila G moves to and strikes the humanoid-face rat creature. Boobons fireballs the invisible fungus creature, and some of the plants too, frying it. The sojoruner shoots Boobons and Taliah with a negative energy ray, and her shadowy swarm moves onto Taliah. Taliah moves out of the swarm, and throws an ice bomb at the sojourner, staggering her. A cultist shoots a fiery mushroom spore at Boobons, but misses. Withatwist performs a impotent dazzling display. A cultist shoots Sheila G with a fiery mushroom spore bomb. The Fungal Man calls lightning down on Withatwist. The humanoid-face rat creature uses a bleeding rock and cast a spell on Sheila G. The Fungal Queen physically assaulted Sheila G.
    - Sheila G cleansed herself, and powered on her force field. Boobons fireballs the Fungal Queen, humanoid-face rat creature, and Sheila G, blowing away the humanoid-face rat creature. The sojourner shoots Boobons and misses Taliah with a negative energy ray, and her shadowy bird swam moves onto Taliah. Taliah moves from the swarm, and incinerates it with Alchemists’ Fire. A cultist shoots a fiery mushroom spore, but misses. Withatwist performs a significantly better dazzling display. A cultist shoots a fiery mushroom spore at Taliah, to no effect. The Fungal Man calls lightning down on Taliah, to little effect. The Fungal Queen attempts to slow Sheila G, to no effect.
    - Sheila G moves in to “fucking stab” the Fungal Queen, but the queen reflects the blow through fuckery. Boobons fireballs the Fungal Man. The sojourner tries to suggest Withatwist, but he resists. Taliah incinerates the Fungal Man with some more Alchemists’ Fires. A cultist shoots a fiery mushroom spore at Withatwist, but it misses. Withatwist moves to the sojourner, and inflicts serious wounds upon her. A cultist shoots a fiery mushroom spore at Sheila G, but misses. The Fungal Queen attacks Sheila G, causing significant ability damage.
    - Sheila G cleansed herself, again. Boobons creates a fire snake (“A Snake I can Make!”), launching it through a cultist and down the tunnel at the Fungal Queen, and Sheila G. Toasty. The sojourner stabs Withatwist with her spear. Taliah introduces the remaining cultist to Alchemists’ Fire. The cultist introduces Taliah to a fiery mushroom spore. Withatwist skewers the sojourner, dropping her. The Fungal Queen tries a spell against Sheila G, but fails.
    - Sheila G prays. Boobons makes another snake, as he can, launching it through the remaining cultist and down the tunnel, again. Taliah
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Player Characters

Stackor/Boobahns, dwarven wizard (James)
Sheila G, cleric of Cayden Calien (Thans)
Harvey, birdman monk of many styles (Mike)
Nataliah, a tiefling alchemist (Bill)
Sir Oliver Withatwist, “fae-priest” of Count Ranalc and the Twilight Court (Dan)

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Locations

Rhyme +
- Temple of Cayden Calien
- A distant cave, where Nyarlathotep cultists are meeting
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NPCs and Notable Characters

Kalimandracks, an adult red dragon ruling over the lands of Vuln
Calyos, the grand-father red dragon of Calymandrax
Naynay, sexual deviant, pervert, and pugilist

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Other Notes

“Why is outside so down?” - drunken Sidebar patrons trying to exit through the basement.
Stormheim is the ancient and destroyed capital of the dwarven nation. It was captured/destroyed by Kellymandrax’s grandfather, Kalios

In the Lon’s Thicket of It, S3E4

2024-06-26T00:00:00-05:00

Current Objectives

Travel to Lon’s Thicket, and experience the suspected trap being setup for Sheila G.

Jeff enlightens us of the hidden 6th flavor, developed within the core of Monmon. It is the flavor of “spit”, and it is warping the minds of everyone for it’s nefarious intentions.
Sir Oliver’s quest is to help Count Ranalc meet with the Forgotten Lord, by helping him find a route to the Crumbling Tower. In exchange, Count Ranalc has offered to assist the group with their ambitions in Rhyme, or elsewhere if we so choose.

In the Lon’s Thicket of It, S3E2

2024-06-10T00:00:00-05:00

Current Objectives

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Travel to Lon’s Thicket, and experience the suspected trap being setup for Sheila G.

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Events

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The party is split! Harvey and Stackor are in the temple of the Fossilized King, fighting some nasty undead giants, and a weird, indescribable mollusk. Taliah is being approached by three Garuda, because she refused to hand over her piece of charcoal. Sheila G and Oliver Withatwist are on their way from the garuda chief back towards Taliah.
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Inside, combat continues! Boobons fireballs the indescribable mollusk; Harvey beats on a giant; the mollusk wails on Boobons and grapples him; the giants kind did stuff to Harvey.
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Outside, combat begins! Taliah is shot by a bunch of garuda; Sheila G flies over and casts shield other on Taliah, and also drops off Oliver; Oliver stands around like an idiot.
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Back inside, more combat! Boobons breaks the grapple and runs away; Harvey beats on giants some more; giants beat on Harvey.
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Outside! Taliah throws away her piece of charcoal, calls the bird people stupid, and runs for the hills; some garuda continue to pepper Taliah; Oliver and Sheila G move towards the hills too.
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Inside! Boobons casts cone of cold on the indescribable mollusk; the mollusk moves closer but otherwise does not act; Harvey beats on giants; the giants miss Harvey.
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Outside, the group makes it to the hills. The garuda do not pursue.
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Inside, Boobons casts another cone of cold on the indescribable mollusk; Harvey punches nasty undead giants; giants miss Harvey; the indescribable mollusk gives Boobons some more bad touches. -
- Boobons casts some scorching rays at the gross mollusk, finally destroying it; the mollusk dies and erupts in a fountain of blood; Harvey punches giants; giants miss Harvey.
- Boobons coughs up disgusting black blood, and magic missiles one of the nasty giants, and it falls to gross, nasty pieces.
- Combat over! Victory!!
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Inside, with combat finished, Harvey and Boobons seal the tooth in a corner, then seal the temple entrance. They then dimension door away, and meet up with the group. Taliah and Shiela G give Boobons a quick check-up, and determine he’s got a disease.
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We book it towards Lon’s Thicket. Camping in the hills for the evening, we help Boobons heal up a bit, and then continue moving towards the Thicket. As we move, we see an obvious camp on a hilltop, but ignore the camp and keep moving. We leave the hills to dry plains. Boobons determines that the weather patterns of these badlands makes no sense, but they’ve always been this way, so whatever. That evening, we see lights in the distance, which we presume are the elves at Lon’s Thicket. Finally, we shall arrive!

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Player Characters

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Stackor/Boobahns, dwarven wizard (James)
Sheila G, cleric of Cayden Calien (Thans)
Harvey, birdman monk of many styles (Mike)
Nataliah, a tiefling alchemist (Bill)
Oliver Withatwist, “fae-priest” of Count Ranalc and the Twilight Court (Dan)

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Locations

North-north-west of Flint, at a chasm with the temple of the Fossilized King.

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NPCs and Notable Characters

Reggae Tony

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Other Notes

Dan’s characters are definitely on a boat which is currently docked at Lon’s Thicket.

In the Lon’s Thicket of It, S3E3

2024-06-10T00:00:00-05:00

Current Objectives

Jeff: “The koans of the mind cannot be translated by another.”
The drill used to make The Bore is the exact same size as this hole.

In the Lon’s Thicket of It, S3E2

2024-06-10T00:00:00-05:00

Current Objectives

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Travel to Lon’s Thicket, and experience the suspected trap being setup for Sheila G.

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Events

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The party is split! Harvey and Stackor are in the temple of the Fossilized King, fighting some nasty undead giants, and a weird, indescribable mollusk. Taliah is being approached by three Garuda, because she refused to hand over her piece of charcoal. Sheila G and Oliver Withatwist are on their way from the garuda chief back towards Taliah.
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Inside, combat continues! Boobons fireballs the indescribable mollusk; Harvey beats on a giant; the mollusk wails on Boobons and grapples him; the giants kind did stuff to Harvey.
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Outside, combat begins! Taliah is shot by a bunch of garuda; Sheila G flies over and casts shield other on Taliah, and also drops off Oliver; Oliver stands around like an idiot.
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Back inside, more combat! Boobons breaks the grapple and runs away; Harvey beats on giants some more; giants beat on Harvey.
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Outside! Taliah throws away her piece of charcoal, calls the bird people stupid, and runs for the hills; some garuda continue to pepper Taliah; Oliver and Sheila G move towards the hills too.
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Inside! Boobons casts cone of cold on the indescribable mollusk; the mollusk moves closer but otherwise does not act; Harvey beats on giants; the giants miss Harvey.
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Outside, the group makes it to the hills. The garuda do not pursue.
+
Inside, Boobons casts another cone of cold on the indescribable mollusk; Harvey punches nasty undead giants; giants miss Harvey; the indescribable mollusk gives Boobons some more bad touches. +
- Boobons casts some scorching rays at the gross mollusk, finally destroying it; the mollusk dies and erupts in a fountain of blood; Harvey punches giants; giants miss Harvey.
- Boobons coughs up disgusting black blood, and magic missiles one of the nasty giants, and it falls to gross, nasty pieces.
- Combat over! Victory!!
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Inside, with combat finished, Harvey and Boobons seal the tooth in a corner, then seal the temple entrance. They then dimension door away, and meet up with the group. Taliah and Shiela G give Boobons a quick check-up, and determine he’s got a disease.
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We book it towards Lon’s Thicket. Camping in the hills for the evening, we help Boobons heal up a bit, and then continue moving towards the Thicket. As we move, we see an obvious camp on a hilltop, but ignore the camp and keep moving. We leave the hills to dry plains. Boobons determines that the weather patterns of these badlands makes no sense, but they’ve always been this way, so whatever. That evening, we see lights in the distance, which we presume are the elves at Lon’s Thicket. Finally, we shall arrive!

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Player Characters

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Stackor/Boobahns, dwarven wizard (James)
Sheila G, cleric of Cayden Calien (Thans)
Harvey, birdman monk of many styles (Mike)
Nataliah, a tiefling alchemist (Bill)
Oliver Withatwist, “fae-priest” of Count Ranalc and the Twilight Court (Dan)

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Locations

North-north-west of Flint, at a chasm with the temple of the Fossilized King.

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NPCs and Notable Characters

Reggae Tony

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Other Notes

Dan’s characters are definitely on a boat which is currently docked at Lon’s Thicket.

In the Lon’s Thicket of It, S3E1

2024-06-03T00:00:00-05:00

Current Objectives

NPCs

The Paladins of Damerrich -
- Sir Damian, the leader
- Sir Dunce
- Sister Clemence
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The market guard