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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jasper" data-source="post: 9640650" data-attributes="member: 277">Hoard of the Dragon Queen Session 10Chapter 6 Castle NaerytarBlood on the Walls and in the HallsPCs, “On the drapes, and our mates!”Day 90 1300 to Day 91 DawnPC Killed 1 Monsters Killed 141 Villains Captured 10 Villains Escaped 99Start Time 6:20 End Time 10:16Take 10 Downtime days. GP 345.Magic Items Potion of Healing, Mage Armor Scroll * 2. Jos spell book, Mage hand, Prestidigitation, ray of frost, shocking grasp, fog cloud, magic missile, shield, Thunderwave, invisibility, misty step, scorching ray, counterspell, dispel magic, and fireball.Not A Magic item. No spell books. That was flavor text as Cultists don’t cast spells. (Sigh).I had a strong group of Seven. String Bean Assassin 5 Taxbaxi. Violet Life Cleric 5. Mugen Druid 5 Human. Nox Monk 5 Fairy. Nerezza Monk 5 fairy. Zhark College of Lore bard 5 bugbear. Zip Wild Magic Barbarian 5 gnome. Danielle Star Child Knight.A few minutes as Danielle is explain to the weak party, the rest of group rows up after getting lost in the fog. As they are getting ready to move out and Bullywug under a flag of truce show up and deliverers two letters. One from JR Ewing and the second from Pharblex Spattergoo. The group laughs and moves on.Coming to the official landing about four hundred feet out, they spy the cultists camps. A stockade of cows, chickens, and pigs are next to the archer tower. Over a dozen huts and long houses hold lizardfolk and bullywugs. But being daytime they are out searching for the party. Seeing no one in the archer tower, they explore a longhouse while the cleric, barbarian, and druid hang back. The long house is mostly clean and there is not much in there.String Bean, “Then why did we roll stealth?” The cat is grabbed by a croc as five of mates come out the various low swamps. Two fight over String Bean. Two fight over Zhark. And two wished they left Zip alone. This gets the bullywugs attention. Cheering for crocs start. Zhark and String Bean are in the moat and dragged under, and being subjected to death rolls.The draw bridge rises. One croc is no longer not worrying about Zip. His brother is unhappy. The fairies dive bomb into the moat! Feed the lunch members a potion of healing and punch out the remaining crocs. The wet lunch members and fairies take to cover as they come under distance fire from the bullywugs.Nox, “I would have given them short bows to make it fair.” And the rest of the group moves toward the archer tower using various huts for cover. The groups snipe at each other until.Nerezza, “I go a nice idea. Hey Nox. Whisper. Whisper. Plan. Plan.”DM, “What are you planning?”Fairies and Zip. “Whisper, whisper, plan. Plan. EXECUTE BARBARAIN BOMB!” The fairies grab Zip by the collar and pants and air lift her into the air and drop her into the mess.Nox, “You missed spelled mass.” DM, “No I didn’t”. Into the mess of bullywugs. Bullywugs start to die quickly, and then a misty step from the druid, they die faster. Meanwhile Violet and Zhark break out the tea and cookies and wait until the drawn bridge goes down. This does not happen as the Fairy Friendly Freight drops them on the tower.The second wave of guards are dispatched. And String Bean goes long and falls halfway thru the short hallway. (DM the map on page 51 sucks.) She catches herself and the group decides to use the ground floor.Nox, “This isn’t a castle. It is a shack.” The bard turns the corner into the court yard and see lots of bullywugs and lizardfolk exercising and going about their business. Zhark, “We are new cult members here to join up.” The enemies laugh. Zhark continues, “Yes Tiamat send us.” More laughter.Enemies, “Didn’t you get the letter?” Zhark, “What letter?” Enemies, “The one that Nox read out loud at the top of the session.” Zhark, “Oh that letter. Since I didn’t read it. It doesn’t apply to me.” Javelins, spears, and bites take the bard down. Conjure Animals take bullywugs down and the second fight of the night is off to a good start.18 seconds later, the Zip opens the door to the great hall which has too many enemies. Mugen, “This map sucks. Can we redraw it?” Zhark, “Hey each square is suppose to be twenty feet not five.” DM, “the map is now official we will redraw after this combat.”18 seconds later. The map is redrawn and the great hall is looted. 30 minutes late the group explores the south west tower which is empty during the day. Checking out the central tower, they find Azbara Jos waking up from his nap.Azbara Jos, “short time not see. No excuses. No lies. And yes fireball.” The group charges. Counterspell, silence, and a quick dash gets the fireball off and the group kills and loots a named NPC.They decide to retreat to a safe space as they are all out spells and low on hp.We will pick this up back at the first landing. So, one hour walk to castle walls. The castle will be on red alert.DM Note. The map mess help and hurt the group so no worries. Book, “they killed my children!” Any way could you put your subclass on the sign in sheet, it helps trains the DM about that subclass.New record is 53 enemies killed in a single session. This is not a record that needs padding Nox. Actual Game time about an hour.End of Session 585.</blockquote>

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