Bunch of backlog updates!

journals/seventh/_posts/2025-03-24-cryptdragon-07.md

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+---
+title: Tales from the Crypt (Dragon), S5E07
+---
+
+## Current Objectives
+- ~~Investigate the ethereal plane room at the Giant's keep~~
+- ~~Enter Stormheim~~
+- **[COMPLETE]** Join Kaldur and seek the Mantles of the Heroes
+- **[COMPLETE]** Aid the merfolk in attacking the Cthulu cults
+- Defeat the Dracolich to earn the Run from Nuripites
+
+## Events
+- Back in Rime, we have some time to prepare:
+    - Stackor crafts some stuff.
+    - Gartug works as a sailor on the docks.
+    - SG gets roped into dealing with some monsters in Greentown
+
+- A few days into our preparation, SG gets notified by the Task Force of
+  monsters attacking the city, and specifically the Greentown Mob.
+    - SG, Withatwist, and Taliah _teleport_ to the brothel being attacked.
+      There, they find a bloodbath, including the castrated body of Clive hung
+      upside-down on a meat-hook. Investigating further, they hear shuffling
+      upstairs, and checking in they find a Dark Tapestry abomination -- COMBAT!!
+        - They swiftly deal with the threat.
+    - Investigating further, they find the office of Carmine, one of the leaders
+      of the Greentown Mob, and some further evidence. We also find multiple
+      prostitutes that evidently had the creatures burst from their abdomen.
+    - Stackor and Harvey join the fun.
+    - Taliah takes one of the prostitutes for an autopsy, and returns to her
+      lab.
+    - Harvey and Stackor investigate, and Harvey finds symbols marked on the
+      beds. Specifically, they are symbols used to draw the attention of the
+      Mother of A Thousand Young, Shub'nigguroth. They also investigate
+      Carmine's office, finding a hidden room under a trapdoor. Inside are many
+      more riches, and the body of Carmine, stabbed many times, with her face
+      cut off.
+    - Withatwist takes Carmine's body, intending to pay to have her resurrected.
+
+- The following day:
+    - Taliah finishes her autospy, determining that the creatures suddenly burst
+      from the body, and that the victims were otherwise not poisoned.
+    - SG casts _blood biography_ and then _speak with dead_ on Clive
+    - At the insistance of Withatwist, SG _raises_ Carmine (Woman Name) from the
+      dead. She gives us some information, including the location of Clive's
+      study.
+        - Checking on the location, we find a warehouse burned down to cinders.
+    - SG updates the Task Force with everything we've learned.
+
+There are two days remaining before the party heads off to fight the Dracolich.
+We will decide what to do with those days next time!
+
+
+## Player Characters
+- Gartug Ironfist, a dwarven brawler; and Taliah, a tiefling alchemist (Bill)
+- Sheila G, a half-elf cleric of Cayden Calien (Thans)
+- Stackor, a dwarven wizard (James)
+- Harvey, a tengu-ish monk (Mike)
+- Oliver Withatwist, a fey-sworn warpriest (Dan)
+
+## Locations
+- Rime
+    - Sheila G's Temple of Cayden Calien
+
+- The Boneyard
+    - The Runebarrow, Domain of Maugrim
+    - The barrow of Nuripites the Crypt Dragon
+
+## NPCs and Notable Characters
+- Nuripites, a crypt dragon in the Boneyard
+
+## Other Notes
+- Woman name.
+
+## Upcoming Events

journals/seventh/_posts/2025-04-02-cryptdragon-08.md

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+title: Tales from the Crypt (Dragon), S5E08
+---
+
+## Current Objectives
+- ~~Investigate the ethereal plane room at the Giant's keep~~
+- ~~Enter Stormheim~~
+- **[COMPLETE]** Join Kaldur and seek the Mantles of the Heroes
+- **[COMPLETE]** Aid the merfolk in attacking the Cthulu cults
+- Defeat the Dracolich to earn the Run from Nuripites
+
+## Events
+The scribe was sick. The party finished up preparing for the adventure, and is
+ready to jump through the literal and figurative portal to their objective!
+
+## Player Characters
+- Gartug Ironfist, a dwarven brawler (Bill)
+- Sheila G, a half-elf cleric of Cayden Calien (Thans)
+- Stackor, a dwarven wizard (James)
+- Harvey, a tengu-ish monk (Mike)
+- Oliver Withatwist, a fey-sworn warpriest (Dan)
+
+## Locations
+- Rime
+
+## NPCs and Notable Characters
+- Nuripites, a crypt dragon in the Boneyard
+
+## Other Notes
+
+## Upcoming Events

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+title: Tales from the Crypt (Dragon), S5E09
+---
+
+## Current Objectives
+- ~~Investigate the ethereal plane room at the Giant's keep~~
+- ~~Enter Stormheim~~
+- **[COMPLETE]** Join Kaldur and seek the Mantles of the Heroes
+- **[COMPLETE]** Aid the merfolk in attacking the Cthulu cults
+- Defeat the Dracolich to earn the Run from Nuripites
+
+## Events
+- The party stands on the precipice of destruction, ready at the portal to the
+  dracolich's realm!
+  - The party hurls their forms through a dank, turbulant conveyance, appearing
+    in a desert landscape battlefield. Nearby are several skeletal formations
+    (covered in sand, evidently standing here for a long while), and there are
+    whirlwinds of undead creatures in the dunes. There are double-doors leading
+    into a partially buried building; one winch to open the doors is broken in
+    half. COMBAT!!
+    - With our surprise round, we decimate the skeletal troop!
+    - The bonestorms move in.
+
+- We move into the building. We are set-upon by a skeletal hound archon!
+  COMBAT!!
+  - It charges at us, but as Sheila G mentions we're here to talk to the
+    dracolich, it pauses and tries to _teleport_ away. Stackor counters the
+    attempt! The rest of the party wails on it, shattering it! However, it will
+    reform in an hour, unless we pour holy water upon it. We take the skull with
+    us and continue!
+
+- We have three options, and move straight. We come to a locked door with an
+  impression for a claw-shaped key. Stackor _knocks_ it open. Behind, we find a
+  staircase which descends for an excessive distance. At the landing, we move
+  straight along a corridor. Moving forward, we trigger a trap and Gartug and
+  Harvey get smushed in a wall! We maneuver around the trap, and continue to a
+  large, elegant room with several large urns with ashes in them. Harvey digs
+  in, and finds a Ring of Mind Shielding.
+
+- We call it here for the night, with combat looming!
+
+## Player Characters
+- Gartug Ironfist, a dwarven brawler (Bill)
+- Sheila G, a half-elf cleric of Cayden Calien (Thans)
+- Stackor, a dwarven wizard (James)
+- Harvey, a tengu-ish monk (Mike)
+- Randy Van Peoples, a human cleric of Gozreh (Dan)
+
+## Locations
+- Rime
+
+## NPCs and Notable Characters
+- Nuripites, a crypt dragon in the Boneyard
+- Naynay, a human pervert with some martial arts training
+- Rickvis, a bralini azata representing Crius
+- Porthos, a psychopomp guarding the portal back to the crypt dragon's domain
+- Runewl (spelled all cool), a skeletal champion hound archon in Dracotown
+
+## Other Notes
+- You know - Porthos!
+- This isn't an amusement park, this is a house.
+
+## Upcoming Events