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Stormed Heims, S4E4

2024-07-22T00:00:00-05:00

Current Objectives

+Jekyll2024-07-31T20:03:41-05:00https://ttrpg.theinternetvagabond.com/feed.xmlVagabond’s TTRPG SiteA collection of my tabletop roleplaying game writings.Bill NiblockStormed Heims, S4E52024-07-31T00:00:00-05:002024-07-31T00:00:00-05:00https://ttrpg.theinternetvagabond.com/journals/seventh/stormheim-05Current Objectives +

~~Rescue Green Guts~~
~~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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SG scrys on Green Guts, but it fails. She next sends a message to Gene Erica von Illamage, first requesting a meeting to negotiate releasing Green Guts. Gene Erica replies, “What’s the goblin’s name? Where were they captured?”. SG follows up with another sending, providing Green Guts’ name, and that she has a guess as to where; Gene Erica replies, “Where do you guess?” SG sends one final message, with all information, and Gene Erica says he’ll look into it.
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Boobons teleports us back to Elrich’s house. We speak with him briefly about the ratman encounter, and learn that Elrich had no trouble slaying Abheam the ratfolk. When he did so, the body erupted in a flash of light, leaving behind the skin of the ratman, and bones which quickly fell to dust. After some further discussion, Gartug and Boobons pick up on Elrich hoping we’ll investigate the ethereal-zone room. We relent. +
- Boobons dimension doors us to the entrance
- We descend into the cave, down the spiral, and to the room. No indication of the Abheam the ratfolk.
- We head back up to Elrich’s, but he’s not around, so we bounce back to Rhyme and discuss next steps.
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Despite grumbles, SG decides to pursue Green Guts, and thus the party shifts! SG, Chuck, Gartug, and Randy van Peoples set out to Lon’s Thicket! Off target! +
- We arrive on an ice-sheet, hundreds of miles off target. In the distance, we see a huge mountain, covered in carved bridges and ramparts. We see drake or dragon-like figures flying.
- After some more grumbles, SG sends a message to Boobons, updating him. Boobons scrys on Gartug, learns the location, and teleports to us (successfully!).
- Some of the drake-riders dive towards us, yelling in giant for us to “Get off the ice!” As we teleport away, back to Rhyme, we hear the sounds of breaking ice.
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Now back in Rhyme, the plan is to, once again, teleport back towards Stormheim, and continue!

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Player Characters

Stackor/Boobahns, dwarven wizard; Chuck, dwarven fighter (James)
Sheila G [SG], cleric of Cayden Calien (Thans)
Gartug “Tugger” Ironfist, a dwarven brawler (Bill)
Sir Oliver Withatwist, fetchling fae cult leader; Randy van Peoples, cleric of Gozreh (Dan)

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Locations

Rhyme +
- Taliah’s shop/lab
- Temple of Cayden Calien
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The lands towards Stormheim

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NPCs and Notable Characters

Harvey, birdman monk of many styles (Mike), doing push-up sit-up squats
Naynay, a pervert
Hugo Lamb, an inhumanly attractive sojourner after other sojourners
Abheam, a ratfolk sojourner in the lands towards Stormheim
Elrich, an elderly cloud giant
Ryson, a young cloud dragon hanging out with Elrich

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Other Notes

Stormed Heims, S4E4

2024-07-22T00:00:00-05:00

Current Objectives

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

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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.
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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, S3E1

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

Current Objectives

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Jack Flint

Nightmare on Flint’s Street, Session 6

2024-05-20T00:00:00-05:00

Current Objectives

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Establish a viable route from the interior to the Far Territories for the army

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Events

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We made plans for this week! -
1. The party heads to speak with Jack Flint. We will try to convince him to accept a local position of leadership.
2. Presuming we can, we leverage him to make public announcements that we are seeking out a nightmarish creature, to destroy it.
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  - The priest of M’har, resting-ish at the inn.
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Sir Beet and Smokey stay behind at the temple of Damerrich, while Stackor and Sir Tern head to Pate’s Manor. -
- We are escorted inside by the guards, and brought to speak with Flint. When we arrive, Flint is donning his armor, and informs us that there is a creature in the second mine. -
  - The story is that a thief was caught in the mine. As they were trying to escape, they were ambushed by a creature which emerged from the ground, killed the thief, and ate the gems he was carrying. The creature is described as short, squat, and with long arms.
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- Stackor compels Jack to take up a position of leadership. Jack agreed, so long as we dealt with the creature. We also update Jack about the army.
- We depart to deal with the monster.
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Meanwhile, back at the temple, there is no significant activity.
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As we depart, we hear what sounds like a violent struggle coming from Jack’s room. We rush in to find Jack squared off against the man who was previously helping to don his armor. Combat! -
- Stack casts Hold Person on the assailant! He is held.
- Flint leaves to fetch restraints. The assailint breaks free, and strikes Sir Tern.
- Sir Tern retaliates, downing the assailant. He then stabilizes them, and Stackor and Flint tie them up.
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Stackor summons phantasmal steeds, and we return to the temple. With the group fully assembled, we head to the mine. -
- Along the way, we see an old woman packing a rather large bundle. Stackor considers this odd for something to happen at so early in the morning, and we stop to discuss. -
  - The lady informs us she’s intending to give an offering to the lake guardian. We know of a Shrine Lake; 3 days walk away. All checks out. Smokey flips her a coin, and we continue.
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- We approach the mine. There are a few guards, and we introduce ourselves and our intent. The guards are acting strangely, and we realize they have no intention to allow us entry. Sensing hostility, Sir Tern commands them to stand aside or be put down. Combat! -
  - Sir Beet delays, Stackor Magic Missiles one, Sir Tern swings but misses the other. That other swings and misses Sir Tern! Sir Beet tries to shoot that other, but fails. The first charges Smokey, and strikes. Smokey retaliates, striking back fataly!
  - The second continue the fray! Sir Beet turns his legs into pin cushions. The rest of us try to subdue the creature non-lethally. Eventually we do. Sir Tern manacles him, and we enter the mine.
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- We enter, through a narrow walk way. We come to some store rooms, and investigate. Within, we find the thief unconscious and tied up. -
  - Checking inside some of the crates is iron slag. Inside the barrels is water. Sir Tern grabs some rope and a pick, and we continue.
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- We continue, and come to a fork: left, forward, or right. We move left. As we move, a hideous creature swims out from the ground, and starts biting on Stackor. Combat! -
  - Stackor identifies this as a Nightmare-Creature Xorn: a squat, symetrical, earth-planar thing. It is albino, loves gems and precious stones, and are generally intelligent. This one, however, is an evil creature from the plane of dreams, and will not be reasoned with. Combat!
  - The creatures chomps on Stackor for quite a bit of damage. Stackor uses some dimensional movement to shift away, and strikes back with a magic missile. Sir Tern moves to engage, and immediately loses his sword. Sir Beet shoots it with arrows of smiting. Smokey stabs it, striking it down!
  - We field-autospy it, ensuring it is properly dead.
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- We scour the remainder of the mine, offering gems to all the dark corners, but no further creatures assault us.
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We take the creature’s corpse outside and burn it. We take the unconscious thief, as well as the one dead guard, and the remaining unconscious guard, we head back to town. The guards and the thief are delivered to Pate’s mansion. We explain the events. -
- We notice that there are many folks vapidly wondering around town. Evidently, they were puppets of this creature.
- We speak with Flint, updating him. He is obviously opposed to the army’s presence, and to taking this leadership position, but is resigned to this fate.
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We return to the Spout House Inn to rest. On our way we find an orc looting belts and coin-purses from the helpless citizenry. We subdue him, and return with him to the Spout House. The orcs there here of the crime, and cut a finger from the captured orc. We all agree that is sufficient.
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Smokey and Co. spend a few hours finding sane citizens to help corral the deranged citizens to safety. After, we rest. While resting, Jack Flint and Stackor ride out to meet with the army. Flint makes the following demands: Sir Damian must stand trial for his actions; the Altasian army must not enter flint. Colonel Syrup agrees to the terms, and provides a letter of acknowledgement to Flint that the army supports his position. At Jack’s request, the army stops their move towards Flint. Refusing any additional assistance, Jack and Stackor return to Flint.
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As we all awaken for the day, in evening, we prepare to approach the paladins of Damerrich, to convince Sir Damian to stand trial. Considering the citizenry, it is likely the town would not be happy should a trial find Sir Damian innocent. Jack Flint is hoping to use this trial as proof that he will enforce justice. -
- Sir Tern’s approach is to appeal to Sir Damian’s noble sense of justice. To ask him to acknowledge that he has slain an innocent man that was possessed by a nightmarish creature. We will advise him to plead guilty to this crime, and to seek atonement from Damerrich, the only source of justice that is appropriate to judge Sir Damian.
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We approach the Temple, and enter to speak with Sir Damian. We appeal to his sense of justice, and explain that due to the nightmare-creature’s influence, he may have been confused. -
- As he turns for confirmation from Sister Clemence, she admits that she lied. With a wave of her hands, she reveals her influence over the temple as a Priest of Sifkesh. Through poisoned words, she casts doubt into Sir Damian’s mind, and with smoke from his hands he drops his holy weapon of Damerrich. It would seem the paladin is no longer in his favor.
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Locations

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Flint

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Player Characters

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Stackor, dwarven wizard (James)
Sir Beet, paladin of Iomedae (Thans)
Jen Erica von Illamage (Mike)
Burren “Smokey” Blunt, aka Bat-Man, but in the bat language, so like a bunch of “eee eee” and stuff (Dan)
Sir Tern Ipswitch (Bill)

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NPCs

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The Damerrich Representatives -
- Sir Damian, a paladin, and the leader
- Sir Dunce, a paladin
- Sister Clemence, a cleric
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Jack Flint

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Other Notes

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STAND ASIDE!!