Burning Witch Session #39- Burn You Damn Dirty Apes!

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The streets of Orm still are pretty quiet. So much so that most of along the walk from the Drinking Crow to the Burning Witch noticed the Vat Spawn adventurer Copra Kaan make the trip to join another expedition from the Witch. A pair of tavern regulars, fresh from recovering from Yellow Fever were eager to journey back into the depth of 'The Complex'. The following group decided to try to explore some uncharted parts of Level 3:

  • Copra Kaan (Level 2 Vat Spawn)
  • Fancy Jean-Yves Beauvillers (Level 3 Bard)
    • Turwin (Level 0 Man-at-Arms), deceased
    • Freedom (Sapient Cat)
    • DT (loyal dungeon doggie)
    • 2 vampiric frogs
    • Shoeless Vo (Level 1 Thief hireling)
  • GaWoosh (Level 3 Gnome)
  • Phasmo (Level 3 Magic-User)
  • Wolfgang (Level 2 Duelist)
The group returned minus one member: Fancy carried the dog tags as the only remains of the last of the Men-at-Arms in his employ. His two vampiric frogs looked plump and unusually ruddy. The group carried sacks full of all sorts of oddities. Fancy set out to use his Bardic lore to identify some of the items while Phasmo traveled off the recently established PakPak's ShopShop to try to unload on of their odds and ends to the mercantile kobold. Several party members were seen wearing dark, silk-like garments with silver threads running through them that sparkled under the bloated red sun.

Shoeless Vo took her cut of the loot and set out celebrate surviving her first delve into the 'Complex' with baked sweets, playing games of chance, and a stolen bottle of cherry wine. The apprentice thief shared wild stories of fights with talking ape people that fought with sticks that called thunder and smoke to assault her group. She showed off a bow give to her by Fancy and boasted of her skill with it in the one fight of the delve. She told of a white marble spherical room with a stone arch in the center filled with more ape people and some strange, gray beings as well. As she started to recount the exotic treasures acquired by the group on the adventure, the Orm Civil Defense Force raided the backroom gambling hall. Vo has requested a member of the 111th Company fetch some of her treasure from the last delve to pay for her freedom.

Found under a mug at the Burning Witch was a slip of paper with the following written on it:
Copra Kään’s To-Do List:

-Ride in an elevator. 
-Find nothing in a locker room. 
-Set some damn dirty apes on fire. 
-Find some chocolate bars. 
-Find our what’s behind the bronze door. 
-Treasure!

Loot

  • Six wood sticks with metal pipes along the tops and detachable blades
  • 36 3" long brass objects with lead points
  • 11 light weight bottles of water
  • 15 bars wrapped in a light metallic material
  • 5 suits of gorilla person size armor (AC 14 to those that can fit)
  • 2 lanterns not powered by flame. They can be dimmed down several stages from candle power to lantern power.
  • three slips of paper with strange writing
  • Gems: moonstone worth 75gp, 2 carat malachite worth 10gp, rock crystal worth 100gp, 8 carat hematite worth 50gp
  • Jade statue of a strange tentacled creature worth 400gp
  • Bronze locket worth 30gp
  • Five metal vials containing red sand
  • Helm of Comprehend and Read Magic (though not THE Helm of Comprehend and Read Magic. A sorcerer king knock off that is just as functional but has none of the stylistic flare of the original)
  • 700 strange chips worth 5gp ea.
  • Two bottles of a golden liquid that smells like apples that detect as magic
  • A dozen short swords in the geometric style that adventurers have come to associate with the Order of the Illuminated Eye
  • A dozen shimmering black garments that is like silk to the touch but functions as Leather Armor (magic-users and illusionists can where it at no penalty)
  • A gaudy and heavy gold necklace covered with pearls worth 1200gp
  • Three sets of leather-like boots, gloves, and belts. The belts detect as magical.




Experience Points

  • 5365xp from treasure
  • Ape person soldiers defeated 6 x 50xp

Player Character Cut

  • 983gp  and 6sp ea.
  • 1133xp ea.
Write-ups, maps, or art related to the session gain 100 x PC Level xp. Let me know in the comments or via Discord of any downtimes you are pursuing or items being identified.

Comments

  1. You,CrumblingOctober 5, 2020 at 9:43 AM

    The significance of the Helm is not lost on the novice illusionist, GaWoosh. I’d prefer to have a chance at purchasing it from the group.
    I think Phasmo also showed an interest?

    Maybe an auction? I’d be willing to place a starting bid of 500.

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    1. Jonshua BongsartOctober 5, 2020 at 12:19 PM

      the helm is the only thing I have any real interest in. 501.
      cant the wizards just cast comprehend languages, its an easily researchable first level spell, isn't it?

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    2. You,CrumblingOctober 5, 2020 at 12:30 PM

      I am no wizard, sir!
      I have my own reasons for wanting the Helm.
      600

      Delete

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