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<blockquote data-quote="MerricB" data-source="post: 9216187" data-attributes="member: 3586"><p>This has been an incredibly disrupted campaign, but it didn't help that I missed last week's report.</p><p></p><p><strong>Ninth Session: December 4, 2023</strong></p><p>Party finally faced the Green Dragon in its tower. I could have been nasty and have it fly around, but they were overmatched as is. It managed to get THREE breath attacks in succession. (Yuan Ti was glad for his poison resistance, and he'd given antitoxins to everyone else, so it wasn't quite as bad as it could have been. Still a lot of damage, though).</p><p></p><p>But a couple of timely crits on the dragon managed to drive it off (sadly, no kill for the party), before we got a TPK. I was wondering.</p><p></p><p>Then they went and dealt with the dragon cultists, who were <em>pissed</em> that they'd driven off the dragon. The cultists were a joke, though, and didn't survive the experience. Some nice loot from those two encounters, though!</p><p></p><p>Back to Phandalin, and - amazingly - we got to the new material!</p><p></p><p>There'd been a goblin attack on Phandalin. The way the adventure has Harbin pull the party inside his house <em>despite</em> a large crowd outside his door (and likely hammering on it) makes no sense. But anyway, there had been a goblin attack and the party were given the task of investigating.</p><p></p><p>We investigated the first two locations of the four sites.</p><p></p><p>At the first, the Shrine of Luck, it was nice to reconnect with Sister Garaele (to my mind, the most interesting of the town's inhabitants). I showed the party the book's artwork of the partly collapsed shrine, and it was pretty laughable. While I think a lot of the art in The Shattered Obelisk is stunning, this isn't the case for the locations the goblins attacked.</p><p></p><p>Ooh! It's the young daughter of the innkeeper, who we didn't remember. (Is she mentioned earlier in the book? Nope, this is the first time. Also the first mention of the innkeeper's wife, who also appears.)</p><p></p><p>Apparently the goblins had taken a stone! (The keystone of the shrine's arch, causing it to collapse). They'd left behind a duergar axe. The party helped repair the shrine, and went to investigate another location.</p><p></p><p>The other one we got to was Barthen's Well, where a key component of the winch was missing. The goblins had taken it and disappeared down the well - which lead to a cavern with an Otyugh.</p><p></p><p>Fun fight. Over fairly quickly.</p><p></p><p>But now there was a collapsed tunnel (which was also blocking a river's path into the well, meaning it was dry). Setting to it, the party were able to clear the rubble and find a long, long tunnel leading onwards.</p><p></p><p>They began to investigate the tunnel, but it was just too long.</p><p></p><p>We'd run out of time, so we ended the session here.</p><p></p><p>Here's a note: There's no mention of how long the tunnel actually is in the text, only that it leads to a mountainous outcropping near the goblin lair. How far is that? 18+ miles.</p><p></p><p>Where the goblins came from and how they returned home is something that doesn't quite make sense in this adventure.</p><p></p><p>Cheers,</p><p>Merric</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MerricB, post: 9216187, member: 3586"] This has been an incredibly disrupted campaign, but it didn't help that I missed last week's report. [b]Ninth Session: December 4, 2023[/b] Party finally faced the Green Dragon in its tower. I could have been nasty and have it fly around, but they were overmatched as is. It managed to get THREE breath attacks in succession. (Yuan Ti was glad for his poison resistance, and he'd given antitoxins to everyone else, so it wasn't quite as bad as it could have been. Still a lot of damage, though). But a couple of timely crits on the dragon managed to drive it off (sadly, no kill for the party), before we got a TPK. I was wondering. Then they went and dealt with the dragon cultists, who were [I]pissed[/I] that they'd driven off the dragon. The cultists were a joke, though, and didn't survive the experience. Some nice loot from those two encounters, though! Back to Phandalin, and - amazingly - we got to the new material! There'd been a goblin attack on Phandalin. The way the adventure has Harbin pull the party inside his house [I]despite[/I] a large crowd outside his door (and likely hammering on it) makes no sense. But anyway, there had been a goblin attack and the party were given the task of investigating. We investigated the first two locations of the four sites. At the first, the Shrine of Luck, it was nice to reconnect with Sister Garaele (to my mind, the most interesting of the town's inhabitants). I showed the party the book's artwork of the partly collapsed shrine, and it was pretty laughable. While I think a lot of the art in The Shattered Obelisk is stunning, this isn't the case for the locations the goblins attacked. Ooh! It's the young daughter of the innkeeper, who we didn't remember. (Is she mentioned earlier in the book? Nope, this is the first time. Also the first mention of the innkeeper's wife, who also appears.) Apparently the goblins had taken a stone! (The keystone of the shrine's arch, causing it to collapse). They'd left behind a duergar axe. The party helped repair the shrine, and went to investigate another location. The other one we got to was Barthen's Well, where a key component of the winch was missing. The goblins had taken it and disappeared down the well - which lead to a cavern with an Otyugh. Fun fight. Over fairly quickly. But now there was a collapsed tunnel (which was also blocking a river's path into the well, meaning it was dry). Setting to it, the party were able to clear the rubble and find a long, long tunnel leading onwards. They began to investigate the tunnel, but it was just too long. We'd run out of time, so we ended the session here. Here's a note: There's no mention of how long the tunnel actually is in the text, only that it leads to a mountainous outcropping near the goblin lair. How far is that? 18+ miles. Where the goblins came from and how they returned home is something that doesn't quite make sense in this adventure. Cheers, Merric [/QUOTE]
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