18 October 2019
Re-Hallowing the Steadfast Stone
Our adventurers begin their session in the lair of the now dead medusa. Caius casts his protective tent and Bree casts Alarm. Then the party rests for a long time. They take turns watching and guarding during the rest. During thie Bree and Autun see some glowing red beetles scurry outside past the entrance to the medusa lair. And during their watch, Kais and Caius have a deep heartfelt talk.
Upon waking the party ascends the staircase and exits the medusa lair, bringing their trophy medusa head with them. They turn right after exiting and pass quietly and quickly past the stone drow warriors without waking them. They come to a staircase and head up to reach a plateau. On the plateau there is a single door in a large standing stone, and another staircase behind the standing stone leading down. The doorway leads to a room 25ft in diameter. The party enters.
Inside the smoothed walls are covered with a mosaic depicting creatures, including one with a badger head. There is no language of writing on the walls, only pictures. Bree casts Comprehend Languages. Ezri plants a flower beneath the badger headed creature, and the creatures on the wall begin to dance and sing a song about the Guardians of this place. The ground begins rumbling and the party runs outside in anticipation.
A giant earth elemental appears and begins lumbering towards the party. Bree traps it with a Magic Circle spell shortly outside of the entrance to the mosaic cave. Caius gets hit hard, but does not go down. Together the party vanquishes the elemental with Autun finishing it off. In response, a Hollockdoor appears and announces, in a strange language that only Bree can understand, that it is a guardian of the Steadfast Stone. Thanks the adventurers for their efforts in defeating the earth elemental, and sits next to the door.
Another earth elemental appears and this time the party positions the Magic Circle between themselves and it. The elemental runs into the Magic Circle and gets trapped. Bree Faerie Fires the elemental and again the party brings it down with great help from Autun's sword. Again another Hollockdoor appears, and again it says thank you and sits on the other side of the door to the cave. Autun and Caius quickly heal in preparation for more combat.
A third earth elemental appears, and again the party positions the Magic Circle between themselves and it. Working as a team, Bree Faerie Fires the elemental and Ezri lassos it with her Thorn Whip spell, dragging it into the Magic Circle. Autun again runs into melee range and hits it hard, while also being hit hard. The party brings it down and once again a Hollockdoor appears and takes its place on the other side of the Steadfast Stone.
With each dead earth elemental the party recovered a single yellow gem. They are crude, rough, and probably not worth much. But they may be clues to the existance of the earth elementals.
Ezri transforms into a badger and enters what we now know is the Steadfast Stone and finds a cool gem shaped like a badger's head. The Steadfast Stone is hallowed once again. The crazed earth elementals are gone and its guardians have returned. The party takes a short rest.
After a quick break the party heads down the staircase. It turns into a path that leads back to the crystal garden outside of the medusa lair. They investigate the stone gnome there and take it back with them in their bag of holding. Kais takes the crystal it was looking through when it was turned to stone.
They make it back to the city and Sark Axebarrel greets them once they get inside. They tell him everything, to which he is astonished and thankful. The guard badgers seem incredibly friendly with them.
The party heads to Gurnik Tapfinger and relays their recent adventures. She suggests they give the three yellow gems to her daughter Nomi Pathshutter since Nomi is investigating the problems with the earth elementals.
They then visit the temple of Segojan Earthcaller and the Burrow Warden to deliver the stone gnome to him. The stone gnome is not dead, but it has gone mad, and everyone agrees it is best if it is put to rest. Bree can hear sound coming from it with Comprehend Languages and the Stone Speaker Crystal, but they are the sounds of madness. The party then gives the Burrow Warden the bones they found in Rockblight, underneath the bed. The Burrow Warden says these bones belonged to Udhask, which means nothing to the party.
The errands continue with the party next visiting the Diggermattocks in their chamber. They recieve a purse of money for the party they are planning and the Diggermattocks agree to pay for the beer. The adventurers report what they accomplished while outside of the city and the Diggermattocks agree to handle the last of the stone drow. The Diggermattocks suggest the party bring their fancy drow dresses to the city's best dress maker Perita Swish.
So off to the dressmaker they go. Perita Swish is excited to see them and the party orders many items in exchange for the fancy drow dresses they took from the medusa's chamber.
- Bree orders a spider silk hobbitkini, greyish white, two-piece, with a clasp in the front
- Bree orders a black mini-skirt and a strapless top that shows off her smiley face
- She also orders low pump heels to match
- Kais orders a nice brown outfit
- Autun orders a brown and blue outfit
- Ezri orders a nice dress
- Caius orders a houndstooth jacket, sedate practical, yet stately
- Shuushar orders a leather outfit with impractical net leggings and a cod-piece
- Jimjar orders some nice clothes
- Everyone gets new sets of travellers clothes for general wear and tear
Prior: 11 October 2019, All: Play_Sessions, Next: 25 October 2019
Lost & Gained
Gained
- 3 more yellow gems from a crazed, bezerk earth elementals
- travel clothes, nice party clothes, bathing wear, etc
- Stone of Good Luck Ezri
- Crystal recovered from stone gnome in crystal garden Kais
Lost
- Holy Water from the hook horror den
- 5 expensive drow dresses, black with silver thread, worth 200gp each
- bones of a gnome from Rockblight
Inventory
The inventory of Stool's Irregulars. This inventory includes the gained and lost items listed above.
| Cash & Valuables | Worth |
|---|---|
| Platinum pieces | 54 pp |
| Gold pieces | 4738 gp |
| Silver pieces | 6104 sp |
| Copper pieces | 4047 cp |
| Various gems | 60 gp |
| Pouch of varied surface coins | indeterminate ( found with the Obelisk) |
| 6 x 100gp gems | 600gp |
| Consumables | Number | Gained | Carrier |
|---|---|---|---|
| Potion of Greater Healing | 6 | reward from Basidia | distributed jointly |
| Potion of Healing | 2 | (various) | distributed jointly |
| Anti-toxin | 2 | hook horror den | Ciaus, Kais |
| Pygmywort | 21 | found in Gracklestugh, Bree's room, a pit | distributed jointly |
| Bigwig | 16 | mushroom pit in Whorlstone tunnels | distributed jointly |
| Alchemist's Fire | 2 | made by Bree with recipe | Bree |
| Acid | 4 | made by Bree with recipe | Bree |
| Drow poison | 10 | dead drow | ? |
| Keoghtom's Ointment | 5 | found in Nerrick's chest | ? |
| Scroll of protection from Fiends | 1 | gift from head of the Circle of Hunters | bag |
| Potion of fire-breathing | 1 | ? | Bree |
| Wind bag | 2 charges | gift from a badger | shuushar |
| Oil of sharpness | 1 / 5 | found in the temple | kais |
| +1/+1 arrows | 16 | boneyard | Kais (13) Autun (3) |
| unidentified pink potion | 1 | found with Dawnbringer | bag |
| flask with an unidentified potion | 1 | found in Rockblight |
| Magic Items | Gained | Carrier | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bag of Holding | from a trapped drow | Autun (mostly) | |||
| +2 Dawnbringer | sarcophagus | Autun | |||
| +1 shield | From the gullet of a Shambling Mound | Caius | |||
| A Rope of climbing | gift from a darkling | Kais? | |||
| Quiver of Ehlonna | found in a hook horror den | Kais | |||
| Instrument of Illusions | Caius | ||||
| Boots of Elvenkind | gifted by Errde Blackskull | Kais | |||
| Rod of the Pact Keeper | found in the corpse of the reanimated Buppido | Bree | |||
| Goggles of Night (2) | gift from the Bregan D'aerthe and Badger tunnels | Caius & Autun | |||
| Stone Speaker Crystal | a gift from Hgraam | Bree? Jimjar? | |||
| Folding Boat | gifted by Errde Blackskull on behalf of the Deep King | Shuushar? | |||
| Preacher's Pendant of Sending | found on the corpse of drow priestess | Autun | |||
| a necklace with large black beads | found in badger tunnels evocation? | bag | |||
| a necklace with large reddish beads | found with Dawnbringer | bag | |||
| storing gem level 5, with a summon earth elemental | payment from Kazook Pickshine | Bree | Stone of Good Luck | given | Ezri |
| Spell components of particular note | Spell | Number | Carrier |
|---|---|---|---|
| Diamond 300 gp | (Revivify) | 2 | bag |
| Incense & Charcoal 10 gp | Find Familiar | 2 | Kais |
| Incense 15 gp | 1 | bag |
| Story items | Gained | Carrier |
|---|---|---|
| Book of dwarven history | found amongst Kobold skeletons | Caius |
| Book of dwarven recipes | found amongst Kobold skeletons | Ezri |
| Silvered sickle | From the gullet of a Shambling Mound | Ezri |
| A book on Drow heresies | found on the corpse of drow priestess | Autun |
| Thieves' lantern | found in a strange cottage | Kais |
| A notebook with a record of objects | Obelisk | bag |
| Portrait of Ilvara | found on the corpse of the reanimated Buppido | bag |
| House of Mizzrym signet ring (3 gp) | bag | |
| Insignia of House Mizzrym (6) | Collected from various dead Drow | bag |
| Pouches of surface potpourri (12) | bag | |
| Feather of unknown bird | found with the Obelisk | bag |
| Recipe for Alchemist's fire | Lorthio's Lab | bag |
| Recipe for Acid | Lorthio's Lab | bag |
| Book of Nerrick | from Nerrick's chest | Bree |
| crappy poetry about gemstones | 10 May 2019 | bag |
| gnoll? necklace with 3 headed flail (Yeenoghu??) | Ilvara's bedroom | bag |
| a lockable chest (60x30x30) | bag | |
| bone flute | found in boneyard | Caius |
| bone hourglass (worth 2gp) | found in boneyard | Autun |
| small wood scroll case | gift from head of the Circle of Hunters | bag |
| small wood box | Ilvara's bedroom | bag |
| Component pouches (2) | distributed jointly | |
| 4 yellow gems from a crazed, evil earth elementals | Rockblight, Stedfast Stone | bag |
| Head of Madusa | 11 October 2019 | in sack in the bag |
| Mundane communal supplies (in bag or distributed) | Number |
|---|---|
| Arrows | many (~200) |
| Bolts | many (~90) |
| Rations | many (~150) |
| bottles of surface wine | 3 |
| cave fisher meat | 37kg |
| Torches | ? |
| Kindling | 5 fires |
| Firewood | 6 fires |
| Salt | 15 fish worth |
| Fire lichen | 6 meals' worth |
| Fishing tackle | 4 |
| Hemp Rope | 2 x 50 ft |
| Silk Rope | 2 x 50 ft ( escape, Gracklestugh market) |
| Grappling hook | 2 |
| Autun's Inventory | Number | Gained |
|---|---|---|
| Healer's kit | 1 | origin |
| necklace with unicorn head | 1 | origin |
| pouch with herbs (garlic, thyme, basil, ginger, mandrake root, belladonna, wolvesbane, yew leaves, cinnamon bark, firelichen) | origin | |
| bag of pitons | 2 | origin, Velkynvelve |
| clothes travel, high hard boots, belt, belt pouches | 1 | origin, Blingdenstone |
| dress clothes | 1 | Blingdenstone |
| broach of giant origin | 1 | origin |
| purple velvet cloak | 1 | Cottage |
| leather backpack, bedroll | 1 | origin |
| chainmail and jerkin with unicorn head | 1 | origin |
| tarps 10'x10' for simple tent | 2 | origin |
| 10' pole | 1 | origin |
| torches | 10 | origin |
| water/wineskins | 2 | origin |
| tinderbox, flint, steel, carving knife, whetstone | origin | |
| messkit, dented pot | 1 | origin |
| sticks of incense | 5 | origin |
| bag of caltrops | 1 | ? |
| longbow | 2 | origin, ? |
| greataxe | 2 | (extra from from ettin) |
| handaxe | 1 | origin |
| extra bowstring | ? | |
| arrows | 33 | ? |
| hand mirror | 1 | purchased in Blingdenstone |
| Bree's Inventory | Number | Gained |
|---|---|---|
| Bree's Book of Shadows | found hidden amongst Kobold skeletons | |
| hand mirror | 1 | purchased in Blingdenstone |
| travel clothes | 1 | Blingdenstone |
| dress clothes | 1 | Blingdenstone |
| hobit-kini | 1 | Blingdenstone |
| Caius's Inventory | Number | Gained |
|---|---|---|
| Belt from surface leather | Bought from Ylsa in Gracklstugh | |
| hand mirror | 1 | purchased in Blingdenstone |
| travel clothes | 1 | Blingdenstone |
| dress clothes | 1 | Blingdenstone |
| Ezri's Inventory | Number | Gained |
|---|---|---|
| Necklace with silvered spider fangs | 1 | taken from dead Ilvara's drow "pirates" |
| Drow spiderwebby headdress (10 gp) | 1 | Ilvara's bedroom |
| silver handmirror | 1 | Ilvara's bedroom |
| Perfumes, ~2gp each | 6 | Obelisk |
| drow underwear | 1 | Ilvara's bedroom |
| travel clothes | 1 | Blingdenstone |
| nice dress | 1 | Blingdenstone |
| Jimjar's Inventory | Number | Gained |
|---|---|---|
| short sword | 1 | his own gear, reclaimed in Velkynvelve |
| short bow | 1 | his own gear, reclaimed in Velkynvelve |
| Bone dice, seemingly very fair | 2? | dead drow |
| travel clothes | 1 | Blingdenstone |
| dress clothes | 1 | Blingdenstone |
| Kais's Inventory (excluding items in general inventory list) | Number | Gained |
|---|---|---|
| Belt from surface leather | 1 | Bought from Ylsa in Gracklstugh |
| bag of pitons | 1 | ?? |
| studded leather armor | 1 | Velkynvelve |
| short swords | 2 | Velkynvelve |
| daggers | 3 | Velkynvelve |
| hand crossbow | 1 | Velkynvelve |
| bag of caltrops | 1 | Velkynvelve |
| longbow | 1 | |
| rapier | 1 | starting inventory |
| thieves' tools | 1 | starting inventory |
| burglar's pack | 1 | starting inventory |
| very old "fox and foxgloves" scabbard | 1 | starting inventory |
| Hairpins | 4 | Picked from Derendil's teeth |
| travel clothes | 1 | Blingdenstone |
| dress clothes | 1 | Blingdenstone |
| Rumpadump's Inventory | Number | Gained |
|---|---|---|
| Leather armor | 1 | Made by Ezri from Bree's old armor |
| dress beret | 1 | Blingdenstone |
| Shuushar's Inventory | Number | Gained |
|---|---|---|
| travel clothes | 1 | Blingdenstone |
| dress clothes | 1 | Blingdenstone |
Prior: 11 October 2019, All: Play_Sessions, Next: 25 October 2019