Thank You For Playing today's game 02/08/2020 - From 10:15 am EDT, until 1:00 pm EDT, and our 14th Gaming Session, goes out to: Cleric – Tortle – Murtle & Wizard – Tiefling – Welfast Burner - AquaAir Fighter – Dragonborn – Ravoprax Elmash - Zerlan Fighter – Mountain Dwarf – Flint Frostbeard - Bart (New Player) Ranger – High Elf – Willie Belson – Buddy-D Rogue – High Elf - Roqar - Roxxifarius Wizard – High Elf – Kaiser Starlocke - Yoshi Whom Could Not Make It Today! Fighter – Mountain Dwarf – Flint Frostbeard - Hunter C. Game Summary for Saturday (02/08/2020): Opening Scene: Day 5: May 5th, 10:30 am The party has just left behind the Culist from the Cult of the Dragon in the old farmhouse, with an agreement to leave each other alone, as each go about their tasks. They travel up the north pathway to see where it goes as they seek out a building that was an old alchemy and herbal shop in the south east side of Thundertree. As the party moves along the path, Kaiser having had his Owl familiar scout from above, creatures known as a Twig Blights, springs upon Roqar, and 3 of her companions behind her! Initiative Rolls are made and Combat Round #01 begins! Ravoprax, missed Twig Blight #06 with his rapier! Twig Blight #02, missed Roqar, with it's claws! Twig Blight #01, hits Ravoprax with it's claws for 6 damage! Twig Blight #03, hits Kaiser for 4 damage with it's claws! Twig Blight #04, hits Flint for 5 damage with it's claws! Kaiser, uses his action to disegage and move back (basically a parry). This prevents an attack of opportunity from the Twig Blight. Murtle, missed Twig Blight #07 with his versatile spear! Willie, hits Twig Blight #07 for 6 damage, with his short sword, defeating him! Flint, hits Twig Blight #06 for 13 slashing damage with his two-handed battle axe, defeating him! Roqar, hits a Twig Blight #02, for 14 damage with her short sword and using a sneak attack, defeating him! Round #02 of Combat! Ravoprax, hits Twig Blight #04, for 8 damage with his rapier! Combat ends and the party receives 25 XP per Twig Blight for 4 * 25= 100 XP Ravoprax, cast the Cure Wounds spell upon Kaiser Starlocke, healing back 5 hit points to him! Ravoprax Says: "Lots of enemies around here" Roqar Says: "Come on, lets find that shop" Not finding anything of value upon the Twig Blights the party continues nort to arrive in what looks like a town square: This is also seen by the Owl Familiar, who tells Kaiser in advance this information: On the east side of town, the lane opens up to form a small square. Several ruined buildings surround the south side of the square, but a larger, intact structure to the north looks like a barracks. One lane leads southeast, another heads southwest around the hill in the middle of the town, and a third way meanders north. In the middle of the square, leaning to one side ever so slightly, is a weathered wooden statue of a warrior clutching a spear and shield. Not too far away just to the north west, is the ruined tower the green dragon that Reidoth the druid, mentioned, lives in. Roqar, checks a ruined structure to the east of the square, only to find it filled with rubble and overgrowth and nothing more as her perception roll indicates. Roqar, as does willie, then checks a similar ruined structure on the west side of the square as others keep watch for would be attackers. An investigation check from both, reveals nothing more than rubble and overgrowth inside. The party then enters a larger structure to the south of the statue in the town square to see: Heaps of wreckage litter the interior of this ruin. In one corner stands a broken loom. Willie and Roqar, do not find anything more inside the structure. As Willie leads down the south westerly path on the west side of the weaver's cottage, he and others are jumped upon by Twig Blights lurking in the nearby foliage! Only Kaiser was surprised and does not attack the very first round. Initiative Rolls are made. Combat Round #01 begins! Willie, hits Twig Blight #05 for 7 damage with his short sword, defeating him! Kaiser, looks around in surprise, gauging his surroundings. Murtle, missed Twig Blight #03, with his versatile spear! Twig Blight #01, missed Kaiser with his claws! Twig Blight #3, missed Murtle with his claws! Ravoprax, missed Twig Blight #01 with his rapier! Roqar, missed Twig Blight #03, with her short sword! Flint, missed Twig Blight #03, with his 2-handed battle axe! Round 2 of Combat: Wille, fires an arrow with his long bow dealing 11 damage, defeating Twig Blight #01! Kaiser, let's loose a Magic Missiles spell upon Twig Blight #03, dealing 4, 5, 5, 3 = 17 damage, defeating the creature! End of Combat! Nothing of value is found upon the twig blights. 25 XP per Twig Blight awarded: 25 * 3 = 75 XP Murtle, cast the Cure Wounds spell upon Ravoprax, healing back 7 hit points! The party discusses where to look and where to rest. The party decides to do a short 4 hour rest in the old weaver's cottage and healed back some hit points as nothing disturbs them. Kaiser heals back 2, Roqar 4, Flint 2 hit points. The party has a look in the structure to the south west of the weaver's cottage. Building Description: This ruined shop is cluttered with sagging storage shelves and broken furniture. Shards of glass and pieces of pottery glint in the weeds and rubble next to rotted books and casks. Kaiser, does a successful perception check, as he moves shelves around to find that there is a small wooden case, under one of them! The case, being rotted and weathered, is worthless but contains a gold necklace with a fine emerald pendant (200 gp)! Kaiser says, "Score!", Roqar says, "Now we just need to find a place to cash it in." Kaiser sends his owl familiar to fly over a structure to the south west of the old alchemy/herbalist shop. There is a roof overhead on the structure, but this is what the owl sees: A wide chimney and rotted piles of firewood jumbled outside the walls of this sagging building suggest that it was a smithy in its day. Willie sees there an intact door to the smity, and two piles on the floor seems to rise, as if disturbed by new air currents entering the room! Willie, immediately fires an arrow with his long bow at one of the growing 'piles', hit it for 7 damage! The party decides to help Willie attack the Ash Zombies and Initiative rolls are made. Combat Round #01 Begins! Ravoprax, moves towards the old smithy. Flint, hits Ash Zombie #02 for 7 damage with his 2-handed battle axe! Willie, hits Ash Zombie #01 for 6 damage with his short sword! Kaiser, smashing through a still intact window, cast the Fire Bolt spell upon Ash Zombie #01, hitting for 5 fire damage! Roqar, hits Ash Zombie #01 for 5 damage, defeating the creature! Murtle, moves to the doorway to cast the, Toll the Dead spell upon Ash Zombie #02, and the sound of a dolorous bell fills the air around it at 120 decibels for a moment. The target must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or take 6 necrotic damage. If the target is missing any of its hit points, it instead takes 2 necrotic damage. The Ash Zombie #02, rolls a 1 for a wisdom check and fails, so it takes 6 damage! Ash Zombie #02, missed smashing Willie with a fist! Round #02 of Combat! Ravoprax, cast a Fire Bolt spell at Ash Zombie #02, hitting for 5 fire damage! Flint, hits Ash Zombie #02 for 13 damage, defeating the creature! End of Combat! Investigation checks reveal: Nothing of value is found in the room here, other than a variety of old tools—tongs, bellows, hammers, and a pair of iron anvils, scattered around the interior of this building.. XP awarded: 50 XP per Ash Zombie: 100 XP total The party exits the west door of the smithy and are come upon by some more Twig Blights! Wisdom perception checks show that the front two, Kaiser and Roqar are not surprised by the Twig Blights! Initiative rolls are made and Combat Round #01 begins: Twig Blight #08, missed Kaiser with his claws! Twig Blight #06, hits Flint for 4 damage with it's claws! Twig Blight #05, hits Flint for 3 damage with it's claws! Willie, fires an arrow with the long bow, hitting for 7 damage, defeating Twig Blight #06! Ravoprax, cast the Green-Flame Blade spell upon his rapier, but missed Twig Blight #08! Roqar, missed Twig Blight #08 with her short sword! Kaiser, cast the Burning Hands spell, effecting everything in a 15 ft cone area, hitting for 12 damage to Twig Blight #08, defeating it! Flint, hits Twig Blight #05 for 7 damage with the 2-handed battle axe, defeating it! Murtle, cast the Toll the Dead spell, upon Twig Blight #07, but the creature makes it's wisdom saving throw, so he fends off the attack! Round #02 of Combat: Twig Blight #07, hits Flint for 4 damage with it's claws! Willie, tries to fire through foliage at Twig Blight #07 but the shot is blocked! Ravoprax, missed Twig Blight #07, with his rapier! Roqar, hits Twig Blight #07 with her short sword and an sneak attack dealing 5+7 total damage, defeating the creature! Combat ends! Nothing of value is found upon the Twig Blight bodies. XP Award: 25 XP per Twig Blight: 4 * 25 = 100 XP Flint uses his Second Wind Ablitity to heal back 11 hit points! The party heads south and west to the structure west of the old smithy, it appears to be an old farmhouse: This ruin looks as if it might once have been a farmhouse. It is now half swallowed by a dense thicket, with trees growing up through its ruined foundations. The lane continues south a short distance past the ruin before ending in an overgrown field. And this ends the gaming session for the day, until next time! The Adventurers Earned: 275 XP for 12 Twig Blights 100 XP for 2 Ash Zombies ------- 375 XP / 6 = 62.5 XP each! Level 3 reached at 900 XP Loot Found: Gold necklace with a fine emerald pendant (200 gp) [hopefully this is the one Mirna Dendrar, had metioned about to the party!] Number of Sessions for current Adventure Module: Adventure Time: Day 5: 6pm on May 5th 14th Session for “Lost Mines of Phandelver” 02/08/2020 [1st Session start was 10/26/2019]