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Game summary for July 28, 2020, Classic Quest campaign, Dungeons & Dragons BECMI / RC Edition, for Phoenix Gaming Club. Session included: Felix Stonebrook (Halfling played by Shane Bradley), Garadal Davster (Halfling played by Parker Harmon), Lodi Shatterhelm (Dwarf-Cleric played by Chris Harmon), Riccon Guerrier (Human Fighter played by Peyton Harmon), and Timotei Kiraly (Human Fighter played by Preston Harmon). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons. This was a Roll20 session.

After making camp, nursing their wounds, and welcoming a dwarf-cleric named Lodi Shatterhelm to their group, the team returned to the goblin lair.  Their intent was to discuss negotiations for information about Stephan.  They talked to the goblins who seemed quite scared of the team, and rightly so.  Hours earlier, they had slain a dozen of the tribe as well as their leader.  Eventually, the got some information from the goblins that they heard the wolves lair far to the north across the hills near the water. 

The team decided to follow the clay tablet map to the lake and see if the lair was nearby.  When they arrived, they came across a number of elves encamped on the banks.  The party watched them for hours before approaching.  The leader of the elves, Goriidel, told them they had a statue of some value stolen from them earlier in the week by malicious pixies.  The elves had gotten the statue as payment for some supplies they took to a group of gnomish and dwarven miners two weeks before.  The pixies had retreated to the island in the middle of the lake.  The elves are strictly forbidden from going to the island, so they hired the party to go get the statue for the sum of 600 gp in gems and information about the gnomes and dwarves who were tangling with some orcs.  They reasoned if the goblins in the area are stirred up, the orcs may be stirred by the same thing and there could be information there. 

The party agreed and began to row out across the lake to the mysterious mist-shrouded island!

Game summary for July 21, 2020, Classic Quest campaign, Dungeons & Dragons BECMI / RC Edition, for Phoenix Gaming Club. Session included: Darados (Elf played by Casey Scruggs), Garadal Davster (Halfling played by Parker Harmon), Riccon Guerrier (Human Fighter played by Peyton Harmon), Timotei Kiraly (Human Fighter played by Preston Harmon), and Vespasian Thanou (Human Thief played by Chris Harmon). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons. This was a Roll20 session.

The team fished Vespasian out of the bottom of the pit and devised a plan to get everyone across.  After a few minutes, they were able to get everyone over.  They crept along for awhile until Darados’ danger sense warned him of imminent problems.  He scouted ahead and found a pack of goblins!

The goblins swarmed forward, and Vespasian ended up holding the gap.  A large goblin in the back kept reaching into a sack and pulling forth a rock python!  He would swing the snake around and hurl it at members of the party!  The team put up a valiant fight and killed several goblins, but Vespasian ended up being slain in the constricting coils of a serpent while the rest of the team fell back.  They kept firing arrows on the retreat killing more and more goblins.  Finally, the leader was cut down, and the rest broke morale and fled.  Badly injured and with one of their own dead, the party retreated to safety to make camp and nurse their wounds. 

Game summary for July 14, 2020, Classic Quest campaign, Dungeons & Dragons BECMI / RC Edition, for Phoenix Gaming Club. Session included: Darados (Elf played by Casey Scruggs), Garadal Davster (Halfling played by Parker Harmon), Joseph Joestar (Human Thief played by Andrew Renfrow), Riccon Guerrier (Human Fighter played by Peyton Harmon), Timotei Kiraly (Human Fighter played by Preston Harmon), and Vespasian Thanou (Human Thief played by Chris Harmon). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons. This was a Roll20 session.

The team sprang to action and started trying to scale the barricade.  Several made it to the top while Vespasian hurled a torch over the wall.  The goblins extinguished the torch, which was the only one lit, plunging the cave into darkness.  Only Darados could see as the goblins hurled daggers at the team, injuring several.  The party lit several more torches and ignited the barricade!  Darados grabbed one of the goblins and pulled him into a grapple.  For his trouble, he got cut several times and hit with a hammer while the rest of the team moved back off the barricade.  Darados body slammed the goblin down to the ground where his teammates accidentally set it on fire while he was still holding on to it.  Burned, hammered, and stabbed, Darados limped to the back where Kalana cast cure light wounds upon him. 

The group killed one goblin but was forced to retreat from the billowing smoke filling the cave.  They retreated out the front entrance and looked about to see if they could find smoke coming from any other entrances.  They noticed some and found another entrance.  The party crept in, and Timotei plunged into a pit!  The team lowered a rope and extracted him for Kalana to heal.  Vespasian tried to use acrobatics to jump the pit and plunged to the bottom as well. 

Game summary for July 7, 2020, Classic Quest campaign, Dungeons & Dragons BECMI / RC Edition, for Phoenix Gaming Club. Session included: Darados (Elf played by Casey Scruggs), Garadal Davster (Halfling played by Parker Harmon), Riccon Guerrier (Human Fighter played by Peyton Harmon), Timotei Kiraly (Human Fighter played by Preston Harmon), and Vespasian Thanou (Human Thief played by Chris Harmon). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons. This was a Roll20 session.

The team left the goblin lair and decided to head toward the mine on the map they found.  Along the way, they saw the black stallion in the woods once again.  After a short pursuit, it disappeared right before Darados’ eyes.  They then headed back on the trail.

Before long, they came across a trapper named Gregory.  They talked for a while, and he told them where he thought the Viper clan goblins might have a lair.  The group searched along the creek and found the cave and a raft on the far side.  They tried throwing a rope across to snag the raft but had nothing with which to grapple it.  Next, they started trying to swim across and half the party nearly drowned.  Eventually, Darados made it across, secured a rope, and brought the raft across.  The team then crossed over to the cave and chopped down the door. 

Inside, they explored for a bit and found a barracks type room with a large red tapestry depicting a black chalice.  Further into the caves, they found a door marked with a snake sigil.  Beyond it were a few goblin skeletons and a patch of strange fungus surrounded by a cloud of glowing blue spores.  The team backed away slowly. 

Further down the hallway they found a barricaded hallway.  Suddenly, a goblin popped up and hurled a dagger at them!  It missed, and the goblin disappeared behind the barrier and began arguing with someone.