Session 1
waved over to a corner,
need some help for murder - help avoiding
old, scarred, shield-dwarf - she's very scarred - Flynn Trollbane
solved a mystery, need help tracking down
in brynshander - a killer has killed 3 times - starting a few weeks back
halfling tracker, human shipbuilder in kargos, dwarf blacksmith in brynshander
ice dagger through heart
victims come from 3 towns that are sacrificing humanoids
Torga Icebane - runs traveling company, in town when murder's happened
last murder was on the full moon
Session 2
we do some investigation around easthaven
mid day - head out to Bryn Shander
need to retrieve a sled up the north road - coming from dwarves with iron ingots
we head out, get a couple hours out, and a storm comes up
get to the sled, find it missing
track it, find 6 goblins pulling it towards a large 20ft tall wagon pulled by 2 polar bears
find
sled has 300 iron ingots on a sled
Session 3
pull the sled back to town (Bryn Shander), get paid
rest the night
dwarves offer us a 10% discount
meet a crazy old lady who wants us to find Chuinga's
after shopping, head off to Bremen
get jumped by kobolds
get to Bremen and get paid
Hear about the monster in the lake taking our 2 more sailors - volunteer to take care of it
at inn that night, tavern keep mentions her son was taken off to the castle (there are 2 possible caer's)
Huarwr is his name
taken off by 2 Tieflings
showed necklaces, and he pulled his out, and then left with them
Huarwr had gone out 2 weeks prior on a hunting mission and didn't come back
we offer to investigate
next morning, meet Rinze at the dock who loans us two boats
go out fishing
Session 4
wander to Bryn Shander for lunch, on our way to Caer-Dineval
head out overland towards Caer-Dineval, intending to stop at the wagon over night
get to the wagon and stay the night
head out the next day, and get lightly lost
notice we are being watched
Tuinga riding an Arctic Hair
it causes a flower to blossom in Lindi's hair, and then a small snowstorm to appear
Morning Glory flower
creature than disappears
a line of sage plants starts blooming through the snow
Verona convinces her crow to make friendly motions towards the Tuinga, but it decides not to ride the crow
have a little jam session trying to make friends
Belkor stumbles in to the grove “looking for his knives”
figure out we went to far north - about 6h south of Kelvin's Cairn
Arrive at Caer-Konig
a drunken Silver Dragonborn stands up from snow bank and asks if we are the thieves (Korin no longer remembers this)
Northern Light - tavern - used to have light; run by Alley & Corey - twins
lost its boats, pearls, tavern
pearls - stolen from Jarthra Vorax
town built in shape of crescent moon around the harbor
Felsin start's asking the thievery
dwarven-ish tracks leading towards Kelvin's Cairn
not stealing food
stole magic lantern - enchanted to change colors - “Auril's Blessings”
if going after the thieves - should get Jarthra to help us track them and not take Trovus
rest the night at Northern Light
go looking for Jarthra - blond dwarf woman
start following tracks
Session 5
continues exploration
goes down the ladder, through a tunnel, up a ladder and in to a room with a guard
go a bit further, find a room with an undead ogre and 2 goats, in cages
find the sleep quarters, kill 2 sleeping duegar; looks like there had been 4 beds
find an office
on the way back notice new tracks
make it back to town
offered free rooms in Caer-Dineval inn
Session 6
Trade the 4 suits of armor for a dog sled & pair of sled dogs
Head over to Caer-Dineval
wander up to castle
initially don't want to let us in, but then do once they hear our names
Khaldroth - tiefling - “in charge”
Mir - tiefling - young, acting as a servant
in dog kennel
spend some time wandering around the castle while waiting for dinner
Session 7
Have dinner
Explore 2nd floor of keep area a bit
Find a room with a cat, and a room with creaking
Talk with the cat in the room upstairs
Khaldroth 's cat
Mentions two sick people: old man and old lady
mentions basement smells wet and like death
mentions a White Lady - maybe a tiefling?
In room across from the cat's room - rocking chair, with an ancient dwarf in it
she says she's going to die and go to the hells
offers to answer our questions
must travel to north & south - must stop zardok sunblight
must find him in the south in the spine of the world
death awaits if you go to soon, or to late
must forge yourselfs in the north - become the blades we need
Kardou is competent if detested
speaker is ill
you must go to the north, you must go the south, I must go hell <dies>
Karou comes visit Beril & Lindi
Session 8
Start planning storming the castle
folks we don't want to kill: Mir, Stableboy, Cook; maybe the son
other names from Krannock: Lanthis, Dosser
basement door leads to a hallway, with several storage rooms off of aquifer
we theorize prisoners might be in basement
start the fight at the bottom of the tower
kill 3 guards, find out one had been writing a diary about how he accepted warmth of hell in to his heart
pile some stuff on top of the trap door
go to the second tower, kill 3 guards but this time not silently
when come up from the first floor find 2 people investigating – tiefling & huawr (son)
drop the both, heal huawr & tie him up
go to the third tower, just after they left it
guards come out of 4th tower
head in to the keep
proceed to basement
Session 9
questioning folk in the castle
korin goes in to the basement
pulls bodies out of the water
eldritch blasts the mold in to nothing
burns/melts the demon statue in to nothing
drags the chains from the statue up and drops it off
invited to stay at the castle whenever
travel to Bremen via Bryn Shander
Session 10
Session 11
Session 12
start heading back
next day a blizzard comes in
get back to town, here lots of folks are sleeping lots more recovering
next day, head to the next town - Targos
get there, hear some rumors
Session 13
On way to East Haven, have to pass through Brynn Shander
meet Branika - ask why she wants chuinga
go to the temple of morning lord
head over to Easthaven
next day head out over Loc Dinneshere to go Gnoll Hunting
at lunch a group of 3 mountain goats approach us, one ridden by an owl
the lead goat is named Baab, who tells us to turn around and go home
owl is a druid, who when Verona speaks druidic, tells us they mean harm to us, and a fight starts
“Solemn Bay” - Druid of Auril - says this is her lands
we fight a bit, and the bard Suggestion's the druid to sit down and talk with us
we ask her questions
Korin asks about the white dragon
knows the gnolls, wants them to kill town folk
mentions the Moose is an awakened creature of the other druid (Radisen) who awakened the sea monster
clearly dislikes the towns and especially the townfolk
fight breaks out, but manages to get an animal messenger cast on Karl before she dies
we kill the druid
Felsin befriends the Awaken'ed goat: Hubert
we sleep in the dead druid's camp, and have roast goat; and get Hubert the Goat drunk
Session 14
Session 15
Verona finds a baby crow
get back to town in half a day
get paid for 16 gnoll heads - 160g
sell off the longbows & spears to the town guard - 816g
divide up and get per person: 143g, 9s, 48cp
go see the town artifacts - there is a shardalon figurehead of a demon?
when we go in, see a wet woman lashed to the figurehead, crying
white lady's ghost
we identify the figurehead
when touch it, have to make a Cha save, and feel evil intentions from it
Shardalon
Corrupted object
magically carved from shardalon by demon worshippers
talking about what to do with the figurehead with the Captain
Demon that was part of the Shardalon tower was: Errtu - verona
Kai researches Auril
Sila researches mindflayers in the region
Lavistas researched by Felsin
Dragons researched by Korin - finds some great children's books
Local history of the Dale by Birel
sporadic dots of civilization
used to have a mild summer
Bruner Battlehammer - read story of him in the crystal shard & finding Mithril Hall - (Korin no longer remembers this)
land is always being invaded
Lindi research local weather magics
mostly finds farmer almanacs
unending winter started 3 years, starting at the sea of living ice
nomads near sea of living ice needed to sacrifice to get things to warm up, starting 3 years
area of all frozen has been growing each year
Felsin buys goat studded barding
Korin sells the Bullette Hide for 4 platinum bars (40 plat)
Head down to the Ferry - its trapped in ice
ice on door to cabin has been chipped away so it can open
find one duegar in the cabin, invisible - Lindi 'Suggestion's it for it to explain in excruciating detail
here to look around
gathering Shardalon - need to take it to his father - father has a project
find a map of the ten towns and where they are checking
they worship
dad wants to take over town - working on some creation
hear more invisible footsteps & Felsin stabs the duegar
Session 16
Travel to Brynn Shander, pick up the supplies to deliver to the Black Cabin
Travel to Termalaine
Forest to the North, on the edge of lake
~600 people
Blue Clam - only tavern in town; big - like 1/6 of town gets food
East Side - only inn in town - quite large
Verona checks out forest, notices old druid sign
Hear there is a problem with the Mines
miners going missing
kobolds in it?
Hear about the throne of frost giants outside of town - treasure below?
Head out to investigate the mines - apparently gemstone mines - 50g to clear them out -
Go down to investigate the mines
go down, find 2 kobold
fine moss and other things only a druid could understand, need to take to Termalaine
backpack contains a spirit - possesses Verona
Korin casts create bonfire, and after we wrestle her down, we toss the backpack in to it using magehand
we figure out that it was someone who died who possessed folks, and who wanted to possess someone in charge of Termalaine
The kobolds leave now that their leader is no longer possessed
we explore a bit more, find the other thing the Kobold warned us about
13 Kobolds find us and make it clear they really _do_ want to work for Termalaine
Talk to the Speaker
Session 17
Ask about the song the barmaid was singing last night
9 days until next full moon
leave Termalaine - follow road to Lonely Wood, arriving before lunch time
Lonely Wood - small town - maybe 100 people
Felsyn befriends Jo (Joelfren) - half-elf - logger
half town fishers, other half foresters
Lucky Liar - place that serves food
warns us about:
not used to Heroes traipsing through
buy some firewood & mushrooms
head out after lunch
Find moose tracks - start tracking
Session 18
Session 19
this is a non-timeline based but canon portion of game (Halloween Event)
Felsin receives a message from a gnome he worked with: Herdigurt
says need help in Bryn Shander, taking a leave of abscence
asks to meet in the next 10-day at the Grinning Goat
apparently a cooking competition
ice crab, pygmy mammoth meat and milk, stalagtite salt, axebeak snow fisher, luminous cave mushroom
collect rare ingredients and then cook them
ingredients gathered
4 axebeak eggs - Kai
4 fisher cutlets (taste 10) - Korin
5 salt (taste 10) - Felsin
3 wizard ice - Felsin
1 gilded dates - Lindi
2 crab meat (taste 12) - Lindi
3 axebeak eggs - Kai
6 crab (taste 20) - Felsin
1 crab (taste 12) - Korin
2 Grick Garlic - Felsin (for 5g)
2 fisher cutlets (taste 10) - Verona
5 cups of milk (taste 10) - Lindi
1 crab (taste 12) - Korin
1 crab (taste 12) - Felsin
2 mushrooms (taste 12) - Kai
6 mammoth steaks (taste 15) - Felsin
1 mushrooms (taste 12) - Kai
“packed wrapped in waxy cloth” - Verona - mammoth butter
need to present 3 dishes
+5 for medium
+10 for hard
6 actions
“Herdegrut's Heroes” successfully wins the cooking competition
Session 20
decide to open the southern door - circular room with sarcophagus
open the northern door - circularly chamber, intricately carved
looks like its been being used as a camp site
rack of drying herbs & bed roll
some creature - leafy blackberry shrub, awakened by Radisen - grew berries for Radisen
search the room
camp the night
head out towards black cabin
arrive at the black cabin
stands on stilts
appears abandoned & sinister
clearly falling down
start investigating
find some tinkering notes in the outhouse
find a workshop
find the main room
find two bedrooms
find a room full of blueprints & a tiny man made of clay
verona investigates blueprints
look in last room
floor gives out under Korin
Felsin starts talking to the poltergeist
decide to try to make the item with 3 rings
“Summer Star” - can cast control weather if attuned to it - can cast while inside
one use, one-action to activate (rather than 10m casting time)
make a box & pad it, and put in Korin's backpack
have yes/no discussion with spirit
another 7ft tall person shows up to talk to us
And we get 6th level.
Session 21
Verona seems to recognize the person, judging by the hug she receives
Oya Nartok - lives around here - came to check out the explosion that happened a while ago
Korin overhears Verona talking to the bear
In the morning, see flames on the horizon - Lonelywood is burning
as we travel towards Lonelywood, we can see a second pillar of fire
as we get to the edge of the forest, someone comes out of the forest
an human woman on a sleigh, with a snowy owl - Vellyne Harpell
some abomination, looks like a dragon but sounds like a machine
says Dougan's Hole was hit first
get to Termalaine
we head south towards Bremen via Targos
get to Bremen right before it was able to get to town
it was harrying people in boats on the lake
Beril starts shooting it from a distance
Korin unleashes on it, and manages to kill the Abomination and Mockery of a Dragon
do sending to East Haven captain - sounds like they are gurgling/dying
start rushing off to East Haven
get to Brynn Shander (about halfway)
told to stop, no need to hurry
hundreds of refugees from other towns
Tardis & Brynn Shander left untouched
we saved Bremen
other 7 towns destroyed
learn all the towns are planning to rebuild
the 10 towns have been destroyed before, and will be used again
learn that speaker weylen went down - killed by 6 duergar
Birel retrieve's father's ring from inside of Old Bitey
We've become known as the “Ten Town Defenders”
And apparently killing the “dragon” gets us 7th level.
Session 22
Korin hands 10 platinum to a crafter in Bryn Shandr to craft him a Bahamut Holy Symbol - on North Wall, Ragalin of Ragalin's Random stuff
Lindi has changed seasons to summer colors
talking with Vellyne Harpell
member of Arcane Brotherhood
talents lie towards necromancy - a bone dancer
has an eye patch, and moves slowly
needs help heading in to the tundra - looking for a book
Harpell family is based out of Longsaddle
travel to Dougan's Hole
~20 people of original 50 still alive; only about 5 people left in town
the 20 standing stones of throon are still standing
couple people on edge of town are building a long low wall - building a mausoleum
head further south
camp for night
scare off a pair of snowy owlbears
verona & korin make a snow fort, with Kobold “Number 3”
notice a small bird watching us - bright yellow
when told, Korin gets excited and goes wandering off in the woods after it
keep heading south, circling back near Silah's spaceship
notice some wreckage had been dragged away
dragged away by yeti
couple hours of travel later, Silah notices something in snow bank
blizzard that night
yellow bird talks to Korin
next day, traveling
we lure the roc to attack us
we shoot it, we polymorph it, and drop it on a hard place, and then blast it to pieces
9 vials of roc blood - expires in 7 days
5 large sacks of roc feather fiber
one of the kobolds takes a roc feather and makes a hang glider
Session 23
Session 24
Wander down the hall, and find a room with an old Duegar
Grandolpha Muzgardt
Head of Duegar clan
being courted by Xardorok
has a mechanical pseudodragon
agrees to have her folks not fight us if we take out Xardorok
she seems to be seeking power via alliance, but generally seems to be good
check out a room, with a chest in it
check out a room, find the younger son - Birel immediately attacks
check out a room - the training room
take the elevator down - holds 3 people at a time
open door to next room
encounter an old duegar with a long beard & wearing a mitre
we start fighting him - Verona punches his hat off, and it becomes clear he is something infernal (likely hat of disguise)
he plane shifts away
92 50lb stone tablets covered in Infernal writing in the room - none of us speak Infernal
Session 25
Head north our of priests room
in to a room with a headless statue, with blue flame instead of a head
we unchain him, take him to the elevator room, and Korin compassionately puts him out of his misery
we find a secret passage, that the F'yorl said the madman had used
take passage to a torture chamber - with 2 torturers & Xardorok
talk with some duegar - surrender, and go off to join Grandolpha
treasure room:
chest 1: 12 gourds of fire lichen liquor - 10gp/per
chest 2: golden drow mask, weird white metaled blade - 750g mask, 350g
chest 3: silver chalice shaped like a spider with 8 obsidian eyes - 250g
chest 4: spider silken robe wrapped around a wand with ebony & silver
chest 6: piwafi - dark cloak of drow make, obsidian glass dagger
chest 7: 2ft statue of demogorgon - cursed object
chest 8: amber headdress w 3 purple pearls - worth 250 pp
chest 9: gold svirfneblin skeleton - releases spores on Birel
playing with the sword
seems to resist Lindi's attempt to resist identifying
seems to be elvish
seems to be judgy about Kai
doesn't like Verona
seems to be curious about Birel
had elvish writing that had been removed - had 6 runes on blade, all but 1 were removed
seems to recognize the Gith
+1 damaged moonblade rapier; could be repaired
piwafi - cloak of elvenkind, but will lose magic if exposed to direct sunlight for 1 hour straight
obsidian blade - +1 dagger of returning
wand of web
Session 26
convince the duergar on 3 of 4 archer platforms to surrender, before being noticed by the remaining platform and combat starts
we killed several of the hammer suit guys
several “furry turtle” guys were to the south
killed a bunch of riding lizards
let a bunch Duergar go work for Grundalfa
searching bodies:
go in to a throne room
Session 27
check out a few other rooms
find the prison area
meet Pekoe - human trader that had been captured
meet Kapanuk Talltree Thuunlakalaga - Goliath of the glacier
take them over to the place where stuff was stored
notice hearbeat sound
see a dragon's heart in the center of the forge
Korin preys, gets a pseudodragon, and then breaths on it freezing it
the forge goes cold; and the chardolyn turns solid
return to the dining hall
travel back to dougan's hole - with Pico
we get drunk celebrating the victory, and lots of folks family drama comes out
codex of sylbwat - to find the point to enter the Regged glaciar to find some way to stop Auril's winter - great power in glacier
Vellyn wants to do this, so her family with leave her alone
aids the brotherhood by getting them credit
Vellyn wants to get there before other Brotherhood teams
book tells how to open glaciar
get under glaciar to find something important enough to stop the winter
thinks book might be on Auril's island
Session 28
Deliver Pekoe to dougan's hole
Dougan's Hole - fairly small - maybe 50 people
Head to GoodMead, on our way towards Termalaine to go check out the frost giant throne ?
number of pens set up on outside of town - domesticated livestock
meet a kid on the outskirts of town - can talk to animals - tells his sheep to be back by sunset
has a shrine to Tempus
3 buildings remaining:
untouched shrine -
Mead Hall
3-4 houses being rebuilt
rest of group heads to Mead Hall
we get celebrated as heroes with lots of mead
velyn & kobolds stayed at Dougan's Hole to help rebuild
Session 29
head from Good Mead to Bryn Shander in the early afternoon
Korin heads up to pick up his symbol
we head on to Bremen, and camp the night
we head out from Bremen towards the frost throne area
blizzard comes up, we camp half the day, then continue on
that night we get to a ring of 7 large standing stones, covered in ice, with ravens all over it
braziers with words in giant overhead: death, mountain, war, life, wind, dragon
door out on one side, portcullis out on the other side
poem above, in dwarven:
Snatch a scale from a sleeping wyrm
Against the blowing wind stand firm
Climb a mountain with a stone in your shoe
On little feet death comes for you
Be the arrows that starts the war
Let life's blood fall till it falls no more
we get 5 of the 6 lit, then can't figure out how to light the one requiring a dragon scale
Session 30
we go past the door - find 4 huge chests, and a key ring hanging from the ceiling with 5 keys: 4 iron and 1 silver
we open the 4 huge chests, and find the things needed to light the braziers
the portculis opens
short curved hallway to a door, which we open
and get attacked by 6 animated axes
there is a big chest with silver bindings with a gold key in it
Korin pulls out the gold key and puts in the silver key and turns it
we look at the gold key - runes in giant on it
verona turns the gold key in the lock - opens a portal out
Verona steps through the portal, and a swarm of ravens attacks Verona
Birel & Korin each follow jumping through the portal, and get attacked by their own raven swarm
Linda & Felsin go up the stairs like a normal person, and don't get attacked by a raven swarm
Verona convinces ravens to stop attacking
And then a female giant appears and talks to us - of which only Birel can speak Giant
talk with Giant (Gromin'Gorn), then she goes below, comes back up angry that someone took her birthright, her crown
then she attacks when we don't hand the horn over
we drop her, and the witch who told us about it shows up with a huge white wolf
Esalim of the Lonely Wood and her white winter wolf Kra'Korok
travel & find Kai buried in a huge pile of snow
make our way back to Bremen
Session 31
go talk to the oil merchant in Bremen, to learn about the whale, with Velen
heavy storm slows our travel
we camp the night
at second watch hear a loud low snoring
huge white dragon sleeping under the snow, with a chair on its back
in the morning, Arveiaturace takes off and flys away
next day is very cold
2 large polar bears charge us - then turn in to Goliath, when Verona turns in to a polar bear
reach the sea of moving ice that night
next day, its bright & clear
see a black boat locked in the ice
see the dragon from the day before land on it, stretch a bit, and then take off
get to Angajuk's Bell
under the sea of moving ice, in an air bubble on the back of the whale
Session 32
get on the back of the whale
get to island
talk to an ice mephit - Safo
talk to an ice weasel - Zelinor
former familiar of one of the brotherhood wizards, who is dead
we hear a voice talking to us from below the ice
verona starts digging out the wizard
Professor Scant - Orb that talks
had arrived on a ship “Wicked Eddy” captain'd by Wicked Eddy - all died in the shipwreck except the wizard who had the orb
Safo convinces us to camp in the caves
go to the building in center of island
start exploring
kill 6 ice imps
find stairs up & stairs down
Session 33
go down stairs - meet Ukuma the Walrus, who likes fish
takes us to see the dead queen
go in to vault & see an axe
tests:
cruelty
preservation
endurance
isolation
we start the test of Preservation
end up in a camp of the wolf tribe that had been recently killed
find a kid hiding in a tent
a guy on wolf comes in looking for the kid; we kill him
a wolf comes and takes the kid away to his uncle
we fade back to the chamber of preservation
Session 34
Beth's summary:
We met Flovgaard Rashgoven, an undead with a massive wound in their belly trying to end winter so they can die. They died from cold & woke up with a polar bear eating their innards.
Endurance: we landed in a camp packing to move. We met Jorund Elkhart the head of the Elk clan. They needed to follow the heard: we helped them pack up & load the camp onto dog sleds. Kai passed out & road on a sled, Flovgaard died (again), but some of us made it through. Isolation: we showed up & Bjornhild Solvigsdottir, the queen of the tribe, was preparing to leave the camp with us to go raiding the Elk Tribe’s village. Verona confronted her with, “hello, Mother”. The Queen denied having a child, at which point Verona told the story of how she was cast out into the sea of moving ice as an infant sacrifice to Arel, ensuring Bjornhild’s immortality. She was saved by polar bears and returned from the dead multiple times in order to find Bjornhild and tear her limb from limb. At which point, the tigers attack.
Session 35
Session 36
We head through the southern door
find 3 things with Auril's tenants, and another doro
and behind that door find “The Book”
poem in front of book: (poem is what we need to open the door in to the glacier)
We bow to She who wears the crown;
Let the world shiver with dread.
Clad in winter’s whitest gown,
Her snow enshrouds the dead.
Her fury sheds but frozen tears
as gray clouds issue forth.
Her wind across the wasteland shears,
bringing blizzards from the north.
Ice-kissed flowers caught mid-bloom,
beauty kept in all its grace.
Summer’s gone to its silent tomb,
stilling in Her cold embrace.
All the world in winter’s white,
sheathed in sleet and ice.
Set upon never-ending night,
She conjures paradise.
Behold Her everlasting rime,
see how it covers all;
Weep not for those She traps in time
behind Her glacial wall.
Sovereign of summers lost,
general of winter’s war;
Long live the queen of cold and frost.
May She reign forevermore.
we go upstairs and realize it is midday; decide to camp so we can scout the top floor at night
have Council scout
fight some piercers
go to the roc's lair & loot it
Silver dragon egg - to Korin
carved harp - ivory inlay - worth 750gp - to Lindi
electrum chain w/ bloodstone pendant - 250gp - to Vorona
320gp - 45.7g to each person
golden ring w/ black pearl - 750gp - to Felsin
spell scroll - mass cure wounds @ 5th level - to Kai
Session 37
Dragon Egg counter: 2/28
Session 38
Post Dragon cleanup
Butcher dragon
blood
teeth
bones
meat
wings, breath pouch
a giant comes to talk to us - left of face sags
divvy'ing items:
Quiver of Ehlonna - to Birel
Bloodwell Vial +2 - to Korin
Mithril Chain - to Kai
Grey bag of tricks - to Felsen
Drift Globe - to Silah
Wand of Orkus - replica - acts as continual flame - Vorona
harvest
meat (250gp per 30lb) - 30lb per person @ 5+
blood (300gp per vial) - 9 vials per person @ 10+
dragon's teeth (60gp per) - 15 teeth per @ 15+
dragon's bones - 6 per @ 15+
felsen & vorona got 20+
kai got 15+
birel,korin got 10+
(vellin also got 10+, but only took the blood & gave her meat to tinjong)
go to Tinjong's cave for the night - meet their chuinga roommate
day of travel towards Angajuk's Bell
3 hours in - find a place where people made giant-size snowmen - 12ft tall snowmen - 3 balls stacked on top of each other
we futz with it, and get attacked by a bony hand - maybe we desecrated a giant cairn?
get to Angajuk's Bell
Dragon Egg counter: 3/28
Session 39
Leave Angajuk's Bell - day of travel towards Bremen
Half way through the next day we get to Bremen
Check-in with Cora
Check-in at the 5-taverns - each tavern built by 1 of 5 brothers
Grumpy Moose, Black-Bearded Brother, Stones, Even Keel, the River's Mouth
Felsen does some deals to sell the dragon meat in exchange for 400gp diamond dust and a house on the north edge of Bremen (house up on a hill)
will be a festival in about a 10-day (day 15 on egg timer)
Head off to Targos next day - make it there about lunch time
only Inn is “Luskan Arms”
go to a jewelry - Orpheus
three flags sailing - tavern - Birel's been getting very drunk
House details
lots of bedrooms (at least 8)
stable needs a new roof - part of it has collapsed
has a greenhouse that needs a little work
no furniture
Felsin leaves the Goat in charge, with 10g
Dragon Egg counter: 6/28
Session 40
Birel left a note “Gone Fishing, see you in Brynn Shandr”
Korin gives Vorona the Staff of Frost because they think she should be more like Korin's mom than Vorona's mom
Arrive at Bryn Shandr
rest the night in the temple
Raglan of Raglan's Random stuff - korin gets a walrus tusk orb to fill in the missing orb spot in his staff
about to head out
Dragon Egg counter: 7/28
Session 41
Rest the night, and come down to find the tavern pretty subdued
Artic - his son (jerome) was on a patrol that didn't come back -
drawing a pic of 7 folks who were on patrol
while talking to him, runner comes in about someone coming back
we see a runner running back
says the rest of the group is coming back, after rising from the dead
head out towards glacier
Birel lets us know we are racing Avarice (the white kobold we'd fought before) (of the eastern tower of the brotherhood)
Birel & Vellyn have a long talk about Birel's history and a bad egg of the brotherhood
in the end, Seelah volunteers to take a written account of it to Ray, who is Vellyn's partner so that Ray can try to get Ramardo to suffer repercussions. Also, apparently Birel's name isn't Birel, but no one blinks at that.
rest the night
keep traveling north east, past kelvin's cairn, then due east
Dragon Egg counter: 9/28
Session 42
keep traveling towards the glacier for 3 more days
have been traveling along the glacier - about a half dozen
see a group of 12 people coming down off the glacier - elk tribe
run in to a group of a 20-ish tigers led by Ajka (frost druid) & her Frost Rhino
we kill them all - with Verona killing Ajka
none of them are wearing tiger tribe insignia - insignia is of the Rhino and not Tiger tribe
half the elk tribe stays to butcher the Rhino
keep traveling on to the entry
find the frozen waterfall
Kai says the poem to open it, and sees various images over various party members, representing the powers that support us
step in the glacier
Dragon Egg counter: 12/28
Session 43
Start scouting in to the caves
first room has a sky boat
Verona retells the story of Shardalyn in the Dale
see a vampire spawn kobold that attempts to flee, that we kill
see a mist form come out of a tower, laugh, and go back in to it as we burn the kobold's body
pass the night
Dragon Egg counter: 13/28
Session 44
Peer through cracks in the wall to where the vampire came out - see in to the tower
Korin breaks a hole in to the wall
Rejuvenation Chamber - if take a short rest in tower
skeleton - wearing 4 pointed star holy symbol and bright white robes
head to the southern room with a fallen tower
we take a short rest in the rejuvenation chamber
Dragon Egg counter: 13/28
Jerrod ran Kai. Kai used no spell slots except a spirit weapon; which she got back on short rest from the Rejuv Chamber. Spell mem changed: raise dead → banishment; hold person → ceremony
Session 45
turns out Leopold and Professor Skant knows each other
we go east of the rejuv room
go out corrider to the east
fight a bunch of shadows; and some sort of hyena-vampire who misty steps away
fight a bunch of vampire spawn, and the hyena-vampire
we take a short rest
Dragon Egg counter: 13/28
Session 46
explore a bit more - fight 6 snow golems
hunt the vampire gnoll down to its lair, and use overwhelming force
head south of the gnoll lair
find a room with a frost giant buried in ice
find a room with an eldritch horror trapped behind a wall, moving
get back to the rest area, discover all the tribe members have been killed
Dragon Egg counter: 14/28
Session 47
Dragon Egg counter: 14/28
Session 48
Group gets back together midmorning
figure out that Avarice has probably gone down the worm hole in the room we found Leopold in
decide to look over the areas on this floor before going down a hole
go to the north room from the hole room
move to the area south of the eldritch horror room
we go to the room with mummy and investigate
wanders down to room with grove of trees
one of the trees is apparently animate and speaks old netherese (aka sylvan)
a creature of leaves comes out and can talk elven
survive due to the magic of the city
dryad feeds us magic pears - various effects including
charm of restoration - 6 charges of restoration
charm of purplemancy - 3x, cast faerie fire as a bonus action
charm of vicious mockery
charm of cure wounds
charm of sending
(Korin gets purplemancy)
find out some of who have traveled through
we ask the path to the city - its the SE exit
dark elves went to the SW
ask for us to help with those - S exit, came from city
we stealth down to deal with creatures that scare the dryad
4 creatures; clawed hands, single eye
we kill one, but then Verona decides to talk to them and succeeds
learn 5 points of info about the city
Illothoth watches over the city still - floating human skull
giant floating hands roaming around city
city fell because mythryl won't work while Spindle in the city - Spindle in center of city
need a ritual to enter the center spire - clues are in towers around the city
there is a scroll that can be used to summon a hungry mountain
suggest they could go eat the frozen gelatonous cube - they say they'll try
we decide to go talk to the drow, since Kai wants to talk to some drow since she's half drow
we head down the southwest exit
follow a winding path
path splits
And the drow attack
Dragon Egg counter: 14/28
Korin has “Charm of Purplemancy” - 3x Faerie Fire, as a bonus action, only purple light
Session 48
continuing the drow attack
one drow flies off
Korin, Leopold, & Verona chase it
rest finish off the other drow (so 2 killed)
we run in a room with pools
we find a tunnel that leads down to UnderDark, as well as tunnels that connect to all the other locations we saw holes to
we go back to the grove to rest
Dragon Egg counter: 15/28
Session 49
we have some discussions about the axe, Verona got geased by Linde
we travel some distance to the fallen flying city - necropolis
fell 4000 years ago
from the ramp leading to the city, see occasional things slinking through shadows
far end of ramp
statue with no features, 18ft tall, double jointed knees, 2 arms with 4 finger-claws, holds a huge hammer
bunch of ruins to the left
some sort of ampitheatre with 3 tall pillars in the middle
we go to check out the ruins
we go to check one of the parapets - (roll 8 on d20, 'high' chosen)
looks to be a mages study, covered ice - library, living quarters, 2 laboratories
books in frozen pile under ice, acid damaged run under ice
most places looks like room badly jarred - bookshelves knocked over - some things damaged by being quickly frozen
kai finds a not-quite-finished wand, with the drawing of a specific tree beside it
linde - finds 2 small rectangular parchment - tickets to ythrin's orchestra freshly back from their world tour
felsin - finds a hidden panel, and finds a series of runes needed to be used to raise part of the forcefield of the central spire
birel - finds a diary frozen open to a specific page - discusses meditating in the hall of weightless wonders, and how Solumnus and the tower resident making a monthly activity of it to improve their health
korin goes looking for dragon stuff - finds a painting of a dragon variety I've not heard of before - pink, delicate, lacy wings sitting in a flower - fairy dragon
verona - finds a summons Artorio Baleron - summoned to his quarterly duty to prestigitate the city streets
we go towards center - stopping at tower with a blue light at the top
abjuration runes on tower - though one rune is the rune for insanity - insanity ward - if step inside tower, we are likely to trigger the effect
go to the top of the tower
huge anvil with vivid blue runes - resting on top of the anvil is a hammer
6 armored figures stand guard around anvil
frozen corpse of wizard
inscription on the ceiling
< we call it here, so Dot can be present for the wizard moments >
Dragon Egg counter: 15/28
Session 50
Dragon Egg counter: 15/28
Session 51
Head over to the grove to investigate
get to the center and a giant treant attacks
turns out it is the netheroak, who has gone mad
we suggestion it, greater restoration it, and leave it to be abandoned in the city for another thousand years…
korin forages:
flower - flower to pretty to eat - aquatic rose growing in tree bowl - rose of lies - ignore it
vegetable - ome - tree growing vegetable - not cold hearty - harvest a bunch of roast later
fruit - bayelope - 'pedastal melon' - harvest a couple for eating now
seed - nyper - pink flower with thick stalk and cloud of seeds - not good for eating, but good for medicine
head to another tower near forest
has a large eye on it and hands - tower is missing part of roof
silver light coming out roof & windows
3ft glass orb on 2ft plinth in a 30ft circular chamber - eyeballs drift inside orb
“ask and we shall find” written on plinth
crystal ball filled with eyes - symbol of savrus, god of divination - knowledge requires sacrifice
Birel notices that there had been a sentence on the ceiling - so the phrase was on the ceiling
Linde touches the orb and asks if they can find the inscription on the roof
Dragon Egg counter: 15/28
Session 52
Dragon Egg counter: 16/28
Session 53
Korin ate a pear and got a charm of lightning bolt once, still has a cure wounds charm
head back
wander to the neighborhood to the right of entry
2 gargoyles taunt us - had been Avarice's
Dragon Egg counter: 16/28
Session 54
the party gets back together
some levistus cultists to come investigate verona's call lightning
we go towards the tower, and find a camp near the base
at the top of the tower, find Avarice
we take a short rest
Dragon Egg counter: 16/28
Session 55
search the room where we took a short rest
find a netherese ship in a bottle
wand - made of chardalyn - needs identified
metal pouch w/ gauze lining & leather straps - needs identified
wander over to the hall of music (since it was close)
head straight north to the wizard tower beside the music hall
lower 3 flight floors are just rubble
get to the 4th floor, and there is a statue of a woman - in gleaming metal
find a portion of the inscription:
find a cloth bag, green/red/brown - weighs 2.25lb
head towards a tower to the Northeast
Dragon Egg counter: 16/28
Assembled instructions:
“First shield thy heart with a wand from the Nether Oak” - abjuration tower
“second, summon a flame in the palm of your hand” - night hags - conjuration tower
“sixth, hide thyself behind a mask” - tower of illusion
“eighth, stand firm in thy circle of death and consume poison” - transmution tower
Session 56
While walking to the tower to the east, get attacked by cold light walkers
get to the tower - there is pink light - likely the enchantment tower
first floor has lots of the same phrase written in draconic, and frozen buckets & mops
above the door to the second floor “the crown knows all”
secret door
women sitting on an iron throne, with a crown
vorona takes the crown from her head, and the woman ages millenia in seconds
And see a draconic inscription: “fourth: coax a secret from another”
while walking back to the abjuration tower, run in to a group of 5 cold walkers
get back to the abjuration tower
vorona is using the hammer on the crown on the anvil
golems activate as soon as the crown is put on the anvil
and we will start next session with a combat
Dragon Egg counter: 16/28
Assembled instructions:
“First shield thy heart with a wand from the Nether Oak” - abjuration tower
“second, summon a flame in the palm of your hand” - night hags - conjuration tower
“fourth, coax a secret from another” - tower of enchantment
“sixth, hide thyself behind a mask” - tower of illusion
“eighth, stand firm in thy circle of death and consume poison” - transmutation tower
Session 57
Starting combat with golems
fight 5 magin (3 without armor) in the street
take a long rest
go to the tower to the north, we'd not been to before - The Observatory
walk past a clear domed building full of miniature terrain
kill a random Nothic
In the NE side - two buildings standing
enter the evocation tower
Dragon Egg counter: 17/28
Assembled instructions:
“First shield thy heart with a wand from the Nether Oak” - abjuration tower
“Second, summon a flame in the palm of your hand” - night hags - conjuration tower
“Third, a burnt palm loosens the tongue. Shed a secret about yourself for all to hear.” - divination tower, found in observatory
“Fourth, coax a secret from another” - tower of enchantment
“Fifth, quench the flame in thy palm with ice” - tower of evocation
“Sixth, hide thyself behind a mask” - tower of illusion
“Eighth, stand firm in thy circle of death and consume poison” - transmutation tower
Session 58
Head towards the necromancy tower, but got distracted by some undead in the streets
Killed a frost giant skeleton & 5 cold light walkers - vorona went unconscious repeatedly
find the tower of necromancy - seems like its collapsed
Linde talks with the ghost of the tower master
says Linde & Vorona may be his heir if they put it to rest
takes us 6 hours to uncover the hand - and dig him out
his ghost goes corporeal
hands us a necklace that be puts on around Vorona's neck
unties a cape from his body and puts it on Linde
removes a satchel he'd been holding - opens it, and pulls out a book, and hands it to leopold
hands ring to birel
hand bag to felsin
reveals final portion of inscription - “Seventh, trace a circle with the ashes of the dead”
says he'd be honored if his ashes could be used
Korin collects his ashes
And had a random encounter on our way out to take a rest – so that's where we will start
Session 59
We get to the ice bridge, and find a force arrayed against us
We had wiped out all but a few coldwalkers, when Auril took the field
We arrive in the pear grove and take a long rest
Dragon Egg counter: 18/28 (DI counter 1 of 7)
Assembled instructions:
“First shield thy heart with a wand from the Nether Oak” - abjuration tower
“Second, summon a flame in the palm of your hand” - night hags - conjuration tower
“Third, a burnt palm loosens the tongue. Shed a secret about yourself for all to hear.” - divination tower, found in observatory
“Fourth, coax a secret from another” - tower of enchantment
“Fifth, quench the flame in thy palm with ice” - tower of evocation
“Sixth, hide thyself behind a mask” - tower of illusion
“Seventh, trace a circle with the ashes of the dead” - necromancy
“Eighth, stand firm in thy circle of death and consume poison” - transmutation tower
Session 60
Resting at the grove
Korin's eats a pear - gives 3x 'vicious mockery' @5th level.
find a circle of dead nothics - turns out shibekki killed them while we slept, as part of the DI
we go and investigate the orb in the center – and find it protected by a force field
we find the place to do the ritual - at the bottom of the biggest buttress
in the entry way, we are told not to enter - we do anyway
enter in to a ballroom, where courtiers are having a masquerade ball
wander in to a side room, find a hallway
Dragon Egg counter: 18/28 (DI counter 1 of 7)
Assembled instructions:
“First shield thy heart with a wand from the Nether Oak” - abjuration tower
“Second, summon a flame in the palm of your hand” - night hags - conjuration tower
“Third, a burnt palm loosens the tongue. Shed a secret about yourself for all to hear.” - divination tower, found in observatory
“Fourth, coax a secret from another” - tower of enchantment
“Fifth, quench the flame in thy palm with ice” - tower of evocation
“Sixth, hide thyself behind a mask” - tower of illusion
“Seventh, trace a circle with the ashes of the dead” - necromancy
“Eighth, stand firm in thy circle of death and consume poison” - transmutation tower
Korin's 6 potions:
potion of liquid smoke - when thrown, makes a 5ft sq of smoke - blocks opportunity attacks
potion of disappearing ink - can wild magic surge while writing - need to spell name of individual correctly - can only be read by person addressed to
potion of hourglass - watch a 1000 years of time effects on a 5ft cube object
potion of fireball whiskey - weapon attacks do 1d4 fire damage, gain resistance to cold for 30 minutes
potion of undying hero - attunes - when die with it on them, or if fed to a person who died within a minute, revives them and heals them 1d8 per 5 character levels + 4 heal
potion of biodome - “get me the fuck out of here” in Loros
Session 61
wander in to member's lounge
wander across dias, and up and find a smoking room in a den, with a gem encrusted chest in the middle
fruits, liquids, pouches, in it - until Verona picks it up, and then it appears empty
wander down to the bottom door - 3 rooms
dark & forboding hallway
open window looking over a 35 ft gap, opening to another window
vorona turns in to a giant eagle and flies us across
other room
11 alcoves, shaped like a star
each alcove has a glowing crystal
crystals send out light, forming a bald man
vorona (as an eagle) notices a hatch overhead and tries to open it - with a nat 20
orb of ice room - shadow gem - vorona goes in first - and attacked by blade shaped voids
oval hall
10ft dome of translucent ice - actually wall of force - over shaft leading up from room below
glowing green crystal set above archway of door out
two blade shaped voids - don't seem to be affect wall of force
we kill the voids
we noticed that when Kai cast a toll the dead, the wall of force briefly blinked out
Dragon Egg counter: 18/28 (DI counter 1 of 7)
Korin's 6 potions:
potion of liquid smoke - when thrown, makes a 5ft sq of smoke - blocks opportunity attacks
potion of disappearing ink - can wild magic surge while writing - need to spell name of individual correctly - can only be read by person addressed to
potion of hourglass - watch a 1000 years of time effects on a 5ft cube object
potion of fireball whiskey - weapon attacks do 1d4 fire damage, gain resistance to cold for 30 minutes
potion of undying hero - attunes - when die with it on them, or if fed to a person who died within a minute, revives them and heals them 1d8 per 5 character levels + 4 heal
potion of biodome - “get me the fuck out of here” in Loros
Session 62
use thunder magic to disrupt gem, letting us step through wall of force
get in to an entry hall, say the name of the necromancer and walk down a short hall
enter a room with a 20ft radius effect that looks like stars
Korin searches a wrecked library
see someone peaking through the door - Korin calls hello, and Auril attacks
we destroy her in her owlbear form, and she turns in to a size huge ice statue
we destroy her in in ice statue form, and she turns in to a giant ice crystal
We pause combat:
init: Birel 24, <lair action> 20, vorona 19, felsin 16, linde 12, leopold 12, kai 11, korin 9, auril 6, demon 6, roc 6
Dragon Egg counter: 18/28 (DI counter 1 of 7)
Korin's 6 potions:
potion of liquid smoke - when thrown, makes a 5ft sq of smoke - blocks opportunity attacks
potion of disappearing ink - can wild magic surge while writing - need to spell name of individual correctly - can only be read by person addressed to
potion of hourglass - watch a 1000 years of time effects on a 5ft cube object
potion of fireball whiskey - weapon attacks do 1d4 fire damage, gain resistance to cold for 30 minutes
potion of undying hero - attunes - when die with it on them, or if fed to a person who died within a minute, revives them and heals them 1d8 per 5 character levels + 4 heal
potion of biodome - “get me the fuck out of here” in Loros
Session 63
We got level 12
Dragon Egg counter: 18/28 (DI counter 1 of 7)
Session 64
Leopold opens a magic door to archmage's study
a living spell that looks like darkness, comes forward and envelopes leopold who disappears
scroll - mountain that is a beast
Korin finds 3 tomes
treatise “On Draconic Wisdom”
treatise “On Draconic Paths”
pamphlet “The Rights of the Cult, of the Queen”
lots of discussion
we attune to the tower
we successfully move the grove over a couple 10-day
epilogue:
Vorona the spring bringer - helps boost crops
Felsin - tapped to become their clan's emissary and travel widely to help with trade routes
Leopold is having to deal with now being infamous - folks of the dale now fear him
Korin's egg hatches
Shibekki is now more widely worshipped in place of Auril