Stonehell B Team: Blood Sucking Stirges

Session 314 was played on 12/24/25

Sonara, Wizard (Rob)
Adorellen, Elf (Me)
Glimmer, Kobold (Lanse)
Kessaren, Cleric (Cindy)
Loahn, Halfling (Josh)
3 Kobold meatshields (iGor, Pibble, VI)

Continuing in the Contested Corridors, they find a stash of coin in a ruined chapel, then find some old storage closets where an unusual amount of rock salt keeps turning up. Then they find a trio of hobgoblins in a large room chilling out. They don’t maintain their chill, and attack the party. Being outnumbered, they are quickly cut down. However as the party is rifling through their stuff, Kess notices that the wounds on the hobgoblins’ bodies are stitching up on their own. Working quickly the party piles them up and douses them with oil before lighting them on fire.

Several rooms later the party is set upon by a pack of stirges. Pibble and IV drop, Sonra, iGor, and Loahn get bit before the pests could be killed. Limping along they come to the Chamber of the Desert. The way is blocked by a portcullis, so Adorellen grabs and lifts, only to be dropped on by a green slime hiding in the channel of the portcullis! Everyone helps to scrape and burn it off them.

Back up to the caves they catch 4 goblins among the mushrooms. “Just passing though” the party assures them. Everyone keeps their distance across the cave, and no one gets hurt. In the next section of the cave, over a dozen giant crickets are bouncing around. Loahn has one crash into him, and he squashes it with his hammer in reply. This sets off the rest of the crickets, who go bouncing around the cave like crazy. iGor takes one right in the face and goes down. Kess gets to him quickly and gives him a healing potion.

Gains: coins
Kills: thouls, cave cricket, stirges
Losses: IV

Stonehell B Team: Contested Corridors

Session 313 was played on 12/14/25

Sonara, Wizard (Rob)
Adorellen, Elf (Me)
Glimmer, Kobold (Lanse)
Kessaren, Cleric (Cindy)
Loahn, Halfling (Josh)
3 Kobold meatshields (iGor, Pibble, VI)

With Nolti back on his feet and anxious to get back to the Korners, he and Roi join the party. However, not knowing how the kobolds in the Korner will take to having Nolti back is potentially dangerous, so they stick them in a cave in the box canyon and direct them to write 5,000 words on how to deal with the fey in the Korners.

The party leaves them to write and heads into the dungeon, making for the Contested Corridors. The first door they check out is trapped with a fire trap that catches Glimmer. From the other side of the door they hear “No Solicitors" yelled out in goblin. It seemed they meant it, so the party moved on. In the Chamber of the Woods, they encounter a troop of kobolds returning from a mushroom collecting trip from elsewhere in the corridors, and talk to them about the death of the Queen of the Fey. They’re thrilled and promise to spread the word. Notably, the party does not mention Nolti or Roi.

Further into the area they find an old storage room, and hear a giggle. Sonra was ready to drop a fireball, but caught sight of a small kobold kid in the shadows and held off. Glimmer gives the kids lessons, and each gets a caltrop.

Circling through the quadrant they come to a guardpost for another entrance to the Kobold Korners, and apologize for startling the kobolds on duty. Continuing their explorations they find their way up to the caverns, slaying some vermin along the way, and loot a giant rat’s nest.

Gains: coins
Kills: giant rats, giant centipedes
Losses:

Stonehell B Team: Party at the Gatehouse

Session 312 was played on 12/7/25

Sonara, Wizard (Rob)
Adorellen, Elf (Me)
Glimmer, Kobold (Lanse)
Kessaren, Cleric  (Cindy)
Loahn, Halfling  (Josh)
4 Kobold meatshields (iGor, Blar, 3, 6)

Karl went off to get drunk, and it was decided that they should retrieve his 10’ pole from the water weird before he notices it’s missing. Returning to the dungeon, they spot some lizardmen in the swamp hunting something. It’s far enough away that everyone basically ignores the other party. They make it to the Gatehouse Inn and find Karl there drinking with the kobolds and a couple of goblins named Gibblit and Giblit. Of course the party joins in and it becomes a party! 

Over the course of the party they hear stories about an albino ape living deep in the dungeon with a pile of treasure to make a dragon jealous, and of a vanguard of orcs looking to gain a foothold in the dungeon. 

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Session long on role play, short on notes. 
 

March ‘26 In Review

What a month!! From winter to spring and back again a couple of times… Took a trip upstate for another weekend long gaming get together, and despite a cold that dragged on through the month, had a great time. On the long ride back and forth I listened to 1.66 audio books, and while there I had some excellent beers! 

Yes, that is the 20% abv D&D 50th anniversary stout! 

Work has been stupid busy with audit prep, which has meant some long hours and even weekend hours. It’ll be so nice when we’re through it. I also lost one of my team members rather suddenly, and once again find myself taking over a chunk of their duties. Lousy timing really... 


Miniatures
It ended up being a bit of a rush to get things done by the end of the month. I had bigger plans, but I’m still pleased with what I accomplished, and I’ve got some really fun minis lined up to work on in the next couple months. I am however way far behind on non-reaper minis so far this year… not counting the terrain I’ve been building, which is honestly the thing I’m most happy about. It's been hard not to start the next project! Though I have planned it. 

Aside from the terrain, I've done several rather large minis, including the wyvern, the boats, the shipwreck revenant, and the Tau capital ships. Q2 is going to continue the trend with another wyvern, and a ringwrath on a fell beast. 

Q1 minis

Gaming
I didn’t get in the next game of Hope Eternal, but I’m going to try to paint up the tower in April and get the game in before the end of the month.

Stonehell/Rappan has shifted from the B team’s exploration of Stonehell back to the Morgana’s crew and the goings on in Rappan. During our weekend together we stormed the first of the temples to Orcus. We’ll be better prepared next time. But in spite of being teleported over lava, we somehow managed a win, though it was a painful one.

The work game saw the adventurers deal with the wyvern, then have to deal with some insistent wererats, before departing for the big city and heading into the sewers for more rat tails as they await the completion of some custom equipment they’ve ordered.

Media
Hacks
Farscape season 3
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy
Daredevil Born Again season 2

Books
I Got Abducted by Aliens and Now I'm Trapped in a Rom-Com (surprisingly raunchy, but fun)
The Three-Body Problem (audiobook, ⅔ done, need to finish it)

Loot
Picked up Stargrave: Dead or Alive and Bold Endeavor 

Goals for April
Paint up trashbash tower
Play scenario 4 of Stargrave Hope Eternal