Marilith Bounty

Cave of Wonder Adventures

2/28 Session

Pre-session confirmed the bounty has 6 arms and is a dangerous snake like creature

We find another halfway house and sleep for the night and in the morning head out for the cave of wonder.

Loading screen entering the area of the cave

We stroll along the lake of wonder and come across an outcropping blocking the entrance of a cave. Barr swims across some water blocking the way and Otis goes and checks out a bridge further down and it seems fine. Otis comes back and picks up Otis brings them over the bridge. Mingo hears the clinking of Otis’s mechanical limbs and it makes the hair on his back stand up and he is still shaken by the fact Otis may not be human. Zieg and Violi swim over with Barr. It’s windy, Zieg hears a light screeching noise, but can’t pinpoint it’s origin.

Otis flies up the outcropping 25ft and jams in a climbing hook flies up another 25ft and anchors the climbing hook into the outcropping and attaches the rope and drops it down. Barr tests the rope and it feels good. Otis flies out about 15 ft shoots his harpoon at the outcropping as the hook shoot out it is taken by the wind and jolts his arm but Otis catches it and does not end up dropping the harpoon. He notices the strength of the wind and finds it may be difficult to fly further. Otis brings an anchor down to Barr and Barr ties another rope around him and begins to climb. He makes it up 100ft and really starts to feel the wind picking up pretty good. Barr attempts to tie the rope to himself and fails miserably the rope falls down still tethered to the anchor but not to Barr. Barr attempts to catch himself but begins to free fall from 100ft. Otis attempts to toss him a rope, Zieg yells to him to use his pillow. Barr grabs the rope Otis threw him and he swings into the side of the mountain. He is now 50ft up and ties himself to be secured and climbs up to the cavernous opening after few other fails. Barr looks into the cavern and sees a ‘mega swarm” of bats. The group climbs up leaving Mingo to climb up last to bring the hooks up with him. After an extensive ordeal of rolls, rope tying, falling and pulling Mingo eventually makes his way up to the top of the outcropping with all of our gear.

Zieg lights a torch and drops it down the cavern it makes it through the THICC bat swarm and eventually hear a tink of it hitting the ground. Otis drops a rock off and based off the sound he determines its about 200-250feet down. (Ryan promises there’s not 200 feet of bats, could be 199 but not 200). We tie 6 ropes together. Otis grabs the magic pillow and flies through the swarm of bats and they bite and smack him on the way down, he slows down after he passes through the bats. He continues to descend down to the bottom and sets up the pillow as a whale. Barr jumps and casts searing ignition as he enters the bats and immolates all of the bats as they begin to fall as fiery pieces. As Barr clears the bats Violi drops the rope and jumps into the hole, Zieg and Mingo follow. As the group lands Barr retracts the pillow into a bird and puts it in his mouth.

Violi leads the group down a tunnel and as we approach an opening Violi sees a campfire with a larger than humanoid and a creature with multiple legs. Violi steps into a pit of mud and sinks in a little bit. He forces through his way wading through the mud. Otis flies slightly above careful not to disturb the various groups of bats above. Barr is snacking on crispy bat. Mingo jumps over the mud pile, Barr and Zieg wade through the mud. Zieg casts pass without a trace and everyone is super sneaky approaching the two creatures. The group over hears the creatures talking about raiding nearby villages and towns.

Surprise Round

Zieg using burning hands and both creatures fail dealing 11 burning damage to each creature. As the light of burning hands illuminates the hall revealing nothing special.

Barr attacks big boi with his trident dealing 12 damage and adds a fire strike dealing 9 additional fire damage. He attacks missing with a 12. He attacks again with his claws dealing 8 more damage.

Otis attacks the spider lady that’s actually still a man with his bow twice. 19 hits the spider man/lady and the second attack hits as well. Dealing a total of 26 damage.

Violi attacks twice hitting both times dealing 21 damage to the spider man/lady.

Mingo attacks hitting with one attack dealing 12 damage adds a smite on top dealing an additional 9 radiant damage to the big boi.

Big boi is going to ask who just hit his balls sees Mingo first. He says to Zieg “quitting fucking around” causing a wisdom saving throw. Zieg feels his presence wash over him as he becomes cursed with magical deformities he sees in his reflection warts on his face and his leg enlarged. He swings his club at Mingo dealing 16 bludgeoning damage. Mingo uses a reaction to attack, a 15 hits dealing 7 damage.

Spider man, spider man, sees Violi and he seems very disappointed to be interrupted sharing a fire with his friend. He swings 3 times at Violi, crits the first attack and misses the next 2. Dealing a total of 10 damage.

Turn 1

Zieg is feeling extra shitty with his curse as he feels off balance from the deformities growing on his body. Zieg casts greater restoration and clears the curse form his body returning to normal.

Barr is gonna grab his dick and twist it again. 27 still hits ya cunt, dealing 19 damage to the big boi. He appears bloodied. Barr swings again hitting with a 15, dealing 13 more damage. He swings with his claws hitting with another 15 dealing 7 more damage.

Otis attacks with his bow twice hitting the lady man spider dealing 15 damage and the spider man/lady is bloodied

Violi attacks the spider hitting once for 12 damage. Barr gets an attack on the big boi dealing another 12 damage(hit with 14). Violi misses his second attack(Misses with 15)

Mingo attacks twice on the big boi and deals 24 damage.

Big boi on his last leg will say you make me angry. He attacks Mingo twice with his club. He hits with 15 bludgeoning. Mingo uses a reaction to attack and hits him for 10 damage. Mingo takes the club hit right on the chin and Mingo stabs him directly in the chest killing him. With Carl’s last words he turns to the spider man/lady and says “I always wanted to tell you…” and dies.

Spider man/lady turns to Mingo angry he killed his friends swings twice missing both and bites him dealing 4 piercing damage and 5 poison damage due to resistances.

Turn 2

Zieg is going to shoot the spider man/lady with his long bow and misses.

Barr is going to pick up the ogres club and attempt to smash the spider/man lady. He jumps up off the ogre and swings towards the spider hitting with a 24, Dealing 32 damage. He squishes the spider ass and it blows out.

Otis has a pinned spider in front of him he shoots his bow hitting with a 19 and doinks the man lady spider killing it.

Violi casts speak with the dead but they are unwilling to speak to their killers. We see an item on the ground that catches our eye. It is a dagger with a ch-ch coming out of it. Zieg has a Rifiki moment and notices that the dagger was Talon Redmond, a member of the Cogmind Collective. We see two paths one leading to the right and another to the left. We hear the sound of running water coming from the right. Mingo draws an arrow down tunnel we came from to indicate where we came from. Barr loots a longsword from the Spider. Barr inspects the ground and we see smeared blood. We head to the right and we see a small “river” that runs shortly for about 20 ft and it flows under the rock. We cross the “river” following the trail of dried blood, Mingo continues to mark which way we came. We see large green mushrooms that Barr immediately walks up to causing it to spur out spores dealing 7 poison damage to all and we all feel a little high. As we continue down we see there’s not much left of the areas except another path to the left. Otis see a petrified corpse on the ground and sees some nice boots. Violi casts speak with dead and asks some questions and shows the beast we are looking for is back the way we came and that he was down here looking for an artifact. Otis finds a note in the dead adventurer’s pockets from the wife with a description of the Boots of the Winterlands. Violi goes into the next cavern and we see the corpse of Talon Redmond and seems semi freshly dead. For Ameritlist thought we could kill before us. Doesn’t know where the party is. Brandi mentioned an artifact down here .

Party gained 1,240 xp per person XP 49,240 Total
End 2/28 session

Marilith Fight

3/6 session

We back track and Barr sticks his head behind the waterfall and another poisonous flower puffs right in his face. The group is back to a split like fallopian tubes. We decide to go right and enter a cavern. We determine our marching order and as we walk through a cavern a rockslide occurs and splits the party crushing the middle member being Mingo. Barr turns around and begins to try to unbury him with the others helping. Barr pulls Mingo out of the rubble. Otis and Zieg turn back and decide to go back and head down the path up and to the left. They head down a narrow cavern side by side. As they approach they see two bulbous plans at the entrance of the corridors. They step back and Otis shoots two arrows at the mushrooms and they depress. There are two paths to the right, a path straight and a path to the left.

Split Party, events of each group happen at similar times

Barr, Mingo and Violi

Barr carries Mingo and Violi on his shoulders down a path covered in mud. And come across two paths one with a glowy thing and another to tunnel to the left. Barr goes over and shakes his mud off. The group heads over to the shiny path and see a conglomeration of a circular chamber and it has 4 recessed spots in the stone ground and ahead of us we see a giant recessed spot. There is a light green glittering shimmer in the air. The group covers their mouths and Violi approaches the giant recessed spot. The ground begins to shake and the group sees a giant wiggly mushroom rise up and a bunch of other wiggly mushrooms around the edge. The group introduces themselves to the mushroom king. He says to leave. Barr says we are looking for treasure. Violi says he is looking for a beast. King Mushroom says the beast feigns to be his guardian, but doesn’t use it’s poison in the right way. The group offers to get the beast for him and he says to bring the beast’s head to him to devour. Barr observes that all the Mushroom King’s stats are higher than his except his AC. He says the beast is likely immune to poison and that it wanders around the cave. He must be to the south because the king has no sporelings to the south.

Zieg and Otis

Zieg and Otis go down the left right path and see a giant pit of mud. Otis hovers above the mud and Zieg water walks across. They see 3 dead ends and one path to the right. They see something shiny at the end of the left path and shiny down the right path. Otis checks out the left path and leans in and finds on the ground a skeletal hand reaching up to the sky. In the hand is a scroll of revivify. Zieg approaches the shiny on the right and feel the ground begins to shake Zieg sees a mushroom pop up and it begins to wiggle back and forth. They hear a voice from the direction of the cave Mingo, Barr, and Violi are in say “Who dares approach the King of Mushrooms.” Zieg and Otis head down the path that sounds like its heading towards their friend. Otis flies fast enough to move past a rockslide that traps Zieg on the other side.

Only Zieg

Zieg stares at the rockslide, he goes back to a wiggling mushroom and it goes wahoohoohooho. Zieg asks if it can clear a path to his friends. The mushroom responds with a low timid uhulooloo. Indicating it can’t do much. Zieg heads back across the mud. He heads down the mid right path and crosses some mud and sees another glowing wiggly boy. Wiggly boy begins to hum and Zieg(after a better nature check) hears in his head “you are traveling alone”. He warns him that a snake creature is ahead of him down this path. Zieg hears hissing and slithering coming from the other room. He hears other voices he cant understand and casts comprehend languages and hears six voices talking back and forth plotting a raid and future intent to rule the world. Sounds like a grandiose evil hype session that Otis would cum to.

Otis, Mingo, Barr and Violi

The group asks Otis to lead the way and head down the last path we know. As we walk through we from in between the path two white tentacles with red tips come shooting down and grabs Violi and pulls him up into the bats. Barr attempts to jump and grab Violi’s legs. He pulls Violi from its grip. The groups backs into a small circle and shimmies while circling into an area that is unfamiliar to Barr, Mingo and Violi, but Otis recognizes it as the area he and Zieg were in. Violi yells “Zieg where are you” and the bats go a bit crazy. Zieg hears and return towards the way he came. They reunite with the group. Zieg tells the group he knows where the bounty is and we head down the path he came.

Barr walks out into the opening in front of the creature believed to be the “Merilith” and says “hey shit bag” and uncorks his flask revealing an ugly ass creature with three legs and three arms and a mouth filled with teeth at the top of his head(check the discord for photo). The creature goes lololololololololol and Zieg understands this as “I seek precious metals”.

Turn 1

Zieg uses his sword to summon an elf shadow. And tells him to attack. 17 hits for 10 necrotic damage and lowers its strength by 4. The elf shadow hides.

Barr grabs his dick and twists it and hits with a 17 dealing 9 piercing and 6 fire. He seems to be resistant to fire damage, Barr attacks again hitting with 22 and deals 7 piercing and 1 lightning damage that he shakes off appearing to be resistant to this as well. He fails the saving throw and has disadvantage on attack rolls. Barr fails a saving throw and is afraid of snakes and a race. Barr’s creature runs up and claws and bites at him. He hits twice and deals 20 damage.

Mingo is going to swing at him with his sword and hits twice for 18 damage.

Otis uses his bonus action to put hunters mark on him and attacks twice and Otis puts his bow back cuz he realizes its not working… dumb bird

Violi hexes the creature and hits twice with eldritch blast and deals 20 force damage and 9 necrotic damage

6 headed boy attacks and hits the shadow elf. And crits Bar dealing 41 piercing damage and 25 other damage. Barr is quite fucked up

Turn 2

Zieg casts aura of vitality to heal Barr for 8 health. The ghost is going to moving into flanking position and attack with a 17 and deals 9 necrotic damage and loses another 4 strength.

Barr’s going to attack him and hits with a 19 dealing 11 piercing damage and 2 other damage. He attacks again hitting with a 24 dealing 12 piercing and attacks with his claws missing. His creature will attack 4 times and hits 3 out of the 4 times dealing 20 damage again.

Mingo is going to straight hit the creature twice. Hitting for 7 and 13 damage.

Otis adds slayers prey and attacks twice hitting both times dealing 28 damage. Otis shoots his bow and lines up 5 of the heads and skewers the heads.

Barr picks up the skewered heads and slashes them off like a kabob and takes two teeth. The group also recognizes that the creature killed was very much not a Merilith. Violi casts tongues to be able to communicate with the creature summoned by Barr. The creature strikes a deal for its freedom and we let it loose to burrow for the precious metals its looking for in the cave. He tunnels and we follow and it barrels out into another cavern. We see left at a panning angle a Merilith with 6 swords. Its holding a glowing object and Brandi trying to rip the object form its hands. Silas is on the wall with his stomach split open. The Merilith is distracted by the creature barreling through the wall and Brandi take the glowing artifact. There is darkness beginning to flow around Brandi, and some clearly evil shit starts happening. Brandi gets naked briefly (the curtains do in fact match the drapes… nice….) And the bats come around her and a black cloak appears around her and her overall appearance seems a bit darker and evil in nature(Updated picture in Critical Notes). She disappears through the portal behind her. Violi looks over to Otis like you saw that right, making sure Otis takes note of what shady shit really looks like.

6745xp each 55,985 total
end 3/6 session

Mushroom Friends

3/13 session

Turn 1

Violi uses hex blade curse and casts eldritch blast hitting with one beam dealing 19 damage

Otis casts hunters mark on the bitch and is going to shoot her with the harpoon. And misses with a 17. He uses his second attack action to reel the harpoon back in.

Barr is stabbing her with a trident and hits adding a fire strike the fire damage seems to do half damage dealing 15 total damage. Barr rolls a 21 on his next attack and the creature parries. Barr’s pet attacks a bunch of times and deals 19 damage.

The marilith attacks and misses the first, crits the second dealing 25 damage to Kyle’s creature, Third attack deals 17 damage, fourth attack crits dealing 26 damage, fifth attack deals 9 damage, and sixth attack misses and seventh attack hits dealing 5 damage killing the creature in one turn……

Mingo heals Silas for 2 health

Zieg heals Barr for some health

Violi moves back and misses with both strikes.

Otis adds slayer’s prey to the marilith and strikes it with the harpoon. Otis shoots an arrow and misses and moves back to the corner.

Barr uses his iron flask to attempt to capture the marilith… the marilith fails the save and is now captured in the flask.

End Combat

Zieg and Mingo continue to work on the dead Silas. Violi high fives Barr. Zieg casts revivify on Silas and brings him back to life. Silas explains that Brandi used him as a human sacrifice to activate the artifact. Silas is unsure of what the artifact was, but knows it has something to do with a book she would read. She didn’t read it for 2 years but once everything went to shit(us stealing their bounty) she started reading it again and it was called “The Power of the One”. Silas says to Mingo as he mentions his arm this was a culmination of his life work done by me, Mingo can tell that that is not a truthful statement, Mingo asks if he was an apprentice or something. “high pitch uhhhh something like that.” Silas admits he kind of stole it from someone. He breaks under pressure and admits he acquired the power to make it from an artifact. Compared it to Brandi, but didn’t murder anyone, but did steal it from a machine creature. It may exact revenge on him at some point. It’s on a different plane of existence and doesn’t suspect it knows he’s here. It was in the plane of Mirrodin. Inside of the dark steel citadel. He brokered a deal to get to the other plane with Brandi when they first met. Silas agrees to return to Rethal with the group to help out. Barr finds a wand in the cave and gives it to Zieg.

We head to the mushroom king and present him with a plan to release the marilith and group kill him. The mushroom king tells Barr to release the marilith. Barr releases the marilith and commands it to hand over its swords. The marilith hands Barr its sword as it goes into a guilt tripping monologue. During this monologue the Mushroom King gathers its power and shoots through its chest killing it. The mushroom king snorts and exclaims its happiness and farts and spores shoot out. The mushroom king grants us something that we desire. He grants us 100 gold and a scrying orb on Delimira to find her location. We see a forge on a floating rock in the astral sea. There are barrel of about 600 weapons. She seems pale and weak. There is a greenish blue fabric and a pin that is a diamond with a dragons head and 2 wings coming out the sides in gold. We remember seeing this symbol on one of the infiltrators in the command room when planning to take down the kraken. This person has a magical item holding Delimira in a pocket dimension producing weapons. Once the leadership from Rethal fell nobody went back to tell them to release her. We ask about a way out and if he can clear the bats. He puffs us in the face and he clears the illusion of the cave and he is no longer a cute puffy mushroom, but is instead a vile grotesque looking mushroom. The illusion of the bats disappear instead. This also reveals the true grotesque death of the marilith. He says we will always have a friend in the cave of wonder. We make our way back to the entrance of the cave and the way is clear and we climb up to exit the cave.

Rah-Gu

We turn the bounty in and get 30 gold and get a Potion of animal Friendship. We agree to return to Rah-Gu in a week while they gather resources and plan an overthrow. They key in the code to teleport back to Rethal.

Rethal

We teleport back and find ourselves in a secret room in the mayoral estate. We see a cement wall in front of us that we can walk through and there is a meeting taking place. A meeting of women that sit around a war table. We see a group of women we don’t recognize except for Freya Ilman that we saw sitting with Marcella Dunthire and upon coming out of the room we make eye contact and she asks what we are doing here and notice the dragon emblem sitting across her bosom.

8,014xp 63,999 total xp
End Session

3/20 Session

We showed up ate food and then didnt play dnd after realizing half the group would not be present

End 3/20 Session

A Different Rethal

Women Empowered Delimira Returns

3/27 Session

Pretty long discussion about the state of the world prior to actually playing dnd tonight. Made some pretty good progress should have taken notes there and sent it to the UN or something.

Mayoral Estate

Barr stumbles into the room after slipping and awkwardly attempts to pass off like it’s a good thing everyone is there. Otis notices military documents with descriptions of the buildings. Zieg notices a list of names on each of these documents as well as a diagram of the spice organization owner is Cori Ander. There are list of others names as well and all appear to be women’s names.

Violi asks where vanessa is. Freya explains that Vanessa has business at the Mage Academy. Freya observes what is happening and composes herself and asks what business we have here. The group explains where they have been and why they were checking in. Barr asks about Delimira and Freya asks if we found her because she would be helpful right now. Barr asks how Freya came into power. Freya states Vanessa ceded power to her and she has great plans for the city. Vanessa is at a meeting at the mage academy. Freya explains she is the Mayor and this is her cabinet. She thanks us for our service and says that we are no longer needed. Barr explains the scenario with Delimira and thinks she may be in her pendant. Freya cusses out Tom the former mayor and places the pendant on the table and she signals to one of the other women. This woman casts some magic and opens a portal and Freya asks her to close it. Out of the portal comes an avalanche of swords, shields and chainmail. Sitting on top of this pile is a frail Delimira. Barr runs to her side and asks her if she is alive. Delimira is alive and Barr ask to bring her to some medical attention and goes with one of the women to an herb shop.

Violi proposes getting resources for a coup in Rah-Gu. Decide to reconvene on Wednesday for a plan. Violi also informs Freya of the experience they had with the necromancer.

Spice Emporium

Barr brings Delimira to an herb shop and the woman begins making a concoction and feeding this to Delimira. Barr asks what this woman does and watches her intently. She says she is an herbalist. They have a discussion about the progressiveness of the country for women. Delimira wakes up and Barr catches her up on everything that has happened in her absence in a way that makes it sound like we took care of the Kraken without telling her that we killed it. Delimira wants to go home and rest. Barr picks her up and baby carries her after asking the herbalist name which is Ryland. He says he sees what her group is doing and says he is not against it, but would like more information on where everyone falls into place. Delimira begins to explain what happened. She recalls having someone being sent to help and then being taken to this place where it felt like she was working for years and that Lenny at some point was no longer there, but it is too much for her to remember.

Max Guild

Everyone else gathers in the max guild. Mingo, Violi and Otis go to where the library was and it seems sealed off. There is a red button that says do not push. We push it anyways and a voice says do you wish to enter. We say sure. There are some red swirls and red flavored water elemental in glass armor appears yelling OH YEAH and busts through the wall revealing the library as we remember it with a half inch of dust on everything. It seems it has not been touched in thousands of years. Otis checks Violi book and cross checks it with what he’s told as his story and it all checks out. Violi looks at Otis’s book for the same. It reveals Oti’s preferred pronouns as they/them. Secret DECOMMISIONED robot. Trying to get back on the official drone team. At this point Otis takes the book. They have a little back and forth and Otis lets Violi read a little more. Otis has a best friend Sodno Surbanlce drone number one(Has a Russian accent. He is from the city of Secratis that is ruled Dulchis who is the second cousin of Queen Lira and is the special force training center and the beacon of the north. It contains rare material similar to nuclear waste. The monarchy does not know the drone program exist. Dulchis made them to protect the city and maintain his rule there is 100 drones. Drones 17-23 all died in a tragic accident.

Violi then reads Barr’s book. Barr comes in on us and asks if we found anything. He recommends we go over to the Order of the One to turn in our gorgons scale.

The Order of the One

The group heads to The Order of the One and they pay us 150 gold for the scale and they say this may all be for nothing. Barr asks why and they say there were signs that make them feel like all hope is lost. They explain there were 10 failed experiments before this and they have kept them in all these vials of different colors and aromas and now they are all black and the color of death. They believe this is an omen and something must be wrong. Barr asks if someone could use the powers of The One for evil. They reveal some lore that The One is a being that possesses the ultimate power and it is rumored that they drew on something for this power as though this power was not intrinsic to them. It is possible that someone has tapped into the power of The One. We tell them about “The Power of the One” book that Brandi had and the actions she committed in the cave. They say it sounds like it could be similar to the power of the one, but that the location of that artifact doesn’t makes sense being in a cave outside of Rah-Gu. They know a person who can open portals if we would like to pursue that route to Mirrodin, The protal will be ready to open on February 9th.

Gained 1 xp 64,000 total Level 10 DING

End 3/27 Session