Upon your order, I and my assistant Minyon traveled to the Plane of Mortals to halt the Cagewrights in their nefarious task to free your prized possession, Adimarchus, the Betrayer, the Two-Faced One.

Finding the hideout of the Cagewrights, what they refer to as The Fiery Sanctum, was easy.  Truly, these mortals are too easy to overcome.  Upon arrival, we found a group, fought with them, and forced them to surrender.  They claimed to be the Dungeon Divas, and working against the Cagewrights as well. Since it suited our purposes, we agreed to work with them.

Our ways parted when they wanted to investigate a tunnel too small for our siege engine.  Instead, continued through the large tunnel, following the tracks deeper into the mine.  At different points, we needed to carve our way through.  The tunnel ended at a wall, obviously put there to thwart weaker beings.  We burst through the wall in time to see the Dungeon Divas in the aftermath of battle.

Foolish beings were debating what to do to save the Marked Ones shackled in the tree.  That and moaning over their fallen comrade.  The Sun Worshipper.  Sure, it would be difficult for these weak beings to continue without their healer.

Tree of Shackled Souls

They wasted much time and energy trying to break the tree, and get the Marked Ones free.  After using magic to successfully get 6 of them, they invited me to join them above ground.  I offered instead to guard the tree.

When the Divas were gone, I killed the rest of the Marked Ones in the tree.  No longer can the Cagewrights use the Marked Ones energy to open the gate to Carceri.  Without the gate, they cannot find Skullrot, they cannot free Adimarchus.

We will further ensure the failure of the Cagewrights’ plan by tracking and killing the other 6 Marked Ones, the ones the Divas freed.  They cannot be allowed to roam and be recaptured for a second attempt.

Your Treasure shall be safe for another 500 years.

Respectfully submitted,

Rmongor

We have off this week. House party at Michelle’s instead of gaming tomorrow night! So here’s a little meta post….

Many of the pictures I take for the blog end up with hands in them. Usually Michelle’s hands, which makes sense — DM controls the map and so her hands would be all over the place. Some of the pictures are too fun not to see the light of day. Here, for you enjoyment are some of my favorites….

Dragon circling above us

Are we about to die?

Legos make good body parts

Figuring out loot

Is that a secret door?

Taj putting bunny ears on Acgar

Here is a look at my new Indira mini, thanks to his handiwork. She is a righteous cleric of Pelor and I could not be happier.

Check out that shield!

He’s a great guy. To my knowledge we’ve never gotten him to play with us, but maybe one day he’ll break down.

He’s an amazing painter of minis. You can find him at Guardian Games on Thursday nights.

This dragon is an example of the AMAZING work Jack does.

Some of the Divas (not the cheapskates like me) have gotten him to paint minis to match their dice.

Our DM Michelle had a work meeting that would make her late for our game on the 13th. She asked me if I wanted to run a side adventure. I jumped at the chance. Deb & I are both interested in doing prestige classes and Deb’s has some in-game requirements. I figured I’d create a little scenario and see what happens…..

Since we’d already had the Dixie Mattress scenario, I picked Mary’s strip club as my location. In Cauldron, Mary’s is a strip club and an inn, so our heroes would need to get to the upstairs part to steal a journal.

We have lots of D&D minis (love them!) so I got out our entire stock and pawed through them. Minis are great because you can use them in real D&D — they come with stats! I was looking for babes for the stage and villains for upstairs and customers for everywhere….. Found a couple of hot monks (who knew?) and a great boss — a Blood Vol Cultist. He looked menacing. I picked a few other baddies including a wererat.

Michelle is a master of props. I didn’t think I could compete at her level, but I did make a little journal and I “locked” it with a piece of ribbon and some staples. That and the minis…… I was ready!

I made many mistakes. I think the biggest was putting out minis that are behind closed doors. Duh! The players shouldn’t know that someone is behind the door. Sigh. My favorite moments were with the wererat. I had him hidden in the bathroom, which was next door to the boss’s room.

Deb listened at the door and rolled well. I rolled a d20 for the wererat — I wanted to see if he accidentally made noise. I rolled a 1. I told Deb that she heard shuffling, like someone was in the bathroom, possibly using it. She knocked and I decided that the wererat was a smart guy: he knew he’d been made, but maybe he could fool the players. I let out a low moan. She knocked again and I said “There’s a bathroom downstairs! Arrrrgh.” They dismissed him as a sick person and moved down the hall. Ha ha!

Until, that is, Susan brought Elvis upstairs. Damnit. Our team is too smart. Susan did not trust having even a guy with the runs between her and her escape route. She rolled to smash the door. Took her two tries, but still. The wererat fought like, um a rat in a corner. He was tough, but Elvis is tougher. Lucky for Elvis, Indira (played masterfully by Gabby) was there with a couple of heals for him. The rat did bite Elvis and somehow (the luck of the incredibly good looking?) he avoided both filth fever and Were-infection.

About then the REAL DM showed up. Good timing. Deb and Taj had already taken care of the warlock boss, grabbed the journal and looted the body. We were ready for a wedding.

One of the things I love about Michelle is her creativity. NPC wedding? I’ll send evites to everyone! Since we were all excited about Gryffon and Haley’s wedding, we made a party out of it. Deb & I brought Ande’s mints. Susan brought sparkling cider. Taj brought carrot cake. Michelle also brought wedding cake with heart-shaped marshmallow peeps. Angel brought more drinks.

We “mingled” with wedding guests and got information from them. Michelle had created index cards to serve as guests. On one side was the name and on the other was a bit of info or dialog. Very clever and very fun. We each got a certain number of guest cards, based on charisma.

It was, as always, a blast. We have info and a plan on what to do next week!