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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Brakkart" data-source="post: 2001499" data-attributes="member: 19617">DM's Log of Session SeventeenWaking on Marpenoth 23rd, the group took breakfast with Sir Justin and his Watchers of Helm, it largely consisting of a thick and almost tasteless porridge, which everyone ate, but which Jebodiah was to complain about for the rest of the day! Before leaving Iniarv's Tower, Zamtap left behind his pistol and supply of smokepowder and bullets with Sir Justin, as Thols had explained in no uncertain terms that such items were deemed illegal in Waterdeep and that he would have to answer for having brought them into the city on his last visit there. Saddling up, the group bade their farewells, and rode out onto the High Road, headed south at all due haste for Waterdeep. The day passed uneventfully, and just before dusk they rode into the fortress-enclave of Thornhold, overlooking the southern tip of the Mere of Dead Men. Paying to stay the night at the Inn within the walls.Before setting back out along the road to Waterdeep on the next day, Thols invested some of his coin in buying a Tower Shield, while Jebodiah traded in the battered steel shield he had acquired from one of the suits of armour in Wolfhill house for a few extra gold pieces in his purse.Only a few hours after leaving Thornhold behind them, the group spotted a dark shape in the sky, diving towards them, and as they were on a narrow part of the road, cliffs on one side, a sheer drop to the sea on the other, they elected to dismount to fight the oncoming threat, which as it closed could be clearly identified as a Chimera! Swooping down on the party as they hurriedly dismounted, it spewed a line of acid to engulf Thols and Jebodiah at the head of the party, the dwarf avoiding the worst of it, but his pony badly hurt and bolting away down the road, leaving him without a mount. Thols took the full brunt of the acid though, but it was the dwarf who the creature barelled into, heads, horns and claws tearing at him as he valiantly battled the twisted monsters onslaught.Seeing the danger, Aeron coolly targeted the beast and enfeebled it, Zamtap following suit with a prayer to boost the groups tenacity, whilst further hampering just how lethal the creature could be. Whilst Noob did his best to avoid direct combat, the creature brought the battle to him, blasting another line of acod into him and beyond him, Aeron, the genasi neatly sidetepping most of the vile tide, whislt the ranger was bathed thoroughly in it. Thols launched himself into the fray to give the creature another target to hit besides Jebodiah, but as inured as he was, had to see to healing himself before he could aid the beleaguered dwarf in killing the thing, and try as he might Ki just could not seem to get past its scaly hide. As the creatures attacks began to take a toll, so Zamtap cast a spell to give many of the group limited regeneration.Still the pair did succeed in distracting the chimera from attacking only Jebodiah, which would have gone well for the group had the dwarf not tripped over on his next swipe, overbalancing and crashing to the road in front of the beasts draconic head... which duly gave him a second acid bath, the spray catching Elena also who had just reached the melee. As blows rained in finally on the monster, both Noob's arrows and Aeron's magical missiles taking a toll, so Elena calmly darted forwards and ran the beast through with her cutlass, dropping it dead to the road in her first strike at it, much to the annoyance of pretty much everyone else! Cutting open the beasts guts, Aeron managed to fish out some items of minor magical worth and a fair few silver coins also. That done, the group chased down their bolted mounts and dragged the chimera's corpse to the cliffs overlooking the Sea of Swords, sending it to a watery grave, and then continuing southwards.The group camped for the night beside the road, and other than merchants, peasants and other assorted travellers on the road, they met or saw nothing of interest for the next day, arriving at Waterdeep in the evening, whereupon they split up and headed off in a variety of directions.Thols and Zamtap headed to the officers Watchhouse, for him to report in and also report the Gondsman for possession of a smokepowder weapon. Reporting to Lieutenant Julia Ackerman of what had transpired during his absence from the city. However, despite one being an officer of the law, and the other a cleric, neither could relate a very detailed account of events, Thols constantly falling back on his need to hand her the journal which he claimed would explain everything, yet he had not brought it with him. Angry at the pair of them for the lack of information they could provide, and that they could confirm that Esau Enoch had escaped again, she dismissed them telling them to return with this journal.Elena (who was in possession of the journal still, having kept hold of it after finding it and reading it out), made a beeline for the tavern she stayed at last time she was in the city, stopping off on the way only to hand her cutlass in to a weaponsmiths to get it magically enhanced.Thols elected to go searching for Elena in the morning and retired to a bunk in the watchhouse while Zamtap made his way to The House of Inspired Hands, the citys temple to Gond where he made a tithe to his deity, paid for his breastplate to be magically enhanced by one of the temples blacksmiths, and related what he knew of the Yuan-ti's alchemical cloning experiments to the temples high priestess Jhoadil Zulthind, before taking a bunk for the night.Gylippus and Noob made their way around various shops before seeking their rest, selling off much of the excess loot the group had been carrying around along the way.The next day (Marpenoth 26th) dawned over Waterdeep, a light rain bathing the City of Splendors, and washing muck from the sreets as the group woke scattered across the city, and made their way to The Yawning Portal Inn to meet and plan what to do next. After dividing up the monies and useful magical gear from the partys haul, most of the group elected to go with Thols and Elena back to the watchhouse to make a better case for the evidence they had gathered.DM's Notes:Heh, we actually ran out of time this week, the games club was shutting for the night, so we have to end at where we did. Shame really, could have carried on for quite some time. While the party did move quite a distance this week, I have to admit to being less than happy with how the session went. This campaign started back in August last year, every detail of it has been experienced by most of the players, and is recorded here for easy reference, and yet when put on the spot, neither Richard or Gareth could provide a credible in-character account of recent events, including what had happened in just the last session, instead trying to fall back on the old "Ohh I tell her what's happened".That isn't roleplaying, not to my mind, saying something like that is a cop out. You want to tell a character something, then actually say it, you are playing a role afterall, and conversation is part of that. Neither the characters, nor the players are unintelligent, far from it, so to my mind this smacks of simply not paying any attention. In which case I have to wonder, am I boring you guys? I know you read this, so let me know, because if so tell me. Heck I handed out sheets this session and asked my group to write out some ideas for subplots for their characters so that I could perhaps tailor the campaign to appeal more directly to their characters, and I got very little in the way of useful ideas back. To those of you putting in the effort to take an interest and play your characters with personalities I apologise for this rant.</blockquote>

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