Ted Campaign 5

April 25, 2006

Game 1:  53850

"First Game..."

DAY 1:

The game opens on the last day of Smarch.

  • We are in the town of Allyana.
  • We are part of the Redpath guild.
  • The weeks are 11 days long and there are two in every month.
  • We are sititngf at the Redbottle inn
  • Andy (Deus Pendulum)
    • Cleric
    • guant, his hair is greesy
    • Snape copyright
  • Aaron (Haron Haroon)
    • Ranger
    • look like a carolina fan
  • Lane (Artic)
    • Dragon Disciple / Sorcerere 5th
    • tall half bald
    • monk haircut
    • skin is a little off in color
    • claws in the bakc of his hand
  • Jeremy (Zeradar of the Savras)
    • skin is purple
    • race is a Zenythri
  • Tom Beeker (Rylander)
    • Evoker
  • Tom (Tolan Shadowalk)
    • Druid
    • Dark green and black
    • long black hair

I overhear from one of the waitresses that she overheard a delivery guy about a job.  nothing more than simple caravan duty.

  • the guild is across the street from the inn

we go to the inn and meet with the desk-manager

  • Mentar is the human desk-manager
  • he is talking to two half-brothers that run a trading company called the five moons
  • they don't think that we are ready for the job
  • we take the brothers back to the inn an buy them a drink

We are back in the inn.  One of our party members return We treat to a bottle of wine.

  • two brothers are Gendar and Carrall
  • looking to set up a base in the elven town of Sunbridge
    • located in the kingdom of fellana
    • they are restrictive of allowing outsiders
  • the company wants to look more important than they are
  • travel time
    • roughly three days
    • on the river Queen
      • the flagship
  • Five moons
    • two bases of operation
    • 1st 
    • 2nd 
  • pay
    • 5 gold per day
    • they will pay for room
  • departure
    • day after tomorrow
    • hour after sunrise
    • leave by boat

After the trading company brother leave a little boy comes running into the tavern.

  • his father was farming and he fell in a hole
    • his sister and a cow went into the hole
  • the boy does not want to go back into the night
  • instruction to the farm
    • one of the waitress knows the boy
    • farmer Johnson's little boy
    • about a mile an a half outside of the town
  • I have to cast light on a GP and give it to him

We are in the house with the little boy.  We leave the little boy in the house and move out the back door to investigate the hole.

  • Lane threw a light in the hole
  • We see a light coming from the hole

we get to the hole and peer inside

  • There is a cow at the bottom of the hole
  • roughtly 25 feet deep
  • there is no smell coming from the hole
  • there is a tunnel running from the hole
  • Aaron is climing down
    • there is a dead cow and a rock with a light on it
    • he listens and does not hear anything
  • The rest of the party decide to climb down
    • Beeker managed to fall the last 4 feet
  • Beeker
    • using knowledge dungeoneeing to see if the cavern was constructed or natural
      • it is a dug tunnel

We are in the tunnel

  • there is a fork in the tunnel
  • two trails
    • monster to the right
    • human to the left
    • we follow the monster trail
  • path goes on another 80 feet
  • Aaron searches for traps and finds none (natural 1)
  • we enter a large cavern
    • aaron tries to get a feel for the cavern size
    • roughly 80 feet across
  • Lane throws his light across the room
  • Beeker dares aaron to run across the cavern and touch the far wall
    • he accepts for 10 gold
    • he makes it across with no problems.
    • he missed the light at the end of the cavern
  • We follow the tracks right into the far wall
    • They lead to the far wall
    • they go right into the wall
    • we get to the far wall and something is amiss
  • Andy hears soemting
    • holds his action
  • Tolan
    • moves tot he side
  • evil (bullette)
    • it bursts from the wall and attacks me dealing damage
    • stupid, mean, fearless
  • lane casts magic missile and deals damage
  • jeremy attack with stunning fist
    • he hits but the Bullette is not stunned
  • Aaron steps forward and fires twice
    • he misses both times
  • Beeker casts the mirror spell for the magic missle
    • deals 24 points damage
  • Andy moves forward into combat and casts Prayer
  • Jeremy uses the Stunning Fist again
    • it is not stunned but it is damaged
  • Evil attacks me with a bite
    • attacks lane and jeremy with a claw
    • there is the forearm of an old man in his front claws
  • lane uses both the bithe and the claw
    • he hits with the bite and misses the claw
  • Tolan attacks with the Shillage club then retreats
  • Aaron fires at the mouth and hits twice
  • Beeker uses the wand
  • Andy casts Cure Light on me
  • Jeremy uses flurry and hits twice
    • DEATH BLOW
  • Aaron searches for his arrows and finds them

We split open the Bullette

  • we find a license plate
  • a foot
  • Both Lane and I take 4 points of BBBS acid damage from inside the Bullete
  • There is nothing of interest

the consensus is to go to the other tunnel and try to find the girl

  • we retrace our steps back to the fork
  • We move past and get to a worked stone tunnel
  • the walls are worked not natural
    • possibly an old mine
  • Andy moves back to the middle
  • The path into the worked tunnel looks new

We get tot a cross path

  • right and left are cave in
  • tunnel ahead clear

We get to a door that is slightly open

  • it is hanging on its hinges
  • i listen and hear sobbing and scratching
  • i push open the door and it falls off its hinges
    • the noise is really loud

We are attacked as the door falls

  • Evil attacked me twice and hit once
  • Evil swings sword and hits
    • all evil tries to hit me and misses
    • they smell so bad that they cause some of us to wretch
  • Aaron attacks with long sword
  • Jeremy moves forward to hit the first creature
    • he is not affected by the smell
  • Tolan casts flame strike on the room
    • i feel weaker
  • Andy casts celestial bison to smite evil
    • it misses
  • Lane casts magic missile on three of the creatures
  • Aaron swings and hits only once
  • Jeremy hits with flurry
  • Tolan casts call lightning
    • buffalo and jeremy damaged by BBBS lightning effect
  • Lane magic missiles on the nearest one
  • Beeker magic missile on the wand
  • evil attacks Aaron
    • provokes and AOA from the BISON
  • Aaron swings and misses both times
  • jeremy swings with flurry and hits
  • Tolan fires off another lightning bolt
    • it does not damage the creature
  • evil screams
    • sends Tolan panicked in the other direction
    • panicked and running from the source of evil
  • Aaron kills the final one

There is no other magical items on the creature

  • There is an alcove in the room about 8 feet above the floor
    • There is a girl in the alcove
    • she is paralyzed and stiff
    • jeremy pulls her down and manages to do damage to her
  • we discover that we were fighting two Ghasts and two Skeletons
    • the skeletons were using two weapons
      • the bones are blackish
      • they are probably created
    • it strikes us a little odd
  • the only other end of the room is blocked by a cave in
  • There is a chest of 800 cp

The girl wakes up when we get back to the cow and the tunnel

  • The girl is upset about the cow
  • we put the cow on the Tensor Floating Disk and raise the cow
  • we give the cp to the kids and take them back to town
    • they say that they have a Crazy Aunt in town
    • we take the kids to the inn and set them up in a room for the night

DAY 2:  Morning

 

The next morning we go down to the tavern.  It is the first day of the month of April

  • we discover that the kids would be better in the hands of the church
    • we send the kids to the church of Selune
    • the aunt is a POS
  • we ask about the skeletons and the odd behavior
    • the brothers mention that an old party "The Order of the Tree Viper"
      • it was our previous party

We talked to the girl while taking her to the temple of Selune

  • she fell in the hole
  • she kept walking and went looking for her dad
  • the church people will do most of the upkeep

We all go to the church

  • we meet the leader of the church 
    • her name is Lou
  • we learn that the farmer used to be a member of the church
    • a were-badger killed the farmers really hot wife
    • the farmer lost his faith
    • the church doesn't seem too broken up about the death
  • The church agrees to take the children in safety
  • the church is more than happy to take the farm and auction it off
  • we ask about the black skeletons
    • they normally don't see them in the dungeons or in the forest
    • they are normally seen in the Dungeons of Rapanatik
  • I asked for help in healing
    • no help at all
    • the points will restore at a rate of 1 point per day
  • I offer to trade my more expensive Darkwood shield for a lesser expensive Darkwood shield but they won't go for it

GAME RULINGS:

  • height for spells effects spills horizontal if there is not enough clearance

MEMORABLE MOMENTS:

  • Ted:  "Undead happen..."