Nightwick Abbey - Session 138 - You've Dominated The Thing In Your Pocket

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Session 138 - 9th of December 1399

This week's adventurers:

Blossom (Rogue 6)

Mayfly (Magician 6)

Ulf (Magician 6)

Poppy (Fighter 6)

Liminal Space (Changeling 5)

Thekla (Magician 5)

Felix (Dwarf 4)

Hartnid (Rogue 3)

Hirelings: Baldekinus, Elger, idk a bunch others?, Catherine

Into the City

Last week, we ended our session just as the party reached the city of Blackleg. The cure for Pataki's possession supposedly lies in the hills just outside the city.

Last time we were hear, the Pizzled Gules was mysteriously blown up (by us) and rebuilding is going poorly.

We find rooms at the Black Cockrel as evening fast approaches.

We don't seem to be recognized from our last visit but people are rapidly exiting the street and going into their houses.

Nightwick Abbey - Session 137 - Hexcrawl for the Cure

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Session 137 - 4th of December 1399

This week's adventurers:

Blossom (Rogue 6) 

Mayfly (Magician 6) 

Ulf (Magician 6)

Poppy (Fighter 6) 

Liminal Space (Changeling 5)

Hirelings: Hartnid (Rogue 3), Baldekinus, Elger, idk a bunch others?, Catherine

Downtime in the Village

Last week, Pataki's body was overtaken by a host of demons.

We managed to subdue her in part by sending in a disembodied undead (dead) necromancer to possess her body instead.

This week, Ulf and Gerung consult with the town Sewing Bee, a powerful group of pagan magicians, for a solution.

They speak of Knecht Ruprecht, a servant of Father Winter who resides at his shrine south of Blackleg.

According to the Mothers of the Sewing Bee, "He is known for banishing the sin of Naughtiness through beatings."

He might be able to save Pataki from possession. 

Nightwick Abbey - Session 136 - The Nightwick Polycule From Hell

Pataki's character art [mostly] taken from Emmy Wahlbäck

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Session 136 - 3th of December 1399

This week's adventurers:

Blossom (Rogue 6) 

Mayfly (Magician 6) 

Ulf (Magician 6)

Liminal Space (Changeling 5)

Yevgeny the Coward (Cleric 5) 

Pataki (Rogue 5)

Felix (Dwarf 4)

Hirelings: Hartnid (Rogue 3), Baldekinus, Elger, idk a bunch others?

Downtime in the Village

Last week, sans Ulf, the party recovered a Ring of Summon Genie from the Abbey.

In our downtime since, Liminal has summoned the Genie solely to become better friends with them. 

The Genie tells Liminal that the Countess of Blackleg has a magical letter in her possession that they desire. Should he recover this letter for the Genie and replace it with a counterfeit so she doesn't notice, the Genie will become his friend.

Ulf seeks knowledge to create beastmen of his own, like the type found in the Abbey, but all he learns is that his magic is yet beyond his grasp.

DM tells me that Ulf needs to be level 9 for such magic.

Felix searches for other dwarves to befriend(?) in the village, but finds none. He hears that there are groups of dwarves in nearby Blackleg.

Pataki's possession worsens and hits a tipping point.

Nightwick Abbey - Session 134 - And A Bronze Head For The M-U!

Pataki's character art taken from Emmy Wahlbäck

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Session 134 - 6th of November 1399

This week's adventurers:

Mayfly (Magician 6) 

Ulf (Magician 6)

Thekla (Magician 5) 

Liminal Space (Changeling 5)

Yevgeny the Coward (Cleric 5) 

Poppy (Fighter 5) 

Pataki (Rogue 5)

Felix (Dwarf 4)

Hirelings: Hartnid (Rogue 3), Baldekinus, Elger

Downtime in the Village

Poppy goes on a heavy night of drinking during the week. In her drunken stupor, she finds herself at a Bogdani hut somewhere in the Fog-Bound forest outside of town.

She stumbles inside where three old women tell her future (she knows the result of her next 3 d20 rolls).

Mayfly finishes his studies to learn the spell Haste!

Felix adorns his plate armor with the names found on the Kings' List on level 4. Surely this won't have some repercussions later.

Into the Abbey 

We delve back down to level 4 this week, continuing our exploration and search for level 5.

We journey south, then east towards unexplored sections of the abbey.

At this point, the northeast and south eastern corner of the level are the biggest blind spots on our map. 

We come into a large room, 100' by 30', on the way.

A large, steaming, pool of water sits in the middle. 

Nightwick Abbey - Session 133 - Visible Demons and Invisible Treasure and Dead Hirelings

Pataki's character art taken from Emmy Wahlbäck

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Session 133 - 23rd of Shocktober 1399

This week's adventurers:

Blossom (Rogue 7) 

Mayfly (Magician 6) 

Ulf (Magician 6)

Thekla (Magician 5) 

Liminal Space (Changeling 5)

Pataki (Rogue 5)

Felix (Dwarf 3) 

Hirelings: Cuncze, Hartnid (Rogue 2), Merlyn (Fighter 1)

Downtime in the Village

Ulf identifies the magic ring as a ring of Control Human.

Late one night, prodded on by the evil voices in her head, Pataki, along with Liminal Space, sneak off to the church and set it ablaze.

Liminal accidentally steps on a sleeping priest, but he quickly puts him and another nearby priest to sleep with magic.

They pour oil all over the altar and interior of the church and Pataki sets it ablaze. Before they leave, the voice of evil in Pataki's head urges her to do the same to the priests, but she and Liminal spare them and drag the sleeping figures outside.

And they do! The priests are dead. Burned alive.

It becomes the talk of the town, with many folks (rightfully) suspecting our lot, however no one comes forward with a formal accusation or proof of Pataki and Liminal's misdeeds.

Mayfly seeks, with his magical fake eye, a great host of shadows surrounding Pataki.

Nightwick Abbey - Session 132 - A Short Delve With Psychosexual Implications

Pataki's character art taken from Emmy Wahlbäck

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Session 132 - 16th of Shocktober 1399

This week's adventurers:

Blossom (Rogue 7) 

Ulf (Magician 5)

Thekla (Magician 5) 

Liminal Space (Changeling 5)

Pataki (Rogue 5)

Hirelings: Hanslo, Cuncze, Hartnid (Rogue 2), Merlyn (Fighter 1), Elgar

Downtime in the Village

Liminal, while carousing, performs some blasphemous drunken foolishness and loses all of his hireling over the week.

Ulf hires the heavily scarred barber Elgar to beef their ranks.

Into the Abbey 

We delve down to level 4 without incident, intending to continue our explorations.

We go north to where we explored last time, to a room filled with a misty air.

Dangers in the Mist 

As we stop for a rest turn, Cuncze cries out.

"Something in the mist tried to touch my face!"

Nightwick Abbey - Session 131 - Pataki Can't Stop Hitting Liminal Space With A Shovel

 

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Session 131 - 2nd of Shocktober 1399

This week's adventurers:

Mayfly (Magician 6) 

Ulf (Magician 5)

Thekla (Magician 5) 

Liminal Space (Changeling 5)

Poppy (Fighter 5) 

Pataki (Rogue 5)

Yevgeny the Coward (Cleric 5)

Felix (Dwarf 3) 

Hirelings: Baldekinus, Wolfheart

Downtime in the Village

• Felix buys steaks and garlic to deal with some one-eyed tick-like vampyres the party found on level 4 last time.
• Ulf spends his time carousing and gets into a drunken fight with some of the Howling Commandos.
• Pataki steals holy water from the local church.

Into the Abbey

We make it to level 4 without incident and begin retracing our route through the dungeon from last delve, which Ulf was absent for.

Along the way, he picks up bits and pieces of last week, learning that they encountered some Sword Brothers and possibly vampyres.

Nightwick Abbey - Session 129 - We Should've Given Duncan That Silver

  

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Session 129 - 28th of Sextember, 1399

This week's adventurers:

Blossom (Rogue 7) 

Ulf (Magician 5)

Thekla (Magician 5) 

Liminal Space (Changeling 5)

Pataki (Rogue 5)

Yevgeny the Coward (Cleric 4)

Felix (Dwarf 3) 

Hirelings: Cuncze, Petra, Hartnid (Rogue 2)

Downtime in the Village

Over the week, the voice in Pataki's head grows stronger, urging her more and more towards evil.

Ulf meanwhile purchases one (1) magic bean, trading a dagger and two rations for it.

We give Felix a spare magic sword and Liminal his shield.

He celebrates by drunkenly burning down the house of Duncan the Blacksmith.

The villages can't prove its us, but we're really the only likely suspects.

Liminal hires Petra the Woodsman and kits him out for this delve.

Into the Abbey

We return to level 4, without incident, and again go to the map south, through some rooms to where Liminal betrayed some Flymen a few weeks ago.

That room is newly reoccupied by a large figure with a too large brazen head, surrounded by 7 rotting figures dressed in the garb of monks.

The brazen figure begins to float, the chant of a spell on its lips.

Nightwick Abbey - Session 128 - Just in the Tickwick of Nime

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Session 128 - 21st of Sextember, 1399

This week's adventurers:

Blossom (Rogue 6) 

Mayfly (Magician 6) 

Ulf (Magician 5)

Thekla (Magician 5) 

Liminal Space (Changeling 5)

Poppy (Fighter 5) 

Pataki (Rogue 4) 

Felix (Dwarf 2) 

Hirelings: Baldekinus, Hartnid (Rogue 2)

Downtime in the Village

Thekla and Felix go carousing this week. 

Ulf petitions the local Sewing Bee (also a source of great pagan magic) for a scroll of Dispel Magic and obtains one for 700sp.

Into the Abbey 

We return to Level 4 and Ulf dispels the Continual Darkness in the hallway to the south.

Doing so reveals a tripwire across the doorway!

We carefully step over it and find a crossbow trap beyond.

Pataki steals the crossbow and its single bolt.

Nightwick Abbey - Session 127 - Fire, Lightning, Ice, Blood

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Session 127 - 14th of Sextember, 1399

This week's adventurers:

Blossom (Rogue 6) 

Mayfly (Magician 6) 

Ulf (Magician 5)

Liminal Space (Changeling 5)

Yevgeny the Coward (Cleric 4)

Pataki (Rogue 4) 

Felix (Dwarf 2) 

Hirelings: Baldekinus, Hertel, Hartnid (Fighter 2)

Downtime in the Village

Felix and Pataki spend the week carousing and after a long night of drinking, Felix wakes up with a blasphemous tattoo and Pataki similarly with a lame tattoo.

Liminal plans to repair the Orange Julius machine that we stole back in Session 36(!!!) by taking it to Father Winter's workshop, which will likely have to wait until winter.

Into the Abbey 

We decide to continue our exploration of level 4 and the hunt for the demon Plutus.

As we enter level three through the graveyard entrance, Liminal scouts out ahead into the darkness.

He sees a figure shuffling up ahead in the dark.

Assuming it's undead, Liminal charges the figure, the rest of us following behind.

As he rushes in, he sees the figures (at least three of them he now sees) have flowering buds sprouting out from them - they're the fungal zombies!

Nightwick Abbey - Session 126 - I Suppose The Dwarf is Now Annointed in Blood

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Session 126 - 7th of Sextember, 1399

This week's adventurers:

Blossom (Rogue 6) 

Mayfly (Magician 6) 

Ulf (Magician 5)

Liminal Space (Changeling 5)

Poppy (Fighter 5) 

Pataki (Rogue 4) 

Felix (Dwarf 2) 

Hirelings: Baldekinus, Hertel, Cuncze

Downtime in the Village

Mayfly finishes learning the spell Knock and Ulf searches for more hirelings to throw at the monsters of Nightwick - He hires a filthy peasant named Hertel and a normal woodsman named Cuncze.

We decide to return to level 4 of Nightwick Abbey in search of either Plutus or a path down to level 5. 

Down Into the Abbey 

As we step off the stairs, Liminal peers off into the darkness of the next room and sees a mass of ghouls crouched in anticipation.

They win initiative and charge at us out of the dark, their bird-like beaks snapping in anticipation. 

The front ranks set their spears to catch the charge while Blossom, Baldekinus, and Cuncze ping the group with arrows.

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!

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.

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.