Author: John Carlson

Originally shared by John Carlson

The party, returning to Midmark for the sale of loot and training, arrives just in time to witness the return of Talon and young Em from the deepest jungle. Now, reunited with their resilient (and lucky) hireling, the group finishes outfitting themselves for a trek to the distant ruins of Xen’Khel. However, many unanswered questions linger over the Starchy Boyz: What repercussions will there be for Brice’s destruction of the Devil Fish ancestor? Is Talon going to get them all killed? How safe is Axel’s spring-loaded and poisonous gauntlet weapon? Will Honora Wystow get over her new crush on that dashing half-orc nurse who performed CPR on her? How will Starchy scratch his flees while wearing chain mail? Isn’t there supposed to be a ranger in this group? Does anybody believe the party will make it to Xen’Khel within the next six months?

Originally shared by John Carlson

The party has finally broken the curse that afflicted Kaligan’s imperial fort and put its dead to rest, making a bargain with the devil (fish) responsible for the undead plague. Unfortunately, this victory was paid for with the blood of the young ranger Bard, whose spine was broken by a flick of a giant albino crocodile’s tail. Returning in a somber mood to the village one more time to rest and train, the party prepares for a trek to the ruins of Xen’Khel and contemplates whether to keep their promise to the possessed statue Axel has freed from the dungeon.

Originally shared by John Carlson

The party has returned to the surface once more, burdened with both loot and their injured hirelings. Although the Starchie Boyz themselves are in fine condition, they decide to rest the night in town to give their less fortunate compatriots a chance to recover. The party also takes this opportunity to consult with Jakelin, Dagaric, and Master Dain about the books and tapestries recovered from the dungeon. Have they found further clues about the imperial base’s purpose? Will they uncover the source of the undead curse? Will Google hangouts crash and burn once more? Find out next week … 

Sorry about the technical problems tonight — I finally got back into the hangout, but there were still some audio issues. We can address the evaluation of the tapestries and documents recovered from the sub-basement at the beginning of next session (I thought about posting it here, but the party is likely to have follow-up questions and it would be easier — G+ willing — to handle it in-session).

Abbreviated Campaign Summary, 4/7/15

Having now completed fifty sessions of play, I thought it would make sense to have an abbreviated summary of the campaign distilling some of the information in the individual session reports into a two or three-page report. This could be very useful to new players going forward as well as being a reminder to everyone of unresolved mysteries and conflicts from earlier sessions.

To this end, I have placed a link to a Google document in the “About this community” post. While I have already created section headers for this document and could draft the text if no one else is motivated, I thought it would be best to give you guys a chance to write the report. The goal is to have something brief and focused on the big picture rather than the blow-by-blow format of the session summaries. The reward for contributing substantive content to this report will be the same as for writing a typical session summary (i.e., 150xp times your character’s level). We can discuss this further at the beginning of tomorrow night’s session if there are questions.

Archiving Character Sheets, 4/7/15

I have been collecting character sheets from Roll20 and the Google Drive. These will be the definitive version of the characters as of the completion of session 50 of the campaign. Below is a list of the files of which I have taken copies; please let me know if another version is more up-to-date:

1. Finklemur_Hu_MG_Riese.pdf (3/26/2015) from Google Drive

2. THORFUS_dwf_FTR_Larry (2).pdf (4/1/2015) from Google Drive*

3. Chuq Nourus (LVL 4).pdf (4/3/2015) from Google Drive

4. AXEL_dwf_FTR_Antony.pdf (4/2/2015) from Google Drive

5. Bard (4/7/2015) from Roll20

* I have renamed the Thorfus sheet, eliminating the “(2)” and moving the other versions to a sub folder.