DCC Game: B4 The Lost City; Episode 2: Green Slime, More Beetles, Getting Away From Sexist Warriors and Easy Rock Sprites!
The Adventure: I am running B4: The Lost City from Basic D&D as a Dungeon Crawl Classics dester adventure.
The Cast
John as Bram the Hobbit (KIA) and Badger II the Child Wizard
Marshall as Nissandra (the 0-level, later Wizard), Billy (the 0-level, later Thief) and Fitzburt the 0-level, later corpse)
Wyatt as Avery the Cleric of Law and Cletus the Space Cowboy
This session started with the Chaotic characters slipping away from the main party (that had a temporary alliance with the Brotherhood of Gorm (the Bearded Lawful Statue on the roof). As a result, Bram the Hobbit and Fitzburt the 0-level made off on their own looking for treasure or just investigating this tier of the pyramid. Of high excitement, they found a band of Easy Rock music playing Sprites that the characters traded a chest of copper pieces for a crate of some sketchy looking tubes and decorations...the use for which was never discovered as Fitzburt walking into a room filled with a weak and hungry Green Slime, and although Bram retrieved the crate, he was soon eaten in an attack of angry, hungry giant ferrets...apparently looking for a Hobbit snack.
Of the rest of the party, Cletus joined the Brotherhood of Grom, while Avery became an associate member. Nisandra wanted to join as well, but they said only boys could be full members of their club, so Nisandra said no thanks to being an "associate member" of their sexist cult. The Gormites escorted the party to a set of stairs which the Gormites said would lead to the city of Cynidicia - below the ziggurat! The party entered the next Tier and made their way to a corridor, which they later determined spun them around to head back the way they had come. Along the way Billy found a secret door that they'd missed the first time, and opening it found...four more Beetles! These Beetles spit poison oil and with little in the way of combat magic, Badger cast spiderclimb and took off alone out the far door! While the rest fought, Badger found a statue of the winged child wrapped in snakes (the second of the statues on top of the ziggurat. The child statue held a wand which Badger grabbed...and activated a choking cloud of gas! The child wizard spider crawled back to the room with the Beetles and watched as the remaining party finished off the oil spitting insects.
Avery healed everyone and the party went to look at this statue. Billy used his newfound "thief skilz" to disassemble the statue of the winged child. He determined in his reverse engineering that the gas was not magic but a mechanical trap. He did remove the wand (made of iron) and gave it to Badger who started playing with it.
Billy ended the episode with a "...and I found this..." and opened a secret door behind the statue.
{Judge notes: in game both Avery and Cletus are now 2nd level, Badger II is still only first because he was introduced as the male-born child of the NPC Badger in Courts of Chaos - he will level up next episode. Bram would have leveled to second had he survived the hungry ferrets. Both surviving 0-levels are now first level. Spells will be found next episode (early) so the spells and merc magic were rolled up tonight.}
{Now I need sleep - I have a Reindeer Run tomorrow morning.}
The Cast
John as Bram the Hobbit (KIA) and Badger II the Child Wizard
Marshall as Nissandra (the 0-level, later Wizard), Billy (the 0-level, later Thief) and Fitzburt the 0-level, later corpse)
Wyatt as Avery the Cleric of Law and Cletus the Space Cowboy
This session started with the Chaotic characters slipping away from the main party (that had a temporary alliance with the Brotherhood of Gorm (the Bearded Lawful Statue on the roof). As a result, Bram the Hobbit and Fitzburt the 0-level made off on their own looking for treasure or just investigating this tier of the pyramid. Of high excitement, they found a band of Easy Rock music playing Sprites that the characters traded a chest of copper pieces for a crate of some sketchy looking tubes and decorations...the use for which was never discovered as Fitzburt walking into a room filled with a weak and hungry Green Slime, and although Bram retrieved the crate, he was soon eaten in an attack of angry, hungry giant ferrets...apparently looking for a Hobbit snack.
Of the rest of the party, Cletus joined the Brotherhood of Grom, while Avery became an associate member. Nisandra wanted to join as well, but they said only boys could be full members of their club, so Nisandra said no thanks to being an "associate member" of their sexist cult. The Gormites escorted the party to a set of stairs which the Gormites said would lead to the city of Cynidicia - below the ziggurat! The party entered the next Tier and made their way to a corridor, which they later determined spun them around to head back the way they had come. Along the way Billy found a secret door that they'd missed the first time, and opening it found...four more Beetles! These Beetles spit poison oil and with little in the way of combat magic, Badger cast spiderclimb and took off alone out the far door! While the rest fought, Badger found a statue of the winged child wrapped in snakes (the second of the statues on top of the ziggurat. The child statue held a wand which Badger grabbed...and activated a choking cloud of gas! The child wizard spider crawled back to the room with the Beetles and watched as the remaining party finished off the oil spitting insects.
Avery healed everyone and the party went to look at this statue. Billy used his newfound "thief skilz" to disassemble the statue of the winged child. He determined in his reverse engineering that the gas was not magic but a mechanical trap. He did remove the wand (made of iron) and gave it to Badger who started playing with it.
Billy ended the episode with a "...and I found this..." and opened a secret door behind the statue.
{Judge notes: in game both Avery and Cletus are now 2nd level, Badger II is still only first because he was introduced as the male-born child of the NPC Badger in Courts of Chaos - he will level up next episode. Bram would have leveled to second had he survived the hungry ferrets. Both surviving 0-levels are now first level. Spells will be found next episode (early) so the spells and merc magic were rolled up tonight.}
{Now I need sleep - I have a Reindeer Run tomorrow morning.}
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