Beiinors Campaign/Session 13

## [ Session 13 — 07/23/2023 ]

**The Origins of GorthBoiClique - Chapter 13**

Ayo what up fam? It’s ya boi, Ozy, here with a story about one of the craziest adventures the legend CharlesGorth and I ever went on (and some other people were there too). Make sure to like, comment, subscribe, and smack that notification bell if you want to stay up to date on all our latest adventures.

You all may remember we left off in the middle of us venturing through a cave contaminated with skeletons and fish people and other gross things (e.g. Paavo). It’s a good thing Kithri and I had joined the group prior to this adventure because we already had experience dealing with fish people. And Kithri was somehow very adept at dealing with the skeletons as well. After clearing out a few rooms, we were walking along a long hallway and started hearing a loud wailing/moaning sound (not the sexy kind. More like the “I’ve fallen and can’t get up” kind). Mysteriously, this sound was not coming from the direction of the door at the end of the hallway.

Katamira, using her wit, intelligence, and weirdly good hearing, was able to locate a crack in the wall to our left leading to a hidden room. I hope that Katamira did not use her weirdly good hearing to listen in on all the private conversations I had just a few feet away from her.

While Katamira and Bolt sneakily begin investigating the hidden room, Kithri and I use our tactical prowess and decide to focus on the door at the end of the hallway making sure that our party does not get flanked (genius maneuver, I know).

The remainder of this story about the hidden room is a retelling, for Kithri and I were focused on the other door and were not involved in this next part of the action.

So they say, in the hidden room they discovered a mummy in a marble coffin, next to a seemingly empty coffin. Sparing no time, Bolt jumps directly into action shooting his crossbow at the mummy. After a few other attacks between CharlesGorth (the legend) and Katamira, the mummy brings about a plague of insects circling all our party members that entered the room (yes I know that sounds unbelievable. Where did the insects come from? Why can a mummy control insects? Why can’t Paavo lighten up sometimes? All great questions. I’m not sure I’d believe it either but CharlesGorth confirmed it to be true). Maria attempted to firebolt the mummy however, the firebolt was somehow eaten up by the insect plague.

Bolt, using his quick thinking and big, juicy, hulking arms, grabs the marble slab next to one of the coffins (the non-mummy one) and covers it up. For reasons never really explained to me, this caused the mummy to teleport back into his coffin and stop moving. Now we have a free opportunity to take the magic scepter that the mummy is holding, however, Paavo has some reservations and attempts to convince the crew to leave the awesome scepter there and just collapse the cave onto itself. You’ll often hear people say “Comparison is the thief of joy.” These people must have never met Paavo. Because if they had then they would know that he is truly the thief of joy and that comparison gets a bad rep.

Ignoring Paavo’s suggestion, Katamira takes the scepter from the mummy and the mummy, you’re not gonna believe this, just turns to dust. Crazy, I know. Also, years later CharlesGorth admitted to me that he and Maria split 10 diamonds amongst themselves that they secretly found here.

Now that Kithri and mine’s job of guarding the flank was concluded we joined the rest of the group and continued marching forward through the cave. However, this time we make sure to stay ahead of the pack to get first dibs at any goodies we find. Unfortunately, we find minimal goodies and instead run directly into some zombies and wights.

This fight is largely uneventful and we are able to clear out these monsters without much issue. However, some members of our party still felt it necessary to utilize their fire weaponry, especially against monsters directly next to me. Due to my severe fire related trauma I ended up closing my eyes, putting my hands over my ears, and laying on the ground to avoid perceiving the fire at all costs. In my moment of weakness Paavo was kind enough to reach down and lend me a hand. Feeling the embrace of his hand in mine I embraced him back by interlocking my fingers in his, making sure that he could not easily take his hand away. Due to mine and Paavo’s tumultuous relationship thus far I knew this embrace was not an easy thing for him to do, and it meant a lot to me that he put himself out there. This kind gesture had a lasting impact on me. It was at this moment I realized something important about Paavo. And that is that he is emotionally weak and that I could exploit his emotions for my own personal benefit.

Later on, once we had rid the that area of the cave of the undead, now that I have Paavo right where I wanted him, literally in the palm of my hand, I took him to the side and utilized our newfound close relationship to entice Paavo into joining the GorthBoi Clique (for a modest investment fee of 20 platinum). Paavo tried to play coy by saying we should continue this discussion when we return to Qendra, but I could already see the wheels turning in his mind about how great of an opportunity this is. He probably just wanted to wait until we were back at Qendra so he could access more money than just 20 platinum to invest.

To everyone reading this, always remember your **ABC**s:

**A**lways

**B**e

**C**losing

Oh yeah then we found a zombie beholder.