Stonehell: Green Lines in the Undermines

Session 238 was played on 12/17/23

Morgana, Magic User (Rob)
Borumar, ½ Orc Thief (Josh)
Blotto, Goblin Fighter (Lanse)
Koltic, Cleric 7 (NPC)
Aroon, Fighter 5 (NPC)
Jameth, Fighter 5 (NPC)
Lor’Koth, Dwarf 5 (NPC)
Nick, Fighter 7 (Me)

After ensuring that the trolls were safely encased in the stasis field, the party heads back down to the mines, and explores some of the side passages. They quickly come to a faintly glowing green line that completely encircles the passage. Not wanting to get close to it, they chuck a rock at it. The line is disrupted, and the glow fades, though it still glistens in the party’s light like glitter. Blotto pees on some of it.

Further down the passage they find a branching passage choked with rubble. They spend a few minutes digging through it, but don’t make much progress or find anything of value. The party backtracks to the entry room, then checks another spot on their map, smelling ammonia… Blotto didn’t want to pee on it. The party cautiously investigates, finding a group of Kobolds chained together and to the wall. They free them, and bring them back up to the Hermitage. The dwarves don’t really want kobolds hanging out, so the party escorts them back up to the surface, bringing them to the Gatehouse Inn.

After leaving the kobolds, the party decides to poke around in the caves of the box canyon, finding an angry giant rat, and then a rabid raccoon.

Gains:
Kills: giant rat, rabid raccoon
Losses:

Stonehell: Trolls in the Mines

Session 237 was played on 12/03/23

Morgana, Magic User (Rob)
Borumar, ½ Orc Thief (Josh)
Blotto, Goblin Fighter (Lanse)
Koltic, Cleric 7 (NPC)
Aroon, Fighter 5 (NPC)
Jameth, Fighter 5 (NPC)
Lor’Koth, Dwarf 5 (NPC)
Nick, Fighter 7 (Me)

The party decides to check the mines under the hermitage. The rusted lift down into it was fixable, but loud as it clunked its way down through the worked stone into the mines. At the bottom rusty cart tracks lead off into darkness. Morgana uses her wizard eye to explore to the north, and sees some trolls lurking out of the party’s light, ready to pounce, but she tosses in a fireball. Amazingly, the one that survived begins to regenerate, even through the burns! Blotto and Borumar beat down the one that kept trying to stand up, and they notice the others are regenerating too. They begin to dismember the trolls, and then begin swapping parts. Morgana pokes and prods the bodies to see what will stop their regenerating. Not having much luck they bring the bodies back up to the hermitage and to the stasis chambers in the sewers, tossing in all the troll bits.

Gains:
Kills: 4 undine trolls
Losses:

Stonehell: Downtime in the Hermitage

Session 236 was played on 11/20/23

Morgana, Magic User (Rob)
Borumar, ½ Orc Thief (Josh)
Blotto, Goblin Fighter (Lanse)
Koltic, Cleric 7 (NPC)
Aroon, Fighter 5 (NPC)
Jameth, Fighter 5 (NPC)
Lor’Koth, Dwarf 5 (NPC)
Nick, Fighter 7 (Me)

Downtime in the Hermitage. Lor’Koth gives Morgana a room in the hermitage to use as her personal lab/teleport chamber. Lots of helping the dwarves get things cleaned up, dusted off, etc. to make it more livable, and less like something inhabited by nearly-undead shades.

Gains:
Kills:
Losses:

Stonehell: Crown Affairs

Session 235 was played on 11/12/23

Morgana, Magic User (Rob)
Borumar, ½ Orc Thief (Josh)
Blotto, Goblin Fighter (Lanse)
Koltic, Cleric 7 (NPC)
Aroon, Fighter 5 (NPC)
Jameth, Fighter 5 (NPC)
Lor’Koth, Dwarf 5 (NPC)
Nick, Fighter 7 (Me)

Returning to the manor, Blotto headed right for the rust monster pen, curious to know the abilities of the crown in relation to the beasts… but they wouldn’t go near him, and would attack when cornered. The rest of the party watched with trepidation. It was clear there was a struggle going on within Blotto’s mind, and he turned to Koltic, pleading in his eyes. Taking the opportunity, Koltic cast Remove Curse on the goblin, and Blotto pulled the crown from his brow. Morgana snatched it away, and shoved it in a bag, then put the bag in a box, and then put the box in a bigger box.

Dark whispers tickling Morgana’s mind, she took the well wrapped crown to Boris’ fortified cloister and asked him to seal it away. Meanwhile back at the manor, Karl and Lor’Koth discuss the future of the Hermitage, and they decide that they’ll work together as caretakers.

When Morgana returns the party agrees that they’ll tell their Vrylian patron that Deepeyes and the crown got away, but they’ll hunt him down.

Returning to Stonehell, they go directly to Rocky and ask their questions
What is the location of the portable teleportation device for Stonehll?
Hollow leg of a great stone table, high above the dungeon proper
What guards it?
Anonymity
From here, what is the direction of the stone table?
Up

They thank their stony friend and continue on to the teleporter, and down to level 5, and straight to the bar, updating him on things in the Hermitage, then to the minotaurs to pay them for their services.

Morgana lightning bolts a trio of spiders near the gate to the Hermitage, killing them, and then they head in to check on things since they left a few days ago.

Gains:
Kills: Spiders x3
Losses:

May ‘24 In Review

I really want June to be a chill month, but it isn’t going to be, not with a work trip right in the middle of it, followed by a short vacation since I’m already out of town.

But before looking ahead to that, May was another busy month. The first half of the month was swamped by the audit at work, and then the second half was spent catching up on all the work that was put on the back burner by the audit. In non-work busyness no major house projects, but some more work on the lawn. The clover in the back yard is coming up beautifully, but the wildflowers I planted in the front didn’t come in as well as I’d hoped. I just reseeded it with more wildflower seeds and mixed in some clover in case the wildflowers fail me again.

I did take a day off for myself where I binge watched Star Trek Prodigy and made a forest worth of trees for the gaming table (more on that below).

Gaming
Got in a game of Necessary Evil. We managed to free and collect the supers that were trapped by the finheads, and destroyed a good chunk of the facility.
Our Stonehell/Rappan game, the party has FINALLY reached the temple that is our current mission, and made it into the oceanside caves. That only took a couple of months…
And finally I’m gearing up to run some D&D at the staff retreat again! I bought some more dice sets to give away, and need to start writing up some quick start characters.


Miniatures
Again, I didn’t finish the sc-ifi troopers this month. I did finish up almost all the minis from The Spiders of Emrith Kul (still need to do the halfling) and a rat swarm.
What I spent the majority of my hobby time on this month was my forest. 18 trees that as of the end of the month are all painted up, and now just need foliage. There’s going to be a long post about it soon-ish. 

Media
Star Trek Prodigy S1 rewatch
Resident Alien
Star Trek Discovery
Delicious in Dungeon
Letterkenny

Goals for June
Play scenario 3 for Hope Eternal (Realistically this is probably gonna be July, but who knows…)
Try to get at least 2 session reports written per week.
Wrap up some of the many projects on my hobby desk