Session 012 - 01.10.26

Recap

Session

Lazlo catches up with the party, down in the dungeon. Confronted with a dead hook horror.

We look around for more things, we decide to tuck the two bodies in Sasha's hole so we can take them with us, then look for more creatures to attack. We spend the next 10-15 minutes checking everything out, but we don't see any hostile creatures.

Theo, on Shamoiah's shoulder, a little bit more curious, sees little beetle like creatures crawling out of a hole in the wall. There is quite a few, like a colony. The brick around the whole starts to widen.

We peer through the hole and it's a black void, not even dirt; just darkness.

Oona flicks a Witch Bolt at it, it burns more bugs.

Lazlo throws a lantern in, some bugs burn. For a brief flash, we see something like a wet surface; spongy. There's a gap, like a space between drywall.

The bugs aren't attacking or hostile, they are eating the stone. They pay us no mind. Shamoiah just hears them "Eat, eat, reset, redesign." He sticks his head up to the hole and he feels something alive. We are encapsulated in something living.

Having been distracted, but we eventually leave the hole alone and make our way back to the door. At the base of the stairs, a big swarm of bugs, just finished making a treasure chest. Lazlo brushes away the bugs and open the treasure chest.

Theo crawls into the chest looking for the loots in the empty chest. His foot feels a cold stone. Inside is actually a small staircase, Shamoiah follows.

We come into a vault that has display cases of weapons and jewelry and other prizes, but it's behind bars and locks. In the center of the room is a table with a velvet cloth draped over the top, covering randomly shaped objects.

Theo pulls the velvet off: (We roll d100)
Theo: 48: Large, to him, potion bottle. In a wax label there is the silhoutte of a man with behind him who is bigger. Potion of Growth.
Sasha: 59: Small Quiver. Bolts, for an x-bow. 6, +3 bolts
Martok: 49: Beautifully crafted, sharp blade. Greatsword of Sharpness.
Oona-Lynn: 67: Beautiful crafted chain mail shirt. Adamantine Chain Shirt.
Lazlo: 99: Long, leather tube. Wand case. Reflects gold light, being made of gold; buttons and gem stones protruding. Wand of Wonder.
Shamoiah: Scaled hide sack. It jingles when he shakes. Sounds like 4 bottles. Glowing red bottles of swirling liquid. Potion of Firebreath.

We gather up our loots and the table lowers into the floor; it disappears. Nothing else is accessible.

We make our way out. Down were the hole was, most of the dungeon has been removed into a void. It's remaking itself. We head upstairs and are met with a bustling tavern.

We approach the barkeep. He leads us off to where we can dump off the bodies. We throw the hole on the wall and pull out the monsters. We converse a little bit before moving on.

Lazlo takes a Hook Horror Scythe. The bartender gives us some food and drink for a job well done. Lazlo gives us all a piece of cake, even Bruno, whom Theo went and got.

Bruno gets 10 temp HP.

The four armed bartender brings out the foods about an hour later. It's looking real good with two loaves of bread, a small bowl of oil and herbs. We eat and Shamoiah attempts to take a plate to Boyd, but Boyd is gone. The dagger in the empty bottle of wine, which is weird and breaks physics. Shamoiah breaks the bottle and takes the dagger. He returns. Sasha feeds her meal to Bruno. Shamoiah gives Crumbs the plate he intended for Boyd.

Lazlo talks to the servers and gets some intel. Monsters have been attacking fishers on the water.

A fight breaks out and Sasha watches. She sees a man with a red ascot, the same color of The Duke's wedding wardrobe. For a brief moment, she sees The Duke, then flashes back to an aged dwarf.

Sasha talks to Oona-Lynn about it. Oona approaches him.

Lazlo senses undead. Martok and Sasha light up for him. Another guy across the room; he has mechanical parts. Coming back from the bar carrying cups and a bottle, a rugged/rough, hairy faced, long shaggy hair. Across the room the other way, this other group of adventurers, a wizard affinity coming off one of these members; he has dark tattoos on his face. Next to him, unmoving, a humanoid wrapped in bandages, just sitting there. The wizard is reading out of a book and eating, some other members of his troupe eating as well.

Lazlo and Shamoiah go to the bathroom to scry on The Duke. Swirling mists, travel through space. It focuses pretty quickly. They see, kind of walking out of the city of Cenos, is The Duke as he is walking away. He crosses the city, he stops for a second and turns. They see him give a wicked smile before he fades into mist and disappears.

Watching the patrons, Oona-Lynn sees a familiar silhouette, she sees Wolf sitting there. He is with three other individuals. Humanoid man, bits of body has been replaced with metal. Tabaxi woman, ravishing her food, savagely. Little halfling, curly hair, coke bottle glasses.

Oona-Lynn finds something on the floor to throw at him, to get him to look at us first. (LOL). The hunk of bread lands in a glass and the tabaxi gets riled up. She elbows Wolf and he sees us. His expression drops, in surprise. He gets up and approaches.

We make conversation. Reports of kidnappings, the Duchess is organizing it. She has been witnessed near the locations of the kidnappings. Spends lots of her time in the cities treating people of illnesses. Wolf said he will stand with us when we go after The Duke. Lazlo asks Wolk about Torric. Metal man heads over and checks on Wolf. Greets Oona. We convince them to mast haste back to Ishka to meet Torric and check on the townspeople.

Jacob - Robot man
Fletch - Lycanthrope / Were-tiger
Mervin - Wizard halfling

The evening is ours. Devvic set us up free rooms, for while we were here. Lazlo tells us about the fishers getting attack by the fish monsters. We decide to head that way.

We head to the lake, down to the docks. Hand fulls of fishing huts and different fish market stalls. Nothing is open at this time of evening/night. There are two boats on the lake, barely noticeable. Lazlo notices the little lanterns on the boat. The second one is close to shore, no lights are on.

The water is still. Groups of fishermen standing by little bonfires on the beach, chitchatting and drinking. We head down to the beach to talk to them. They have a row boat to get us out where we need to go. Shamoiah turns into a bundle of twigs-trout and takes off.

As Shamoiah is trouting about, he sees fish swimming around. Then he sees a big shape drift near the bottom. Looks like a fish, but has arms and legs. Then 30' away, another standing on the bottom of the lake with a trident. He points up towards the boat the rest of the party is on. Then he swims away.

Shamoiah trouts after them. He sees five of these scaley, fish like creatures. One is holding a large trident covered in barnacles. He is making a noise Shamoiah can't understand. It appears to be a command to the other four creatures. They pull out spears and begin to gather equipment to do something. Shamoiah dashes back.

He lets us know they are coming, so we make haste to the dark boat, to prep for their arrival. We begin to board the shipping boat. There are six dead bodies of the fisherman, just everywhere. 2-3 minutes pass and Shamoiah sees six shadows moving towards us.

We begin to here ripples and disruptions in the water's surface as something stirs around the boat.

Oona manages to catch sight of them before they jump on the boat. We see humanoid creatures leap out of the water, onto the boat. They have arms and legs, they have a tail that is like a large shark tail, it has a fin on it. They have large crowns of fins and gils. Five of them is holding spears and one is holding a trident.

Combat ensues. We manage to overcome the raiding party and we get a Tidecaller Trident. The man who row the boat must have been pulled into the water; he was nowhere to be found in the row boat: his axe and shield on the boat. Unfortunately Shamoiah and Sasha cannot go after the man, because there is no way to safely get him back, if he is even alive.

Martok manages to pilot this large boat back to the shore, into port. We are mostly able to dock the boat with minor damage to everything involved. The boat's owner died so the boat probably goes to his daughter. Though Shamoiah wants the boat.

She lets us in when she finds out we brought back the boat and we have magic cake. It's nautical themed inside. The woman is a mid-20's, hearty looking woman. But she looks distraught with puffy eyes and appearing to have been crying for days. We talk, she eats the cake. She feels better despite the circumstances. She digs out something to give to us. She gives us a cootie-catcher: It is a foldable boat.

We wrap up our business and make our way back to Cenos for the night. (Flag long rest next session AND LEVEL UP!).