Old World» Group One

Iraklis, Nika, Omri, Dorc.

Player characters

Player characters associated with Group One.

Quick reference

Procedures

Standard operating procedures.

Watch order

(See Timekeeping and Rest.)

Watches in a typical travel/adventuring day:

1. Travel/exploration/adventuring
2. Travel/exploration/adventuring
3. Foraging/downtime
4. Foraging/downtime
5. Rest
   • Dorc on watch; others asleep
6. Rest
   • Iraklis on watch; others asleep

Marching order

(Left is forward)

Single-file (narrow passages):

I D O N m

Double-wide (wider passages / outdoors):

D N m
I O

Acquaintances

Characters that have been encountered by Group One.

Travelogue

Locations that have been visited by Group One.

Item catalog

Special items that have been found by Group One.

Bestiary

Creatures that have been encountered by Group One.

Party inventory

Party Currency: 17pp, 421 gp, 130 sp

• 1 Silvery Pearl (100gp ea)
• 4 chunks of Amber (100gp ea)

Loot

• Loot from dead druid in Outcasts' grotto
  • Leafweave Armor ￫ D'orc
    • Replaces Chain Shirt (100gp) ￫ Sale??
  • Masterwork Heavy Longbow (repaired) ￫ Omri
  • Obsidian Ritual Dagger (18-20 threat, but fragile; needs repair) ￫ Sale??
  • Alchemical Recipe: Spiderbomb ￫ Iraklis
  • 10gp ￫ Omri (return for paying this month's rent)
• Reward from Outcasts
  • Shade Cloak ￫ Nika??
  • 2 replacement bow strings ￫ Omri

Adventure log

2024-08-10

• Kar 7th through Kar 15th, 300 R.C.
• XP: 1,000
• Locations & landmarks:
  • Old guard tower_G8 (~10 miles west of Dusthill_G9)
    • Not visited; only seen from afar
  • Cool grotto_G5 (~50 miles west of Dusthill_G9)
  • Goblin warrens_G4 (~60 miles west of Dusthill_G9)
• Creatures encountered:
  • three goblins
    • two slain; one taken prisoner

2024-09-07

• Kar 16th through Kar 18th, 300 R.C.
• XP: 900
• Locations & landmarks:
  • Outcast cave-village_H3 (~10 miles south-southwest of the goblin warrens_G4)
• Creatures encountered:
  • giant cobweb spider
    • avoided
  • giant desert snake
    • slain
  • grick
    • driven off

2024-09-28

• Kar 19th through Kar 21st, 300 R.C.
• XP: 1,700
• Locations & landmarks:
  • Strange crystal cave_I4 (~15 miles south-southeast of the outcast cave-village_H3)
• Creatures encountered:
  • carrion crawler
    • slain
  • ooze swarm
    • destroyed
  • bugbear?
    • spotted from afar only
  • phase spider
    • chased off
  • some sort of telepathic mushroom or something??
    • adopted by Omri
• Items acquired:
  • from an old skeleton found mouldering in a subterranean pool below the outcast cave-village_H3:
    • 1 silvery pearl (worth 100 gp)
    • 4 sizeable chunks of amber (worth 100 gp each)
    • coins (all rather old):
      • 17 pp
      • 431 gp
      • 130 sp
    • leafweave armor
    • masterwork heavy longbow, made from the massive horns of some animal (lacking a bow string)
    • druidic sacrificial ritual dagger (18–20 critical threat range, otherwise as masterwork dagger; made of obsidian, with a bone hilt; needs to have its hilt re-wrapped for combat use)
    • alchemical recipe for a spiders+web sling bullet / grenade (requires spider eggs as ingredient)
      • UPDATE: This is known as a spider’s nest bullet
      • also a few other parchments, all too water-damaged to be readable
    • Note: Carved into the inner surface of the armor, and carved in the end caps of the scroll case where the alchemical recipe, et al., was kept, was the same symbol: the sun disk of Pelor, within a circle made up of a twining pattern (which could be vines, or snakes, or just abstract)
  • received from Andoras’s people, in gratitude for the party’s aid:
    • shade cloak (cloak of strange material, claimed to completely protect wearer from sun when worn)
    • two replacement bow strings, made out of strange, exceptionally strong fiber

2024-09-28 (addendum)

Instructions for traversing the Lower Caverns_J3 to the Master’s domain_J3 (received from Andoras and the other outcasts):

When you find the entrance, descend; out of the caverns nearest the entrance lead two paths—take the left-hand path. Make your way deeper, always descending; you should soon find a large vaulted cavern with water flowing through it. Swim upstream to the first branching; then take the other branch downstream until you come to a narrow beach at the bottom of a canyon.

From this beach there is a steep ascent, and you may climb up to the canyon top. Take the second of two passages, and follow it until a great void opens before you. This is the hardest part. There are paths across, but they are treacherous; watch your footing here, as it is a long way down, and a fall means death. Look for an opening level with that which you came through.

Having crossed the void, follow the passage until you come to the top of a cliff; descend and once again take the left-most path. Soon you will emerge into a large cavern, and at the far side will rise another cliff. Now be wary, as at the top of that cliff is the guarded passage to our people’s realm; you will certainly be seen before you’ve reached the foot of the cliff, and you’ll be challenged if you approach.

2024-10-19

• Kar 22nd through Kar 25th, 300 R.C.
• XP: 800
• Locations & landmarks:
  • the Lower Caverns_J3 (passage to the Master’s domain_J3; ~20 miles south of the outcast cave-village_H3)
    • partially explored
• Creatures encountered:
  • a lot of bats
    • some incinerated, the rest driven off
  • some sort of tiny, deformed gremlins with psychic powers
    • driven off
  • ambulatory, tentacled, carnivorous mushrooms
    • slain 
• Items acquired:
  • from the skeletal remnants of a party of goblins
    • masterwork spear (polished bone, with an excellent steel blade; 4 lbs.)
      • for a goblin this would be a spear, but a Medium-sized humanoid uses it as a shortspear (but with a ×3 critical multiplier, as a spear)
    • misc. gold coins, totaling 170 gp (4 lbs.)
    • some sort of alchemical paste, in a well-sealed earthen jar (1 lb.)
      • not clear if intended to be applied to skin, or a weapon, or armor, or what; alchemical analysis required to ascertain
    • some kind of potion
      • faintly magical (transmutation)
      • may be identified either via alchemical analysis or with magic
      • UPDATE (2024-11-02): identified by Iraklis as an elixir of bestial aspect
    • drawing, on bark, of a vine-like plant, growing amid many other plants
      • UPDATE (2024-11-02): this clearly depicts a subterranean assassin vine, in the “hanging gardens” cavern of the Lower Caverns
  • from the skeleton of a tiefling
    • misc. spelunking equipment (rope, etc.)
      • all rotted or otherwise ruined
    • several potions or alchemical substances
      • all dried up, spoiled, etc.
    • masterwork chain shirt (25 lbs.)
    • masterwork composite shortbow (2 lbs.)
      • needs new string, otherwise in decent shape
    • a number of odd, strangely beautiful formations of salt crystal, packed in a well-padded pouch (15 lbs.)
      • no inherent utility or value beyond the mundane (it’s just salt), but may perhaps be sold as “abstract sculptures” of sorts, to the right buyer
    • a rat skull with various feathers, teeth, claws, and other animal parts woven into and onto it with string and fibers
      • faintly magical (abjuration)
    • diary, in a well-sealed leather pouch (2 lbs.)

2024-11-02

• Kar 26th, 300 R.C.
• XP: 800
• Creatures encountered:
  • several phantom fungi
    • slain
  • a subterranean assassin vine
    • encounter inconclusive
  • a large stand of yellow mold
    • not really a “creature”, just a mindless fungal growth
    • thoroughly destroyed
• Items acquired:
  • from the skeleton of some kind of wolf or similar canine:
    • an ornate, probably mostly decorative, bronze breastplate (wolf-sized and wolf-shaped), in which a number of onyx gems are set (40 lbs.)
  • from the shattered skeletal remains of a human:
    • high-quality steel knife (1 lb.)
      • can be used as dagger, but only 1d3 damage, and not shaped for throwing; masterwork
    • shade cloak (1 lb.)
  • from the skeletal remains of a handful of goblins:
    • 100 sp, 120 gp
    • dried chunk of some sort of mushroom (1 lb.)
    • drawing, on bark, perhaps a map?
    • some sort of potion, once
      • held in a container of hardened leather
      • destroyed by an unfortunately-aimed acid splash