Savage Korvosa Session 31

The questioning of Rolth Lamm continues and he continues to be cooperative…in a somewhat disturbing fashion. Additional players in the Queen’s “coup” are identified. Plans are discussed for drawing the Queen out of Castle Korvosa. Gray Maidens under the control of the party are created!!! Lieutenant Divo is informed of new information and plans. Details below the break.

Everyone was in attendance. Although I do not think there are any specific spoilers for elements of the Curse of the Crimson Throne adventure path, there are potential spoilers regarding some of the movers and shakers of Korvosa. As usual, my GM comments are in italics.

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Brelich Shadowdark Session 10

Markus learns of his doom (again). The night sky is lit up by a meteor shower. Radomir summarizes. A new friend who loves to clean is gained. Infidelity leads to a new “enemy” and a loss of a boat. A return to the Windler House and laughing children. All this and (a bit) more happened in our most recent session. Oh, and of course, time keeps on slippin’, slippin’, slippin’…into the future, Details below the break.

Everyone was in attendance. There will, obviously, be spoilers for Nightmare Over Ragged Hollow from The Merry Mushmen along with our mangling of this very fine adventure. My GM comments, as always, are in italics.

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Savage Korvosa Session 30

Rolth Lamm caught! That is the big event of this last session. The party also acquired some new items, learned quite a bit about the Gray Maidens and their construction, and got to interrogate a psychopath in the sewers of Korvosa. They established a number of goals for how they want to proceed and started to formulate a plan for what comes next. They are starting to take the reins of proactivity rather than letting the Queen and the Gray Maidens dictate where things are going. But it all seems to hinge on trusting the psychopath to do his part. Details below the break.

Everyone was in attendance, but Adam had to hop off a bit early. Although I do not think there are any specific spoilers for elements of the Curse of the Crimson Throne adventure path, there are potential spoilers regarding some of the movers and shakers of Korvosa. As usual, my GM comments are in italics.

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Brelich Shadowdark Session 9

This was a rather productive session for the player characters. They got a lot done…while Markus was off with Aspen the dryad. The amount of frolicking and f*ckery was significantly less. Not down to zero (Markus did return later on in the session) but down nonetheless. Various items were exchanged for items that the party was looking for, friends were made, cookies gathered, and eggs fertilized. There was a bit of a dark turn for the town of Ragged Hollow as well. Details below the break.

Everyone was in attendance. There will, obviously, be spoilers for Nightmare Over Ragged Hollow from The Merry Mushmen along with our mangling of this very fine adventure. My GM comments, as always, are in italics.

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Savage Korvosa Session 29

And the saga continues…

In this session, the party makes good on their escape from the attack on the Gray Maidens, actually take some time to discuss some of the rather obvious changes to their companions, have a prayer answered, sell a soul, and take the attack to–they hope–Rolth Lamm and a potential source of Gray Maiden production. Near the end, things got a bit chaotic and items and/or information of interest was overlooked and Pop was provided a new piercing through his chest and out his back!!! Details below the break.

Everyone was in attendance, but Jen had to hop off a bit early. Although I do not think there are any specific spoilers for elements of the Curse of the Crimson Throne adventure path, there are potential spoilers regarding some of the movers and shakers of Korvosa. As usual, my GM comments are in italics.

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Brelich Shadowdark Session 8

Well, Markus does it again in this session. He’s gone and got himself into trouble, but this time there probably isn’t much at all that the group can do about it. Oh, before that, they explored an odd room behind three locks, encountered a less than friendly ghost, avoided falling into a trap set by a less than competent will-o’-the-wisp, tried again to fertilize some catfish eggs, spent time at the Goblin Market, pissed off a goblin, and later met a very nice old woman. And just in case you were wondering, yes, the trouble that Markus has gotten himself into involved his self-proclaimed sexual prowess. I could swear that I gave the other players a magical chastity belt already. Details below the break.

Everyone was in attendance. There will, obviously, be spoilers for Nightmare Over Ragged Hollow from The Merry Mushmen along with our mangling of this very fine adventure. My GM comments, as always, are in italics.

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Savage Korvosa Session 28

Having been on the defensive for a number of days (and sessions), the party decides to take the fight to the Gray Maidens in this session. The group decided that they need to find where the Gray Maidens are being “produced” and try to stop it. Unless this can be done, it sounds like the numbers will just continue to increase…not good as the Guard and Sable Company are already losing the civil war in Korvosa. Some scouting and other activities were first and then the party got some first hand experience of the chaos in the streets of Korvosa. Details below the break.

Everyone was in attendance. Although I do not think there are any specific spoilers for elements of the Curse of the Crimson Throne adventure path, there are potential spoilers regarding some of the movers and shakers of Korvosa. As usual, my GM comments are in italics.

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Brelich Shadowdark Session 7

The party travels quite a bit in this session, ranging from the Gloaming Wood to Ragged Hollow and into the Bleak Mountains. During their travels, they have a number of encounters. They spend some time talking to magical animals. Markus sticks his hands somewhere that he probably shouldn’t. Provide fruit to a wizard. Encounter an ice storm. Dieter spies his own doom. Share some soup with a new friend and meet a pig. And Markus learns that Bush will not take kindly to the thief stealing from Dieter. Oh, and somehow, Markus continues to push the game into an NC-17 rating with many face palms and slow shaking of heads from the other players…drugs, sex, and violence ensue. All that below the break.

Everyone was in attendance. There will, obviously, be spoilers for Nightmare Over Ragged Hollow from The Merry Mushmen along with our mangling of this very fine adventure. My GM comments, as always, are in italics.

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Savage Korvosa Session 27

Unlike the last couple of sessions, this session was anything but combat heavy. Instead, we dive into the consequences of the near TPK that we had at the end of the last session. There are some definite Phantom of the Opera vibes, some significant changes for a couple of characters, and some significant changes for Korvosa itself. Many days pass, new friends are made, and old friends (or at least allies) are contacted again. Details are all below the break.

At the start of the session, I did take some time to ask the players how “big” did they want the consequences to be following their near TPK…both for their individual characters and for the campaign as a whole. Overall, the group felt like there should be some significant changes but nothing so dramatic that it would completely change the campaign…at most, a 7 out of 10 on scale of change. The players did not want their characters to be changed too significantly by their near death experience with a couple of exceptions. Both John and RJ plan on having their characters “transformed” by the recent events. Everyone else will likely have their characters look at the world a bit differently.

Everyone was in attendance and every character was either unconscious or had gone missing in the prior session. Although I do not think there are any specific spoilers for elements of the Curse of the Crimson Throne adventure path, there are potential spoilers regarding some of the movers and shakers of Korvosa. As usual, my GM comments are in italics.

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Brelich Shadowdark Session 6

Oh dear! This session may have verged into the NC-17 rating area. Markus (due to RJ missing the prior session) had been swallowed by a wall in a building. The rest of the party had gone galavanting through the Gloaming Woods, leaving Markus to whatever horrible fate befell him…until they encountered him riding on the back of a giant catfish (at the end of the prior session). I asked RJ how Markus might have gotten here and he had no thoughts on this. So I leaned into what has appeared to be the “core” of who Markus is…at least in terms of how RJ has played him so far…an attractive, virile, and sexually overactive young man.

Markus had agreed with his unknown and yet unseen wall abductor that he would be set free IF he agreed to impregnate someone (with this unknown partner’s consent of course). Markus agreed and thus was on the back of the giant catfish which is, of course, the partner with which he needs to spawn. Things went downhill (downstream?) from there in terms of how does a human male fertilize the eggs of a giant catfish?!? Markus is bound to complete this upon pain of death by either the giant catfish or the perpetrator of his wallnapping. Much of this session was spent attempting to get RJ, I mean Markus, out of this predicament. Hmm…I’m starting to sense a pattern here. Details below the break…although we shall gloss over the detailed details of the initial attempts by Markus to fertilize the eggs.

Everyone was in attendance. There will, obviously, be spoilers for Nightmare Over Ragged Hollow from The Merry Mushmen. My GM comments, as always, are in italics.

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