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Session 10 Part 1: May 16 2020

Players: Bomo Frugglemop (Nudeviking ), Cosgrove Ashmore (Baron von Costume ), Goha (patbat ), Peak Dartbox (Celebith )

Location: Under the Senate of Taldor

After handily defeating the dire rat wizard and his horde of vermin, our heroes take to looting his lair in the ceiling. Peak Dartbox brings to life his Figurine of Wondrous Power and sends the silver raven into the hole in the ceiling to drop down anything it finds into the hands of our heroes.

Being not a very large bird, it takes the raven a couple of hours to clear out the rat’s nest. Over that time, the party gets several items smelling of urine – a jewelry box, 4 rubies, a pearl hidden in a scrap of chewed paper, a spellbook, and a bunch of half-chewed books and various scraps of clothing.

Unfortunately, there is no “Detect Hantavirus” spell, but Peak at least uses Prestidigitation to change the loot’s aroma from rat piss to sandalwood. The party then searches the jewelry box and finds a fancy-looking ring, which Goha confirms is full of eldritch power. In fact, it’s the Envoy Ring, which grants its wearer bonuses on Diplomacy, Linguistics, and Perform checks. Our heroes collectively decide that this jewelry is more of a Peak thing than a Bomo thing.

Detect Magic further confirms that the pearl is a 1st level Pearl of Power, which allows the user to instantly recall any spell they had cast earlier that day. This time it’s Goha’s turn to claim the loot. She then flips through the giant rat wizard’s spellbook and notes that it’s got some decent stuff, but she won’t have time to learn the spells until they’re all somewhere safe.

The party does desperately need to get back to polite society to unload the gems and crap that they’ve accumulated. They’ve already cleaned out Mimips, the kobold merchant they had met earlier, so any chance for commerce will have to wait until they’re back on the streets of Oppara.

Having finished rooting through the dead rat wizard’s stuff, the party moves on to the exit out of the arena. Bomo confirms that nothing scary will pop out at them. Upon opening the door, they discover a bunch of dusty couches and a secret passage that leads back to the arena, which would have been pretty handy during the big boss fight. They don’t find so much as loose change in the couch cushions, and definitely not any potato chip crumbs or halfling footprints in the dust.

Bomo checks the door to the next room and pronounces it okay, but Cosgrove stops her just as she’s about to open the door and points out that there’s a bunch of daggers on the ceiling set up to fall on anyone opening the door. Peak Dartbox confirms that the daggers aren’t magic, though there’s something magic somewhere on the other side of the door.

Everyone agrees to back away and have Goha use her telepathic Mage Hand to clear out the trap. She carefully plucks the knives out of the ceiling and dumps them onto the floor of the arena. With the trap disarmed, Bomo checks the door and confirms nothing there’s nothing obviously hinky.

Bomo opens the door and finds a tiny room with another door on the other side. The party theorizes that it’s a mud room, or maybe the room in a prison where you turn in your cellphone before entering the actual lockup. This time, Goha casts Detect Magic and finds that the magic auras are still on the other side of the next door.



After Bomo confirms once again that there doesn’t seem to be anything alarming about the entrance, the party opens the door to find a couple of halfling servants on the other side. They claim to have been working at the gala before suddenly being teleported to the room in the middle of an attack by unknown evildoers, with the teleportation perhaps linked to the weird pendants on their uniforms.

By now the party has learned to be suspicious of halflings, Bomo included, so Peak sneakily asks Goha in Draconic if she trusts these hobbits. Goha thinks they’re okay, but Bomo can tell when people are shit-talking halflings and she tells them not to trust the thieving little guttersnipes.

To prove that halflings are untrustworthy, Bomo takes the servants aside and flashes her captured amulet of Thamir Gixx and asks in halfling what’s going on while flashing some kind of hafling gang sign. The servants fall for it and asks her why she has that necklace. Bomo tells them that she’s part of the group and her mission is to watch over the party.

The halflings tell Bomo that they’ve been sent to capture or kill Bomo’s party members since they’re lackeys of Martella Lotheed. They’re not really sure who’s behind the evil plot but they’re happy to follow orders and slaughter some big folk.

On hearing this, Bomo immediately pops one of the halflings with a one-two punch while shouting to her teammates that the halflings are all evil. This surprises no one on the party and they get ready to kill some more hobbits, who have revealed themselves to be a couple of killers.



Peak Dartbox uses Daze to enthrall one of the halflings with his honeyed voice and/or guitar solo. Bomo tries attacking but hurts her hand punching one of the halflings. Meanwhile, Goha casts a Ray of Frost but the halfling killer dodges under it. However, the other halfling decides that being outnumbered is bad and drinks a Potion of Gaseous Form, turning into a halfling-shaped fart cloud. Cosgrove then squeezes past Goha to unload his crossbow but ends up shooting Bomo in the back.

Next, Peak tries casting Sleep but the halflings are too pepped up to drop unconscious. Bomo is unsure whether her fans will work against a sentient cloud and considers using her magic axe, but it’s entirely the wrong size for her. She tries anyway but the halfling cloud is too hard to hit. The other halfling tries to drink his Potion of Gaseous form and gets punched by Bomo while distracted but still manages to swallow. There are now two clouds of halfling gas in the hallway.

At this point Peak yells out the door to Malphene to tell her that she’s missing a chance to kill halflings. Malphene practically knocks a wall down in her excitement to kill more hobbits. Goha then finally uses her special magic crossbow and manages to kind of wing one of the halflings a bit. It’s barely more than a papercut but by gum it’s a contribution. Next, Cosgrove tries throwing a bomb, but it bounces off a wall and explodes in front of Bomo. She’s fast enough to duck out of the way but still manages to catch some of the explosion and ends up mildly hurt. It did kill one of the enemy halflings, at least.

Malphene Trant then runs 60 feet flat out in her eagerness to kill halflings. She’s too winded to do anything else but she’s that much closer to ending the life of another filthy hobbit.

The surviving guttersnipe makes a break for it and moves away from our heroes, oozing through the door to the exit. Bomo rushes after her fellow halfling and quickly confirms that the door isn’t trapped. Just to be safe, though, Goha uses her Signet Ring to cash her Open Close spell to fling the door open. Nothing bad happens, but if it had then Goha would have looked pretty on the ball. Unfortunately, the halfling is in a very small room with yet another door, which it again wafts through.

At this point the spell wears off the dead halfling and the cloud coalesces into a tangible corpse. Cosgrove quickly gives the dead guy a once over and doesn’t find much besides a pretty nice rapier. There’s nothing magical on him, but Peak theorizes that the magic detected by Goha earlier were the potions the halflings had drunk.

Malphene doesn’t much care as long as she knows how to kill the halfling cloud. Luckily she has a magic axe so she whips it out and runs after the fleeing gaseous hobbit. Peak rushes forward and opens the door to clear a way for his comrades to attack. The halfling tries to flee, but Bomo squeezes past peak to attack. Goha then unloads with a magic missile and Cosgrove with some rapid fire from his crossbow, while Malphene finishes the cloud off with her sword.

Our heroes have won yet again. Goha compliments Malphene on her talent for killing halflings and admits she is one of the good kind of racist. Goha further apologizes for being a dick to Malphene earlier during the gala and states she now appreciates having a person with an irrational hatred for halflings fighting by her side.

Peak considers calling in their pet cleric to heal Bomo but she refuses to use up valuable spells for a minor injury.

Our heroes wonder why there’s some kind of halfling conspiracy. How is it linked to the Grand Prince Stavian III? Could he perhaps be 2 evil halflings in a coat? Unanswered questions are piling up.

Now that there’s more time to search the dead halflings, Bomo finds that they’re wearing necklaces of Thamir Gixx, the halfling god of evil, which she tucks away for possible future use. While she’s doing so, Peak gets the rich folk they’re escorting to come join them. Bomo then finds a letter with shocking information – her Juggalo girlfriend might be in on the conspiracy! Also it says Martella is at the Dignified Repository.

Neither Peak nor Cosgrove know what that is, but Bomo has fought several pit fights there and tells everyone that it’s a warehouse in the Crownsgate district.

The party finally has a destination for when they leave. And good thing too, because it seems that the party has finally reached the stairs to exit the dungeon. Sick of the monsters and the lack of places to spend their money, our heroes start the wearying climb to the surface.

Probably 80% likely free? if that's good enough I'm good to say yes.

It's still good for me.

Reminder of the game this Saturday night/Sunday morning.

patbat Baron von Costume Celebith Nudeviking

The cultists were human sized right?

If no one else minds can i grab one cultist's worth of cure light wounds (2) and hide from animals (1) potions?

sarapen does you GM material have stats for the "curatives" we got from that gnome guy? I can't find anything online about them or in the Core Rule Book deal that's on my bookshelf.

All the stuff we got from Efarni is unlikely to be beneficial. He was probably planning to kill us as soon as he started talking with us, maybe sooner, so I doubt he'd honestly sell us anything that made that job more difficult. We should probably wait to use them until an alchemist with good 'potion' skills can check them out. Maybe we can convince Piecar to sample them? That seems to be on the evil end of things, though, and maybe he won't react to them the same way we would anyway.

Cool - I figured you would, but wasn't sure how far into medical / potion stuff your skills extended, or if you were more just 

It's nearly August. I don't know if anyone has any inkling of when we can next play. Presently I'm free for the entirety of the month unless we break with tradition and everyone decides to play on a weekday.

The 8th is fine by me.

I can probably do that

Baron von Costume Celebith patbat Nudeviking

Hey everyone, reminder that we're playing tomorrow.

Yeah, it's just a mithral chain shirt, not masterwork.