Nightwick Abbey - Session 102 - Treasure! But at What Cost?

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Session 102 - 21st of November, 1398

This week's adventurers:

Blossom (Rogue 6)

Sir Uein (Fighter 6)

Mayfly (Magician 5)

Ulf (Magician 5)

Liminal Space (Changeling 5)

Krupe (Cleric 5) 

Thekla (Magician 4)

Marguerite (Magician 2)

Hirelings: Niklaus (Fighter 2), Helusch (Magician 2)

Downtime in the Village

A new fighter (played by Nightwick artist Huth) crosses the Nightwick streams to join our group from one of Miranda's other groups! We immediately give him the magical sword Dhinron to aid our quest.

Mayfly spent the week carousing and wound up with a blasphemous tattoo that he doesn't remember getting. At least he's done being a cleric for now.

Into the Abbey

We quickly leave the village in the morning to approach the hilltop concealing Nightwick Abbey.

Entering through the stone doors past the graveyard, we enter onto level 3 and rush through to the stairs down the level 4.

We enter into the becoming familiar 30' by 30' room with a blood-baptismal font on one wall.

Nightwick Abbey - Session 101 - Now You're Thinking With Gas

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Session 101 - 31st of Shocktober, 1398

This week's adventurers:

Blossom (Rogue 6)

Mayfly (Magician 5 Cleric 1)

Ulf (Magician 5)

Liminal Space (Changeling 5)

Cherwe (Cleric 5)

Krupe (Cleric 5)

Hirelings: Niklaus (Fighter 2), Helusch (Magician 2)

Downtime in the Village

Mayfly, after a particularly bad bout of carousing, claims to have repented of his ways and now serves the God of Law as a level 1 cleric.

Ulf also buys a shield for his hireling Niklaus and commissions a suit of plate armor to be made for him as well, hoping to improve his survivability.

Into the Abbey

The party leaves early in the morning, through the Fog-bound forest.

A local forest-dwelling ranger is in the middle of placing turnips, carved out with candles in them, all around the hilltop which conceals the abbey.

Nightwick Abbey Centennial Scaretacular!!! (Session 100)

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Session 100 - 24th of Shocktober, 1398

This week's adventurers:

Blossom (Rogue 6)

Mayfly (Magician 5)

Ulf (Magician 5)

Liminal Space (Changeling 5)

Poppy (Fighter 4)

Thekla (Magician 4)

Krupe (Cleric 5) 

Marguerite (Magician 1)

Hirelings: Niklaus (Fighter 2), Helusch (Magician 1)

Downtime in the Village

Ulf searches for rumors of his missing Shawl of Protection, mysteriously lost last week. Since all of his coinage was similarly mysteriously lost in a drunken escapade, Liminal and Mayfly offer to help fund his search.

He hears of rumors that the Brotherhood (of Thieves and Assassins) has taken the Shawl to their home in the foothills of the Nameless Mountains far to the South.

This week, we decide to celebrate session 100(!!!) by exploring more of level 4.

Into the Abbey

We enter through the graveyard directly into level 3. Last week we remapped a route to the sigils that contain the entrance to level 4.

Going down a long spiral stairs, we come to a room with columns of faces screaming and a baptismal font with a depiction of the first emperor of mankind being boiled alive by demons.

It's a fun place down here.

Nightwick Abbey - Session 99 - "I Touched Bones and Lived!"

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Session 99 - 17th of Shocktober, 1398

This week's adventurers:

Blossom (Rogue 6)

Cherwe (Cleric 5)

Ulf (Magician 5)

Liminal Space (Changeling 4)

Poppy (Fighter 4)

Thekla (Magician 4)

Krupe (Cleric 5) 

Marguerite (Magician 1)

Hirelings: Niklaus (Fighter 2), Helusch (Magician 1)

Awakening in Lychgate

We start off the session in the city of Lychgate - the party had come here last time in an attempt to get Liminal Space installed as the Lord of Nightwick Village.

We're able to secure a meeting with the Bishop but are promptly laughed out of the hall when we only offer up a measly 25,000 silver pieces for the position.

Given that the Bishop is on good terms with Lord Albrecht of Nightwick and Liminal Space isn't even human, we'd need an offer of at least 40,000 silver pieces to even be considered.

Preperations for the Delve

A new magician joins the party, Marguerite, an alchemist from Averois (Fake France), intending to head to Nightwick to study the abbey, meets us and opts to travel with us.

Thekla spent their time in Lychgate searching for rumors about great and powerful magicians who have previously died in Nightwick Abbey. She discovers that somewhere near the Temple of Moloch was lost a spear for summoning the Spirits of the Air.

Nightwick Abbey - Session 97 - Not at Home

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Session 97 - 2nd of Sextember, 1398

This week's adventurers:

Blossom (Rogue 6)

Mayfly (Magician 5)

Cherwe (Cleric 5)

Ulf (Magician 4)

Liminal Space (Changeling 4)

Poppy (Fighter 4)

Thekla (Magician 3)

Krupe (Cleric 2)

Hexcrawling in the Dark Country

We start today in a ruined manor in the Dark Country, the next day after our previous session. Ulf has somehow caught up to the rest of the party as they get ready to head out.

Yesterday, Thekla used a potion of Control Dragons to send a green dragon to attack the Corbies' nearby castle - we're not particularly fond of the group and they're know to have some magic items we're interested in.

We depart towards the castle in the morning, but as we draw near, a group of armored knights ride out to meet us.

"Oi! Fuck off!" they yell to us.

We see a great black shape laying near the castle - they had apparently downed the dragon without too much difficulty.

Turns out even a dragon can't take on 70+ guys with crossbows. We'll have to do better next time.

Treasure for the Taking

We decide instead to go off in search of the dragon's lair; Thekla managed to get that information from the dragon. We know it's out in the wilderness by the shrine of St. Richard the Prior, which we've been to previously.

Nightwick Abbey - Session 95 - How Many Magicians Does It Take To Kill The Undead?

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Session 95 - 6th of Leftember, 1398

This week's adventurers:

Blossom (Rogue 6)

Mayfly (Magician 5)

Ulf (Magician 4)

Liminal Space (Changeling 4)

Gerung "Floating Disc" (Magician 3)

Poppy (Fighter 4) 

Thekla (Magician 3) 

Lump (Frogling 2)

Hirelings: Niklaus (Fighter 2), Helusch (Magician 1), Spruce

Downtime in the Village

Ulf spends the week researching. He spends 100sp to gain 100xp and hears of rumors that a portal to the very shores of ruined Acheron lies somewhere on level 5. Acheron was an ancient land that summoned and bound devils to their whim.

Liminal Space instead spent the week gormandizing, and was stricken with illness! He is bedridden for a week and permanently loses 1 strength and constitution! 

His former hireling turned adventurer, Gerung the Magician, takes his place in our party roster while Liminal recovers.

Thekla starts learning the spell Web from one of the party's spellbooks.

Into the Abbey

The party ranks are a little low this week, so Mayfly hires a mute forester who we name Spruce. We give him an extra suit of devilman chainmail and stick him in the front ranks of our party.

We return to level three, through the graveyard, to the room with the weird sigils from last week. Luckily our path to it has not changed due to the abbey's shifting nature.

Helusch casts Read Magic on the sigils and we learn they are a part of a spell to align the dungeon to Armadeus.

Mayfly consults some of his notes and believes that the Deermen were trying to align the dungeon to a False Master using a similar spell on a floor above and the blind brudders were trying to counter that with this sigil last week.

We don't yet know what effect that would have on the abbey and our delves into it, but it couldn't be anything good.

The sigils resemble an item known as the Crown Called Deceit, a powerful magical object attributed to Armadeus, who, according to legend, uses the crown to see through the eyes of all her supplicants.

Nightwick Abbey - Session 94 - Unprepared and Unpunished For It

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Session 94 - 30th of Youngers, 1398

This week's adventurers:

Blossom (Rogue 6)

Ulf (Magician 4)

Liminal Space (Changeling 4)

Poppy (Fighter 4) 

Krupe (Cleric 4)

Thekla (Magician 3) 

Lump (Frogling 1)

Hirelings: Niklaus (Fighter 2), Assman (Fighter 2), Helusch (Magician 1)

Downtime in the Village

Ulf has been away from the abbey for some time, but is back now and ready to delve again! He's heard tales of the defeat of Balotis, the Piteous Worm of the Abbey and of how our adventures have caused the architecture of the abbey to rearrange on level 3.

Liminal has spent his downtime researching old tomes for rumors of a magic shield. He has come away with two rumors - first that a magic shield was buried with a figure known as "Great King Death." Second, the other adventuring party has been looking for the treasure store of the wicked demon known as Plutus, which could contain such an item. 

We have already had dealings with Plutus's Flymen underlings on level 4 and know of a Staff of Dispelling in his possession - perhaps there is a shield there as well.

Back Into The Crypts

We decide to go into level 3 this week to continue to map out its new layout. Additionally, if Great King Death was buried in the abbey, it would likely be on level 3.

And so we proceed up to the buried abbey outside of Nightwick Village early in the morning and enter through the graveyard entrance directly onto level 3.

As soon as we enter into Nightwick the outside light behind us disappears instantly - the entrance chamber has long since shifted into the middle of the floor. It's a strict one-way passage for us now.