Session 1 - June 5, 2021

 Session 1/date 6/5/21





People met 

  • Tomas - Enger's adjutant. Tall, big stache, used clamshell artifact to summon Enger

  • Enger’s bored-looking, lazily murderous elven guards

  • Enger, sorcerer supreme of Zenith city - skullet, big ego, appears in a puff of green smoke, gold embroidered silk finery, gems,  disdain for nobility and persecution complex - specifically mentioned distrust of Duke Zlaw, and another wizard: Ekarebil. Insisted on a discretion charm before the party could venture forth. Offering 1000 for Franzibar, a snake sorcerer buried in the tomb and possibly still half-alive.

Rules established

  • If it is otherwise unclear, there's a 1-6 chance that there will be an elemental spirit inhabiting nearby stone or clay 

  • I'll be reviewing the death's door rules I've been using, because it feels like I'm missing an element of danger (I couldn't find anything to indicate slow degradation and possible bleed-out)

Places Visited

  • Burgomeisters holdfast

  • Tower Enger

  • Coastal Wilderness (near a giant white ape)

  • False tomb in Tomb of the Serpent Kings - Explored the majority of the false tomb, cleverly disarmed a trap, entered battle with skeletons, got to know a clay spirit who wants quartz from down below, but could not give directions that make sense to a humanoid, and generally avoided tomb-robbing

Time Elapsed/Campaign Date

  • Slept overnight, then traveled out, got briefly lost, reached tomb, explored for 1.5 hours

  • Moved campaign time to May 2, I.Y. 455, at 1:30 p.m.

XP breakdown

  • Session base 100

  • Monsters - 10 

  • Treasure extracted - 85 each from silver rings returned to your camp.

  • Total - 195 ( to be modified based on prime req)

Other

  • All PCs are under a discretion charm/curse to not reveal Enger’s secrets, with the apparent consequence being a rotting curse. Essentially a magic NDA. 

PCs in attendance

  • Cleon - Halfling, former Landsknecht

  • Skree - Swarmlord, former Landsknecht

  • Blaine - Cleric, former Pilgrim

  • Sherri - Halfling, former beggar

  • Quartz - Svirfneblin (Deep Gnome) - Former Burglar

  • Glimrix Hufflebur - Gnome, formerly dead

  • Liam McCrimmon - Bard, Bonesetter

PC deaths

  • None

  • Honorable mention to near deaths for Glimrix and Liam

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