James

Some of this will be a recap of the last session too but I'm just typing up my notes to make sure I cover everything 🙂
 
For the recap we were given a parchment from Guard Captain Foundry in Slema.  The parchment was reports of ghoul, skirge and zombie attacks in St Julians, Pachavil and Mosta all the way to the coast.  Guard Captain Foundry suggested we should speak to Father Richards, in Mosta, as he has knowledge of the Skirge that could help us.  Barm escaped and has the 3 artifacts; Dryda gland, dragon heart and giant spine.  We also knew we needed to speak to Ceryni fo the thieves guild who may have information on how to counter Barm's time stop.
 
We started the session in The Swan where we asked Jeremy if he knew where we could find Ceryni, he did not but knew a man who did - Doug.  Jeremy sent Miranda out to find Doug - a particularly rough and odorous local scumbag who deals in information.  Miranda returned with Doug and it was clear he was going was going to scam us or rip us off in some way as he knew we need information.  Draverum snuck off to charm Doug letting us get the information we needed easily - Ceryni is in St Julians and he most likely will be found in The Occult, a thieves guild tavern that is not welcome to non guild members.  There are other Thieves guild taverns in St. Julians and they can be identified by a small skull and cross bones on the sign.  Doug also informed us that Ceryni is relatively high up in the guild and reports to 4 masters.  Also worth of note is that the Thieves guild have their own language 'Thieves Cant' which is only known by members.  To help cover up the spell cast on Doug and the information given to us, Azum ordered the strongest drink Jeremy serves, a Lady Boy, and gave it to Doug so he will be too drunk to be able to recall our conversation.  We now had a choice - go to St. Julians to find Ceryni to get information on Barm or Father Richards in Mosta for information on the ghouls, skirge and zombies.  We decided Barm is the bigger threat so we should speak to Ceryni first.
 
Nothing of note happened on the journey to Ceryni but we arrived seeing a small bustling city 3x-4x the size of Sleema with stone buildings, a busy markets with a church and large keep in the middle.  We got stopped by 2 guards on the gate who questioned our purpose in St Julains.  We explained we were sent by Guard Captain Foundry and on showing the parchment, they told us we should speak to Marshall Deniver in the keep.  We decided if we are going to see Marshall Deniver and Ceryni, we should probably see if we can find Ceryni first but not knowing St Julians, we chatted to a local market stall holder Azool (who sold some delicious if expensive cherries) who told us about 2 taverns, the Baron hog and The Ship with the later being a Thieves guild tavern.  We headed there and found it filled with what appeared to be local business and trades men but Brock noticed that 3 men were speaking a language none of knew - Thieves Cant.  We sent some food and drink over the their table to ingratiate ourselves and on being served, they came over to our table asking why.  The thieves explained they operate the city and we should be careful but they could get a message to Ceryni that we wanted to meet but would be later.
 
We therefore took the time to go see Marshall Deniver in the keep who we met in his modest and, for his station, small office.  He informed us that there had been 7 reports of ghouls, skirge and zombie attacks with the most recent being 2 nights ago.  He said we should start at the Scolded Child tavern as that's the last known sighting of some of the missing people.  Marshall Deniver then gave us a parchment that would allow us to investigate and be given passage in to the towns Pachavil and Mosta and we should return to him in 2 weeks with what we've found.  He also advised that we should speak to one of the Victors at the church before we leave St. Julians.
 
On leaving the keep, we decided we should go back to The Ship as that's where we'd spoken to the Thieves guild.  But on leaving, a group of children ran in to us and we quick realised they stole our gold as they did - the Thieves guild!  Brock cast a spell, freezing one of the children in place who we questioned him finding out he worked for the thief we had spoken to in the morning in The Ship.  We took this as a sign Ceryni was ready to meet and got the child to take us to The Occult where led us to the back door which led in to a tavern - a secret tavern behind the public facing one at the front of the building.  We sit down with Ceryni who asks what we want, we say we're there for information on stopping Barm.  Ceryni says it will cost a favour but Azum offers the coin he got from Jarlaxl from Bragen D'Erth - Ceryni is impressed and accepts the coin in exchange for information.  What we need is a counter charm that will stop us being frozen by Barm time stop spell.  He further explained that it's a Bard spell and we would need a bard to cast it or have the bard's teach one of us.  There is a catch to the counter charm though - it takes 10 minutes to cast but the counter charm only then lasts 60 seconds! Ceryni then spoke directly with Brock pointing out the that all magic has an opposite, Barm has the Dryda gland that is darkness but Brock can cast radiant spell - the light and counter the dark.
 
With that new knowledge, we ended the session to consider our next steps and how to use our new found knowledge.

Baum now has the drider gland, dragon heart and giants spine:
Drider Gland - Levitate and darkness spell
Dragons Heart - Flight, Produce a breath/Flame, Long Life
Giants Spine - Long Life, Regeneration.
 
Matt/Greboths characters were staying out of sight.
 
Lavendar went to kill Arn but was stopped by a second spell. Baum looks up to see Jarlaxl (drow mercenary leader) was responsible. Jarlaxl and Baum know each other. Jarlaxl levitates into the middle of us, and threatens Baum to leave, however Baum must leave Lavendar behind. Jarlaxl got us to fight Lavendar as a test. We beat the shit out of Lavendar and kill her. Jarlaxl states that whilst Lavender was not a good person she was good at what she did. It shows Drow respect warriors.
 
Jarlaxl picks up Lavenders Axe with one hand, which shows how strong he is. Gives it to Breadbin.
 
Azum promises to act as a member of Bragen D'Erth and is given a necklace/pouch with 2 effects:
Levitate - once per long rest
Contains a coin of bragen D'erth which can be used with thieves guild. 
 
Azum promises that once Baum is defeated, he will go back to the underdark to join with Bragen D'erth. 
The group travel back to Slema and into the Tavern on a quiet afternoon. Jeremy and Miranda are happy to see everyone, particularly Arn.

 
The main group joined a local militia and took out a cult in the early sessions. There are now proper kings guards, who regularly see and hang out with the group. Guard Captain Foundry Finds us at our table in the tavern. We update him on what happened, and a group of people overhear that we killed Lavender and join us at the table. They are keen to hear about the underdark and what we did. We got the posh guard twats to leave and resumed talking to Captain Foundry.
 
Captain Foundry shows a royal parchment which says there have been a series of attacks on villages east of Slema; St Julians, Paceville, Mosta (the coast). The reports suggest they were attacked by the scourge and ghouls. These are unconfirmed reports, it could just be bandits. There is a reward for investigating the attacks all the way to Mosta, requesting eye-witness testimonies from us.
 
Breadbin persuaded Captain Foundry to give us fresh supplies, horses, carriage etc. 
Father Richards is the local priest, who would be good to talk to about facing undead.
Cereny (from thieves guild) might have information about how we can counter the time stop spell in exchange for the coin.
 

Fantastic write-up Jordie, thank you! It was great to see the party working as a team (apart from Cal’s antics 😂) and being more inquisitive. And the addition of Azum (Zoom as ARN would say) has been a breath of fresh air too, something different and interesting brought to the table, as well as the slightly less recent addition Matty leading the party. Overall I had a really enjoyable night. Thank you Elliott as always, I look forward to the next one!

Fantastic write-up Jordie, thank you! It was great to see the party working as a team (apart from Cal’s antics 😂) and being more inquisitive. And the addition of Azum (Zoom as ARN would say) has been a breath of fresh air too, something different and interesting brought to the table, as well as the slightly less recent addition Matty leading the party. Overall I had a really enjoyable night. Thank you Elliott as always, I look forward to the next one!

I'll leave my notes here, have probably missed something...
 
Arn the Bear was saved by Matt with a Spare the Dying spell.
 
The Party headed back to The Swan in Slema, where people were surprised to see them. They learned Baum and Lavender teleported to the swan, stayed for a few days and then left.
 
The party met Azum, who informed the group that Baum is a wannabe sorcerer who has zero magical powers. He collects magical artifacts to gain power. He has collected at least 3 artifacts including the Dragon Heart and Giants Spine, by tricking groups into helping him retrieve the artifacts, then betraying them with a Stop spell. The next artifact Baum is going for is from a Drider, which will give him the Darkness spell, as well as levitate.
 
A gnome called Ceryni from the thieves guild beckoned us over. He gave us information and direction son how to get to the Drider.  As part of the agreement, the group each promised a 3%share of their treasure. As Azum had no treasure to offer, he instead fought a man who owed money to Cervni.
 
Cervni gave us the following advice:
 
It's dark, so dark vision is very useful Everything is trying to kill you and eat you If you see drow you are already dead. Just run. It goes deep, chances of finding a way out are slim. Leave a trail  
After shopping for some  essentials, we headed to the Underdark. We were given the instructions:
Walk for 1 day, go right at the fork, walk for another day, go right at fork, walk for one more day, go left, circle the city of Menzobaronzon and find the dryders
 
We entered the Underdark, holding a rope as to not get separated, then left a trail until we came across a cavern. This was about half a days walk.
 
In the cavern we ended up fighting a giant crab. The fight generally went very well, and we did a lot of quick damage to the crab, however a huge thunderwave spell from Cal did huge amounts of damage to the party, particularly Azum, who got sent flying and left with only 3 hp.

Of course they’re going to seek revenge! 🤣!

Is this a playstation or PC game?

Quite looking forward to seeing where we go with this ^_^ I didn't think we would end up in the position we are at the end of the last one but could make for some interesting scenarios with Cal returning as well!
 
@GazzaGarratt also need's to get his name down, he's had enough notice.

No, we are going to be bringing the game back to its fundamentals so you will be new adventurers!

Do we need anything special in our characters story for this one? Like we needed a good death story for the last one. @Middle Class Caveman

Fantastic night! Thank you very much @Middle Class Caveman for being a great DM. And thank you @Greboth, @Luseth and @TheMuggySpud for coming along!
 
I look forward to finishing this off at a later date, but until then anyone can re-watch the stream over at; 
 
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Fuck you my character will be level 60.

No problem mate, maybe next time!

I'm out on Saturday unfortunately but you're definitely in good hands with Elliott 🙂

I'll be on late tomorrow night now due to a meeting at 7.30 i've got to go to. Should be on though before 10pm all fingers crossed to get a few games in with everyone.

Please build a character that is level 5! 

Decent MNF.
 
Last minute winner linked below 👇
 
https://forevergaming.co.uk/forum/video/view/689-last-minute-bicycle-kick-winner-🎯/?_review=1

I won't lie, I was a bit miffed I couldn't stay on last night ^_^ How did you guys get on?

It was a decent night once we got everyone sorted because Ant had that issue where it stops you playing clubs. A handful of games, mixed bag of results but our performances felt like we should've won most games. Defo a good night.

No problem mate, I hope she has a fantastic day ❤️

This is Hayley's birthday so doubt I'll get on next Monday!

1. Race
   Noun
 
a competition between runners, horses, vehicles, boats, etc., to see which is the fastest in covering a set course.
 
2. Slaughter
  verb
 
kill (people or animals) in a cruel or violent way, typically in large numbers.
 
@Greboth please identify the correct word YOU want to use to describe the events next Wednesday? I think you misspoke originally. Or is it just the large numbers part you were unsure of the attendants?
 

I feel let down

I've got to go to a football meeting tonight at 8pm unfortunately but hopefully will be on later after that!

Still internet-less until the 1st for me unfortunately. I hope you guys have a good session regardless — don't miss the Rodman too much!