Author Topic: Campaign #1 - Somewhere on the Sword Coast (Read 2858696 times)

Joy · « **Reply #825 on:** November 20, 2025, 09:54:02 pm »

[Yulya's Shot]

All hops set on Yulya to prevent a lot of hassle as she concentrates on trying that again, the snake isn't that tanky, it can be hit, so she takes up her focus and gives it all she can.

[Luck 1d20=7, Wild Magic Effect 1d100=1, Magnitude 1d20=5]

She can feel Ashley's energy intermingling with hers as she casts through the focus and for a hopeful 3.75x boost against the snake. A resonance builds within her, like nothing she's felt before and it's a power more immense than she can believe.

[Wild Magic Effect 1d100=[19,34,16,39,18,70,76,85,6,93]]

A series of waves pass through her and she's powerless to stop it.

1. Grease is cast centered on Yulya. [SAVE DEX vs DC15 1d20+1=10]
2. Maximize the affect of the next healing spell you cast within the next minute.
3. Yulya gains 5 THP per turn for a minute.
4. Yulya gains 2d10 THP
5. Yulya grows a long beard of feathers, they tickle her nose and she sneezes causing the feathers to explode from her face in all directions.
6. [1d8=6] Beatrice is poisoned and pops back to the negative plane.
7. Yulya begins to glow brighter then the sun for the next minute casting a bright light within 30ft, normal light within 60ft and dim light within 90ft, anyone who glances her way is blinded for 1 turn.
8. Yulya casts Mirror Image. Three illusory duplicates of yourself appear in your space. Until the spell ends, the duplicates move with you and mimic your actions, shifting position so it’s impossible to track which image is real. You can use your action to dismiss the illusory duplicates.
9. Yulya summons a Modron [1d3=3] It is friendly and decides to join your cause.
10. Yulya grows out of control to a hill giant size for 1 minute.

Yulya falls prone due to the grease effect, Yulya gains 16 temporary HP, Beatrice is poisoned and pops back to the negative plane, Yulya begins to glow brighter then the sun with golden light for the next minute casting a bright light within 30ft, normal light within 60ft and dim light within 90ft, the snake has become blinded for 1 turn, a Modron appears beside Yulya. Finally she stretches out her clothes as she grows a size larger, to rival Brutus in bulk.

The modron:

Finally the spell she was looking for surges through the goblin staff, fed by the focus and blasts toward the snake.

[HIT(A vs Blind) vs AC12 1d20+5+3golbin staff=(CM,13)]

All signs pointed to it missing again! But because the snake was blinded, he zigged when he should have zagged and got tagged.

[DMG 3d10+1d10(2nd)+1d10(3rd)+1d10x.75+3=1+8+5+1+4+2*.75=23]

The snake hisses in pain but it remains awake, just barely. It's up to the Modron now, the last hope for taking that snake down.

[LUCK 1d4=3]

The Modron knew better than to look into the blinding light of his larger than normal master and seeing her target he gave his all. His intent: to tackle the snake or somehow hold it in place. Seeing the large cat tied to the wall, he uses his action to move the knot to Alice's leg.

[Last round]

As the snake tries to pull his prey underwater, it's caught up by the rope.

[STR vs DC17 1d20+4=9][Choice 1d2=1]

The snake is caught, and refuses to let go of his prey, biting and constricting her.

[HIT 1d20+6=17,8][DMG 2d6+4+1d10 poison=13+8/2 resist=17]

The snake manages to bite Alice, and even with Cat's help of temporary HP, she was unable remain conscious.

[Alice is unconscious and stable with -9HP]

The snake was in trouble now though, with the octopus down, the cats all attack.

[Attack/Damage rolls]

The snake didn't have enough left in him to withstand the barrage, all cats except Ashley Panther hit successfully and their combined damage at a minimum was more than the snake had left. Quickly afterwards they killed both the snake and tore the octopus apart, eating their fill of the fishy delicacy.

In the intervening few minutes, Yulya shrunk back into her now slightly stretched clothes, stopped glowing, and was given a total of 61 temporary hit points that all evaporated at the end of the first minute and is left normal but sitting in a grease slick. The Modron popped back to the mechanical plane, and Ashley Panther led her pack out of the water and licked each other dry.

Alice's body was left like an oil slick on the water.

[Interactions Required, Yulya may cast healing on someone for maximum effect if she chooses.]

Cat · « **Reply #826 on:** November 21, 2025, 06:28:27 am »

Cat watches the events with growing disbelief

N-Nya? What in Catgods name is going on Nya?
Standing in front of Yulya, Cat is focused on the enemy and spared by the bright light. But she is too late, the snake is defeated by the cats first.

Quote from: Joy on November 20, 2025, 09:54:02 pm

The snake didn't have enough left in him to withstand the barrage, all cats except Ashley Panther hit successfully and their combined damage at a minimum was more than the snake had left. Quickly afterwards they killed both the snake and tore the octopus apart, eating their fill of the fishy delicacy.

Cat rushes in and tries to salvage octopus meat of good quality before it is eaten
Shoo Nya! You can eat the leftovers Nya I gotta collect parts our humans can eat Nya!

Cat proceeds to butcher octopus and snake after fishing Alice out of the water.

Joy · « **Reply #827 on:** November 21, 2025, 12:49:25 pm »

[5000XP is awarded, 1333XP For Yulya, Cat and Ashley, 1001XP for Alice.]

Cat can salvage 50lbs of octopus meat, the smell is fresh, but the texture is rubbery and tough. There is 25lbs of usable snake meat, it is tender and more palatable. There is also a pair of venom sacks, the venom can be boiled down to create poison, about 20 doses if a proper container is available.

Yulya · « **Reply #828 on:** November 21, 2025, 04:29:55 pm »

Yulya is overwhelmed by magic she cant control and casts weird spells in all directions
3 mirror images of Yulya slipped on grease with a feathery beard and grown to absurd size simultaneously cast INFLICT WOUNDS on the snake and miraculously hit it while a weird robot thing that came out of nowhere ropes up Alice.

Quote from: Joy on November 20, 2025, 09:54:02 pm

In the intervening few minutes, Yulya shrunk back into her now slightly stretched clothes, stopped glowing, and was given a total of 61 temporary hit points that all evaporated at the end of the first minute and is left normal but sitting in a grease slick.

What happened? Oh god what is this stuff? My Cleric Vestments! Ashley is this your magic? It looks and feels horrible! Alice can you clean this?
Yulyas clothes are stretched and soiled with brown grease in a very unfortunate-looking way.

Quote from: Joy on November 20, 2025, 09:54:02 pm

Alice's body was left like an oil slick on the water.

Slowly realizing what happened Yulya crawls over to the water and casts Healing Hands on Alices remains seeing that all her belongings have either spread on or sunken into the water.
Cat give her temporary HP! We need to get her back into shape! And I think we need a fire to dry everything!

After unsuccessfully trying to clean off the grease with water and shivering in disgust Yulya desperately waits for Alice to wake up. She will additionally use Channel Divinity - Divine Spark to restore 1d8+wis hp if Healing Hands was not enough.

Alice · « **Reply #829 on:** November 21, 2025, 06:19:43 pm »

Joy · « **Reply #830 on:** November 21, 2025, 10:44:17 pm »

Cat's Rage has ended, she can't give temporary hitpoints, and they'll have expired anyway. So as Cat begins carving the meat, Yulya uses healing hands on Alice with her temporary boost imbued by Ashley's magic. With a warming glow from Yulya's magic, Alice is restored 8 HP but still unconsious, so Yulya uses Divine spark and restores an additional:

[1d8+5=9]

Alice wakes.

Ashley Panther and the Cats continue to rest.

[Time: Wednesday, Spring 26, 4:20, 9C Calm]

Two hours pass before Cat's work is done, Yulya manages a fire. The ink has settled from the water and the little catfish have all moved to the remnants of the carcasses, scrubbing it as bottom feeders do.

[Please let me know what else you want to do before exploring more.]

Alice · « **Reply #831 on:** November 22, 2025, 05:00:26 pm »

Quote from: Joy on November 21, 2025, 10:44:17 pm

Yulya uses healing hands on Alice with her temporary boost imbued by Ashley's magic. With a warming glow from Yulya's magic, Alice is restored 8 HP but still unconsious, so Yulya uses Divine spark[/i]
Alice wakes.

The oily yellowish goo on the water sprouts antler-like appendages and long, branching, filamentous structures that dig into the dead monsters. Slowly, Alice morphs back into an otter-like thing that jumps out of the cold water

She re-shapes into her human form. All her belongings and clothes are still in the water, as are the contents of the Lolibank.
Alice looks around in confusion but recognizes Cat working on butchering the monsters and Yulya in distress.
What happened? I assume we won? Nice! And we got a lot of food! I had a strange dream I was roped up by a walking washing machine though...
Oh wait, you don't know what a washing machine is. Whatever.

Alice musters the squirming Yulya covered in brown grease.
You alright? What the hell happened to you? Did you...

Still naked, Alice moves over and starts cleaning off the grease with Phagocytosis, not unhappy to also leech off Yuyla's body warmth.
Grease? Where did that come from? Did the monsters produce this? Tastes fresh, much better than the one from the cart...
And your clothes! Yulya, what happened over there while I was out?

After fishing out her clothes and pack, Alice moves over to the fire to dry her belongings and listening to a rudimentary cleaned Yulya while continuing her job. Alice gets 3ft of string from her pack so Yulya at least doesn't lose her clothes.
My apologies, if I was in better shape I could fix this in an instant...
Well, damn I was reckless. I hadn't assumed there were 2 huge monsters in such a pond. Where did they even come from? We must be wayy more careful in the future. That could have ended badly. But I still wanna investigate where that tunnel is going. Do we have enough rope to secure me? And we gotta retrieve the treasure. Ours and the one from that skeleton! I'll get to work after I've warmed up.

After careful investigation with Yulya, Alice retrieves the content of her lolibank and all other belongings that had sunk in the pond. She sprouts a thin 10ft long pseudopod and wriggles it around underwater as bait to check for more monsters.
If the coast is clear, Alice will re-morph into otter-shape and retrieve the skeleton's belongings with her pseudopod ( it can carry 10lbs)

After carefully investigating the pond, Alice will warm up again at the fire before moving on to check out the tunnel, armed with her spear, a glowing stone and preferably fastened to a rope.

Joy · « **Reply #832 on:** November 22, 2025, 05:47:04 pm »

Nothing further disturbs the serenity of the water and its benign inhabitants. The skeleton with the wand and rings remains are much deeper and further back then Alice can reach however. Little catfish swim around the pseudopod as she disturbs the water but they're far more interested in the fresh meat, a delicacy most have likely never seen but eat it heartily.

Yulya · « **Reply #833 on:** November 22, 2025, 07:57:25 pm »

Yulya tries her best to explain what had happened. But she does not really have much idea herself.
Thanks for getting this grease off me! It appears I overused the focus - filled with Ashleys magic! The strange mechanical device with arms and legs was there and I believe it helped us greatly! We must ask Ashley once she transforms back!

Yulya dries her clean but damp clothes by the fire and then tries to fasten them with Alices string. She refills her focus and rests until Alice is ready to further explore the pond.

Cat · « **Reply #834 on:** November 23, 2025, 06:01:19 am »

Cat rests after butchering and hones her sword if there is time. Then she goes fishing with Alice on a rope. But it's not long enough.
Nyaa can't you use your 10ft pole Nya? At least to probe the surroundings Nya maybe there's another trap Nya.

Joy · « **Reply #835 on:** November 23, 2025, 08:31:14 am »

[Alice needs to decide what to do, then, to reach the skeleton with the wand and rings, she'll need to untie from the rope and free-swim. Additionally, there's an underwater tunnel leading further west.]

Alice · « **Reply #836 on:** November 23, 2025, 03:41:58 pm »

Frustrated, Alice hops out of the water and unties the rope.

Quote from: Cat on November 23, 2025, 06:01:19 am

Nyaa can't you use your 10ft pole Nya? At least to probe the surroundings Nya maybe there's another trap Nya.

Guess there's no helping it! Cat, keep watch and throw stones into the water if you notice something's off!
Alice retrieves the 10ft pole like a dog and hops into the water again.

https://i.imgur.com/XdbfGym.jpeg

She investigates the skeleton and prods its surroundings with the pole. Pole+Pseudopod = 20ft reach. The pole weighs 7lbs so is within the pseudopod's lifting capacity. No attacks are possible this way, just probing.

If retrieval of the skeleton's treasures is successful, Alice returns on land to warm up and report. Then she goes to investigate the tunnel in a similar manner. First investigate and probe roped, then remove rope and dive.

Alice is equipped with the following:
glowing Stone from Yulya (can be absorbed into body to turn off)
spear
10ft pole
net

The contents of the lolibank have been retrieved but not swallowed. To keep them safe, Alice leaves them with Yulya.

Joy · « **Reply #837 on:** November 23, 2025, 07:38:23 pm »

With all that can be recovered with a rope taken, Alice is left with the only one choice if she wants the items held up so graciously by the, clearly not a trap, skeleton's bony hand. After poking with a stick and throwing rocks, nothing but zipping blind catfish surfaced. So Alice goes further without the rope and reaches the skeleton.

It looks old, hundreds of years, stripped clean by the catfish and a foot below the wrist it's covered in the same muscles seen elsewhere. A current of cold water leads into the tunnel, coming from cracks in the submerged ceiling to the West. The wand is the type used by wizards with a sizeable pointed pink gem on the tip. Alice gives it a tug and the whole hand comes with it, rings included. She zips back and brings the loot to Yulya.

The bony hand wears three jeweled gold rings of unknown type with clearly a magic aura surrounding them.

[ARCANA 1d20+5=14]

It still clutches a wand, Yulya easily identifies it as a wand of magic missiles, but the rings evade her ability to identify.

[Wand of Magic Missiles This wand has 7 small gems surrounding the large one and therefore 7 charges. While holding it, you can use an action to expend 1 or more of its charges to cast the magic missile spell from it. For 1 charge, you cast the 1st-level version of the spell. You can increase the spell slot level by one for each additional charge you expend up to all 7. The wand regains 1d6 + 1 expended charges daily at dawn. If you expend the wand’s last charge, roll a d20. On a 1, the wand crumbles into ashes and is destroyed, so it's not well advised to ever use the last charge weight 2lbs, value 250gp, there is no discount, it trades like a gem or coin.]

[Possible Interactions #1]

Still looking for adventure, Alice dives back in soon after warming up.

The light from Yulya's stone guides her way through a hole about the size of a Rothé. She traverses a few hundred feet before finding a breathing space and a small beach. Here the catfish find her presence quite tasty as they attempt to strip off any dead layers of skin, if she had such things they'd happily exfoliate, but being something else, they soon lose interest. On the shore of this beach in pitch dark, other than the light Alice brought, is the skeletons of several beings still wearing what looks like well preserved but otherwise hard and brittle armor, clothes, and weapons. Anything leather cracks and falls apart to the touch, anything fabric turns to dust when disturbed, the iron weapons are hundreds of years old and in junk condition. Among the bodies Alice finds a small chest with a lock, though it weighs about 20lbs, she should be able to swim it back.

There's nothing else of value, the stains on the clothes indicate these poor fellows died from injuries. Several orc and goblin skeletons are also there but in worse shape.

[Possible Interactions #2]

Alice returns without incident after about half an hour.

[Time: Wednesday, Spring 26, 5:00, 9C Calm]

[Interactions Required, and tell me what you want to do next. There is no map update associated with this expedition.]

Cat · « **Reply #838 on:** **Yesterday** at 07:33:21 am »

Quote from: Joy on November 23, 2025, 07:38:23 pm

Alice goes further without the rope and reaches the skeleton.
It looks old, hundreds of years, stripped clean by the catfish and a foot below the wrist it's covered in the same muscles seen elsewhere. A current of cold water leads into the tunnel, coming from cracks in the submerged ceiling to the West. The wand is the type used by wizards with a sizeable pointed pink gem on the tip. Alice gives it a tug and the whole hand comes with it, rings included. She zips back and brings the loot to Yulya.

Cat inspects the loot
Nyaa nice nya! This should be useful Nya!

Quote from: Joy on November 23, 2025, 07:38:23 pm

Still looking for adventure, Alice dives back in soon after warming up.

In the mean time Cat prepares a Takoyaki snack worth 1/2 rations.
Since the octopus is tough, Cat minces the meat and mixes it with flour creating meatballs that are stir-fried in cooking oil.
1.5lbs octopus meat
0.5lbs flour
0.1lbs cooking oil

Quote from: Joy on November 23, 2025, 07:38:23 pm

Alice returns without incident after about half an hour, carrying a chest.

Oh another treasure Nya why did the Rockseekers never retrieved all this Nya?

Cat listens to the report.
Nyaa looks like there was quite the fight here Nya I wonder who those people were Nya and why we didn't see a single living orc or goblin Nya...

If there is still time to rest, Cat will hone her claws.

Yulya · « **Reply #839 on:** **Yesterday** at 11:01:17 am »

Quote from: Joy on November 23, 2025, 07:38:23 pm

The bony hand wears three jeweled gold rings of unknown type with clearly a magic aura surrounding them.
It still clutches a wand, Yulya easily identifies it as a wand of magic missiles, but the rings evade her ability to identify.

Yulya is relieved Alice has returned without an incident
Great work Alice! Uh, can you - remove the rings and the wand? And please bury the bones in a respectful way!

Yulya speaks a prayer for the long deceased wizard and marvels the staff.
This is quite marvelous! I cannot wit to show it to Ashley! It will improve our ranged combat options significantly!
Still Yulya feels the burden on her has increased...

With Alice having returned with a chest, Yulya finds some time to relax
That was again great work! We should leave opening that chest to Ashley!

Yulya gladly takes the octopus snack from Cat and finds a little more time to rest while Alice warms up.
Let us continue! There appears only one way westwards!

Yulya carefully leads her party to the west passage, staying behind and investigating the area for traps

Author Topic: Campaign #1 - Somewhere on the Sword Coast (Read 2858696 times)

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