Green Pass Campaign IIIb, Session 15: Murdersquatters on the Doorstep

October 4-5, Caudex Annales, 70 AUP

The party recuperated for a week at the watchtower, then headed back to the trail and turned north toward the pirate camp at the northwest end of the valley -- the same one that had been signaled by the tower. Wild animals prowling during the night were repulsed by the army of skeletons.

Upon arrival they found the pirates girded for battle behind a wooden palisade wall. The pirates sued for parley, and managed to coax a delegation of party members (basically, everyone but Herabrin, Kilor, and Sky) to join them inside the keep for a fine feast of rum, salt pork, rum, hard tack, rum, scurvy-prevention oranges, the tears of freshly-flogged captives, and punch. ("What kind of punch? Rum punch?" "No, this kind of punch." *pow*)

During the dinner, a certain air of tension was detected between the drow and the pirates, which the party elected to magnify by insulting the drow. The pirates were thrilled at the prospect of strangers making trouble with the haughty dark elves, and laughed and jeered at the jibes. Infuriated, the priestess demanded the right of satisfaction by combat.

The party quickly obliged, setting up a nearly all-reptilian squad of three saurians and a small white dragon. The priestess was lucky enough to freeze half the party with a quick hold person spell, but then the dragon neatly polished off her guards in retaliation with a blast of ice crystals. The remaining party members slowly chipped away at the house priestess through her armor until she dropped. The remaining drow fled, hiding in their tents. The pirates, satisfied that they had found a set of new stronger allies, immediately turned against the drow (the party set a bounty for their capture) and began to recommend potential targets (mostly their business rivals) in the region for the party to eliminate.

Roster

• Zegzinu (2 henchlizards)
• Conan the Librarian
• Zelmar the Fright Knight
• Talyn, another lizard
• Sky the archer
• Skittles, yet another lizard
• Kilor Graniteback, Dwarven Machinist
• Shiek, Thrassian Assassian  Thrassin Assassin Thrashin' Assassin
• Herabrin and his scads of spooky scary skeletons
• The very young white dragon, Namazu

Casualties
None

Treasure and Experience

Coins: - [=>  0 gp]
Gems/Jewelry: - [=> 0 gp]
Trade goods: - [=> 0 gp]
Magical items: -

Total nonmagical treasure value: 0 gp
Shares: 12
Gold per share: 0 gp

Killed: 7th-level House Despana priestess [1840 xp], drow 5th-level lieutenant [500 xp], 3 drow 3rd-level fighters [240 xp]
Freaked out by dancing skeletons: 2 grizzly bears [400 xp]
Manipulated: pirate king [1000 xp], 8 pirate lieutenants [1120 xp], 280 pirates [2800 xp]

Miles traveled: 40 [460 xp]

Total experience from treasure: 0 xp
Total experience from kills: 7900 xp
Total experience from exploration: 460 xp
Total experience: 8360 xp
Total experience per member: 697 xp

(Note: Henchlizards get half-shares of treasure and experience. Namazu takes a full share, because dragon.)

Green Pass Campaign IIIb, Session 14: The Same Thing, But With Dragons

September 28, Caudex Annales, 70 AUP

Caught between two opposing enemy forces, the party elected to fall back and handle the smaller one first. After doubling back to the dragons' cave, the party arranged an ambush just outside the lair. Using the cave entrance as a choke-point, the party aggressively ganked all three of the gophers dragons as they attempted to clear the exit tunnel, one at a time, before they could take to the sky. Only one of the three dragons survived long enough to breathe a frost cloud.

In short order, a group of bounty hunters arrived, just as the party was staking out ambush positions on either side of the ravine. As it turned out, they seemed totally unaware that the party had been involved in trashing the Emru-Marol spider festival, and only wanted to 'recruit' the famed 'Undertaker' as a professional gladiator. They were even willing to compensate the party for his services. (D was totally insulted about 'John Cena' being left off the bounty notice.) Despite having lots of extra saurians to spare, the party was unwilling to sell Zeg into a life of bondage -- even awesome arena-dominating bondage as an ultimate-fighting celebrity -- and declined the offer. The beautiful spokeswoman revealed herself as a hag, and a cloaked figure behind her pulled up its hood to reveal a face full of brain-slurping tentacles.

Molyg the Polyp, illithid bounty hunter

The ensuing battle on the frozen ice of the stream bed was relatively lopsided. A dire troll (under the cloak of invisibility) set up a perfect shot on D, only to fall on his face. The hag never successfully got off a spell. The mind flayer spent most of the battle levitating over the battlefield, and failed to accomplish much using his psionic mass domination, due to some timely saves against mind control. (Plus, full-blooded Thrassian custom classes can fly!) After being grounded, the illithid ended up jaunting back to the astral plane away from certain death.

The bounty hunters had no particular loot of any value, and nothing in their possessions (including the public "wanted" notice) indicated who their employer might be. After resting in the cave (and dispatching Bob, who could resist his evil urges no longer), everyone returned to the tower to plot the next course of action.

Roster

• Zegzinu (2 henchlizards)
• D
• Zelmar the Fright Knight
• Talyn, another lizard
• Leone, who spen the entire session as a polar bear
• Shane, who immediately fled into the mountains without explanation
• Sky the archer
• Skittles, yet another lizard
• Kilor Graniteback, Dwarven Machinist
• Shiek, Thrassian Assassian  Thrassin Assassin Thrashin' Assassin
• Herabrin and his scads of spooky scary skeletons
• Bob the Wolfman

Casualties
Bob, due to the full moon blowing his cover
Leone, slain by the party while polymorphed

Treasure and Experience
Dragon's hoard:

• 2 crates of armor and weapons, worth 225 gp each and weighing 10 stone each.
• 2 crates of hydra parts, worth 300 gp each and weighing 5 stone each.
• 1 sets of engraved teeth, weighing 1 stone per 100 set. (30 gp)
• 2 sets of engraved teeth, weighing 1 stone per 100 sets. (90, 100 gp)
• 1 sticks of rare incense, weighing 1 stone per 100 sticks. (15 gp)
• 2 sets of engraved teeth, weighing 1 stone per 100 sets. (70, 30 gp)
• 8 sticks of rare incense, weighing 1 stone per 100 sticks. (21, 22, 19, 19, 17, 25, 16, 21 gp)
• 6 glass eyes, lenses, or prisms. (24, 48, 4, 5, 49, 82 gp)
• A piece of jewelry constructed from wrought silver worth 700 GP.
• A piece of jewelry constructed from shells worth 90 GP.
• A piece of jewelry constructed from shells worth 60 GP.
• A piece of jewelry constructed from porcelain worth 400 GP.
• A piece of jewelry constructed from wrought silver worth 500 GP.

Coins: - [=>  0 gp]
Gems/Jewelry: see above [=> 1750 gp]
Trade goods: see above [=> 2577 gp]
Magical items: -

Total nonmagical treasure value: 4327 gp
Shares: 12
Gold per share: 361 gp

Killed: hag [3100 xp], enchanted polar bear [440 xp], dire troll [1300 xp], 4 4th-level fighters [320 xp]
Driven onto the ethereal plane: mind flayer [1600 xp]

Miles traveled: -

Total experience from treasure: 4327 xp
Total experience from kills:  6670 xp
Total experience from exploration: -
Total experience: 11087
Total experience per member:  1008 xp

(Note: Henchlizards get half-shares of treasure and experience.)