Lake Region Tuesday Group, Session 24, 6/01/2026
- NISSA, Magic-User 5
- AETHELWYNN, Paladin 4
- CARACTACOS, Fighter 3
Not my best work as far as sessions go. We were down the cleric, which hurt, and I was somewhat rusty.
The party decides to head to the dungeon through the swamp. This is a very bad call. It starts out easily enough - no encounters during the day. But that night, as they rest on the riverbank, they roll two random encounters in a row. First is a Wight, and his retinue of barrowcarls, which attack out of the brush and are dispatched, but not before Aethelwynn loses a level and Nissa loses some spells. They recover a golden circlet from the wight's body. Then comes five giant swamp crabs, which attack in brutal fashion; the party can't roll, and the crabs kill Caractacos. This is this same guy's fourth or fifth death.
The party retreats to town, picking up a new fighter - Anthony. They go back through the swamp, finding skeletons buried across their usual portage site. Without the cleric, this is a long slog of a fight. No serious damage is suffered. The party goes North, to Getford, and learns about the Sierra Rosso family's destruction of an Elf conclave out East in the ancient past, and construction of iron mines in the mountains. The party decides to head that way and check the old conclave site out.
They head upriver past Tor, passing through a flooded village, and find a small fortified hall there. Knocking on the door, the party are met by a gnoll, who invites them in and offers food. Anthony, the new fighter, accepts the offer, but the others decline. They continue on up the river as it branches; one branch heads North to the vampire's fortress, and the other heads Southeast. We end the session there, because they were about to roll into a dungeon I didn't have prepped (lol.)