Burning Witch Adventurers Session #72- To The Yeast Fields

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The Magician Phasmo, newly returned to Orm, was eager to follow up on the news of a large mirror on Level 3 discovered on the last expedition to the Complex. The magic-user had arranged to meet Betina at the Burning Witch on a joint venture and, hopefully, a debrief on the the said mirror. Instead, he was met with news from the tavern's keep, Jakki, that his fighting fellow was laid up. This, in turn, left Phasmo and his recebt traveling companion Hirsch the Druid to mull over their next move. As Phasmo told Hirsch of the current state of this large underground world known to the adventurers of Orm as "The Complex", the former dungeon dweller Abraxis felt his ears perk up at the mention of his people. News of their plight of being conquered and enslaved by the Eye of Terror propelled him to petition the pair to join him in investigating their situation before attempting to delve deeper into the underworld dungeon. This plan seemed favorable to all and the following group made the trek down to the shoreline towards the cliff-face entrance to 'The Complex':

  • Abraxis (Level 4 Fighting Mutant)
    • Doogan (Level 3 Dwarf hireling)
  • Hirsch (Level 1 Druid)
  • Phasmo (Level 4 Magic-User)
    • Lirazil (Level 2 Elf retainer)
    • Smokey Proag (Level 3 Halfling hireling)
The party returned with two of Abraxis' fellow mutants in tow: Macara and Sir Mo. Phasmo payed his fellow party members and their hirelings for a jar of a crystalline red liquid the group had recovered. As Hirsch began to sort his haul of mushrooms collected from the dungeon, Phasmo shared the following plan with any adventurer who would listen:

Here’s the story: we killed two ape guards who were guarding mutant food workers (they work in the yeast fields). We rescued two of them and one returned to blame the whole thing on the imperial mother. The mutants told us all about the eye of terror food production, and what foods are brought to the eye of terror and it’s inner circle. We were hoping we could poison that fancy food and thereby weaken or kill the eye of terror.


One of the mutants we rescued has a false stomach that could potentially store poison.


Treasure

  • Assorted cave mushrooms collected by Hirsch
  • Clay jar filled with a strange red liquid worth 300gp

Experience Points

  • 300xp from treasure
  • 'Worm Riders' defeated 5 x 10xp
  • Hairless Ape People defeated 2 x 50xp

Player Character Cut

  • 100gp ea. to Abraxis and Hirsch from Phasmo buying the jar of red liquid
  • 150xp ea. (75xp to Lirazil) with a bonus 150xp ea. (75xp to Lirazil) for rescuing Macara, Sir Mo, and Pistes
Write-ups, art, or maps form the session earn PC Level x 100xp. Let me know of any downtime activities anyone wants to perform. A special downtime activity for adventurers from this session will be covered in the next blog post.

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