Tuesday Group, Session 23, 25/11/25
Look at that. An unusual date, and the last session of the year. Sorry it's so late in coming out - I've been busy at a new job. We'll start again in January, when the university unlocks its rooms again.
- Relimi, Cleric 5
- Nissa, M-U 5
- Celebrindel, hench, Elf Thief/Magic-User 3/2
- Aethelwynn, Paladin 4
- Some variation on Caractacus? anyway this guy's a fighter 3 and is presently carrying the party's +2 spear. Our usual fighter player, who sometimes runs an assassin.
Merce, the cleric hench, is still in the little town up North which is getting vamped. The party begins in the vampire's castle - on one side, a horde of zombies led by vampire spawn; on the other, the basement unknown. Relimi and the fighter-types hold the line against the undead while Celebrindel and Nissa, down in the wine cellar, investigate something buried in the floor. Digging with their hands, they hear shouts from above - Relimi has rolled a good turn check and routed the tide of the dead!
Seizing the opportunity, the party flees wildly into the night, collapsing for two days in a forest clearing. The first night, they are unbothered - the second, a wolf spots them and ducks back out of the clearing. Howls resound throughout the night. The party dusts themselves off and counts themselves lucky that no attack succeeded, and they seem to have escaped without pursuit.
The next night, a huge pack of wolves - 34 - descend on the party in a night attack. Surrounded by wolves attacking in groups of five or six from all directions, the party forms a rough circle about the fire - Aethelwynn the Paladin on the North side, Relimi on the East, and the magic-users and their dogs to the South. The fighter charges to attack against the wolves on the Western front, and the dogs are sent in a countercharge against the Southern pack.
The fighter slays many wolves, but Aethelwynn is quickly knocked flat and overrun - several wolves stay to finish her off, but two more attempt to flank the magic-users, who send out the dog they retained and dispatch a number of wolves with Sleep spells, stunning some of their dogs in the progress. The battle is long and difficult, but the party escape (just barely!) with their lives and one of the war dogs.
After this, they meet with their factors and decide not to buy any magic items. The party sets out to boat around the lake and fill out their maps, and the fighter purchases a potion of Extra Healing in the city of Kallithea.
That was it for 2025! Thank you for reading along (or playing, if you're one of my players,) and there should be another session next week - personally, I'm very excited.