Thank You For Playing today's
game 05/02/2020 - From 10:15 am EDT, until 1:45 pm EDT, and our 3 nd
Play Test Gaming Session, goes out to: Cleric – Mountain Dwarf –
Akhenaten - AKSHAY J. Cleric –Hill
Dwarf – Travok Lightbearer - Jaster R. Paladin
Knight – Human – Barous Bloodbane - Christian W. Ranger –
Drow Elf – Rahfen K - Rahfen
Ranger – High Elf -
Ricardo Jamez – Buddy-D Bard – Tiefling – Xenia
Locoster - Roxxifarius Rogue –
Human – Ulvall - Ullek H. Whom Could Not Make It
Today! Everyone was
present for the first time in at least a couple years for a game! Game Summary for Saturday (05/02/2020): Opening Scene: Day 1: April 18; 9:00
pm: The party had arrived at the
Corvis river where they see a bridge with tracks upon it and proceeded to cross
over it to the other side and continued to follow the tracks, hiking and
climbing their way up the steeper parts, noticing sever sharp curves and steep inclines along the way up, they
arrive at the top and see that the tracks lead into a cave opening. Area Description: The mine entrance area is about sixty-five feet long by around
fifty-five feet wide, at its widest point. The cart tracks run roughly down the
middle of the ledge. The ledge is covered with coarse gravel, a byproduct of
digging the mine. There are two mine carts sitting on the tracks near the edge of the
ledge. They are attached to a cable, that runs up to a complex pulley system at
the top of a twenty-foot wooden tower, and then on to a huge winch off to one
side. The winch is over twenty feet wide. It is mostly made of an
enormous spool of heavy cable, mounted on an iron platform. Next to the spool
is a tall handle. As it turns out there is a mountain dwarf
sleeping in one of the mine carts, reeking of booze. The fellow’s name is
Akhenaten and says this to the party, “ I came to investigate. My brethren were slaughtered down there,
I was hoping to get some idea about what might have happened, but when I
approached the mines, i heard this weird howls... gave me the chills. SO I
camped up in them carts!" Ulvall and Rahfen look over the
cable mechanism, to see how it works, Rahfen had an idea to use the cable as a
tripwire across the cave opening but sees it would require some work to remove
it from the mine carts. Before proceeding inside the
mine Akhenaten, casts the Cure Wounds spell upon Ulvall to heal him up fully
with 7 hit points restored. Going down the passage blood
stains is found here and there along the floor as they reach a split, going
right or left and take the right passage until they come to an open shaft with
another smaller cable pulley mechanism sending a wire down the shaft. Akhenaten, sees that the mine
was dug out a long while back at this spot and tossed a pebble down into the
shaft but did not hear it hit bottom. Akhenaten, then turns the winch
that controls the cable spool and the cable starts coming up to eventually
reveal an elevator car with mine cart tracks on it. There is a mechanism to
work the elevator from inside of it. The party decides to see what
lays beyond the elevator and goes down the passage, noticing a few smaller
holes just big enough for a gnome to squeeze through. Coming to another fork in the
passage they take the right one and a short time later reach a dead end. As they turn to retread their steps, off in the
distance you see several sets of glowing red eyes reflecting back your torchlight.
Suddenly a cacophony of squeals split the air as a pack of boar sized rats’
charges into the light with ravenous hunger in their eyes. Gob
rats are enormous rats the size of large dogs. Their greasy coats vary in color
from gray, to brown, to black; and their eyes glow red in the darkness.
They have oversized mouths, that are host to monstrous teeth. Initiative rolls are made and
Combat Round #01 begins! The Gob Rat swarm of 5 rats come
upon Rahfen of the 5 only one managed to bite him for 5 piercing damage! Ricardo hits a Gob Rat for 7
piercing damage with the long bow! Rahfen decides to retreat a bit
giving a gob rat an attack of opportunity, but it missed him with his claws. Ulvall, hits a Gob Rat of 11
piercing damage with the rapier, defeating the first of them! Rita Slate just stays back away
from the fight. Akhenaten, hits a Gob Rat for 5
damage with the warhammer! Barous, hits a Gob Rat for 4
slashing damage with the long sword but missed with his whip, another rat goes
down! Xenia, hits a Gob Rat for 6
piercing damage with the rapier! Round #02 of Combat: The Gob Rat Swarm, switched it’s
attention to Akhenaten, one claws at him for 3 slashing damage, another bites
him for 2 piercing damage the third one missed trying to bite him! Ricardo, hits a Gob Rat for 8
piercing damage with the long bow, defeating a third rat! Rahfen, fires an arrow with his
long bow hitting a Gob Rat for 10 piercing damage! Ulvall, swings and missed a Gob
Rat with his rapier! Rita, continues to stay away. Akhenaten, swings is warhammer
(one-handed) and hits a Gob Rat for 5 bludgeoning damage, defeating it! Barous, hits the last Gob Rat with his long sword for
19 slashing damage due to a critical roll of 25 and 2 more for the whip
hitting, defeating the last Gob Rat! End of Combat! Akhenaten, heals up Rahfen with
a Cure Wounds spell recovering 9 hit points, fully healing him up! The Gob Rats are flayed for food
and to see if they had swallowed anything of value but no.
They go back to the fork and
take the short left passage which came to another dead end so they go back to
the elevator shaft and work it down the shaft, Akhenaten, guesstimating a trip
of about 250 feet down.