Rappan Athuk: More Chocolate Demon Babies

Session played on 10/24

Nick the Pike, Fighter  (Me)
Borumar
Koltic
Aroon
Jameth
Lor’Koth

Borumar introduced Nick to some of his friends from the Stonehell side of the world, and they came along to go explore the worm tunnel and adjoining dungeon. It stank. Worse than before. But when they return to the rooms they’d found last time, they found the 20K copper coins still there, which suggested that no one else had been down to the dungeon.

Trying the door they skipped last time brought them to an octagonal room with murals painted on it. 5 men in white robes, one with a blackened left hand. Examining it closer, it looked like the black paint was added later. The open doorway to the west revealed a long dark silent corridor. The door to the east led to an empty room with 2 other doors. Checking the door to the south, revealed a massive rat, the largest that Nick had ever seen. It vomited on Jameth and Nick. Borumar killed it with a solid blow after a short fight.

Nick and Jameth begin to feel pretty ill, but press on.

The other door opens into a bedroom. The nightstand has charcoal drawings of 3 different women. They don’t look related. Jameth vomits. Nick, feverish, finds a secret door leading into a walk in closet. They use a pair of the Cure Disease scrolls, and instantly feel better. Exploring the closet they find a table with a jar containing 5 gold rings, each inscribed with “to my one and only”, a leather bag with gold coins, a silver headed mace (magic?), an obsidian earring with “Rappan Athuk” neatly carved around the obsidian sphere (is there a gift shop down here???), and 3 red scrolls with a note basically telling the recipient of the scrolls, Jossel, to be less of a player, or at least use protection. Borumar finds 3 silver rings under the table.

Heading back toward the octagonal room, the sound of leathery wings and demonic cackling echoes down the hall. A pair of the chocolate demon babies! Combat is pretty quick, and the party manages to avoid too much damage. Borumar, while considering taking another horn, sees a weird tooth in the mouth of one, and pries it out. As soon as he does, the demon baby dissolves. Checking the other, he finds the same thing. The weird teeth were pearls!

Having checked all the available closed doors the party heads down the dark hall. After a good distance they find a pair of doors, and the hallway turns to the south. Checking the hallway, they don’t see anything. Checking the door to the north, they find an ooze that gets Borumar a little, but is killed quickly.

Nick makes a note to make sure everyone gets some ranged weapons when back in town.

Beyond the ooze is another hallway with a door at the end heading north.

Checking the other door before pressing on) they find a store room, and a large ambush spider. Borumar gets bitten, but doesn’t seem poisoned. Nick spears the spider, killing it. Searching the room they discover a large stash of copper coins, some silver coins, and a fancy silver plate. Using Borumar’s magical elephant, they carry out all the copper and get back to the village, only encountering a swarm of harmless but creepy  roaches that swarms over and past the party in the worm tunnel.

Back in town, Nick trades 1 red scroll to Olmam Dark, the necromancer, for 6 lesser healing potions, and 1 free cure disease spell (just have to make it back to the necromancer to collect on the spell, as well as a good discount if the scroll results in something useful.

Checking around with the charcoal drawings, Nick finds one older lady named Yolanda  who thinks she’s one of them, and she recognizes the name Jossel, her first husband. She lost him 60+ years back. He’d been a member of an order of priests devoted to healing, and apparently trying to heal the whole world of disease (what did they do wrong!?!)

Gains: Gold, silver, and copper coins, 3 scrolls of cure disease, silver mace, gold and silver rings, obsidian earring, silver plate.
Kills: giant rat, chocolate demon babies, giant spider, ooze
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