Caelesti's notes

Date

03/31/2009

Log

The shadow people told the party a group of them went to Poffle as delegates, and were never heard from again. They said that they would cure the whole town if the party could return the missing shadow people group.

The party headed off to Poffle. As they stood by the river near Poffle, looking to cross, they noticed an elf on the other side. They had not seen an elf since they left their kingdom, so he stood out, besides being the only one on the other side of the river. Yoshi hailed him, and short conversation was called out across the river.

The party easily crossed the small river. The elf, Torin, noticed the sickly Carric riding on a mule. Torin said he was a healer from afar, and a follower of Arianrhod. He offered to cure Carric of his ailments, but was unsuccessful after trying many spells.

The party made additional introductions, and Torin explained how he had come through a portal to this strange land.

The expanded party could not easily get into Poffle, since an army was guarding the entrance into it. Carric turned into an eagle, and he and Tan Kuran scouted the area from the air. Carric reported that the army was blockading the entrance into a ravine, and that the road traveled into the ravine for some distance and into a cave. Caelesti also questioned a soldier and verified that the army was guarding the entrance to Poffle. The guard said that he knew nothing about Poffle, as no good people go there.

The party camped out until dusk. Under the cover of darkness, the party (minus the mounts) entered the ravine. The party entered the cave. Mavis and Yoshi took out the two guards. Torin cast Cure Minor Wounds on the bleeding unconscious guard.

The party advanced. Mavis surreptitiously rewounded the guard that she had taken out before she moved on. A long corridor led to a room with a door. Beyond the door was another corridor lined with shackled skeletons. The bones seemed to move. Yoshi pounded the skeletons to shards. As the party advanced down the corridor, the bodies grew meatier and Yoshi battery grew a bit disgusting. Torin pulled out his holy symbol and called upon Arionrhod to vanquish them; the remainder were destroyed.

Nessey's notes

Nessey: Poor Carric, poor, poor Carric. Nessey: Torin in on his way. We think. WE think.
Nessey: Carric is minus 2 in all stats. Tomorrow minus 4.
Mavis: http://www.hambo.com/misc/true-game-map.html
Nessey: My nut armor is +3 and is light armor, not medium.
Nessey: It is very, very nice! And nutty. And protects "my girls" very well.
Nessey: Yes, "the twins" are well protected now.
Nessey: yes.
Nessey: You boys should try some for your "twins." these work great.
Nessey: Cod Nuts.
Nessey: We discuss how to approach Poffle and the Ghoul.
Nessey: Mavis asks if we should try to negotiate with him or not.
Nessey: Torin lurks somewhere in the shadows perhaps...
Nessey: Mavis tells Carric to blow his nose.
Nessey: Ganver's bone, 9 inches long, is what was stolen by Blourbast.
Nessey: Mavis - Nessey, I did not think you were the type to go out and buy stolen property.
Nessey: Caelesti - some of us will be hard to disguise.
Nessey: It is Dawn. Not Donn.
Nessey: Mavis is nudging the Shadow Folks.
Nessey: Mavis wants to Carric to ask for more information - of the sleepy Shadow Folk.
Nessey: they say they sent a little party in to negotiate and they didn't come out. Could be he ate them. Serves him right - that's where the Ghoul's Plague comes from - eating Shadow people.
Nessey: They say they will cure Carric if we get the bone back. But will cure whole town if we can get their Shadow people out again. There are more than 12 of them. (6 on each hand)
Nessey: They say the bone is white.
Nessey: Nessey - why would Blourbast want it? Does it do something special?
Nessey: Shadow creatures don't know.
Nessey: they miss their friends.
Nessey: they say Ganver's an Eesty.
Nessey: Nessey - what's an Eesty?
Nessey: He says long untranslatable. Carric, weak and poor of mind, is unable to understand.
Nessey: Nessey - will we find you here again?
Nessey: They say yes.
Nessey: We ask how long Carric has?
Nessey: He says Carric should not have eaten the flesh of Shadow folk.
Nessey: Carric says he did not.
Nessey: Carric doesn't want to know how long he has to live.
Nessey: Caelesti wants to know how soon she can start being rash.
Nessey: We start to depart and go back to our mounts and head towards the road.
Nessey: Road coming from West intersects with the road we are on?
Nessey: We cross river and head towards Poffle.
Nessey: We see a man and a man sees us.
Nessey: Looks like an Elf. We have not seen Elves since Rowansmeade.
Nessey: He sees us - human walking with sandals and robe and confidence. He looks Monkly. There are two equines. A mule and a horse.
Nessey: Sitting on mule is confident tough looking human female with bow and bulging saddle bags.
Nessey: There seems to be an Eagle flying over head.
Nessey: On horse - warhorse - is man with shining golden hair - and he is lying clutching neck of horse as though too sick to ride well.
Nessey: Walking along behind are two women.
Nessey: One in bright pink, skimpy, clothing with turquoise hair.
Nessey: At rear is a short woman - 4'6"e; with bright golden hair. Her mouth is moving and moving and moving.
Nessey: And she is wearing nut armor and carring sword.
Nessey: The rest of her clothes are kind of woodsy and Barbarian looking.
Nessey: They are looking to cross the river to get to the elf.
Nessey: Yoshi greets and bows. Elf yells greeting across the river.
Nessey: Mavis suggests we cross to elf. We do.
Nessey: He wants to know what we are doing here.
Nessey: Mystery guy says he sees Carric seems sick and can he come closer and try to kill, ooops, I mean cure, him.
Nessey: Carric protests.
Nessey: New guy introduces himself as Torin the Elf Tree Hugger.
Nessey: Caelesti thinks he is a Bone Dancer.
Nessey: Carric is concerned over who he worships.
Mavis: Arianrhod
Nessey: is the diety and perhaps that of Caelesti too?
Nessey: Nessey asks Caelesti if she thinks, then, he is a good guy.
Nessey: Arianrhod is the CG goddess of Bright Moon.
Nessey: Torin - so, sick one, you have tried Cure Disease on yourself?
Nessey: Carric relates his sad tale.
Nessey: Carric relates Shadow Folk background on the Plague.
Nessey: Speaks of GamesGhoul guy.
Torin: I am going to cast remove curse
Torin: Next remove disease
Torin: restoration
Nessey: He tries to Cure and Restore Carric.
Torin: Restoratin
Nessey: Torin keeps speaking of having to live up to a goal of some kind.
Nessey: He is high ranking in healing.
Torin rolls d20: [16] = 16
Torin rolls d20 + 16: [(8) + 16] = 24
Nessey: Torin says Carric is even sicker than he looks.
Nessey: All we women knew that.
Nessey: Nessey - to Torin - why must you help us, we are strangers.
Nessey: Torin - I have come to help the people of the town. But most are too afraid to talk to me.
Nessey: Torin asks to travel with us and find a cure.
Nessey: Nessey - The shadow creatures will cure everyone in town if we rescue their friends from Poffle.
Nessey: Mavis repeats this information in her own words.
Torin: Are these evil creatures?
Nessey: Torin wonders if the shadow critters are evil.
Torin: May I travel with you then? At least for a while?
Nessey: Mavis introduces herself and warns Torin against Poffle.
Nessey: She says Poffle is place of Ill Repute.
Nessey: Mavis gives a geography lesson instead.
Torin: Torinian Voronda Crom or Torin Truehart in the common tongue.
Nessey: I am a seeker of Arianrhod. I enjoy the night and night creatures.
Nessey: Torin - and I spend much traveling and exploring and one day came across a gateway and entered and found myself.
Nessey: He means here in this land.
Nessey: He is trying to get back to Kansas.
Nessey: No, really he was traveling with some merchants who were natives and they didn't want to proceed because of the plague in these parts.
Mavis: Dingle the Trader
Nessey: He actually met Dingle the Trader, a gamesman, whom Torin insistes on calling "A Merchant."
Nessey: Yoshi asks if Torin understands about Pawns and Gamemen.
Nessey: Torin is still in the dark, which seems to suit him, as a creature of the night.
Torin: I am still confused as to what all this talk of gamesmen and pawns are.
Nessey: Nessey - we have traveled as Pawns and have traveled as Gamesmen, but we do not really fit into either. We seem to encounter trouble either way.
Torin: So far I have not spoken with anyone other then the merchant and his crew.
Torin: Though they did seem to have some fun at my expense.
Nessey: Torin told Guardian of portal that he followed the lead of the Bright Lady and Guardian let him through. And he remembers the way back to the cave? Nessey: Nessey - are you from Rowansmeade?
Nessey: Torin, no but I heard of it. I am young, only 87.
Nessey: Yoshi - you use oil of timelessness?
Nessey: Torin ignores this.
Nessey: Caelesti - you look good for your age.
Nessey: Mavis gets more specific about where she is from in Rowansmeade.
Nessey: Caelesti - We call her Mavis.
Nessey: Nessey - she joined us later.
Nessey: Mavis - but I have been with the party longer.
Nessey: Nessey - we are the Weapons of Good.
Torin: I like that, the weapons of good.
Nessey: Caelesti says she is also a follower of Arianrhod and she is also a Magical person, but here they classify her differently as Armiger because she can fly. Nessey: She also says she can Beguile.
Torin: I am familiar with the fly spell.
Torin: This is a strange world.
Nessey: Caelesti and Torin wax sentimental about sleeping on the open moss under a bright moon with the insects, etc.
Nessey: Carric introduces Tan-Kuran but not himself.
Torin: You are a most interesting group.
Nessey: Caelesti introduces her snake.
Nessey: Carric explains he is a Druid of Belenus.
Mavis: Mavis is a follower of Lugh
Nessey: Mavis says she is a follower of Luge (spelling?)
Torin: Very interesting.
Nessey: Nessey - is he the god of thieves.
Nessey: Mavis says Lugh is the god of cloven animals and everybody
Mavis: Nessey worships Ceridwen!
Torin: Torin is becoming confused.
Nessey: Carric claims he worships sun and Torin Bright Moon and Nessey dark Moon.
Carric:

Núadu

Nessey: Nessey says she is not really follower of Carridywn. She is noble born and was kidnapped and rescued by her friends who are friends after all even through they once seemed to be the people who sold her into slavery, but they are really okau.
Nessey: She is carrying a small pendant with a while pig - but not around her neck.
Nessey: white pig.
Nessey: Nessey says Mavis can throw a big, crowed party and rub up against the Ghoul guy and obtain the bone.
Nessey: Torin reminds us of our task of rescuing the little shadow guys.
Nessey: Caelesti suggests we fly into Poffle.
Torin: Why would they not let us walk in? We are simply visiting travellers.
Torin: We could also conveniently run into a traveller or two leaving Poffle
Nessey: Mavis suggests we send an Eagle into the ravine of Poffle to spy out.
Torin: d20
Torin rolls d20: [5] = 5
Torin: I can cast Dimension Door
Nessey: So we can enter Poffle?
Nessey: Just a suggestion.
Nessey: 700 feet, travel domain Cleric
Nessey: Torin says his domains are Travel and Good
Torin: It is good to travel with friends.
Nessey: Carric turns into an Eagle and does the spying, cough-kaw-kaw-cough.
Nessey: He manages not to infect Tan-Kuran.
Nessey: There is a cave nearby with a path leading into it.
Nessey: The guarded path ultimately leads to the unguarded path.
Nessey: Caelesti takes off all her clothes and changes into gold instead of pink so she will be less obvious.
Nessey: Caelesti then goes off and talks to the guards - they say they are keeping people from going into Poffle.
Nessey: Caelesti asks why.
Nessey: Because Pfarb Durim is under quarantine and so we are quarantining Poffle as well. You can go into Poffle, but we will not let you leave.
Nessey: Caelesti asks if one gets to Poffle through the cave.
Nessey: Guard says he doesn't know. But no good people go to Poffle.
Nessey: Caelesti flatters the guard and says he makes her feel safe. He struts about, proudly.
Nessey: Caelesti relates this to us.
Nessey: Mavis says we should not let guards know we are going to Poffle. Mavis suggests sneaking.
Nessey: Nessey - Torin, you have to understand, Mavis' suggestions always involve sneaking.
Nessey: Torin says yes, good idea, and let's travel by night as well.
Nessey: Mavis calls Caelesti aside. Mavis says Torin is right - we wait until night and sneak in.
Nessey: Caelesti says she left her black outfit at home.
Torin: Flesh tone might work best. :)
Nessey: Nessey - says she can muddy her bright clothes.
Nessey: Mavis - how about no outfit and mud.
Nessey: Nessey - have a shift I can loan her.
Nessey: Carric let's all take off all our clothes and put mud on our bodies.
Nessey: Nessey - I don't think there is any mud wrestling here, Carric.
Nessey: Caelesti - and you are contagious, Carric!
Nessey: Nessey - my horse will need a good bath.
Nessey: Caelesti - maybe horses are "carriers"
Nessey: We make camp.
Nessey: We decide to dress in dark clothing. Nessey loans Caelesti a green-grey shift.
Nessey: Mavis disguises herself and looks like someone we have never met.
Nessey: Yoshi - who are you?
Nessey: Mavis - I am Mavis. But I am taller and etc than your expected. I can do this. This is my thing. I have done it before.
Nessey: Sundown comes.
Nessey: Carric has the shivers.
Nessey: We break camp and avoid the guards, entering the road into the ravine further along where the guards are not.
Nessey: Torin offers to cast obscuring mist.
Nessey: We pause before entering the cave.
Nessey: We enter the cave.
Torin: Torin does.
Nessey: Carric asks if there was a place to conceal the nupines before we descend the ravene. We find a good hiding place and hitch our horses there for safetyl
Nessey: There are two guards inside the cave standing by torches. Mavis says for Yoshi to knock one guard unconscious.
Nessey: Mavis agrees to only knock the guard unconscious, but draws her long pointed weapon.
Nessey: Mavis wields a Rapier.
Nessey: Yoshi and Mavis, our two assasins, sneak up on the guards.
Mavis rolls Mavis Initiative (d20 + 9): [16 + 9] = 25
Yoshi rolls Initiative (d20 + 4 + 2): [18 + 4 + 2] = 24
Mavis rolls d20: [9] = 9
Mavis rolls d20: [1] = 1
Yoshi rolls Atk:Unarmed Full 1 (d20 + 9): [4 + 9] = 13
Mavis rolls Mavis Rapier or Bow Attack #1 (d20 + 10): [5 + 10] = 15
Nessey: Yoshi misses.
Nessey: Mavis hits.
Mavis rolls Mavis Rapier or Bow Sneak Damage (d6 + 3 + 2d6): [4 + 3 + (4 + 1)] = 12
Nessey: Mavis probably kills her guard. We only see that he slumps.
Nessey: Other guard calls for Ed. To Yoshi - What have you done to Ed?
Mavis rolls d20: [4] = 4
Nessey: He asks what Yoshi is doing here.
Yoshi rolls Atk:Unarmed Flurry 1/2 (d20 + 8): [18 + 8] = 26
Yoshi rolls Dmg:Unarmed (d10 + 2): [3 + 2] = 5
Nessey: he swipes at Yoshi with short sword and misses.
Mavis rolls d20: [18] = 18
Nessey: Yoshi does stunning fist - nonlethal damage.
Yoshi rolls Atk:Unarmed Flurry 1/2 (d20 + 8): [15 + 8] = 23
Yoshi rolls Atk:Unarmed Flurry 3 (d20 + 3): [1 + 3] = 4
Yoshi rolls Dmg:Unarmed (d10 + 2): [3 + 2] = 5
Nessey: Yoshi beats up on poor guard.
Nessey: Torin goes over to check to see if Mavis's guard is dead. He is not, but is bleeding badly. Torin cure minor wounds. Mavis glares at Torin. Torin smiles at Mavis.
Nessey: Yoshi leads us down through a long dark passage.
Nessey: Calesti and and Nessey follow Yoshi. Mavis lags behind and pokes the guard and loosens his wounds and he bleeds again. Torin doesn't notice, though. Nessey: Yoshi sees first - ?
Nessey: A room at the end of the tunnel.
Nessey: Nessey follows.
Torin: Rhume
Nessey: There is a door at the opposite end of room. No guards.
Nessey: in this Zimmer
Yoshi rolls Sk:Listen (d20 + 9 + 4): [4 + 9 + 4] = 17
Yoshi rolls Sk:Listen (d20 + 9 + 4): [7 + 9 + 4] = 20
Nessey: Yoshi goes in and listens at the door.
Nessey: Vonbeastie?
Nessey: He hears nothing. He opens the door.
Nessey: There is a 10 x 10 x 10 dirt passage. yoshi proceeds.
Nessey: Yoshi leads the way, followed by Mavis, who has caught up and surpassed the rest of us.
Nessey: Passage curves to the right.
Nessey: There are shackles on the right wall with skelletal bodies hanging from them.
Nessey: Yoshi goes and inspects there.
Nessey: There is a long line of former people. Humans. Adanced state of decay. No shadow people. No one we recognize, but they rustle as we walk by.
Yoshi rolls Atk:Unarmed Full 1 (d20 + 9): [2 + 9] = 11
Yoshi rolls Dmg:Unarmed (d10 + 2): [7 + 2] = 9
Yoshi rolls Initiative (d20 + 4 + 2): [13 + 4 + 2] = 19
Yoshi rolls Initiative (d20 + 4 + 2): [3 + 4 + 2] = 9
Mavis rolls Mavis Initiative (d20 + 9): [9 + 9] = 18
Nessey: Caelesti fears there may be a Bone Dancer nearby.
Carric rolls Initiative (d20 + 2): [19 + 2] = 21
Torin: Initiative d20
Nessey: Yoshi wants to punch them.
Nessey: Torin wants to Turn them.
Torin: Initiative /roll d20
Torin rolls d20: [12] = 12
Nessey: Nessey draws her swords.
Nessey rolls Nes - Initiative (d20 + 3): [15 + 3] = 18
Nessey: Torin decides not to Turn them.
Caelesti rolls Initiative (d20 + 4): [17 + 4] = 21
Nessey: He considers them harmless. But some are muttering.
Nessey: Torin leaves Yoshi to it.
Nessey: None of the skeletons have attacked.
Yoshi rolls Atk:Unarmed Flurry 1/2 (d20 + 8): [18 + 8] = 26
Yoshi rolls Atk:Unarmed Flurry 1/2 (d20 + 8): [19 + 8] = 27
Yoshi rolls Atk:Unarmed Flurry 1/2 (d20 + 8): [10 + 8] = 18
Nessey: Torin wants to talk to them.
Yoshi rolls Atk:Unarmed Flurry 3 (d20 + 3): [10 + 3] = 13
Torin: C
Yoshi rolls Dmg:Unarmed (d10 + 2): [7 + 2] = 9
Yoshi rolls Dmg:Unarmed (d10 + 2): [10 + 2] = 12
Yoshi rolls Dmg:Unarmed (d10 + 2): [10 + 2] = 12
Nessey: But Yoshi is using them a punching bags.
Nessey: Yoshi is sending bones flying all over the place. None of them are attacking.
Nessey: The DM says that Yoshi moves along the passage and see that the bodies are getting more fleshy.
Nessey: Yoshi looks at Torin Quizically.
Nessey: Torin says he doesn't know what to make of it.
Nessey: Caelesti - Destroy them?
Yoshi rolls Atk:Unarmed Flurry 1/2 (d20 + 8): [10 + 8] = 18
Yoshi rolls Atk:Unarmed Flurry 1/2 (d20 + 8): [5 + 8] = 13
Yoshi rolls Atk:Unarmed Flurry 3 (d20 + 3): [13 + 3] = 16
Yoshi rolls Dmg:Unarmed (d10 + 2): [6 + 2] = 8
Yoshi rolls Dmg:Unarmed (d10 + 2): [5 + 2] = 7
Yoshi rolls Dmg:Unarmed (d10 + 2): [5 + 2] = 7
Nessey: Yoshi punches more and more.
Nessey: The fleshier ones make Yoshi gory.
Torin rolls d20 + 3: [(7) + 3] = 10
Nessey: Torin attempts to Turn some.
Torin rolls 2d6 + 11: [5 + 5 + 11] = 21
Nessey: Torin destroys them all.
Nessey: Yoshi says that proves they were all undead-ish.
Nessey: Nessey - Yoshi, lead on.
Nessey: At end of passage are stairs down.
Nessey: at bottom of stairs can be seen a little door off to the left.
Nessey: I must withdraw as player.
Nessey follows in same order and tries not to talk and tries to be inconspcious and quiet and not do any fighting or negotiating.
Nessey: nighty-night