The Session in which Dan Goes AI

journals/seventh/_posts/2025-09-29-bbq-03.md

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+---
+title: Smokin' Sheila's BBQ Chuck Wagon, Session 3
+---
+
+## Current Objectives
+1. Get ~~the meat chunk~~ Azhia to the Sparkling Fens
+
+
+## Events
+We battle the First Blade of Gorum! In the first round, he summoned a _blade
+barrier_, and we killed one of his dogs! Combat continues!
+    - Everyone but Green Guts is outside the _blade barrier_, and they all do
+      the fighting. Green Guts decides to keep watch over the Azhia.
+    - Balognog and First Blade go HAM on each other, but the First Blade
+      prevails. Balognog goes down.
+    - The First Blade takes down Argon's dog. What a bastard!
+    - Green Guts finally decides to venture outside, and generally has a bad
+      time.
+    - After a bit more punishment, the First Blade shatters into a swarm of
+      jagged metal.
+    - Sadly, Argon falls to the swarm. His soul winks out of existence.
+    - Finally, after seemingly ineffectual rounds, we manage to take out The
+      First Blade.
+
+After the combat, Gorum appears to us, and congratulates us on our victory. He
+grants us a boon, despite Sheila G's protestations:
+    - Green Guts, Balognog, and Helga each have their armor enhancement bonus
+      increased by 1
+    - Sheila G gets a new ability: Any time that SG fells an opponent of equal
+      or greater HP than her, she has the option to scream, loudly, as a free
+      action, granting a sacred bonus to her strength equal to that opponents'
+      modifier to their constitution. Lasts for (level + CON modifier) rounds.
+
+We continue. Moving on, we arrive in a mountain fens, and the environment grows
+darker. Will-o-wisps dance around, with one particularly large one guiding us to
+Ashava. She gives Sheila G a glowing cat-tail, to use as a planar-fork to the
+Sparkling Fens, and a malleable symbol. She sends Green Guts back to Lon's
+Thicket.
+
+---
+
+Party Swap!! Back in Rime, after a night of revelry and a morning hangover
+breakfast, Cayden Calien, Gartug, Randy, Chuck, and Mumm-rah all go shopping for
+more maps. While we depart, Randy tells Cayden Calien of his true nature. This
+sets off a bunch of events which eventually leads to Cayden Calien and Gartug
+being, essentially, placed under house-arrest in the Temple of Torag. A few
+other groups are also detained, and basically we're at a point of waiting for
+Sheila G to return.
+
+Eventually, CC decides he
+    - First, he remembers going to the Sapphire Lounge. He remember being with
+      someone who bragged about taking the trial, who CC rebuked. The other
+      accused CC of being a coward, and walked off. CC remembers leaving him,
+      finding some ladies at a club, and spending the evening with them.
+    - He remembers some scrawny guy watching at the club, who, when asked about,
+      nobody seemed willing to remember of identify.
+    - Eventually, somehow, he finds himself in a booth with the scrawny fellow.
+      This stranger tells Cayden Calien he has a way to cheat the Star Sapphire
+      challenge, and that CC believed this, and that it was of great cost, but
+      that CC refused this offer, and he left.
+    - Norgruber, that wiry fuckin' cunt.
+
+AND MORE!
+
+Eventually, SG returns, and catches up on what's happened, and meets up with the
+group. We part there for the evening.
+
+
+## Player Characters
+- Sheila G, a human cleric of Cayden Caylien (Thans)
+- Green Guts, a goblin rogue; and Gartug Ironfist, a dwarven brawler (Bill)
+- Helga, an elf witch; and Mumm-rah, a dwarven cleric (Mike)
+- Balognog, a lizardfolk barbarian; and Randy Van Peoples, a human cleric (Dan)
+- Argon, an elf ranger; and Chuck, a dwarven fighter (James) [RIP]
+
+
+## Locations
+- Elysium
+    - Sparkling Fens
+- Rime
+
+
+## NPCs and Notable Characters
+- Skeet, a previous skeleton "best friend" of Sheila G's
+- The meat hunk of Azhia
+- Osric, a giant flying raven
+- The First Blade of Gorum, and Gorum
+- Cayden Caylien

journals/seventh/_posts/2025-10-06-bender.md

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+---
+title: The Greatest Bender in History
+---
+
+## Current Objectives
+1. (Return to Elysium) Find Thunder, Cayden Caylien's dog
+
+1. (Green Beltway) Find a space ship, ideally robbing it from the elves
+
+
+## Events
+The non-Cayden Caylien band's back together! Sheila G is trying to figure out
+some shit. Eventually, the party agrees to pursue two objectives: return to
+Elysium to find Cayden Caylien's dog, Thunder; and make for the Green Belt,
+through ancient dwarven tunnels, in search of a space ship. To achieve this, the
+party splits as follows:
+
+Going to Elysium (or rendevousing there):
+    - Sheila G, a human cleric of Cayden Calien (Thans)
+    - Nataliah Kas Zhukoff, a tiefling alchemist (Bill)
+    - Chuck, a dwarven fighter (James)
+    - Helga, an elf witch (Mike)
+    - Balognog, a lizardfolk barbarian (Dan)
+
+Going with Cayden Caylien to the Green Belt:
+    - Cayden Caylien, former deity, current drunk
+    - Larg Marg, a dwarven ranger, and Smarf, a dracoweasel (Thans)
+    - Gartug Ironfist, a dwarven brawler
+    - Randy Van Peoples, a human cleric (Dan)
+    - Mumm-rah, a dwarven cleric (Mike)
+
+The groups assemble, and prepare for their next steps.
+
+
+## Locations
+- Rime
+
+
+## Player Characters
+- Sheila G, a human cleric of Cayden Caylien (Thans)
+- Gartug Ironfist, a dwarven brawler (Bill)
+- Mumm-rah, a dwarven cleric (Mike)
+- Randy Van Peoples, a human cleric (Dan)
+- Chuck, a dwarven fighter (James) [RIP]
+
+
+## NPCs and Notable Characters
+- Cayden Caylien
+
+
+---
+
+Party shift! We're back in the Far Territories, preparing for our assault on
+Fort Rather!
+
+## Current Objectives
+1. Retake Fort Rather
+
+
+## Events
+The group breaks down camp outside Ganth, and marches towards the Fort. In
+preparation of further objectives, we discuss who should take command of the
+fort. We settle on Syrup, with an undetermined contingincy.
+
+The army leaves camp, and meets with forces from Ganth, led by Gunstav.
+
+After 2 days of travel, the column comes to a stop at three hanging cages,
+inside which are several tieflings with tattered Altasian military dress. The
+cages are lowered, and the tieflings are interrogated. We learn of the failed
+assassination attempt, we learn of the Pool of Aljazeer, and we learn of the
+current status of the Fort. The column continues on, providing aid to the others
+chained, but not freeing them due to time-constraints. Sir Tern is not happy
+with this decision.
+
+After a few more days, we arrive at Fort Rather. An initial group approaches,
+but is immediately rebuked, rather rudely, by the gate guard. The army begins
+digging-in, starting the siege. We meet in the evening to discuss our next
+course of action.
+    - We can _teleport_ in to the fort, for a surprise attack. Good targets are
+      the gate, and the officers.
+    - We will strike during the day, since we're dealing with tieflings and
+      other demons who can see in the dark
+
+We rest for the evening. Two to three hours before dawn, there is a dust cloud
+from the east - riders are approaching. The party assembles with the cavalry to
+meet them. The approaching force is determined to be Captain Ilbardesh, with men
+and orcs from the Accords. The two forces stop, and parties converge for
+diplomacy. After parlay, the loyalist Third Army cavalry and Accords troops join
+our troops.
+
+Syrup gets his men ready, and the party gets ready. Next session we assault!
+
+
+## Locations
+- The Far Territories
+    - Ganth
+    - The road to Fort Rather
+    - Fort Rather
+
+
+## Player Characters
+- Sir Beet, a human paladin of Iomedae (Thans)
+- Sir Tern Ipswitch, a human paladin of Ragathiel (Bill)
+- Oogie Houndstooth, a human cleric of Kelinahat (Mike)
+- Willy "Red Shaft" Stabber, a tengu swashbuckler (Dan)
+- Stackor, a dwarven wizard (James)
+
+
+## NPCs and Notable Characters
+- Pale Root, a byakhee summoned unintentionally by Sir Tern under his will.
+- Gustav Therrin, son of the Count of Ganth
+- Colonel Syrup
+- Captain Crunch
+- Baron Blunt
+- Captain Vashlav Ilbardesh