This session was played May 7th. It lasted two days in game time.
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| it's pizza time |
"B Team"
Gideon - Assassin 1
Gino - Assassin 1
Emryss - Druid 1
BEFORE PLAY
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| 69 |
Before this session started I gave my players an article by Lewis Pulsipher called "Ready for Anything" that appeared in issue #69 of Dragon Magazine. I thought it had some pretty useful information that would inspire the PC's to do great things.
This specific article is full of ideas on what materials to buy certain things in and why, how to combine magic spells and simple items to make useful gadgets, and also some defensive tips to keep the adventurers alive longer.
Some specific highlights from it are: ceramic jars will break when thrown, iron ones will not; brining a horn is a useful signal or communication aid; colored dust and chalk to mark walls or throw on invisible enemies; and how to create a flashlight.
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DAY 1 - MAY 7
The session starts off with the PC's spending a few hours (game time) buying supplies, items, and hirelings. They meet a new adventurer named Emryss, an adventuring druid. (He's going to have to do a good job of keeping this a secret in the city, highly illegal stuff right there. Drews aren't liked much in the city.) They receive the potions they left to Bo' Jiden to be appraised. Luckily for them he was offering a discount, they turned in 5 potions to be identified and what they received was: a philter of love, oil of etherealness, oil of slipperiness, a potion of fire resistance, and a vial of poison.
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| orders from the "big guy" |
The group is prepared to pay the price for the potions since they like Bo Jiden's substantial discounts. They also purchase leather bags that perfectly fit each vial and other glass containers.
The group intends to return to "The Pizza Basement" to continue their investigation. They decide to go later that night. They avoid any random city encounters and go unmolested save for the usual Krozpont shenanigans.
Inside, everything is the same. The main components of the house appear to be unused. Only the room with the basement trap door appears to be changed. The rug was retracted over the trap door in a slightly different location than before.
The party is itching to get into the basement and find some cheese pizza. Chadimir orders Yuri to go first, and he follows. The Moustache Gang, Wario and Waluigi go next, followed by Gino. Then Gideon and Emryss followed by Gideon's lumberjacks, Dexter and Harrison & recent hires Chunk and Chenk.
Chunk and Chenk lead the way in the basement, followed by the lumberjacks. They light torches and make their way down the corridors slowly, as if someone might be down here right now. The party arrives at a door on the side of the corridor after about 20 minutes, which is only about 200 feet in dungeon delving speed. Gideon manages to push his hirelings out of the way and open the door.
Unfortunately, that startled a dozen giant cave rats behind the door. After a few rounds of combat, Chadimir Putin charges in rage at a rat, impales it onto his blade, brings it to his mouth, and takes a large bite out of it. Luckily for him, he passed his check for disease. Normally this is only checked when the rat bites the PC but I think a PC eating a raw rat warrants the role as-well.
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| if he dies, he dies |
Wario and Waluigi collect two of the rats. Gino later remarks that he wants to use them to make stink bomb. Decaying rats will surely do the job.
The exploration continued into the basement/cave beneath the home, but there was no evidence of Buttypeg or anybody else. That is, until they reach a corridor with four doors, presumably corresponding to four rooms.
Gino is about to open the farthest left door when he is stopped by the party who is about to open the first right door. Ouch. The door they opened led to a room in a barracks where about a dozen guards were taking a break. Six men-at-arms, a level 1 assassin, cleric, and fighter in total. The party is nervous and want to move away from the door. Luckily then win initiative.
While the rest of the party is backing away, Gino comes running, oil flasks in hand, like a kamikaze pilot toward the open door to hurl the oil into the room. He throws one flask. One of the henchmen throws another but they are unable to light them. So for right now the enemies and their room are mostly covered in oil.
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| Gino with oil flasks |
Chenk wasn't able to get out of the room on his turn and the men-at-arms knock him down. The rest of the characters grab their equipment and move toward the party. End of turn.
The party is able to win initiative again. Gino throws his torch into the room, igniting the room and everyone in it. The stone room didn't burn so much as the flesh and feather beds of the people in it. I used the splash damage chart for flaming oil from the DMG and the splash damage and sustained burn from two oil flasks was enough to kill everyone in the room.
As the party watched from down the hallway they heard screams in agony of men with their leather armor burning to their flesh or metal armor cooking them like a convection oven and being too hot to take off. These audible signs of extreme pain were followed by a few men-at-arms stumbling out of the room, each in their own unique way, some falling onto the floor writhing in pain; others holding onto the walls as support until they collapse.
When the heat died down the party searched the room and Gino found three ivory goats tucked away in an unlocked iron chest. Gideon took a set of chain-mail from the supply hanging on the wall and then left for the other rooms.
These other rooms were mostly barren of interesting stuff save for some cultic robes & some used pizza boxes. All black with a line drawing of an owl. Unsure of what these robes meant, Gideon suggested the party each take one, and he took the remaining to distribute to the hirelings. The continue through all three other rooms in this hallway and each of them are filled with bunks and these cultic robes. One room however, has one bunk bed less than the others. The party spent some extra time investigating this room and found a hidden journal, and a secret passage.
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| krozpont's very own |
The journal recounts events of how "'their boss' doesn't care about them at all. All he does is sit in his house with his lover and eat pizza." The secret passage leads into a hallway with a bend. As soon as Chadimir's steps into the hallway a loud shrieking noises echoes throughout the entire underground system they are in. The point of origin coming from directly in front of him, Chadimir sees a shrieker and charges it.
The party is easily able to defeat the shrieker but at what cost? What did it alert? The party isn't taking any chances and wants to leave the basement ASAP. They follow the tunnel and find three urns filled with platinum coins, totaling 100 coins. (A make shift coin vault and alarm system). Fortunately for them the secret passage leads them back into the foyer after the ladder. The one where they encountered the orcs and the room with the four pillars.
As they run past the four pillars they notice there are statues carved into the pillars. The descriptions on the statues read:
"Kevin Spacley - Honored for his role in promoting child acting."; "Harvatious Weinstein - Despite his drewish ancestry he has been an ardent supporter of women in drama."; "Dan Schneider - "Remembered for giving child actors jobs in award winning dramas and plays."; "Jawn Podesta - Dedicated his life to managing political projects aimed at helping the youth."
These statues were commissioned by the J. Epp Conglomerate.
Due to his hardline and fringe culture, Chadimir lead the party in writing and drawing anti-gay slurs and pictures on the wall, repeating over and over, "its Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve!"
DAY 2 - MAY 8
After their graffitiing the basement, the party exits on the verge of daybreak. This is where the party ends the session.
After the session there were some rumors related to the parties activities. Loose lips sink ships and unfortunately for the party there seems to be a leaker. There have been rumors circling the city that some hirelings were hired by Russabelleans to assassinate a Krozpont official.
Additionally, horse stock is now being recommended by More On News since horses are in short supply and in high demand. Nobody knows where they can get one right now. If you have one, keep it safe and treat it gently.
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| $HORS to the moon |
(Does that mean horse? We may never know.)
