Session #34 Report
Session #34 , Part 1: Easy Treasures
Nuwl (with henchie Neil), Ouritzo (and Skelebros), and Ro'Haru set out to investigate the ToEE Tower, which was now abandoned post-siege. Nuwl and Ro'Haru swept the tower, finding a fair few valuables. Garret (with 2 henchies + spider) arrived shortly. Ro'Haru discovered a loose stone, which revealed a latch. The latch opened a ladderway down into a small room, where they discovered a chest of coin and a fancy cloak, extremely similar to what Nuwl wears. The party (Nuwl, Neil, Ouritzo, Skelebros, Ro'Haru, and Garret) set off down a tunnel, coming to a cavern nearly an hour later. Ro'Haru's half-elven senses again detected a secret entrance, and the party proceeded to pass through another long tunnel, coming to what seemed to be the Temple a half-hour later.
Nuwl, leading the party, turned the corner into the temple proper to see a basilisk and froze up, then a wall of fire appeared behind it. Ro'Haru came around the corner next and resisted petrification and mightily sliced into the lizard. Ouritzo fired black magic missiles, Lareth came in (since he has no eyes) and killed the basilisk... but the basilisk's body disappeared. Musings were had, but were interrupted by the creaking of an opening door. No person visibly stepped through, and Nuwl cast detect magic, felt some big magic, then fled. Ro'Haru, being proficient at fighting the unseen, felt the presence of a creature within melee range. The unseen foe, a cleverly concealed half-orc woman, stabbed at Ro'Haru, barely wounding him with her sword, but poisoning him in the process. Skelebros engaged, Ro'Haru got his own slashes in, accidentally destroying a Skelebro that got in the way, but landing more massive blows on this sneak. Ouritzo fired off an acid arrow, wounding the sneak, then Ro'Haru came in with a trio of strikes that finished her off. Ro'Haru turned to tell his friends he'd been poisoned... then was wracked with it to an inch of his life; 1 HP remaining.
The sneaky woman dead, Ouritzo and Garret attended to Ro'Haru, bringing him back from the brink, then the party set about to what we do best: looting.
We investigated the room of the woman, finding she had a penchant for exotic armaments, jewelery, and coin. All told, we dipped our toes into the deeper depths of the ToEE and received immense rewards: at least 2300 gold apiece and nearly 4000 XP. The party, blown away by their experiences, gathered armfuls of valuables and hiked back up to the Tower, nervously waiting as dice for random encounters were rolled
The rest of session concluded with a substantial amount of mind-blown sounds and exclamations as Brandon listed the obscene amounts of treasure and experience gained. Lesson learned: ToEE is high risk, high reward. We were rewarded this time. That, and don't leave looting for the next session.
Nuwl (with henchie Neil), Ouritzo (and Skelebros), and Ro'Haru set out to investigate the ToEE Tower, which was now abandoned post-siege. Nuwl and Ro'Haru swept the tower, finding a fair few valuables. Garret (with 2 henchies + spider) arrived shortly. Ro'Haru discovered a loose stone, which revealed a latch. The latch opened a ladderway down into a small room, where they discovered a chest of coin and a fancy cloak, extremely similar to what Nuwl wears. The party (Nuwl, Neil, Ouritzo, Skelebros, Ro'Haru, and Garret) set off down a tunnel, coming to a cavern nearly an hour later. Ro'Haru's half-elven senses again detected a secret entrance, and the party proceeded to pass through another long tunnel, coming to what seemed to be the Temple a half-hour later.
Nuwl, leading the party, turned the corner into the temple proper to see a basilisk and froze up, then a wall of fire appeared behind it. Ro'Haru came around the corner next and resisted petrification and mightily sliced into the lizard. Ouritzo fired black magic missiles, Lareth came in (since he has no eyes) and killed the basilisk... but the basilisk's body disappeared. Musings were had, but were interrupted by the creaking of an opening door. No person visibly stepped through, and Nuwl cast detect magic, felt some big magic, then fled. Ro'Haru, being proficient at fighting the unseen, felt the presence of a creature within melee range. The unseen foe, a cleverly concealed half-orc woman, stabbed at Ro'Haru, barely wounding him with her sword, but poisoning him in the process. Skelebros engaged, Ro'Haru got his own slashes in, accidentally destroying a Skelebro that got in the way, but landing more massive blows on this sneak. Ouritzo fired off an acid arrow, wounding the sneak, then Ro'Haru came in with a trio of strikes that finished her off. Ro'Haru turned to tell his friends he'd been poisoned... then was wracked with it to an inch of his life; 1 HP remaining.
The sneaky woman dead, Ouritzo and Garret attended to Ro'Haru, bringing him back from the brink, then the party set about to what we do best: looting.
We investigated the room of the woman, finding she had a penchant for exotic armaments, jewelery, and coin. All told, we dipped our toes into the deeper depths of the ToEE and received immense rewards: at least 2300 gold apiece and nearly 4000 XP. The party, blown away by their experiences, gathered armfuls of valuables and hiked back up to the Tower, nervously waiting as dice for random encounters were rolled
The rest of session concluded with a substantial amount of mind-blown sounds and exclamations as Brandon listed the obscene amounts of treasure and experience gained. Lesson learned: ToEE is high risk, high reward. We were rewarded this time. That, and don't leave looting for the next session.
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