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But that's where we got to so far. Ash the tiefling knows where everything in Zenador is due to his deal with a devil. And they ONLY JUST REMEMBERED THEY HAVE A MIMIR.

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So yeah, the party adopted the guy, named him Ash, and are taking him with them. I can't wait to mess with them.

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The teif explained that he'd made a bet with an arcanoloth that he could spend a year in Zenador directing people where they needed to go, and in exchange he'd get a ring of three wishes. He doesn't know how long he's been there but he's optimistic that he will remember everything when he gets home

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but the party soldiered on, hating the swamp so hard they ended up in another rocky cliffside area and found a gray tiefling trying to put up a signpost. No, I was not playing TotK while prepping session, I don't know what you're talking about. just kidding, yes I was

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Micko was very surprised that the chest punched him 15ft into a wall, and decided to lay down while the others got the chest open. They found some magic items and the vestments for the church, which Axiom the wizard priest declared were dedicated to Zzyczesiya the demon lord.

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After the rest, at full health, Micko found a chest with no lock, just a flat panel with some runes he didn't bother to read. He just tried to smash it open. Did you know that putting the spell Pulse Wave into a Glyph of Warding is a totally legal in the rules and hilarious way to prevent theft?

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Gross? Yes. A difficult encounter? Only because they panicked. After they killed it through panic and punching and a well placed Cloud of Daggers, they decided to rest inside the very much not-consecrated church.

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While the party isn't the terrifying powerhouse of their last campaign together, they are still more powerful than a normal level 4 party. So what they found trying to dig up the graves was a Maurezhi. Wearing the skin of a sea elf. Which summoned a swarm of dretches.

A skinny pale demon with a bloated belly and pointed elven features. And pointed claws and teeth and toenails.

Anyway, they got to a flooded out graveyard surrounding a very ruined church with something scratching at the graves. Casual reminder that they're here for Sydney's Uncle's lost possessions. And they are still level 4.

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Axiom had sent his familiar down the cliff to see what was going on. DMs if your players ever do this and you don't want them to know whats ahead? None of the Find Familiar options have more than 3hp and most of them are prey for something. Eat it.

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Micko has an intelligence score of 9, if that wasn't obvious. High enough not to drink the Styx water. Low enough to do impulsive monkey brain stuff.

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The ghosts were, unsurprisingly, not a real problem, but the 100ft cliff they had to get down was. The wizards used a rope, Rosco and Sprout each have a variant on the Misty Step spell. Micko decided to tank the fall like a champ and had to be healed at the bottom.

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I should point out Axiom has multiclassed into cleric and his goal appears to be finding and reviving dead goddesses of truth. I will have to get clarification so I can mess with him. His player has, to my knowledge, only refrained from multi-classing into cleric once.

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Alt: Guardians of the Galaxy gif, Peter Quill shouting "Cause I'm one of the idiots who lives in it!"

This led to my favorite memorable quote of that session between Axiom and Sprout. Axiom - "I hope they're invading and kill everyone here." Sprout - "EVERYONE HERE IS US!!!"

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After killing the mephit and the suture flies it spawned (because as a DM I can't have them fight one lone mephit) they ran into some random encounters, my favorite of which was a ghostly apparition of a group of soldiers. Which Sprout tried to stop for directions while wearing a tourist costume...

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"But Rhiona!" I hear you say to yourself, "Mud Mephits are elementals! Why is one in the Abyss!?" Mephits are also little shits. And little shits get banished to hell all the time. Also my options for "low level but snarky monsters" are limited somewhat

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But they managed to get into Zenador after I accidentally made the guy controlling the portal into Lemongrab with a very unprepared silly voice. And the first thing they ran into was a mud mephit that tried to sell them Styx water. Micko was upset that they immediately tried to kill it.

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They were also sent a Mimir. A floating skull that's supposed to act kind of like Siri and tell you things. It's a goat skull with horns and runes all over it. I'm calling it a Dis-Organizer.

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Zenador is a swamp because someone tried to divert the river Styx through it. Yes that one with the memory water. Yes, it was a bad idea. But to prevent memory issues, a benefactor, the time dragon Chronepsis sent them stones that are supposed to prevent memory loss.

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I am still posting here more for myself than anything, but I'm gonna try to keep up better in future.

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Rhiona @rhionafarley.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Okay I've been missing from here for a month, but since we've only had two sessions in that time, I can't really say recap is going to be difficult. It is but I can't say that.

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Thistle seems... a little cold... More layers?

Rhiona @rhionafarley.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Because there will come a time where you need to reference the keystone book holding all the others in place, starting the Jenga of Doom.

Rhiona @rhionafarley.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Is it later yet? V curious...

Rhiona @rhionafarley.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Flexing to pop buttons off is either Intimidation or Persuasion depending on what Oriole wants to do.

There's a tie in memorable quotes from last session: "Justice!, she's a SASSY BITCH!" Sprout being a lawyer and “You’re not wrong but maybe you should be.” Sprout's Player Which do you guys like more?

Apologies for the post spam but last session was VERY busy. The party has to stay in town for a couple of days so they're currently running errands for their fixer.

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Micko traded his fur color to the dolls to find out that the egg he was born from (yes he's still a monkey) came from Mt Celestia. Sprout traded a mirror for the answer that the coordinates in the letter lead to The Abyss. Specifically a ship run around in a layer called Zenador.

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Who is the proprietor? A single soul controlling two 3.5ft tall twin bisque dolls! The party was HORRIFIED and spent quite a bit of the encounter in the shop's doorway.

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So where does one go to get planar coordinates translated? If you ask the one fixer the party is currently friends with, you go to the creepiest little antique shop in Sigil (which is saying something for Sigil).

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The letter says Sydney's uncle died. Which would be less concerning if he'd been raised by his sea elf family and not by a bunch of dwarf glassblowers. And his uncle left him all his stuff located at *insert Planar coordinates unreadable by party.*

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Sprout was questioned about the murder under a truth spell. Micko refused the truth spell and nearly caused further problems. And Axiom was released with an order to stay in town for a couple of days. He got his stuff back. He found a letter addressed to Sydney. He did not have this letter before.

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Okay SO... Defense lawyer got murdered. Party didn't do it. The party broke into the prosecutor's office and knocked her out and locked her in a closet. Axiom, the cleric on trial, got threatened in his cell. Sprout and Micko took over as the prosecutors. And the trial got thrown out.

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Rhiona @rhionafarley.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

A TPK is the fastest way to show players that the world is not putting up with them.

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This is my first time seeing him and I wanna know more. Especially who he gets his shoes made by. And I kinda wanna decorate his wings with little gold chains.

Oh I nearly forgot. The whole party has a decent WIS save score. Except the bard. The macguffin they picked up turned out to be a cursed cloak. Which Sprout, the bard put on. Sprout failed his save. Sprout is now paranoid and can't sleep in the presence of reflections because he's being watched.

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When I originally started being a DM, I had a Planescape adventure where, for reasons, the party had to defend their cleric for the crime of essentially violating a DNR. That party was later banned from serving as lawyers in Sigil after the trial went so far off the rails it could not be salvaged.

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phoenix is a character in a video game with his head down

Specifically Axiom threw firebombs through the window of the Athar's guildhouse window because Axiom is pro-gods. Casual reminder that Axiom is a wizard who put most of his stats into strength and intelligence. What was supposed to be flavor is now a sidequest to DEFEND HIM IN COURT.

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ALT: phoenix is a character in a video game with his head down

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Rhiona @rhionafarley.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Okay been a little slow updating this but the party did make it back to Sigil safely. I THOUGHT I would drop them in the Hive with a Hand of Havoc anarchist nearby for a bit of flavor. I forgot one detail. Axiom is a secret anarchist. Axiom helped this guy throw firebombs. Axiom got arrested.

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Sadly, right behind the funny voice Momoa is the realization that I'm very bad at accents.