Session 6 - Kobold Lair Continued

Wealday Rova 11 - Around 2AM

After finishing off the kobolds, the group decided to investigate a natural tunnel in the previous room. As they moved down the tunnel, it started to get more smokey and hot. From out of the smoke a hellhound appeared and attacked. Budwar invoked Torag and smote the foul beast. As the continued down the hallway the smoke got worse and they were attacked by a dwarven figure wrapped in chains. On those chains were faces that were silently screaming. One of the chains wrapped around Phain while the creature attacked Budwar. With a combined effort they slew their undead foe before Phain succumbed to the constricting of the chain. Budwar took the adamantine hammer as a weapon and used it to destroy the horrid chain.



They also found a crevasse that they believed lead them closer to their goal of rescuing Delek from being sacrificed. Unfortunately Xantumal slipped when trying to climb and fell to the ground below. A dire bat swooped out and attacked him while a gargoyle also appeared. After Preacher and Budwar also fell down when attempting to climb down, the beaten up party managed to kill off both the Bat and the gargoyle.

They climb back up the rope Phain threw down and checked out one more room in the upper level. It appeared to be a barracks of some sort. When checking the beds, 5 stirges swooped down and attached themselves. When they were done swatting the pesky stirges, they were tired, beat up and low on blood so they decided to rest.



Wealday Rova 11 - Around 11AM

The party decided to continue in the lower levels to find Delek and then they could return to clear out the rest of the creatures. After almost everyone falling down when climbing down the crevasse, they decided to take the elevator they found previously. It appeared to be able to hold two people at a time, but when they started to lower it, it broke apart. Preacher managed to grab ahold of something to stop from falling, but Budwar fell about 30 feet. Waiting for him down below were over a dozen kobolds. Outnumbered, but heavily armored and wielding "Glintaxe"'s items, the kobolds were unable to take advantage. Preacher decided to leap down to help. Phain take out his trusty rope and climbed down, while Xantumal rigged up a way to carry his wolf down moments later.

The group were killing off the kobolds, but two leader kobolds in the back, shouted down the hallway for reinforcements. Phain revealed that he had a knack for learning languages and had picked up how to speak their language since being there. Since he understood them, he positioned himself to attack the two leaders. He took out one, but the kobold were using a centipede poison that was slowing Phain down. Also more kobold were coming down the tunnels. Fortunately though, the original kobolds were thinned out and the rest of the group had come over to help. Unfortunately, one bigger kobold who came down one of the tunnels hit Hogie with a devastating blow knocking the wolf unconscious. This kobold was no match for the group as a whole and soon went down to their attacks.

After Preacher and Budwar helped heal Hogie and the rest of the group, they pushed onward. The came to a cavern that was being mined, then found a second cavern that had another bigger kobold and two frog like creatures. The party was taking no chances after the pick weilding kobold who took out Hogie, and quickly dispatched the kobold in this area.




Moving on they came to an intersection in the tunnels and chose to go right. They came to a dead end where the tunnel was collapsed. Two dead kobolds with no signs of injury were here along with something written in the kobold's language. Phain translated it saying it said "“Darky-dark below, and whispers soft and low. Evil lurks, its lip less mouth smirks. Do not go! Only death below!” After that 3 shadowy figures came out of the rock and attacked! Preacher channeled holy energy causing damage to the three shadows and making one flee. Avoiding the touch of the the creatures, the group managed to "kill" off the shadows.

To be continued....

Session 5 - Kobold Lair - Level 1

Wealday Rova 11 - Around Midnight

After resting long enough to regain some spells, Preacher cast a comprehend languages on the captured kobold. He revealed that the captured prisoner was going to be sacrificed at the next full moon, later that day. After getting what info they could get, Preacher escorted him to the "other side".

The group gathered up their things and headed down the stairs. They were immediately confronted by four kobold warriors and 2 slaves. They quickly took down the group and took one slave for questioning. He revealed the Kobold King was down another level and had a consort that liked pretty things. The kobolds were breaking down an obsidian obelisk dedicated to Droskar to give to the consort.

The slave agreed to lead the way but as he turned a corner after a couple hallways, ghostly armor and battle axe appeared floating down the hallway and dissolved the kobold. The party soon realized it was no ghost but a giant cube with those items stuck in it. Preacher and Budwar was engulfed by the cube, but Phain remembered a powerful scroll he had found in the monestary above and used it along with Xantumal's spells to destroy the foul thing. Budwar cleaned up the armor and battle axe and decided to use both since the armor was Mithril Full Plate and gave more protection while weighing less than his current armor, and the axe was magical with the name "Glintaxe" inscribed on it.

They continued down the hallway the kobold was leading them down and came into a kitchen filled with kobolds. A pair of them ran away as soon as they saw Budwar, and the rest definately seemed nervous about fighting him.

After disposing those kobolds they continued north to a room filled with alcoves containing dwarven skeletons. Preacher had a feeling they were undead and channeled the holy power of Pharasma, Goddess of Birth, Death, Prophesy and Fate. Undead circumvent everything she stands for and are hated by all her followers. After the divine wave of energy hit the skeltons, they all collapsed.

They continued on and came upon a room that once was used as a slaughterhouse at one time. Four ghouls attacked the party and this time these undead were not instantly destroyed like the skeletons before them by Preacher's channeled energy. The ghouls managed to paralyze Preacher to keep him from hurting them anymore, but Budwar and Xantumal dispatched them saving Preacher from their claws.

After healing up, they opened the doors to the next room and saw two kobolds protecting a pulley-operated elevator. Xantumal and Preacher quickly killed those two kobolds, but were surprised by two more jumping out of the elevator and another one attacking form a samll alcove above the door. Unfortunately for the kobolds, they were no match for the party.

The group had a hard decision to make, do they go to the next level and rescue Delek right away, or clear the area on this level to make sure they had an escape route and that no other kobolds would join in the fight against the king. Knowing they had only used up an hour or two and they still had well over a half of a day, they decided to clear out some more kobolds.

Heading south they came to another room full of kobolds, this one continued a spell caster in addition to warriors. Again upon seeing Budwar two kobolds ran fleeing. Budwar realized they thought he was the "ghost" that had killed many of their kind. Xantumal's summoned wolf kept the caster busy while the group eliminated the other kobold warriors. Before dying the kobold caster managed to send fire from his hands, injuring Phain, but not Budwar as he was protected from the Ring of Torag he had found in the monestary above.

To be continued next week....

Session 4 - Dwarven Monestary

Moonday Rova 9

Wanting to consecrate the altar of Lamashtu as well as the room, they enlisted the aid of Father Zantus. Budwar and Preacher kept watch over him while he did the ceremony.

Meanwhile Phain and Zantumal visited Quintus in town, an old man who was an expert in Thassilonian history, the empire that ruled the area 10,000 years ago. Quintus confirmed the writings were from Thallisonia as well as the statue was of the Runelord Azlanist. He also identified the 7 pointed star symbol as both a symbol of the 7 runelords as well as their 7 schools of magic. Each Runelord was a specialist in a school of magic, and each school had a connection to the seven virutes of rule. Over time these virutes turned into sins. The sins were Envy, Sloth, Lust, wrath, pride, gluttony, and greed.

After spending most of the day doing these tasks, the party retired back to their room. Later that night, Shayless Vinder, Phain's fiancee since that time in her basement, appeared and wanted to solidify their engagement. Phain complied, twice.

Toilday Rova 10

Heading back to the cathedral to dispose of some Lamashtu books found in the cathedral, they were interrupted by a lumberjack with some dire news. Delek Viskanta, another lumberjack, was taken by a band of kobolds. Phain heard one of the cathedral's workers startled at that and asked why she reacted that way. Apparently Delek had gotten Nualia pregnant 5 years before and left before she had a baby. Father Tobyn had kept it a secret, but she was one of the midwives when she did birth the baby. It had come early and had been monstrously deformed. It had died and been burned. Thats when Nualia fell into a coma and soon after supposedly died in the fire without ever waking. Delek had returned some time after that and stayed in the area working with the jumberjacks.

So the party mounted up and headed out to the lumberjack camp. There Shalelu was waiting for them. She let them know that the local Mosswood goblins had moved out of their lair and moved to Thistletop with the other goblin tribes. Kobolds had strangely moved in, and attacked the lumberjack camp. When they came, it appeared they were almost looking for Delek.



Xantumal retrieved a piece of clothing of Delek's and Hogie followed his trail to an old abandoned dwarven monestary. As they explored the ruined monestary, they discovered it had once belonged to Torag, and even found a Ring of Torag, a special magical item that protects from fire. It appeared that followers of Droskar, and evil dwarven deity, had taken over the monestary at some point.



At the back of the monestary they discovered a talking worg. Budwar, discovering it was evil he attacked it and with the party's help disposed of the foul beast. They discovered stairs leading down underneath the monestary.



Having a little more to explore, they found an abandoned shrine to Torag. Unfortunately two creatures in magical darkness dropped from the ceiling on top of Zantumal and Hogie's head. Phain had found a wand of light earlier and dispelled the darkness while the others helped kill the creatures.



There was one more room to explore and in it was a kobold hiding under some beds. After it took a hit from Budwar, it tried to escape out of a hole in the wall, but Budwar smashed it again until it was near death. They tied it up and Preacher stabilized and healed the creature but the party found out it ddin't speak a language they knew. They decided to rest, and Preacher would cast a spell so he could converse with the kobold. Then after gaining some intel, they would descend into the depths, hoping Delek was still alive

Session 3 - Catacombs of Wrath

Sunday Rova 8

Budwar, Phain, Preacher and Xantumal decided to check out a branch of the smuggler's tunnel they didn't have time for the day before. As they went down the tunnel they found another brick wall that had been knocked down. Going down the tunnel they came to a small cavern with two creatures they had never seen before. Phain and Budwar quickly dispatched the evil creatures.



They continued on and soon came upon a storeroom of which most of gone to dust. But here the tunnels turned into some sort of man made area. They followed the hallway and came upon a room with a shrine to Lamashtu, the evil god of Monstrous births, and the same god Nualia was now worshiping. There was water in a depression on the altar, but it detected as evil so they left it alone.

They continued to the next room where they found a Quasit. Shrieking to the group "How dare you enter the Mother's Sanctum", it slit it's wrists into a bubbling pool near it, creating another one of the monsters they just had killed earlier. Budwar and the wolf attacked the created spawn while the rest of the group attempted to kill the quasit. Unfortunately the quasit could fly and no one had a really effective weapon against it. Preacher circled around it and at the right time leaped off the pulpit where the pool was and grabbed it. Unfortunately it escaped his grasp and flew off invisibly.

The group investigated the pool and discovered if they put some of their blood in it that another spawn would appear. Everytime one was made, the pool would dim. They continued to make spawn and kill them immediately until the pool's water stopped bubbling and glowing.

They decided to push on and find the Quasit and not let it escape. They came across a statue of a beautiful woman wielding a ranseur. She carried a book with a 7 poined star with strange ancient runes on it. They discovered that the ranseur was seperate from the statue and they could remove it. They continued on determined to come back later to study the statue.

Next room had a bunch of cells in it with a wooden platform leading to another hallway. Sensing danger Budwar used his ability to detect evil right as two more of the spawn came at the party. In addition, while fighting them, the quasit returned to ambush the group. Xantumal was ready for that, and managed to grab the tiny outsider while everyone joined in to beat it to a pulp.

Feeling good about overcoming this foe, they continued on to a room filled with torture equipment that was connected to an ancient study. In the study they found some papers, written in an ancient language, that described how to sell your soul to a demon to gain power. Also there were misshapen bones of some humanoid bodies.

Continuing on they came to a room filled with pits covered by wooden lids. They heard moans from the bottom of the pits. Before they could investigate a deformed goblin attacked them. Spewing some foul liquid, Budwar was nauseated from the stench and couldn't do anything but empty his stomach. Soon however the group managed to defeat their foe. In the pits were some zombies that they dispatched of with their ranged abilities.



There was one more passage heading south. They followed the hallway past a stairway heading down that was collasped to a strange room. In it everything would float on its own, there was no gravity affecting anything. Also a strange electricity flowed around the walls. Feeling worn out from their battles with the quasit and the mutated goblin, they gathered up all the items they could find and decided to head back to Sandpoint with the bodies.

Preacher touched the corpses and magically preserved them to prevent any decay and Father Zantus stored the bodies at the cathedral and helped with their wounds.

Session 2 - Glassworks

Wealday Rova 4

After waking and coming down for breakfast the inn was buzzing. The group asked what was going on and found that Shalelu arrived in town that day. Heading to the sheriff's office they were escorted in and introduced to her by the sheriff. After discussing the goblins, the sheriff asked the group to watch over the town while he travelled to Magnimar to request more men. Shalelu was going to make a scouting trip for more information.

Oathday Rova 5

This day was a quiet day.

Fireday Rova 6

As the group was patrolling the city they heard some wailing coming from a woman. She needed help as her son was dead by goblin. Investigating her house, they found the dead body of the father in the closet. As they pulled him out a goblin leaped out and attacked. After they notified the mother that both her son and the father was dead, she collapsed in despair. Budwar took her to Father Zantus so she had someplace to stay, and help get the bodies taken to be buried.

Starday Rova 7

The party was awoken by a knock at the door. One of the workers at the Rusty Dragon was concerned for Ameiko Kaijitsu, the owner of the Rusty Dragon. She was missing and the worker found a note from Ameiko's brother asking her to meet him. The group decided to check out the Glassworks, the Kaijitsu family business.

After breaking in, they found a bunch of goblins desecrating the bodies of workers. As they started to dispatch the goblins, Tsuto, Ameiko's brother, attacked the party. Once they killed all the goblins, he ran down some stairs. They discovered smuggler's tunnels that lead to the beach. Also in the basement they found Ameiko tied up. After a trip to her family estate, they discovered the body of her father in the glassworks.

After finding a journal they discovered Tsuto was behind the planning of attack and that the remains of the former priest was stolen. The journal indicates that this was ordered by his daughter who was presumed dead. She is attempting to purge her "Celestial Taint" to better server Lamastu, an evil god.