Caves of Chaos: Swampwalk

 Session 4 was played on 8/29

Venus the Halfling
Io the thief
Gizzard the Wizard
Theiss the cleric
Gloin the Dwarf

Checking the tavern, they find 5 caravan guards interested in going for an adventure. Especially for a gold piece a day each! Rather than return to the caves, the party decides to explore the swamp and look for the lizardman encampment. Venus the halfling scouts ahead. Wandering for many soggy hours, they deal with numerous bug bites, and spot a variety of wildlife before they see signs of the lizardmen.

Eventually they do find the lizardmen mound, and in the heat and humidity of the late afternoon the lizardmen guards are sluggish and don’t spot the party. Gizzard uses his sleep spell to ensure that they can approach the mound unbothered. They quickly dispatch the sleeping lizardmen, and then fight the ones from inside the mound that try to come out to get the party. Sadly for the lizardmen, because of the narrowness of the mound’s entrance, they aren’t able to mass against the party effectively and after a couple more deaths, they just close up the entrance till the party goes away.

Checking over the corpses, they find one was wearing a heavy gold chain around it’s neck. They take it and head back toward the keep. On the way they spot 7 skeletons marching through the muck toward them. Theiss holds up her holy symbol and sends the skeletons running back into the swamp.

Gains: gold chain
Losses Kril the man at arms
Kills: 6 lizardmen

December ‘24 In Review

In the least shocking turn of events, I’m ending the year with a cold. I thankfully didn’t get it while I was visiting family for the holiday week, which was a joy. Watching the kid tear through the wrapped presents was a lot of fun. We also watched the ball drop with him (at 8pm) and toasted the new year together. A happy and (relatively) healthy end to the year.


Gaming
My Caves of Chaos game has wandered off to explore away from the caves. I’m going to need to fill in the map around the keep and the caves to let them wander. Thankfully that ties into the #Hex25 I’m starting today!

Stonehell was on pause this month, and Lanse has been running a terrifying game of Mothership. It’s nice to get to play, as always, but I wonder how long we’re gonna make it before it all ends in death?


Miniatures
A productive month. I didn’t get any painting in during the holiday, but in spite of that, I got a lot done before the end of the year. I’ll be doing a year in minis review later, but for the month, this is what I wrapped up!

Too many big things to fit it all in the lightbox!

I’m especially happy to have done the 2 scifi terrain pieces. They’ve been collecting dust for a while.

The necromancer diorama that I started a year ago has seen some more progress… For something that’s only 2 minis, It’s really going slowly. I need to just finish it up.

Media
Star Trek Lower Decks (season 5)
Silo (season 2)
Ghosts
Muppet Christmas Carol
Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
Secret Level
Arcane season 2

Loot
This month’s loot was my reaper christmas order. There were just too many freebies to pass it up, plus with the credit I get from doing the reaper challenge league, it was half as expensive as it would have been otherwise.

 

I also got in my Painted Wastelands setting book for OSE. Haven’t even cracked the plastic wrap on it yet, but I’ll post something about it after I do.

Goals for January
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