Magic Shop Owners Session 6

Session Notes

Calendar Date: 7-3-569

With everyone back in Stagbrook, the party checked in on the shop where Jatumal had made 360g from the Sarzan painting. They then decided to return to Acman's tower to collect what was left of the loot. Along the way, they found a ghost who was trying to dig up his half-buried body, called Fredrick. They agreed to take his body to the nearby graveyard and bury him with his ancestors. While Stinkcat dug the grave, three bandits came to the graveyard with a dead comrade. Maia and Jatumal prepared sneak attacks, hiding behind tombstones, while Breadwig and Stinkcat hid in a bush and the grave, respectively. Jatumal missed his attack, but Maia hit one in the temple with her sling, taking him out. Breadwig used his newly learnt magic missile spell to weaken another, while Stinkcat shot an arrow that embedded itself in the dirt of the grave they were in. One bandit charged Jatumal while the other shot at Maia. The attack on Jatumal glanced off the tombstone he was hidden behind, but the shot a Maia was a hard blow to the shoulder. Jatumal took out the bandit closest to him with his sword while Breadwig threw a dagger at the other. They then dumped the bandit bodies off a cliff and finished burying Fred, who gave them the ring from his body and faded away.

The team then carried on to Acman's tower. Inside, they took the remainder of the treasure, and Jatumal found a gold dog statue. A few of the group picked up jewelled weapons from Acman's body, where they noticed his gem eye was missing. They also found some tomes written in demonic text that they took. In the basement, a secret door had been opened, and tracks from the melted demon puddle led down into the passage. The party assumed Halstrea, the succubus, must have taken the eye this way and decided to follow. Jatumal used his tracking skills as they ventured down into the cave system below, but when they got to the first intersection, his skills failed him, and Stinkcat pointed out that the tracks went the other way. As they went, they encountered large caves with stalagmites and stalactites, small squeezes, climbs, windy rooms and underground streams. Maia's claustrophobia meant Jatumal and Stinkcat mostly led the way while Breadwig stayed in the middle, bearing a torch. Eventually, they slid down a small stream into a pond where Breadwig's torch was put out, and Maia's light spell allowed them to see. They followed the water out of the pond, emerging in a mine shaft.

Assuming the mine shaft was the same one the miners in Stagbrook had been asking them to clear the ignid from, they compared where they were to the makeshift map the miners had produced for them in the tavern. At first, they struggled working out where they were, but by following a mine cart track found their way to a central tunnel. Along the way, they noticed burnt supports within the tunnel. In this larger tunnel, they found some mine carts which they rode downhill until they noticed a chasm ahead. Jatumal pulled the brakes, sending them to a screeching halt just before the chasm. Maia used her boots of levitation to go down into the chasm and look around just as a rumbling began within the mine system. The group hid along the walls, remembering that the ignid was blind from when Sarzan had told them in the painting. The ignid came around a corner, lighting the tunnel with its flaming snake-like body. Jatumal used his ventriloquism to shout down within the chasm and lure the ignid down. Everyone quickly but quietly made their way towards the quarry within the mine shaft. From here, Maia guided them using the map and some luck towards the crystal heart of the ignid. They were able to avoid making any loud noises that would attract the ignid. Inside the chamber of the crystal heart was a small lava pool surrounding a rocky pedestal with the heart upon it. Stinkcat gave Maia a corrosive potion, and she used her levitating boots to fly over and destroy the crystal heart.

As this happened, Jatumal heard the ignid not too far away and led them to its body. They found the creature extinguished and lifeless, filling an entire tunnel. Here they harvested various ignid parts, including scales, meat, glands and teeth. Before leaving, they visited the area of the mine, which had crystals and glowing mushrooms. Jatumal tried to make a mushroom tea while the others harvested some crystals. Realising he had no cooking equipment, he tried to heat them on the ignid body. He found the pores expelling gas, which he was about to light before Breadwig pulled him away. Jatumal tried one of the mushrooms, which gave him a pleasant experience after he realised he did not have the materials to make a tea. As they were about to leave, they set a rope from the quarry to the ignid body, and Jatumal lit it with Breadwig's torch. They then made their way out of the mines. At the entrance, they encountered Titus, who was not impressed that they had not brought him the crystal heart. They convinced him to go down into the caves to see the ignid body.

Back in Stagbrook, everyone agreed it was time to go to the pub. As they entered, there was a large rumbling from the explosion of the ignid body which caused everyone inside to turn in surprise. The group announced that they had killed the ignid. The miners were happy they could go back to work and made an arrangement with the party to sell the crystals to them, now Titus was dead. Some gambling was done, and everyone had a good time. Then the party found various ways of storing their money so they didn't have to carry it around with them all the time. They also visited Sarzan, asking him about what they could do with the ignid parts, if he could decode the demonic books for Maia, read the notes found in the keep, teach them how to make fire resistance potions, show Breadwig how to do enchanting, and paint safes for them within the painting. He also said he was going to paint himself a home within the painting at the group's suggestion. Finally, they put some items up for sale in their shop, which were: the evil scarab broach, the golden chalice, some crystals, a golden sword and a scalpel.**

XP

800 xp gold and treasure
150 xp bandits
200 xp ignid
400 xp caving adventure
1550 xp total
388 xp each

Published Content Used

• OSE (Classic and Advanced)