Aunt Mays last outing - 20th and 27th March 2023

General Summary

The party visit the caves on the island on the pirates map
Sail on the ship "Dolphin" with its crew including a captain and its 6 guards 
The party leave the ship and row a boat to the cave, investigate, discuss with from people, then go into caves and meet the "Temple of the Kuo Toa
The party explored the caves and found that the pirates here had settled, but had then been murdered where they slept. Now occupied of the frog people what was an ancient entrance to the kingdom and the Kuo Toa
Pirates cave
Pirates Tressure
Shrine of the Kuo Toa
Blibdoolpoolp
Aunt May
Investigations of the island revealed that pirates had been killed on this island and had not escaped as the party slept there the first night. They explored the caves finding the frog people colony here. In going through the caves Twitch moves ahead and almost gets cut off in an alcove while Aunt May starts a conversation with the frog people guards but with a role of a natural 1 the conversation goes horribly wrong...and the frog people (being rather little are intimidated by the size of the party) and so a roll is required on the outcome a D6 for the outcome and of course a 1 is rolled - I want to have my leg eaten now - the others 
2 - I have offered my leg up for dinner (frogs legs of course) 3 - I want to eat you now 4 - Frogs are a disgrace and we are here to exterminate you all 5 - Bug eat shit for brains fuck off 6 - The rabbit is yours and we are leaving in this instance rolling a 3 and convincing them that they want to eat the frog people, and went back up top - causing the frog people to celebrate there shock victory at scaring the party off. The party slept and come back down with Yumi having cast a speak language spell, and get better results - negotiating there entrance to the Shrine of the Kuo Toa
The party leaves the caves and sleeps the night outside on the island, and then makes a second attempt to enter the tunnels, and Yumi casts speak languages, and a conversation with the frog people takes place and the party get shown the entrance to the Kuo Toa's temple.  
The party start down the passage to suddenly come across the opening to a temple and small city, with Kuo Toa standing guard at the entrance. Acting as guests the party enter at spear point and are shown the shrine...  
Luckily the party have read about the religion of these strange creatures and understand as they were shown the shrine and statue not to step up to the top (needing to put upwards of 50,000gp as an offering), and so did first couple of steps, dropping in the right level of offering for each level that they go up, as this level increases the higher they go.  Twitch and the party showing this level of respect earn the the ability to meet and discuss with the high priest. The high priest king is guarded by assassin priests and the party take the sensible view to initiate discussions rather than fight for the treasure, which they discover is not ion the hands of the Kuo Toa Meet the chief priest Va Guulgh
Religion of Kuo Toa
An archpriest of Blibdoolpoolp with his guard of assassin priests.
Kuo-toa societies were almost all based around the worship of Blibdoolpoolp. While earlier reports describe her as an ancient, eldritch deity, more recent ones believe her to be a figment of the gogglers' imagination given divine form.[13] Either way, the diligence of Blibdoolpoolp's whips made her the dominant deity among all other kuo-toa and the focus of the kuo-toas' lives.[13][14] She even created her own chosen out of gifted whips and monitors, monsters known as kuo-toa leviathans.[21]
Blibdoolpoolp's priests conducted constant sacrifices in her name in ceremonial drowning pools, usually choosing of captives and slaves, although kuo-toa perceived to be mad or defiant could also be sacrificed.[14] The duties of the archpriests involved communication with outsiders, judging criminals, conducted rituals during breeding seasons, and the growth/culling of fingerlings.
The party
The party agree to a quest on behalf of Va Guulgh to get back the "Mother pearl" in the house of Despana in the city of Erelhei Cinlu in the dark Elf realm
The party were shown to the library to find the maps and information on their new quest, and find a locked box with 4 tomes in it, along with maps of the underdark and its tunnels leading to Erelhei Cinlu and the dark eleven house of the Despana
Leaving the shrine, the party get back on the ship before sailing off. However as they sail away they see the sail of the pirate ship Narwhale over the island seeking to ambush them, including the pirate scout/watchman on the island guiding the ship into their path. It is all set for a ship to ship encounter.

Report Date

02 Apr 2023