[Maius 11th and 12th – Exploration starts with a Big Fight!]
[This game uses Adventures in the Green, a RPG based on the original rules for the world’s most popular roleplaying game. These rules are under development with Draft C available here. Game sessions happen an average of once a month. This is Part 1 of the session that happened September 11, 2021.]
Biggz’z Troop, CAC (Chartered Adventuring Company):
Biggz Bigguns of the Big’uns Clan – gender neutral goblin Family Priest (6th level Cleric)
Tiny – male minotaur Swashbuckler (6th level Fighter)
Porkins – male human Conjuror (6th level Magic-User)
Mannin Darkshield – male dwarf Robber (4th level Thief)
Kunigunde Gruber – NPC female goblin Footpad/Petitioner (5th level Thief/4th level Cleric)
Pio Vento of Piccolo – male human Veteran (1st level Fighter)
Hirelings:
Larn the Linkboy – male human hireling linkboy
Isidoros of Delphis – male Tolk hireling translator [specifically, German to Mü]
Deniska – female human hireling Veteran bodyguard (1st level Fighter) [for Larn]
Ivan – male human hireling bodyguard [for Larn]
Bernagi – male human hireling bodyguard [for Isidoros]
Hardkira – male human hireling bodyguard [for Isidoros]
Spring
Cromsday, Maius 11, 524th year of the Empire
Morning
Ready to explore the area under the ruins, the adventuring group formed up after an early breakfast and left Stralbruck.
9:00 AM
After a one-hour hike, the adventuring party arrived at the ruins. They entered the gnole barracks and climbed down the stairs to the lower area. Once down in the first corridor, Porkins cast Infravision on himself.
The adventurers decided to explore further south this trip. The went through the two intersections to the room with the very large statue. Tiny and Pio advanced into the room to look around and were attacked by invisible foes!
One of the foes dropped her sword during the initial rush to attack Tiny, appearing in front of the surprised Tiny with no weapon in hand. Another foe appeared behind Tiny to backstab the minotaur, landing a glancing blow [x4 backstab damage doesn’t help much when you roll a 1 for the damage]. A third attacker hit Pio solidly, dropping him to the floor.
Biggz cast Create Water to make puddles that might expose any additional invisible attackers. Porkins cast Charm Person on the foe that dropped Pio, but the fighter resisted the spell [made their save]. Deniska and Kunigunde advanced from deeper in the party to get up to the fighting but Kunigunde bumped into a fourth opponent who was still invisible, forcing Kunigunde to share a space with Biggz. The attacker who dropped her sword retrieved it. The fighter that dropped Pio attempted to do the same to Deniska but shattered her shield instead. Sword back in hand, the woman next to Tiny attacked him, shattering Tiny’s shield. Tiny attacked the elf who backstabbed him, landing a strong hit. Deniska swung at her attacker but missed.
Porkins started casting Lightning Bolt, his first time using the complicated spell. Biggz slung a bullet at the invisible attacker in front of them and hit! Mannin attempted to attack with his sling, but dropped his sling in his rush. Kunigunde backed up to stop crowding Biggz while Deniska and Tiny readied new shields. Mannin picked up his dropped sling, looking around to see if anyone noticed. Porkins finished his casting, unleashing a lightning bolt that ricocheted around the octagonal room, missing Tiny but hitting three of the attackers: the human threatening Biggz, the elven thief who backstabbed Tiny, and [after three ricochets] the human woman leading the attackers. The woman called out for assistance from someone the adventurers could not see, but they heard a side door [on the northwestern wall, where they could not see it] open in response. Tiny hit the elven backstabber again and Deniska missed her foe again. The woman leader hit Tiny for a solid blow from behind [Tiny was facing the Thief on his opposite side]. Deniska’s foe shattered her new shield and the last invisible foe appeared when he attacked Biggz but missed.
The unknown person could be heard starting to cast a complicated spell. Porkins cast Magic Missile, splitting his three missiles between the backstabbing thief and the female fighter who was attacking Tiny from behind. The two missiles at the elven thief killed him and the third wounded the leader. Biggz cast Command on their attacker, telling the human to “Flee!” The attacker recoiled in horror and immediately fled to a door on the west wall. Kunigunde slung a bullet at Deniska’s foe and hit. Deniska readied her third and final shield. The thief dead, Tiny turned to face the leader of the attackers. The unseen caster finished his spell, conjuring a Wall of Iron between the attackers and the adventurers, with the exception of Tiny, who was trapped in the room with the attackers. The fleeing attacker went through the west door and could be heard running away. The attacker Deniska had fought stepped to Tiny and hit the minotaur a very solid blow, but his leader missed on her attack. Tiny hit her, shattering her shield.
In the now sealed off room, the attackers backed away from Tiny, speaking German at him. Tiny had no idea what they were saying [he only understands Mü], but he was very injured and willing to let them back away. When Tiny let them disengage, the group, including a Magic-User peeking through the door on the northwest wall, exited the octagon room through the west door, the Magic-User closing the northwestern door behind him as they left. On the other side of the iron wall, Porkins pulled out a scroll and cast Summon Monster IV, summoning two rust monsters and ordering them to eat the iron wall. The rust monsters were only too happy to comply.
Two minutes later, the rust monsters finished eating the iron wall and Porkins dismissed them. Biggz moved forward to attend to Pio, casting Cure Light Wounds on the downed fighter. Pio revived, but had gruesome scarring from the attack and was weak from the experience, needing a day of bedrest. Then Biggz and Kunigunde used their staves of healing on Tiny and both cast Cure Light Wounds on him, restoring most of his health.
Porkins closed the western door and cast Wizard Lock on it. It would keep the attackers from returning that way [unless that enemy Magic-User was 9th level or higher…]. Porkins then set out two scroll tubes where Pio fell. One was empty, the other contained an otherwise blank scroll with Explosive Runes cast on it.
The adventurers then searched the body of the dead elven thief, locating a non-magical amulet with an inverted triangle on it in black. They wrapped up the body and took it with them back to Stralbruck. Along the way the group discussed what to do with the body and decided to turn it over to the church in Stralbruck.
11:00 AM
Back at Stralbruck, the gate guards were surprised to see the Troop returning so soon.
The adventurers took the body to the church and turned it over to Father Solomon, explaining the circumstances. Father Solomon asked if they knew the elf’s faith and the adventurers showed him the amulet. Father Solomon did not recognize the symbol and asked to borrow the amulet so he could do research on it. The adventurers handed the amulet over.
After the group left the church, Deniska requested replacement shields for the two she lost in the fight. She was given two shield from the stack the adventurers travel with for this exact reason.
Noon
Back at the Brass Dog, Pio went up to his room to rest for the day [I allowed this to count as the day of rest he was required to take]. Porkins spent time with the magic shield taken from the giant phase spider victims and identified it properly [it was a +2 shield].
The adventurers spent the rest of the day in town discussing the fight and resting.
End of Part 1
Behind the Green
[So the fight in the octagon room was an encounter with other adventurers. I can’t say much about them yet as they will appear again in time. I will say the players felt the heat and were very concerned about how the fight was going.]
[I use the Mortality Table from the Adventurer, Conqueror, King System. Characters that go below 0 hit points roll on the table once their friends can attend to them. The results range from “you’re dead” to “Give me a minute to catch my breath” and usually falls somewhere in between. There are several modifiers to the roll, the most significant being how negative did they go compared to their total hit points and how much time passed between going down and getting any healing. Pio’s player rolled well, even with the modifiers he faced, but needed the bedrest and others will have a -4 on reaction rolls to him.]
[This part might be a little short, but I’m not certain. I’m placing the break here as it is about the midpoint of my notes for the session. We’ll see how accurate I was when I finish typing up Part 2.]
Biggz’z Troop, CAC
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