Chronoshift: Spelljammer — Game Session — 049

by: Charles Plemons - June 27th, 2023   Filed under: Gaming, Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, Spelljammer Add Comment

Game summary for June 27, 2023, Chronoshift: Spelljammer campaign, Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, for Phoenix Gaming Club. Session included: Edonna Match Wushu Lu Klighke (Dragonborn Oracle played by Casey Scruggs), Hekera Nephera Mawhesk Vyk’sebekenka (Sebek-ka Fighter played by Preston Harmon), Helg Ingvar (Aasimar Cleric played by Chris Harmon), Jiraiya (Hurwaeti Freebooter played by Andrew Renfrow), Khesen Pavel (Human Brawler played by Parker Harmon), Komorebi (Kitsune Bard played by Josh Jenkins), and Neko (Half-Orc Magus played by Peyton Harmon). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons.

 

Edonna did an amazing and calming draconic dance which soothed the savage dragon.  The two began to converse, and it found out they were seeking a clowder of tressym to take back to Bral.  The dragon understood the situation as to the tressym would be unwilling to go; the party argued they were rescuing the tressym, much to the dragon’s disappointment.  While talking, the door behind them opened.  An orc swung it open while a hobgoblin hurled a small object through.  The orc then slammed the door shut.  Immediately, a swarm of wasps filled the area and began stinging many of the team.  The dragon slipped around the party and flew down the hallway to escape.  Jiraiya and Helg were poisoned by the stings while the party tried to fend off the creatures.  Helg used create water to make them angry (but clean) while Hekera swung his sword through them several times.  Komorebi hoped to put them to sleep to no avail.  Edonna cast firebelly and began breathing upon the wasps while Khesen hurled a dung grenade among them.  Neko used detect magic to confirm the swarm was summoned, so Komorebi cast dispel magic but failed to overcome the magic.  Helg then tried his own dispel magic successfully! 

 

With the wasps dispelled, they focused on the door.  Peeping through the keyhole, they could see several humanoids in the darkness.  Edonna, Komorebi, and Jiraiya all bellied up to the lock and failed to pick it.  So, Neko cast sunder barrier which rattled and battered it, but it remained standing!  He blasted it with a second sunder barrier, and it blew in off its hinges while several of the team reared back to hurl dung grenades in the opening!

Chariot of the Gods — Game Session — 001

by: Charles Plemons - June 20th, 2023   Filed under: Alien, Gaming Add Comment

Game summary for June 20, 2023, Chariot of the Gods campaign, ALIEN The Roleplaying Game, for Expeditions-R-Us. Session included: Kyle Rye (Roughneck played by Charles Plemons), Leah Davis (Pilot played by Casey Scruggs), and Vanessa Miller (Captain played by Andrew Renfrow). Game Master for this session was Nathan Digges-Elliott.

The crew awakened from cryo sleep and began the normal routine of having a meal, drinking coffee, and checking the ship systems. They quickly discovered something was amiss.  The ship was wildly off course and the shipment of gas was not fully processed indicating they had not been in cryo sleep nearly long enough.  The Captain and Wilson both talked to Mu-Th-Ur to get more information.  The crew made some noise about wanting to know what was going on, but the explanation was a bit sketchy.  There was a distress beacon, but from where was a bit vague.  Rye began computing some coordinates on the beacon and discovered the ships were about to collide!  Davis was able to enact some impressive maneuvers to avoid the ship and match its speed.  They talked for a while and learned the ship was running on little to no power, no one was answering comms, and all lights seemed to be off.  As best they could tell, the ship had been traveling at sub light speed for years. 

The team decided to board the ship in accordance with their contracts to look for scientific evidence, salvage, or survivors.  Wilson really wanted to go aboard, but Captain Miller was against it.  Rye really wanted Miller to stay with the Montero, but she refused.  If something were to happen to her, Davis would be in charge.  They divided up the equipment, and Davis was able to connect the umbilical to the airlock of the Cronus.  The team went across and found the airlock damaged, so Cham had to cut through with the cutting torch.  Inside, they found scuff marks on the ladder and a sealed door to Mu-Th-Ur.  Without power they decided not to risk cutting this door.  Wilson was unable to send a command remotely to open it but offered to bring his keycard over.  Without power, what good would that do?  They refused to allow him to come over.  They headed toward the reactor to power up the ship.  Miller fired up her motion sensor and got two blips that then went away.  Unsure, they went to investigate since it was on the way to the reactor.  They did not find anything of note so pressed on.  In the tail of the ship right before the reactor door they found a dead crewman, perhaps a security officer.  He apparently died from suicide by shotgun.  Rye took the shotgun and ammo and distributed a few rounds to everyone.  He then traded the shotgun with Miller for the pistol.  Examining the body, they found the arms were distended and deformed, perhaps internally. 

The group sent their findings over the comms and then went to the reactor door.  As they started to enter, the ship powered on, lights came on, and life support kicked in.  They decided to investigate the reactor anyway and opened the door.  Inside, their suits alerted them of dangerous levels of radiation.  There was a piled of destroyed furniture in the middle of the room, and a soiled and ruined suit.  The team stepped in to check the reactor and get out, and as they stepped in, the suit stood up! 

Chronoshift: Spelljammer — Game Session — 048

by: Charles Plemons - June 13th, 2023   Filed under: Gaming, Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, Spelljammer Add Comment

Game summary for June 13, 2023, Chronoshift: Spelljammer campaign, Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, for Phoenix Gaming Club. Session included: Edonna Match Wushu Lu Klighke (Dragonborn Oracle played by Casey Scruggs), Hekera Nephera Mawhesk Vyk’sebekenka (Sebek-ka Fighter played by Preston Harmon), Helg Ingvar (Aasimar Cleric played by Chris Harmon), Jiraiya (Hurwaeti Freebooter played by Andrew Renfrow), Khesen Pavel (Human Brawler played by Parker Harmon), and Neko (Half-Orc Magus played by Peyton Harmon). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons.

On the other side of the door the team found a pair of enraged hook horrors accompanied by a very young and feisty black dragon.  Neko cast shield and stepped back while Edonna cast haste on the party.  Helg hit both hook horrors with a blazing flame strike while Hekera and Khesen closed in.  The dragon breathed acid on Hekera but was unable to line up anyone else in the effect.  One of the hook horrors died under the assault, but the other shredded Hekera’s armor and peeled it off his body before biting a chunk out of his now-exposed hide!  Helg cast righteous wrath of the faithful to further augment the team.  Khesen used an unarmed strike to slap the dragon, and it was soon knocked out while the other hook horror took a hit from Neko’s rainbow blast.  Khesen then took out the last hook horror. 

With the dragon unconscious they searched the room and used a rope to tie up the dragon which Khensen then picked up and carried around.  They found a sack filled with gems and coinage.  Meanwhile, Jiraiya searched the only other door for traps and found none.  He tested the door, found it unlocked… and also trapped.  A poisoned arrow slammed into him, but he shook off the poison.  On the other side they found a hallway illuminated by sputtering torches.  He and Hekera moved down the hallway and triggered a spiked pit trap.  Both slammed into the pit bottom, and Hekera was also hit by a spike.  Jiraiya had two potions of fly and gave one to Hekera, and both flew out of the pit.  They then paired up and flew the rest of the team across the open pit. 

On the far side of the pit, the team decided they needed healing before moving on.  Helg channeled positive energy but forgot to exclude the unconscious dragon.  It came awake like a scalded dog and began trying to breathe acid through the rope holding its mouth shut.  The rope dissolved as the dragon thrashed and shook, spraying acid all over everyone in the very tight quarters.  The group is now in a very confined space with a 50′ spiked pit blocking one direction, a closed door into an unknown area in the other, and a furious dragon in their midst. 

Chronoshift: Spelljammer — Game Session — 047

by: Charles Plemons - June 6th, 2023   Filed under: Gaming, Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, Spelljammer Add Comment

Game summary for June 6, 2023, Chronoshift: Spelljammer campaign, Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, for Phoenix Gaming Club. Session included: Edonna Match Wushu Lu Klighke (Dragonborn Oracle played by Casey Scruggs), Hekera Nephera Mawhesk Vyk’sebekenka (Sebek-ka Fighter played by Preston Harmon), Helg Ingvar (Aasimar Cleric played by Chris Harmon), Jiraiya (Hurwaeti Freebooter played by Andrew Renfrow), Khesen Pavel (Human Brawler played by Parker Harmon), Komorebi (Kitsune Bard played by Josh Jenkins), and Neko (Half-Orc Magus played by Peyton Harmon). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons.

The party got up and decided to scout Shou-Town a bit before meeting with Councilman Ozamata at the Red Lark tearoom.  They found a nearby tattoo parlor, and Helg and Edonna purchased elaborate tattoos and used magic to recover more quickly and get the entire work done in the day. 

The team met with Ozamata, and he told them he needed to raise some capital and could go through the effort of liquidating some assets but he could perhaps help them in exchange for coin.  He would allow them to buy into shares of Ozamata Trading and earn regular annual returns.  He would also go about proclaiming the party’s affiliation with his house, which would earn them some protection from the very angry Boris “the Butcher” Steelbeard because Ozamata knows Boris lacks the means to openly war with him.  Ozamata would not require any service of them or have any claim to their time; it is simply an arrangement wherein he raises some quick cash, and they party garners a bit of reputation and affiliation on Bral to fend off the riffraff.  The party agreed and invested 5,000 gp.  They also asked Ozamata to keep them in mind for short term employment.  He told them he may be in touch and that with their reputation with the arson incident and their affiliation with him, others will soon coming looking with job opportunities as well.

After the meeting, Neko and Edonna got Ozamata crane tattoos to further “prove” their affiliation. 

The group returned to the Laughing Beholder and were approached by an armed man calling himself Lodan representing House Eirenfezt.  They wanted to hire the party to travel to Undermountain on Toril and meet up with merchant Ludavic Snerd and bring back a clowder of tressym.  They offered to pay 500 gp per tressym, provide transport, rights to all treasure discovered while on the payroll, 20 gp per party member in advance, and 30 gp per surviving member when they return.  With Toril only an hour away by Spelljammer vessel, they agreed.  The group flew to Waterdeep, the City of Splendors, went to the Yawning Portal inn and paid to go down to Undermountain.

Within the dungeon, they found their map was mildly pretty inaccurate.  It was probably mostly somewhat right at some point in the past.  They came to an area where the map said go straight but there was now a heavy stone door surrounded by symbols and three stone buttons overhead.  They pressed a button and were hit by magical flames.  They debated a bit and hit another button.  Again, they burned.  More debate and another button, and they were thrice flamed.  Helg channeled positive energy and healed the party.  They pressed a combination of buttons and again were burned.  Neko stared at the symbols and figured out the pattern and riddle.  He strode up and entered a combination which successfully opened the door!