Game summary for January 14, 2017, Small Adventures campaign, for Small Timers. Session included: Delwyn Underhall (Dwarf Arcanist played by Jack Smalling), Elowyn Graycloak (Half-Elf Arcanist/Cleric/Rogue played by Noah Smalling), Reth Steelarm (Half-Orc Fighter/Rogue played by Luke Smalling), and Valetin Krupova (Halfling Paladin played by Jared Smalling). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons.
The party entered the first chamber to discover a vicious minotaur and a pair of goblin rascals. The team swept in launching magic missiles and swinging with abandon. The minotaur savaged Reth with its greataxe and then unsuccessfully charged Valetin. The team took down the goblins with relative easy suffering only a few slices from their wicked dogslicers. The minotaur closed in on the team and forced Reth to fight despite his grievous injuries. The half-orc was able to slip past its defenses and land a fatal blow to the gigantic brute! The group then discovered a small chest buried under a flagstone. Messing with it, they triggered a burning hands trap that singed several of the party. Within the chest they found some magical trinkets, crossbow bolts, and some coins and gems. Elowyn went up to the door leading to the next chamber and began messing with the lock with his thieves’ tools. After a few moments effort, he realized he had locked and unlocked door! After a few more moments, he once again had the way ahead open.
The team slid into a frigid room filled with glowing blue mist and an ice sculpture of a dragon! As the team entered, the sculpture animated and attacked. The team quickly chiseled away at it with dagger, sling, and crossbow while Delwyn moved to the side and blasted it repeatedly with fire! The team destroyed the sculpture and found a potion and wand along with some jewels within the rubble. The exit from the room presented itself as a puzzle door. The team had to decipher the right combination of buttons to press in order to open the passage. After some debate, the team succeeded on their first try.
The next room appeared to be a tomb with skeletons in niches, and a single coffin sitting in the center of the room. Off to the side sat a chest. Elowyn went up to examine the coffin, and it animated! The mimic adhered itself to Elowyn and began constricting the very life out of him. Valetin tried bravely to chop into the monster but glued his sword to it. Delwyn blasted away with magic missiles while Reth ended up with his dagger glued to the beast as well. Finally, Delwyn killed the creature, and the team was able to revive Elowyn from the brink of death. Valetin then went to open the chest and shocked himself terribly with an electricity arc trap. Elowyn then picked the lock, and the team found several magical sling stones, a potion, and some coins and gems.
Horrors were discovered behind the next door. The dead were piled about with droning flies buzzing all around. Two female zombie lords jerked to motion to attack the team. Filled with righteous wrath, Valetin charged in and declared a smite against one of the evil monsters. The group entered quickly but found the creatures largely ineffective against their good armor. Reth did suffer a stiff punch to the throat, but once the team figured out piercing weapons were ineffective, the zombies were slain quickly. The group lowered Valetin down on a rope into a pit to retrieve some magical keys and a potion.
The group moved into another room to find a savage orc and his two pet dire rats. Reth, a half-orc, walked in and attempted some diplomacy. It went badly. Very badly. The team could only surmise this orc was racist and hated Reth’s heritage. That or he just had a bad attitude. Regardless, the orc ordered his rats to attack. Reth sprang into action and killed one of the rats with ease. This enraged the orc, and it came charging forward swinging its axe with brutal effect. The team took a beating, and one of the party was even bitten and infected with filth fever by one of the rats. The group was successful in defeating them, however, and Reth claimed the orc’s axe for his own.
A dead end presented itself, and the team had to backtrack. Just past the charnel zombie room they ran into a trio of heavily armored axe-wielding individuals. The team almost talked to them but decided to attack instead. Elowyn’s nerve broke, and he tried to slip past them to flee. He was caught with a critical attack of opportunity and driven unconscious and dying to the ground. The Small Timers smashed into the enemy and discovered the suits hollow. These were phantom armors animated by the spirits of the dead! In short order the team eliminated the creatures and moved on to safety.
