Weekly Gaming Summary #19 (06/27/20)

Thank You For Playing today's game 06/27/2020 - From 10:00 am EDT, until 12:00 pm EDT, and our 29th Gaming Session, goes out to:   Ranger – High Elf – Willie Belson –  Buddy-D Rogue – High Elf - Roqar -  Roxxifarius Wizard – High Elf – Skywise - Ullek H.   Whom Could Not Make It Today!   Cleric (Light Domain) – Hill Dwarf - Travok Lightbearer - Jaster R. Fighter (Echo Knight) – Xar’Tharkas – Half Orc - Christian W. Monk – Half Elf – Eimong (Ee-mong) -  The Hermit Legend Warlock – Prayn Vigim – Aasimar - Rahfen   Game Summary for Saturday (06/27/2020):   Opening Scene: Day 13: May 16th; 4:30 pm Things start as the party heads back to Conyberry after clearing the Wyvern Tor cavern of an ogre named Gog and Orcs from the dislocated and splintered Many Arrows tribe, having placed the leader, Xnaurl the Gnawler’s head on a javelin just outside the cave.   It takes the party 7 hours to get back to the Old Owl Well site, traveling about 4.5 hours before setting up a campsite for overnight. During the 3 rd of four watches, when Eimong and Skywise were on look-out duty, undead skeletons, attack the adventurers, six hours into the rest!   Initiative rolls are made and Combat Round #01 begins:   Skywise, cast a Fire Bolt at Skeleton #04 hitting for 10 fire damage!   Skeleton #05, fires an arrow from a shortbow, missing Eimong!   Willie, fires an arrow with the long bow, at Skeleton #04 hitting for 11 damage, severing it at the neck, defeating the creature!   Skeleton #02, fires an arrow with a short bow, missing Roqar!   Prayn, cast the Eldritch Blast cantrip, missing Skeleton #01!   Sildar Hallwinter, slashes at Skeleton #0? for 3 damage!   Skeleton #06, fires an arrow from a short bow for 5 damage on Roqar!   Travok Lightbearer, casts the Faerie Fire spell upon Skeletons #02 & #03.  Both Skeletons make dexterity saving throws, with #03 failing so the adventurers have advantage when attacking #03 due to the bluish faerie fire surrounding it!   Roqar, swings and missed Skeleton #02 with her short sword!   Eimong, pounds Skeleton #03 with his fists (unarmed strike) for 10 bludgeoning damage!   Xar’Tharkas, slashes Skeleton #01, just below the rib cage, with his great  sword for 14 damage, defeating it!   Hovac the giant badger stays back for now.   Skeleton #03, strikes Eimong for 10 piercing damage with the shortsword!     Round #02 of Combat:   Skywise, casts the Magic Missiles spell at Skeleton #06 for 2+4+1= 7 total force damage!   Skeleton #05, fires an arrow at Eimong but missed!   Willie, fires an arrow with the long bow, hitting Skeleton #06 for 8 damage!   Skeleton #02, swings it’s shortsword at Roqar, missing her!   Prayn, casts the Eldritch Blast cantrip at Skeleton #06 but missed!   Sildar Hallwinter, strikes Skeleton #02 with his long sword for 8 slashing damage!   Xar’Tharkas’s Time Echo, swings his great sword at Skeleton #06 but missed!   Travok Lightbearer, casts the Guiding Bolt spell at Skeleton #06, for 15 force damage, defeating it!   Roqar, swings her short sword at Skeleton #02, hitting for 5 piercing damage, defeating it!   Eimong, strikes Skeleton #03 with his fists (unarmed strike) for 12 damage, defeating it!   Xar’Tharkas, strikes Skeleton #05 with his great sword for 11 slashing damage!     Round #03 of Combat:   Skywise, casts the Acid Splash cantrip at Skeleton #05, hitting for 2 damage, after a failed strength save, defeating it!   End of Combat!   The party takes a short rest now in order to recover, gaining up to 1 Hit Die of health back. They had rested for a total of 10 hours.   The party travels for 12 hours after leaving camp at 9am,  setting up another camp among some foothills and resting a straight 8 hours without incident.   The adventurers travel 8 more hours and reach the village of Conyberrry around 8pm, and head to the Fewmets Inn.   Roqar orders a bottle of whiskey from Bob Zeissin, who runs the inn with his brother Zack and also orders a lamb chop and veggies dinner along with Willie.   Roqar mentions that the Orcs at Wyvern Tor are all cleaned up, along with an ogre.

Bob mentions of an old haunted manor in the Neverwinter woods, once owned by a paladin knight, which was attacked by a white dragon known as Ashenfrost, when he was away on business. When the paladin returned home, he found his family dead and not able to bear that he could not see his family again he made a deal with a demon and sought out Ashenfrost and killed her. When he returned he cursed the manor so that he could see his family again and they would arise at night. In the end the Paladin went mad and killed himself.   The party decides to go have a look at the haunted mansion, so Bob Zeissen suggests that they go to a hunter’s lodge in the Neverwinter woods, about 20 miles north west of Conyberry, owned by a fellow known as Falcon the hunter.   Sildar Hallwinter has been there and knows the way to the lodge which is about a 9 hour trip from Conyberry.   The party stays over night at the inn and set off for Falcon’s hunter’s lodge around 6 am and arrive around 2 pam. When they arrive this is what they see:   A thin fog surrounds a fortified compound standing in a clearing on the east side of a narrow river. A ten-foot-high log palisade surrounds the compound, whose main building is a two-story stone-and-wood affair with a high-pitched roof, gables, window shutters, and a stone chimney. Attached to the main building is a blocky tower of gray stone, its high roof lined with battlements. Other structures include a two-story stable house and a gatehouse whose flat roof is enclosed by iron railings. A stone bridge spans the river, ending before an oaken door set into the gatehouse’s outer wall. Mounted next to the door is a bell with a short rope hanging from its clapper. Since they arrived coming from the east, they really don’t see the bridge and gatehouse from that side or the bell for that matter.   They follow a path that leads to two roped gates. One leads into a pen area, the other a courtyard. They can hear various farm animals on the property.   Looking for a trap on the pens gate, Roqar did not find one, so she unties the rope and the party enters and follows a path that has various pen areas for horses and other animals on either side of it. Up ahead they see a couple fellows in the south yard area, one is wearing a fur-lined cloak over studded leather armor with black hair and broad shoulders, standing about 6.5 feet tall, with blue eyes, cold and sharp as ice, and sporting a neatly trimmed beard. He is with another younger fellow, whom is probably a stable hand.   Roqar greets them and mentions about the haunted mansion, asking if they knew anything about it.   Falcon says, that it’s Sir Taris’s place, and what a shame about what happened there and that at least he killed Ashenfrost. He mentions that he knows where the place is but currently can’t leave the lodge as nobles are expected to arrive soon.   Falcon questions the party if they had seen any orcs on the way to the lodge, (they haven’t).   Falcon believes they are in league with evil half-orcs that dwell south east of the lodge and that they are usually seen in the company of little stick creatures that roam the woods. The half-orcs are known to dwell in a ruined stone manse overgrown with vines, roughly just 10 miles from the lodge. Tales say that the manse was built by a scholar who studied the elven ruins scattered throughout the Neverwinter woods.   Falcon offers the adventurers a place to stay overnight, in his guest house. It has a barn-like quality. A carpet of straw covers the dirt floor. Arranged about the room are nine cots that come with soft pillows and thick wool blankets. The following morning they leave the lodge around 6 am with 12 year old Pell as their guide and arrive at the manor site around 10 hours later at 2 pm. Along the way they encounter a small group of Cragmaw goblins roaming the Neverwinter woods.   Adventure Time is now May 17 th , at 2:00 pm.(arrival at the manor)   And this ends the gaming session for the day, until next time!   The Adventurers Earned: Campsite: Skeletons (6) = 300 XP   ------- Grand Total: 1,250 XP 300 / 7 = 42.85 XP Each Everyone is at 1,852.88 + 42.85 = 1,895.73 XP  Level 4 reached at 2,700 XP   Loot Found: Short swords (6) and Short bows (6) with quivers of 20 arrows each.   Number of Sessions for current Adventure Module: 29th Session for “Lost Mines of Phandelver / Dragon of Icespire Peak” 06/27/2020 [1st Session start was 10/26/2019]