Session 23

### Session 23: Tobogganing!

We follow Hoar's directions, taking a long trek up the side of a mountain. We make constitution saves and Xia fails massively, gaining a point of exhaustion. After a few hours, we make it to the top of the mountain, where we are faced with a steep descent down. Eva and Ejholan take a moment to take in the scenery above the mountain, and Ejholan sees something flying above the cloudline. He asks Trip about Dragons, and she is more than happy to chat about them. Eva sees lava pooling at the bottom of the steep mountain. After a long discussion of how to best get down, the group decides on tobogganing. Eva and Trip go down on a shield, using a sword as a steering mechanism. Xia, Maggie, and Coda go down on Xia’s floating disc, using her staff as a steering device. Ejholan hops on Maggie’s shield. Telmund is pushed down on a shield by Melchior, who surfs down after him. Hijinks ensue. At one point, Mechior is belly sliding down whilst Telmund floats along very slowly in the air, using Trip’s potion of Dragon Wings. At the bottom, Trip and Eva concoct a potion of incredibly sticky webbing to catch the group.

We come to the outside of a large stony structure, and hide around the gate, deciding to send in three party members to converse with the people inside. Telmund, Ejholan, and Xia make their way down the stony bridge and are faced by a group of bald men in matching robes, and a large beast. One of the men turns to the three and says ‘Maggarth, breakfast is here!’.  Telmund, thinking quickly throws a Mind Spike, dealing 30 points of damage.

We are quickly thrown into initiative

Maggie shoots and misses, but Coda manages to steel her resolve, and she hits.

Xia hits with a third-level Magic Missile.

Maggarth uses a Chill Touch on Xia. He misses.

Ejholan shouts nicely up to Maggarth.

Melchior casts Enlarge on himself.

Maggarth multi-attacks Ejholan for 40 points of damage. A tiny beam of black energy hits Ejholan for 14 points of damage.

Coda hit with a Guiding Bolt, dealing 20 points of radiant damage.

Eva casts Shatter, but Maggarth saves. He takes half damage. 10 points of thunder damage. In doing this, Eva deduces that the bridge is magically protected.

Cultists 1 and 2 cast Lightning Bolt. Xia takes 22 points of damage. Eva, Melchior, Telmund and Ejholan take 11 points of damage.

Cultist 3 casts Magic Missile at Xia and misses as she casts Shield.

Telmund casts Hunger of Hadar.

Maggarth uses Chill Touch on Melchior

Trip heals Ejholan for two hit points, and throws a Molotov at Cultist 2. NAT 20! She does 14 points of fire damage.

Maggarth spirals a black light of the group. Xia, Melchior, and Trip failed to save and thus are vulnerable to necrotic damage

Maggie casts Ensnaring Vines on the Cultist at the back. She also shoots an arrow for 21 points of damage.

Xia casts Fireball at the group of cultists, and notices that Maggarth is held in magical manacles. She causes 22 points of damage.

Ejholan tried to scare the big guy and fails.

Melchior throws Trip. (I don’t know Lottie wasn’t paying attention)

Trip hit it twice.

Maggarth attacks Melchior with his pincer, doing lots of damage.

Coda mass heals the group for 9 hit points.

Eva casts Fire Bolt, rolling a natural 20 and dealing 36 points of damage.

Cultist 2 casts Shatter at Xia, Eva and Coda. They all take 15 points of damage

Cultist 1 tries to cast Banishment on Eva, but she stays put.

Ejholan gets Magic Missiled, but Shields.

Trip takes 12 points of damage and is blind.

Telmund casts Chaos Bolt.

Trip heals Melchior, and kicks a cultist of the bridge.

Maggarth casts Chill Touch at Cultist 1.

Maggie casts Hail of Thorns and rolls low damage. She does it again and hits a guy at the front

Xia kills a cultist in the back.

Ejholan literally picks Trip up by her feet and does a running attack using Trip’s head as a weapon and gets the HDYWDT?

The big guy turns and flies away, flying high up in the air before diving down and snatching the cultist out of the air, soaring off into the distance with his prey.

We come to a large door with a knocker. We talk about how to open it for a second before Ejholan walks up and just knocks the knocker. He is frozen stiff and the door swings open. After a moment, the door starts slowly closing. Maggie rolls inside and the rest of the group quickly follows, except for Trip and Xia who stay outside to make sure Ejholan is okay. Inside they find a lady in a purple dress. (Lottie has written she’s fucking nuts.) She begins talking to the group referring to Coda as ‘my Layla’ and tells us if we give her one coin, she’ll take us home.

*I’m going to include the notes for the Coda short session here.*

The woman laughs at Coda as she talks about Tymora, stating that ‘Little Timmie won’t work here.’ Coda has a wee vision. She sees an old man on a horse, laughing. ‘Time isn’t real here. You’re a slave to the system. You’re living by rules, but nothing really matters…’ He clutches the coin tight. ‘Possession.’ Before his face splits into a sideways mouth. Four arms and legs sprout out of him, with his flesh making way for rotting grey. She gives Coda a choice. Free Ejholan and head to the Prison of Misfortune alone, or leave Ejholan and have her as an escort. Coda decides with a coin flip. The coin chooses to free Ejholan. As the group leaves, Coda is told that at some point, she will have to make a choice between Timmie and Besh. Her coin now has two faces, the light and the dark. ‘You are my mortal vessel.’ Besh tells Coda. She’s also taken a shine to Maggie and asks if she wants to stay. Maggie says she might come back later, and the group exit, with Ejholan turning back into himself, able to move again.

### Quotes:

Good Morning - Xia

Is it?! - Melchior

‘Tobogganing!’ - Xia

‘I’d like to see you playing your own music for once.’ - Ejholan, to Coda.

### Point of Inspiration:

The point of inspiration for the week goes to Xia