Session Recap
Game Date:
1172-7-14
Details
Martin sends a message to Lyza”Lyza, wenderstand you are in thendercroft. Can you confirm? We are working on a plan. Hang tight. P. S. It’s Martin” He gets a reply:“I think I am. Don’t do anything stupid. I can hear chanting and strange noises. ” Martin doesn’t pass along the”don’t do anything stupid part. ”
A shady looking guy enters the bar and greets Arada. They chat briefly and he passes something to her. When he leaves, Arada explains that there is a shift change at midnight, and there is a brief opportunity to go over the wall, into the prison proper, and on the ground level there is a main hallway and a trap door going down.
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They only know of the one entrance to thendercroft, but there is a rumor of another one. The wall is 25 feet tall or so. Arada regrets not having a grappling hook. Pondering, she reaches into a pocket in the back of her vest and pulls out a foldable grappling hook. Martin also expresses a desire to avoidkilling any guardsnnecessarily and fors to try to be the good guys if we can.
We take our tabards off and head to the Grey Halls. Turin casts Pass Without a Trace to makes stealthier. We look and don’t see anyone at the top of the walls. Arada climbsp, stumbling briefly. Turin follows, and they pullp Eugene. They pullp Martin and Penelope shows off to climbp herself, immediately falling to the ground. A second time, we all make it to the top. We remember to gather the rope and hook.
Arada listens at the door and cautiously opens it. We enter. Turin heads down first due to darkvision, with Arada following.
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On the first floor, there are three doors, one with a view down the hallway. They see a guard down the end of the hallway. Time to be sneaky. Turin gets the rest ofs. Martin recommends quicksaving.
Arada opens the door we were told about and slips in. It is a storage room with nothing stored. Turin notices the ground sound hollow and finds a hidden trap door. Arada doesn’t find any traps and opens itp.
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There is an iron ladder leading down. There is a landing with a set of double doors. Arada hears heavy breathing like someone has been running, with a touch of panic. We slip in, and there are people there who are not guards. It looks like an intake area with a couple thugs and a cage opening like an airlock.
A thug aims at Turin and misses. Turin shoots at the caged guard. And then the other guard. Killing both. There is a logbook that ends yesterday. Martin frisks one guard and discovers a Black Hand mark.
Arada hears nothing at the next door, which is alsonlocked. There is a small hall with two doors. Arada listens at the north door and hears nothing. The west door and really hears nothing. The door north is locked for sure.
Turin hears a voice to the west who says”I don’t know who you are, but I highly recommend you leave. This is not a safe place”. So Aradanlocks the west door and we go in. It is a guardroom with beds, tables, etc. The next door isnlocked. Turin and Arada go in.
Martin closes his eyes and listens. There is a sound he doesn’t expect. Eugene opensp his magical eyes and sees a red haired woman invisible in the southwest corner. It is the woman from the ship and the contest.
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She says she was sent down here and is leaving. Something has gone wrong and there are creatures. Martin casts zone of truth to make her talk. She says her boss is the Nameless One. She says she has never seen him. She gets messages. She knows Swiftsword is a customer of the Black Hand. She is trying to avoid confirming that she is a member of the Black Hand.
She got the instructions to come here this afternoon at one of the drops. She doesn’t completely know what was supposed to happen. A sorcerer was supposed to try something and it went wrong. The others with her were grunts.
Turin says we are going to take her equipment and tie herp. Arada takes a step to the side and holds her action. She bolts past Turin. Arada produces a couple spikes and a hammer from her vest and spikes the door shut.
We go back to the other door and Aradanlocks it. There is another set of double doors. Arade hears the sound of the flutter of wings(large bat or small dragon). It sounds like something being dragged across the floor. Eugeneses magic to look through the door. He sees a medium sized room, with a few dead bodies, and two small flying lava things Eugene recognizes as magma mephits. There is also a snail-like thing in the middle of the room with five heads and a multi-hued shell Eugene recognizes and a Flail snail.
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Martin says teamwork makes the dream work and we bust in. Turin launches a pair of arrows killing the close one. One of the mephits breathes flame ons. Penelope kills it in response.
The snail makes five swings against Penelope, hitting twice. Turin fires at the snail, doing massive damage. Arada stabs it. Seriously stabs it. Penelope kills the snail as two more mephits enter. Martin runsp to heal Penelope and takes a face full of fire for his trouble.
Turin kills the second mephit. Arada charges the other one and stabs it. Eugene hits it with a fire bolt causing it to explode in a 36 point critical.
Penelope and Turin check the corridor for cells. They are all empty, though Penelope finds a plant.
Arada picks the lock on the other door. Inside is another snail thing. Two snail things. Martin casts spirit guardians which does max damage. Who knew.
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Turin crits it with his first shot,tterly smacking it.
The remaining snail attacks Penelope doing major damage. Martin stepsp to heal Penelope and do more spirit guardian damage. Arada damages the snail for hurting her Penelope. Turin finishes off the snail, and then the last mephit.
Eugene sees another snail in the distance and fires at it. Two more mephits also joins the fray. We pick off the snail before it can close. One mephit gets killed, and more showp. Martin blocks the door with his spirit guardians.
When the last one dies, it explodes, hitting Arada and Penelope for moderate damage.
We still haven’t found Lyza, but we’ve made progress at least. And Martin has nine more minutes of spirit guardians…