Sixteenth Session

Down the Purple Wormhole

Dramatis Personae

  • Actias Aureus, an 8th-level Tiefling Warlock
  • Benjamin, a 9th-level Wood Elf Ranger
  • CoralKing, a 9th-level Gnome Monk
  • Orky, a 9th-level Half-Elf Paladin
  • Steve, a 9th-level Halfling Rogue
  • Tasbros, a 9th-level Sky Elf Sorcerer
  • Tysnera, a 9th-level Sky Elf Wizard
  • Viker, a 9th-level Eladrin Druid
  • Wulrif, a 9th-level Human Warlock

Summerday +516 hours

From the journal of Dame Orky

We start by searching the grounds and the cathedral. We find a gift box containing 1200 gp, 13 gems (1000 gp each). We split them evenly and offer Chiyo and Gruumsh, Clanleader of the Icebreakers 2 gems for their help. We also find a staff, sword, a book, and a rod. Tysnera identifies the book as a tome of understanding and we give that to Viker. The rod is a rod of absorption and we hand it to Tasbros. The Staff of Striking goes to CoralKing. The dancing Shortsword goes to Actias. The Orcs mentioned killing a bunch of Vampires. We dispose of the remnants.

Chiyo gestures towards Geral, her deep red eyes contemplative and searching.

She negligently waves her hand, and a curtain of darkness surrounds her and Geral.

The rest of the group startles a bit. Gruumsh laughs uproariously.

"Had my wife wished to snack upon his marrow," he declaims, "She would have done it shortly after our fight with the demons."

He winks.

"She gets hungry after working magic."

"He's okay," says Wulrif, concentrating a bit from his litter. The group relaxes, still a bit unsettled in the company of so many Orcs and Ogres.

Steve discreetly slips a dagger back into its sheathe. Calmul's Steel Guardian relaxes from the taut vibrancy of a coiled steel spring, resuming a watchful aspect.

"Mortals words are worthless, Thane Bryn" says Chiyo, seemingly oblivious to the clamor around her. "You have offered my husband assurances of shelter and loot, but how am I to believe your bond to him will hold once we are amongst your kind?" "You have something in mind," replies Geral. Chiyo smiles her unsettling tusked grin, her red eyes gleaming. She holds up a six-inch needle, tiny in her hands.

"My people tattoo mutual bonds upon their flesh. If you are true to its inscription, it guards your life. If not ..."

"What inscription?"

"You tell me." Chiyo smiles appraisingly.

We need to get the ward stone into our wagon. We decide to use Tasbros’ Telekinesis to lift it into our wagon. As we do this, we see a bird circling, it lands and turns into this little masked person. His mask is half happy and half sad. He starts giving us shit about how fucked up the ward stone is. We use Detect Magic and see he’s magic. He asks us if we know how ward stones work. Actias asks what his intentions are and he just laughs. Wulrif tries to read his mind and it’s strangely missing. Viker invites him to join us on our journey back to Phandalin and calls him old, which pisses him off. He grows and starts rearing up at us. We ask what we can do to keep him happy. He said we will amuse him, he snaps his fingers and the skies start to darken. He snaps his fingers again and we feel the ground start to shake. Then, this massive toothed worm breaks out of the ground behind the group.

Purple Worm

Round 1

  1. Benjamin tries to find its weaknesses. He finds out it’s a Purple Worm and it has no weaknesses.
  2. Steve throws daggers in the girth worm’s mouth, doing 11 HP damage.
  3. Actias casts Bane and hits (it has low charisma)
  4. CoralKing uses Shadow Step to move behind the person thing. He hits it for 6 HP damage.
  5. Tysnera casts Banishment and the girth worm disappears! A massive hole is left in the ground where it was.
  6. Viker tries to compliment him and asks what he wants. He doesn’t respond.
  7. He waves his hand and a telekinetic force slams into Tysnera, blasting her into the girth hole behind us, doing 24 HP damage. She makes her CON saving throw, but is still falling.
  8. I try casting Hold Person, and fail. I declare a Vow of Enmity.
  9. Tasbros casts Confusion and it doesn’t affect him. He uses a magic seeking spell and now looks confused.

Round 2

  1. Benjamin finds this guy has no weaknesses.
  2. Steve is hiding and uses a sneak attack on his short crossbow, doing 29 HP damage.
  3. Actias moves away from the group and casts thunder step, doing 16 HP damage.
  4. CoralKing uses 1 unarmed strike and does 10 HP damage.
  5. Tysnera uses a Feather Fall token. She can see a greenish glow growing closer.
  6. Viker uses Shillelagh on something?
  7. The guy is no longer confused, kits Tasbros with the telekinetic force, doing 20 HP damage. He is now following Tysnera down the girth hole. Then, he attacks Viker, doing 21 HP damage, throwing her down the girth hole too.
  8. I moves toward him, cast Thunderous Smite and hit the guy twice, doing 35HP damage.
  9. Tasbros grabs onto Tysnera and sees the green glow.

Round 3

  1. Benjamin flanks the guy and casts hunter’s mark
  2. Steve attacks the guy and does 32 HP damage.
  3. Actias casts booming blade and does 27 HP damage.
  4. CoralKing uses Flurry of Blows and his Staff of Striking, doing 36 HP damage
  5. Tysnera is still falling, but keeping her concentration
  6. Viker shapechanges into a Bat and starts to fly out of the girth hole
  7. The guy turns into a flying animal, Teleports 60 ft up, and flies 180 ft straight up. He hits Benjamin and does 22 HP damage.
  8. I dash into the girth hole
  9. Tasbros uses his Spider web staff to create a hammock and catch us.

Round 4

  1. Benjamin passes
  2. Steve jumps down the girth hole
  3. Actias jumps down the girth hole
  4. CoralKing jumps down the girth hole

Tasbros makes a web at the bottom of this girth hole. We land on the web on the bottom of this girth hole. We are in a cavern with fungus. Welcome to the Underdark, bitches.

Tasbros contracts short-term madness and falls unconscious for 7 minutes. He seems fine, but has a sort of twitch to him now. Tysnera detects a fiendish magic everywhere around us. We walk for 2 cycles and find a stream. I fill up my water skin and stand watch while everyone else drinks water. I finally see 9 fat, 2-headed, knuckle-dragging figures approaching. Viker says “hello friend” in Ork. They respond “small food, let’s get em boys!” and attack.

Ettins

Round 1

  1. CoralKing shoots 2 darts at the gold creature, doing 12 HP damage.
  2. Benjamin tries to detect their weaknesses. They have 2 heads so they have great vision, but no weaknesses.
  3. Tysnera casts Fireball and hits 6 of these creatures for 31 HP each.
  4. Steve hides and attacks the copper creature for 16 HP?
  5. Tasbros uses Wall of Fire, level 4, on all of the creatures. He does 17 HP damage each.
  6. I casts Thunderous Smite and hit 2 creatures, killing the most damaged one.
  7. Viker casts scorpions on the creatures and activates her Shillelagh.
  8. The creatures attack us and the scorpions. This provokes an opportunity of attack from Viker, and she absolutely obliterates it. I get hit for 7 HP damage.

Round 2

  1. CoralKing moves forward and attacks the yellow creature for 24 HP, killing it!
  2. Benjamin shoots his bow and does 17 HP damage
  3. Tysnera shoots a Fireball and does 31 HP damage to each of them.
  4. Steve shoots some creatures, sneakily doing 19 damage to a damaged one.
  5. Tasbros uses Chromatic Orb, fire damage, doing 24 HP damage to a creature.
  6. I use Vow of Enmity and hit 2 of the creatures, killing one.
  7. Viker casts Moonbeam, doing 17 HP damage. She uses Shillelagh? Her Scorpion hit on the claws, doing 14 HP on a creature, killing it.
  8. The creatures hit Viker’s Giant Scorpion twice, doing 28 HP damage to it. The other 2 attack me for 26 HP damage.

Round 3

  1. CoralKing attacked one of the creatures, doing 13 HP damage and killed it, then moves behind it to flank it.
  2. Benjamin shoots the creatures and does 11 damage.
  3. Tysnera uses Magic Missile and does 13 damage to one of the 2 remaining creatures.
  4. Steve hits one of them using a normal attack, doing 7 damage.
  5. Tasbros uses Chromatic Orb, fire, on the creature attacking me.
  6. I delivers the final 2 blows on the creature in front of me.
  7. Viker casts moonbeam on the last creature, doing 28 HP damage. Her Giant Scorpion takes out the final one!

5,000 XP