jasper
Rotten DM
Ok since some modules are not season specific. My write ups are going here.
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CCC-Priory-01 session
Maritime Mayhem
PC killed 0 Monsters Killed 12
Had a very strong group of seven. Ginger a druid, Debbie a druid, Flick a rogue, Akmenos a bard, Zeal a paladin, Vydoc a fighter, and Wayland a fighter.
Debbie the mouthy goblin druid is awoken to a smack to face from Don Meepo the mafia boss of Oakhurst. It seems the don owes a favor to Marshall Martel. Since the group of adventurers had ask to join his union, he wants to try them out. Smacking the goblin again (Yes Meepo still has Sunless Citadel issues) he orders the group to report to Phlan and the Sleeping Snake Tavern.
The group arrives dirty and dusty from the trail and knock the dust off their boots. Zeal comments Martel is a silly name and the group would be able to take him, if the marshal gives them any lip. Flick giggles and pulls her lips as she counts forty well-armed guards guarding Martel.
Martel, “So you’re Don Meepo’s people. I have job for you. You are going to be prisoner escorts for the criminal Yami. “
Flick, “you have forty guards. Can you…”
Martel, “That is not important. I have send the cop wizard ahead to unnamed bay. You will board the Singing Stagwick sail to the pickup point. Grab Yami put him in these shackles. And return. “
Ginger, “who is Yami. What did they do?”
Martel, “Yami was the head of the dark Priory a death cult. Yami is wanted for treason, murder, kidnapping, torture, and singing opera!”
Flick, “what wrong with singing opera!”
“Have you heard the dm um Yami sing opera! “, Martel moaned.
The group heads out for the docks to meet their ship before high tide. They encounters one minor issue before boarding. Captain Tennille and crew demand they all sing before boarding as price of shipping them. Ok. I found out the bard was an instrumental bard only. And some of my players do have good singing voices. Yes I sung too.
Thanks to player running Ginger. He chose the next encounter. The sky watch spies a beached rowboat on a coral reef. A fair maiden is fighting for her life against Kuo-toa. The group jumps into the ship’s dingy and row to the rescue. Slowly. They rescue the maiden. The druid Debbie wild shapes into a rat to save space. The maiden starts kissing on the rat.
Maiden, “Oh you such a sweet little rat. I will kiss you, and kiss you, and kiss you, and toss you to swim with the fishes!”
“What! “Squeaks the rat as she sails forty feet into the ocean. The group is kind of upset when the maid disguise is dropped and they are facing a sea hag. (Yes I was a mean, icky, nasty dm.) Wayland finally wakes up and starts firing from the stern of the ship. Aka the player show up. The combat with sea hag was brief. The group sailed away leaving one of their members behind. Two hours later they returned to pick the bard up.
To celebrate their victory the crew challenge the party to a sardine drinking contest. Hey there is a ribbon for first place even. Ok I was getting rid of my prop pile. The bard one first place. To pass the time the crew teaches some of the pcs a few ship board jobs. This will come in handy later for those three would studied.
The group arrives at unnamed bay and pick up Yami, Zeal is not too happy to being this job. Especially after Yami spits in his eye. Zeal’s eye turns milky white and the crew start calling him Initiate. Zeal, Debbie, and Akmenos decide to play good cop and bad cop with Yami. While questioning Yami they don’t feel the sea getting rougher. Just as Yami is melting from the shackles, the thunderstorm hits.
Thumbs up to Zeal for reminding me to check the movement rate of the Merrows. It help save the group. The pcs who learned the sailor’s jobs run to their stations. Only Ginger gets in the way. She decided to help reef the sails. She ended up dangling 10 feet down from the mainstay. Then worsen the matter by Errol Flynning down the sails with a dagger.
Note this part was divided into two parts. Combat. And those doing skill checks to help save the ship. Complete five checks and don’t get killed. This was fun as people were missing their checks even with advantage. The abandon ship part was even funnier as beat up on the bard but missed everyone else. The group either trying to save the bard or ignore him and dive into the dingy. Of course they all had problems with cutting the dingy loose. I will warn dms not to follow the reinforcement rules too closely.
Oh by DM’s Fiat two crew got into the dingy. The group was totally unwilling to help save the crew.
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CCC-Priory-01 session
Maritime Mayhem
PC killed 0 Monsters Killed 12
Had a very strong group of seven. Ginger a druid, Debbie a druid, Flick a rogue, Akmenos a bard, Zeal a paladin, Vydoc a fighter, and Wayland a fighter.
Debbie the mouthy goblin druid is awoken to a smack to face from Don Meepo the mafia boss of Oakhurst. It seems the don owes a favor to Marshall Martel. Since the group of adventurers had ask to join his union, he wants to try them out. Smacking the goblin again (Yes Meepo still has Sunless Citadel issues) he orders the group to report to Phlan and the Sleeping Snake Tavern.
The group arrives dirty and dusty from the trail and knock the dust off their boots. Zeal comments Martel is a silly name and the group would be able to take him, if the marshal gives them any lip. Flick giggles and pulls her lips as she counts forty well-armed guards guarding Martel.
Martel, “So you’re Don Meepo’s people. I have job for you. You are going to be prisoner escorts for the criminal Yami. “
Flick, “you have forty guards. Can you…”
Martel, “That is not important. I have send the cop wizard ahead to unnamed bay. You will board the Singing Stagwick sail to the pickup point. Grab Yami put him in these shackles. And return. “
Ginger, “who is Yami. What did they do?”
Martel, “Yami was the head of the dark Priory a death cult. Yami is wanted for treason, murder, kidnapping, torture, and singing opera!”
Flick, “what wrong with singing opera!”
“Have you heard the dm um Yami sing opera! “, Martel moaned.
The group heads out for the docks to meet their ship before high tide. They encounters one minor issue before boarding. Captain Tennille and crew demand they all sing before boarding as price of shipping them. Ok. I found out the bard was an instrumental bard only. And some of my players do have good singing voices. Yes I sung too.
Thanks to player running Ginger. He chose the next encounter. The sky watch spies a beached rowboat on a coral reef. A fair maiden is fighting for her life against Kuo-toa. The group jumps into the ship’s dingy and row to the rescue. Slowly. They rescue the maiden. The druid Debbie wild shapes into a rat to save space. The maiden starts kissing on the rat.
Maiden, “Oh you such a sweet little rat. I will kiss you, and kiss you, and kiss you, and toss you to swim with the fishes!”
“What! “Squeaks the rat as she sails forty feet into the ocean. The group is kind of upset when the maid disguise is dropped and they are facing a sea hag. (Yes I was a mean, icky, nasty dm.) Wayland finally wakes up and starts firing from the stern of the ship. Aka the player show up. The combat with sea hag was brief. The group sailed away leaving one of their members behind. Two hours later they returned to pick the bard up.
To celebrate their victory the crew challenge the party to a sardine drinking contest. Hey there is a ribbon for first place even. Ok I was getting rid of my prop pile. The bard one first place. To pass the time the crew teaches some of the pcs a few ship board jobs. This will come in handy later for those three would studied.
The group arrives at unnamed bay and pick up Yami, Zeal is not too happy to being this job. Especially after Yami spits in his eye. Zeal’s eye turns milky white and the crew start calling him Initiate. Zeal, Debbie, and Akmenos decide to play good cop and bad cop with Yami. While questioning Yami they don’t feel the sea getting rougher. Just as Yami is melting from the shackles, the thunderstorm hits.
Thumbs up to Zeal for reminding me to check the movement rate of the Merrows. It help save the group. The pcs who learned the sailor’s jobs run to their stations. Only Ginger gets in the way. She decided to help reef the sails. She ended up dangling 10 feet down from the mainstay. Then worsen the matter by Errol Flynning down the sails with a dagger.
Note this part was divided into two parts. Combat. And those doing skill checks to help save the ship. Complete five checks and don’t get killed. This was fun as people were missing their checks even with advantage. The abandon ship part was even funnier as beat up on the bard but missed everyone else. The group either trying to save the bard or ignore him and dive into the dingy. Of course they all had problems with cutting the dingy loose. I will warn dms not to follow the reinforcement rules too closely.
Oh by DM’s Fiat two crew got into the dingy. The group was totally unwilling to help save the crew.