#elf wanderer

Session 3

We have our first true dungeon crawl. Belladonna is the scout so shes the one who inactivates all of the traps so we don’t die.

Larkspur calls Arendir ‘Hurdurdur’ because his name was initially hard to remember.

Frank is, as mentioned several times before, a murderhobo. While his IRL player tries to say he isn’t a stereotypical fighter/warrior, the only thing atypical about him is being shorter than his variety of human. 

We find a crypt with a female orc skeleton (you can tell its female because there is a bow on its head) wearing blue robes. We also find a secret library where Grypho goes HAM and obsesses over the books, which he does for like 2 more sessions. 

Franks irl player asks if he can just take an entire bookshelf with his massive strength, while technically possible it’s not advised so he just fills his backpack instead. 

The blue robe on the corpse is taken by Leswen, who feels a connection to it and mysterious tome in the library.

They investigate and sneak attack some goblins.

NOT SEEN - they go into a tomb where they find a body holding a piece of something, they take the piece from the body and experience hallucinations and feelings of danger so intense they *&^%ing BOOK IT. With Frank picking up all of the Hobbits at once to the displeasure of Rocks.

Once they finally get outside, they are ambushed by an Orc hoard. Arendir, Nimrodel and Frank, who are the heaviest hitters, keep the orc hoard from advancing so the others can escape. 

Rocks is the last to escape, but the DM hints that another hoard might be coming from behind so quickly they take the lantern from Grypho who left right before them, emptied their bag of the wood they gathered last session, and threw the lantern on it setting a fire block in the cave so the other hoard can’t come through (goblins are afraid of fire)

Once everyone is out of the cave, Arendir, Nimrodel and Frank follow, they get far enough away that they have enough of a head start for Arendir who has a skill in carpentry to build a very rough raft and float down the river.

Session 2

After we almost die at the hands of orcs after a DM asspulls us out of a TPK, we take our time a little more with things. We start covering our tracks more as we continue out of Mirkwood.

We had Nimrodel the elf join us around this time along with the dwarf Arendir. Nimrodel is also an Elf, and while technically elves don’t really need to sleep, you can see the three elves ‘meditating’ instead. 

To tell the difference between the elves when not coloured - Larkspur has the hair things (which is sprigs of delphinium/larkspur) and bangs. Leswen has braids framing her face and kind of looks like Princess Zelda. Nimrodel has her hair pulled back and no bangs. 

Here the player who plays Frank start expressing that Frank isn’t actually a beefcake - he’s only 5′8 and ‘doesn’t look like a stereotypical Beorning’. The artist starts drawing Frank to look like his player more.

Larkspur’s player IRL had a bad roll and accidentally broke the string of her elven bow.

Session 6

Now that the bear has been killed the party loots his hoard, finding a shit ton of treasure and grisly bear meat. The problem is, they have to talk about how to split it, and also how to actually carry it. There’s so much loot, they actually have to talk about weight.

Belladonna obvious gets most of it, because most of the rest of the part isn’t that interested in treasure (Rocks is of a prosperous culture, and Larkspur only cares about nature) They end up burying several barrels worth of gold ore rocks, with Arendir having the discern which rocks have the most gold in them.

Rocks at some point pulls Arendir to the side. They go off on a long-winded story of how they used to do a lot of shrooms when they were young, and now they think this ‘rock’ they found is actually some kind of drug rock (they thought the power of the seeing stone giving them visions was hallucinogens) So they give it to Arendir because dwarves have knowledge of rocks and stones. He realizes the power of the stone and shows it to the party, not before berating rocks for keeping to to themselves. 

“In all fairness, do you really think Human Warrior can handle hallucinations? Have you met the guy?” -Rocks.

Leswen tries to use the seeing stone, but because of her player IRL poor rolls, she doesn’t see anything. Frank takes a jab at it, and by using a SICK RHYME (and his player IRL getting a good roll) not only is he able to use the seeing stone, he can use it to the extent he can actually see EXACTLY where the Munroe, evil hobbit in Laketown who put him in jail, is. He can also see he has another piece of the shard.

Much like the interrupted session from last time, they talk about the anti-poison bracelet, silver sword, and magic ring.

The bracelet is given to Leswen, the silver sword is given to Larkspur. The ring is given to Arendir by Frank. We IRL joke about how Arendir and Frank are now engaged.

The bit about Rocks showing the other hobbits a fidget spinner is a reflection of how I, their player IRL, use a spinner throughout the session for hours because my usual method stimming is crunching dice in my hand, which causes Leswens player to have over-stimulation. 

Almost out of Mirkwood, they come across a shoddy camp of Goblins and Orcs. The party sans the pacifists like Leswen and Rocks decides to kill the party to get them out of the way.

Larkspur and Belladonna decide to sneak inside, they eventually get caught and a fight encounter is started. We have to work our way around poisonous briars and mushrooms in this fight.

Frank takes a rage potion that makes him super strong, but super out of control because neither his race nor class (knight) are adept at handling rage like Arendir. 

We joke around how Rocks singing ‘Songs of Slaying’ is basically heavy metal death growl singing.

Larkspur has seal/cat teeth. She looks cute until she yawns, and then just sharp teeth. 

A digital recolor of an earlier shipping artwork by @bluemewqt

The obligatory shipping page courtesy of myself and @bluemewqt​

Leswen x Larkspur because they’re both elves and the players are dating IRL.

Belladonna x Frank because they’re both bloodthirsty vicious killers. And their players are also dating IRL. 

Rocks x Larkspur because their players are the ones drawing the shipping pages. 

Bonus page; the real reason why Gypho is so useless during encounters