Nightwick Abbey - Session 63 - 30 Seconds in Hell

Previously, in Nightwick Abbey...

Session 63 - 20th of Quintember, 1392

This week's adventurers:

Blossom (Rogue 5)

Mayfly (Magician 4)

Mechtilde (Fighter 4)

Liminal Space (Changeling 3)

Yevegniy the Coward (Cleric 3)

Ulf (Magician 3)

Herk (Fighter 1)

Hirelings: Grumbletoe (Dwarf 1), Ditl (Cleric 1), Haug

Downtime in the Village

Liminal Space and Mayfly spend the week carousing. Liminal feasted on food, gaining 300xp and a point of constitution. Mayfly studies, but his research blows his mind, and he loses 800xp in the process!

Ulf translates runes on the amulet we discoverd last week - he identifies it as an amulet against scrying. He offers it to Mayfly, as it makes sense to protect the mind of our strongest Magician, but he's worried that it might disrupt his connection to the Master (the golden skull he carries around and sometimes talks to/yells at). We honestly forget about the amulet after that and leave it home for the adventure.

Rumors in the South

We also recieve news from the south! A trickle of knights and crossbowmen, only a few, arrive in Nightwick village from Knightpath in the south. They tell tales of a peasant rebellion against the lord there. Lord Eckhard, Lord of Nightwick, grew outraged at this news and could be heard screaming in rage from the Medusa's Head tavern, despite the usual drunken revelry there. He has gathered together his own knights and the members of the Badder's Boys, a mercanary company he keeps in his employ, to go supress the rebellion in Knightpath.

Nightwick Abbey - Session 62 - All This Treasure, Just Lying Around!

Previously, in Nightwick Abbey...

Session 62 - 13th of Quintember, 1392

This week's adventurers:

Blossom (Rogue 5)

Mayfly (Magician 4)

Verinka (Changeling 3)

Ulf (Magician 3) 

Franz Croakenbell (Frogling 1)

Hirelings: Menczel, Hanslo, Benisch

Downtime in the Village

Freshly back from Lychgate, the party has money to burn. During downtime, Ulf attempts to make contact with the creature that has been previously detected around the party's house. He goes to bed late one night after a long day of research, only to awaken in his room in the pitch dark. He soon realizes that it is a magical darkness, that a candle is not able to penetrate. He fumbles around in the dark and feels something firm and covered in hair sitting on his bed. Paralyzed by fear, Ulf feels the bed shift as the creature gets up and leaves. After an hour of tense waiting, the magical darkness disipates.

Ulf is determined to make proper contact with the demonic presence and so continues his research into what it could be. He is yet again awoken in the middle of the night, but this time can still see in the dim light - and before him is the face of a shaggy headed beast, with saucer-sized eyes. It seems to resemble the same type of creature as the one in the abbey known as The Manager. Almost before Ulf can process what he sees, the beast disappears.

Mayfly and Blossom spent that time carousing by drinking about town. After a night on the town, Mayfly wakes up to discover that he has acquired a reputation as the "fun time" guy and Blossom wakes up with a (bad) tattoo of her face and her name misspelled.

We realize that, among the party members present, we have only a few hirelings, but the two peasants willing to be hired this week seem pretty worthless, so we pass. (Mechtilde and Liminal Space have most of our hirelings, but they weren't present this week - a lesson in distributing hirelings around the party).

Through the Graveyard - Into the Catacombs

We enter the Abbey through the graveyard entrance straight into the 3rd level. The two angel statues still lay broken into pieces in the entrance chamber. 

Stepping over the rubble, we continue on to the eastern hallway. There are four doors here and another passageway in the back. We take the time to listen at the doors, but hear nothing.

Nightwick Abbey - Session 61 - Robbing the (Thieves and Assassins)

Previously, in the Sewers of Nightwick...

Session 61 - 29th of Leftember, 1392

This week's adventurers:

Blossom (Rogue 5)

Mayfly (Magician 4)

Cherwe (Cleric 4)

Liminal Space (Changeling 3)

Verinka (Changeling 3)

Ulf (Magician 3) 

Franz Croakenbell (Frogling 1)

Hirelings: Menczel

No Downtime, Straight to Action

We last left of intrepid adventurers when they had come face to face with the three Anticlerics of the Brotherhood (of Thieves and Assassins) during our negotiations for the Blindfold of St. Candace. This week, we picked up straight away, so no downtime activities this week.

The Anticlerics come sloshing up the grey water in their profane robes and skull masks. The middlest of the three addresses Mayfly.

"So. Mayfly," the figure points at him, "You wish to trade."

"Yes, by the will of Armadeus," the magician replies.

"We hear you have an item that may be of interest to us."

Mayfly raises up the enchanted eye and presents it to them. The movements of its pupil glimmer in the torchlight.

Nightwick Abbey - Session 60 - Dealings in the Sewer

Previously, on the road to Lychgate...

Session 60 - 29th of Leftember, 1392

This week's adventurers:

Blossom (Rogue 5)

Mayfly (Magician 4)

Cherwe (Cleric 4)

Liminal Space (Changeling 3)

Verinka (Changeling 3) 

Yevegniy the Coward (Cleric 3)

Ulf (Magician 3) 

Franz Croakenbell (Frogling 1) 

Herk (Fighter 1)

Hirelings: Menczel

Downtime in the Big City

It's been a few weeks since the party reached Lychgate. We've been staying at an inn in the city the past few weeks while preparing for the heist and gathering information.

Ulf spent his time carousing, and reached level 3 in the process! He learns the spell Knock and spent the rest of his time scribing a scroll of Magic Missile. 

Liminal Space continues his months long search for a "battle-butler," a request that baffles the common folk of Lychgate and the DM alike. The fighter Fidl answers his advertisement. However, he sports a "C" branded into his flesh - the mark of a coward who once abandoned his post. Seeking no further explination, Liminal immediately spits on him and casts him out. He will have no coward for a Battle-Butler!.

Verinka goes carousing, gaining 500xp, but gets fleeced of her remaining money. The only thing she remembers from her drunken bender is the vague promise that her "investment" will be returned with great gains. 

Liminal Space also spent time investigating rumors, specifially seeking to learn more about the Brotherhood (of Theives and Assassins). He learns that their main cache of treasure is stored in a secret room near where they sleep and that they are led by a secret group of anti-bishops who lead the brotherhood in their strange ways.

A new player joins the party as well, rolling up Herk the Fighter!