Session 2: Manshoon 2 Electric Boogaloo

Recovery from last times disaster

 
Well I've had some time to recuperate from that close to disaster that was last time. From chatting to everyone it seems like we're not the only ones who had to deal with absolute mayhem. I thought I had a close one but Jesus Christ DIED??? We were here less than a week and someone DIED??? Kinda regretting coming here not going to lie, but to be fair I got a bunch of gold and loads of people seem to be getting cool magic items and things so not sooo bad I guess. Anyways we've set up a new party to go explore the dungeon Jesus died in because like, Chad said they killed a bunch of stuff in there so we reckon it's mostly empty and we can just stroll in and take everything they missed.
 

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Travel North West

 
All right off we go. No bad blood yet with these guys, all seem pretty chill. The witch is freaky though, her cape thing keeps moving weirdly and I don't like it. She's lovely though so I won't be too harsh of her weird clothes yet.
 

Day 5 of travel

 
Weird ass monsters in the forest, like what living being eats metal? There were a bunch of them though so we didn't want to risk it and just made them run away from us instead of killing them (we definitely could take them they looked weak af)
 

• Rustmonsters in forest- like to eat metal, able to get them to run away when we make metal clanging noises in the distance


• Deeper into forest- an eerie lack of animal noises- should investigate further at some point

 

Day 6 of travel

 





 

• See gallery for map drawn of what we explored, see Chad's Vlog #1 for the north side


• Arrive at the cyclops- Bront- camp, broken leg and stuck in the hole where the entrance to the dungeon is, convince him to help us etc. by bribing him with sheep and giving him ones we brought, he can't talk to his dire wolves but is able to subdue them


• Hexagon- detect magic
  
  • North side has massive statue
  
  
  • North west and north east doors were explored by Chad+group last time
  
  
  • South door- aftertaste of magic, past the door there is an illusion
  
  
  • South East door- flickering of magic
  
  
  • South West door- Flowing with magic
  
  
• We decide to explore the South door


• Illusion magic is the stairs are actually a slope, Malya sends her rats down to check it's safe


• Pool with Conjuration magic


• Sidus throws a pebble in the pool and a Water Elemental is summoned


• We kill it with Ozil, Tiernan, and Horatio nearly dying with Tiernan going to 1 death save


• Pool- no longer emenates magic, filled with copper coins at the bottom and a Magic Longsword with an amber eye in it's hilt


• During the fight a trapdoor was triggered- there's a dead body at the bottom with a Manshoom helmet, and a Magic Wand


• West door from pool room- big room with pillars and a statue of a Manshoon


• Floating hand speaks to us- Bigsby's Hand, he seems chill but was made by a Manshoon, could have gone bad if we said anything bad


• Behind the statue there's a secret room filled with copper coins


• Secret door leads to kobalds around a big Urn with a Manshoon that is being "made", he tells us this dungeon was made by one of the Manshoons, however, opening the Urn breaks the spell and he dies


• Large room with dissected Manshoons- seems as though one of the Manshoon was studying them


• Room also has lots of papers strewn everywhere, bookshelves, etc.


• We all get a Manshoon helmet, also a big leatherbound book with a symbol on the front and emenating evil magic


• Manshoon ghost stumbles out of the bookshelf- he was actually 30 miles west trying to kill a different Manshoon and then died


• Manshoon ghost also says one of the Manshoon bodies is a "trick body" whatever that menas


• 20 Kobalds arrive and we run away- Bront kills them saying "those are my friends" and we give him the rest of the sheep we brought