Haven’t written one of these in a while but I realized they help me focus so, why not. Thanks to the incredibly diligent Mk., player of Ditchbank and John Napkin, for his fastidious record keeping.

Player Characters

PCs Class & Lvl Player
Ditchbank Rogue 6 Mk.
Graciela the Good Cleric 6 B.
Petra Dwarf 4 KC
Simona the Gray Magician 3 A.
Hirelings Class / Type Employer
Gracielus Fighter 3 Graciela
Some pirates ??? ???
Some others I forget

Killing a Lamia – The Lamia’s Treasures – Speaking with the Half-Brothers – Back on the Road – An Argument Over Kneeling

Killing a Lamia

So we’re in a cave we found on the way to uhhh investigate the uhhhh Daughters of Secorax who are….. bad………. because they uhh….. kidnapped…… some guys. The half-brothers. Or enscorceled them or something. But on the way we found this cave where there’s a lamia, who we pissed off previously, and she’s sitting on a pile of treasure and weeping over the corpse of her ghoul-bear (our fault). She also captured some of the Half-Brothers.

We’ve spent most of our good spells and are trying to figure out how to get all the treasure without her killing us. We assume she is quite powerful and also there are few of us tonight.

We start with Graciela healing people of the wounds they took last session from the aforementioned Ghoul-Bear. She then casts a blessing on us all.

We send Petra in to see if there is some advantage we can gain. Petra scopes out the room and sees some treasures, including a gold-encrusted garter(?) and the lamia flopped over and staring into the middle distance.

She catches us but we cast light on her face and the rest is whatever. She’s dead.

The Lamia’s Treasures

So we examine the treasures and all rogues have supernumeracy in the World of Nightwick™️ and thus ascertains the pile of coins consists of 6750 gp. The spoils also include a jeweled diadem and gilded hairnet. These, as well as the garter, are each worth 2500 gp. Also there is a wand.

Holy shit that’s a lot of treasure.

Simona also cuts out the lamia’s tongue. She doesn’t know if it’s valuable but as a professional charlatan she figures she can at least run some kind of racket with it.

There’s a room to the south we hadn’t checked out. Inside we find a fountain that pours out red wine.

Speaking with the Half-Brothers

We saved 3 of them: Payuzo, Loro, and Nado.

Payuzo informs us that this cave used to be the property of the Half-Brothers, who were tricked into surrendering it to the Daughters of Secorax, and then seized by the lamia.

Ditchbank keeps a sample of the wine in his decanter that’s shaped like a satyr and you drink out of its… well you know.

In case you’re wondering what any of these factions are about: I forget. I guess Secorax is an old god. The half-brothers are… affiliated with the Knights of St. Swayle somehow?

Back on the Road

Laden with treasure and not super keen on Graciela’s idea of destroying this temple, we make for Castle St. Swayle. However we get lost hexcrawling.

We set up camp the night. During the first watch, Ditchbank hears a loud snoring. Petra is sent to investigate. The source is a horrid wingless dragon whose sleeping body blocks a whole stream. It sleeps with its red eyes open.

Our first encounter with a real dragon!

Luckily it is fast asleep and we are able to pass the night in safety.

We get ourselves oriented and find our path has drifted south. We try to resume our course to St. Swayle. Graciela is enraged that we didn’t notify her of the dragon so she may end its unholy blight upon the Earth.

An Argument Over Kneeling

We are travelling by moonlight through the terraced gardens that make up the Cuccagnat country side when we come across a knight by a reflecting pool cooking a huge bird roughly the size of a horse on a gigantic spit. His armour is a shimmering black lit by small, moon-like orbs with faces and he has a generally sinister mien.

Ditchbank, our scout, reports this to us.

Simona thinks this is all pretty cool and goes to speak with him. He tells her he is cooking an anthus. He is hitting on her hard and she does everything in her power not to appear to notice. Anyway it’s a bird that eats horses. Simona asks who he serves and he tells us he’s a knight errant, but he says it in a horny way.

Graciela intercedes and asks if he serves the God of Law. He says his only god of the road, and Graciela says she is the high priestess of the road. She tries to get him to sign her book (I think it’s her church rolls or something) and he flirts with her, and they get in an argument over who has to kneel to whom. Graciela gives him an ultimatum asking if he’s one of her boys or not.

“Nay! You are one of my girls.”

The argument intensifies in a predictable manner, until such a time as the knight pulls out a scepter, putting a spell of paralysis of her! He tells us to move on or face his blade.

He drag Graciela away over Ditchbank’s protestations.

One of the half-brothers tells us that this was Sir Jacquo the Black, a regular at jousting tournaments notorious for cheating even though he’s skilled enough not to need to.

We travel through the night and reach Castle St. Swayle.

The Take

  • Wand of Radiance (casts Light (1 charge), Continual Light (2 charges), burst of sunlight (3 charges – save vs wands or blinded for 1 round; 6d6 dmg to Undead) – number of charges unknown).
  • 2050 gp per PC, 1025 per hireling
  • 2700 XP each, 1350 per hireling

Petra levels up!!

Potential scheme: Find out what tournament Jacquo is going to, bring Prospero the Violet, turn Ditchbank invisible, steal the scepter.