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Stormed Heims, S4E21

2024-11-25T00:00:00-06:00

Current Objectives

+Jekyll2024-12-04T20:21:29-06:00https://ttrpg.theinternetvagabond.com/feed.xmlVagabond’s TTRPG SiteA collection of my tabletop roleplaying game writings.Bill NiblockStormed Heims, S4E222024-12-04T00:00:00-06:002024-12-04T00:00:00-06:00https://ttrpg.theinternetvagabond.com/journals/seventh/stormheim-22Current Objectives +

Investigate the ethereal plane room at the Giant’s keep
Enter Stormheim
Join Kaldur and seek the Mantles of the Heroes
Aid the merfolk in attacking the Cthulu cults

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Events

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We decide to pursue the Mantles of the Heroes, next time on SEVENTH ANCILLARY Z!
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Stackor gots some letters and celebrates mail time +
- Updates on the space laser
- One of the Altasian kingsman is in town: Bonlan Cranlaw
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SG talks with some people, including Crius +
- Crius encourages SG to go on the Mantle of Heroes quest.
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SG meets up with Stackor, and discusses some next steps. SG is insistent that Kaldur Black be stopped from getting a Mantle. Stackor is seemingly indifferent. They consult Harvey. Harvey “agrees” to stop Kaldur from getting power. More discussion happens; Stackor tries to convince SG to join the Mantle quest and postpone her inheritance quest. More debate ensues.
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We decide on delaying the Mantle of the Heroes quest, to give time for character creation, and shift gears to Sheila G’s Inheritance quest. The new group gathers, and we teleport to Rivethane, at the coffee shop where Marmaduke is expecting us. We meet with Marmaduke, who informs us that he found Wilco’s notes, and confirmed that Wilco learned of the Greyshell lineage from Lon’s Thicket. Evidently, the town was abandoned due to a political uprising, during which the young Greyshell heir was slain. Marmaduke offers to set things up to get SG her inheritance. This includes, most notably, permanently changing SG’s skin from decidedly pink to a normal skin tone. Eventually, Marmaduke returns, with generally good news, and tells SG about some of the checks/challenges awaiting her for confirming and claiming her inheritance. +
- We join Marmaduke through the alleys and streets of Lower Thane, making our way to a transmuter to change SG’s appearance. After some back-and-forth, Sheila G is no longer bubblegum pink. The transmuter than gives SG a little test. Finally, SG sends a message to Falinious Falnore, asking him to join us for her character interview. He says he’ll wear his golden boots.
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Player Characters

Gartug “Tugger” Ironfist, a dwarven brawler (Bill)
Sheila G, drunken “half-elf” priest of Cayden Calien (Thans)
Chuck Dorfus, a dwarven hammer-thrower (James)
Mummrah, a dwarven cleric of Folgrit (Mike)
Randy Van Peeples, a human cleric of Gozreh (Dan)

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Locations

Rime
Rivethane

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NPCs and Notable Characters

Captain Carl of The Stalwart
Titan Crius, Surrogate of Cayden Calien

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Upcoming Events

6 days remain until the meeting with the crypt dragon
1 days until SG has to meet Marmaduke in Rivethane
1 days until we telport to help the dwarves and merfolk fight the cult of Cthulu

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Other Notes

Be couth.

Stormed Heims, S4E21

2024-11-25T00:00:00-06:00

Current Objectives

Investigate the ethereal plane room at the Giant’s keep
Enter Stormheim

Other Notes

9 days remain until the meeting with the crypt dragon

Stormed Heims, S4E17

2024-10-21T00:00:00-05:00

Current Objectives

~~Investigate the ethereal plane room~~
Travel to the old Dwarf capital, north-east of Vuln, Stormheim!

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Events

Sheila G, Green Guts, and Gartug teleport to Lon’s Thicket. Gartug is comatose for most of it, but eventually comes to as Sheila G is negotiating with the elves to harbor Green Guts. Evidently they agree. Gartug and Sheila G head back to the Manor House. There they meet with a Daimo, who informs Sheila G about a teleportation circle to Rivethane. Sheila G decides it’s the perfect time to visit! -
- SG, Gartug, and Green Guts step through the portal. They arrive in a well-lit room, with ivory and marble columns, and a stone golem. After a brief discussion, Green Guts is convinced to return, and Gartug chases after him. -
  - After Gartug and Green Guts return, Gartug realizes that the half-elf guards were notified that a goblin might be wandering around, and he is not to be worried about.
  - Sheila G tries the door in the teleportation room, and after really workin’ it, yields no results. The stone golem engages. Combat!! -
    - SG casts righteous might, and enables her force-field. The golem smacks her, but only takes down the force-fied.
    - Gartug returns and prepares to fight. SG fully attacks it. The golem smacks her and takes down her force-field again.
    - Gartug charges in and trips it! (TRIPS A STONE GOLEM FUCK YEAH), SG finishes it all. Combat complete!
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  - Despite further attempts, the door does not budge. Green Guts offers to try, but also fails. He says he’ll be right back.
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- SG and Gartug return to Lon’s Thicket, and tell the Daimo about what happened. The news seemingly engraged the lord, who called for his armor, and, with his troops, returned through the circle to Rivethans. Gartug and SG return with them. -
  - On the other side, they discover the door has been busted open, seemingly with some of the golem’s parts.
  - Some of the lord’s men move into the hallway beyond the door, announcing his arrival. Nobody responds. The Daimo notifies us that something weird is going on here. We move in and investigate.
  - In the hallway, we see two bowls with water (???) in it. After further investigations, Sheila G notices when looking into one of the bowls of water, that instead of her reflection, she sees Green Guts. She then discovers that interacting with the water casts dimension door on the user. A samurai immediately runs over and touches it. Sheila G then touches it, and Gartug then does. -
    - We pop-up in a golden gazebo, seemingly in the sky. All around us is a twilight sky. On a table in the center is an armillary sphere. Green Guts helpfully demonstrates that interacting with the sphere moves the night sky around us. After some further investigation, SG considers what constellations may be important to Rivethane. Gartug identifies where it might best be framed. Upon framing the constellation of Alseta, the water in the bowl changes. SG and Gartug both touch the water. -
      - Gartug finds himself in a 5-by-5 pitch-black room with no exits.
      - SG finds herself in a room with 5 other bowls, and a pillar in the center with a circlet upon it. There’s an arch-way leading out of the room. After her brief investigation, she identifies it as a historically-significant circlet belong to Falkier the Wise. -
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        She heads out the arch, finding herself upon a walkway between towers. Beneath, she sees a courtyard. Upon the railings are several stone orioles; one recites a poem at SG as a fanciful way to ask who she is and why she’s here. SG asks to speak with the bird’s manager. After waiting a few minutes, eventually an elf answers the door. His name is Falinious Falnore. SG introduces herself.Falinious offers her brandy, shiny croissants, and peyote. They chat a bit more; Falinious is impressed by her sword. Eventually, they go to free Gartug.
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      - SG and Falinious free Gartug. Falinious offers him peyote; Gartug refuses. After some more discussion, Falinious offers us three options: he can lead us to the low town, to find someone to handle the bureaucracy; he can send us back to Lon’s Thicket; or we could all do peyote and perform transmutation magic on ourselves. We choose option 1.
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SG and Gartug pop up in Lower Thane. We head to an inn; it’s packed with western elves. SG talks with the innkeeper to try and find someone to help her find her inheritance. Gartug gets a bunch of ale. After much discussion, but not a lot of answers, the innkeeper sends us to a person named Marmaduke. Gartug takes his mug with him (it’s marked to belong to The Bouldery Eatery and Drinkery). -
- We move to a coffee house, where a young kid escorts us to Marmaduke, a half-elf in a tourquoise coat with a ridiculous hat. After a very hazy information dump about her supposed inheritance, Marmaduke is intrigued enough to investigate. He asks SG more questions about her past some more; she has, basically, no answers. Eventually, SG gives him 200gp and some of her hair, and he asks her to check back with him in 5 days. Gartug wanders off to find an inn. After a bit more discussion, SG wanders off to the same inn as Gartug. She painfully negotiates drinking rates for the evening.
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In the morning SG and Gartug teleport back to Rime, and meet with Harvey and Stackor at her temple. -
- The group returns Larg’s remains to House Marg. They restore him to a full statue and hand him over.
- The group teleports back to Fort Ang.
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Back underground, the adventure will continue next week!

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Player Characters

Gartug, a dwarven brawler and Nataliah Kas Zhukoff, a tiefling alchemist (Bill)
Sheila G, drunken “half-elf” priest of Cayden Calien (Thans)
Stackor “Definitely Not Boobons” Goreman, a dwarven wizard (James)
Harvey, the kind-of tengu monk (Mike)

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Locations

Lon’s Thicket
Rivethane and Lower Thane

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NPCs and Notable Characters

Green Guts, a goblin rogue, with Churchill, his pet cockroach, Gurtag
Daimo Soto, and his guard
Falinious Falnore, a rich playboy druggy elf
Marmaduke, a half-elf private investigator of sorts

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Other Notes

Barbaric! Let that word resound!
One thing Sheila G knows for certain is that Gartug’s whole family is alive.
10 days remain until the meeting with the crypt dragon

Stormed Heims, S4E18

2024-10-21T00:00:00-05:00

Current Objectives

~~Investigate the ethereal plane room~~

Other Notes

9 days remain until the meeting with the crypt dragon

Stormed Heims, S4E17

2024-10-21T00:00:00-05:00

Current Objectives

~~Investigate the ethereal plane room~~
Travel to the old Dwarf capital, north-east of Vuln, Stormheim!

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Events

Sheila G, Green Guts, and Gartug teleport to Lon’s Thicket. Gartug is comatose for most of it, but eventually comes to as Sheila G is negotiating with the elves to harbor Green Guts. Evidently they agree. Gartug and Sheila G head back to the Manor House. There they meet with a Daimo, who informs Sheila G about a teleportation circle to Rivethane. Sheila G decides it’s the perfect time to visit! +
- SG, Gartug, and Green Guts step through the portal. They arrive in a well-lit room, with ivory and marble columns, and a stone golem. After a brief discussion, Green Guts is convinced to return, and Gartug chases after him. +
  - After Gartug and Green Guts return, Gartug realizes that the half-elf guards were notified that a goblin might be wandering around, and he is not to be worried about.
  - Sheila G tries the door in the teleportation room, and after really workin’ it, yields no results. The stone golem engages. Combat!! +
    - SG casts righteous might, and enables her force-field. The golem smacks her, but only takes down the force-fied.
    - Gartug returns and prepares to fight. SG fully attacks it. The golem smacks her and takes down her force-field again.
    - Gartug charges in and trips it! (TRIPS A STONE GOLEM FUCK YEAH), SG finishes it all. Combat complete!
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  - Despite further attempts, the door does not budge. Green Guts offers to try, but also fails. He says he’ll be right back.
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- SG and Gartug return to Lon’s Thicket, and tell the Daimo about what happened. The news seemingly engraged the lord, who called for his armor, and, with his troops, returned through the circle to Rivethans. Gartug and SG return with them. +
  - On the other side, they discover the door has been busted open, seemingly with some of the golem’s parts.
  - Some of the lord’s men move into the hallway beyond the door, announcing his arrival. Nobody responds. The Daimo notifies us that something weird is going on here. We move in and investigate.
  - In the hallway, we see two bowls with water (???) in it. After further investigations, Sheila G notices when looking into one of the bowls of water, that instead of her reflection, she sees Green Guts. She then discovers that interacting with the water casts dimension door on the user. A samurai immediately runs over and touches it. Sheila G then touches it, and Gartug then does. +
    - We pop-up in a golden gazebo, seemingly in the sky. All around us is a twilight sky. On a table in the center is an armillary sphere. Green Guts helpfully demonstrates that interacting with the sphere moves the night sky around us. After some further investigation, SG considers what constellations may be important to Rivethane. Gartug identifies where it might best be framed. Upon framing the constellation of Alseta, the water in the bowl changes. SG and Gartug both touch the water. +
      - Gartug finds himself in a 5-by-5 pitch-black room with no exits.
      - SG finds herself in a room with 5 other bowls, and a pillar in the center with a circlet upon it. There’s an arch-way leading out of the room. After her brief investigation, she identifies it as a historically-significant circlet belong to Falkier the Wise. +
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        She heads out the arch, finding herself upon a walkway between towers. Beneath, she sees a courtyard. Upon the railings are several stone orioles; one recites a poem at SG as a fanciful way to ask who she is and why she’s here. SG asks to speak with the bird’s manager. After waiting a few minutes, eventually an elf answers the door. His name is Falinious Falnore. SG introduces herself.Falinious offers her brandy, shiny croissants, and peyote. They chat a bit more; Falinious is impressed by her sword. Eventually, they go to free Gartug.
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      - SG and Falinious free Gartug. Falinious offers him peyote; Gartug refuses. After some more discussion, Falinious offers us three options: he can lead us to the low town, to find someone to handle the bureaucracy; he can send us back to Lon’s Thicket; or we could all do peyote and perform transmutation magic on ourselves. We choose option 1.
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SG and Gartug pop up in Lower Thane. We head to an inn; it’s packed with western elves. SG talks with the innkeeper to try and find someone to help her find her inheritance. Gartug gets a bunch of ale. After much discussion, but not a lot of answers, the innkeeper sends us to a person named Marmaduke. Gartug takes his mug with him (it’s marked to belong to The Bouldery Eatery and Drinkery). +
- We move to a coffee house, where a young kid escorts us to Marmaduke, a half-elf in a tourquoise coat with a ridiculous hat. After a very hazy information dump about her supposed inheritance, Marmaduke is intrigued enough to investigate. He asks SG more questions about her past some more; she has, basically, no answers. Eventually, SG gives him 200gp and some of her hair, and he asks her to check back with him in 5 days. Gartug wanders off to find an inn. After a bit more discussion, SG wanders off to the same inn as Gartug. She painfully negotiates drinking rates for the evening.
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In the morning SG and Gartug teleport back to Rime, and meet with Harvey and Stackor at her temple. +
- The group returns Larg’s remains to House Marg. They restore him to a full statue and hand him over.
- The group teleports back to Fort Ang.
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Back underground, the adventure will continue next week!

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Player Characters

Gartug, a dwarven brawler and Nataliah Kas Zhukoff, a tiefling alchemist (Bill)
Sheila G, drunken “half-elf” priest of Cayden Calien (Thans)
Stackor “Definitely Not Boobons” Goreman, a dwarven wizard (James)
Harvey, the kind-of tengu monk (Mike)

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Locations

Lon’s Thicket
Rivethane and Lower Thane

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NPCs and Notable Characters

Green Guts, a goblin rogue, with Churchill, his pet cockroach, Gurtag
Daimo Soto, and his guard
Falinious Falnore, a rich playboy druggy elf
Marmaduke, a half-elf private investigator of sorts

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Other Notes

Barbaric! Let that word resound!
One thing Sheila G knows for certain is that Gartug’s whole family is alive.
10 days remain until the meeting with the crypt dragon

Stormed Heims, S4E16

2024-10-16T00:00:00-05:00

Current Objectives

~~Investigate the ethereal plane room~~

Other Notes

We start the session still in the past, with 12 days until our meeting with the Crypt Dragon in the Boneyard.

Stormed Heims, S4E12

2024-09-18T00:00:00-05:00

Current Objectives

~~Investigate the ethereal plane room~~
Travel to the old Dwarf capital, north-east of Vuln, Stormheim!

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Events

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We call it here, standing in the corridor looking at the pit. We decide to continue moving down the corridor. Eventually, we come across a mechanism that would close a hidden door, sealing the corridor we just moved through. We can move straight, left, or right. Right will take us to Fort Ang. Straight will take us to the ice bridge on the northern coast of the continent. To the left is unknown. We move towards Fort Ang.
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Moving towards Fort Ang, we notice some slits in the ceiling, likely for dumping pitch or other substances to discourage movement. Moving further, we come to the end of the slits, and there is a pressure plate on the floor in front of us, which Taliah disarms. Moving further, we come across what appears to be some filament along the walls, and a heat-shimmer in the hall. It is determined to be a magical trap, and walking through the shimmering air would cause the walls to explode with rock shards. Stackor dispels the magic, and we move forward.
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Past the magical trap, we come to a porticulus with a dwarven skeleton pinned beneath it. Taliah assumes a gaseous form and floats through the gate. Looking around, she sees three hallways: forward continue beyond her sight, to the left is an everburning torch above a large intricate chest, and to the right in a blocked-off hallway. Above her, a bronze metal disc in the ceiling. Floating up and through gaps around the disc, she finds a room with 7 20-lb cannons, a few dwarven skeletons, and another disc. Moving further up, she finds another similar-sized room, this one with a sloped hallway with many chains, and another hallway with stairs. Returning back to the gate, after some alchemy and buffs, she finally manages to open the gate.
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The party enters, and looks around. The blocked hallway obviously moves further. Along the hallway to the chest is a pressure plate that would drop the entire hallway floor; Taliah disarms the trap. Checking the chest, Taliah disarms the trapped lock, and also opens the lock. Inside is a single gold piece minted from an elvish kingdom; a dwarven “fuck-you” to whomever opens it. We decide to continue forward.
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We move past more murder-holes, and come to another porticulus. Stackor stone shapes a little gully under the gate, then uses his staff to reduce us all to small, and we slip under. Beyond, to the left is a big iron-studded door with a big obvious lock. To the right is a hallway with doorways heading back the way we came. In front is a stairwell heading up. We head up the stairs.
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The stairs move up and straight for about 15 minutes before coming to a platform in large cavern. To our left and right are piles of rubble and bones. Before us is a metal bridge, of plates and chain. We move along the bridge. Roughly half-way, we come across the remains of a weapon of some sort (which turns out to be a pistol), as well as the ruins of two statues. Continuing, the bridge ends at a some sort of suspended cube/building made of iron, with an iron door (currently open), leading to hallways. At the entry way are piles of more ruined statue. We move into the hallway, heading left.
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Moving left, it turns right, to a tunnel. About 50-feet down, is a ladder straight up, a hallway that goes right, and the hallway continues forward. Larg climbs up the ladder, to a landing with hallways north, south, and east to a door. Upon the door are dwarven runes declaring “Small Arms.” Taliah unlocks the door. Within, there are more ruined statues and general ruin. It looks like the place was ransacked and burned. At the end of the room are a set of double-doors that appear to be sheared opened. Below, Stackor, Randy, and Mummrah hear the sobbing of a small human child coming from the norhtern hallway. Stackor heads up to notify Larg and Taliah of the sound. While there, from the sheared-open doors, we hear a sudden gasping noise.
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The session is called here.
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Player Characters

Nataliah, a tiefling alchemist (Bill)
Randy Van Peoples, a human cleric of Gozreh (Dan)
Stackor “Definitely Not Boobons” Goreman, a dwarven wizard (James)
Larg Marg, a dwarven ranger, and Smarf! his dracoweasle. (Thans)
~~Miningra~~ Mummrah Tybal, a dwarven cleric of Folgrit (Mike)

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Locations

Underground tunnels to and throughout Fort Ang

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NPCs and Notable Characters

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Other Notes

We start the session still in the past, with 12 days until our meeting with the Crypt Dragon in the Boneyard.
Tomorrow, in-game, Sheila G and co return to Rime.