How to Haggle for Boat Crews

Attendees

Bron, Dante, One Eye, Myrkan, Vergil, Vyra

Notes from the session

  • Vyra can move again!
    • goes to check on the Dragon Egg
  • walked to the peak of the mountain before teleporting to the deep

The Deep

  • sleep first
  • Blatant pirates around, but little crime.
    • town made up of merchants and pirates but little crime on land
    • food stand near the tavern where the money box is out in the open – nobody has taken it
    • stealers are thrown overboard. “Meet Davey Jones in his locker.”

inside tavern

  • filled with pirates, mercenaries, and merchants
    • beer almost flowing like water (everyone has at least one)
    • laughter and talking in the air.
  • Vergil asks the bartender about getting a boat
    • told the party would have to hire a crew
      • more experienced crew has more cost
  • Party gets together and counts their money.
  • around the bar are a younger person by the stage, an older gentleman with his crew, and 3 men – two mid-aged, one younger – sitting together playing dice.
    • Myrkan joins the dice players to try to hire them.
      • explains the situation.
        • one of the older gents says no, not wanting to sail at night
        • the other two ask what we were offering
          • one wants 1000g, due to night sailing.
            • mentions the Dead Moon.
              • Crew of vampires that live in the deep.
            • Says one of the younger crews might be cheaper.
  • Vergil asks the bar tender if there’s a library
    • Told that the nearest library is back through the portal in Thundervale
      • Most captains keep their logs here
        • ocean water/air bad for them
  • Vyra talks to the young captain
    • wants 600g but is willing
  • Talk amongst the party
    • Vyra suggests doing manual labour.
    • Bron suggests offering the rest of the leviathan to the crew.
  • Myrkan goes off to find an arcane butcher to find out what the leviathan would be worth
    • 100s for just the meat, upwards of 1000.
      • without tongue: 800g – set-for-life (platinum)
        • ancient leviathan steak 10p
  • Myrkan returns to the captain to negotiate
    • deal made to pay only 400g, and to give the leviathan body
      • We must get our own water breathing potions/scrolls
    • party must pay, to cover the cost as evenly as possible.
      • Dante – 65g +22g
      • One eye – 8g
      • Myrkan – 65g +23g
      • Vergil – 65g +22g
      • Vyra/Bron – 65g + 65g
  • Party splits up
    • Dante goes to buy tobacco
    • Vyra and Bron go to inquire about spells
      • enchanted ink(40g) and paper(40g) – 80 g
Scroll of Air Bubble, made by Vyra (AI Generated)

Injections!

Attendees

Bron, One Eye, Rya, Vergil, Vyra

Notes from the session

  • started early to discuss whether Bron can stream the games.
    • decided we would need to do it from the get-go of the game, rather than from the middle.

Dryska hold

  • Normal-seeming town
    • Other end of the town is a giant steel wall
      • towers 30’ into the air
      • made from overlapping steel plates
        • in the storm below, there are Demons, Devils, fiends etc.
      • Beyond that gate is the only way out of the storm
    • Most of the city is personnel for the wall
  • We need to go beyond the wall.
  • lots of guards
    • increasing the closer to the wall we get
  • wall made of plate scale
    • some places use magic to connect them, others not
  • Shack connected directly to the wall
    • guard post
      • inside a heavily armoured secretary.
      • 10 heavily armoured guards
        • black steel swords
      • Each given a 2-page form to fill out
        • 1 weird line
          • If you are to meet with any extraterrestrial entities, causing you mental trauma, they’re not responsible for any therapy
            • plains walker
        • given a keychain with an emblem similar to the wall upon turning it in
          • will allow us to return to the town
  • Outside the wall, the wall seems to be charred.
    • attacks have caused the plates to melt together from the heat
    • nothing on the other side of the wall, just a road
  • After about walking for about 2 hrs., we see a random hotel door
    • Door opens into a long hallway, lit by a lantern on either side
      • slowly opens into a room, like a hotel lobby.
        • dragonborn sitting behind the counter, covered in bandages, including over an eye
        • Monsters don’t come in
  • Vyra : “what is this place?”
    • Dragonborn: “The Lab”
  • Myrkan asks about getting the Black Goop removed
    • told to talk to the head director; she should be able to remove it.
      • Head Director is in a meeting; Evelyn Blackflame
        • Myrkan’s mother
    • Dragonborn stands to question about Head Director, leaving a small pool of blood on the seat
      • Myrkan wipes down the seat
  • Vergil pulls Bron aside and asks if maybe Vyra should take his last name.
  • Dragonborn returns
    • H.D. requests all the weapons are left behind.
      • Points to a niche where there are weapon-rack
    • Vergil put down his katana, handbag, etc.….
      • “how did you carry all of that? where did you store it?”
    • Rest of the party follows suit
      • One Eye leaves his cane
    • There was a small explosion
      • Giant strength + alchemist fire
        • if mixed correctly, one can drink it to get the effect, or throw it to get alchemist fire
  • Decontamination chamber
    • everyone glows as everything is cleaned.
      • even small viruses can be cured
  • Lead thru clean, hospital-style hallways, to meeting room 5.
    • Meeting Room 5 is a cottage-style room
      • couches around a table
    • Ringmaster, older Amethyst dragonborn (Myrkan’s mom), and Alania (otter) all sit around the table
      • they seem to be mid-conversation about an ancient war, 3000 years ago, when the wall was built
        • war fought between the demons living below the storm and those who lived above.
          • demons didn’t like that they couldn’t keep pillaging the war
          • Lots of alchemists during the time and like/d throwing Alchemist fire down
            • mixed with acid
            • An unknown alchemist at the time, who fought on the front lines with alchemist fires.
  • Evelyn asked Myrkan about his adventures.
    • Myrkan shows the limbs
      • “Have you not gotten enough iron?”
  • Bihhnea – Ringmaster’s name
    • says she could remove the goop
    • the goop gets removed from Myrkan
    • asks about taking the Awakened drug
      • it can have disabling affects when going thru a planar gate or planes-walking
  • Ringmaster gave history of Project Magnitude
  • Ringmaster cannot tell us her species
    • Genre of being
      • not far from Bahamut.
    • she will not do genetic engineering
      • Asks about the God of Fair play
    • Ringmaster was told by God of Fair play that redacted parts were not allowed.
      • Grimm Reaper wasn’t happy about it.
    • Father’s name?
      • Ringmaster can’t tell but can tell where we find it
        • in Clerical books, about origins of gods
  • Lead to a hospital wing lined with beds
    • Explained the
      • primary goal – give extraordinary powers to ordinary creatures
      • secondary goal – extend the lifespan of the average creature
    • why people with magical powers?
      • average person finds it overpowering
        • hopes that people with innate powers will be able to handle it
          • we also piqued Ringmaster’s interest.
    • Different people have different places for the injection
      • from inner thigh to underside of tongue
      • magic jeweller’s loop will tell Ringmaster where.
        • variation of abjuration and conjuration magic
    • Rya goes first, Vergil, Myrkan, Vyra,
    • vial with purple liquid with swirls of blue
      • apparently tastes like blueberry?
    • Upon injection, searing pain throughout the entire body.
  • Results
    • Rya – place where neck meets back
      • +1 wisdom for next hour
      • temp blind in one eye for next 6 hrs.
        • disadvantage on perception
      • Normal sight functions as true sight for the next 6 hrs.
    • Vergil – inner thigh
      • Mind shatters with the urge to follow the Ringmaster in whatever they want (no time limit)
      • Temp hit points equal to con-stat (no time limit)
      • Random spark power for duration (Eye of the weave) for the next 1 hr
    • Myrkan – jaw muscle
      • regain 1 spell slot or class feature used
      • -2 penalty for strength or dexterity based rolls for the next 6 hrs
      • resistance to bludgeoning damage for 24 hrs
    • Vyra – Forearm
      • Speak with animal and speak with plants for 5 hrs
      • Body begins to shutter, and collapses. Paralysed for 12 hrs
      • resistance to poison for 5 days
    • One Eye – in Eye
      • Speak with animal and speak with plants for 5 hrs
      • Benefit of potion of hill giant strength 5 hrs
      • Random insight into any non-party member you touch for 24 hrs
  • When the product is finished, we get a free sample/dose
  • While the spell wears off of Vyra:
    • Rya looks at the various planes and tries to see if the Ringmaster is a shapeshifter (she’s not)
    • Vergil looks at the weave and watches how his misty step works.
      • Tries Rage – nothing happens
      • Tries Giant’s Might – room too small to grow
    • Bron comes in, asked what happened
      • Myrkan explains
  • Ringmaster comes back in to make notes
  • Ringmaster wants to hire us (500g/ea)
    • Ring master needs:
      • Serpents tongue from high level serpent from the deep
      • Glass from “impact site” at devouring sands
      • Deathworm scale
      • Wither root found deep in eldrath

One-shot, the dungeon with the dragon

Attendees

Myrkan, Bron, Dante, Vyra, One Eye, Cintia

–Rya couldn’t play due to location, Luna left early.

Notes from the session

  • Enemies
    • 1 swarm of insects
    • 3 kobolds
    • 1 Swarm of insects
    • 1 Gelatinous cube
    • Shadow
    • 7 Spiders
    • 1 Giant Spider
    • 12 skeletons
  • Dream sequence:
    • 12 dragon teeth
    • Treasure Room:
      • 4,002 GP in coinage (weight: 40 kg):
        • 140 PP
        • 2,300 GP
        • 3,000 SP
        • 200 CP
    • art objects (7.650 GP):
      • a white-gold-plated anklet with inlaid polished garnets (1,200 GP)
      • an engraved white-gold crown with rose-gold etchings (1,200 GP)
      • a gold-plated locket with a painted image of an attractive halfling female (1,200 GP)
      • a white-gold locket with a painted image of a cute elven female (4,000 GP)
      • a gold-plated game board with rose-gold game pieces (4,000 GP)
      • Black velvet mask stitched with silver thread (25 GP)
      • Handheld mirror set in a painted wooden frame (25 GP)
    • Magic Items (×3)
      • 1x Potion of Greater Healing
      • 1x Spell Scroll – Lightning Bolt
      • 1x Potion of Force Resistance
      • 1200 copper pieces
  • Reward, upon waking.

Ringmaster, Otter, and the unnecessary battle.

Attendees

Myrkan, Bron, Dante, Vyra, Rya, One eye

Notes from the session

  • tried to enter compound again
    • initially denied
    • talked our way into the courtyard
  • Awakened Otter in courtyard
    • finally allowed in after an hourish
  • Ringmaster inside
    • says that the Ripper wasn’t her fault.
      • the city killed an innocent man
      • someone stole one of her experiments
    • Awakened experiment doesn’t work on humanoids
      • “Project Magnitude”
      • requires beasts to ‘stick’.
      • needs people to test the drug.
    • Wants to charge (up to) 1gp to ‘cure’ people of Tail-rot.
      • If Vaerion charges that more, she’ll sell it herself.
  • Vaerion Making deals with ringmaster about skyglass
  • Vyra questioned the availability of a medicine price wise
  • Rya attacked the Awakened Otter
  • Ringmaster offered cursed armor to Bron, who denied
    • answered a lot of questions about the armor
  • Ringmaster disappeared
    • lightning hit Oneeye after a snark remark followed her leaving
  • Reward
    • 50g/ea to those present