Weekly Gaming Summary Part #05:

Thank You For Playing today's game 12/08/2019 - From 8:15 pm EDT, until 10:15 pm EDT, and our 236th Gaming Session, goes out to:   Bard – Human - Maevis Silverleaf & Cleric / Magic-User – Half Elf - Quintolos -  Roxxifarius   Bard Jester – Human – Balen - Christopher G. Fighter / Thief – Shield Dwarf - Grax Ironcloak -  GreyWolfVT  (Ed) Magic-User - Elf - Xilicien -  Devin M. Ranger – Half Elf - Camlin - Freeman3294 Ranger - Human - Coal Blackburn & Cleric – Human Female - Sheila -  Shadowfox (Steve)   Whom Could Not Make It Today!   Guardian (Paladin) – Halfling - Rowan  Root  –  Nick R.   (Arriving later in December?) Fighter / Thief – Shield Dwarf - Grax Ironcloak -  GreyWolfVT  (Ed) Warlock (AS&SoH2E) – Human Hermaphrodite -Doña Phicenta Thragiella De Thrul - The Fictionaut (New Player) ??? - lookus b. (New Player) ??? - The Hermit Legend   Game Summary for Sunday Evening (12/08/2019): It is now 26 days into the adventure (since setting off in the Belle Venture), and 6:00 am on day 20 on the isle. It is now August 19 th . It is now early morning and the party discusses what course of action to take next while at the camp, near the riverbank and hidden from view of the river docks manned by the mongrelmen when a familiar voice is heard calling out to them from the riverbank. Coal, heads towards the sound and sees that it is Quintolos, still in his transformed state with slimy mucus covered skin and gills on his throat. Quintolos, tells the party that there is in fact another way into the Forbidden City. Sheila, tries a Remove Curse spell on Quintolos to remove his affliction but it does not work. Sheila, also heals the wounds of Grax and Rowan with Cure Light & Cure Serious Wounds spells. Quintolos, tells them to travel along the base of the plateau, going around north westerly until they reach a river being fed by a huge 3,000 ft tall waterfall. It is here that Quintolos tells them to wait for him before crossing, so he can point the way farther. The party travels without incident to the spot indicated and wait for Quintolos to arrive. When he does he again points out where exactly to keep heading once on the other side of the river. Cassandra, uses her broom and ring of invisibility to fly over each member of the party one at a time until everyone is on the opposite side. Briefly, having a scare when an adult Wyvern was seen to fly down the river looking for a meal to scoop from it. The Wyvern pays the group not mention. Quintolos, tells the party that short, Grippli frogmen, should likely appear at some point along the path they are to take and guide them the rest of the way. Once near the entrance, the Grippli, departs and leaves the party on their own to continue. After traveling over 200 feet inside the hidden cavern passage they arrive inside a natural cavern area. Area Description: This chamber is a large natural cavern, with a large pool filling most of it. Along the east wall is a 5 foot wide ledge, running around the edge of the pool. The ledge ends in a small alcove. The walls of the alcove are worked with carvings of snakes and men in a pastoral scene and at its back stands a large statue of a snake-bodied, six-armed woman.   Flanking it are 2 charcoal braziers mounted on tripods. These cast a dim light throughout the room. Three canoes are beached in the alcove. The water appears calm and undisturbed.   The party sees that the one canoe closest to them is in several pieces sitting mainly on the bank, (of which Balen pulls it off the bank and down into the tunnel they came in from), while the other two, on the other side where the alcove is, are partially in the water and appear intact. Grax, leads the party heading along the ledge and goes for the boats checking for a trap but does not find one. The boats are pulled fully into the water and half the party gets into each boat. Trying to determine the water’s depth, they stick an oar, which is 10 feet long, straight down but can not feel it hit bottom. They then row eastward through a narrow gap then turn north easterly into one of two passages when rippling in the water is noticed coming towards the boat. It can now be seen that it is a Crododile! (A Surprise roll was made but it failed so it could not try to capsize the boat!)   And that ends the live gaming session for the night until next time!   Number of Sessions for current Adventure Module: 13th Session for I1: Dwellers of the Forbidden City 12/01/2019 97Sessions for “Isle of the Dread: Parts 1-4”: 10/11/2017 – 12/01/2019  

Thank You For Playing today's game 12/15/2019 - From 8:05 pm EDT, until 10:00 pm EDT, and our 237th Gaming Session, goes out to:   Bard – Human - Maevis Silverleaf & Cleric / Magic-User – Half Elf - Quintolos -  Roxxifarius   Bard Jester – Human – Balen - Christopher G. Fighter / Thief – Shield Dwarf - Grax Ironcloak -  GreyWolfVT  (Ed) Magic-User - Elf - Xilicien -  Devin M. Ranger - Human - Coal Blackburn & Cleric – Human Female - Sheila -  Shadowfox (Steve)   Whom Could Not Make It Today!   Guardian (Paladin) – Halfling - Rowan  Root  –  Nick R.   (Arriving later in December?) Fighter / Thief – Shield Dwarf - Grax Ironcloak -  GreyWolfVT  (Ed) Ranger – Half Elf - Camlin - Freeman3294 Warlock (AS&SoH2E) – Human Hermaphrodite -Doña Phicenta Thragiella De Thrul - The Fictionaut ??? - The Hermit Legend   Game Summary for Sunday Evening (12/15/2019): It is now 26 days into the adventure (since setting off in the Belle Venture), and 3:00 pm on day 20 on the isle. It is now August 19 th . The adventurers are now in two big rowboats inside the large water filled pool, having left the shore where the six-armed snake lady statue and two lit braziers where. As they get near the middle of the cavern, a crocodile is spotted coming towards the boat. Coal, Grax and Maevis fire off arrows with Coal hitting for 7 and Maevis for 2 damage, while Grax’s arrow missed it’s target. Xilicien, fires off a Magic Missile spell with all 4 hitting for a total of 18 damage killing the crocodile! Four more crocodiles, including 1giant one, are now seen coming for the boats and Combat Round 1 begins! Crocodile #02, tries to bite Grax but missed! Rowan the Guardian Halfing, fires an arrow from his short bow, hitting for 8 damage to Crocodile #02! Giant Crocodile, missed trying to bite Sheila! Crocodile #01, nips Phicenta for 2 damage! Xilicien, cast the Melf’s Minute Meteor spell, the first meteor hitting for 5 damage after the Giant Crocodile fails it’s saving throw vs spells! Balen, starts playing his pan pipes to rally the party to gain +1 on ‘To Hit’ Rolls. Balen sings, "Ten people are stuck in two boats; Herded together as if we were goats; and with gators galore; Let’s just hope there’s no more and that we don’t need to know if Grax floats!" Crocodile #03, bites Xilicien for 5 damage! Sheila, swings her magicial +2 footman’s mace at the Giant Crocodile but missed! Maevis, fires an arrow with his +1 composite long bow at short range of  6 to 60 ft,  for 6 damage on Crocodile #02! Coal fires an arrow with his Foeseeker +1 long bow at point blank range 6 to 30 ft, hitting for 7 damage to Crocodile #03! Grax, fires an arrow with his short bow but missed Crocodile #02! Cassandra, turns invisible and gets on her broom! Camlin, fires an arrow with a long bow for 15 damage at point blank range, on the Giant Crocodile! Phicenta, hits Crocodile #01 for 8 damage with the two-handed sword!   2 nd attacks for Round 1: Maevis, missed firing an arrow at Crocodile #02, due to fumbling it but stays in the boat with a successful dexterity check! Coal, fires an arrow, hitting for 5 damaged to Crocodile #03! Rowan’s, arrow missed Crocodile #01 Camlin’s arrow missed the Giant Crocodile! Grax’s arrow hits for 1 damage on Crocodile #02!   3 rd attacks for Round 1: Coal’s, arrow hits for 15 damage on Crocodile #03, defeating it! Rowan’s, arrow missed Crocodile #01! Camlin’s, arrow hits the Giant Crocodile for 9 damage at point blank range! Round 2 of Combat, 1 st attacks: Crocodile #02, missed biting Grax! Rowan’s arrow hits Crocodile #01 for 10 damage at point blank range, killing it! Giant Crocodile, missed biting Sheila! The Croc stumbles a bit but doesn’t tip over the boat. Xilicien, fires off another Melf’s Minute Meteor but it missed the Giant Crocodile! Balen, continues to sing to Rally Allies: "Magic missiles are great, they don’t miss; Gotta love hitting gators like this; We don’t need to be bit; Poor Phicenta got hit; Taking them out NOW would surely be bliss" Maevis’, arrow hits for 4 damage on Crocodile #02! Coal’s, arrow hits for 5 damage on Crododile #02! Grax’s, arrow hits for 1 damage on Crocodile #02! Camlin’s, arrow missed the Giant Crocodile!   2 nd Attacks for Round 2: Maevis’s, arrow missed Crocodile #02! Coal’s, arrow hits Crocodile #02 for  7 damage! Camlin’s, arrow hits the Giant Crocodile for 11 damage! Grax’s arrow hits Crocodile #02 for 6 damage, defeating it!   3 rd Attacks for Round 2: Camlin’s, arrow missed the Giant Crocodile! Coal’s, arrow hits the Giant Crocodile for 5 damage, killing it! End of Combat! The party recovers a few of  their unbroken arrows off the floating crocodile carcasses. The party then continues to row the boats through the narrow passages of the water filled cave until they see another shore line up ahead and row for it: Area Description: The natural caverns end here in a small beach. Extending from the beach is a passage of worked stone. Two canoes have been pulled up onto the shore and the footprints of many creatures mar the smoothness of the sand. These prints are jumbled and old, making it impossible to identify the type of creatures that made them.   The adventurers, exit the boats, and head down the passage, heading east, until they reach a wooden door. Grax, checks for a trap on the door and did not find one and does not see a lock or keyhole on the door to pick, so he opens, the door, to see at least two Bugbears standing with hand axes in hand and then slams the door shut as two thuds can be heard against the door! Sheila, decides to take the lead and re-enters the doorway to find that it’s occupants are no longer in the small room, leaving a pile of furs along the north wall and a spent campfire in it’s north east corner. Sheila, goes to the east wall door and tries to open it. It appears to be locked or barred from the other side. Sheila tries to slam it open but the Open Doors roll was unsuccessful! Coal, tries to slam open the door and it breaks open to the sound of the wooden bar on the other side crashing to the floor! Bugbear #02, nicks Coal for 2 damage with his throwing axe! Initiative rolls are made and Round 1 of Combat Begins! 1 st Attacks for Round 1: Maevis, fires off a Web Spell into the room, which covers a 40 ft x 40 ft area, which happens to be the rooms exact size! The eight Bugbears in the Room makes their saving throws vs spells, with 5 getting stuck in the webbing while 3 are at half movement speed through it! Bugbear #03 is able to move up to the doorway where Sheila is, and attacks with a Fauchard pole arm, missing her! Balen, moves forward, playing his panpipes to try and charm any enemy within 40 ft of him. Coal, draws his magical +1 Long Sword and attacks, Bugbear #03 but fumbles the blade but still managed to stay on his feet! The Bugbears that are stuck in the webbing are also risking suffocation each round, starting with a 5% chance and increasing another 5% each round, the webbing will last for 70 minutes. None of the stuck Bugbears are currently suffocating. Grax’s, arrow hits Bugbear #03 for 3 damage! 2 nd Attacks for Round 1: Maevis’, arrow missed, Bugbear #03! Grax’s, arrow hits on a critical roll of 20 for 2 double damage on Bugbear #03!   Round 2 of Combat, 1 st Attacks: Maevis’, arrow hits Bugbear #03 for 4 damage! Bugbear #03, hits Coal for 3 damage with his Fauchard! Balen, continues playing the Pan Pipes, hoping the charm starts to work next round! Coal, missed hitting Bugbear #03 with his +1 Long Sword! Sheila, missed Bugbear #03, with her +2 Footman’s Mace! Grax’s, arrow missed Bugbear #03! None of the stuck Bugbears are suffocating this round, the chance was at 10%.   Round 2, 2 nd Attacks will start the next game on December 29 th ! And that ends the live gaming session for the night until next time!   Number of Sessions for current Adventure Module: 14th Session for I1: Dwellers of the Forbidden City 12/15/2019 98 Sessions for “Isle of the Dread: Parts 1-4”: 10/11/2017 – 12/15/2019  

Thank You For Playing today's game 12/29/2019 - From 8:05 pm EDT, until 10:15 pm EDT, and our 238th Gaming Session, goes out to:   Bard – Human - Maevis Silverleaf & Cleric / Magic-User – Half Elf - Quintolos -  Roxxifarius   Bard Jester – Human – Balen - Christopher G. Magic-User - Elf - Xilicien -  Devin M. Ranger – Half Elf - Camlin - Jack J. (New Player) Ranger - Human - Coal Blackburn & Cleric – Human Female - Sheila -  Shadowfox (Steve) Witch – Human – Cassandra - Phoenix (New Player)     Whom Could Not Make It Today!   Guardian (Paladin) – Halfling - Rowan  Root  –  Nick R.   (Arriving later in January?) Fighter / Thief – Shield Dwarf - Grax Ironcloak -  GreyWolfVT  (Ed) Ranger – Half Elf - Camlin - Freeman3294 Warlock (AS&SoH2E) – Human Hermaphrodite -Doña Phicenta Thragiella De Thrul - The Fictionaut ??? - The Hermit Legend   Game Summary for Sunday Evening (12/29/2019): It is now 26 days into the adventure (since setting off in the Belle Venture), and 3:30 pm on day 20 on the isle. It is now August 19 th . The Adventurers are in the midst of dealing with bugbear guards, inside of a 40 ft x 40 ft room, with tables aligned along the north east corner, on their sides, serving as a barrier (-4 To Hit them). The room is completely filled with webbing from a spell cast by Xilicien. Several of the bugbears caught in the webbing are risking being suffocated from the webbing, increasing 5% each round. Round 3 of Combat: Balen’s, ability to Rally Allies for a +1 on ‘To Hit’ rolls takes effect now. Coal, hits Bugbear #03 with his magical +1 Long sword for 2 slashing damage! Bugbear #01-A4, starts suffocating from the webbing having rolled a 1% on a chance of 15% or less to do so. Bugbear #03-A4,  swings and missed Sheila with his fauchard! Grax, slices Bugbear #03-A4, for 12 hit points damage with his magical Merthúvial  +1 long sword and wearing gauntlets of fencing, defeating him!   Round 4 of Combat: Camlin, just moves a bit, while patting his pockets, realizing his only weapon is the halberd. The party decides to wait it out for a bit in the hope more of bugbears suffocate from the webbing. Coal, moving freely through the webbing due to a ring of Free Action, hits Bugbear #02 for 13 damage with his magiacal +1 Long Sword! (This one is behind the tables, able to move at half speed). Bugbear #01-A4, succumbs to the webbing and suffocates. Bugbear #04-A4, starts to suffocate, rolling 19%, needing 21% or more not to. Bugbear #03-A5, starts to suffocate, rolling 18%, needing 21% or more not to.   Round 5 of Combat: Bugbear #03-A5 and #04-A4, suffocates from the webbing.   Round 6 of combat: Coal, missed, Bugbear #02-A4 with his +1 long sword! Bugbear #04-A5, suffocates from the webbing!   Round 7 of Combat: All of the ones trapped and suffocating are now dead, except for the 2 behind the tables.   New Initiative rolls are made for combat with the remaining two bugbears, as Xilicien dispels the webbing: Round 1 of Combat: Balen, continues to play his panpipes, to Rally Allies for +1 on ‘To Hit’ rolls. Sheila, hits Bugbear #01-A5 for 8 damage with her +2 Footman’s Mace! Bugbear #02-A5, throws his hand axe, missing Sheila! Bugbear #01-A5, also missed Sheila with his throwing axe! Camlin, Scores a critical roll of 20 for double damage on Bugbear #02-A5, for 6 damage, with his halberd!  Coal, fires an arrow at Bugbear #02-A5 at Point Blank Range 6-30’ for 7 damage, after hoping over a table with a successful dexterity check rolling 13 needing ≤ 17! Phicenta, missed Bugbeard #01-A5, with his two-handed sword!   Round 2 of Combat: Sheila, missed Bugbear #01-A5 with her +2 footman’s mace! Maevis, fires an arrow with his +1 composite long bow at Bugbear #02-A5 but missed! Bugbear #02-A5, hits Phicenta for 1 damage with his fauchard! Bugbear #01-A5, missed Sheila with his fauchard! Camlin, missed Bugbear #02-A5, with his halberd! Coal, missed Bugbear #02-A5, with an arrow! Phicenta, fumbles the two-handed sword, trying to attack Bugbear #02-A5. It falls south east, just 1 ft away!   Round 3 of Combat: Sheila, missed Bugbear #01-A5 with her +2 footman’s mace! Maevis, missed Bugbear #02-A5 with an arrow! Bugbear #02-A5, missed Phicenta with his fauchard! Bugbear #01-A5, missed Sheila with his fauchard! Camlin, hits Bugbear #02-A5 for 10 damage, defeating him!

Coal, hits Bugbear #01-A5 for 11 damage with an arrow from the +1 Foeseeker long bow, defeating him! End of Combat!   Balin, exaggerates his huffing and puffing from playing the panpipes. Balen The Human Bard Says, "I didn't realize I needed to learn longer songs, and work on my wind stamina to get you folks to finish a fight!!"   Coal and Maevis recover some arrows, 2 each for Coal & Maevis. Searching the Bugbears, reveals they are wearing chain mail armor, carried fauchards and hand axes for weapons, and pouches containing a total of 94 gold coins! Grax first checks for a trap and listens at the north east wooden door. Grax did not find a trap or hear anything beyond the door. Camlin, nocks an arrow ready to fire into the door when opened if necessary. Grax, opens the door into an empty long hallway and the party travels down it’s length, coming to a spot where they could turn north or continue east, they chose to go north and eventually come to a wooden door at it’s end. Grax, has a look at the door, checking for a trap and finding none, then has a listen at it but does not hear anything beyond. Grax, pushes open the door to reveal a large room, 80 ft wide x 100 ft long. Area Description: This is a large vaulted room with arches rising from the corners. The floor is partially covered by rice-straw mats while the rest of the area is hard stone. In the center of the room, on the ceiling, is a small chest, resting upside down. On the far wall is a door with a large keyhole in it. Starting on the ceiling, over both doors, are a series of rungs, spaced at 2 foot intervals. These rungs stop short of the chest by 5 feet. There are no occupants in the room. With a witch in the party with a flying broom, the party has Cassandra fly up to the chest on the ceiling, with Grax, to have a look. As they near the chest about 10 feet down from it, Cassandra and Grax, both make a surprise and dexterity check rolls. Neither were surprised and make their Dexterity checks without penalty. Both make a successful dexterity check and stay on the broom, however Grax is seen to be hanging from it with feet pointing upwards towards the ceiling, seeming to show off a hand stand! Here, they have entered a reverse gravity field around the chest and Cassandra moves the broom closer to the ceiling so Grax can set foot down upon it and examine the chest. Grax, does a check to detect sliding or shifting walls or rooms and believes the ceiling is sound, so he beings to check for a trap on the chest after the party tossed up a rope to tie around himself. Cassandra takes up the other end of the rope, leaving 10 ft of slack. Grax, did not find a trap on the chest, so proceeds to open it, picking the lock and it unlocks and he lifts the lid. To his surprise the chest was in fact traped with a mechanism designed to release something from a vial. Thanksfully, it did not trigger because he picked the lock properly. Inside the chest he sees a mix of silver (2,000) and gold coins (120), along with a jade key. Grax closes the chest back up without locking it and sees that he can pick it up from the floor. It is decided to put the contents into a sack and Grax ties himself down onto Cassandra’s broomstick. Cassandra, who was checking about for the range of the reverse gravity using bits of chalk, finding it to be about 30 ft around the chest and 10 ft down, then flys out of the reverse gravity field and back down to the ground. A quick search is made of the straw mats in the room and looked under as well but nothing was found.   And that ends the live gaming session for the night until next time!   Number of Sessions for current Adventure Module: 15th Session for I1: Dwellers of the Forbidden City 12/29/2019 99 Sessions for “Isle of the Dread: Parts 1-4”: 10/11/2017 – 12/29/2019