Burning Witch Adventurers Session #62- The Rescue of Ruaiat and Aerual

This a medusa the party met as drawn by PakPak's player Rob A. Don't worry, she didn't make it out of the session alive.

After Betina, Dogmouth, and Scamandros' last delve, they had brought a quartet of Lunar Elves to Orm to see what life on the surface was like. The quartet were Kerdrim Sarya, Taar Zandro, Kitiar Naevys, and Kiniar Ruvan. Try as they might, Dogmouth and Scamandros met with little luck in befriending these visitors. Betina, though, faired better. The fighter, though, harbored a secret that weighed heavy on the heart. After her adventuring fellows depart, she decided to share with her new associates her terrible role in the robbing of their kin Ruaiat and Aerual.

Needless to say, the elves were not pleased. Still, they decided to give Betina a chance to make amends. Was it her honesty? Was it something of her character that was revealed in the days long conversations she had with them about philosophy and metaphysics? These elves were even more strange than their terrestrial counterparts making their motivations impenetrable. What we do know is what they have said, "Find our missing kin and find from them what is necessary to make amends."

So, Betina pulled together a party of Burning Witch regulars and sprung on them her cause. None saw it as cause to dissuade them from joining her in delving into 'the Complex.' The following party, joined by the quartet of Lunar Elves was seen headed south towards the cliff-side dungeon entrance and its black grass-covered beach:

• Betina
• Sunya Strong (Level 1 Fighter hireling)
• GaWoosh
• Journeyman Crannoc
• Oscha (Cold-weather fey servitor)
• Spike (dog of war)
• PakPak

Here is a summary of what transpired by GaWoosh's player, Curtis:

The party returned to the surface lugging out all manner of strange treasures. They also had with them a disoriented magic-user by the name of Orello. He had been apart of an expedition  into the Great Cavern from a far-off city, turned to stone to be added to the collection of a medusa on Level 3 of the Complex. Orello was not the only being mixed in among the medusa's art collection; just the only one to return to the surface and to Orm. A humanoid mushroom, calling themself a 'Mycelian' and with a name made up of a releasing of spores, headed down to the Great Cavern to join their colony. An albino lion-headed being, Alastor,  departed to the court of the Imperial Mother. A human-ish woman, Qu'rizee, reminding Crannoc of Souz'awn left to find who remained of the Order of the Illuminated Eye. An ogre, Mr. Flint, returned to rejoin the operation of a private incarceration facility.  A dwarf in a light silver suit, called Gray-brow, left to find the elevator the travels from Levels 1-6. The lizardfolk, Seelac, went to find her people along cavern river banks that traditionally served as their spawning grounds. A young student of arcane magic, Famotha, desired to return to her school somewhere on the first level of 'the Complex.'

Last, yes, among the recently unpetrified were a pair of Lunar Elves, one named 'Ruaiat' and the other 'Aerual'. Unlike the others, they had been stripped bare prior to their petrification. Betina had given them each a gown from the medusa's collection as a peace offering. The pair offered only the return of theirspiritual weapons Suor Ehalaer and Rillis atamar Kerym as the ultimate way of setting things right. Without them, neither is complete. Their kin, while they seem warmer to the party due to their aid earlier in the delve, stand in solidarity with their fellow elves. Before the groups had parted ways, Kerdrim Sarya says that she is going to entreat her Selkerdrim to stay awhile longer and secure the portal to their home of Teu (that's the Moon to terrestrial beings). Several of the threats encountered were worrisome to her, especially the gorillafolks' proximity to the portal. With that, the elves took their cut of the treasure (1 1/2 share of the coins, some of the lamps, and a gown) and the adventurers had returned to the surface.

Loot

• 7,500gp (1,500gp of the 9,000gp found retained by the Lunar Elves and never removed form the dungoen)
• Lamps with multicolor glass 4 x 25gp (2 lamps kept by the Lunar Elves)
• Opulent rug 1 x 200gp
• Elaborate dark gowns with embroidered snake motifs x 250gp (One gown kept by the Lunar Elves)

Experience Points

• 8550xp from treasure 
• Gorillafolk patrol defeated 5 x 50xp
• Brunt defeated 1 x 125xp
• Grunt defeated 1 x 125xp
• Unnamed medusa defeated 1 x 175xp

Player Character Cut

• 2293xp ea.
• 1923gp, 7sp, 5cp ea.

Write-ups, maps, or drawings from the session earn PC Level x 100 xp. Let me know if anyone wants to perform a downtime activity. The new activities of Gathering Intelligence and Spying have been added to the list (with link to Ben L.'s rules). My understanding form last session was that Crannoc wanted to start Cultivating a Relationship with Orello as a downtime. If so, Aleks post in the comments or in the #downtime channel with how you go about it and what surface information you are trying to get out of him if you succeed.