Session 19:Finishing Niptu's 2nd temple Report

General Summary

Session 19 – Wednesday November 23, 2022 – Finishing The 2nd Temple of Niptu

4 Hour Battle session 5:30 PM to 10:00PM

The Stone Bearers. Party of 5:

It is the 1st day of the month of Uktar (The Rotting) in the 50th year of the Age of Enialis (Early November.)

• Abrash – Wood (Dessert) Elf, L4 Druid – Jacob Munson
• Ajani– High Elf, L4 Wizard – Nathan Gioconda
• Gazlowe – Goblin, L4 Artificer – Josh Pozsonyi
• Thomas – Human, L4 Blood hunter – Ryan Armstrong (Remote)
• Isabella – Forest Gnome, L4 Barbarian – Jackie Armstrong
• Cedrik – Human, L4 Bard – Dan King (Absent)
• Gurthen – Dwarf, L4 Paladin – Spencer Armstrong (School)

Getting past the cold

Gazlowe noticed brown mold covering the ceiling of this room and it was sucking all the warmth from everything. He recalled that fire would be a bad thing in the presence of the mold. Spotting the door at the far end of the room, he tried to open and found it frozen shut. Gazlowe was able to resist the mold sucking out his body heat as he rammed the door with all his strength and broke it open. Thomas ran through the opening but got close to the mold and took some cold damage. Ajani and Abrash worked together to safely obtain a small vial of the mold. The others all made it through the door safely.

A dark and creepy passage

The next room was dark. They spotted an odd, smooth, unlit torch and a sign that read: “There's a light, light in the darkness of everybody's life. R. Niptu. Let this torch guide you, Touch here to reignite, lest my secrets not be revealed.” Gazlowe picked up the torch and touched it to the plaque and the torch glowed brightly with a 20’ radius. Looking down the hall it appeard the passageway was the bottom of a narrow and winding ravine, filled with webs. Peering up they saw scores of spiders, large and small,l retreat into the cracks. The creepy crawly critters stayed 20’ away from the lit torch. They also spotted a chest about 30 feet over their heads, just barely hanging over a ledge.

A chest on a ledge

They discussed options on how to keep the party within 20 feet of the light yet still get to the chest. Abrash was still a bear and could easily climb up to it. They decided to use their mage hands to push it off the ledge and let Isabella try to catch it. Unfortunately, the mage hands were not quite strong enough. Gazlowe did a bit of tinkering and produced a small brightly glowing trinket and put it on Abrash’s (the black bear’s) back. Trusting his companions, the bear climbed up to the chest. The light did not keep the spiders away and they approached the bear, but Abrash was faster, and he kicked down the chest. Isabella raged as the chest fell on her. She was able to break its fall a bit but took some damage and they heard some shattering within the chest.

Ajani saw the spiders approaching Abrash and fired a ray of frost at the biggest one, critically hitting it. The spiders backed away just enough to let Abrash escape. Opening the chest, they found 500sp, a potion of healing and a greater potion of healing. Two other potions had broken on the fall.

Clearing the passage

They party walked down the passageway with Isabella using her hand axe clearing the webs and Ajani helping with his mage hand. After about 30 feet of walking, the mage hand pushed a web out of the way, but the web grabbed the hand and yanked it up into the darkness above. After a few more yards, Isabella struck a web with her hand axe, and it too flew up into the chasm above. Thomas moved into the front and used his flaming whip to clear the webs. The flame was effective until it hit one web on the wall where it too was yanked up. Thomas held onto the whip and rose with it. Gazlowe leapt over the others and grabbed onto Thomas’s ankle holding him and keeping him from going any further.

Looking up they saw a white lobster like creature protruding a foot or two over a ledge with a heavy web thread coming from it, struggling to pull up Thomas. Isabella climbed up Gazlowe and then then on top of Thomas. Perfectly balanced on Thomas’s shoulders, she pulled out her bow and fired an arrow into the creature they recognized as a Cave Fisher. Thomas let go of the whip and Isabella grabbed it. Gazlowe quickly reacted and grabbed Isabella’s ankle. Thomas fired a crossbow bolt at the Cave Fisher. The creature screamed as it released the web filament and its blood dripped onto Isabella. Isabella found it delicious and wanted to go after it. The party decided they needed to move forward for now.

Magical Darkness

They made it to the end of the passage and found a closed door. Opening the door, they peered into a magical darkness. Thomas ate 5 Goodberrys and consumed his healing potion. Thomas walked into the darkness and disappeared. He was not able to see much in the narrow passage. Abrash followed. Gazlowe pulled out the magical gem of seeing and was able to see the narrow passage and saw that the others could see nothing. Gazlowe fully entered the room with the torch and the magical darkness quickly dissipated in an expanding radius from the torch. The ceiling emanated a magical light shimmering and glimmering but fully illuminating the large room. The room was filled with low shrubberies about 2-4 feet high, not very dense, but filled with thorns. They all seemed to be swaying and rustling as if the gentle breeze were heavy winds to them.

Covered Goblins

Isabella and Abrash smelled the aroma of a fresh forest glade and walked to the front feeling a wonderful gentle breeze. Two Hobgoblins jumped out of the front bushes. The first hobgoblin hit Isabella. Abrash’s claws critically hit the Hobgoblin and he went down. Ajani hit the 2nd one with a ray of frost. Gazlowe follow up with firebolt and killed it. A goblin popped up from behind a bush a bit further in the room and fired an arrow right at Gazlowe hitting him hard! Another popped up and hit Abrash breaking his bear wild shape. Abrash saw the goblin dive back into the bushes and hide.

Abrash and Ajani held their action to attack if another goblin popped up. A Goblin popped up and hit Isabella. Ajani’s shot missed but Abrash’s shot knocked down the goblin. Isabella ran up to row of bushes and found one of the goblins trying to hide. Gazlowe stuck the torch outside the room, and the magical darkness again engulfed the room. He placed the torch on the ground and let go of it and the torch went out.

A Dark run.

Gazlowe called out to the party, “Having some technical difficulties, be back in a minute.” Realizing that he needed to run through the spiders to reignite the torch, he cast Longstrider on himself and he dashed into the cavern area, nimbly avoiding the spiders. The spiders slowly creeped down, but Gazlowe was able to stay away from them. In the dark room, arrows were shot but most of them missed as nobody could see anybody. One of the goblins got a lucky hit on Isabella. Isabella was able to hit and then grapple it. Thomas, with his 10’ true sight, saw a goblin stand up and swing at him and miss. Thomas hit the goblin with his flaming whip. Another goblin got a lucky hit on Thomas.

Feeling guilt, Abrash ran to the location of the goblin that he hit and knocked out so he could keep it from dying. He was able to find him and told him that he’s going to try to save him. The goblin however wasn’t dead, it pulled out its dagger and stabbed Abrash and then got up, ran away and hid. Isabella knocked out one of the goblins with her hand axe. Blindly she swung again and hit another goblin. One of the goblins blindly hit Thomas. Thomas blindly was able to hit him back. Isabella felt for the body of the goblin she struck and found him. She decapitated it with her great axe.

Meanwhile Gazlowe made it to the end of the cavern where he touched the torch to the plaque again. The torch lit up and Gazlowe charged back into the cavern where the spiders were descending. He ran into a few spiders, and it slowed him down a bit, but the spiders were unable to hit Gazlowe. After another round he made it back into the room of bushes and it re-illuminated.

The door and the Shaman.

Thomas made it to the other side of the room where he saw an exit door. He flung the door open but didn’t leave yet. One of the goblins poked its head above a bush and hit Abrash whit an arrow. Abrash was prepared and struck him back with his thorn whip, knocking him unconscious. Ajani spotted one goblin and took it out with his ray of frost. The party heard a goblin speaking a loud prayer (Mass Healing word) and then they saw one of the goblins they just killed move. Isabella walked up to another goblin that was revived and killed it again.

Ajani saw a goblin that he thought was dead, get up and fire at Gazlowe but it missed. Abrash used his thorn whip to knock out one of the goblins who came back. The Goblin Shaman stepped out from his cover and cast inflict wounds on Abrash knocking him down to 2 HP. Isabella saw the Shaman and walked up to him and struck him with her great axe. Gazlowe saw what Isabella had done and he too ran up to the same spot and punched the Shaman. A hidden goblin hit Gazlowe with an arrow. Abrash saw the shaman and struck it with his thorn whip. Ajani hit it with his ray of frost. Isabella recklessly hit him with her great axe. Thomas grabbed the Shaman in the bushes and ripped him through it, pulling the flesh off the goblin’s face and killing it.

The last surviving Goblin hopped up from his hiding spot and fired another arrow into Gazlowe. He ducked to hide again but without the shaman’s “Pass without a trace” most of the party could still see him (except Gazlowe.) Ajani took out the last goblin with his ray of frost.

Niptu’s secrets revealed

The badly wounded party went into the last room, consumed some good berries, and took a short rest. When Gazlowe entered the room with the magical torch, the walls became illuminated with magical writing. While resting, Gazlowe and Abrash were introduced to Cassidy, Thomas’s daughter trapped in the Ethereal plane.

What’s Next:

• Locate the Shield of Niptu and find where they’re hiding Niptu’s Body
• Disintegrate Niptu’s Body and let Revalor Miadi know.
• Revalor is hiding with family at cottage along the Delimbiyr River between Zelbross and Loudwater.
• Meet Victor Rathmore at Blackmoor’s on 23rd (date missed) to return gem and hand over Revalor
• Gazlowe to find out about Adventurer’s guild
• Find out about the Red and White Ladies and report back to The Lord’s Alliance.
• Find out about mysterious slave trade in the High Forest.
• Train the Hellhound Johny Cash
• Purchase the Firestone Keep and rebuild it.
• Gazlowe not happy with helm purchase
• Party to utilize the herbs Abrash and Ajani found.
• Gazlowe to make a permanent mayonnaiser for Flicktongue
• Restore Abrash and Ajani’s homeland.

Campaign

The Forest

Protagonists

Thomas Elliot

Abrash Asim

Chaotic Good Moon Wood Elf (Folk Hero)
Druid 1

9 / 9 HP

STR
7

DEX
10

CON
13

INT
8

WIS
19

CHA
14

Report Date

29 Nov 2022