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!

Nightwick Abbey - Session 59 - Bathhouse Episode

Previously, in Nightwick Abbey...

Session 59 - 8th of Leftember, 1392

This week's adventurers:

Blossom (Rogue 5)

Mayfly (Magician 4)

Cherwe (Cleric 4)

Liminal Space (Changeling 3)

Mechtilde (Fighter 4) Bacifer de Snorley (Frogling 1)

Ulf (Magician 2) 

Franz Croakenbell (Frogling 1)

Hirelings: Gerung Floating Disk (MU 2) + The Rest

Downtime in the Village

Several members of the party spent the week carousing after our excellent haul the previous week. Verinka reaches level 3 and learns the spell Animal Friendship. Mechtilde goes out drinking and reaches level 4 (becoming a proper Hero), however, as a side effect, she's very hungover and Bacifer de Snorley takes her place in the party this week. 

Blossom seeks out rumors on the Brotherhood (of Thieves and Assassins) and learns that the Bishop  of Lychgate purportedly employs the Brotherhood (of Thieves and Assassins) for his own purposes.

We also discuss an RPG format of having 5 DMs run a game for 1 player. I'll report back once we test it out.

Back on the Road

This week, the party is headed to the bishopric of Lychgate to seek out (and steal) a magical item that the Brotherhood (of Thieves and Assassins) possesses. We depart on our 2 day journey on the morning of the 8th of Leftember. The weather is muggy and grey and the road is incredibly muddy.

Nightwick Abbey - Session 58 - Pudding!

Previously, in Nightwick Abbey...

Session 58 - 1st of Leftember, 1392

This week's adventurers:

Blossom (Rogue 5)

Cherwe (Cleric 4)

Liminal Space (Changeling 3)

Mechtilde (Fighter 3)

Yevegniy the Coward (Cleric 3)

Verinka (Changeling 2)

Ulf (Magician 2)

Hirelings: Gerung Floating Disk (MU 2), Grumbletoe (Dwarf 1), Ditl (Cleric 1)

Downtime in the Village

Over the week, the party went carousing with the recently acquired treasure. Verinka goes drinking, gaining 200xp. Ulf feasts, gaining 100xp, but gaining terrible indigestion, forced to rest every 3rd turn this session. Liminal also feasts, gaining 800xp, but angers a passing noble, Sir Sander Hornpike, in the process. Sir Hornpike has now sworn to hunt Liminal down and hang him from the highest tree in teh bishopric.

This week, we decide to go to level 2 in search of the giant ruby we learned about from the cultist Assman. We stock up on flasks of oil to aid us. A single woodsman, Hanslo, also offers up his services to the party and Ulf hires him on the spot.

In Search of a Pudding

We make it to level 2 without incident. Our plan is to start where we fought the cultists who told us about the ruby guarded by the giant blood pudding. Grumbletoe, our dwarf scout, (who sounds like Scruffy the Janitor) hears nothing at the door to their room.

We open the door to reveal several cultists with sharp swords.

Liminal turns to the dwarf and says, "Grumbletoe, you're not being reprimanded, but you can do better."

"I think this is very clearly a case of man against man and God against all," the dwarf replies.

Nightwick Abbey - Session 57

Previously, in Nightwick Abbey...

Session 57 - 25th of Youngers, 1392

This week's adventurers:

Blossom (Rogue 4)

Mayfly (Magician 4)

Cherwe (Cleric 4)

Liminal Space (Changeling 3)

Verinka (Changeling 2)

Ulf (Magician 1)

Franz Croakenbell (Frogling 1)

Hirelings: Gerung Floating Disk (MU 1), Mikusch, Bero

Downtime in the Village

Ulf researches the strange happenings around the party's house and comes to the conclusion that they are the result of a demonic, rather than ghostly presence - there must be an invisible creature around. Mayfly studies a captured spellbook to learn Mirror Image and he buys 3 maces and 3 spears for the party to use. 

Today, we plan to return to level three and fight the undead there, who seem to be resistant to blades, so the maces might come in use. We know there's treasure in the room with the bat-helmed Meister, but we have to defeat it first.

Into the Abbey

As we descend into the abbey, Cherwe discovers that the door into the 1st floor landing is stuck. Mikusch and Cherwe force it open and find two goatman on the other side of the door, hiding behind the pillars. Several more come out from the shadows. We filter down the ladder as Franz and Cherwe enter melee. They are both hit badly as they try to make space in the melee for the rest of us to come down.

Mikusch and Liminal are both wounded as well. Cherwe is hit again. We've taken some bad hits for the first room of the dungeon and this isn't boding well for the rest of the delve, especially without our best fighter, Mechtilde.