You gotta love a dwarf’s nose when it comes to luring players into trouble. The party made quick work of the last minotaur and then convalesced before said nose began to pick up notes of g-g-g-gold. Naturally this led the party to a weird casket that contained a skeleton but more importantly treasure. And traps. But first treasure.
Behind the weirdly placed casket were shelves filled with what the Goonies called “the rich stuff.”
– Two cunningly crafted silver sculptures of Set, each
3’ tall (worth 110 gp each, but weighing 80 pounds – a detail we may have to revisit).
– A steel, mesh bag containing two gems: a citrine
(worth 30 gp) and a scintillating crystal of many col-
ors (worth 100 gp).
-Two small, shallow unlocked wooden chests. Each
chest lid is trapped with a poison needle, which is what brought Nick down to 0 hit points the first time. Second chest was smashed to pieces to evade said trap. Each chest contained 250 pieces of sweet sweet gold.
– A potion, maybe of healing.
– A giant fuck-off two-handed sword.
The owner of said sword revealed itself a moment later to be Sam, the Frost Giant Skeleton. Sam laid poor sweet Triple Dee down for good. This is the fifth dead thief in the Rolland graveyard. We all applaud your efforts. Fighting Sam also woke up some cave bears. I forgot to mention there were some cave bears, too. But cave bears may not fear some stinky adventurers, they were not going to tussle with a 16′ skeleton with a bigass sword. Heck, even Calvert was throttled a bit!
The party decided it was perhaps best to move on and went south, which had a big scary Indiana Jones-like “who would ever dare walk on that?” rope bridge.
Again, very proud of the effort Rolland has made to give blood to the blood god. I look forward to his next character. Also Nick went down three times, and now has reached pure Raistlin levels of physical decrepitude. Very proud. 🥲
