Thursday, June 26, 2025

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.

On To Adventure 

On dawn of the 19th of the month, we make to leave town for some adventure or whatnot.

Immediately outside of the gates, we are confronted by five armored figures, all in heavy plate.

"Give us Thekla and the rest of you shall leave alive," their apparent leader demands.

Liminal offers to parlay with their leader, to which they refuse.

Spell Barrage

We respond with a flurry of web, hypnosis, and charm person, leaving one standing, the leader.

He throws a Javelin at Blossom, hitting her greatly, and a bolt of lightning strikes out from the javelin, hitting Thekla, downing her and breaking her leg.

He throws another Javelin at Blossom, but misses.

Mayfly follows up with a Fireball, killing Javelin-Man and two webbed bounty hunters.

Whose Fault Is It Anyway?

Two remain and as the hypnosis wears off, and we tie them up and interrogate them. 

The Talbot family apparently hired them, thinking Thekla was the one who blew up the nobles of their house in the wilderness. The squire we "rescued" from the camp two sessions ago, Gerlach, left our company once we got to Blackleg and apparently ratted us out.

We'll have to deal with the Talbots, now, most likely. 

We kill these bounty hunters and search the bodies while others patch up Thekla's wounds.

We Did Really Good On The Treasure Rolls 

Among the group, we find: (We spend our next downtime identifying the magic runes, but I'll just include them here for completeness' sake)

  • Plate armor and a shield with runes on them. The armor is +3 and the shield is +2. They are decorated with the Gold Eagle, the symbol of the high king of the realm. 
  • "Mercury," a shortsword +2 of quickness - the wielder will always strike first in the round, as if they won initiative.
  • Chainmail +1
  • "Martel," a mace +1
  • Five of the Thunder Javelins that we experienced earlier. Always deal exactly 20 damage on a hit.

From this fight, we each also get 200xp.

Between the carousing and one intense fight, the hour goes late and we return back into town to rest up and give Thekla a chance to heal. Next week, we will either go to the Talbot house to deal with them or return to the Beastman village in search of treasure.

Wednesday, June 11, 2025

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)

Previously, on Nightwick Abbey...

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.

Friday, May 23, 2025

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.

Thursday, May 22, 2025

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. 

Monday, May 12, 2025

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!

Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Nightwick Abbey - Session 115 - With the Power of Friendship and Chain Lightning

 

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Session 115 - 17th of Elders, 1399

This week's adventurers:

Blossom (Rogue 6)

Mayfly (Magician 6)

Ulf (Magician 5)

Liminal Space (Changeling 5)

Thekla (Magician 5)

Krupe (Cleric ?)

Yevgeney the Coward (Cleric 4)

Pataki (Rogue 3)

Hirelings: Hartnid (Rogue 1), Merlin (Magician 1)

Downtime in the Village

We hire two new hirelings to make up for the deceased and make plans to return to level 4 this week, ready to explore the new layout of the floor after shifting it so much last time.

We make it safely down to level 4...

Into the Abbey

...and no further.

Friday, March 21, 2025

Nightwick Abbey - Session 114 - Two Knights, Trying to Fuck In-Armor

 

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Session 114 - 20th of Primes. 1399

This week's adventurers:

Blossom (Rogue 6)

Mayfly (Magician 6)

Ulf (Magician 5)

Liminal Space (Changeling 5)

Thekla (Magician 5)

Poppy (Fighter 5)

Yevgeney the Coward (Cleric 4)

Hirelings: Hanslo, Glogryan Glassy-eye

Downtime in the Village

Ulf, after weeks of study, has learned the spell Fly, which is surely the most useful 3rd level spell for the party to know at this moment.

Liminal Space hires a new hireling, Glogryan, a brigand who comes with a gambison and short sword.

An old friend returns this week as noble Yevgeney the Coward has come to return to Nightwick.

Into the Abbey

We set out to return to level 4, taking our familiar route through level 3, down the floating staircase into the depths of the dungeon.

As soon as we set foot on the floor, we hear a loud buzzing coming from the north.

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

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