South Gate Rot
Summary
Adventure: South Gate Rot
GM: Jim Arona
Session: Autumn 817wk
Night: Wednesday nights
Location Chez Martins - New Windsor
Level: Low-Violent
Party:
- Haedric - Dwarf Ice - Stephen
- Raseri - Human Celestial - Ciaran
- Aloysious - Human Air - Nick M
- Merri_Blackwood - Human E&E - Chris
- Gnashdar - Orcish Necro - Chris
- ?
Employer:
Briefing
Things are rotten near Southgate in Ranke.
Summary
Scribe Notes
I'll add brief notes which are to be fleshed out when scribe is up to it.
Session 1 - Meet, Greet and travel northwards
Introductions, Travel to Fort Flowing and up the river to Southgate. Explore Orchards, identify Water Source issue, meet apothecary, travel into hills, meet a hillsman (bro of apothecary), camp overnight, travel into hollow, get Goat attacked and almost killed.
Session 2 - Explore and battle the goblins
Get out of the bowl, scout around, hunt down the target, close on target, engage goblins, victorious, gain a monkey and loot.
Session 3 - Into the copse and fight the 4 Ogres and a Black Annis Hag
Into the copse and fight the 4 Ogres and a Black Annis Hag. E died during the fight after heroically saving me with his healing potion gift. We then rested up and went to the Hag's obfuscated den near a waterfall. We used powerful magic to pierce the protections and entered her lair. We touched the 'waterfall' of strangeness with M's rod of Charm and we enetered another realm.
Session 4 - We check out the other worldly realm and almost fatally encounter a See Hag
We enter the area, checking subtly and gathering items. There are 4 rooms in the area and we manage to safely enter one and loot a very nice Divan and other bits and pieces. The Sand Table in the central area is 12ft x 3ft and depicts an area 70m East of Southgate as a narrow area some 40m wide and shows the various ashgroves in the area. We look at the tower itself (this is some 70ft tall) and look over its walls which are 25ft high cremanated walls with Parapets set 8ft down the wall which means the defenders are very tall. It's a walled compound with crimson sands outside.
All goes well until Haedric (the dwarf) throws some bread at a beaded curtain over a darkened passage making it resonate - soon thereafter followed by the arrival of a See Hag. We barely manage to survive as we take Haedric's unconscious body on my floating divan and flee back to the nearby Ash Grove.
Misc Notes;
- The Ash Grove's are all interconnected. The primary effect of the magic is 'Contagion' with a secondary effect of 'Representation'.
- The Sand Table was very magical and showed a map of the area encompassing the ash gives and southgate etc. It was richly appointed and had very valuable components of gold, gems and such
Session 5 - Merri's is sucked into the void and an Orc joins the party
We get out of the defile and make it back to the ash grove. The party play with the tarot deck. R and A survive while Merri is sucked into the void and her death. The party go oops!
The nearby orcs appear agitated and the they ambush the 6 goblins dragging a captive orc back towards their main camp. They free the Orc who turns out to be a guild member who was grabbed unawares by the evil goblins. Gnashdar is his name.
The party (now including Gnashdar) take on the 40 goblins and the huge leader who turns out to be an Ogre Magi from the other dimension and they barely win with no new deaths. H is healed by the Melians and promises return and undertake a favour for them.
Session 6 - party returns to civilisation with some hijinks. Also Sanctuary bound.
Party travels back to Southgate and informs the local abbess about issues. She authorises additional pay. The party visits the local herbalist in the hills and the Orc gets some lessons in punishments and perfumery from the Abbess who is quite the disciplinarian it seems! We are headed to Sanctuary next.
Sanctuary is reached after a few days of travel and we end up walking in after leaving the boat a few miles down the coast.
Session 7 - TBA
Session 8 - TBA
Session 9 - TBA
Locations
In Southgate itself are the following places of note;
- The Blue Cow Inn - prop Ernest Applegate
- Apothecary -
- The Town Cistern - fed by the local waters coming down from the mountains and nearby plateau to the northeast
- Ranke - xx
- Mordeaux -
People, Creatures or Beings encountered
- Black Annis
- See Hag
- Ogres
- Goat - particularly vicious
- Goblins
Buffs & Mil Sci
Long Term (assumed always on)
| Magic (caster) | Rk | Effects | Dur | Ha | Ra | Al | Me | ? | ? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greater (Me) | 11 | +12% | Hrs | ||||||
| Spell (Ra) | 0 | .. | Hrs | ||||||
| Spell (Ra) | 0 | .. | Hrs | ||||||
| Spell (Ra) | 0 | .. | Hrs | ||||||
| Spell (Ra) | 0 | .. | Hrs | ||||||
| Spell (Ra) | 0 | .. | Hrs |
Watch Order
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | ||||||||
| 4 | 5 | 6 | |||||||||
Marching Order
| Default
1 2 |
Double File
1 2 |
Single File
1 |
Treasure recovered
- Ascalon the Glaive. Dragon slaying Broadsword or Lance
- Silk Shirt
- extra set of hag skin
| Item | Qty | Effects | Provenance | Ha | Ra | Al | Me | Gn | ? | Used |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Consumables | ||||||||||
| x | 1 | |||||||||
| Grenadoes | ||||||||||
| x | 1 | |||||||||
| Amulets | ||||||||||
| x | 1 | |||||||||
| Trumps | ||||||||||
| x | 1 | |||||||||
| Scrolls | ||||||||||
| Elfskin Scroll | 4 | Y | ||||||||
| x | 1 | |||||||||
| x | 1 | |||||||||
| x | 1 | |||||||||
| Potions | ||||||||||
| Restorative Potion | 9 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | |||||
| Restorative Potion | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Love Philtre | 3 | 3 | ||||||||
| Fertility Potion | 8 | 8 | ||||||||
| Strength of Darkness | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Potion of Healing | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Potion of Iron Skin | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Potion of Night | 4 | 4 | ||||||||
| Oil of Blade of Darkness | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| TBA | 1 | |||||||||
| x | 1 | |||||||||
| x | 1 | |||||||||
| x | 1 | |||||||||
| Poisons | ||||||||||
| x | 1 | |||||||||
| Invested Gems | ||||||||||
| x | 1 | |||||||||
| Other Invested Items | ||||||||||
| x | 1 | |||||||||
| Crystals | ||||||||||
| x | 1 | |||||||||
| Charms | ||||||||||
| x | 1 | |||||||||
| x | 1 | |||||||||
| x | 1 | |||||||||
| x | 1 | |||||||||
| x | 1 | |||||||||
| x | 1 | |||||||||
| Other | ||||||||||
| Pint of Red Beer | 6 | Herbalist in Hills | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 spare | |||
| Pint of Pale Ale | 6 | Herbalist in Hills | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 spare | |||
| Pint of Dark Ale | 7 | Herbalist in Hills | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 spare | |||
| Dwarf Bread | 57 | Herbalist in Hills | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 1 spare | |||
| Lightning Jars | 2 | Hag | 2 | |||||||
| x | 1 | |||||||||
| x | 1 | |||||||||
| Remnants | ||||||||||
| Witchskim | 1 | 8 sizes of Leather Armour | Black Annis | |||||||
| x | 1 | |||||||||
| Metals | ||||||||||
| ? | 1 | |||||||||
| Weapons | ||||||||||
| Goblin Dagger | 15 | Goblins | 15 in bag | |||||||
| Bronze Goblin short sword | 1 | Goblins | 1 | |||||||
| Fir Staff | 1 | Goblins | 1 | |||||||
| Heavy Mace | 1 | Ogres | 1 | |||||||
| Skyfall | 1 | Hag | 1 | |||||||
| x | 1 | |||||||||
| x | 1 | |||||||||
| x | 1 | |||||||||
| x | 1 | |||||||||
| Armour | ||||||||||
| x | 1 | |||||||||
| Miscellaneous | ||||||||||
| Baby Rattle | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Rabbit Mask | 1 | |||||||||
| Badger Mask | 1 | |||||||||
| Yew Mask | 1 | |||||||||
| The Tarot of Alys Kyteler | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Toolbox of Holding | 1 | |||||||||
| Patience | 1 | |||||||||
| Book of Darkness | 1 | |||||||||
| x | 1 | |||||||||
| x | 1 | |||||||||
| Jewellery | ||||||||||
| Amulet of Luck | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Enhanced Amulet of Diamonds | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Enhanced Amulet of Jade | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Enhanced Amulet of Iron | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Enhanced Amulet of Amethyst | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Enhanced Amulet of Luck | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Enhanced Amulet of Aquilegius | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Enhanced Amulet of Elder Flowers | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| x | 1 | |||||||||
| x | 1 | |||||||||
| Allies | ||||||||||
| Peanuts the Monkey | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Spare the Rod | 1 | Hag | 1 | |||||||
| x | 1 | |||||||||
| ? | 1 | |||||||||
| Lore | ||||||||||
| ? | 1 | |||||||||
| Obligations | ||||||||||
| ? | 1 | |||||||||
| Special abilities | ||||||||||
| ? | 1 | |||||||||
| ? | 1 | |||||||||
| ? | 1 | |||||||||
| ? | 1 | |||||||||
| ? | 1 | |||||||||
| ? | 1 | |||||||||
| ? | 1 | |||||||||
| ? | 1 | |||||||||
| ? | 1 | |||||||||
| ? | 1 | |||||||||
| ? | 1 | |||||||||
Treasure
Calendar
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