A Shortage of Tall Poppies

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• GM: Miles Jackson
• Time: Spring 811 WK
• Day: Wednesdays
• Level: Medium

The Party

1. Theodonna - a not quite human namer
2. Perrin – Human E&E with a battle axe
3. Mîm – Dark Celestial elf
4. Vladimir – human mind mage
5. Tallama – giant female goblin namer
6. François – human shadow celestial
7. Aaron – Human E&E

Adventure Summary

This was a one week adventure that stretched to four weeks
- as the main adventure stalled due to a lack of GM!

Mission Briefing

Poppy - a rich dwarven merchant/bandit's daughter - has gone missing in the rough mining town of Thornburg (off plane Carena). Her father Taris has received a ransom note from Garth and will pay us 5,000sp each for actions leading to her recovery. Thornburg is a seasonal town, mining a black metal - that suppresses magic. The whole area is low mana.

Events

• Gate to Carena, and suss out the town. Perin spends time with Hoppy. Mim spends time with Lady Misty. Tallama spends some real quality time with Knuckles.
• Garth has about seven followers (fighters and mages of various races)
• Go mining for black metal and strangely come back with two Ice Goats (Tallama has some encounters of the 'ouch' kind)
• Encounter a 'mana well' - an imp that focuses the mana around it so mana is normal/high (and his two assassin dwarf companions)
• Vlad had a crossbow duel with a local (turned out to be to the death - Vlad won)
• Kill Garth and all but two of his followers - one Vlad tracks down and kills, the other we follow back to a mountain lair (where Theo had a near death experience - again)
• In the lair, Perrin sacrifices a day of service to a Spirit so we can go to the spirit plane, meet a nice witch and rescue Poppy
• The witch tells us of a plot to take the source of the black metal and use it to conquer the world, so we decide to track that down
• Into mountain tunnels we go - and eventually find the live imp and his dead dwarf companions, killed by a dragon construct
• The enraged dragon kills Perrin (a really bad backfire) while the girls (Theo, Tallama and Mim) neutralise its seven breath weapons. Aaron administers the final killing blow.
• The witch pushes the globe of black metal through to a place of elemental fire (Where it will be destroyed. Well, probably. Well, maybe.)
• The imp resurrects Perrin's sadly burnt and mashed body in exchange for a Amber broach containing some powerful elemental fire of some sort (found with other treasure in the chamber of the globe) That is a good deal. Isn't it??
• The witch teleports us back to Poppy's mother and all except one of us gate back to Seagate
• Perrin keeps his date with a Spirit

Administration

Marching order

• Bum guards – Aaron and François
• Cowards - Theo & Mîm
• Not so Brave meat shield: Perrin
• Brave meat shields – Vlad and Tallama

Loot

Items

• Silver Cloth – Cast mending once per day - (Tallima)
  
• Black Metal Dagger - -10% on your magical abilities, serious magic penalties on mages hit with the dagger - (Vlad)
  
• Steel Gauntlets of Ogre Strength - +4 strength, can still cast - (Aaron)
  
• Pouch of Holding – designed to hold coins and gems only, no organic materials, no sharp or magical items (will possibly hold small things like sling stones, a garrote, cudgel or sap – GM to clarify) - (Theo)
  
• ?Pouch of Resurrection: from Taris (our employer)- returned
  

Rings

• Ring of Rk16 Enhanced Enchantment – 1 charge - (Fran)
  
• Ring of Rk16 Enhanced Enchantment – 1 charge - (Mîm)
  
• Ring of Rk20 Strength of Stone – 1 charge - (Perrin)
  
• Ring of Rk20 Strength of Stone – 1 charge - (Min)
  
• Troubadour's Ring - +15% to reaction rolls - (Fran)
  

Potions

• Black Potion – Sphere of anti-magic once per day (drink to gain permanent ability) - (Perrin)
  
• Red Potion – Melt a volume of metal to liquid once per day (drink to gain permanent ability) - (Perrin)
  
• Blue Potion – Sphere of Lightning once per day (drink to gain permanent ability) - (Vlad)
  
• Green Potion – Sphere of Nauseous Gas once per day (drink to gain permanent ability) - (Aaron)
  
• Yellow Potion – Sphere of Fear once per day (drink to gain permanent ability) - (Mîm)
  
• Indigo Potion – Transfer critical to chosen party member once per day (drink to gain permanent ability) - (Fran)
  
• White Potion – Immune to cold (drink to gain permanent ability) - (Tallama)
  

Mundane

• A fancy crossbow Vlad won in a duel - (Vlad)
• Dwarf assassins: good/weaponsmithed weapons and armours

Perrin's personal reward

• A day's service to Smokey - a lecherous old spirit of changeable gender

Treasure Rolls

• 26 Theo
• 27 Perrin
• 44 François (GM roll)
• 57 Mîm
• 72 Aaron
• 73 Talamar
• 96 Vlad (GM roll)