Harm Incorporated – Ruins of Undermountain – Game Session – June 2015

by: Charles Plemons - June 30th, 2015   Filed under: Gaming, Harm Incorporated, Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, Ruins of Undermountain Add Comment

Game summary for June 30, 2015, Ruins of Undermountain campaign; PCs included Abiron Morikis (human brawler [shield champion]), Boran Gibbs (human cleric), Kalil Bakran (human sorcerer), Paddy Brandywine (halfling bard [archaeologist]), Rumbald Shieldcracker (dwarf ranger [dungeon rover]), and Zuriel Broadleaf (elf druid [treesinger]).

 

The group encountered two additional explorers, Abiron Morikis and Zuriel Broadleaf, and combined forces in their continued delve. They entered a room filled with straw and glowing blue moss occupied by ravenous gnolls! The slavering brutes attacked and were soon greeted by Zuriel’s treant companion! Boran tried to flank to the right while Rumbald went left. Paddy went up the middle with the treant as Kalil launched scorching ray. One gnoll went down under a bashing of tree limbs as another succumbed to Abiron’s vicious flurry and flying knee! The spear-wielding gnoll revealed himself a spellcaster capable of healing his ally, but it was too little too late. The group swarmed in and took him down.

The team moved into another room and found a talking cobra! Paddy did some negotiating, and it agreed to let them pass for 50 gold pieces and 25% of their cash treasure found past its door. As the snake counted its coins, the group moved on.

The next room held a single stone statue appearing much like a fat orc with a hinged jaw and keyhole nostrils. Paddy attempted to pick the nose… er… lock. Instead, he discovered it was a trap! Hidden nozzles sprayed misty oil into the air and a spark ignited a conflagration! Boran was burned, but the rest of the team avoided the fires. The treant smashed the statue to rubble, and the group found a hidden cache of treasure underneath!

Moving on, the team found a pair of rawbone bugbears! The hideous skeletons dripped blood from chunks of muscle and tendon still clinging to their forms. Rage filled the creatures at the presence of living creatures, and the undead tried to smash them with their spiked clubs! Paddy took a severe beating but Abiron tagged one with his shield. Rumbald clipped one with his axe but had little effect. A searing light from Boran blasted one and allowed the treant to move in and clobber it. Zuriel then finished off the other with an impressive flame strike. The team looted the bodies and went off in search of other unexplored tunnels of fearsome Undermountain!

Carrion Crown Adventure Path – Game Session – 099

by: Charles Plemons - June 23rd, 2015   Filed under: Carrion Crown Adventure Path, Gaming, Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Add Comment

Game summary for June 23, 2015, Carrion Crown Adventure Path campaign, Shadows of Gallowspire adventure; PCs included Brutus Bonesmasher (human fighter), Dario Malavasi (human afflicted dire werewolf oracle), Gnok Thatek (dwarf vampire monk), Malthus Brightray (half-elf cleric), and Thrain (graveknight dwarf slayer), accompanied by NPC companion Nyssa Pagonis (human cleric) and cohorts Lucretia Ivankov (human vampire spawn sorcerer) and Tagre (dread gnome fighter/rogue/assassin).

Dario, Brutus, and Malthus arrived on the scene and quickly turned the tide! Malthus channeled positive energy several times, devastating the undead. With the foes weakened, it took only a few moments for the team to finish the rest off. The group spent a moment nursing wounds, raising dead, and then proceeded down another hallway.

The group found a room filled with broken funerary urns. They began to hear whispers, and several the team began injuring themselves! Their freshly raised companions died again at their own hands. Nyssa silenced the room, and the team rushed through, leaving their cohorts’ bodies behind.

A scene of horror greeted them moments later when they found a vast chamber stacked with mutilated corpses, their rotting fluids dripping down through holes in the floor. Gnok assumed gaseous form and explored, finding a chamber below filled with a pool of millions of teeming maggots! The group entered the corpse room and disturbed millions of black flies! Nearly gagging, the team tried to make it across the room to a set of double doors. However, a horrific beast from the primordial Abyss erupted from just beneath the corpses! The augnagar qlippoth lashed out and dealt deep bleeding injuries to numerous party members. It bit Dario in the chest, and he succumbed to a dread curse causing his flesh to begin rotting on the bone! Thrain moved in to engage, Malthus assumed the form of righteous might, and Gnok hurled himself through the air onto the creature’s back! Blood flowed freely as the outsider ripped into the team. They hammered back with tiny but compounding blows. Eventually, Gnok realized his lawful monk talents should allow him to overcome the qlippoth’s damage reduction. He battered the creature and eventually killed it!

With the qlippoth dead, the team stands in the midst of a million buzzing flies wondering what other horrors await.

Carrion Crown Adventure Path – Game Session – 098

by: Charles Plemons - June 9th, 2015   Filed under: Carrion Crown Adventure Path, Gaming, Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Add Comment

Game summary for June 9, 2015, Carrion Crown Adventure Path campaign, Shadows of Gallowspire adventure; PCs included Gnok Thatek (dwarf vampire monk), Radimir Dragomirov (human cleric), Thrain (graveknight dwarf slayer), and Zeddicus Zu’l Zorander (human brine lich abjurer/cleric/mystic theurge), accompanied by NPC companion Nyssa Pagonis (human cleric) and cohorts Lucretia Ivankov (human vampire spawn sorcerer), Polyphemus (tiefling fighter/rogue), and Tagre (dread gnome fighter/rogue/assassin).

The group found a room full of gurneys with several beaten refugees. In talking to them, they recognized one as none other than Count Lucinean Galdana! They learned from him they had been beaten and tortured, and he would soon be forced to consume some fluid to awaken a tyrant. He told them there was a secret entrance and led them to the south.

Gnok scouted ahead in gaseous form and discovered an odd scene! Kneeling around a table were eight cultists who had slit their own throats and died. Oddly, none seemed to cast a shadow… Gnok reported back, and Zedd cast true sight and advanced. He saw the room full of greater shadows. When he turned to tell the team, he saw through disguises and realized the team had 8 shapeshifted totenmaskes among them! The fake refugees (and Count) transformed into undead before their eyes and attacked. The team hurt several and even killed a couple of the undead. However, both Tagre and Polyphemus were slain and in the process of turning into shadows! Radimir was also dreadfully injured. Will the party survive?

Carrion Crown Adventure Path – Game Session – 097

by: Charles Plemons - June 2nd, 2015   Filed under: Carrion Crown Adventure Path, Gaming, Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Add Comment

Game summary for June 2, 2015, Carrion Crown Adventure Path campaign, Shadows of Gallowspire adventure; PCs included Brutus Bonesmasher (human fighter), Dario Malavasi (human afflicted dire werewolf oracle), Malthus Brightray (half-elf cleric), Thrain (graveknight dwarf slayer), and Zeddicus Zu’l Zorander (human brine lich abjurer/cleric/mystic theurge), accompanied by NPC companion Nyssa Pagonis (human cleric) and cohorts Polyphemus (tiefling fighter/rogue) and Tagre (dread gnome fighter/rogue/assassin).

The team moved down a hallway and found a red velvet tapestry at an intersection. Malthus looked behind it and discovered a mirror. Zedd came up and looked as well and realized it was a mirror of life trapping! Suddenly, a force ripped the tapestry free and several of the party were sucked into the trap! Thrain quickly shattered the mirror freeing the party but also releasing three kalavakus demons! A nasty fight ensued, but the team brought them down.

The team went further and found a room of statues. When Thrain entered, three (statues of Urgathoa) animated as stone golems and attacked! Thrain surprised everyone by scoring a single hit and destroying one! The team swarmed in, taking several hard hits, but they quickly destroyed the other two as well.