Carrion Crown Adventure Path – Game Session – 003

by: Charles Plemons - March 7th, 2013   Filed under: Carrion Crown Adventure Path, Gaming, Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Add Comment

Game summary for March 7, 2013, Carrion Crown Adventure Path campaign, The Haunting of Harrowstone adventure; PCs included Amras Amandill (half-elf inquisitor), Dinendal Ironbow (elf ranger), Gnok Thatek (dwarf monk), Sealamin Laughshield (gnome fighter), and Stoella Carter (human evoker).

The party discovered a thunderstorm was blowing in, so they waited about 35 minutes for it to pass through before travelling to Harrowstone.  They arrived in a slight rain shortly before midnight.  As they passed through the gate, Gnok was overcome with a feeling of claustrophobia and the sense of burning.  He shook it off and found he was the only one to experience the sensation.  Gnok and Dinendal then explored what Sealamin determined to be the warden’s house.  After a few minutes, Dinendal was staggered by falling bits of ceiling.  Gnok got him to safety before the entire house collapsed.

The group then explored the front of the building and found strange markings and symbols around the foundation.  Amras spent some time transcribing some of the symbols onto the bottom of his cooking pot using chalk.

After looking around for a few minutes, the group entered the prison.  Once inside, they found a room where the images of screaming burned prisoners came shrieking out of the doorways!  The door they entered slammed shut and was resistant to all attempts to open.  They discovered the doors were not locked but would not budge.  Finally, Amras figured out they were dealing with haunts and performed a ritual involving sprinkling holy water about.  This seemed to disrupt the hold on the doors.

The group moved further into the prison and found a web-shrouded chapel filled with giant crab spiders!  Amras charged in and found himself poisoned after striking one spider dead!  The team moved in quickly, with Stoella using force missile, Dinendal firing arrows, and Sealamin swinging his sword.  In short order, the spiders were eliminated.  They then discovered a cabinet filled with holy water, a scroll, and a wand.

Next the team moved down the hall and found a large room filled with broken benches, rotting rope, and chains.  Suddenly, a pair of manacles slithered across the floor and clamped down on Amras’ arms!  The team attacked the chain but found the strong steel somewhat resistant to their attacks.  The manacles wrapped all about Amras and pinned him to the floor!

Carrion Crown Adventure Path – Game Session – 002

by: Charles Plemons - February 21st, 2013   Filed under: Carrion Crown Adventure Path, Gaming, Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Add Comment

Game summary for February 21, 2013, Carrion Crown Adventure Path campaign, The Haunting of Harrowstone adventure; PCs included Amras Amandill (half-elf inquisitor), Dinendal Ironbow (elf ranger), Gnok Thatek (dwarf monk), Sealamin Laughshield (gnome fighter), and Stoella Carter (human evoker).

Amras, Dinendal, and Gnok visited the Laughing Demon tavern and met Zokar Elkarid.  He introduced them to his fine, if disturbing, cuisine such as corpse chowder, wolfballs, and vampire steaks washed down with faintly glowing liquid ghost.  Despite the names, the food turned out to be very tasty.  Meanwhile, Stoella went to the general store and bought several goods.  She brought the food home, and she and Sealamin made a steak dinner for Kendra.

Amras and Gnok went to the temple of Pharasma where they inadvertently insulted Father Grimburrow and were ushered out of the church.  They were also run off from the cemetery.

The team reunited at the Lorrimor household and took a rest until 9:30 p.m.  They studied new spells and prepared to investigate a crypt mentioned in the professor’s journal.  They set out and discovered the mausoleum just as the journal described.  Inside they were attacked by a pair of giant centipedes that poisoned Dinendal!  The team quickly cut them down, however.

Within one sarcophagus they discovered numerous magical items and weapons for fighting the undead.  The group cleaned it out and returned to Kendra’s.  Once there, they discovered a spirit board and a brass spirit planchette along with six haunt siphons.  The group decided they needed to head to Harrowstone next.

Carrion Crown Adventure Path – Game Session – 001

by: Charles Plemons - February 12th, 2013   Filed under: Carrion Crown Adventure Path, Gaming, Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Add Comment

Game summary for February 12, 2013, Carrion Crown Adventure Path campaign, The Haunting of Harrowstone adventure; PCs included Amras Amandill (half-elf inquisitor), Dinendal Ironbow (elf ranger), Gnok Thatek (dwarf monk), Sealamin Laughshield (gnome fighter), and Stoella Carter (human evoker).

The party arrived in Ravengro around 7:00 a.m., just in time to help Kendra Lorrimor by carrying the coffin of her father, Professor Petros Lorrimor, down the Dreamwake toward the waiting grave.  As the party progressed down the path, they were confronted by a dozen farmhands, drunks, and ne’er-do-wells led by ole Gibs Hephanus.  They demanded the funeral procession leave and bury the “necromancer” elsewhere!  Kendra and Gibs exchanged words, and the ruffians assaulted the pallbearers!  A quick scuffle led to six thugs knocked out and the rest running for safety!

The funeral proceeded with the services overseen by Father Grimburrow.  All the team, except for Sealamin, said a few words.  Their ability to speak in public is greatly lacking, and a small scene and disaster followed, with much of the townfolk put off by the strange words of the visitors.

Following the funeral, the party assembled at the Lorrimor home for the reading of the will.  They discovered what the old Professor wished of them.  They also read his journal and learned a bit about The Whispering Way and Harrowstone prison.

Amras, Dinendal, and Gnok headed into town and dropped by Jominda’s Apothecary seeking some healing potions.  With the scene they caused at the funeral, the shopkeeper was not overly thrilled at their presence and offered to sell them a healer’s kit.  Afterward, they stepped outside and talked to a young boy out by the posting poles.

Flight of the Phoenix – Game Session – 011

by: Charles Plemons - January 31st, 2013   Filed under: AD&D 2nd Edition, Gaming Add Comment

Game summary for January 31, 2013, Flight of the Phoenix Spelljammer campaign; present PCs included Amothar Skyblade (elf fighter/mage),  Moto Patton (giff myrmidon), Orophin Calafalas (half-elf bard), Zirin (dracon swashbuckler), Zorn Seregon (psionicist) along with Callisto (fighter/psionicist), Elaina of Ptah (cleric), and Safana bent Anwar (sorceress).

As the Pisces headed through Realmspace, a sailor spotted a neogi mindspider off the port bow!  The team scurried into action trying to evade the ship.  The team got off a few shots with the ballista, hitting once.  The mindspider caught up and rammed!  The grappled ships came to a sudden halt while neogi and an umber hulk swarmed across!

Several of the Legionnaires were confused by the umber hulk’s gaze.  The umber hulk and Moto engaged in melee, with both sides drawing blood.  Zorn attempted to disintegrate the hulk unsuccessfully.  Amothar unleashed a barrage of magic missiles at the injured hulk, dropping it!  One of the neogi attacked the caster and tried to poison him.  Callisto failed to hurl one of the neogi overboard with her mind, while Orophin bounced a lightning bolt, frying a neogi where it stood.  Elaina called down a flame strike, hitting herself, the remaining neogi, Zirin, and Zorn.  Safana finished the neogi with another magic missile.

Orophin, Safana, and Zirin boarded the mindspider and found a spellcasting neogi!  Orophin and the spider-creature traded magic missiles!  Zirin then cut it down with his long sword of sharpness!  They freed the human slaves and dispatched the umber hulk in the lifejammer helm.

The team then set back out and reached their destination, the Rock of Bral!

Flight of the Phoenix – Game Session – 010

by: Charles Plemons - January 10th, 2013   Filed under: AD&D 2nd Edition, Gaming Add Comment

Game summary for January 10, 2013, Flight of the Phoenix Spelljammer campaign; present PCs included Amothar Skyblade (elf fighter/mage), Orophin Calafalas (half-elf bard), Zirin (dracon swashbuckler), Zorn Seregon (psionicist) along with Callisto (fighter/psionicist), Elaina of Ptah (cleric), and Safana bent Anwar (sorceress).

The team interrogated the woman, named Arliss, and discovered the berserkers lived on a nearby asteroid.  They went to talk to the berserker’s jarl to trade Arliss for some captives she claimed they held.  The group found the asteroid to actually be a massive living plant with no rock or soil, just enormous entangled wooden branches.

A small team went down to the surface to speak with the jarl about the exchange.  It soon became apparent the jarl cared nothing for Arliss but instead wanted restitution for his two slain krajen.  When the party insulted him by offering a single gold coin, he stated he’d just take their cargo and ordered his men to attack!

The jarl lead the charge, slamming his axe into Amothar’s chest, staggering the elf back!  The berserker’s wokani moved forward and hit three of the team with a nasty lightning bolt!  Arrows sailed out of the vegetation and axemen closed into melee range.  Things looked bleak!  Zirin used feather fall to jump off the ship and come down to the surface and join her companions in battle.  Callisto tried to psionically teleport but failed and instead had to rappel down a rope.  Amothar gave the Legion their first advantage by hitting the jarl and wokani with a cone of cold!  Elaina used cure serious wounds to help the elf recover from the wounds the jarl and a second berserker had already dealt to him.

Zorn used a jump power from his ring of projection to return to the ship where he could use psionics from a distance.  Orophin and Safana both lined up lightning bolt spells, felling nearly half the berserkers.  This just drove the remaining maniacs into a frothing rage, and battle continued in its bloody brutality.  Soon, the jarl and wokani were slain, and things turned against the berserkers.  A few moments later, the team was victorious!

They then discovered a hidden level amidst a pile of skulls and found an “underground” lair with an imprisoned merchant and his wife along with a pile of gleaming coins!

Flight of the Phoenix – Game Session – 009

by: Charles Plemons - January 3rd, 2013   Filed under: AD&D 2nd Edition, Gaming 1 Comment

Game summary for January 3, 2013, Flight of the Phoenix Spelljammer campaign; present PCs included Amothar Skyblade (elf fighter/mage), Orophin Calafalas (half-elf bard), Zirin (dracon swashbuckler), Zorn Seregon (psionicist) along with Callisto (fighter/psionicist), Elaina of Ptah (cleric), and Safana bent Anwar (sorceress).

While traveling in the Flow, the Pisces came across a drifting tropical island filled with exotic birds and tangy fruits.  The Legion of the Schwartz was sent in to investigate the air supply, which they found to be fresh and pleasant.  They brought the ship in close to refresh the air supply.  They discovered a “SOS” on the beach and followed a trail into the jungle.  They found a large tree house made of the wreckage from an old Spelljammer vessel.  Up in the house, they discovered a journal and a chest filled with coins and a few magic items.  Reading the journal, they learned the tree house belonged to Captain Bronco Resinous who was stranded 30 years prior.  His last entry from two years ago indicated he was investigating some strange silvery spiders he had seen in the distance.

The team decided the captain was long dead and left as quickly as possible.  Along the way, they found bizarre things such as birds slain by razor blades and smooth-cut tree stumps.  After talking to Captain Robilard, they agreed to leave the island immediately.

The team then continued through the Flow for many days until they came upon the Realmspace Crystal Sphere!  They waited for the portal to open and slipped through.  As they did, they were ambushed by Starbeast Clan berserkers riding krajen!  The tentacle-ringed horrors flew in next to the ship while berserkers swarmed over the rails.  The krajen began smashing the ship while axes and arrows cut into the party.  Zorn was paralyzed by krajen poison.  Amothar tried to use magic missile and found the krajen resistant to magic.  Orophin and Safana began unleashing lightning bolts with devastating results, dropping berserkers and archers right and left!  Callisto put her daggers to work while Zirin fought through the barbarians to land telling blows on one of the krajen!  Zorn, although paralyzed, used the power of his mind to unleash psionic destruction on the krajen, successfully using his disintegrate several times for the first time.  The battle was short and violent.  Finally only a single archer bobbed in the gravity plane eager to surrender.  The team pulled the woman in to interrogate.

Flight of the Phoenix – Game Session – 008

by: Charles Plemons - December 13th, 2012   Filed under: AD&D 2nd Edition, Gaming Add Comment

Game summary for December 13, 2012, Flight of the Phoenix Spelljammer campaign; present PCs included Amothar Skyblade (elf fighter/mage), Moto Patton (giff myrmidon), Zirin (dracon swashbuckler), Zorn Seregon (psionicist) along with Callisto (fighter/psionicist), Elaina of Ptah (cleric), and Safana bent Anwar (sorceress).

Callisto and Zorn put their heads together and used psionics to heal the infections caused by the heucuva.   With that concern resolved, the team moved further into the temple.  As they progressed, panels in the walls shifted and four mummies emerged!  The fighting was intense, with the party finding their weapons only partial effective!  Even the mighty Moto was barely harming the undead monsters.  With a combination of weaponry and spells, the team eventually brought them down, but not before Amothar, Zorn, and Callisto were infected with mummy rot!  Elaina used her last cure disease spell to recover Zorn, but the others would have to wait until the team returned to a Crystal Sphere.

The team continued and found a throne room with a great mummy pharaoh and his four undead minotaur guardians!  Several of the team were paralyzed with fear immediately, but Safana proved her worth by blasting three of the mummitaurs apart with a single lightning bolt!  The greater mummy tried to hold Moto, but his strange anatomy proved impervious.  It then cast spike stones to try and slow the party’s advance to little avail.  Zirin and Moto closed in and began landing blows, which the mummy returned.  However, the mummy stood no chance and was blasted apart by Amothar’s magic missile!

With the temple occupants defeated and treasures recovered, the team headed back to the Pisces to continue their journey.

Flight of the Phoenix – Game Session – 007

by: Charles Plemons - December 4th, 2012   Filed under: AD&D 2nd Edition, Gaming Add Comment

Game summary for December 4, 2012, Flight of the Phoenix Spelljammer campaign; present PCs included Amothar Skyblade (elf fighter/mage), Moto Patton (giff myrmidon), Zorn Seregon (psionicist) along with Callisto (fighter/psionicist), Elaina of Ptah (cleric), and Safana bent Anwar (sorceress).

The team found the statue to be a stone golem!  The group engaged, with magical weapons sinking into the stony monster with ease.  It rained several deadly blows on Moto, but the giff withstood the onslaught.  Finally, Amothar drove his harpoon through the golem, shattering it.

As the group looted a chest they found, a massive pyramid drifted into view!  The party jumped into the structure and began exploring.  They soon discovered a room filled with five skeletal minotaurs that animated and attacked!  Safana dropped three with a lightning bolt while the rest were dispatched handily.

Further into the pyramid the team found a chamber with an old sacrificed corpse surrounded by eight heucuva!  The priestly undead attacked viciously but proved no match for the combined might of the team.  However, even after felling the foul beasts, trouble remained:  Elaina and Zorn fell ill to the blasphemous diseased claws of the damned!

Flight of the Phoenix – Game Session – 006

by: Charles Plemons - November 29th, 2012   Filed under: AD&D 2nd Edition, Gaming Add Comment

Game summary for November 29, 2012, Flight of the Phoenix Spelljammer campaign; present PCs included Amothar Skyblade (elf fighter/mage), Moto Patton (giff myrmidon), Orophin Calafalas (half-elf bard), Zirin (dracon swashbuckler), Zorn Seregon (psionicist) along with Callisto (fighter/psionicist), Elaina of Ptah (cleric), and Safana bent Anwar (sorceress).

Surrounded by wraiths, the team lurched into action!  Orophin began singing and drumming to inspire the party while Elaina used prayer.  Zorn disintegrated one of the undead while Safana conjured a sand lion!  Callisto held her ground while Amothar used his girdle of the frog to leap over his allies and attack a wraith!  Elaina then turned one of the undead.  Amothar used his deadly harpoon to put the third to rest.

Callisto then whipped open another door to find the captain’s quarters.  Moments later, the spectral form of Captain Gutshank appeared and began draining levels!  Amothar used dimension door to enter the room while Orophin wiggled in and unleashed five magic missiles!  Safana assumed wraithform while Callisto and Zorn engaged in some psychic warfare with the undead.  Finally, Amothar’s harpoon laid the undead captain low!  The team looted the room, finding lots of gold and silver booty and some cones of communication!

The group then rushed down the narrow hall into the helm room and found all the wraiths Elaina had turned.  Orophin led the charge with his axe followed by Amothar and his nasty harpoon!  Elaina advanced with her mace and smashed the magical weapon into one wraith, destroying it.  Within moments, the team had cleared the room.  With the ship cleared and equipped with a lifejammer helm, the team abandoned the vessel and destroyed it with flaming magic from a distance.

A few days later, the Pisces reached the Crystal Sphere edge of Greyspace!  Captain Robilard gave them some warnings about limits on teleportation, extra-dimensions, and the explosive nature of the Phlogiston before moving through the portal into the Flow.

A day or two into the Flow, the group ran into a massive dust cloud fouling their air!  This potential disaster could spell trouble with few places around to re-supply air.  As the sailors cursed, the ship rocked and reverberated as a huge slab of stone slammed into the side and ran along the vessel.  On this slab lay a single treasure chest and huge stone statue.  As the team crossed over to the slab, the stone statue turned to look in their direction!

Flight of the Phoenix – Game Session – 005

by: Charles Plemons - November 8th, 2012   Filed under: AD&D 2nd Edition, Gaming Add Comment

Game summary for November 8, 2012, Flight of the Phoenix Spelljammer campaign; present PCs included Amothar Skyblade (elf fighter/mage), Moto Patton (giff myrmidon), Orophin Calafalas (half-elf bard), Zirin (dracon swashbuckler), Zorn Seregon (psionicist) along with Callisto (fighter/psionicist), Elaina of Ptah (cleric), and Safana bent Anwar (sorceress).

As the party approached the edge of Greyspace, they came upon a drifting old eel ship named The Scourge.  Calliso used dimensional walk to stroll over and discovered the ship had fouled air.  She returned using teleport and brought Orophin and Zorn across to the derelict.  The three ventured down into the cargo hold where they found a wraith!  The undead level drained Orophin and Callisto before Zorn destroyed it with disintegrate.

The team pushed further into the ship, found the galley and an old pot filled with human bones.  Then, another wraith emerged!  The group fled and used teleport to return to The Pisces where they picked up Elaina and Safana to assist after debating destroying the ship for a while.  Elaina was able to turn the wraith, and the group moved further into the ship.  They found the helmsman’s old quarters along with a small fortune in treasure and a spellbook!

Soon thereafter, they found the crew quarters.  Much to their horror, three wraiths emerged around them!