Session Manifest ⛪

Session 20

Following the burning of the Ursury Guild headquarters, the Ovum society flee Althier, charging along the Prince’s Highway with the intention of reaching the large town of Regevia. Along the way, they encounter two separate patrols of the Regevian Guard, draped in blue with gilt trimmings. The party push through the night, coming upon the second patrol repelling a dawn invasion of their camp by a group of Elves. After exchanging tales of enemies on all sides, the Guard offer to escort the Ovum Society the rest of the way to Regevia. But alas, the party are forced to flee into the woods towards Hommus to escape an ambush by disgruntled Rornish rebels. They meet with their old “friend” the priest who suggests they’d best talk to the village’s guardian Rufus. It seems a siege is to come to Hommus.

📆 Date - 18th and 19th day of the First Month of the Imperial Year 325

🗺️ Location - Althier and Hommus

Session 19

Binabus summons Malaceb, who in turn summons a spectral staircase to prevent the ceiling of the cave from collapsing long enough for the entire party to fill their sacks with gems. Opting to flee these cursed caves, they trace their path back around the underground lake and up the tunnel toward the Orc Lair. Reaching the crevasse bisecting the tunnel, the party witness a group of Troglodytes swimming below, searching for the source of the noisy collapse… Rigatocus and Conan are nowhere to be seen. Gaius sneaks ahead only to alert the troop of Orcs guarding the staircase to their lair. A brief battle is fought in the tough confines, laying Tassos, Gaius and their gem sacks low, while Binabus, Kalf and Sporeglazer are forced to leap down the crevice into a dark, cold river to destinations unknown.

📆 Date - 12th day of the First Month of the Imperial Year 325

🗺️ Location - Sanjikar

Session 18

With members revived and Versos caring for the unconscious Sven, the party march down the staircase, deeper into Sanjikar. They mount a tedious equipment transfer across a perilous drop before encountering a group of helpful goblins. The party trade information and ‘mulch’ for turnips. Continuing deeper, they are confronted with a vast underground lake, and the sounds of an active bee hive somewhere overhead. Rounding the lake, the much sought after Clubhead mushrooms are located, as well as an ancient Dwarven sword and great gem encrusted pillars. Binabus bravely smashes one open, sending gems and himself flying across the room. The cave ceiling begins to buckle…

📆 Date - 12th day of the First Month of the Imperial Year 325

🗺️ Location - Sanjikar

Session 17

The party rest overnight and become aware of the return of the Orc horde, led by Versos and Questoni. In a rush, they decide to untie the thief woman, known as Gaius, so that she can unlock the door for them that she was pounding on last session! Within, the party find an occult room clearly used for a dark summoning. Pressing on through the next locked door, they come into a grand staircase room and are immediately ambushed by a swarm of giant bees. Gaius, Sporeglazer and Versos fall to the venom, but Sven hastily takes up a dark amulet to a frog god and makes a contract with the demon for their revival.

📆 Date - 12th day of the First Month of the Imperial Year 325

🗺️ Location - Sanjikar

Session 16

Just as the party are recovering from the attack of the bat-owl swarm, they see a group of three enter Sanjikar’s gates. A huge Opplander, balding cultist and thin, frail looking woman with a buzzcut. Leaving the sporified slaves to dance a grisly jig, the party continue their long route back towards the gates, watching out for the interlopers. They come upon them as they stand between the party and the previously de-trapped chest. Sven charges in, slaughtering both the men as the woman slinks off into the shadows. The party give chase, finding the woman pounding desperately on a locked door. They tie her up and take her back to the chest, where Sven finds a magic ring and a bottle of black-brown liquid.

📆 Date - 11th day of the First Month of the Imperial Year 325

🗺️ Location - Sanjikar

Session 15

The strange dwarf “Mr Sporeglazer” emerges from the catacombs of Sanjikar and joins the party, offering knowledge of the places he has been within. The party lead the slaves back the way they came, towards the entrance of Sanjikar. Outside the forge room, they are ambushed by a flock of owl-bat creatures. Three slaves and Rigatocus are struck down in the frenzy, but Mr Sporeglazer brings them all back, as fungal husks of their former being. The party resolve to delve ever deeper, to find the special mushrooms Mr Sporeglazer will need to save Rigatocus.

📆 Date - 11th day of the First Month of the Imperial Year 325

🗺️ Location - Sanjikar

Session 14

Leaving the elderly orc to fester in the waste of his fellows, the party continue to delve Sanjikar. They find potions, a forge containing an extremely hot stone and a pair of giant centipedes feasting on rotting vegetables. After making quick work of the creatures, the party continue on to find a chain-gang of human slaves. The party rest a while as Sven tries to identify the potions and gem-encrusted pickaxe from last session, to no avail.

📆 Date - 11th day of the First Month of the Imperial Year 325

🗺️ Location - Sanjikar

Session 13

After making camp by the fallen down tree where they found the map, the party hatch a plan for the heist of Sanjikar. Verso and Questoni (the rizzlers) enter the Orc den with promises of gifts for the Orc leader Guurgen, while the rest of the party (sigma squad) wait for an opening. The rizzlers emerge some time later with a horde of 35 Orcs, having convinced Guurgen that he must fight the great demon wolf to truly become king of the humans. Sigma squad slip in behind them and begin exploring Sanjikar, slaying an elderly Orc and taking a gem encrusted pickaxe as their prize.

📆 Date - 11th day of the First Month of the Imperial Year 325

🗺️ Location - Sanjikar

Session 12

After being unable to communicate with the captured creature, the party set off on The Old Dwarven Way for Sanjikar. The tunnel takes them out onto a wide causeway in a deep, verdant valley. Emnooli makes charcoal of a small group of skeletons and the party make camp. Their sleep is interrupted by a foul demon-wolf promising to eat them and their bloodlines eternal, lest they bring him the Sanjikar Orcs’ overlord to feast on. With that, the party continue the trek to Sanjikar, probing a shimmering cave filled with foul water behind a waterfall.

📆 Date - 9th and 10th day of the First Month of the Imperial Year 325

🗺️ Location - Old Dwarven Way, Sanjikar

Session 11

After gathering more intel from the villagers of Whispering Chasm and collecting some new members, the party make tracks for Sanjikar on the Old Dwarven Way, following the trail of the Orc raiders.

Coming across an abandoned Orc camp in a cave at the entry to an old Dwarven tunnel, they opt to camp themselves for the night. The party are awoken by foul, grey-skinned, pale-eyed creatures emerging from the ground seeking to devour their flesh. With the aid of Binabus’ firebreathing cacodemon, Emnooli, the dream that devours, and the rage of Kalf’s henchman, Rigatocus, the party win a Pyyrhic victory, capturing one of the creatures for questioning.

📆 Date - 7th and 8th day of the First Month of the Imperial Year 325 (Yes this is before the time skip)

🗺️ Location - Whispering Chasm, Old Dwarven Way

Session 10

The party takes an old pilgrimage route into the mountains West of Althier in search of Lux Dynamicus, and the dwarven vault Sanjikar. They camp at the base of the mountains and, awoken in the middle of the night by fire and screams from the peaks, opt to go back to sleep. The next day, they climb the mountains and reach the pilgrimage destination of Whispering Chasm, only to find the aftermath of an overnight Orc raid…

📆 Date - 6th and 7th day of the First Month of the Imperial Year 325 (Yes this is before the time skip)

🗺️ Location - Althier, Whispering Chasm

Session 9

The party receive a bloody message informing them that they owe the Ursiry Guild a blood debt. They are to meet at the Bear’s Head to discuss terms. After spending an inordinate amount of time shopping for military oil, they bluff their way past the gate guards and convene at the Inn.

A three pronged attack is carried out by: The Rizzlers, The Getaway Drivers and the Firebombers. Unwilling to accept the guild’s draconian terms, the party slaughters many a man and leaves the survivors trapped inside the burning inferno…

📆 Date - 18th day of the First Month of the Imperial Year 325

🗺️ Location - Althier, Geminos District

📖 Rule Clarifications

Picking up/Dragging other characters

As a movement action, a creature can grab a helpless creature. If picking up the creature entirely, their weight and encumbrance is added to the picker-upper’s. If intending to just drag the creature, half of their weight and encumbrance is added to the picker-upper’s.

⏱️ Time skip

The party skips 2 weeks of game time to allow mortally wounded members to heal. Kalf hires an initiate of Lux Dynamicus as henchman. Conversos investigates the markets in Althier and Valligia. Binabus learns that herbs aren’t so easy to find. Aleksei hears rumours of increasing beastman activity on the roads and in the mountains to the northeast of Althier.

📆 4th –> 18th day of the First Month of the Imperial Year 325

Session 8

The party is confronted by a local militiaman and asked to stay put for questioning. They decide to ditch town and return to Althier to heal their wounded. Having a vendetta now for the Bear’s Head Inn in the slum part of town, they opt to stay for 2 weeks at The Smiling Man Inn.

📆 Date - 4th day of the First Month of the Imperial Year 325

🗺️ Location - Hommus and Althier

📖 Rule Clarifications

Training Proficiencies, Learning Languages

All adventurers have four extra proficiency slots that they can fill exclusively by spending their time training these proficiencies. The first slot takes 2 months of training to fill, the second takes 8 months, the third 18 months and the final slot takes 32 months.

If a character wants to learn a new language, they would spend the requisite time training and take the language proficiency, which allows 3 more languages.

Session 7

The party batter a sleeping giant lizard to death and steal its treasure. Returning to Hommus, they encounter a group of robbers on the main road. Bodash explodes three before falling to an arrow. Alberron’s horse is downed and he is run through with a pearlescent sword. Victory is still won through surrender and rout.

📆 Date - 3rd and 4th days of the First Month of the Imperial Year 325

🗺️ Location - The Old Fortress and Hommus

📖 Rule Clarifications

Familiars: Familiars provide their master with one proficiency related to their nature and +1 to all throws while in range There is no assumed ability to communicate with your familiar. Also, rats have superior olfaction, meaning they would serve well as a scent based lookout.

Vehicular Combat: If the vehicle does not charge (moving normally is ok), the vehicle driver and any passengers can make an attack, but the transporter cannot. If the vehicle does charge, the driver is too busy to make an attack, but the passengers and transporter can.

Taking the example of Conversos and his mule driven cart: Conversos was the driver, the cart was the vehicle and the mule was the transporter. There were no conscious passengers. Conversos could have opted to move the mule and cart to the enemy, and perform an attack himself. His other option would have been to charge with the mule and cart, removing his own opportunity to attack, but allowing the mule to attack. The mule could perform a regular attack upon reaching the enemy, or perform an overrun or force back maneuver. The former would allow Conversos and his mule and cart to charge through and past the enemy.

Session 6

The party disagree over whether to kill or free the captured leader of Zhaafique’s ex-compatriots, but freedom wins out. They meet Rat Girl and her lovely family, before getting into a terrible tussle with a pair of Green Slimes.

📆 Date - 3rd day of the First Month of the Imperial Year 325

🗺️ Location - The Old Fortress

Session 5

Zhaafique Bar Khan, venturer, was found bound by the spider’s web. The party delved deeper into the old fortress, interrupting the escape of his treacherous ex-compatriots.

📆 Date - 3rd day of the First Month of the Imperial Year 325

🗺️ Location - The Old Fortress

📖 Rule Clarifications

Harvesting Monsters

Monsters can generally be harvested for three things:

1. Mundane components for sale/crafting (antlers, skins etc).
2. Magical components for spell research/magic item creation (dragon scales etc).
3. Venom for poisoning weapons/other creatures.

The requirements to identify and harvest each of these differ.

Mundane Components: Generally require an appropriate tool such as an axe for hacking off antlers or a knife for skinning. Does not require any proficiency to harvest, though some proficiency may be required to process the item before it can be sold/used.

Magical Components: External components (antlers, fangs, toes etc) can usually be harvested in the same way as their mundane equivalent. Internal organs such as a dragon’s fire producing gland may require particular proficiencies. Magical components, unlike mundane components, do require a successful proficiency roll to even identify that a component is magical. Alchemy, Collegiate Wizardry, Magical Engineering, Naturalism and Loremastery can all be used for this identify roll, and can be stacked. Spells/abilities like detect magic can also help. Magical components must be stored in Metamphora to retain their magical attributes.

Venom: Can be harvested from venomous animals with an Animal Husbandry roll of 18+. Can be harvested from other creature types using Animal Husbandry at a -4 penalty. Each level of Animal Husbandry gives a +4 bonus to the roll. Note that this means an Animal Husbandry proficiency of at least level 2 is required to harvest venom from other creature types. Note that venom must be harvested directly from the creature. You can’t cut off fangs to harvest venom from later.

Session 4

The party traveled to Hommus, meeting the local priest of Lux Dynamicus. He pointed them to the old fortress, where the beastmen were said to be lairing. The site was found, and a lurking spider was slain.

📆 Date - 2nd and 3rd days of the First Month of the Imperial Year 325

🗺️ Location - Althier, Hommus and The Old Fortress

Session 3

The party traveled to Althier, interring Conversos in the local Hospital while they shopped and gathered job opportunities. The local mercenary guild had a posting for clearing beastmen from the village of Hommus. ‘Malaceb’, the cacodemon was summoned by Binabus.

📆 Date - 1st Day of the First Month of the Imperial Year 325

🗺️ Location - Althier

📖 Rule Clarifications

Casting the same spell multiple times: If spellcasters (arcane or divine) are of high enough level to be able to cast multiple spells per day, they may cast the same spell multiple times in a day.

Cost of healing services: Being healed at a temple/hospital is not free, costing 1gp per day. (Looking at you Conversos).

Session 2

The party interrogated the captive with impunity, learning that multiple score of Orc dwell within the Vaults of Volokarnos. A disastrous battle was had with the Orcs and the party was forced to flee, sacrificing Conversos’ guts and henchmen.

Note: This video covers both sessions 2 and 3.

📆 Date - 1st Day of the First Month of the Imperial Year 325

🗺️ Location - Vaults of Volokarnos

📖 Rule Clarifications

Armour Removal: It takes 1 full round action (movement and attack action) to doff 1 AC worth of armour. E.g. It takes 6 rounds of doing nothing but removing armour to fully remove a suit of plate armour.

Opening Doors in Combat: Opening a door is a movement action. I.e. you can do it instead of moving OR instead of attacking.

Lockpicking in Darkness: A thief can lockpick in complete darkness due to their shadowy senses ability.

Shadowy senses when in Light: Shadowy senses functions as long as a thief is in darkness or dim light. If a thief is in bright light, they cannot use their shadowy senses.

Session 1

The party began exploring the Vaults of Volokarnos. They ambushed a group of alleged bandits, killing all but one poor soul and snatching the loot!

📆 Date - 1st of the First Month of the Imperial Year 325

🗺️ Location - Vaults of Volokarnos

📖 Rule Clarifications

Spell Declaration You must declare you are casting a spell before initiative is rolled. You must specify which spell.

Flanking: Flanking an enemy gives you a +2 to hit.

Attacking from Rear: Attacking an enemy from the rear gives you a +2 to hit like flanking. If your character can ambush or backstab, you may also trigger those abilities.

Firing into Melee: Firing through engaged allies to hit an unengaged opponent is at -2. Firing at opponents engaged with allies is not allowed at all (unless you have the Precise Shooting proficiency, which is at -4).

Retreating from Melee: You must declare your retreat before initiative is rolled. On your initiative, you turn away from engaged enemies and move up to your running speed. You have -2 AC until your next turn. Opponents do not get a free attack a la ‘opportunity attack’.

Ammunition Retrieval: Spent ammunition cannot be retrieved.