Rappan Athuk: Insect-People Bug Us

Session was played on 1/15/23

Nick, Fighter 7 (Me)
Blotto, Goblin (Lanse)
Koltic, Cleric 7 (NPC)
Aroon, Fighter 5 (NPC)
Jameth, Fighter 5 (NPC)
Lor’Koth, Dwarf 5 (NPC)
Lt. Marthek, Fighter (NPC)

Koltic’s stills continue to produce the good stuff (healing potions) while Blotto works with Morgana to design a fishing pond for her grounds.

Back to the dungeon, and down to level 2 without encounter. At the bottom of the stairs a man and a woman rearing ratty clothing and crowns demand a toll. Nick is willing to pay a little, tossing one of the jet colored gems to them. They demand more, and Nick refuses. Then the rats attack, while the rat king and queen escape. After finishing off the rats and rescuing Jameth who got cut off from the rest of the party in the melee, they continue back down to the corpse of the purple worm.

A pair of insect-like humanoids are carving up the corpse. Their bright orange eyes send Nick nuts, and he attacks his fellows. The rest of the party piles onto him holding him down until the madness passes. The insect-people otherwise ignore the party.

Moving away from the corpse of the worm, and the weird insect people, the party stumbles on a small group of orcs, one in priestly garments. The priest casts Hold on Marthek, chanting about the power of Orcus. The fight goes poorly for the orcs.

The party continues on, away from the worm and the tunnel the orcs were heading toward, and run into 2 more of the insect-people. Koltic and Marthek both charge in in a maddened rage, the rest of the party follows. The insect people were much tougher than the orcs, but they’re eventually killed. Each had a single gem on them. Searching these bodies reminded the party that they failed to loot the orc bodies, so they back tracked to do that, collecting some fancy unholy symbols that could be melted down and sold.

Gains: 2 gems, unholy symbols of orcus, unholy water
Kills: orc priest of orcus, orcs, 2 insect-people
Losses: