The group started out at their base camp outside of Wave Echo Cave. Their entered the cave, and decided to go East this time into an unexplored art of the cave. After a bit they turned North, and went up a set of steps. They found themselves in a large room that was raised up on both the East and West ends, with a lower part in the middle. There was a cold brazier in the middle part, a pair of tables, and dozens of skeletons. These skeletons were decades, if not centuries old, and had nothing of value on them. However, at the top of the steps, the party ran into a trio of ghouls that attacked. The party retreated down the steps and blocked the hallway while taking bowshots at the ghouls. They quickly dispatched the ghouls without taking much damage themselves.
They crossed the room, and exited to the North where they found a set of bellows and a giant waterwheel. There was also a floating skull wreathed in green flames. The skull told the party to turn back as it was tasked with keeping intruders out. Nefresil and Gareth attempted to convince the skull that they were not intruders, but the skull refused to believe them. The party was able to carefully go along the wall to get to an exit to the East. Here they found a room with gems in the ceiling that glittered in the light. There were also 2 built buildings here. They entered the northernmost building and found a spectator, a giant floating eye with 4 eyestalks. This being spoke to the group telling them that they would not pass it. It was summoned by a wizard that used to operate in the cave, and set to guard the forge of spells. The players tried to convince this being that that mine was no longer in operation. However, the being would not believe the group, ignoring all evidence that did not agree with its story. At this point Nefresil and Gareth decided that maybe bringing Gundren in would help to convince both of these beings to not attack.
Gundren attempted to convince the flaming skull that he was now the rightful owner of the mine, but the skull did not believe him. In the end they made a deal, that if Gundren re-opened the mine and forge of spells the skull would work for Gundren and protect the mine. Once that was taken care of, they moved on to the spectator. This was harder as the spectator refused to accept any evidence that the mine was not operational and that its previous master no longer lived. However after some more talking and persuasion by the group, the spectator disappeared and left the group alone. Nefresil suggested looking into the next room before escorting Gundren back out of the cave. Upon entering that room a wraith appeared and named itself Mormesk. It threatened the group, and after a bit of talk it attacked the group. Nefresil had the party fan out and begin attacking the wraith. Gundren backed out of the room to avoid the fight. The group soon found that while arrows could harm the wraith, they were not as effective as they could be. The wraith hit Nefresil with a life drain attack and dropped him to negative HP. He failed the subsequent CON saving throw, but Gareth used his wild magic to give him a re-roll, which he succeeded on. Cale, the bar, stabilized Nefresil, but was the recipient of the next life drain attack by the wraith. This attack dropped Cale to 0 HP, and Cale failed his save, causing his max HP to drop to 0, and thus cause an instant death. Gareth used magic missile twice, and a few more bowshots from the rest of the group eventually brought down the wraith.
The group decided to rest long enough for Nefresil to regain consciousness, at which point he healed himself with his magic. During this time the rest of the group searched the room for anything of value. They found some coins, a couple of gems, a spell scroll, and a very nice pipe. They moved back to the room that the spectator inhabited, and searched it. After some time, they came away with a war hammer, short sword, metal rod, and a wand. With all of this gear in hand, they left the cave to rest back at the base camp for rest.
DM Recap
The session seemed to go well, though we got started a little late. The players made good decisions throughout the session, and attempted to talk instead of fighting everything that moved. They were successful a couple of times. The fight with the wraith was pretty tense especially with a PC going down during the fight. When an NPC was killed with a single hit of the life drain, everyone was shocked. It was a pretty memorable moment in the game.
Loot and XP
The party picked up 1100 cp, 160 sp, and 50 ep as far as coins. They also found 2 diamonds and a wooden pipe with platinum filigree. The spell scroll was a scroll of Greater Invisibility. The war hammer was magical, and Gundren claimed it for himself as it was clearly made for Dwarves. The iron rod is an immovable rod that can be placed anywhere and when a button is pressed it stays there and will hold up to 8000 pounds. The wand is a wand of Lightning Bolt with 7 charges. Finally the short sword is a Short Sword +1. Gundren looked at it and told Nefresil that it is one of the mirror swords that were wielded by Ilthuryn Urilar, an Elf famous for his fighting prowess, but dead now for hundreds years. It is part of a matched set, however, the swords were never known to be separated from each other, and were thought to be buried with the Elf, somewhere far to the East. No XP was awarded for this session. I will award it when the group finishes with Wave Echo Cave.
They crossed the room, and exited to the North where they found a set of bellows and a giant waterwheel. There was also a floating skull wreathed in green flames. The skull told the party to turn back as it was tasked with keeping intruders out. Nefresil and Gareth attempted to convince the skull that they were not intruders, but the skull refused to believe them. The party was able to carefully go along the wall to get to an exit to the East. Here they found a room with gems in the ceiling that glittered in the light. There were also 2 built buildings here. They entered the northernmost building and found a spectator, a giant floating eye with 4 eyestalks. This being spoke to the group telling them that they would not pass it. It was summoned by a wizard that used to operate in the cave, and set to guard the forge of spells. The players tried to convince this being that that mine was no longer in operation. However, the being would not believe the group, ignoring all evidence that did not agree with its story. At this point Nefresil and Gareth decided that maybe bringing Gundren in would help to convince both of these beings to not attack.
Gundren attempted to convince the flaming skull that he was now the rightful owner of the mine, but the skull did not believe him. In the end they made a deal, that if Gundren re-opened the mine and forge of spells the skull would work for Gundren and protect the mine. Once that was taken care of, they moved on to the spectator. This was harder as the spectator refused to accept any evidence that the mine was not operational and that its previous master no longer lived. However after some more talking and persuasion by the group, the spectator disappeared and left the group alone. Nefresil suggested looking into the next room before escorting Gundren back out of the cave. Upon entering that room a wraith appeared and named itself Mormesk. It threatened the group, and after a bit of talk it attacked the group. Nefresil had the party fan out and begin attacking the wraith. Gundren backed out of the room to avoid the fight. The group soon found that while arrows could harm the wraith, they were not as effective as they could be. The wraith hit Nefresil with a life drain attack and dropped him to negative HP. He failed the subsequent CON saving throw, but Gareth used his wild magic to give him a re-roll, which he succeeded on. Cale, the bar, stabilized Nefresil, but was the recipient of the next life drain attack by the wraith. This attack dropped Cale to 0 HP, and Cale failed his save, causing his max HP to drop to 0, and thus cause an instant death. Gareth used magic missile twice, and a few more bowshots from the rest of the group eventually brought down the wraith.
The group decided to rest long enough for Nefresil to regain consciousness, at which point he healed himself with his magic. During this time the rest of the group searched the room for anything of value. They found some coins, a couple of gems, a spell scroll, and a very nice pipe. They moved back to the room that the spectator inhabited, and searched it. After some time, they came away with a war hammer, short sword, metal rod, and a wand. With all of this gear in hand, they left the cave to rest back at the base camp for rest.
DM Recap
The session seemed to go well, though we got started a little late. The players made good decisions throughout the session, and attempted to talk instead of fighting everything that moved. They were successful a couple of times. The fight with the wraith was pretty tense especially with a PC going down during the fight. When an NPC was killed with a single hit of the life drain, everyone was shocked. It was a pretty memorable moment in the game.
Loot and XP
The party picked up 1100 cp, 160 sp, and 50 ep as far as coins. They also found 2 diamonds and a wooden pipe with platinum filigree. The spell scroll was a scroll of Greater Invisibility. The war hammer was magical, and Gundren claimed it for himself as it was clearly made for Dwarves. The iron rod is an immovable rod that can be placed anywhere and when a button is pressed it stays there and will hold up to 8000 pounds. The wand is a wand of Lightning Bolt with 7 charges. Finally the short sword is a Short Sword +1. Gundren looked at it and told Nefresil that it is one of the mirror swords that were wielded by Ilthuryn Urilar, an Elf famous for his fighting prowess, but dead now for hundreds years. It is part of a matched set, however, the swords were never known to be separated from each other, and were thought to be buried with the Elf, somewhere far to the East. No XP was awarded for this session. I will award it when the group finishes with Wave Echo Cave.
