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2023-10-28 Something Fishy

4 players for session #65.

During the downtime since the last session (10/14/23) the group traveled to Ironguard. Noy and Nim hired the retainers, Childgard and Amrica, while there. Sora got his cursed attachment to the Horn of the Dead removed and he tossed it in the river.

They decided to return to the barrowmaze.

Immediately after entering the maze they encountered a second group of adventurers but were separated by a open pit trap at the time. By the time the group got across the pit the rival group had left.

They stopped by the Mitra shrine and everyone but Nim got a blessing.

They investigated a room and found a lever. Pulling the lever revealed a secret door. Childgard was first to enter the newly revealed hall. When he did a portcullis dropped behind him trapping him and at the same time opening a second portcullis further down that released a Shadow. He fell back to fight with his back at the portcullis. Grem lobbed 2 magic missiles at it and Jason stabbed through the portcullis with his sword. They eventually defeated the shadow.

Childgard investigates the passage beyond the portcullis and finds a skeleton in a chair with a locked box on his lap. He removes the skeletons head to be safe. Takes the box then searches the chair and area. As he searches he realizes that he had crossed over a pit trap without setting it off and now his exit was blocked.

The party works together to lift the portcullis and places a shield under it to keep it up. Nim uses his levitating helmet to float across and rescue Childgard.

They break open the box to find a key with a skull on it.

Moving out to explore further they hear noises and see lights. They realize it’s the same group of rival adventurers they ran into earlier. With both groups separated by a corner in the hall and out of sight of one another, Jason threatens them telling them to leave. They are not intimidated and ignore his threat. Nim cries out like they’re being attacked, this surprises the other group. Grem steps around the corner and casts sleep before they can react. All of the rival group falls to the ground to take a nap.

When they investigate the rival group they find that they had just slain a skeleton in fancy black chain mail and carrying a black sword. They party claims the loot and stashes the rival groups gear in a secret room they know about.

One of the sleeping adventurers had fallen so that he was lying half through an illusion of an empty room, with only his lower torso present. Nim pulls the adventurer the rest of the way out but never investigates the illusionary space.

The party dispatches all eight of the rivals.

The hall they found the rival party in had 7 mausoleums. They investigate them all.

While investigating the mausoleums they are attacked by 4 skeletons. Nim turns them and the skeletons flee.

They open the doors to one and their torches are blown out. They re-light their torches.

On the door of one mausoleum they find a warning written in chalk that says “Don’t go this way” with an arrow pointing west. They go that way anyway.

In another mausoleum they find a decaying human female magician with a staff and a magic book. They later find out the book contains the spells Locate Object, Floating Disk and Protection from Evil.

On another mausoleum door they find a message written in chalk that says, “I fucked the barmaid at the Brazen Strumpet”. A strange message that seems oddly specific and very out of place.

In the last door they find a nest of 6 spitting cobras. Childgard is blinded from snake venom. Grem polymorphs one into a fish? The party kills all the snakes and dispatches the fish.

With a party member blinded, the group decides to return to the Barrowkeep.