Fat Rat Games

In our last session, the investigations into the Shiver Killings continued. The group met with a representative of the Cerulean Society, Ciro, and now have their assistance in these activities. They encountered the Green Lady again and learned quite a bit about her origins and possibly information about her creator. Later, with the aid of Ciro, they were able to meet with the leader of the Dark Shadows gang, Romo, and although he was not happy about it, Romo escorted the group through his territory and to the family of the last individual, Sanga, to disappear. They learned a good bit about her, including her fear of crocodiles. Her husband, Vel, was more than happy to do what he can to help and asked if the party could get him and his children set up in a home in Elvo’s territory…which is starting to become a theme. We will pick up with this after the break.

Everyone was in attendance. Adam had to duck out early for work. Although there are significant changes to it, there are potential spoilers for the Temple of Urgathoa adventure from Book 2, Seven Days to the Grave, of Curse of the Crimson Throne. As usual, my GM comments are in italics below.

Our last session ended after the party had tangled with the Green Lady for a second time. Like the first, she was driven off, but not killed, and one of the party was injured and drained. This time it was Aimar and he was unable to heal himself. Given the prior assessment of Pop’s injuries and the draining of his soul, the group had headed to the old Temple of Aroden again to seek aid. Aimar was just emerging from the temple as we ended. That is where we will pick up after the break.

RJ was missing this session and so Pop had run off. Jen was able to join us again after missing a few sessions.

We ended out last session on a rather scary cliffhanger…at least for Pop. The newest “Shiver Monster” had dropped down behind him and then apologized that he was about to be consumed in some fashion. This monster is the first of the Shiver Monsters that has been humanoid in form and the first that spoke in a humanlike manner. If there continue to be more and more Shiver Monsters, will they become more and more human in nature? Will they continue to be quite as easy to identify as they are now? Something to think about I suppose.

Jen had to miss again…Hurricane Helene aftermath…so Isabella was missing.

We’ll pick up with the attack on Pop after the break. As usual, my GM comments are in italics.

Lucky 13. Not really. The last few weeks have been a little crazy and so I am behind on posting recaps. Session 14 was last week (10/5) and I believe that Session 13 was three weeks prior (9/21). I’ll be combining both sessions in this single, somewhat abbreviated, recap…I may have some of the in-game dates and actions a bit jumbled. Thanks goodness for Rachel’s notes or I probably wouldn’t be able to do even this much. At the end of Session 12, the party had dealt with another one of the monsters resulting from the Shiver Killing victim. Darcy was tailing a group of Acadamae members and nobles from the Asylum back to where the party had faced off against the Mosquito people. As she got closer to the building, she could hear screams and smell smoke. That is where we will pick up after the break.

There should be no spoilers for any published module and my GM comments, as usual, will be in italics.

RJ was missing for Session 13 so Pop was out of play and Jen was missing for Session 14 so Isabella was out of play that session.

A dozen sessions already. Does it seem like it has been that long? Regardless, the crew continues to investigate a series of killings in Old Korvosa that have largely been centered on the Shingles of Bridgefront. Last session, they learned even more about the Shiver Killings, were unable to stop the tragic death of one of the witnesses, and began a stake-out of the Sanctuary. The players are pretty much convinced that the asylum has something to do with what is going on. During the stake-out, Pop was sent off to get some late night coffee. He received a message from Mac that some of the Sanctuary’s orderlies were heading his way and so he ducked down a dark alley. As the orderlies began to go by, a loud buzzing rose from deeper in the darkness of the alley. And that is where we will pick up after the break.

Adam rejoined us after missing a couple of sessions and Jen was unable to make it this session.

As always, my GM comments are in italics.

Previously on Savage Korvosa, the investigators had been looking into a series of killings where the victims, all shiver addicts, had their torsos ripped open from the inside AND related killings associated with whatever things had come out of the victims torsos. Lieutenant Divo Figus of the Korvosan Guard had elicited their help with these killings as pressure was coming down the chain of command. During the course of the investigation, the player characters had gotten caught up with the street gangs of Bridgefront’s Shingles, found and killed one of these creatures, a spider-eel thing that had been spawning other spider-eel things, became very suspicious of the role of The Sanctuary in all of this, became a bit traumatized by another of these creatures…a jellyfish thing…that was already deceased, warned off of continuing the investigation by Divo (wink, wink…keep doing it on the down low) as that was what was now coming down the chain of command, and had met, befriended–or otherwise interacted–with a good number of Korvosan residents, particularly in Old Korvosa.

These investigations have been going on for two or three weeks in game time and we pick up with it on 9 Pharast after the break.

Adam (and thus Aimar) was missing. Jen (and thus Isabella) was back after missing a couple of sessions.

As always, my GM comments are in italics in the below.