Magic Shop Owners Session 3

Session Notes

Calendar Date: 4-3-569

The party met Titus Pick, the pretentious mine owner. After finding out that he wanted to take the crystal heart from the mines without killing the ignid to make money from it, they decided to leave him because they didn't think he was paying enough.

Instead, they went to explore Stagbrook Keep using Lucinda's map to find more magic items. Inside, they encountered many traps. The first of which split the party, leaving half of them in a different corridor from the others. Luckily, both areas were connected by a room, and the remainder of the party were able to outsmart the moving wall trap that separated them by clever positioning.

The room that connected them was filled with spider webs. The map from Lucinda said not to touch the silk in the room, but instead, Maia decided to talk to the spider. At first, the spider just wanted to eat them, but Maia's god was also one of the spiders who trembled in fear at the mention of their name. With that, they were able to negotiate passage through the room. Maia also learnt that the spider was called Salay and was exiled from its colony on the deeper underground.

Next, the party returned to the dining hall of the keep to create makeshift shields from the tables there. They chopped them into five squares and attached leather handles to them. This was to defend from a trap corridor that was identified on the map. This blocked many arrow traps. They were also able to use one of the shields as a bridge to cross a gap while using their other shields to block from all sides. At the end, they found two pedestals with magical items on them. Jatumal attempted to use a grappling hook to pull one, but just knocked it off. This set off a large flame trap. The party took a while deciding what to do about this. Maia made a perfect shot with her sling, landing a stone on the pedestal and stopping the flames. On the pedestal was a beetle brooch, which many of the party members did not want to touch. Sphonyx attached it to herself, creating a faint blue forcefield around her. She then ran for the other pedestal, setting off a few fireball traps which were deflected by the forcefield. The item was a pair of levitation boots, which were given to Maia.

After this, they returned and carried on through the dungeon. Next, they entered a lab and were attacked by possessed furniture. With Geog's fire sword and Sphonyx's holy water, they made short work of these. Inside, they found various magic potions and some research notes. There were experiments on skeletons in the room.

Before proceeding, the group studied the map carefully, deciding next to go after a staff guarded by living armour on the map. They saw that there was a rust monster in one of the corridors and a magic door that could be opened by chanting 'nepo' to get into the room. Breadwig, Jatumal and Maia experimented with the door, finding that chanting 'esolc' closed the door since 'nepo' was 'open' backwards. Then Breadwig lured the rust monster into the room using iron spikes, letting it attack the living armour. While the armour was distracted, Sphonyx ran for the staff, dodging multiple strikes from the living armour who had not been eaten and who had been enchanted to protect the staff. The others began attacking the armour to cover Sphonyx while she returned. On the way, she used the staff to turn one suit of armour to dust. They all ran through the magic door and chanted 'esolc' to close the door before resting in the lab.

XP

Possessed Furniture x 6 300xp
Living Armour x 8 600xp
Rust Monster 175xp
Trap ingenuity 3000xp
Total 4075xp
Total/6 680xp

Published Content Used

• OSE (Classic and Advanced)