Ambused Yet Again!

Approximatly October 2015

Session 9

Characters

Grey Fish now known as Gaspar – 5^th Level Half Orc Monk

Baphomet – 4^th Level Tiefling Warlock, 1^st Level Wizard

Hamoot – 5^th Level Dwarf Cleric

Thane – 5^th Level Human Rogue

Gabriel – 5^th Level Human Paladin (Missed Session)

OceANUS – 5^th Level Aquatic Elf Fighter

            Hamoot rejoined the party after appearing from Baphomet’s crystal staff. The party hauled ass out of the lizard folk lair with an unconcise lizard. After about 30 minutes the lizard woke up and escaped from OceANUS haha, who had to put it down. The group got back to their rowboat and back to their ship were the rested for the next day. During their rest, a lizard scout party spotted their ship and they had to move it back to open seas. The next night the group took the rowboat to a different shore and set off into the swamp to hunt some of the lizard patrols. Hindered by Thanes inability to see in the dark the group was ambushed by a group of 9 lizards with one of the summoning 4 crocodiles. Through the use of a well-placed fireball the party killed the patrol, but the patrols spell caster changed into a crocodile and swam away. The party decided to search for other patrols to hunt and you guessed it they were ambushed again. The lizard patrol flanked the party with javelin throwers to the left being led by the previous spell caster who escaped earlier and the other group being 4 lizards with clubs being led by a new spell caster, who summoned 4 more crocodiles. The previous spell caster also cast heat metal on OceANUS’s metal armour. Hamoot threw a fireball into the group with spells caster concentrating on the heat metal spell and injuring all the javelin throwers. Baphomet threw up darkness which engulfed Thane. OceANUS was grappled by one of the crocodiles and Gaspar was being swarmed by the lizards and knocked prone. Thane flipped out of the darkness and landed on his neck, but got a flank on Gaspar with a crocodile and managed to kill it. Hamoot channeled divinity which killed most of the lizards and crocodiles. Baphomet killed on of the lizard druids with a magic missile and the other one was hunted down by Gaspar. Thane and OceANUS killed off any of the remaining lizards.

            The party rested up and decided that it was time they ambushed one of the patrols. Baphomet used a spell to make his voice louder and tried to lure a group in. Unfortunately two patrols were coming to check on the disturbance. One patrol went left and the other right in an attempt to flank the party. The group acted quick and managed to get the jump on the patrol that headed left. Hamoot ran into the center of the patrol and used his channel divinity to injure all of them. Thane ran in and assassinated the patrols druid. Gaspar and Baphomet took down an ogre sized lizard that happened to be with this patrol. OceANUS killed off most of the peasant lizards, but two of the javelin throwers managed to get away into the swamp and are currently running to warn the other patrol… TO BE CONTIUED!!!

Hunting Lizards

Approximately September/October 2015

Session 8

Characters

Grey Fish now known as Gaspar – 5^th Level Half Orc Monk

Baphomet – 4^th Level Tiefling Warlock, 1^st Level Wizard

Hamoot – 5^th Level Dwarf Cleric (Missed Session)

Thane – 5^th Level Human Rogue

Gabriel – 5^th Level Human Paladin (Missed Session)

Oceanus – 5^th Level Aquatic Elf Fighter

            The group went to the town guard station to interrogate the two lizard folk that the town guard captured. The town trade master Sildar told the group that the lizard folk revealed that they plan on attacking Phandalin, which contradicting their earlier statement that they were going to war with shark people. The group readied their crew and set off to eliminate a lizard folk tribe. They arrived at the mouth of the river leading inland to the swamp, dropped anchor, and set off in a rowboat using the cover of night. After reaching land and making their way into the swamp they were ambushing by a group of 4 bullywugs. After killing three of them, another group of 4 and a weird giant slug creature attacked from behind. Oceanus charged to face the enemy and Thane downed his potion of fire breath and focused his breath weapon on the slug creature. One of the bullywugs ran into the swamp attempting to escape, but Gaspar knocked him unconscious with a well-placed dart. Gaspar went to retrieve the unconscious bullywug and noticed a chest there which he kept to himself. The group took the bullywug back to rowboat, and then back to their ship where they interrogated him. From him they learned that the bullywugs and many other swamp creatures were leaving the swamps as the lizard folk had become too aggressive lately. They also learned about the chest that Gaspar kept secret. Within it they found 550 gold, 5 rubies, 2 cool stones, an Ioun stone, a baseball cap, and a +1 shield. The group decided to wait till the next night to assault the lizard folk lair.

            The next night the group evading 4 lizard folk patrols, each consisting of 10 guards. Upon arriving at the lair, they found 2 underwater entrances and a hidden door. They decided to make their way into the hidden door, sending Thane to scout ahead. Thane found a small guard station consisting of 4 lizard folk and a giant brute one. The rest of the group snuck in and sent Thane and Gaspar in first. Thane killed the brute and Gaspar kept the door they were guarding shut in anticipations of more lizard folk being on the other side. After their cover was blown, Oceanus charged in and Baphomet lit the lizards up with his eldritch blast. After the guards were killed Thane opened up the door Gaspar was blocking, only to slam it shut after seeing 8 lizard folk on the other side who formed a phalanx. Baphomet misty stepped into to room and unleashed his darkness which blinded the lizards. Thane charged into the darkness hoping to kill one of the lizards. 4 of the 8 lizards made their way into down a hallway and flanked Gaspar and Oceanus. After missing several strikes Thane ran out of the darkness to aid the flanked party members. The group’s effort was enough to kill 7 of the lizards and take one alive. They did a quick search of the rooms they had been in and prepared to leave the lair to recover… TO BE CONTINUED!

Pirates

Approximately September 2015

Session 7

Characters

Grey Fish – 5^th Level Half Orc Monk (PC)

Baphomet – 4^th Level Tiefling Warlock, 1^st Level Wizard (PC)

Hamoot – 5^th Level Dwarf Cleric (PC)

Thane – 5^th Level Human Rogue (PC)

Gabriel – 5^th Level Human Paladin (Missed Session)

Oceanus – Sea Elf (NPC)

 Once the pirates surrendered the party’s next goal was to save Hamoot who was now 60ft away from the boat. Hamoot started to throw barrels off of the boat as the lizard folk started to tip it. Baphomet started to block off all of the doors that lead to the bottom deck, Thane started tying rope to an arrow, Gabriel started tying up the four pirates that surrendered, and Grey started to loot the dead bodies. Hamoot jumped into the second barrel he threw off and Baphomet cast darkness on the boat to cover his escape. Thane shot his arrow into the barrel and started to pull him in with the rope. One of the lizard folk however realised this and severed the rope. Grey then ran to man the ballista. One of the lizard folk breached the water and tried to attack Hamoot, but he was killed by a ballista shoot from Grey. The next lizard folk tipped the barrel, but Hamoot was close enough now that he was able to swim back to the boat. After taking over the boat the party discovered a sea elf prisoner named Oceanus. He revealed that he was following the ship for some time and he snuck on two day earlier, but was captured when he tried to sneak off. The party found 18,000 gold pieces worth of loot on board and a map leading to the pirate’s next destination. Gabriel the paladin was sucked into the crystal on Baphomet’s staff.

The next morning the group retrieved the three red cloak bandits from the haunted house and set sail for Phandalin. On their arrival they returned the bodies of the mercenaries to their families and gave them their cut. People started to join their crew and they used their new treasure stash to pay to have Tresendar Manor renovated. The founding fathers of Phandalin offered the group a 400 gold piece reward to investigate the lizard folk presence. They learned from the former pirates that there next destination was the lizard folk lair which was the location on the map they found. Baphomet named himself captain and the group set sail with their new crew to investigate. When they arrived at the meeting point with the lizard folk the pirates told them that they have been giving weapons to the lizard folk and that the three lizard folk on the boat when they attacked were delivering the last payment for the weapon’s. Thane, Hamoot, Oceanus, and one of the pirates took a row boat with weapons to the meeting point to try and learn what the lizard folk needed the weapons for. When they got to the beach, roughly 30 lizard folk came out of the woods and they began to unload the weapons. Hamoot cast a spell to let him speak draconic and learned from the lizard folk chief that they needed the weapons for a war with the shark people. The group returned and relayed this information to Baphomet and decided that it would be beneficial to give them more weapon’s and sailed back to Phandalin. Oceanus left to update his people on what he learned. When the group returned they told the founding fathers what they learned and the fathers began to argue about what they should do. Oceanus returned to tell the group that the lizard folk asked his people for aid in the war. During this meeting though the town guard burst in and informed the group that a lizard folk scouting party was at the town and attacked when they realised they were spotter. The guards fought off the group and managed to take two of the prisoner…

 

There Goes the Cleric

Approximately August 2015

Session 6

Grey Fish – 4^th Level Half Orc Monk

Baphomet – 4^th Level Tiefling Warlock

Hamoot – 4^th Level Dwarf Cleric

Thane – 4^th Level Human Rogue

Gabriel – 4^th Level Human Paladin

            Thane quickly swam around and boarded the boat and immediately knocked out Black Spider. In the confusion Grey, Gabriel, Baphomet and the three pirate mercenaries with us boarded the boat and started fighting the pirates on deck. Hamoot stayed on row boat and provided support with his spells. Baphomet misty stepped up to the front of a boat where a ballista was mounted and fought the gunner for control over it. Grey, Gabriel and the mercenaries faced overwhelming odds and fought the pirate crew. A pirate berserker broke off from the main fight to aid his captain against Thane so Gabriel went to help Thane. The fight on the deck was going well until three lizard folk and ore pirates below deck came to join the fight. They quickly killed the three mercenaries, forced Grey to tactically retreat to Gabriel and the now unconscious Thane, and Baphomet to dive into the water and swim back to the row boat. One of the pirate began to fire the ballista at Gabriel and Grey. Baphomet threw up darkness onto the boat and boarded the boat without being seen, however this darkness was dispelled when Hamoot channeled divinity to kill off some pirate crew members, which exposed Baphomet. Grey killed berserker and Gabriel used lay on hands to bring Thane back up. The lizard folk ignored Baphomet and instead dived into the water and began pulling the row boat away with poor little Hamoot on board. Gabriel Then shoved the captain off of the deck and leaped off to kill him, which lead to the remaining four pirates surrendering…

Sinking Feeling

Approximatly Happened July/August 2015

Session 5

Grey Fish – 4^th Level Half Orc Monk

Baphomet – 4^th Level Tiefling Warlock

Hamoot – 4^th Level Dwarf Cleric

Thane – 4^th Level Human Rogue

Gabriel – 4^th Level Human Paladin

            As the fight continued the bard was sucked into a crystal on Baphomet’s staff and Hamoot emerged in the place where the bard stood moments before. The cleric charged back to the fight and killed the bandit who the monk tripped earlier. Baphoment continued to throw fire bolts at the enemy spell caster from the inside the darkness he created earlier. Gabriel and Thane quickly killed the two bandits in front of them. In response the gnoll pack lord charged them. Grey and Hamoot eliminated the last gnoll archer and then helped the rest of the party kill the pack lord. The enemy spell caster turned invisible and escaped before the party could subdue him. The party continued to explore the catacombs until they came to an underground cove where three bandits were loading loot onto a 10 man row boat. They immediately surrendered to the party and answered their questions. Through them the group learned that tonight a sail boat was coming to collect the loot the bandits had gathered. They also learned that they needed to find a signal to send to the sail boat, the bandit that escaped was a sorcerer, and that the Black Spider would be on the boat, a drow that the group had killed earlier. Thane continued to load the boat while the rest of the group searched the bandit’s lair for clues on what the signal is. The group found some gold and magic rings, along with a few books on herbs and math. They also found a golden apple along with the philosopher’s stone and a book about it as well. They also found a lantern with three X’s carved into the bottom of it.

            The group then returned to Thane and the bandits, who just finished loading up the boat. The group then realised they have no idea how to steer or navigate the boat. The bandits said they would help, but the group instead tied them up since they were untrusted. Fortunately Gabriel’s two squires Reek, a goblin we saved earlier, and Simple Jack knew how to sail the boat. Gabriel however wouldn’t let his squires come since they had no combat experience. The group instead travelled to a nearby fishing village and hired three mercenary’s to help them sail the rowboat. They returned to the haunted house and rested till night time. After sunset a sail boat approached the coast and flashed a lantern four times. Grey responded with three since there was three X’s on the bottom of the lantern. The boat responded with five and the party and mercenary’s rowed over to the sailboat. As they got close Thane jumped into the water and swam around the sail boat to sneak up on the boats crew. On the boat was six pirates and the Black Spider. As the party loaded the loot onto the boat, Baphoment used his telepathy to tell the rest of the group to get ready to attack.

Spooky Houses & Stupid Bards

Approximately happened July 2015

Session 4  

Grey Fish – 4^th Level Half Orc Monk

Baphomet – 4^th Level Tiefling Warlock

Hamoot – 4^th Level Dwarf Cleric (Absent)

Thane – 4^th Level Human Rogue

Gabriel – 4^th Level Human Paladin

            Three days later the party ventured out to the Haunted House where the red cloak bandits were supposed to drop off all of their stolen loot from the town. The party was accompanied by a retarded bard whose name I already forget. As the group arrived it became clear that this house was abandoned. The bard circled the house and quickly climbed down the well he had discovered which lead to him being molested by a snake. He immediately climbed back up yelled at the rest of the group for not holding a rope or something. The paladin in the rogue entered the house through the back door and followed a trail of muddy footprints around. The party became suspicious when the footprints abruptly ending at a wall in the kitchen. The group found a secret door and entered a dark basement. Immediately a spooky ghost appeared that cause the monk and warlock to haul ass out of there. Once Grey and Baphomet came to their senses they returned and continued to explore with the group. A secret door was found and opened to a well lit room with three bandits inside. The bandits opened another secret door behind a bookshelf and attempted to flee, but the bard cast a spell and put two of the guards to sleep. The paladin, rogue, bard, and warlock gave chase to the last bandit while the monk stayed behind to “tie up” the two sleeping guards. As the group approached the room that the bandit ran into, they heard voices on the other side. Baphomet cast a spell to make his voice louder in an effort to intimidate the bandit and his friends to surrender. Unfortunately only one bandit came out and he got his throat slit by Thane.

            The fight kicked off with Baphomet casting darkness in the middle of the room. Thane and Gabriel quickly ran into cover. Now in the room the group saw two gnoll archers, two bandits, and a huge gnoll who looked like the leader. The bard cast a spell which caused the giant gnoll to fall to the floor laughing. When the warlock entered the room he threw a fire bolt at the pack lord (giant gnoll), but was then hit by a magic missile from another spell caster who was hiding behind boxes. The warlock quickly took cover in the darkness he cast earlier and threw fire bolts out of it. The paladin and rogue abused the sneak attack rules and killed the two bandits and one of the archers. The bard who was hiding at the entrance was flanked as two bandits came from behind him and the pack lord, wizard, and other archer attacked from the other side. The bard ran away and left the warlock, paladin and rogue for dead. As the bard ran away the monk finally joined the battle and immediately rolled a 1 so you can guess how that went. The wizard cast a spell to get the paladin to approach him, but the spell was negated by another spell cast by the warlock. Two of the bandits who flanked the bard earlier charged at the rogue who took allot of hits. The paladin tried to help the rouge but he slipped in grease.

How it all ended

Session 3

Approximately happened June/July 2015



Grey Fish – 4^th Level Half Orc Monk

Baphoment – 4^th Level Tiefling Warlock

Hamoot – 4^th Level Dwarf Cleric

Thane – 4^th Level Human Rogue

Gabriel – 4^th Level Human Paladin

            After the group had finally conquered Tresendar Manor they were assisted by the citizens of Phandalin in removing all of the stolen goods from the Manor and redistribute it to the rightful owners. During this time the party learned of many quests that they could embark on from the citizens. Just as they finished, terrified towns folk ran by screaming that the red cloak bandits were attempting a last ditch effort to retake the manor.  Hamoot and Grey quickly took to the trees while Thane hid in a bale of hay and Baphoment climbed to the top of a bell tower. Five bandits approached the ambush site as well as two bug bears and the group’s leader, a drow only known as Black Spider. The battle kicked off with Thane assassinating the first bandit to approach the bale of hay and Grey leaping down from his tree to strike. Baphoment started to throw down magic missiles from the bell tower and Hamoot cast silence on a rock near the drow. A local paladin named Gabriel quickly came to join the fight and cut down one of the bandits. The paladin’s daughter came to help the group, but was killed by Black Spider. Baphoment threw fire bolts and Hamoot shot crossbow bolt at the bandits while Thane and Gabriel fought the bug bears. Grey went to fight the drow who turned invisible before grey could attack. Baphoment heard the door of the bell tower open and looked down to see Black Spider at the bottom. Baphoment cut the rope around the bell which plummeted onto Black Spider. Baphoment turned into mist and floated to the bottom of the tower to join the rest of the group. The door to the bell tower opened to reveal Black Spider had survived and he proceeded to turn invisible. Hamoot cast faerie fire at Black Spiders last known location which helped the party locate Black Spider. Gabriel charged in and dealt the killing blow to the drow who turned into a doppelganger upon death. The group managed to capture one bandit and the town guard also captured three that they found hiding in the woods. Gabriel went to hold a funeral for his daughter while Thane and Grey brought the bandits back to the manor and attempted to convince them to work for the party. However, once Thane and Grey left, Baphoment sacrificed the tied up prisoners to his god, The Great Old One.