Nappendixia Campaign Session Report
Session #- 127
Session Date- 4/17/26
Time Passed- 5 days
Roll Call- Ard- M/U1
Pylon- GF/T1
Garrick Thistleflare- GF/T1
Primus- F1
Adventure Log- In recent weeks, fresh new adventurers have been attracted to Fort Dawnbreak, and Godhard has hired them on as explorers. A fledgling mage, a pair of gnomish tailor fighter/thieves, and a former legionary acquaint themselves, gear up, and head out on a patrol with some light cav. They plan to be escorted to High Priest Atagon’s tower and leave their horses there and then explore the nearby hidden step pyramid recently discovered by Godhard and party. All goes well and they get to the location and negotiate down into the densely wooded depression the center of which births another mound of earth, mud, and vine covered leaf litter where the top 2 levels of a buried step pyramid can be seen barely exposed in a few places. They find one side of the pyramid to have a stone ramp, and amble up it. On their way to the top, they look down to see the body of a hobgoblin with an arrow shaft in its chest, the body is keeping open a secret door into the side of the stone ramp, likely an entrance into the structure. They gather around and check the rotting body, move forward and find an empty arrow trap the creature had triggered, then turn the corner and push past a stone slab door into the top level revealing a big open room with 3 person sized brass shafts running floor to ceiling in the center of the room. They start searching it and after a round start feeling nauseous and hear emitting gas. Ard, being a swolcerer, begins trying to push back open the heavy stone slab door, while the 3 others each reach for a brass door on 3 brass tubes. Pylon is struck with hidden darts, Primus triggers an already activated trap, and Garrick triggers the floorstone beneath his feet to swing open and he falls to the next level with a heavy thud, dying on the next level. Ard pushed open the door, venting out the gas, and they climb down the untrapped brass shaft to retrieve Garrick’s body, only to be immediately beset by 3 Fire Beetles. Ard is slain in the melee, but Primus puts his armor and life on the line and the beetles and smashed and their fire glands are extracted. The 2 carry out the other 2 bodies, and fortunately are met in a few hours by the lt cav squad, dubious of their ability who remained nearby in case of emergency. They get an escort back to Atagon’s tower, and surprisingly elect to get the 2 down adventurers raised. Aragon checks their alignments, and must charge them the full price due to no Good aligned folks being in the party, however, no evil was detected so he spends 2 days raising the 2 fallen. They return after resting for a day and the temple seems undisturbed from their last visit. They move through a door and down a corridor past the room where they fought the beetles. They explore 2 rooms, each small quarters for maybe a cleric. They find a wooden holy symbol of a balance, a bed, writing, desk, and in the desk a crumpled note warning of something called Zargon. In the second room they also come upon a scene of a large gecko eating its prey- a strange looking human in brightly colored robes, wearing a gold crusted bird mask. They barely defeat the gecko, and retreat from the pyramid again to treat wounds, heal, and rest. On the way out, they note that the brass tubes also go up into the interior of 3 brass statues with internal gears that make them move and eye holes to look out of. Pylon elects to spend some downtime trying to figure out the gear mechanisms, and clear the statues of brush and vines to try to get a lookout spot.
Session Notes- Definitely fun to play with some 1st level PCs again, one d6 roll and it could be lights out. I was surprised the guys elected to get their PCs raised instead of just rolling new characters, I think the debt may be a bigger deal than they think as I intend to use the training rules RAW and that is rather pricey. We will see how the numbers flesh out.
Treasure and XP- Monsters- 3x Fire Beetles 32xpea., Gecko 145xp. Treasure- gold bird mask- 80xp= 321xp/4 PCs= 80xp each. Add % bonus if applicable.
Graveyard- Garrick Thislteflare- Triggered a trap and fell down the brass shaft in the hidden step pyramid. (session 127) raised by the nearby cleric, indebted to 1500gp. Alignment changed to NG.
Ard- Killed by Fire Beetles in the hidden step pyramid. (session 127) raised by the nearby cleric, indebted to 1500gp.
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