Session 12 Adventure Notes

Sorry for the long delay from action to post.  Got really busy between Gnomecon, the J-O-B, D&D, and would you believe Ballet?  Maybe that should be a different blog. 

Given the long space, this post may be a bit more summary than usual.  To business!

Our party entered the hermitage and found more Eaters of Knowledge and fought a "assimilation" of Karavakos.  After a really tough battle, Karavakos fled.  Our intrepid heroes, even after clearing the area, had to navigate through some magical strangling curtains and pick some locks to find an angel statuette worth 250gp, a silver necklace that once belonged to Vyrellis worth 250gp (and who noted she no longer had a neck on which to adorn it), 4 pieces of cut jade worth 100gp each, and 800 gp.  The also found an inscription in one of the rooms which Rhaegar was able to read that said, "The key of knowledge shines beneath a ring of holy stars."  They also had to work to disable a trap at the guardian statue that failed to fire during combat for some reason.  

From the hermitage, being a dead end, they go back through the library, and the hall way, and take the only remaining unexplored hallway down into a flooded room with moving water. The fight some swamp walking Aboreans who utilize a pipe system in the room to be sneaky.  These same pipes trapped and damaged a few of our heroes before they were discovered and ultimately utilized to their advantage.  After clearing the room of foes, they spent quite some time trying to get up on slipper platform that led to a room.  The room had statue with a moonstone in its forehead.  At this site, the Head of Vyrellis pipes up asking Jadis to obtain the moonstone for her.

Once retrieved, and the party, specifically Jadis, FEELING STRONGER, the Head of Vyrellis seems quite partial toward your party.  She is a bit more talkative now. She reveals that the moonstone contains a part of her life force and that there are two more pieces in the pyramid.  With them, she will be more able to help everyone escape, and maybe even reincorporate her physical being.

Your party then searches the remaining entrances and exits from this room, and the Head of Vyrellis starts revealing what she knows about them.  Your North and South entrances (you came from the west) circle back to each other and are the home of Gharash Vren's gang.  Gharash Vren is a dragonborn criminal and new to the pyramid.  He has only just carved himself out his own place.  She reveals the entrances to his area will be well guarded and that they keep a potential enemy in their midst. 

Your party heads north contemplating the meaning of her words.  You discuss methods among fight, diplomacy, and even subterfuge of the enemy in their midst, before you world is sucked to gray and you return to the alternate dimension known as real life.

Encounter H2, Location 15 -  The Hermitage - 1050 XP (Karavakos escaped)
Encounter P5, Location 5 - Flooded Chamber - 1750 XP
Session 12: 466 XP - Shava, Yelsha, Rhaegar, Jadis, Varis, & Glyth

Session 11: 626 XP (this was stated incorrectly last post as Session 10)
Session 10: 225 XP + 362 XP for Doz (this was omited last post)
Session 9: 342 XP
Session 8: 787 XP
Session 7: 524 XP
Session 6: 562 XP
Session 5: 278 XP
Session 4: 432 XP
Session 3: 321 XP
Session 2: 585 XP + 50 XP for Shava and Yelsha
Session 1: 375 XP

Total Adventure XP so far: 5523 XP (most should be at Level 5 now, a few just behind)

Level 6 = 7500 XP

As always, I appreciate player corrections, and feed back from anyone on embellishing the story as it happened, should of happened, or should happen.

Session 13 is planned for Sunday, April 29, 2012, noon-7pm.  Looks to be a pretty full game.
Hope to see you at the Encounters session Wednesday at Morningstar Games on Montgomery Crossroads. This season is coming to its finale, and I think I have heard that the big battle will be this week with a wrap up the week after.