Vernando’s Map

Vernando is not Super good at drawing maps.
That bird thing is supposed to be a stirge.

Rodoh Cleric level 2

Theodora Magic User level 1

Vernando Dwarf Level 1

The party has answered Black Leaf’s request to explore the stirge hole beneath Witherhelm Keep. Rodoh is eager to try out the stirge mask. Is he too eager?

The answer is yes because soon after they get to the bottom of the well with the stirge in it he opens a chest with a poison trap and dies.

The part is able to get the gold and the scroll from the chest though.

They did come close to death. Rodoh was using the strige mask to control the stirge and keep them docile. When he died the stirge swooped down to feed on the party and their hirelings.

Vernando grabbed the stirge mask off Rodoh’s corpse, donning it just in time to hold back the stirge.

Theodora casts read magic on the scroll; it’s floating disc.

The party ignores some boring documents (ie important to the campaign) and pulls up a rug revealing a trap door.

By this point Sven the sexy torchbearer has charmed his way into a promotion to full party member (The two men-at-arms passed over for promotion to PC are a little demoralized)

The party squeezes into the crawlspace beneath the study (it’s the stirge study) and crawl into a cave system. The meet a kobold in a giant cavern covered in semiprecious stones. The kobold runs away from the party, their hirelings, and their stirge entourage.

The party take the path of least resistance and travel down a reasonably sized tunnel to the kobold lair. The kobolds are in the middle of a painting orgy (it’s like some shit you would hear about Andy Warhol’s factory). The party sends in the stirge to commit kobold genocide. It works. The party loots the bodies, only glancing at the kobold art on the walls.

The stirge are too full to suck more blood and the party becomes concerned that they now lack firepower to face the kobold king in the next room.

The kobold king is frantically trying to replenish his kobold society with his kobold harem. He gets enough eggs fertilized and then turns to face the intruders.

The party commits regicide and kills half his harem and then smashes the kobold eggs (war crime number 2).  The party did lose one of their hirelings. They name him so they can mourn him and then move on with their lives.

The party pulls back the tapestry behind the kobold throne and finds a door to a treasure vault they loot the kobold treasury.

Theodora casts floating disc. They load up the treasure and retreat.


The aftermath:

Sven gets upgraded to a male chainmail chick from black pudding #1