Session 45: Svardborg Part II Report

General Summary

4.5 Hour Battle session. 5:30 PM to 10:15 PM

Party of 6 (The order of Heroes, Inc.):

• It’s the 27th day of the month of Elient (The fading) in the 3rd year of the Age of Enialis
• Fredrik Fredson – Human L9 Barbarian/L3 Fighter – Dan King (remote)
• Jaquette Mara – L12 Human Druid – Jackie Armstrong
• Lucky Lightfoot – Leprechaun – L11 Bard/L1 Sorcerer – Jacob Munson
• Morgana (Anna) – Human – L8 Rogue/L4 Fighter – Ryan Armstrong
• Rolen – Human L12 Warlock – Josh Pozsonyi
• Tyrus Rechs – Human L9 Ranger/L3 Fighter – Nathan Gioconda

Goals:

• Get stone to Reginald Roundshield to obtain information about Gnolls
• Find out what is going on in Mirabar.

The 3rd floor.

The party continued to debate pursuing the Dragon eggs on the Dark Jewel or returning to Mirabar now that they have the bloodstone. The decision was made (for now) to return to Mirabar and give the bloodstone to Reginald Roundshield. But first they decided to see what was on the 3rd floor where the ladder led. Lucky walked up and lowered a rope and the party ascended. They found 2 crates, 3 barrels, 6 chests and a giant cage with a Giant Owl in it.  
Fredrik tossed Anna on top of one of the chests while Rolen peered into them with some strange feature. Jaquette talked to the owl (Forhan). It took some time to develop any trust with the owl but eventually the Owl was released, and the Owl saw that Jarl Storvold was dead and that the party didn’t pose a significant threat to the Owl. The Owl explained that it and Jarl Storvold had a good relationship but since he’s dead the Owl shared some information.  
The Owl explained that he kept an eye on things when Jarl is away and would carry messages from Jarl to his ships. He explained that he saw one of the white Dragons Cryovain fly away but hasn’t seen Isendraug. The dragons preceded the frost giants on this island and Jarl Storvold stole the eggs to control the dragons. Jaquette found out that White Dragon lair was in the temple right next door.  
Fredrik, Anna and Rolen worked on the chests. Anna used the sunsword to cut open the chests with Rolen pointing out what is inside of each one. They found a Frozen dwarf, some instruments and 4 chests filled with coins. The party spent some time debating if they take the frozen drwarf back to port Llast. Fredrik said he’d carry him as long as he doesn’t get too smelly. Anna took the gold, potions and arrows and left the rest.

The temple of Thyrm

The party took a short rest and then proceeded to the temple. They scouted outside the temple and then went in an opening. They spotted some bones with a bit of flesh on them. Lucky identified them as Giant and Troll bones that had been eaten recently. Rolen recalled the notes about “Trizdor, the mad troll eater.” Lucky cast detect magic, Anna lit the sunsword and they all proceeded in somewhat stealthily. Anna heard a low deep breath as if a huge creature was sleeping. She couldn’t determine if it were a dragon or a Giant, so the rest of the party made bets and headed in that direction.  
Jaquette wild shaped into a bat and approached the room where the noise was heard. A Spirit Troll attacked the bat and killed it. Jaquette converted back into herself and landed on the ground. The rest of the party joined the battle. A huge three-headed Frost Giant (everlasting one) appeared. Clearly Trizdor the troll eater as it sported all sorts of deformities. The party split their focus with some attacking the troll and others attacking the freaky three-headed Frost Giant. After one round they heard movement of another huge creature in the bell tower. Everyone ignored this and still focused on the Troll and the Frost Giant.  
Lucky cast a fireball hitting the frost Giant, Troll and Jaquette and Fredrick. Jaquette wasn’t paying attention and took the full force of the fireball. Her hair was engulfed in flames and her chipmunk Chipper tried to avoid the fire, but it couldn’t get out of the way. Tyrus shot two arrows into the troll and it disappeared. The White dragon crawled down from the bell tower and, clinging to the ceiling, breathed cold upon the party. Jaquette fell unconscious and chipper rolled out of her burnt hair, horrifically burned and sealed in ice. Anna ran to Jaquette and poured a potion of superior healing down her throat and then slashed the Frost Giant. The Frost Giant savagely attacked back gravely wounding Anna. Jaquette cast mass cure wounds on everyone.  
The Troll re-appeared, and Fredrik stabbed it with his spear, and it disappeared again. Rolen pulled out a ruby vial and threw it towards the Dragon. A devil appeared and began attacking the Dragon with flame. The dragon’s tail continued to whack at the Fiend with its tail. Tyrus fired an arrow through all 3 heads of the Frost Giant, killing it.

Isendraug

The dragon let lose a frightening roar scaring Fredrik and Tryus. She then finished off Fiend. Lucky tried to charm it, but the Dragon choose to shake it off. Anna yelled in draconic to Isendraug “We know who took your eggs.” The Giant paused, looking curiously at the party and said, “You still need to deal with the Troll.” The Troll appeared and viciously bit into Fredrik stunning him. The dragon pulled in its wings and simply observed the situation. Jaquette cast a flaming sphere upon the Troll and it disappeared again.  
Rolen took three rapid shots at the dragon and knocked it off the ceiling where it crashed to the floor. The Dragon stood up, bloodied and started to fly away. Lucky pulled out his lute and told it to “STOP.” But the Dragon chose not to. Lucky yelled at it “Don’t you want us to help you get your kids back?” The Dragon continued to flee. A Wall of ice 30 feet tall and 30 feet wide appeared behind the dragon as the dragon flew away. The party heard a loud crash and splash as the dragon crashed through the ice in the far corner of the room.  
The party spent several rounds killing the Spirit Troll just to have it re-appear again. They tried, fire poison, necrotic and thunder damage but it kept on re-appearing. Lucky started to take notes trying to figure out how to kill this thing. Eventually Tyrus had enough and snared the Troll. Lucky guessed that Psychic damage may kill it permanently. Anna slashed it with her sword and Tyrus shot psychic arrow into it. The troll screamed and faded away. It didn’t return.  
Rolen blinked up to the roof and stared south into the ocean, waiting for the dragon to appear. Tyrus shot a seeking arrow at the Dragon and found that it had moved underground and was heading north. Anna and Lucky searched the Temple and found a massive mound of treasure (over 100,000 coins, mostly copper and silver) buried under a thick sheet of ice. Anna also spotted a chest under about 3 feet of ice. Lucky cast detect magic and searched the room, finding nothing magical. Rolen returned and began chipping away at the ice to retrieve the chest.  
Lucky cast fireballs and thunder wave on the pile until they were easily able to retrieve the chest. In the chest they found worthless wooden coins and costume jewelry along with a treasure map and a pipe that had a message in that read: “Here lies the treasure of Captain Silbarr Snake-Eyes, legendary pirate of the Sword Coast. A hex upon any who plunder this trove.” Anna dimly recalled a halfling pirate of no great repute who went by that name. Anna looked at the treasure map and recognized that the map is of a group of islands just north of Waterdeep called “Red Rocks.” The back of the map read:
High tide it hides,
The moon doth make it rise;
The mast points to the prize,
Watched by feathered brides.  
Tyrus went outside and saw the Dragon flying away from the island in a Southwesterly direction. He had also seen a Giant ship sitting in the harbor that had chains on the deck (they type of chains used to hold a dragon.) Jaquette broke down in tears as the emotion of losing Chipper overwhelmed her and she curled up on a ball and rocked. Lucky offered to revive Chipper if it’s really worth that much to you (like 5,000 gp Diamond worth.) Jaquette gave Lucky Chipper’s fried and frozen body. Lucky sighed and then quickly walked the island looking for anything magical and found nothing.

Rewards Granted

The party found in Jarl Storvold’s treasure room 4,600 CP 3,900 SP (left) 3,000 GP (left) A Dwarf clad in Plate mail Three +2 arrows Potion of Frost Giant Strength Potion of Superior Healing A gold-inlaid wooden harp (worth 250 gp, weighs 100 pounds) (left) two drums (worth 6 gp each) (left) six flutes (worth 2 gp each) (left) The dragons’ hoard consists of 90,000 cp, 41,000 sp, 6,000 gp. (to dig them all out would take 60hours.) In the Chest they found: five hundred wooden coins (worthless), thirty pieces of costume jewelry (worth 5 gp each), a pouch holding twenty silvered sling stones, a silver tinderbox (worth 25 gp), and wooden scroll tube containing a crude treasure map drawn on a piece of walrus hide.