Nightwick Abbey - Session 125 - 30' by 30' of Terror II

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Session 125 - 24th of Quintember, 1399

This week's adventurers:

Blossom (Rogue 6) 

Mayfly (Magician 6) 

Ulf (Magician 5)

Liminal Space (Changeling 5)

Poppy (Fighter 5) 

Pataki (Rogue 4) 

Yevgeny the Coward (Cleric 4?)

Felix (Dwarf 1) 

Hirelings: Hartnid, Baldekinus

Downtime in the Village

Ulf carouses by studying and gains a loathsome familiar - a wolpertinger.

He can now cast charm person (-2 save penalty) or charm monster (no save penalty) once per day, learn spells from the monster, and see through its eyes.

Additionally, he must feed the monster some of his blood (or someone else's) each day and he will be unable to be raised from the dead should he die.

Burglary, Robbery, and General Murder - Nightwick Abbey - Sessions 122 & 123

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Session 122 - 26th of Leftember, 1399

This week's adventurers:

Blossom (Rogue 6) 

Mayfly (Magician 6) 

Thekla (Magician 5)

Ulf (Magician 5)

Liminal Space (Changeling 5)

Poppy (Fighter 5) 

Pataki (Graverobber 4) 

Yevgeny the Coward (Cleric 4?)

Felix (Dwarf 1) 

Hirelings: Hartnid (Rogue 1) 

Downtime in the City

Liminal spends the week in Blackleg carousing and commits some unspeakable deed to get himself declared an outlaw. He spends the rest of his time hanging out with Ulf on the outskirts of town.

A new player joins our group, rolling up Felix the dwarf, a former servant of a rival house to the Talbots in town.

We decide this week to infiltrate the Talbot house and extract revenge and/or rob them for sending bounty hunters after Thekla. 

Blossom uses her criminal contacts to get information about the Talbots and discovers that they owe a great debt to the Sheldons, another local powerful family.

Nightwick Abbey - Session 121 - We Drink for Five Weeks Then Fight Five Men

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Session 121 - 19th of Leftember, 1399

This week's adventurers:

Blossom (Rogue 6) 

Mayfly (Magician 6) 

Thekla (Magician 5)

Ulf (Magician 5)

Liminal Space (Changeling 5)

Downtime in the City

Now in Blackleg, we're able to get a cure for Thekla's demon possession, you know, the reason we left Nightwick like 5 session ago. We got the help for free because we helped the pilgrims last time and for helping an angel find a shrine, 100 session ago.

Because here at Nightwick Industries, we all believe in the importance of strict time records and their keeping, we're catching our adventurers up to the present date which means we have 5 weeks of carousing on our hands. 

Week 1

After a night of drinking that we barely remember, Ulf gets declared an outlaw and we hear rumors that Thekla has had bounty hunters sent after her.

Week 2 

The next week, Thekla performs magical studies while the others go drinking (except for Ulf, whom no one in the town will do business with anymore) and somehow blows up the inn we're staying in, the Pizzled Gules.

Everyone is mad about this and we move to the other inn in town.

Mayfly spends his downtime to get better acquainted with the countess. He hope to discover information about a magic wand once owned by the Corvies, a mercenary company we've hired in the past.

Week 3 

While the others go drinking again, Thekla discovers that one of her ancestors had come to the lands a long time before and worked with the conquering Sword Brothers. Apparently, her ancestor did some terrible things to the Bogdani, the local peoples. She permanently gains a -1 penalty to reaction rolls with the Bogdani as news of this ancestral connection spreads.

Mayfly continues to charm the countess and gleams some information on the wand. He finds out that the previous owner was killed by a Devilman who took it back to a Devilman lair - though we don't know where yet.

Week 4 

Ulf and Thekla scribe some spell scrolls after alienating themselves to the town, Mayfly makes a bad impression with the countess, undoing some of his previous work, and the rest of the party continues carousing for more xp.

Nightwick Abbey - Session 120 - Nights in the Dark

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Session 120 - 13th of Youngers, 1399

This week's adventurers:

Thekla (Magician 5)

Ulf (Magician 5)

Liminal Space (Changeling 5)

Poppy (Fighter 5)

Yevgeny the Coward

Pataki (Rogue [Graverobber] 4)

Gerlach von Talbot (Fighter 2)

Hirelings: Hartnid (Rogue 1)

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Last week, while on the road to Blackleg, our intrepid crew stumbled upon some pilgrims who had just escaped imprisonment in a nearby village. 

Being a bunch of goody two-shoes, we decided to help free their still-captive brethren.

We scouted out the village and decided to wait one more day to await Mayfly's return and to let Thekla prepare Invisibility.

Big Damn Heros

The next morning we return to the edge of the village and send out Pataki and Hartnid to scout the area for us. 

Thekla casts Invisibility on them both (technically Invisibility 10' Radius on Pataki) and they go ahead to explore the beastman village.

Nightwick Abbey - Session 119 - Froglings and Reindeer and Pilgrims, Oh My!

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Session 119 - 11th of Youngers, 1399

This week's adventurers:

Blossom (Rogue 6)

Thekla (Magician 5)

Ulf (Magician 5)

Liminal Space (Changeling 5)

Poppy (Fighter 5)

Back in the Action

Last week, the session ended with a tense standoff between the noble Bartlemebis and the warlock Mayfly.

Things took a turn towards hostilities and Mayfly casts Fireball upon the noble and his camp.

The rest of the party awakens to a great scream as a number of tents go up in flame.

Of the noble's hunting party, only one of the squires is left alive, badly burned - the rest all dead.

As we scramble out of our tents, we see Mayfly mount the back of a great beast and fly off towards the moon.

Nightwick Abbey - Session 118 - Rosemary's Neighby

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Session 118 - 8th of Youngers (?), 1399

This week's adventurers:

Blossom (Rogue 6)

Mayfly (Magician 6)

Ulf (Magician 5)

Liminal Space (Changeling 5)

Krupe (Cleric 5)

Yevgeney the Coward (Cleric 4)

Pataki (Rogue 4)

Hirelings: Hartnid (Rogue 1)

On The Road Again...

Last week, in Ulf's absense, Thekla managed to get possessed by a "gross tumorous rabbit type spirit" and the party started off towards Blackleg to get her healed.

He's left unclear as to (1) how she got possessed, (2) what exactly is possessing her, (3) what the nature of this possession is like, and (4) why we're going to Blackleg instead of Lichgate to get this dealt with.

Oh well, hopefully Mayfly's account of the events explains everything.

There was also some account of removing a spirit from a gross jar and getting treasure from it.

The spirit agreed to not hinder out journey in exchange for putting Thekla into a sort of dream-like trance. She's out of commission this week living in the shadow realm.

Back On The Road - The 9th of Youngers

The next morning, after catching Ulf up to speed, he learns that the party has a 2nd haunted pot.

He's still not clear on how the party got either pot, but we assume this one is also haunted and Blossom plans to stab straight through it with her sword, the heretical Shard of God. 

Nightwick Abbey - Session 116 - Blast From the Past

 

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Session 116 - 1st of Youngers, 1399

This week's adventurers:

Blossom (Rogue 6)

Mayfly (Magician 6)

Ulf (Magician 5)

Liminal Space (Changeling 5)

Krupe (Cleric 5)

Poppy (Fighter 5)

Yevgeney the Coward (Cleric 4)

Pataki (Rogue 4)

Vestif (Rogue 1)

Hirelings: Hartnid (Rogue 1)

Downtime in the Village

A new player joins the crew and brings along Vestif, cattle rustler, seeking treasure and a violent death.

Today is Youngers 1st, the Feast Day of St. Notappearinginthisfilm, and our hirelings are given the day off in observance (except for Hartnid for some reason? Maybe we bullied him into coming with us).

Pataki heard a rumor of strange lights coming from the hilltop to the southeast of town where Nightwick Abbey lies.

Liminal went carousing and drank something funny - he's still shaking off some hallucinations as we depart. I swear this will come up again later.

Into the Abbey?

As we approach the hilltop, the ruins appear to have changed in shape!