Burning Witch Adventurers Session #70- There is money in the psychometry stand!

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It had been a long time since anyone had ventured into the Complex. With adventurers traveling out to the City-States of Kouz and Barbasso, heading north to Soot Hill, and to the Twilight Shores; there just weren't enough of them in Orm to mount another expedition. It wasn't until a group returned from the Twilight Shores, heavy with the news of Scamandros' death, that it changed. With Scamadnros' passing came the arrival of his cousin, the holy man Kasalkor. Adorned in animal skins and bearing a mark that identified him as Scamandros' heir, the cleric of Gmork was ready to take up his deceased relatives line of work. In the Burning Witch, he found a handful of idle adventurers ready form the following party:

  • Betina (Level 4 Fighter)
    • Murfy (Level 1 Magic-User hireling)
  • Dogmouth (Level 3 Thief), deceased
    • Merry Mako (Level 1 Fighter hireling)
  • Kasalkor (Level 1 Cleric of the Gmork), deceased
    • Chancy (Level 0 Orphan hireling)
  • Frim Frimerson (Level 3 Fighter)
The group returned before the red sun had crept its way to its mid-day height. Like the party that had visited the fey Twilight Shores, this one also returned with heavy hearts. Dogmouth the Thief and Kasalkor both met grizzly fates as they were swallowed by a pitch black oozing creature (reported to be possibly a jam or a flan) as the party tried to lure the monster into a trap. At the  Burning Witch, they raised their drinks high and toasted to their fallen comrades. 

The pairs fate, though, did not deter the group from wanting to return to the Complex to seek fortune. On their return, they were joined by Dogmouth's steadfast drinking buddy (and heir) and a member of the Transcendental Congress of the Aureate Precepts eager to study the lost languages in the Complex. Thefollowing party left Chancy and Merry Mako to drink to their fallen employers:
  • Betina (Level 4 Fighter)
    • Murfy
  • Bludoon (Level 1 Dwarf)
  • Frim Frimerson (Level 3 Fighter)
  • Ngorome (Level 1 Magic-User)
    • Axel (Level 0 Man-at-Arms), mute


This second party had better luck. Well, all but Axel had better luck. The man-at-arms member of the 111th Company had his throat hit in a fight, ruining his voice box permanently. If heavy load of ape person equipment the group brought back was worth the permanent disfigurement, only Axel could say. Before the party went their separate ways, Ngorome spread word around the Burning Witch the he was seeking any writings the humanoid-like gorillas may have had for he was seeking to create a phrase book for their language. The magic-user then headed off in the direction of the Athenaeum of the Dying Sun to talk to Journeyman Crannoc about some "orbs".

Treasure

  • Crystal Pears (heals 3d6+3 hp) x 9
  • A ring of invisibility (claimed by Bludoon)
  • A silver chain worth 70gp
  • Gorilla Folk wooden weapons w/blades at the end x 7
  • 31 long brass objects with lead points
  • half a dozen inflatable bladders about seven feet long and three feet wide made of an unknown material
  • half a dozen blankets made out of a silvery but light weight material
  • Gorilla Folk lanterns x 2
  • Light weight bottles of water x 23
  • Metal boxes containing 8 bars wrapped in a light, metallic material x 6
  • A flexible card with a life-like image of a strange city against a hazy butterscotch sky worth 50gp to the right buyer
  • A pamphlet filled with life-like images of gorilla folk in erotic positions worth 100gp to the right buyer
  • An object about the size of a bread box covered in all sort of switched and dials. It has a strap that one can use to place it over their shoulder.

Experience Points

  • 70xp from treasure
  • Gorilla Folk guards killed 7 x 50xp

Player Character Cut

  • 14gp ea.
  • 142xp ea.
The flexible card or the pamphlet can be sold with the use if s Find the Right Buyer downtime is used for each item. Similarly, the Gorilla Folk camping equipment could be sold with use of the same downtime activity but will not generate any addition xp.

Write-ups, drawings, or map from a session earn PC Level x 100xp. Let me know if anyone wants to take a downtime activity.

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