Carrion Crown Adventure Path – Game Session – 051

by: Charles Plemons - March 27th, 2014   Filed under: Carrion Crown Adventure Path, Gaming, Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Add Comment

Game summary for March 27, 2014, Carrion Crown Adventure Path campaign, Wake of the Watcher adventure; PCs included Dario Malavasi (human oracle), Emilian Sandulescu (human paladin/ranger), and Varus Archlight (elf magus/arcane archer), accompanied by NPC companions Nyssa Pagonis (human cleric) and Pavlos Zervas (human fighter/rogue).

The group decided to use raise dead on Baby Tulby.  They then discovered the library and were attacked by a pair of spectres.  The creatures fed on Varus’ life force, but they were put down quickly.

The team then entered a drawing room, and Dario opened a desk drawer filled with yellow mold!  The spores filled the air and nearly killed him, and it did kill Baby Tulby!  The group then fled and used raise dead again.  They then used a series of restoration spells to recover Varus and Baby Tulby back to full health.

The group then returned to town to speak with Mayor Greedle.  He was not unhappy to hear of the demise of all the Dagon priests; however, he insisted the Neighbors exist and there is more information to discover at Undiomede House.

Carrion Crown Adventure Path – Game Session – 050

by: Charles Plemons - March 20th, 2014   Filed under: Carrion Crown Adventure Path, Gaming, Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Add Comment

Game summary for March 20, 2014, Carrion Crown Adventure Path campaign, Wake of the Watcher adventure; PCs included Dario Malavasi (human oracle), Emilian Sandulescu (human paladin/ranger), and Varus Archlight (elf magus/arcane archer), accompanied by NPC companions Nyssa Pagonis (human cleric) and Pavlos Zervas (human fighter/rogue).

The team returned to the house and discovered, in a back room, two more cultists and a baby girl!  The cultists attacked, driving the team back down the hallway.  Varus used arrows to cover their retreat, and Pavlos hid in the shadows and slaughtered one cultist from surprise.  The other put up more of a fight but still went down quickly.  Dario then wrapped the baby in a cloth and sling and carried her next to his body.

The team explored upstairs and found another cultist!  This one cast an obscuring mist spell.  Emilian advanced into the fog to discover the cleric had also cast a blade barrier within!  Emilian was badly injured.  Varus used gust of wind and later dispel magic to get rid of the fog.  Emilian was stuck on the far side of the whirling blades with the cleric while the others hurled arrows and spells through.  The cultist cast slay living and then channeled negative energy!  The burst dropped Emilian unconscious and killed the tiny baby!

Outraged, the party fought harder, and Dario’s searing light would have killed the cleric; however, his convulsing body erupted from the neck with dozens of tentacles.  He was host to a spawning canker!  The tentacle-laden monster began to feed on Emilian’s life force.  Dario and Varus hurled lightning bolt and searing light spells as Pavlos and Nyssa stumbled off in stunned amazement.  They had found proof the dark god Shub-Niggurath actually exists!

Soon, the team killed the spawning canker, as this stage in the life cycle of a moit of Shub-Niggurath is known.  They then began to search the body when the blade barrier ended.

Harm Incorporated – Ruins of Undermountain – Game Session – 005

by: Charles Plemons - March 15th, 2014   Filed under: Gaming, Harm Incorporated, Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, Ruins of Undermountain Add Comment

Game summary for March 15, 2014, Ruins of Undermountain campaign; PCs included Boran Gibbs (human cleric), Kalil Bakran (human sorcerer), Paddy Brandywine (halfling bard [archaeologist]), and Rumbald Shieldcracker (dwarf ranger [dungeon rover]).

The group entered yet another section of sprawling Undermountain and found a room with two semi-circular walled off sections occupied by wind-up clockwork minotaurs with the following sign posted:  “No Trespassing.  Visitors not welcome.  Guests not welcome.  Dr. Rotwang.”

The minotaurs click, clack, mooed to life and attacked!  The massive constructs proved very resistance to weapon attacks, although magic missile seemed to find its mark.  They discovered electricity was particularly effected against the monsters.  After several lightning bolts, bottled lightnings, and Rumbald’s shocking axe later, the creatures were reduced to slag.

The team then entered a room occupied by two steel-clad barbarians.  The armored hulks were once human but had steel plates bolted directly to them!  Rumbald charged in and plunged fifty feet into a pit of spikes!  Paddy told a bad joke (i.e., failed with hideous laughter), but Kalil used deep slumber from his wand to put one to sleep.  Boran used hold person on the other.  The group was able to hurl one into the pit (after Rumbald climbed out) and defeat the other.

The next room appeared to be some kind of laboratory with a chalkboard, tables, and a massive flesh golem!  The golem attacked.  Paddy learned he could slow the creature with his frost sword, but Rumbald sped it up with his shock axe!  The team decided to forgo the use of electricity and focus on some cold magic and the outright brutality of a well-swung sword or axe.  Soon, the flesh golem lay defeated.

Horror awaited in the next chamber, as they discovered walls slicked with old blood, and a viscous crimson blood pool in the floor.  Orc shredskins and human meat puppets shuffled to attack!  Boran was able to channel positive energy to damage all of the undead, and the team made short work of them.  They then discovered a chest attached via a chain to the edge of the pool.  They dragged up the chest and found several treasures within.

The team then entered another chamber and found a trio of necrocraft assemblages!  The undead moved to surround the team, a fast response allowed the group to drop the undead in record time.

Carrion Crown Adventure Path – Game Session – 049

by: Charles Plemons - March 13th, 2014   Filed under: Carrion Crown Adventure Path, Gaming, Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Add Comment

Game summary for March 13, 2014, Carrion Crown Adventure Path campaign, Wake of the Watcher adventure; PCs included Dario Malavasi (human oracle), Emilian Sandulescu (human paladin/ranger), Gnok Thatek (dwarf monk), and Varus Archlight (elf magus/arcane archer), accompanied by NPC companions Nyssa Pagonis (human cleric) and Pavlos Zervas (human fighter/rogue).

The team, joined by Varus Archlight and Gnok Thatek, searched the room and found some bizarre ancient markings on the stone slab in the center of the room.  It also housed a secret compartment containing a mysterious brown porous orb of about the consistency of a walnut.  Varus placed it into his pack.

The group then moved down the hall and discovered a few empty rooms.  The last room had a soggy settee molding from years of neglect.  As the team searched the room and disturbed the area, hundreds of thousands of ticks burst out of the couch and covered Emilian.  The deadly creatures covered the paladin and began draining his blood.  The swarm moved on to cover Dario and then Varus.  Nyssa, Pavlos, and Gnok fled the room while the infested members tried to set themselves on fire.  The ticks inflicted horrendous wounds upon the group, forcing Emilian to flee.  Varus died beneath the swarming biters, and a blazing Dario dragged his corpse out and used himself to burn all the ticks off.  He then cast raise dead, and the team retreated from the house and made camp down the road a bit to recover from their ordeals.

Carrion Crown Adventure Path – Game Session – 048

by: Charles Plemons - March 6th, 2014   Filed under: Carrion Crown Adventure Path, Gaming, Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Add Comment

Game summary for March 6, 2014, Carrion Crown Adventure Path campaign, Wake of the Watcher adventure; PCs included Dario Malavasi (human oracle), Emilian Sandulescu (human paladin/ranger), and Tigris Inebriavi (elf magus), accompanied by NPC companions Nyssa Pagonis (human cleric) and Pavlos Zervas (human fighter/rogue).

After speaking again with the Tulby’s, the team returned to speak with Mayor Greedle.  They spoke for a while and headed over to Undiomede House where they found a submerged carriage in the pond.  The group also discovered footprints they discerned to belong to a marsh giant.

The team entered the carriage house and found the horse of the Dark Rider in a stall, which they freed.  They then went into the manor itself and found a room where someone had struggled with creatures with webbed feet.  They also found saddlebags containing the crate that once held the Seasage Effigy along with a note stating “Ask Lucas about Raven’s Head.”

The group then proceeded to the center of the manor and discovered it was built on a circle of stone menhirs.  In the middle stood an enormous marsh giant!  A deadly battle ensued with Tigris and Emilian taking tremendous shots from the giant’s club.  Pavlos attempted to flank and caught a blow as well.  Nyssa blessed the party while Dario healed Tigris.  Tigris then cursed the giant.  Unfortunately, the giant continued to attack the magus and staved in his skull.  It then knocked Emilian unconscious.  Heroically, Dario charged in and slew the beast.