Sunday 20 February 2022

Raiding The City of the Dead


Tonight the boys from Goatsmeadow village were enjoying seats on the council and managed to fund a new inn for non-caravan travel and locals to drink at as the town grows. Funded a new brick and plaster rectangular courtyard building with a flat rooftop. Also, a bathhouse and all the village brewers produce. Now level 3 the party was keen to check out the local ruins again as last time they met a dwarf in a garden, hid lots and saw perytons and fled. 

Barbarian fighter air cultist with his pet bird follower
Draconic changeling martial artist and druidic caster with spearman and graverobber followers
Wizard scholar with a spearman guard 

Safe journey they camped and heard horrid sounds of panther caughs, hyena howls and eerie screams. Morning they hid camp and sneaked in under the wall by the much reduced ancient river. Saw tiny river dolphins. As followed the river up they saw a building they had avoided before but now the changeling had shagged a naga and met snake cultists he recognised their script. Barbarians bird reported building had hole and human nest stuff in rear. Birds.

On way round met lizard folk and the changeling befriended them and took him to elders in their camp in a ruined temple. Party offered to meet their naga god but must disarm. Changeling volunteered and went in and met a guy naga who charmed him and questioned and shagged him like the last one. Came out reporting how awesome the cult is and had a map of ruin and good places to destroy. Almost a dozen ruins in the city walls with treasure and factions. Even another lizard folk tribe to meet wh worship a dragon.

Decided to get the Peryton and lure them with illusions of wounded bleeder near ruins party-ready in. Beast came to attack and party struck Both injured and female revealed the illusion and fled badly hurt. The male almost killed the changeling but the heroes won and skinned it into a pelt fit for a king in shimmering peacock colours.

Retreated to lizards and planned attack on the peryton nest in the old granary. Stormed to it and the t-shaped building had a collapsed rook and a rubble mound with a tree and a nest of the peryton. She was killing her children knowing the humans were coming and gobbling hearts she had taken for her babies. The changeling turned into his mni dragon form and helped party onto wall top while others went in the front. The wizard summoned his wasp folk warriors inside the nest and the changeling used entangle on the peryton in the nest. Mother was stopped when the changeling dropped as a winged dragonling to hima form and killed it with a dragon style chop.

Skinning went poorly but was still good for wizard supplies and drugs. Found lots of magic items among centuries of bones and rubbish and shit around the generations of nesting beasts. Wizard detected them and found a magic marching drum a touch range ignite bone wand, a magic ice cube, necromancers skull that can help you learn necromancy spells and boost them but is mean, potion of hair loss and a automaton wood cutting rat in a box. Ths last item is a mechanical beaver that can fell and strip a tree in a turn, or strip a tree into firewood in a turn or build a 12m dam wall in one hour. One total hour per day.

Camping and rested and relaxed when a pretty singing maiden came and the warrior sent his bird. He said it was a pretty lady and all was ok. Suspicious he went out and was charmed by a dryad. They hugged and kissed and he finally knew true love. She said his friends scared her so he went to stop them. He tried to get at the dragonling and failed three rounds to get up on the wall before attacking the wizard lots. The warrior hit the wizards bodyguard. The wiz resisted lots then hurt her with spells. She vanished and the changeling chilled out the party fighting. They all camped sure she was gone. One follower went home to take a message to bring the rest of the grve robber nomads over to this cool new base. Later when warrior on guard she appeared to him and he helped her charm the party. One follower faked it then fled for help. 

After a week of cleaning the peryton nest from her tree and cleaning the courtyard, she ravaged them all and exhausted everyone. All miserable in love toiling and gardening the ruined temple. The villagers and the party robber friends and the escaped bodyguard came with the village druid and negotiated the party release. Two followers wanted to stay. The wizard charmed his follower to stay with him. So the changeling's guard was lost to being a love slave.

The Druid woman gave the party what therapy she could for their traumatic experience and back home they toiled on local improvements. Turned out a gang had been hassling the new traders visiting so they hunted them down. Killed all with their robber friends but the leader. He explained the gang was hired to do this and turns out it was dam dirty fish folk! The party plan to go to Coppertown where fishfolk have hired criminals to kill the party. The bandit chief offered to introduce them to the dockside hoodlum offering the money. 

Some amusing times dealing with supernatural beings.
The best total party cham game battle I've ever had.
They have failed this lots but all have got improved will saves now

Have a draconic oaths table almost ready
  


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