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Stormed Heims, S4E23

2024-12-09T00:00:00-06:00

Current Objectives

+Jekyll2024-12-16T21:08:49-06:00https://ttrpg.theinternetvagabond.com/feed.xmlVagabond’s TTRPG SiteA collection of my tabletop roleplaying game writings.Bill NiblockMiches & Mantles, S5E012024-12-16T00:00:00-06:002024-12-16T00:00:00-06:00https://ttrpg.theinternetvagabond.com/journals/seventh/mantles-01Current 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

Stackor teleports us, but we arrive off-target. He tries again, and we arrive properly. Briefly after, Kaldur and Withatwist arrive. We enter the Haunted Keep. +
- We enter the main keep. We move forward down the hall. Moving forward in, we find a large hole in the floor, with a rope-ladder attached to the lip. At the bottom, is the seal upon which we will perform the ritual. Harvey jumps down, and discovers two undead knights. We engage in combat! +
  - Stackor launches magic missiles from the upper-level. Wondermich attempts some magic missiles, then begins guarding the back. Gadafthree summons an ankylosaurus, which begins wailing on the undead. Harvey does the punches.
  - After some challenges, we defeat the enemies!
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- We perform the ritual, ascending to mythic characters! (Or increasing our already mythic tier!)
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With the sudden increase in power, and character sheet complexity, we call it here for the night!

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Player Characters

Gadafthree, a tengu summoner (Bill)
Wondermich, a human void-touched sorcerer (Thans)
Stackor, a dwarven wizard (James)
Harvey, a tengu-ish monk (Mike)
Oliver Withatwist, a fey-sworn warpriest (Dan)

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Locations

Castle Black, and surrounding lands

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NPCs and Notable Characters

Baron Kaldur Black, a servant of the Shadow Court
Jasper, oracle and servant of Baron Black

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Upcoming Events

6 days remain until the meeting with the crypt dragon
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, S4E23

2024-12-09T00:00:00-06:00

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. -
        -
        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.
        -
        -
      - 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

11 days to the Crypt Dragon Boneyard meeting.

Stormed Heims, S4E14

2024-09-30T00:00:00-05:00

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 start in Rime. This day, Sheila G returns from her side-quest. There are 12 days remaining until our meeting with the Crypt Dragon in the Boneyard.
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Stackor has a dream. I miss most of it, but it sounds bonkers.
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Sheila G proposes that Green Guts be given land to establish his own barony.
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Mummrah and Randy awake. Mummrah heads straight to the graveyard; Randy heads to Stackor, with intention of getting them to the graveyard.
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Sheila G returns, and is informed by Celia about the graveyard. The warriors of Gorum were mobilized to deal with the large amounts of undead at the graveyard in Rime. They have been generally successful. SG “refuses to play into their hand”; Harvey and Gartug boogie on down to the tomb; Withatwist and SG head to Boobons to talk with him.
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Randy meets up with Stackor, and they begin leaving for the graveyard. On the way, they run into SG and Withatwist. SG catches Stackor up on her adventures in Flint. Green Guts gets a snail.
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Harvey arrives at the crypt, and learns that the head priests of Gorum and Gozreh are keeping a powerful undead force trapped inside a tomb. Mummrah arrives shortly thereafter. After a bit, Randy, Oliver, SG, Stackor, and Gartug arrive. We learn that this particular beasty seems to have similar abilities to the previous non-Euclidian beasties we fought (the Fungal Queen and the giant beetle). -
- We prepare, and then enter in order: Harvey, Gartug, Van Peoples, Stackor, SG
- Upon entering, Harvey is immediately assaulted. He gets nauseated by the weirdness. He finishes moving, and Gartug moves in trying to trip it, but he gets tripped by the silly non-Euclidian defenses of this corrupted dwarf undead. Van Peoples uses his boots to urban step out of the tomb inside the room. Stackor moves in and magic missiles it. SG moves in and buffs everyone with a blessing of fervor.
- The corrupted dwarven general yells at us asking why he’s awake, and wails on Gartug. Harvey is sick. Gartug stands up and attacks a bunch, but misses everything. Van Peoples channels. Stackor drops another magic missile. SG gives Gartug a fat heal.
- The corrupted dwarven general continues to yell, and continues to wail on Gartug, this time dealing massive damage and seriously damaging his stats. Harvey gets his nasuea suppressed by Van Peoples, and then punches the general a bit. Stackor shifts and send an acidic spray at the general. SG dimensional hops herself and Gartug out of immediate harm, then attacks the dwarven general. Gartug is sick.
- The general tries hitting Harvey, and misses a bunch, and Harvey smacks him back. Van Peoples channels, disintegrating the skeleton. COMBAT OVER!
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Leaving, the party rediscovers Green Guts. At the inform of the party, he returns a dwarven rib-bone to the dwarf he took it from. Later, he asks Harvey if taking a hat from someone that has two hats is wrong. Upon learning it is, he follows-up asking if, after taking it, if he gives the hat to someone, it’s still wrong. Harvey says yes, but that it’s a nice thing. Green Guts hands him a dwarven helmet. Green Guts then redistributes one of Stackor’s books to SG; it’s the diary of the dead necromancer’s apprentice from Flint.
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We call it there for the night. Some options are: continue exploring the ruins of Fort Ang; going to the Haunted Mansion with Kaldur Black to fulfill our destiny.

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Player Characters

Nataliah, a tiefling alchemist and Gartug, the dwarven brawler (Bill)
Randy Van Peoples, a human cleric of Gozreh and Oliver Withatwist, the fetchling fey-priest (Dan)
Stackor “Definitely Not Boobons” Goreman, a dwarven wizard and Chuck, the dwarven fighter (James)
~~Miningra~~ Mummrah Tybal, a dwarven cleric of Folgrit and Harvey, the kind-of tengu monk (Mike)
Larg Marg, a dwarven ranger, and Smarf! his dracoweasle and Sheila G, the half-elf cleric of Cayden Calien (Thans)

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Locations

Rime

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NPCs and Notable Characters

“Macho Man” Gliff, the freed svirfneblin
Green Guts, a goblin rogue
Hebro Heath, head priest of the church of Gorum
Linus Conch-caller, head priest of the church of Gozreh

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Other Notes

It is actually 12 days to the Crypt Dragon Boneyard meeting.