Burning Witch Adventurers Session #44- The Panty-Raider Party Crew

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Once again, the vat spawn adventurer Copra Kaan made his way from the harbor and through the square where the Monument of the Gods stood to walk into the Burning Witch. Another adventure was afoot and the gathering party was looking for members. The discussion centered around delving back down to Level 3. The plan settled upon using the western elevator to explore uncharted northern sections of that level of 'The Complex'. The following left in the direction of the beach:

  • Copra Kaan (Level 3 Vat Spawn)
  • Crambo (Level 1 Magic-User)
  • Fancy Jean-Yves Beauviller (Level 4 Bard)
    • Freedom (Sapient Cat)
    • DT (dungeon terrier)
    • Two unamed vampiric frogs, deceased
    • Smokey Proag (Level 1 Halfling hireling)
  • Scamandros (Level 4 Magic-User)
    • Kiddo (Level Magic-User retainer)
The party returned with stuffed pockets and full bags but without magic-users Crambo and Scamandros. Fnacy's player Josh summed up the events of the delve with the following call to form up a rescue party over in #buring-witch on the Discord:

Fancy and Kiddo arrive at the Burning-witch late in the evening. As Fancy wipes sweat from his brow with a handkerchief featuring two hastily stitched frog caricatures, he tells a harrowing tale of his comrades being pursued around every corner by gargoyles, slimes, lion-beast-men, and The Imperial Momma herself. "I didn't come here tonight just to brag about our talent for fleeing. I came here tonight to gather a rescue party." 

Fancy throws off his tunic, stained red from the spurting brachial artery of a lion-beast-man, and says "Scamandros and Crambo are still down there. I don't know their condition, but if they are alive, we need to fetch them back from the cruel embrace of the Imperial Momma. Who is with me?" 

Oh yeah... did I mention we tore out her eyes? If anyone is so inclined to strike at The Momma and her holdings, now may be the best time. 'Cause, you know, A frog tore out her fucking eyes. It was glorious. 
The survivors of the expedition also report that the Imperial Mother is offering a 1000gp for the capture of the a peeping tom identified from the wanted poster by Copra as Dogmouth.

Meanwhile, the following slip of paper was stuck to a mug over at the Drinking Crow:

Copra Kään’s To-Do List:

-Make a new friend: Crambo!
-Find a glowing altar. 
-Run from some gargoyles. 
-Rob the Imperial Mother (again!). 
-Get caught in the act. 
-Run for our lives. 
-Make it out of The Complex (most of us, anyways). 
-Mourn the potential loss of two friends.

Loot

  • A cloth-of-gold gown with a star motif set with pearls  4000gp
  • voided velvet gown with a funnel neck and decorative golden corset 250gp
  • Gold jewelry box with silver filigree worth 3500gp
    • A gilded wooden necklace worth 700gp
    • A gold chain worth 400gp
    • Silk choker threaded with electrum worth 30gp
    • Gold lion ring worth 100gp
    • Carved ivory comb worth 100gp
  • four small books worth together 100gp but could probably be sold individually for more to the right buyer:
    • A brief folio in Old Imperialish delivering the notes of one "Dwerleiro" on theoretical use of the "original" Vat of Creation in developing completely new life forms.
    • A codex in an obscure elfin script, approximately 8" x 5.5", containing drawings, philosophical musings, war machines, botanical studies, fables, and an examination of the movement of water.
    • A pamphlet on an archaic dialectic of common titled Putting One's Thumb on the Cosmic Balance.
    • A quatro containing an illustrated poem in Old Imperialish whose title translates to Dweller on the Threshold


Experience Points

  • 9180xp from treasure.
  • Lion-headed guards defeated 2 x 125xp

Player Character Cut

  • 1610gp ea. (805gp to Kiddo)*
  • 75xp ea. for Scamandros and Crambo
  • 4675xp ea. for Fancy and Copra ((2337xp to Kiddo)



*More gp can be earned if a downtime is used to find the right buyer for the books and gowns or if anything is sold to another PC.

Write-ups, art, or maps from the session earn 100 x PC Level XP. There is no downtime this week outside of healing as what is a foot with Mischief Night has thrown Orm into chaos and eats up several of everyone's days.

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