Well fuck… I really haven’t written one of these up in a while, just posted the write up below from around Christmas but it seems that was the only write up I did in the last year for Team Awesome. Mostly just been sending via group messages a quick recap.
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So… when last we left our Heroes…
They had a falling out with the Abby they had been working with (And lost Aiken Drum, though they didn’t know it yet) and travelled south to the random town of Luxan (Because it was on the map and no one knew anything about it), having a quick battle with a Medusa they get to the town suspended over a lava filled crater. Turns out this town is run by a bunch of Wizards who were kicked out of Minbar College of Magic for being… “Unethical” and there is also a shanty town set up outside.
There was Ogres attacking the area so being the big heroes that they were Team Awesome went Ogre hunting, sadly “Aiken” snuck forward alone after the first battle with ogres at a farmstead and was ambushed by Giant Spiders. Turns out THIS Aiken was from the Abby and was using tricky magics to pretend to be their good old friend Aiken, they looted and left “Fakin’s” body. Met a Gnome Druid named Frank and a Human Wild Sorcerer (whose name escapes me at the moment it was over a year ago) they killed some ogres and their mutant ogre matriarch (which swallowed whole a party member or two) got a bunch of cool items (They threw away the cursed amulet that “Told” you the weather but kept the Cloak that Billows dramatically)
They chatted to one of the ruling Wizards and got a mission to go kill some Draconis Combine Sorcerers west in the hills in some old Dark Iron Mine. Having already having encounters with these child stealing slavers (Hacking one to death the day before for demanding one of their new party members bare his children) they went off. (There were some very nice moments with a bath house and hair braiding a nice break from the aimless murderhobo vibe the party have been sticking to)
They got to the mine, met a dragonborn and half elf assassin on the way who both hate slavers so teamed up. The mine had minions + wyrmling white dragon that was deadly but got leapt upon by a Raging Barbarian Gnome Druid and held down while they party stabbed it up. There were some strange gunpowder weapons, some poor peasant got turned to mist as a trap. Also, horrifyingly there was a heavily pregnant woman who cut out her own half dragon baby the second the guards were distracted, they saved both woman and baby (They now had two babies)
Sorcerer folks had fled already, heading further west to ruins of a city blasted by magic. They learnt this from a Green Dragon in a little old lady form doing some knitting, it seemed trapped to obey by magic but was rebelling by giving away information since it wasn’t ordered not to tell people.
Babies got sent back to live in Luxan (with some coin for their care) party went off in search of these sorcerer rapist slaver types to give them a good murdering.
There was a whole thing with the land around being turned completely to stone, some cool random sights, big obelisks of gold, a Griffin’s Egg and a few other side bits.
They met some Blood Hunters, friends to the master of the Party’s Blood Hunter Corwin, said the Draconis Combine were trying to get into the Armoury but the Blood Hunter knew another way in… BEASTMEN ATTACK!
The Armoury was filled with mutant Beast Men who attack the Draconis Combine as well as the Heroes who ran into the Armoury though sadly Grimbol Doomseeker found his end and it wasn’t as cool as anyone would have liked (My fault as a DM, players hate running from danger and a character looking for a cool death just wouldn’t should have realised that) but they would soon meet a Drow-Treekin-thing named Dal’eth.
The Armoury was filled with all sorts of freaky mutants and Beastmen, living flesh walls, trapped angel spirts beholders and a lot of corruption that did give a Third Eye and other fun effects, but they were cleansed. They went through wiping out such evil things and looting their way through the Armoury (Something called the Doom of Nations was meant to be in there but had been stolen long before by some Gnome named Tiax) Arch Angel to the God Kahless and got a blessing. Thought a Ghost Monk Teacher dude and gained Monk Wraps to some ancient order saw “The Avatar of Slaughter” get summoned but that turned out to be just Denny (Still cursed)
Clearing the place out they found the Draconis Combine retreated from the Beastmen (Sorcerer’s dead or fled) they headed south dealt with some magical damage which caused rifts to elemental planes (at least for the next 6 months or so) met a local druid and fucked with a Time Loop Bubble and may have earned the eternal hatred of a Lich from 200 years ago.
They kept hunting down the surviving members of the Draconis Combine force, went south to a guard tower held by the Combine, turns out it was wiped out a few days before by a Child of Yodalar who turned out to be a Vampire with a bunch of was undead. Had been waiting for them because of some hatred Yodalar had for them…
Which brings us to the post below…
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So… when last we left our Heroes…
They had a falling out with the Abby they had been working with (And lost Aiken Drum, though they didn’t know it yet) and travelled south to the random town of Luxan (Because it was on the map and no one knew anything about it), having a quick battle with a Medusa they get to the town suspended over a lava filled crater. Turns out this town is run by a bunch of Wizards who were kicked out of Minbar College of Magic for being… “Unethical” and there is also a shanty town set up outside.
There was Ogres attacking the area so being the big heroes that they were Team Awesome went Ogre hunting, sadly “Aiken” snuck forward alone after the first battle with ogres at a farmstead and was ambushed by Giant Spiders. Turns out THIS Aiken was from the Abby and was using tricky magics to pretend to be their good old friend Aiken, they looted and left “Fakin’s” body. Met a Gnome Druid named Frank and a Human Wild Sorcerer (whose name escapes me at the moment it was over a year ago) they killed some ogres and their mutant ogre matriarch (which swallowed whole a party member or two) got a bunch of cool items (They threw away the cursed amulet that “Told” you the weather but kept the Cloak that Billows dramatically)
They chatted to one of the ruling Wizards and got a mission to go kill some Draconis Combine Sorcerers west in the hills in some old Dark Iron Mine. Having already having encounters with these child stealing slavers (Hacking one to death the day before for demanding one of their new party members bare his children) they went off. (There were some very nice moments with a bath house and hair braiding a nice break from the aimless murderhobo vibe the party have been sticking to)
They got to the mine, met a dragonborn and half elf assassin on the way who both hate slavers so teamed up. The mine had minions + wyrmling white dragon that was deadly but got leapt upon by a Raging Barbarian Gnome Druid and held down while they party stabbed it up. There were some strange gunpowder weapons, some poor peasant got turned to mist as a trap. Also, horrifyingly there was a heavily pregnant woman who cut out her own half dragon baby the second the guards were distracted, they saved both woman and baby (They now had two babies)
Sorcerer folks had fled already, heading further west to ruins of a city blasted by magic. They learnt this from a Green Dragon in a little old lady form doing some knitting, it seemed trapped to obey by magic but was rebelling by giving away information since it wasn’t ordered not to tell people.
Babies got sent back to live in Luxan (with some coin for their care) party went off in search of these sorcerer rapist slaver types to give them a good murdering.
There was a whole thing with the land around being turned completely to stone, some cool random sights, big obelisks of gold, a Griffin’s Egg and a few other side bits.
They met some Blood Hunters, friends to the master of the Party’s Blood Hunter Corwin, said the Draconis Combine were trying to get into the Armoury but the Blood Hunter knew another way in… BEASTMEN ATTACK!
The Armoury was filled with mutant Beast Men who attack the Draconis Combine as well as the Heroes who ran into the Armoury though sadly Grimbol Doomseeker found his end and it wasn’t as cool as anyone would have liked (My fault as a DM, players hate running from danger and a character looking for a cool death just wouldn’t should have realised that) but they would soon meet a Drow-Treekin-thing named Dal’eth.
The Armoury was filled with all sorts of freaky mutants and Beastmen, living flesh walls, trapped angel spirts beholders and a lot of corruption that did give a Third Eye and other fun effects, but they were cleansed. They went through wiping out such evil things and looting their way through the Armoury (Something called the Doom of Nations was meant to be in there but had been stolen long before by some Gnome named Tiax) Arch Angel to the God Kahless and got a blessing. Thought a Ghost Monk Teacher dude and gained Monk Wraps to some ancient order saw “The Avatar of Slaughter” get summoned but that turned out to be just Denny (Still cursed)
Clearing the place out they found the Draconis Combine retreated from the Beastmen (Sorcerer’s dead or fled) they headed south dealt with some magical damage which caused rifts to elemental planes (at least for the next 6 months or so) met a local druid and fucked with a Time Loop Bubble and may have earned the eternal hatred of a Lich from 200 years ago.
They kept hunting down the surviving members of the Draconis Combine force, went south to a guard tower held by the Combine, turns out it was wiped out a few days before by a Child of Yodalar who turned out to be a Vampire with a bunch of was undead. Had been waiting for them because of some hatred Yodalar had for them…
Which brings us to the post below…