We made time for a quick delve today. We played for all of 4 hours . . . more like 3 after 60 minuties of chit-chat.
Date: December 30th, 2023
Weather: Sunny, mildly cold.
Characters
Duncan Tesadic, human wizard (305 points)
Hannari Ironhand, dwarf martial artist (297 points)
Persistance Montgomery, human knight (298 points)
Thor Halfskepna, human knight (304 points)
Urbaine Fabre, half-elf bard (301 points)
Vladimir Luchnick, dwarf martial artist (255 points)
Last session, the PCs had scryed out the cave mouth entrance to Felltower and saw two critters there - a stone bull and a chimera . . . and some loot. So they geared up for a quick alpha strike on the two monsters to seize some loot!
Naturally, this plan was too simple and derailed immediately.
They gathered rumors and piled up the consumables - scrolls of Stone to Flesh, potions of all sorts, spellstones - and headed to Felltower. They decided that the approach to the cave mouth entrance was too open - they'd risk an open-field fight with a stone bull and a flying chimera. They didn't want to risk that, especially because they saw no chance of sneaking up on them.
So instead they headed into the dungeon through the main gate. Bad luck struck right away. Thor fell into the pit trying to cross it, getting hurt (5 HP). He drank a Major Healing potion and rolled two 1s, healing 4 back. He and Urbaine managed to get stuck in the portcullis and it took time and FP to extricate them.
Winding through the dungoen was fine, but stuck doors slowed them down and then Thor fell down some slick stairs and had to crawl up them to avoid another fall.
Finally, though, they reached the scrying chamber, hoping to use it. However, their magically created servant was destroyed when it touched the activating button, without even openeing the door. So they gave up on that.
Then it was down to the cavern level, and in to the "rest area" - a natural cave that feels peaceful and safe, with edible mushrooms and pure water. They rested there and ate some mushrooms.
From there they went to a cube-shaped room, and Urbaine sensed magic . . . but they didn't know what kind. So they backed off and went another way.
They approached the cave mouth cavern, but first had to get through a large cave on the way. When they arrived, they found it had a handful of crushrooms!
They backed off and set up a fighting formation, and made noises to attract the mushrooms. It didn't work; they just wouldn't come after the PCs. So the PCs went to them and attacked, with Percy slashing one badly with his axe.
The crushroom began to shriek, letting out a piercing sound that was annoying but certainly also alerted the chimera and stone bull.
They began a fighting retreat, carving up crushrooms that advanced. They decided to just run for it. Thor blocked on crushroom's attack while cutting it up something fierce. But then in a slight miscalculation they ran, but left Thor's back to the crushrooms 4 hexes away from the closest. It did a Move and Attack and rolled a 6 and hit, barely. It clamped on to his leg for 10 HP of damage (0 injury) and 20 CP. Thor was stuck! He tried to break free but failed, and Percy slashed it with his axe. Urbaine created a Perfect Illusion of many Thors to distract the crushrooms, and then Duncan put up a solid stone wall with Create Earth. They hacked the single crushroom on their side of the wall until it dropped away from Thor.
They just headed home from there, since we all had afternoon plans in the real world and so did the PCs, presumably.
Notes:
Well, I had fun. I never promised there weren't any monsters in the area, and this area is notorious for crushrooms . . . and there they were.
I find crushrooms fun because they're big bags of HP that do collossal damage and inflict scads of Control Points, but their defenses are appalling and their "to hit" marginal. So you're fine until they roll well and then you're not. Then it's a matter of beating them to death.
0 xp, 1 xp MVP was Hannari because his player did all of the in-town shopping prep for the fight that wasn't.
See you guys next year!
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