Session 46 - Payday!
This
write
up is from Kay's notes from our December 26, 2024 session.
Since our group is
scattered around the country, we used Discord for our voice
communication and Roll20
for our virtual tabletop. Thanks to Kay and JoJo for the
screen shots.
Continued from: Overwhelmed
Date: May 26, 3517
Location: Inside
the Mouth
of Doom, level 2
5:10 PM
We left the dungeon with no problems and arrived back at
Castle Calaelen
just after sunset. It was a clear and warm evening. We talked
about what we
learned this time. We learned a few more things about the Fountain
of
Pestilence toxic pool. It spawns things, some are demons, some are
zombies, and
lots of rats; it has two avenues of attack. We need a plan of
attack if we are
going to go back there.
May 27,
3517
6 AM
Waking up and having breakfast at the castle as the sun rose.
Afterwards, we headed back to the Mouth of Doom.
10 AM
We arrived on level 3 at the octagonal room with the murals of
five men in
flowing robes, where the fifth man has black paint over his left
hand. We opened
the door in the north wall and the bottled-up stench reeked,
billowing out of
the room. In the center of the room was a puddle of putrescence.
We put on our
leather gloves, and scarves around our faces, to keep out most of
the foulness.
Blaze went through the door first and then came out again right
away.
As an experiment, Artie threw a fire bolt into the pool, to see if it would ignite. It sizzled out. Then Blaze threw a torch into it; it went out. Artie then went to the east wall where there was a closed door; checked for traps; there were none and it was unlocked. Blaze went up to open the door, and Artie positioned himself across the room on the far side of the toxic pool, bow out and ready to shoot. Blaze listened at the door but heard nothing. She opened the door and saw three giant rats and a demon.
Elron stepped up, shot a sling stone at the second rat and killed it, and his second shot killed the first rat. A fourth rat leaped out of hiding from behind the door into the doorway to bite Blaze, but missed.
Artie and Breena held their actions, waiting
for a clear
shot, not wanting to shoot Blaze.
Sinis cast acid splash on Rat 4 and hit it. It squealed
but didn’t die.
The demon teleported in behind Blaze, facing her. Artie and Breena, who were holding for clear shots, now had one at the demon from behind. Breena shot her crossbow, but the bolt bounced off the demon’s warty hide. Artie’s fire bolt burned it; the demon was vulnerable to fire. The demon bit Blaze from behind. Giant rat 4 moved up to bite her. Blaze disengaged and moved next to Breena, out of the way.
Elron looked at the eyes of the demon and saw
they were not
gemstones like the others, just normal eyes. He missed the demon
with his
sling, but accidently hit Breena, who was standing behind him.
Giant rat 3
tried to bite Elron, but missed. Artie cast a fire bolt at
it for
damage. Breena shot the rat and killed it.
Sinis cast witch bolt on the demon for some damage. The
demon leapt to
Sinis and bit him, with the painful wound becoming instantly
infected.
Rat 4 came through the door, and bit Elron.
Blaze cast flaming
sphere and hit the demon with it, who was burned to death by
the impact.
Elron hit and killed the rat that had bitten him, ending the
fight.
Blaze looked into the next room and saw
decaying furniture
and a treasure chest, showing signs that it had been pried open
with a crow
bar, with the lid ajar.
A quick count tallied:
20,360 cp,
10,349 sp,
2,000 gp;
4 pearls worth 100 gp each,
and a golden wand encrusted with pearls worth 2,000 gp.
While we were counting, Parahelia cast lesser restoration on Sinis and cured his infection. We checked for secret doors as well, but found none. We figured that it would take two strong people to carry the treasure chest out with the loot.
Artie and Sinis had stayed back in the octagonal room with the murals of 5 men in white robes. The last man in line had a blacked out left hand. They were discussing why only him and not the others when they heard distant squeals and thumping feet coming from west, and warned the rest of us.
Breena cast mage armor on herself and moved toward the octagonal room.
Blaze went to the center of the octagonal room and held her position there until she could see something coming down the hallway from the west. She told the others to move into the empty room to the east, as it’s safer than staying in the toxic pool room. Elron grabbed the wand and ran out, and the group left the chest where they found it.
Everyone moved through the mural room and into the room to the east while Blaze held a rear-guard position.
Blaze finally saw a giant rat coming toward her
from the west
hallway. She cast flaming sphere and killed the huge
rodent, and then
she moved back into the east room, clearing the doorway.
Elron shot through the doorway and hit a second giant rat as it
came into view.
The rats moved closer, illuminated by the
flaming sphere. We
counted 18 of them. Breena stepped out into the doorway and cast witch
bolt,
which missed. A rat moved
toward the
door ten feet away; Breena shot it and killed it. Blaze cast acid
splash
on another rat, but missed. Elron shot two rats dead, one after
the other with
his sling. Sinis cast acid splash but missed. Two more
rats got to the
door; Breen cast thunderwave on them and killed both.
Artie shot and
killed another one. Blaze moved her flaming sphere into
one rat, killed
it, and attacked the next one; both rats were retreating west,
away from us.
Elron’s sling took out another one as it ran. The rest got away.
We went back for the treasure chest and checked
the room. We
found no secret doors and decided to leave with our loot.
We got back to the level 1 entrance in 20 minutes. Once outside we
headed to
the castle.
1 PM
Back at Castle Calaelen, Sinis checked all our loot, no magic
items this time. We’ll
keep the wand until we can sell it in a different town. We don’t
want the
people in Zelcor’s Ferry knowing too much about our money,
especially the
deputy’s gang and other bandits. But we’ll still be coming into
town to
exchange coins for gems. Now Elron can pay for his new armor. We
discussed
buying treasure chests for ourselves, now that we have something
to put in
them.
Someone noticed that it’s our one-month anniversary of taking over the castle; time flies. We celebrated with a big payday.
So each person got 600 gp and 1,339 sp.
Elron retained the 23,875 cp for group expenses and paying the staff.
Elron kept a pearl for himself, so he has one pearl and 500 gp.
Artie asked if the giant raven would take a pearl, as payment of a gem/month for her services for the next month.
Continued in Session 47 - The Ghost and Isolated Workroom
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