before:

• Wynne is a fighter!?
• a ton more bugbears showed up...
• a ghostly figure, wizard is going to give us a blood vial, one of the 8 Man Empire thing. if we clear the cave.
• forge of spells guarded by Spectator, took care of it.
  • Wynne did the ritual, mother is safe. lost his magic, is now fighter.
• FRENZIED rage (bonus action: full melee attack)

SESSION:

• fucking wild rolls for Barb, most of the night
• inspired by Bella
• Emma keeps getting between me and bugbears, so i just stab them over her shoulder
• jumped away from emma, up a ledge. she se...

• LAST ON: GS, fled, gas form. Went outside for wind, struck down. Wynne looking at staff.
• Potion of Heroism (Kratlyn), 50g each, potion of healing (Bella) off GS's body.
• Barb busts open the door to the south of GS's room, full size Owlbear with splinters in is face. Wynne talks with animals, Owlbear just passes. Chirpy is a chihuahua, intimidates. Owlbear accepts Chirpy as OUR alpha. Passes by and leaves.
  • Lhupo - goblin outside (snack). with the dead pet thing.
  • Room owlbear was in used to be a workshop. Nothing original seems to remain.
• Bella notices a chest 15ft up.
  • Bella, Wynne, and Barb all wanna do three kids in a trenchcoat.
  • Kratlyn gets the chest while we're arguin...

• Emma is up and fine, but has no armor.
  • Barb's weapon is still out, and Bella and Wynne seem to be up to something.
• Got the Ankle Advocate back!! Emma's armor will be done in hours.
• Emma wants to get Barb armor, but she declines very adamantly. Emma says she'll keep taking hits for me, I suggest she do that for Wynne or Bella. She says she almost died for taking Wynne's hits, and I said to keep on it.
  • We went to The Last Spell, and everything was insanely expensive. We were judged for being broke.
• Emma donned her armor, and we PVP'd for a bit. Barb stayed within 5 feet, hasn't yet tried out ten feet. Emma's armor works REALLY WELL OMG, Barb isn't feeling great about the AA. Prob best with frenzied r...

• BARB - LVL 1 HALF ORC BARBARIAN
• NOTES
• First roll: Nat 1, first damage: Barb first first nat 20: BARB
  • 1 golden tooth (1G), wooden set of dice (from goblins)
• Neverwinter, NW Coast. Recent volcanic eruption.
• Told to trust, more jobs. Gundren Rockseeker
• (Alex) Emma, human, cleric
• (Asp) Kratlyn, tiefling, cleric, golden eyes, "they"
• (Jay) Wynne, half-elf-drow, wizard brown hair, book clutched. Lent Ankle Advocate. Can talk to wolves.
• (Me) Barb, tall and imposing, seems happy to be here.

lvl 3 reminder:

• barb rolled 3 initiative.
  • bella inspired me.
  • Bugbear #? javalin's me.
  • Wynne does mage armor and runs into the room
  • Aemar casts hunter's mark on a bugbear.
  • Kratlyn almost finishes Bugbear 1 off.
  • Barb rages, uses Bella's inspiration and does 17 dmg on Bugbear 2.
• Bella slaps tf out of Bugbear 1.
  • Wynne tries to push Bugbear 2 into fire. Pitiful.
  • Emma hits Bugbear 1 for 2 whole dmg... Sad but admirable.
  • Barb does a reckless attack and CRITS on Bugbear 2
  • https://i.gyazo.com/4716acd3d05a546a2f0d...
  • Bella almost goes down, Chirpy starts to ...

• REMINDER:
  • buy lockpicks (done)
  • have inspiration to do an investigation (for rations, in the red tent) (done)
  • dinosaur decepticons/transformers
  • Thundertree, orcs, Glassstaff, and Gundren... and Black Spider? Dragon?
• Last time:
  • Old Owl Well, undead presence. Took care of, Necromancer (Kost) has paperwork, undead are his workers. "Misunderstanding," there to do research. We sent him back to get his paperwork settled or whatever, inform Lord's Alliance of his arrival.
  • Glassstaff told Kost it was okay - and ew saw his rat somewhere around the Old Owl Well.
  • Kitchen is done, but fancy knives (Barthen's Provisions) are a day out. Health pot...

• retrieve the blood vial from the Wraith. glass container with drop of blood sealed within.
• going back to town with Nundro, who is alive.
  • Thardim, Gundren's brother. Multi stab wounds, dead for at least a week - left his corpse there. Barb kept the boots.
• Barb will help Gundren and Nundro re-open the Forge, before leaving with Wynne.
  • Kratlyn will help also, to make sure the Forge is pure.
• After a few months of work, the Forge is in a decent state, and is able to open it. Gundren tries his hand at making legendary items. (No shields. RIP)
  • Putting out ads for a wizard, to operate the forge. (Kost, the necromancer would a...

• Wave Echo Cave - with the Forge of Spells
• met up with King Grohl (old bugbear), surrendered to us. offered him to live in the Manor.
• Injured Gundren, safe in Manor.
  • Sildar joined, we updated him on everything.

TO DO

• Potions, Bella saying goodbye to Karp.
• Gundren is awake!
  • Memory is foggy.
  • Bella launches into a tale of what we've been up to, how we found him. "You killed a dragon?"

before/misc:

• Cragmaw Castle
  • deep in mountain and forest, there's a castle.
  • Wolfrid can lead us there.
  • regularly patrolled by hobgoblins (outer areas)
  • wolf pack will find us when we need them
• maybe let emma get me armor
• FRENZIED RAGE IS FREE.
• art idea: wynne with a keytar??? kratlyn with a gong, barb with percussion, emma with a bong (it gets me closer to god), (what is it that bella uses?)

session:

• towards Cragmaw, met up with wolf pack. goblins, and an ogre. in the woods and castle.
• we all follow Serious, mostly quiet excep...

• begin with short rest
• FAN-DE-LIN
• Gundren, and his warrior guard ambushed along trail. We were also ambushed. Tracked back to cave. Befriended pack of wolves. Sildar Hallwinter, bound and beaten severely. Our healers healed Sildar over short rest.
• (Wolfram, Wolfrid*Leader, Sirius... Ripper, from the Bugbear. aka Ripley.)
• Clan of gnomes and dwarves came together to mine, along w human wizards. Created magical forge.
• Attacked by orcs, seige the town and destroyed most of town and mines.
• Forge of Spells
• Gundren and brothers think found the entrance of cave. 500 years abandoned, lost.
• Goblins ordered to capture Gundren and Sildar.

• Some before things....

Barb still has some paint on from disguising as Redbrand.

We need to:

- Eyezak (Meat that isn't humans, promised cooking utensils. Doesn't want to leave cave.)

- Take care of 3 skeletons in cave. and some Redbrands sealed in a room. and one manacled where we found victims. Victims were sent into town (Merna and two children. Elmar, the old man.)

- What do we do with Droop?

- Weasley and the boys (Emma, Wynne, and I)

- What help does Wynne need? (Father is hunted, and mother is dying. He mentioned something to Glassstaff about a cure?)

- There's a mace, Lightbringer, in Mine, I guess?

- GS mentioned having a job for us... Is ...

• fucking dragon fight....

notes

• BE READY TO RUN, GRAB WYNNE AND GTFO
• potion of climbing, will ask wynne for a signal.
  • need to put details here
• > saw people in dragon masks and cultist robes. assumed worship.
• > magical war, caused plant life in the area to mutate. mean plants.
• barb knows something about wynne and a "deal," she has no idea what it is, what it means, but is concerned and scared. she will likely be on high alert.
  • barb is going to freak out when wynne sacrifices. she's going to try everything in...

remember:

• long jump = 19 feet normally, 57 feet with boots. standing jump = 7 feet normally, 21 feet with boots.
• Flameskull was put in the easy bake oven (aka forge, smelting room) - ancient creature set to guard the area
  • rejuvenates in one hour, holy water or dispel magic
• Kratlyn and Emma do a ceremony to create holy water, and ruin the Flameskull.
  • Short rest
• Ruined building, scorched ans scarred. looks like a mage battle, long ago.
  • iron door, hinges warped and bent. would be loud to open

• the untamed (costume drama) (bella backstory)
• we all split up - Emma and Barb (North), Wynne and Kratlyn (South), Bella and Chirpy (East)
  • W/K stumble into a bunch of goblins, wtf.
  • E/B, kick open door. alter blood stained black cloth, archways to south w heavy curtains. three goblins, praying. Emma closes the door and we hold our actions lmfao.
  • B/C, struts into the room. listens for either other group, hears absolutely nothing.
• Goblins open our door, and Emma sacred flames the one in the doorway. Barb stabs him and ends him.
• Barb moved into the room with Bella, Javalin'd the monstrosity. Killed it. Bella g...

OVERALL REMINDERS:

• emma needs to be fucking healed. and KRATLYN. and WYNNE. but at least they're alive sdgfbgnh (done)
• how can the dogs talk??? (reidoth)
• loot the baby dragin - meat for eyezak, memory for barb.
• bella and the BOOK?! six days to read???
• we also got a gun....
• DRAGON CULT??? in area (may disband)
• spiders in town, supposed to only be two. (reidoth can deal, but not kill)
• reidoth is sus (wildfolk)

personal notes:

• get a memory bit for the Stick. do not forget.
• kratlyn said they'd tell us what they think of us... when we survive
• wynne and the sword??

Barb, about the deal.

• Met Aemaer - private eye, investigating Redbrands.
• (Begin with long rest)
• Sildar - Law's Alliance, goal is ensure safety and prosperity.
  • Another agent sent to Phan to help the town set up Constabilary (has failed, bc gang). Lost contact. Keep eye out of him. Human, man, short long dark hair/eyes. Wizard. Yer-something.
• Told everyone about Secret Tunnel (Redbrand)
• Aemaer told us about a basement entrance, to Redbrand Mansion. Effectively the same as the tunnel. Trap door.
• Plan: cut off manor trap door. Enter the secret tunnel.
• Four Redbrands, coming out of the Sleeping Giant. Want us to pay a toll. Belladonna tries to talk past it, but we drew weap...

• Notes from last:
  • Pip (human) and Karp (halfing)
  • Weasley got chomped. (done)
  • Heading to Undead Issue, 50G bounty.
  • Wester (cowardly town head) deposed in 14 days.
  • Kitchen being worked on. (+1 day)
  • Kitchen amenities in 6 days.
  • Piles of dead Redbrands lmao (fed and burned)
  • Make sure Droop isn't being a Warden. (
• Four day skip
  • Bella talks to Karp's parents, about teaching him an instrument, lessons in the afternoon. Tries to teach Chirpy... combat training, and such.
  • Wynne talks to Pip's parents, about the arcane. Lessons in the afternoon. Research...