tl;dr: The crew gets out of the abandoned river temple with a duke’s ransom and procures the the services of a River Acolyte to solve their Water Weird problem; also old Mrs. Cottonswald gives kitty-treats to a Spotted Lion at the mercy of the Monster Reaction Table.
We hadn’t gamed in a while and it was just great to see everyone’s faces. I didn’t realize how much I missed them. It was really nice to get together, catch up and play again.
Baska made up a Mage named Muffin St. Dymphna II, who is everyone’s hippy-dippy roommate from undergrad. As I described the abandoned temple that had been the previous Dullgray River Crew’s HQ, Baska mentioned that Muffin had partied there back in the day.
The crew worked well together as Tomoe recovered from nearly drowning. Ocean picked up the treasure while the Mages used their staffs (special power: In the hands of a mage, a normal saff can harm creatures that are immune to mundane attacks, from Carcass Crawler #1) to beat the creature into submission. But they couldn’t really kill it. They decided to count up their gold in a different room (8000 gold! with more in jewlery!) and left the temple for now. Gavin read oen of the books about the River Goddess they had found and discovered that “turning one’s well water into a fell serpent” was one of the River Goddess’ curses and the water needed to be calmed by a priest.
They hired Atbara, an elderly river priest who overlooked a shrine from times before the Ioun City Mercantile Consortium (ICMC) came to power. They paid him five gold and a ten gold tip and the old Acolyte was thrilled to get that much. They have unlocked the Shrine Acolytes of the Olde River Goddess as character options and plan to bring one with them as a retainer.
We had a few minutes left and discussed a bit about what to do for the next session and Anthony was excited to hire an animal trainer in hopes of taming the Spotted Lion. The discussion of where to hire someone led to Baska mentioning Mrs. Cottonswald, a local bad-ass cat-lady. We laughed while she shook kitty-treats at a monstrous lion that was gnawing on some kind of river rodent it had caught. I rolled her Charisma and asked Baska to roll the Monster Reaction table, 2d6 minus 1 (her CHA was not good). The lion was uninterested as Mrs. Cottonswald approached with a container of treats. She threw a few treats at it and it ate them.
“We’ve established the treats. We’ll try again tomorrow,” Mrs. Cottonswald said. I was shocked she had survived.
Next week the crew is going to clear the ghouls out of the temple so they can call it home.
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