Shaw’s D&D Session
Akirrah an aasimar and The Duke a goblin find themselves prisoners of a minotaur camp they hear arguing among the minotaurs. Turns out the one who brought them there has been told to take them away get them to safety he agrees and they set out. They soon face a creature who only stares them down. They go around it. Akirrah having suggested they not attack what doesn’t attack them. They are cornered by Githyanki who demand they get the trident of Poseidon knowing they are out numbered they agree. Orhanto however makes it clear they will give them a fake taking the real one for themselves. In town they are joined by Ront a half-orc who sales the prizes he receives to the town’s greedy barkeep he hears what they are up to and can’t help but go along. The Duke makes a few jokes as they venture out. They soon come to a near by cave. Inside The Duke reaches out to touch ooze on the wall which burns through his gloves. They decide to get out of dodge running and getting deeper into the cave as the ooze ends up behind them. They escape it coming to a huge door next to which is a door almost too small for a mouse. The Duke plays with the small door and as they knock at the bigger one something inside knocks back. They demand to know what is inside but it mocks them every time. Orhanto decides to break in he and Ront get the door open. Orhanto falls having had hairs somehow tied by something. They are greeted by a huge throne which The Duke runs and jumps into. The room has chests on either side and pixies flying about taunting them, but not in a menacing way. Seeing this they start to open the chests asking the pixies about it the pixies say it is not theirs. They open them anyway despite not knowing who’s they are. Orhanto recruits one of the pixies to come along. They leave the room and head down the other side coming to a door that pushes open. On the wall in draconic is clues regarding the graves in the room belonging to the some “heroes” under the pile of tombs! tones they see a large chest. They decide the best and safest way to avoid danger is to solve the clues and put the tombstones where they belong. Akirrah and The Duke solve the puzzle while Ront and Orhanto talk to their new pixie friend. With the puzzle solved they open the chest. They take the weapons and choose not to explore instead running back to the throne room where the pixies fly about. Ront and Orhanto move the throne seeing the secret door below. Akirrah pulls the chain and they venture down. They hear voices and The Duke screams hello. Two gnolls walk in they attack but are crushed by magic used by Akirrah and The Duke and massively placed weapon shots from Orhanto and Ront. They find their way out and camp for the night. Ront manages to kill a bear for them to eat. They walk on seeing something scurry past. They decide to avoid it but two brain like creatures with legs that they find to be the strangest things drop from the trees landing on Orhanto and Ront. They manage to pull free but not before the other two jump into action. Once more magic from Akirrah and The Duke and hard blows from new weapons by Orhanto and Ront crush the attackers. They were not out of danger yet there was still a ways to go before the next small town.
Our heroes having left the cave and done with battle moved on soon came across a phase spider. They quickly jumped into action. Orhanto used vines to entangle the eight legged freak after it had tried to attack. They pounded on it it with a barrage of spells and hits from their weapons. It got free of the binding but was no match. It fell to their attacks. They made their way to the city of Redmist ruled by a cambion named count Leingel. Ront made his way to the bar to drink, while The Duke and Akirrah shopped. Orhanto went to the temple to worship his god. He found they did not allow worship. He made his way to the castle he questioned the count and was thrown into jail. Shortly thereafter The Duke who was playing with Orhanto’s pixie pulled a stunt that resulted in burning of city property. He was thrown in jail disguised as an imp. Akirrah was nearby and had a feeling she should check it out. She visited them in the cell and then spoke to the count. He agreed to let them go if nothing else was done. She however opted to tell them if they were not gone they would be killed in the morning. They went to the tavern The Prancing Satyr to retrieve Ront. As they left the bar the townsfolk were talking about four heroes who were killed in a nearby cave and wondering who would do such a thing. The Duke ran off they left him in the city shortly thereafter he found them camping outside of the city. Alone in the woods they begin to talk about what to do next.
The group decided to head back into the city, where they would try to charter a ship. They found a captain who would take them in return for them helping on the ship. A Githyanki appeared demanding the trident, they told him the cambion count in the city they had just left had it. He left to retrieve it. Using all they could they fought off a sea monster. They reached land and stepped onto a beach. Up in the palm trees were bullywugs firing down arrows at them. Thinking quick the group prepared for battle as several ran out to attack them. They fought hard some on ground and the goblin in the trees. The battle ended with one being slingshot out of the tree high into the clouds falling to its death. Now they must continue on, but what lays beyond the trees what is this treasure the captain of their new ship wants so bad?
The group went back to the cave with a new friend a triton prince. They figured out how to trap the mindflayers and beat them. Later upon returning to the camp they were informed their aasimar friend was no more. They set out to loot the cave but there was a spy among them. The prince. They slayed them but their former friend had escaped. They have only the Githyanki they rescued, but can he help them? And why doesn’t the captain attack more. See you guys tomorrow night. Looking forward to it.
The group had left the mindflayers cave the minotaur Ront announced he would leave the group to reflect on failing in his mission as he left a dwarf approached them. He told them he was looking for some travelers who had killed a group of heroes, they knew this was the crime that had been pinned on them, but told him they would help find this party. With their new friend they rested outside of the mindflayers cave. During the rest a Githyanki soldier appeared, they had discovered the trident of Poseidon the group had given them was a fake. The soldier warned them they were running out of time that his leader wanted the trident. They attacked him and took his head with them to the nearby city of Faanora otherwise called the wooden city, due to all of its buildings including the castle itself being made of wood. Some immediately ran to the bar The Tripping Goat while The Duke took the Githyanki head to be delivered and did some shopping. In the bar they met an elf he hears their tale and is asked to join them. The Duke and Ront’s pixie decide to cause problems in the bar and pour a potion in the beer barrel. This results in all the patrons who drank becoming incapable of rational talk. The dwarf leaves the bar he insults elves in the street and is approached by a guard who knows who is is and what his mission is. He says they want to hire his group and to meet them in the castle at dusk. In the bar the pixie had found a new friend in the elf. They are told some of what happened by the dwarf the druid had seen all of the exchange while in spider form. They head to the castle where they are let in. They head to the throne room where they are greeted by the king. He tells them that the four heroes murdered is in fact three and that the fourth one had killed his friends, they are careful not to say they were the ones accused. The king tasks them with finding this oath breaker Paladin and killing him they are offered 800 gold a piece and 8 days of rations, and told a carriage awaits them outside. They proceed to head out.Â
No sooner than our heroes left they were met by Orcs then mindflayers one of which was their used to travel with what is now this group.
A lot of fun stuff happened our dwarf picked a bar fight with the orc shop owner. Our team noticed the capt acting as weird as always and when they asked the shop keep orc the next day about Egon the Paladin he said he was in the bar talking to some ugly guy. They instantaneously knew it must be their Githyanki friend and that the capt was Egon. They left they city and convinced the capt to break for lunch separating him from the Gith they killed the capt and found out the Gith had been told by him not to attack and had no idea who the capt really was. The crew knew while the capt was dead they were still being hunted by the Githyanki and mindflayers and that they were still possibly going to have to answer for the graves if not to the people who sent the Paladin group there to the demon Egon served.
