From 45256d8b088c1729dd2dd17fc31068ba2da46fd4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bill Niblock Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2025 12:46:43 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Bunch of backlog updates! --- .../_posts/2025-03-24-cryptdragon-07.md | 74 +++++++++++++++++++ .../_posts/2025-04-02-cryptdragon-08.md | 31 ++++++++ .../_posts/2025-04-09-cryptdragon-09.md | 63 ++++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 168 insertions(+) create mode 100644 journals/seventh/_posts/2025-03-24-cryptdragon-07.md create mode 100644 journals/seventh/_posts/2025-04-02-cryptdragon-08.md create mode 100644 journals/seventh/_posts/2025-04-09-cryptdragon-09.md diff --git a/journals/seventh/_posts/2025-03-24-cryptdragon-07.md b/journals/seventh/_posts/2025-03-24-cryptdragon-07.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2482fe0 --- /dev/null +++ b/journals/seventh/_posts/2025-03-24-cryptdragon-07.md @@ -0,0 +1,74 @@ +--- +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 diff --git a/journals/seventh/_posts/2025-04-02-cryptdragon-08.md b/journals/seventh/_posts/2025-04-02-cryptdragon-08.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..05a40cd --- /dev/null +++ b/journals/seventh/_posts/2025-04-02-cryptdragon-08.md @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +--- +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 diff --git a/journals/seventh/_posts/2025-04-09-cryptdragon-09.md b/journals/seventh/_posts/2025-04-09-cryptdragon-09.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fb7528a --- /dev/null +++ b/journals/seventh/_posts/2025-04-09-cryptdragon-09.md @@ -0,0 +1,63 @@ +--- +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