Session Log: Palace of the Vampire Queen 4

 [IN WHICH OUR COMPANY TRADE BLOOD FOR GEMS]

I actually ran this session on January 11th but life has been pretty much non-stop between then and now. I still wanted to post this for posterity. I really liked running this game and might pick it up now that I have more spare time again.

Without further ago:

The Party

Giblet. A feathery halfling; leather armour, shortbow and dagger.

Cinnamon. Fighter; chainmail and shield, flail.

Powder/Pollen. Cribswap (Lunar/Solar); chainmail, sword and shield or light crossbow.

Tomelo the Fierce (Dwarf) and Diino (Cleric), expert rust monster killers, armed with a flint spear and wooden cudgel respectively.

The Delve 

Powder is in her lunar aspect, she prepared Hold Portal. 

The party return to where they fought the rust monster, with Powder uncovering another secret door there. The group listen at the door, hear nothing, attempt to force it and fail.

Opening the door snaps a wire, triggering a crossbow and setting off an alarm. The party smash the alarm, but not before 6 bandits start filing into the room, wearing iron rat-helms.

Powder casts Hold Portal on the door, trapping 3 bandits on either side. There is some brief chaos, everyone struggles to land hits. Diino bashes in a bandit's skill, Powder stabs another one. The final bandit surrenders, is briefly questioned, then killed.

Powder dismisses the Hold Portal spell and opens the door, but the party find that the bandits have retreated back down the hall. At the end of the hall a door sits ajar.

[I elected to have the bandits retreat back into their quarters, laying in ambush against the walls. This backfired for them massively.]

Tomelo smashes an oil flash against the door. The bandits curse as Diino sets it on fire. Bows drawn, the bandits try to fire arrows through the smoke, while the party hurl more oil into the room. Powder shoots one bandit dead with an arrow, another rushes through the fire and is cut down. The final bandit hits Giblet with a fatal arrow, then succumbs to the flames.

After the flames die down, the party loot the room, finding coins, gems, and armour. Taking Giblet's body, they flee the dungeon.

Delve Summary

Losses:

  • Giblet, the halfling.

Foes Slain:

  • 6 bandits, with a leader as 3rd level thief.

 Treasures Found:

  • 3 gems (worth 700 gp each).
  • 500 gp.
  • 450 sp.
  • 4 suits of chainmail. 

Doors & Portals

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