Nightwick Abbey - Session 77 - Getting to Know the New Neighbors

Previously, in Nightwick Abbey...

Session 77 - 7th of December, 1397

This week's adventurers:

Blossom (Rogue 5)

Mechtilde (Fighter 5)

Ulf (Magician 4)

Verinka (Changeling 3)

Liminal Space (Changeling 3)

Krupe (Cleric 2)

Lemony Spice (Changeling 2)

Poppy (Fighter 1)

Voorhis (Cleric 1)

Hirelings: Helusch (Magician 1)

Downtime in the Village

Mechtilde spent the week adorning her armor with the spikes from the spiked armor we recovered last week, granting her enough XP to push her to level 5! Mayfly is gone for the week, but he leaves a scroll of Protection From Demons for Ulf to use in case of emergency. 

Mechtilde also buys a bolt of linen with which to disarm the face trap from last week.

Our map of Level 4 after Session 77
(We take this game very seriously)

Into the Abbey

We again continue our exploration of level 4 of Nightwick Abbey, uneventfully journeying through level 3 to reach the 30' by 30' landing on level 4.

We first go to the stone carved faces to the north. Blossom takes two cuttings from the bolt and deftly uses her spear to drape them over the faces, covering them completely.

Liminal proudly steps forward, between the faces, to test if they are disarmed....and he is fine!

Mechtilde then uses rope to secure the linen around the statues and makes our solution more permanent.

Nightwick Abbey - Session 76 - Smoke, Blood, and Crying For The Sins of Humanity

Previously, in Nightwick Abbey...

Session 76 - 30th of November, 1397

This week's adventurers:

Mayfly (Magician 5)

Mechtilde (Fighter 4)

Ulf (Magician 4)

Verinka (Changeling 3)

Liminal Space (Changeling 3)

Krupe (Cleric 2)

Poppy (Fighter 1)

Voorhis (Cleric 1)

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

This session was such a blunder for us that Warren D., of I Cast Light, gave us an Expert analysis of the adventure over at his blog: I SHOULD HAVE CAST LIGHT: And Other Lessons From the 4th Level of Hell

Downtime in the Village

During the week, Ulf and Liminal go searching for rumors and information on the being known as Plutus, who we failed to meet last week. We learn that someone named Plutus was venerated by the Sword Brothers and opposed by someone known as the Master, though apparently not the one we know. Plutus also has the ability to enrich and impoverish: he can turn copper into gold and gold into copper. Finally, we discover that he may only be harmed by magical weapons.

Three local woodsmen offer up their services to us: Rütsch/Rütschel, Schimko, and Wynant, but no one hires them this week.

Back to Level 4

We return to level 4 of Nightwick Abbey this week in search of treasure after uneventfully passing through level 3.

Arriving on the landing with the baptismal font depicting the boiling alive of the first emperor, we he the strange sound of a settling house that we associate with the dungeon shifting!

Nightwick Abbey - Session 75 - Time Ghouls When You're Fly-People

Previously, in Nightwick Abbey...

Session 75 - 16th of November, 1397???

This week's adventurers:

Mayfly (Magician 5)

Mechtilde (Fighter 4)

Ulf (Magician 4)

Verinka (Changeling 3)

Liminal Space (Changeling 3)

Krupe (Cleric 2)

Poppy (Fighter 1)

Voorhis (Cleric 1)

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

A New Nightwick?

Last week, the party explored level four of Nightwick Abbey for the first time. Tired from our delve, we return directly to our homes for rest and do not notice that the world has changed around us.

In the morning, however, we notice that the guards now sport a badge with a white hand on a red field and that they have a more "sinister aspect" to them.

In the village, attached to the building that serves as the local church, is a large cubic steel shrine. We further find out that Lord Eckhard, Lord of Nightwick, has been dead for five years and Sir Albrecht rules in his place.

The final blow to our sanity is when we discover that it is currently the year 1397, not 1392 - we have apparently lost 5 years in the abbey. However, the villagers who we are familiar with have not noticed our disappearance - to them, we departed yesterday to the abbey and returned that night as usual. No one else notices that something is amiss.

Nightwick Abbey - Session 74 - The First Delve in Level 4

Previously, in the Dark Country...

Session 74 - 2nd of November, 1392

This week's adventurers:

Blossom (Rogue 5)

Mayfly (Magician 4)

Mechtilde (Fighter 4)

Ulf (Magician 4)

Verinka (Changeling 3)

Liminal Space (Changeling 3)

Krupe (Cleric 1)

Lemony Spice (Changeling 1)

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

Downtime in the Village

Ulf has spent the past two weeks scribing a scroll of Continual Darkness. Liminal Space searches for rumors of magic items of fey origin and discovers a record of a Staff of Dispelling used by a demon during the Siege of Nightwick.

Two new hirelings offer up their services to our party. Niklaus is a Man-at-arms from the Realm with a hook for a hand, and Helusch is a Bogdani magician who offers her services as an apprentice, however she only knows the spell Shield. Ulf hires both of them in his service in exchange for a half share of treasure and xp each.

Down to Level 4

This week, after having done battle to the south last week, we decide to return to the newly-opened level 4 of Nightwick Abbey. We plot a route through level three, entering by the graveyard, and make it to the stairs without issue.

We descend down the spiral staircase and come out upon level 4. We are standing on a 30' x 30' landing. A baptismal fountain faces us, filled with foul black water, on the western wall. Hallways branch off to the north and south and there is a door to the west.

Nightwick Abbey - Session 72 - LEVEL 4

Previously, in Nightwick Abbey...

Session 72 - 19th of Shocktober, 1392

This week's adventurers:

Blossom (Rogue 5)

Mayfly (Magician 4)

Mechtilde (Fighter 4)

Yevegniy the Coward (Cleric 4)

Verinka (Changeling 3)

Ulf (Magician 3)

Cherwe (Cleric 3)

Liminal Space (Changeling 3)

Krupe (Cleric 1)

Bluegum Lemony Spice (Changeling 1)

Downtime in the Village

During the two weeks of downtime we had, Blossom decides to search for rumors about the bandits to the south. She discovers that they likely have informants within Nightwick village.

Liminal Space researches Bloatus and ways to kill it. He finds an account from the Siege of Nightwick where a creature called the Piteous Worm is mentioned in conjunction to a man named "Balodis" who can produce a terrible heat that melts any around him.

Verinka recovers the magical sword "Slasher," that we "acquired" from the Great Goblin and had be lost when its previous wielder left the party.

The Changeling formerly known as Bluegum has become star struck by Liminal Space and has changed her name to Lemony Spice in honor her hero.

Liminal Space spends the week gourmandizing and gets terrible indigestion - he will have to rest every 3 turns down in the dungeon to "spew out of both ends."

Nightwick Abbey - Session 71 - The Metaphysics of Phantasmal Force

Previously, in Nightwick Abbey...

Session 71 - 5th of Shocktober, 1392

This week's adventurers:

Mayfly (Magician 4)

Mechtilde (Fighter 4)

Verinka (Changeling 3)

Ulf (Magician 3) 

Liminal Space (Changeling 3)

Bluegum (Changeling 1)

Hirelings: Gutteral Noises, Henr, Laur, Assman

This session was such a mess that it took two write-ups to cover. Read more about it at I Cast Light!

Downtime in Lychgate

Ulf spends the week searching for rumors about the Hund Prest and learns two things about him. First, during the night he rides across the bishopric, attended by his "hounds," as we learned last week, but by day sleeps in his old lodge in the middle of the Little Heath and second, many have slain him before but he always reappears the next year. A weapon "of particularly supernal puissant holiness" might be able to banish him to the Pit forever. We suspect the the Shard of God, the holy weapon currently held by Blossom, might do the trick.

Mayfly and Liminal Space both go carousing - Mayfly enjoys a night on the down drinking with the Corbies, but Liminal is poisoned by the Brotherhood (of Thieves and Assassins) and starts the session down 5hp.

Several potential hirelings offer up their services to us in Lychgate and we hire two of them.

A woodsmen named Henr offers his services for 10sp per month plus 10sp danger pay if combat should occur on a delve. Ulf hires him.

Laur, a crossbowman recently of Badder's Company who had a falling out with said group, offers up his services for 10sp a month and 10sp danger pay. Liminal hires him.

Into the Abbey

We uneventfully return to Nightwick Village with the Corbies in tow and decide to return to the Gardens of level 2 to continue exploring there. Delving down into the abbey, we quickly pass through level 1 and reach level 2 without incident.

Nightwick Abbey - Session 70 - Solving Problems With the Power of Friendship and Money

Previously, in Nightwick Abbey...

Session 70 - 28th of September, 1392

This week's adventurers:

Mayfly (Magician 4)

Cherwe (Cleric 4)

Yevegniy the Coward (Cleric 4)

Verinka (Changeling 3)

Ulf (Magician 3) 

Liminal Space (Changeling 3)

Krupe (Cleric 1)

Bluegum (Changeling 1)

Hirelings: Gutteral Noises, Ditl (Cleric 2)

Downtime in the Village

Liminal and Blossom have spent the past couple of weeks in search of a cure for Mechtilde. Blackleg to the south holds potential, as do rumors of a saint in the forest to the southeast, but as far as we know, the rebels who bested Lord Eckhard in battle still reside there. We decide instead to go to Lychgate to petition the Bishop for healing.

Hearing of our journey, Lord Eckhard pays the party 100sp to deliver a letter from him to the bishop, sealed with his was seal to prevent prying eyes.

Verinka, Krupe, and Bluegum all go carousing during the week. Verinka winds up hungover, Krupe offends the local church, and Bluegum loses all of her money and barely survives a poisoning attempt.

On the Road to Lychgate

Fall has arrived in the world of Nightwick, the air is damp as we set out at dawn to go north to Lychgate, carrying Mechtilde along with us.