Adventurers of the Drinking Crow Session #5

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Venturing forth from the Drinking Crow on a sunny spring afternoon as a party consisting of:

  • Bjorn Firebeard (Level 1 Cleric of the Mythic Hedgehog)
  • Cinnamon Stix (Level 1 Druid)
  • Elvira Wyld of Odellwood Abbey (Level 1 Gothic Villain)
    • Tom (0-Level Drunk and Axe Bro), deceased
  • Fräänk Shäärk (Level 1 Thief), deceased
  • Malagath Feneros (Level 1 Elf)
  • Rustam of the Twin Lakes (Level 1 Cleric of Danu), deceased
    • Bors Redbeard (Level 1 Dwarf)
The party returned covered in valuable jewelry and waterlogged up to the knees bearing the bodies of fallen comrades Fräänk Shäärk, Rustam of the Twin Lakes, and the Axe Brother Tom.

**Updated**
Here is the play report by Bors, Rustam's former hireling and now full fledged adventurer:

Bors’ Journal
Entry one:
        We went back to the dungeon today.  It was Elvira (with Tom in tow), Fräänk, Björn, Malagath, Cinnamon, my boss and myself.  Rustam seemed more greedy than normal this time around, I guess it was to get money to pay off his leg.  Well that seemed to have been his eventual doom, greed in a priest is not a desirable aspect, but I’ve seen it happen time and time again. We went east into a room that leads to the second level, then we went south where we heard some partying going on, we then saw some assassin coming out of a secret room where Rustam shouted a warning and then everything disappeared.  This happened a total of 3 times, where whenever there was any sort of interaction, everything disappeared.  The fourth time, we watched the whole thing play out, and it was a glorious and vicious display of murder and mayhem.  
        After we saw that, we were set upon by 4 beings, which killed Tom right away, we managed to kill two of them, and tied another one up, but one ran away.  The one that we captured would not say anything useful, just repeating his name and his rank.  Well some of the police style “brothers” came and took him away after we stripped him of his possessions.  
        We then went into the secret passageway again and looked around, where Rustam found a jade stone in a copper setting, he said there was more to it than just this.  We then went further inside this passage and found a room with several sarcophagi, that’s when Malagath found a secret door in here as well, and he asked for my assistance.  I see why Rustam was always praising him, he is quite humble… for an elf.  Anyway Fräänk started messing with the sarcophagi and then we were attacked my some undead, both Björn and Rustam filled the room with divine energy, while the rest of us attacked the remainder, except Elvira, who just fainted at the site of them.  Three of them fell at our hands while the remained fled, but in the melee both Fräänk and Rustam passed away.  We decided to not let their death be in vein so we took the treasure from the sarcophagi at Björn’s protest, and then we dragged the bodies of Fräänk, Tom, and Rustam back to the city so they could be buried properly and not turn into undead which seems to happen to any body left there.  We then went and spoke with the craftsman making the leg for Rustam to get the money back to return it to the bank, it won’t be needed anymore unfortunately.
        But on the bright side we did come back with more loot than any of our other outings so far! I’ll split it with my brothers to hopefully entice them to come with us again in the future.

Loot

  • 3 Chainmail suits
  • 3 Falchions
  • 3 Crossbows and 23 bolts
  • 3 water skins
  • 3 dungeon "power bars"
  • Jade sphere set in copper fitting
  • 4 golden necklaces w/ jade stones inset x 100gp ea
  • 2 gold rings  x 25gp ea
  • 2 silver rings x 5gp ea
  • 3 ornate golden buckles encrusted with crude gems  x 75gp ea (150gp ea to a collector)
  • 4 ceremonial spears x 25gp ea

Experience Points

  • 785xp from treasure
  • 4 Vat-Spawn soldiers x 50xp ea
  • 6 Cursed Corpses x 25xp ea

Player Character Cut

  • 157gp ea (45gp ea more if a collector is found to buy the buckles)
  • 227xp ea (45xp ea more if a collector is found to buy the buckles)

Please post any downtime activities you are interested in doing in the comments below (including trying to get the jade sphere identified or finding the right buyer for those buckles).

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