Session Recap
Game Date: 1172-7-25
The night passes uneventfully.
The mine has a wide entrance with a palisade built across and an iron door in it. A set of cart tracks leads under the door. There is an obvious transfer point outside, and it is overall well travelled.
Using the key from whats-his-face, we open the door and step inside. Immediately inside, there is a cart with a bunch of boxes. It appears to have iron or coal. We take the right passage.
In an open area we see some small beastlike monsters.
Arada rushesp and stabs one. Between Eugene, Penelope, and Turin they finish off the demon kitties with haste. It looks to be a break room.
Further on there is another mine cart that looks dusty. We carry on and discover a dense thicket of thorny brambles blocking the passages for 15 feet or so. Martin takes a cutting.
Along another passage we find the body of presumably a miner. There is very little flesh left. Arada discovers another, very large mine beast.
Turin attacks it twice doing considerable damage. It moves around the corner because it is too large to squeeze through the opening. We get a couple hits in before it can engage. It bites Arada seriously harming her before Penelope can finish it off.
A bit further on there is a set of stairs that have been partly blocked by a rockslide. We carefully clamber down. We find a small lake with a boat as well as a fishing spot. Across the water we hear some rustling and gnawing.
We have Penelope, Arada, and Martin take the boat across, and we tie a rope to the boat so Turin and Eugene can pull it back. Across the river we see a swarm of spiders. Fortunately the melee people are close and the range are in the back. With a little effort we dispatch them. Mama showsp.
Mama dies.
Underneath all the spiderweb and eggs and such, Arada sees a vein of ore with what might be gold. Eugene carefully burns the web and takes a little of the gold. Unfortunately this is otherwise a dead end.
We come to a small cliff with a lake. We drop a lit rock in and see that it is very, very deep. Bored, Penelope explores and hears some strange growling and scraping noises to the southeast. We go investigate.
There are cobwebs over an old rockslide. We climb up and see three of the smaller beasts.
Penelope kills two and Turin finishes the last. As we reach the top it looks like the remains of a one person campsite. Searching the campsite reveals a gruesomely dismembered corpse that has been ripped apart.
There is the remains of a cage and whatever was inside the cage has burst out. There is a book which appears to be a bestiary that Eugene can’t read. Towards the back are some notes. Eugene uses comprehend language to read it.
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One entry looks like one of the critters we killed called a mine demon and its young look like the smaller ones.
Turin does some scouting and finds a couple places we haven’t searched. We also find a backpack with rope, 50 gold coins, and some nice boots. We also find a receipt for 50 gold marked “T ”
We find a narrow mine tunnel ending in an ancient rockslide and another narrow tunnel that has been mined out.
As we climbp a small tunnel, we feel the ground rumble. Along the wall to the north we see a bunch of rubble come down along the length. There appears to be a doorway.
There appears to be a rough hewn hallway going down 20 to 30 feet going downward. Arada goes to explore. As she has gone down 20 or so feet, she notices from one side of the passageway is a small stream. She whistless down.
This looks like a worked cave section that someone has put some work into.
The area is lit by a weird greenish glow.
Along one passage, Arada finds a glowing green rock. If we knew what Earthheart Emeralds look like, this might be it. Meh, probably good enough.
Exploring for the monster, we find a monster. Daisy?
We barely damage it and it attacks Arada and misses. It stops momentarily building up pressure, shaking the cavern. Arada starts climbing on it, and Turin does a major hit. Eugene webs it, and it spends its turn breaking free breaks. The cavern shakes again, knocking most of us down before Penelope kills it. Eugene takes spare parts.
Down a hall we see a glow to the south. We come to a small room with a ladderp to a ledge with another glowing rock.
Eugene finds a room with a floor made of crushed bones and another rock. We find these rocks all over the place.
And we find another one of the clockwork monsters. It swings and hits Penelope. Martin sacred flames it, and Turin hurts it. Eventually Penelope kills it off in a manner too epic to describe.
We keep finding crystals and get to another monster. This one seems harder to take down, either that or the luck has not been as with us. We kill it and take a short rest in Eugene’s hut.