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Session Events:

• Giant spider web found, with bodies strung up in it.
  • Spider is found, fought, and defeated.
  • Davian cut down the bodies, finding:
    • One of Narrier’s men
    • The missing witch, Bavmorda
    • A pompous, aristocratic gnome, who was also seeking to monetize the spring with Narrier.
• Oren the Ox shows himself.
  • He had been told by the party to watch Narrier, so when the thief escaped, Oren tracked him all the way to the woods.
  • He was chased out of Cliffside by angry citizens.
    • When asked about how he used to terrorize the village, he doesn’t recall it. He says all remembers is being trapped in a maze, and having Itham “Stone-Speaker” free him from the maze. Thereafter, he was taken to Sanctuary and used as a guard.
• The heroes continued on to Cliffside, and left Oren outside the city limits.
  • They heard rumors that Narrier tried to buy guards to accompany him back into the woods, but none would have it. Finally, he bought a horse (was grossly overcharged by the stable master) and galloped off to the west.
  • Samara convinces the stable master to lend them horses, and they take off after Narrier.
    • Radurak is able to push his horse the fastest, and nearly catches up to Narrier, but then halts the thief completely by casting entangle.
    • Narrier is utterly defeated. They tie him up and bring him with them to Sanctuary.
• At Sanctuary, the party finds that Lord Alain has awoken, though he is still not in his right mind.
  • He mentions that he was undecided on what to do about the spring, and would welcome their counsel on the issue.
  • In exchange for saving his life, he has offered to have everyone some armor commissioned by Galan “half-hand”, free-of-charge.
• Radurak offers a skin full of the spring’s water to take to all the sick of Sanctuary, starting with the soldiers and craftsmen.
• Another rain storm begins!

Total XP: 1300 per player

XP Breakdown

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Roleplay XP

Roleplay: 300 per player
Bringing the Cure: 150 per player
Horse Chase Winnar: 100

Session Events:

• The adventurers find the spring, which is an oily black color.
• A massive black willow tree lurks there.
• The adventurers inspect the tree, but seem to find nothing strange about it.
• When they reach for a drink from the spring, the tree attacks!
  • With terrible, strangling vines it entangles several of them at a time, and swallows Elwe whole.
  • The adventurers attempt to talk the evil down, but he is not very reasonable, and steadfast in keeping them from drinking from the pool.
  • Radurak Bloodmoon’s beloved companion Bubba is strangled to death.
  • After a brave fight, of fire, swords, and splintering blows, the tree is defeated.
• They inspect it and find treasure from past adventurers inside it!
• The pool rids them of the cursed plague.
• Narrier “cutpurse” arrives with two fellow bandits. They’re looking to drink from the pool as well.
  • He is talked down from monetizing the spring, but it is clear that it is only a temporary agreement, one that will change as soon as they turn their backs on him.
  • During the conversation, Davien sneaks up on Narrier and attacks!
  • Narrier retreats like a coward, drinking a potion of Expeditious Retreat.
  • The other two guards, both human, are defeated.
    • One is interrogated. He was working for Narrier entirely out of profit: a promised 1% of all the proceeds from monetizing the spring.
• Bubba the bear is skinned and eaten, for noble reasons of re-integrating his essence into the world.

Total XP: 1250 per player

XP Breakdown

Combat XP:

Roleplay XP

Roleplay: 100 per player
Cured!: 100 per player

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Session Events:

• The adventurers returned to Sanctuary with Lord Alain Tyl, the kobold witch Idruma, and the goblin Duzin.
• Witch Sty mentioned that before Lord Alain disappeared, he had mentioned the spring near Cliffside where he had been cured.
  • She realized she should have kept the spring a secret, as Narrier “cutpurse” heard of it, and is planning on staking claim to it and turning a profit.
  • The heroes threaten Narrier “cutpurse” not to leave or he will be killed.
  • They told the guardian Oren the Ox to watch Narrier, and keep him from escaping.
• Galan “half-hand” revealed that he knows the smith who created Samara’s dragonbone daggers: the legendary elvish smith of Cathaern named Stal-Right.
• The heroes set off to Cliff-Side.
• They meet the travelling merchant / tinkerer Vafri, and guide him on his way.
• The heroes reach Cliff-Side.
  • They meet Samara’s old friend Kali.
  • They cannot find Bavmorda, but her prints lead into the woods.
• They enter the Gallows Wood in search of Bavmorda and the spring.
  • They are quickly attacked(!) by evil demonic wolves, who demand that they leave.

Total XP: 1350 per player

XP Breakdown

Combat XP:

Roleplay XP

Roleplay: 100 per player
First Town: 50 per player
Samara’s Family!: 50 per player

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Session Events:

• Kalashesh the Plague-Bringer, and his Drow ally were fought and defeated.
• Treasure horde was rewarded!
• The remaining kobolds were threatened to leave their den and go elsewhere.
• An altar to the drow goddess Lolth was discovered.
• Hundreds of half-elves, elves, and humans were chained before the altar, channeling their energy to some vile purpose.
• Lord Alain Tyl was found, with his sword-arm severed.
• Idruma and Duzin join the band in leaving the kobold lair, with Lord Alain in arm, heading toward Sanctuary
• A thick layer of tiny lizards has covered the land during the storm.
• They appear to be underwater cave-dwelling lizards.
• When Radurak Bloodmoon speaks to them, they say only “We’re free!”

Total XP: 1000 per player

XP Breakdown

Combat XP:

Roleplay XP

Roleplay: 100 per player
Called Shot to the Throat: 25 per player
Bagging the Darkness: 25 per player
First Boss: 100
First Crawl: 100
“We’re Free!”: 50 per player

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Total XP: 850 per character

XP Breakdown

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Other XP

Roleplay: 100 per player
Shrewd Negotiations: 200 per player
Double-Bacon-Bonus!: 100 per player

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Session Events:

• The Adventurers reached the entrance to the kobold nest, where Davian solved the ancient puzzle of the stone gate.
• Davian sneaks into the tunnel, hears four guards playing dice in the first room.
  • An ambush is staged. The four kobold guards are massacred, though the commander puts up a heroic fight.
  • Those of the guards who were not killed in the initial ambush surrender.
    • But nothing stays the heart of Poros, and he slays one with his cruel chain, to Elwe’s disdain.
    • Davian slays the other with his swift longsword. Elwe is too preoccupied in keeping the raging Samara from bleeding out to interfere.
  • Treasure of a potion and a small amount of gold is found.
  • A large brass gong sits against the wall, above which is an arcane mark of a wizard.
• Further exploration is made, discovering a trap of collapsible stairs, a statue of a skeleton warrior similar to the sculpture outside.
• The Adventurers press forward to a huge room with a dim green glow at its back. A barricade of garbage has been constructed there, with 6 kobolds standing with readied crossbows.
  • Elwe tries in vain to convince them to speak with the prisoners. To which the speaking kobold tosses a string of ears forward and says “Speak! They are listening.”
  • Poros threatens as well, though this kobold lead is steadfast. Large, scurrying weasels are at his feet.
  • The battle breaks out!
    • Bubba scales the wall and Samara leaps atop it, the two dual off with the six fire-breathing kobolds.
    • With a magic slight, Elwe sends the kobold lead tumbling off the barricade to break his leg.
      • His dire weasels charges forward, seeking vengeance for their fallen master!
      • One latches onto Poros and drains blood from his neck.
    • Much spine crunching, throat tearing, and weasel smashing commences.

Total XP: 1200 per character

XP Breakdown

Combat XP:

Other XP

• Roleplay: 100 per player
• “You’re Getting It” XP: 200 per player (things definitely started to click last night, eh?)

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Session Events:

• The Adventurers introduce one another, and find a common tie: Lord Alain Tyl
• Corpses of the slain plagued disposed of by Poros. Narrier “cutpurse” complains of the cruel disposal of his cousin’s corpse.
• The Adventurers continue toward Sanctuary.
• In the settlement’s outskirts, they meet Oren the Ox.
  • Oren angrily explains the news that the nearby village Maysen has been raided by kobolds.
  • He also mentions that Alain has not returned from his normal hikes for over a day.
  • Samara is angered by the minotaur, who she recognizes as having once terrorized her hill tribe. She is calmed by the party.
• The Adventurers set out for Maysen. Narrier “cutpurse” wishes to go with, but they refuse him. Oren takes the wagon back to Sanctuary.
• Along the way, they cleverly avoid an encounter with an ankheg.
• They happen upon a small scouting party of kobolds, who are squinting miserably into the sun.
• They manage to defeat the kobolds (who were in control of a vicious monitor lizard).
• Kobold eggs are stomped upon by Davien, then licked off his boots by Bubba the bear.
• One kobold is captured, and information is gathered from him. According to him:
  • The kobolds raided Maysen for prisoners.
  • They were lead by a devil-warrior Kalashesh.
  • Plik-Plik was not involved, though the kobold did know him.
• A nasty wind storm strikes. At the heart of it, in the far distance, a massive creature roars.

Total XP: 1000 per character

XP Breakdown

Combat XP:

Other XP

• Roleplay: 160 per player
• Pity XP: 200 (for the three weeks off and to level)