Session 38: Hunting a Big Boi
General Summary
Magnar woke up first and went to get up Arne. Waking him up, Arne goes back to bed for a while. Magnar goes round as far as the Eschbach Shields. Getting something to eat, Magnar notices that Baldwin is tired after the festivities the day before. Magnar also hears that some of the groups are going to be going monster hunting later.
Going round to the apothecaries, Magnar finds Archi making about 7 gold from a hangover cure potion. Both take a few potions round to the tavern and hands them out. Soon, they all agree to go hunting. Magnar & Archi go get Arne up who is given a potion to help get him up.
They go back and they are to go to Gitzburg to talk to the Goblins and say that they are doing the monster hunt. They all agree to get a large amount of small monsters or one huge or gargantuan creature, with the most impressive or rare being classed as a the winner, and meeting back at the same time tomorrow.
When they make their way to Gitzburg, they are informed that a few Goblins are doing the same, and they now have uniforms for their guards and awaiting new ones of better quality. The ones they have are ramshackle and the blue colour and same mark as the Burgeaters though with a goblin head design below it.
Informed that there was a new creature that attacked people and livestock to the northwest, the Goblins say it is nesting within a cave up a mountainside with the remains of it's victims at the bottom.
They're told is is massive and reptilian-like, as well as flying and only seen at night.
The party find it easy enough, and see that it is about 50 feet up, and Magnar goes first using a rope. He had to move a sheep carcass at the top, and then Archi climbed up, and Arne teleported. Magnar notices that a lot of the blood is missing from the carcasses and looks as if one of them had it's blood licked up by something large. There is slight burn marks too.
Making their way into the cavern they find clumps of stalagmites & stalactites. A few bodies, predominately animal, are here with two humans and a Dwarf.
Going on down a curved rough tunnel, they find a huge chamber over 80 feet heigh and almost the same wide. Arne had called a shadow mastiff and it racks across the cavern to behind stalagmites where three large reptilian eggs are. Archi had cast the Light spell, and saw the eggs wanting one himself. Magnar points out that the eggs don't necessarily needs nested upon by the mother of them and temperature plays a part in gender determination for many reptiles, and the mother is likely to be near.
Arne burns the eggs and after this the shadow mastiff runs off to the other side sniffing at something.
Something huge with wings, a reptilian body long and sleek with a longer tail and massive wings unfolds and drops down. This kills the shadow mastiff underfoot. Two powerful legs with wicked claws holds the creature.
Arne Arne immediately casts a spell to slow it down, and they attack. He causes a few bits of Psionic damage.
Magnar tries to hit but accidentally stabs Arne, then she gets bit savagely by the creature.
Archi drops his adamantine balls and uses magic to move them at speed to injure the creature. And it tries to fight back, only to get hit by Magnar in response, then Arne casting on it to kill it.
Archi shrinks the body and both him & Magnar place it on a Tensors Floating Disk to help carry it out. Arne finds a drained body of a Middle Eastern slave drained of blood. He also finds 65 gold, and a design of a strange trident symbol on the body's clothes. A page from a diary is in his hand that says that the Vampire Nation has chosen this place to see if an eyrie of Vampiric Wyrms. Also they are looking for the One, the Bride from Another World waiting for something to happen to her present husband.
They go back to Gitzburg, showing off their prowess.
After that, they head back to Eschbach, where Magnar gets healed up at the grove, Arne tells Father Tossil about the Vampiric Wyrm and the body of which the latter will chase up, and Archi examines the body. He finds that it seems to be a creature halfway between a dragon and a wyvern. It doesn't have a stinger and not poisonous, along with two glands in it's neck used to enact a fire based breath weapon. He takes these out and a few of the scales.
The next day they are back at the Eschbach Shields where they win after boasting and showing the body of the Wyrm. The Goblins come second with the body of an immature Purple Worm. Archi asks to examine the purple worm finding it has no eggs and is hermaphroditic so can self fertilise. It's a paler colour getting stringer in depth when older. Same as it's poison tail stinger. He removes the stinger and some of the teeth for use, as well as parts of the skin to render into purple dye.
Then they keep partying into the night.
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