The Sea, the Supernatural, and our survival

Attendees

Bron, Dante, Myrkan, Vergil, Vyra

Notes from the session

  • In the morning, the Party joins the crew on the dock, and the boat.
    • The captain asks if anyone gets sea-sick.
  • The group starts their various chores
    • Myrkan swabs the deck
      • Tai Lung, Myrkan’s Tressym sweeps
    • Bron cooks
    • Vyra works on making the rest of the scrolls
  • The sea is a bit choppy, but not too bad
  • Bell rings for lunch!
    • Party lines up
      • Myrkan doesn’t understand the concept of lines…
    • The cook comes out and gives everyone a bowl of meat porridge + veggies
    • everyone finds their place on the boat to eat
  • While everyone is eating, Vyra checks on the egg
    • there’s a crack, indicating that it’s near time for it to hatch
  • Myrkan decides to swim, and gets attacked by a huge electric eel
    • Gets hit and starts to drown, due to being paralysed.
      • Gets nerve damage
    • Bron jumps in to rescue
    • Captain chastises Myrkan about jumping in the water without checking to see if it’s safe, first.
  • Everyone goes to sleep
    • In the middle of the night a bell rings as the crew runs to the deck
    • Tai Lung flies over to see what’s up
      • Jet black ship in the distance with a red moon on the flag
        • fight with vampires!
          • Vergil gets bitten!
          • they submerged before we could finish them off.
  • Morning comes and we arrive at our destination.

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

🛡️ Vergil

class: Fighter / Barbarian
species: Eladin

Aliases

  • Puppy

notes:

🛡️

Adventurers’ Chaotic City Quest: Armor, Enchantments, and Mysterious Black Goop

Attendees

Bron, Vyra, Vergil, Cintia, Myrkan, Dante, Rya

Rya left early, came back

Notes from the session

  • reviewed Last Session
  • Myrkan now needs to refer to Rusty as his god
  • “Fuzzy Air” left after Ringmaster left.
    • gives headache if one is around it too long.
  • Myrkan Took sweets and poppy seeds from the kitchen
  • Party goes to a smith/armourer
    • Myrkan inquires about Light Armour
      • Smith has a brigandine.
    • Vyra asked about a container to hold the Silver dragon egg
      • Must get a basket, wool, and get it enchanted, then the armourer can reinforce it.
    • Vergil asked about armour
      • Bought a set of armour
      • asked about an iron rod. was denied
    • One Eye asked if they had anything for sorcerers,
      • was told to go to the enchanter.
  • Luna headed to a general store for rations
  • Vyra stopped on the way to the enchanter to get the basket and wool
    • a human at loom
    • a firbolg at the weaver
  • On to the enchanter!
    • Outside normal building, Inside a living tree-stump.
      • Ancient, Spring dryad.
    • Myrkan asked about enchanted armour
      • they’re EXPENSIVE
        • 2000 paid for in “Nepo Money”
    • One Eye asked about ring of protection
      • Myrkan loans money to One Eye

It is hereby acknowledged and agreed that the individual denominated as Myrkan shall provide, of his own volition and without expectation of reimbursement, the sum of seventy (70) gold pieces toward the purchase of the item known as a “Ring of Protection” on behalf of the individual denominated as One Eye

One Eye shall incur no debt, liability, or obligation, whether contractual, equitable, or otherwise, to Myrkan in respect of said sum.

Myrkan
  • Vyra had to run to a stash to get more funds.
    • ❄️ chromatic seal; winter cast upon basket
  • Puppy asked about scrolls
    • mostly druidic spells
    • purchased Healing Word
    • asked how the magical moss works
  • Bron stopped by an apothecary and picked up 2 unstable potions
  • Vyra went back to the Smith and got armour put on the basket
  • At the tavern, Myrkan lost 6 gold gambling (did win 40 at one point).
    • was dragged away from the table by Rya, Luna, Bron, and One Eye
    • won it back
    • Party gave Vyra the Stormgate Selection Tablet (“Wamazon Tablet”)
    • brought 🌢black goop
      • every magic class included when detect magic was used
      • from Ringmaster warehouse
  • Apothecary trip
    • small gnome
    • Myrkan was chastised for not having the vials in a proper bag
    • gnome put the vial in a machine
    • starts to hum and violently shake
    • good news:
      • left ability to detach and un-convert
      • no bad intentions
    • bad news:
      • meant to cling to and convert living matter into (basically) zombie
        • Mind control
    • interesting news:
      • Divine origin magic
    • Rya attempts to pour it on Myrkan
      • Initially it missed.
      • It tries to go after Myrkan anyway.
        • Myrkan tries to eldritch blast it.
        • The goop split into 3 pieces.
          • attached onto Myrkan’s leg
            • scales on leg to the hip turned black
          • Rya casts holy flame on leg
            • done damage
          • Rya casts cure wounds
            • doesn’t do anything
  • Vyra suggested waiting till we go to the Ringmaster, rather than doing more damage
  • Myrkan bought an alchemy pouch for the rest of the black goop

next morning

  • Myrkan’s arm is also covered.
    • a vial was smashed overnight.
  • Myrkan picked up his armour
  • Must go beyond the last city.

Velmara

  • most of a day’s travel
  • Giant glass dome coming out of the mountain
  • Only place to get skyglass
  • stepped terraces and glass observatories.
  • mechanism in town
    • bright currently
      • perhaps making skyglass
  • sun at 45° angle
    • can only make skyglass 2 times a day
    • must be at the right angle.
  • Party has a rest at a tavern
  • Argument in a raised garden
    • first person claims the other person slept with their daughter
    • Rya asks what the commotion is.
    • Vyra stopped by a knight of her family.
      • Told she has unfinished business
        • ex-fiancé (forced)
  • Taken to the family estate.
    • Argument with family and ex
    • the family considers all other species to be ‘lesser’.
    • could not accept Bron as a husband
    • Ex-fiancé believed that Vyra didn’t get a choice in the marriage
    • Accepted and was unhappy with Vyra’s parents
    • Vyra Disowned

Come, let us wash the dust of this place from our feet

Vyra
  • Travelled on
    • Travelling merchant
      • Rya wants a rope-dagger
        • merchant only has black steel, which has non-conductive properties

Dryska Hold

  • Party arrives towards the end of the day.

Killing the Riper(s)

Attendees

Bron, Dante, Vergil, Vyra

Notes from the session

  • fought 2 baddies/Rippers
  • Had to revive Vergil and Dante
    • were cut off from The Weave when stabbed
  • Rippers were made of magic
    • nothing left after death
    • serial killer
  • “They killed me. I only came back for revenge”
    • last words before death were that he would get revenge
  • Rift of magic in town
    • Bron and Vyra got new spells from the rift
      • Bron got the spell Spark Jump
      • Vyra got the Blinding Smite spell
  • refused at gate, went to nearby inn.
    • got free rooms

Jumping Plains

Attendees

Bron, Vyra, Rya, Myrkan

Notes from the session

  • Party met up at a tavern with 2 new members (Bron and Vyra)
  • Party gathered around planes-walker who teleported them to a different plane (where the dragonborn are from)

Thunderpeak

  • Myrkan’s home town
    • his father, Vaerion, has a compound here
  • Rya went to the temple directly
    • learned of the Ripper.
  • Vyra bought a cloak to hide herself, as she was not well liked by her family.
  • All convened at the compound, where Myrkan had to vouch for the party.
    • One Eye attempted to go into the compound without permission. Had to be restrained until his giant size was removed.
  • We were asked to wait before entering Vaerion’s office.
    • Vyra felt like she had to look after Vergil, gaining him the nickname puppy
      • tried to see if he would play fetch with some copper coins.
  • Vaerion asked the party to try and find the Ripper, as it was killing citizens.
    • gave 2 gauntlets that shoot dispel magic darts,
  • Party had to wait till nightfall.
    • started to explore town.
    • got first glimpse of Ripper