The Dungeon Game: Weekends at Stonehell, session 24
A session of fairly unremarkable dungeon delving as the group map out the south-western quadrant of Floor 3, searching for were-rats.
Party Members
- Tina the Titanic - Level 8 Fighter
- Vaco Adjacent - Level 6 Paladin
- Tobias Little, a.k.a. Lil Toby - Level 7 Cleric
Followers
Tiny Tina (Cleric 7), Princess Pizzabones (Thief 5) and Rutger (Robot 6)
Session Recap
With a smaller group and missing their Lich, the party decide to stay away from the Weird Magic Wizard Bullshit going on in the eastern part of Floor 3, and instead head into the north-west to get some mapping done and hopefully find more information on the whereabouts of the were-rats that Captain Nasty's sister has fallen in with.
They make pretty good headway of it, finding some Southern Imperial (read: dwarven) architecture and a well preserved chapel to the God of Law. Along they way they do find connections back east, but also get ambushed by a group of bugbears. Luckily the group manage to dispatch them easily via an application of Sleep (cast from a scroll by Princess Pizzabones) and then Rutger squishing them. Unfortunately the whole endeavor ends up with Packett and Loadwell, the party's porters, being hit by a Hold Person spell and so the group pack them onto Justinian the Mule who now has to carry them along with all the rest of the gear as well.
The group keep clearing out the space, chatting with some of the weird pale small men that seem to inhabit this part of the dungeon, as well as killing off a group of dog-headed Pesoglavi who were in the process of moving an iron maiden. They also fight with a strange watery creature, which Tiny Tina destroys via her magic that purifies water. The party get a bunch of money and also a magical sword, and after running into an ochre jelly and realizing they have no real way to deal with it, they just decide to book it and head home.
Observations
Short session today, only 3 hours and that is including breaks, because I plan on playing in today's Super Adventure 7 hosted on the Gay Beholder OSR Discord! Let's see if Meatface will survive this one!
The session itself was fairly straightforward dungeon crawling, the group worked well and efficiently enough and between Tina the Titanic, Rutger and the clerics in support not much risk was had in any of the fights, although the party being ambushed by the bugbears could have gone a lot worse than it did.
I am overall happy with where the game is right now, and floor 3 is, as I've mentioned before, where Stonehell starts getting actually good so I am enjoying the party futzing about the place and messing with things. I am also happy with the changes I've done with some of the monsters like the Gnolls (which are now Pesoglav) and the added abilities to the Bugbears.