Ptolus: Midwood - "The Dark Waters of Moss Pond"

[Gnome Quixote]

HA! I'd forgotten all about the butter. One of my favorite exchanges in the OOC thread came out of that:

Ok, if you eat all of that butter, you're going to hell for ruining my grease trap.

That's hilarious. It wasn't even intentional--I was just trying to be gross and weird--but eating the butter to ruin the grease trap after you guys have gone to all this trouble is exactly the kind of thing Bufer would do.

Who else thinks that Bufer is destined for a horrible accident?

We need to keep Gnomes and Halflings around so that Emus doesn't become the butt of the short jokes. This is very important.

 

[Tock Chandler]

It will be quite an anti-climax, I think.

 

[Trench]

Heh. Almost forgot just how much we were Team Bicker.

 

[Trench]

And now for one of my favorite moments of the entire campaign so far.

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"S-so ... cold ..."

Yes, for those reading, that's Renraw. Shivering away and convulsing in pain as the other party members casually discuss the statues.

It never gets less funny every time I read it.

 

[bissichan]

To his 4 hit points, the statue did what 1-2 of Con damage?

I laugh every time I read "prithee".

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

It was a Chill Touch trap. It did several points of damage and a point of Strength damage.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

The beast was a giant owl with the shadow creature template from the Manual of Planes attached. If I had the book at the time, I would have used the dark creature template from the Tome of Magic instead.

This fight was one of two encounters that illustrated that an unusually large 3E group really makes a hash of standard CR numbers. I overcompensate a bit in the next adventure (along with the players surprising me by dividing their forces), with dramatic results.

 

[bissichan]

Don't I know it.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Renraw was a student at St. Feldin's College of Abjuration in Tarsis before he had to turn around and come home when his family's embezzlement was found out.

This was originally meant to be St. John's College of Abjuration, but I didn't pick it up since there was no pressing need for it, and I later substituted a Praemal saint once the Big Book was released. (St. Feldin is known as "The Faultless" and "The Rock of Faith.")

Over the course of the campaign, Renraw's player and I have fleshed out the college in dribs and drabs, with fellow students and professors being mentioned and alluded to. I've also tied a few Ptolus NPCs to the college, although the players haven't yet met them.

 

[Tock Chandler]

Did Tock take part in that adventure? I don't remember what he did.