Night of the Skeleton Horde

10.19.21

Adventuring Party

Snickle (Gnome/Thief) - Joe

Edgar Snotrags (Halfling/Ranger) - Ken

Bo (Human/Fighter) - Rob

MelRakki (Human/Druid) - Josh

NPCS

Alice (mother)

Brandon (oldest son, 13)

Clive (middle son, 11)

Cassandra (oldest daughter, 10)

Ren (youngest son, 7)

Emma (youngest daughter, 4)

Matu (baby owlbear)

Owen (tinker)

Loriana (wife)

Randolf (son, 5)

The party found an abandon cave as they fled a skeleton horde. They were losing ground due to the children being unable to keep up. Although having a gnome and halfling didn't help either. 

They barricaded themselves within the cabin. The party battled skeletons, berserker skeletons, and a creature known as the bloody bones. Bo nearly died in the combat. But he survived a strange encounter with a spirit that was separate from the horde. Bo wounded the spirit and it formed into a ball of shadow and entered him. 

The party managed to battle back the undead and get the children to safety...for now.

Loot

none

Unresolved Things

• the locked cabin cellar
• what of the spirit that entered Bo

Baby Owlbear

 10.12.21

Adventuring Party

Snickle (Gnome/Thief) - Joe

Bo (Human/Fighter) - Rob

MelRakki (Human/Druid) - Josh

Marvis (Human/Cleric) - Greg

NPCS

Alice (mother)

Brandon (oldest son, 13)

Clive (middle son, 11)

Cassandra (oldest daughter, 10)

Ren (youngest son, 7)

Emma (youngest daughter, 4)

Tootsie (baby owlbear)

Owen (tinker)

Loriana (wife)

Randolf (son, 5)

The night started with an attack by three swarms of hag moths. Marvis and Snickle quickly created light sources that distracted the largest of the swarms. One swarm attacked Bo, the other Marvis. Both were wounded, but survived. MelRakki provided them with advice to wash the poison off with water as he collected the hag moth bodies to make into contact poison. 

The party decided to explore the owlbear cave further. MelRakki found and tamed a baby owlbear. Snickle and Bo explored the pile of bones and found 39sp and a hard silver bracelet. In the back cavern they found a pair of 15' tall skeletons half buried in the dirt with evidence of a death struggle. A 10' axe lay in the dirt. Mavis decided he wanted to take one of the skulls as a curio. 

Then during the middle of the night, Snickle heard movement in the forest. It sounded like several creatures moving. They travelled north and did not cross paths.

In the morning they began the travel north. Others joined the trek north. Two travelers took interest in the owlbear. Bo confronted the pair, one of the men took an aggressive stance. He was entangled and sling stone bouncing off his armor. Bo sliced half the man's foot off and threaten the other man to cower. 

At the campsite, Snickle met a fellow tinker, Owen, who had his wife Loraine and his young son Randolph. Another group of three labors stayed to themselves. During the night the sound of several creatures moving through the forest returned. They spotted skeletons, a lot of skeletons, moving through the undergrowth. The line moved closer to the people. Everyone fled across the road, but were noticed. Marvis turned a few, MelRakki entangled more, but dozens of skeletons continued the pursuit. 

The party flew into the forest and came upon a cabin.

Loot

(hag moth harvest)

enough hag moth bodies to create two doses of contact poison

(owlbear cave)

39sp

hard silver bangle bracelet (Greg was right)

Tootsie

Unresolved Things

• what's in the cabin
• why are is there a horde of skeletons marching north

End of Session

Escape to Hounds Head

10.05.21

Adventuring Party

Snickle (Gnome/Thief) - Joe

Edgar Snotrags (Halfling/Ranger) - Ken

Bo (Human/Fighter) - Rob

MelRakki (Human/Druid) - Josh

Marvis (Human/Cleric) - Greg

NPCS

Alice (mother)

Brandon (oldest son, 13)

Clive (middle son, 11)

Cassandra (oldest daughter, 10)

Ren (youngest son, 7)

Emma (youngest daughter, 4)

Snickle led Alice and her children out of Scorn. He headed north to Hounds Head, while most of Scorn's refugees headed east toward Eastgate. Early in their journey a couple driving a one horse cart passed them by.

MelRakki, Marvic, Bo, and Edgar were also headed to Hounds Head. A band of adventurers looking to establish themselves. They had their first encounter with an elderly, backwoods couple. Three men hung from the trees along the road. The couple had cut down one of the corpses and the woman carefully flayed the skin to put the strips into a basket.

Bo and the woman got into an argument about the ethical treatment of a corpse. She did not back down. The party left without incident.

The adventurers then came across a scene with a broken cart, dead horse, and with a short investigation, spotted corpses of a man and woman. Soon afterwards they were attacked by an owlbear. After defeating the owlbear the party harvested four viz and 200lbs of owlbear meat.

After the battle, Snickle came upon the scene and cautiously approached the party before joining them. They salvaged what equipment remained in the cart but Snickle was unable to repair the cart. 

Edgar found the owlbear's cave. He explored it himself, found a large mound of bones, both humanoid and animal. Amongst the bones he found a silver ring with a small gem inset. 

Later Snickle and Bo explored the cave. Snickle dug through the bones further and found an additional 29sp. From the back of the cave they heard a loud squeak and exited the cave. 

The party barricaded the cave mouth and tried to smoke out what was inside, but quickly put it out as night set in. They decided to camp along the road for the night. With no fire. It began to rain and soon afterwards is when they heard something flying overhead. 

Loot

(from the cart)

4 sacks

7 standard rations

3 oil flasks

lantern

wood ax

2 casks of ale

tinder box

wolfsbane

75sp

cart could not be repaired

(within the owlbear cave)

silver ring with gem

29sp

(owlbear)

4 viz

200lbs of meat

Unresolved Things

• what the older couple was doing collecting strips of corpse skin
• unexplored sections of the owlbear cave, and what caused the squeak 
• the ring, is it magical and what's it worth
• what are the flying creatures

End of Session