Kythorn 16
Kythorn 16, 1369: (half moon, waning)
Party wipes out the Were-Caves: AFAL entered the cave the
rat-pixies came from and encountered them again. Frak was knocked
below 0 by rat-pixies, causing concern about lycanthropy. The
party worked their way into a wide, low chamber filled with garbage
and fought off some rats and possible wererats. They searched the
chamber and found some coins, potions and scrolls.
They pursued the wererats through a maze of small twisty passages,
killing some giant rats and huge centipedes along the way. They
got nailed by several traps and found Silver Strike thrown in a
corner.
Eventually they made their way to the wererats lair and managed to
kill them along with the last pixie-rat. Stewart and Steve were
wounded by wererats. Thalion was charmed by a wererat, but Buffy
charmed him to counter it. They collected some treasure there,
including Binky and a holy symbol of Shar, which Stewart paid for
and destroyed. After that they returned to the chamber where they
first fought the rats & wererats and followed the last remaining
passage.
They were attacked by many giant rats and one bull-sized rat, which
wounded Stewart and Falco before retreating. They pursued it to
where the passage dead-ended in a shaft going up. Steve and
Stewart climbed up the shaft (easy climb) but while they were
securing a rope a huge wererat arm came through the opening to the
next chamber and swung at them with a black broadsword it was using
as a short sword. In the mean time, Falco tried to climb up the
shaft and hurt himself.
Once the rope was secure, Falco came up, followed by Henkles. Steve
climbed onto the opposite wall to make room. Then Darius levitated
up and Moogh came up the rope, forcing Stewart to cast Aid on
Henkles and then try to move out of the way onto the wall. Stewart
failed his climb walls and hurt himself. They continued fighting
the arm. Darius tried a Reckless Dweomer, but only turned himself
invisible. Finally, Dexter climbed up the rope and cast Faerie Fire
on the arm (& attached beast) and they wounded it enough to cause
the arm to pull back. Not before Henkles was wounded, however.
They rushed into the next chamber as fast as they could. There
they found that they had cornered a wererat/hill giant cross. The
party hit him with everything they had and eventually killed him,
even though he changed shape yet again to regain hit points. There
they found a copper flask labelled with a warrior, some currency,
and of course, Sear. Steve identified Sear as having belonged to
two famous troll-hunters about 50 years ago. Stewart identified
Sear's sheath as troll-hide. They wrapped Sear up and gave it to
Henkles to carry.
The party left the dungeon and voted to return to civilization in
the hopes of getting any possible lycanthropy cured.
400xp for roleplay to Kathy for Thalion the Susceptible
100xp to Stewart for buying Shar holy symbol to destroy
Total Monster XP: 7530
Story XP: 3012
Total XP: 10524
50xp ea. For ian, ross & rick - Maanamere contest
Treasure Collected from Cvs:
188cp
100sp
127ogp
1809gp
26 Toals
48pp
3 Gond Bells
2 20gp Iron Throne trade bars
11 eclipsed moons
fine gold chain worth 5gp - bought for 10gp by Henkles to give
to Buffy
Jet disk pendant (Shar) worth 25gp - bought for 50gp by Stewart
to Destroy
Delusion (Flying) P. marked w/wings
Heroism P. marked w/sword
Ventril P. marked w/mouth
1 Potion of 3d8 extra HP in copper flask w/warrior etched in
front
S (MU) 3) Slow
S (C) 2) Lighten Load
S P-Magic
S P-Petri
Silver Strike (Henkles wearing, has used)
Binky (carried out in Falco's backpack)
Sear (Henkles wearing, has used)
Fires extinguished in Sundabar.
Frik and Frak got saving throws. Both failed.
