A decrepit door is nearly our downfall, as our dexterity-based party is nearly turned around when pushing with all our might does nothing. Only by happening to pull a strong creature out of Pasha's Bag of Tricks do we get past this obstinate obstacle. Inside the ancient tower we find the resting place of the […]
'Before you even get to the junction, you hear a banging and a horse shouting.' '... what's it shouting?'
We vanquish a necromancer who made his home inside some barrows and was using the reanimated corpses of a nearby ex-village as labour. Barely has his cold body hit the floor when a phantom of dark swirling mist rises up from the Necromancer's corpse and addresses us. 'My Lord, Ehalazuhn, wishes to recognise your great […]
'There is a lantern ahead, a couple of miles away.' 'We shall go to investigate the latern.' 'So you're heading towards the light.' 'Stop making it sound so ominous.'
Have we found everything of value? How can we know, until someone casts Detect Magic? Pasha goes above and beyond the call of duty, not only casting the spell but making sonar noises as he searches for magic, 'Bing! Bing! Bing!', until I throw his pencil out of the room. We find a couple of […]
Defeating the Bugbear slavers and their overseer, we are left with the excellent task of looking for loot. We find a chest. 'It's not locked', says the GM, but we're not naive adventurers. 'I'll check the chest for traps.' Having the GM tell me, 'let's say it isn't trapped', doesn't fill me with confidence. 'Is […]
We have a ship! We also have a crew. This leads to squabbling over who should be captain, which takes most of the day. Eventually, seeing the crew standing around in stunned disbelief, I simply shout out something that sounds captainy. 'Ready for sail!' 'Hey, who made you captain?' 'No one, but maybe you'd like […]
The pirate ship bringing the iron ore, and maybe mithril, comes in to the cove. We see the pirates on the ship, as well as their captain, who 'has a mean-looking parrot'. 'So do I', says Pasha, about his re-summoned minion for the occasion. 'Well, he's small and cute.' 'In a fight with this one, […]
We get a surprise round on some bugbears we've sneaked up on. One gets stabbed in the back, the other two are engulfed by quite a damaging fireball. All in all, it's an effective surprise. 'You don't see any more bugbears, but we're going to stay in initiative.' 'Why's that?' 'No reason.' Our spider-sense tingles, […]
'The ship transports iron ore.' '...what?' 'Iron ore.' 'Or what?' 'What?' 'Mithril?' 'No, iron ore.' 'Iron or... mithril? 'Just iron ore.' '...what?'