Dungeon 1
The reference map
Session 1 [27 January 2005]:
As soon as the adventurers go down into the steps into the monastery vaults (a) they see a couple of sarcophagi lying in the room. Lifting the lid of one of them, Blog-Goth finds 170 gold pieces (from now on GP). Magnus finds nothing in the other coffin. Just round the corner (b), 4 skeletons come out of the dark and attack! One of them hits and injures the mage. It is lysander who gets the first kill, crushing his morning star onto the skull of his first victim! Magnus attacks and kills another skeleton and bashes a second one with his shield. Blog goth is kept up with a skeleton, his gladius proving futile against the mouldy bones! Further down the room more skeletons show up and assault the party. Lysander kills another with a swing of his weapon, while the mage casts a magic missile. Blog Goth and Magnus fight a couple of skeletons, dealing some damage to them. However magnus misses an attempt to bash the skeleton with his shield. The skeleton swings his sword and hits Blog Goth injuring him slightly. Suddenly, 2 tough skeleton captains show up and each wips out a Shortbow. Their target was the mage but miraculously miss! The mage casts another magic missile and hits one of the tough skeletons, which goes down immediately. Blog Goth kills the skeleton with which he was engaged in battle, and Lysander puts the last skeleton captain down too. 2 zombies (c) slowly move from behind some caskets towards the party, but Blog goth runs up to the first one and cuts him in half with his sword! Lysander follows behind the barbarian and finishes quickly the other rotting zombie. More skeletons attack. This time a couple of skeleton archers. The mage was quick enough to get a shot with his crossbow at one of them but misses! Magnus thumps a skeleton with his sword and blog goth kills a cowering skeleton. Lysander finishes off the last skeleton in the bloody fray!
Searching among the bones Magnus finds 117 gp, Lysander pockets 115 gp while blog goth picks up a cap, 120 gp and a magical ring! In a sarcophagus blog goth finds 164 gp. In a barrel Magnus finds a medium shield while in another barrel Lysander discovers a hidden rapier.
The party returns to the surface, selling the unwanted items. Blog-Goth, Magnus and the Mage bought a club each. Deckard cain identified the magic ring which blog goth had found. It was a silver ring. Blog goth gives the ring to magnus since it would give him better fighting abilities.
In the Tavern of the Rising Sun, Farnham, drunk as usual , speaks about a cleaver, and a butcher! This butcher had brutally devasted adventurers who ventured forth into the monastery catacombs. Griswold puts in a few words too, confirming the story of the infamous butcher.
It was by pepin the healer that they got to know that some demons have taken control of the well waters running below the village and are poisoning it, thus sickening all the villagers!
Down again in the dark chambers the party venture into a new room (d) only to be met by strange mutant rats. Blog Goth immediately kills 2 of these quill rats but gets injured from the sharp spines which darted out of the rats' backs! The fighter gets slightly injured too when he killed another of these pesky rats. The barbarian marks another kill and the cleric finishes off the last one. A quick search among the remains Lysander finds 108 gp, the barbarian 107 gp and the mage picks up a small shield which was attached on the back of one of the rats. In a sarcophagus the barbarian finds an adventurous boots, while lysander opens a chest to reveal a cap.
The party continue moving around the huge room, or rather hall, when out of the darkness "Rakanishu" was shrilled out! A band of fallen ones and Zombies move on to the kill... However magnus and lysander soon put an end to the first couple of zombies. A fallen one injures slightly the barbarian. The fighter cuts one of the little imps with his gladius while crushing another with his shield. Creeping up from behind, a zombie reaches lysander and with a blow injures badly the cleric. Turning around, the fighter swings his sword just in time to drive it deep into the chest of an advancing zombie. From behind the mage casts a magic missile injuring a fallen one. Magnus pulls out his gladius from the zombie's chest and swerves it over a fallen one's head. The fallen one escapes unscathed from the sharp blade, however not from the shield bash! It ends up dead, blood splattering the shield. A few feet away, another fallen one strikes mortally the cleric... Lysander falls down to the hard ground, bleeding to death. The barbarian strikes, killing a fallen one and a zombie with one sweep. Seeing his comrade at the point of death, the mage rushes upon lysander, grabs a healing potion and pours it into his mouth. The rich fluid immediately stabilizes the cleric. In the meanwhile, magnus cuts down another fallen one and rushes up to the last one when he sees blog goth missing his attack.
Once the room was cleared the party searched the bodies of the fallen, where the mage found 113 gp, lysander, although injured, found 112 gp and a short sword while magnus found a magical ring.
They moved back up to Tristram to recover from the injuries, especially the cleric, who still felt battered. Cain identified the magical ring the fighter had found. He told us it was a necromancer's ring, which was more suitable to be worn by the mage than any one else.
Session 2 [28 January 2005]:
The party goes down again to the room where they had the last encounter (D), moving cautiously southwards, into another huge chamber (e). From behind pillars A couple of Zombies creep slowly out and attack Magnus and Blog Goth, who were leading the party. However both adventurers escaped unscathed from the worm infested hands. The fighter cuts down both zombies. The mage casts mage armour on himself, whilst preparing for any eventuality. The barbarian faces a couple of fallen one champions which proved to be no problem for the mighty blow. The mage moves over to the corpses and finds a long sword. The barbarian retrieves 105 gp from the fallen ones. In a chest Lysander finds 78 gp. Magnus searches some barrels and finds 16 gp. Blog goth joined the search in the barrels too, finding 11 gp inside.
The party then moves beyond a corner to the north part of the vaults (f). A huge army of evil creatures forms on both sides of the party. The fighter immediately kills a fallen one. The cleric spends some time to cast a shield of faith upon himself thus enhancing his defenses. A skeleton moves up to the fighter but the blow missed the adventurer by the breadth of a hair. The barbarian puts a short end to an upcoming zombie. He gets surrounded by the annoying fallen ones, but skillfully managed to block all their attacks. A skeleton captain approaches the fighter but its attack fails. The fighter turns and attacks a ghoul which had come up on his side... his sword making contact with the rotten flesh. The mage played a big part too, picking off targets with his crossbow from the other room. His first victim was a fallen one champion. The bolt hit the evil thing between the eyes, instantly killing it. The barbarian swung again his sword, and a fallen one and a zombie go down at once, dead! The monsters attack the party but the adventurers skillfully defended themselves. Another crossbow bolt found its way inside a fallen one, driving the life out of it. Blog Goth take off another fallen one and a zombie with another swerve of his blade. The fighter was still engaged with the ghoul, hitting the hard leathery flesh with his gladius. The mage casts a magic missile bolting directly into a skeleton captain, which put him down for good. The cleric strikes the fatal blow to the ghoul, the barbarian rushes by the fighter's side for help... taking out his club in the process and bringing it down in a killing maneuver upon a skeleton. However the skeleton was quick enough to avoid the blow. From behind a fallen one hits blog goth and slightly injures him. Magnus kills another fallen one while the mage shoots a skeleton, although partly hindered. It was at this time that the fighter discovered he was seriously wounded and needed immediate attention. The cleric, who was still engaged with a fallen one, turned to his friend, risking a blow from the demonic imp, and cast a healing spell upon the dying fighter. With renewed force the fighter crushes down a skeleton and the cleric returns to finish off the fallen one he had left. A skeleton also found a bitter end from the cleric's deadly morning star!
The search upon the ravaged cadavers revealed some good treasures. Magnus retrieved 115 gp and 120 gp from different corpses, the mage another 103 gp and 105 gp. Lysander found a magical leather armour and the barbarian got 116 gp and a glimmering potion of full rejuvenation! In a chest, the cleric found a further 92 gp while in an empty chest Blog Goth triggered an arrow trap, which injured him slightly. Magnus then moved up to a sarcophagus and picked 154 gp from inside. Blog goth too searched another sarcophagus, however when he pushed off the lid, something sprung out... a burning dead captain! With a swing of his club the barbarian immediately rattled the bones of the skeleton! The fighter moved up to him and bashed him with his club too. The mage had a bolt loaded in his crossbow, which he immediately let loose. The bolt hit the pelvis of the skeleton, cracking it. Swinging his flaming sword, the skeleton hits Lysander. The cleric gets heavily wounded not only from the sharpness of the blade but also from the fire. Blog goth hits the skeleton again but it survived mighty blow after mighty blow until finally, Lysander gets his revenge upon him and strikes him down! Strapped behind his back the skeleton had a javelin, which the cleric immediately picked up.
Continuing their search, Lysander turned to search inside a barrel, but instead triggered a mechanism and it went off in his face! The explosion immediately knocked him unconscious! The mage looked in another barrel carefully, while the fighter poured a healing potion down Lysander's throat, finding 10 gp. Blog goth removed the lid form another barrel and found a flail stashed inside.
The party moved southwards into the next chamber (g), coming face to face with more minions! Blog Goth rushes in and finishes off a zombie. The cleric immediately casts a shield of faith upon himself, and then, seeing a horde of skeletons coming out of the dark corners, recites the incantations of old. The "turn undead" spell had a devastating effect. All the skeletons, around 10, immediately turned to dust! The fighter kills another zombie while injuring another. The mage immediately casts a magic missile and brings down a Zombie. The fighter was soon disengaged from his assailants when he drove his sword into one's chest, and struck a powerful blow with his shield crushing the fragile flesh of the other zombie. The cleric charges straight into a skeleton captain, injuring him instantaneously. The mage throws another magic missile into the skeleton captain, further damaging him. Blog goth swerves and crushes down a skeleton captain with his new found flail while the fighter was bashing another skeleton captain with the use of the club. The cleric finished off the skeleton captain in front of him. It was then that the quill rats, which were shooting from behind some iron bars injured the barbarian. Blog goth retreated to recover from his injuries. At the first chance, the fighter rushed upon the rats but missed his blow. Lysander joined him at once, wasting one of them. The mage lost no time in casting a magic missile and frying a rat. It was then that Magnus and the cleric finished the last remaining two rats, one each.
The party then searched among the pulverized remains of the skeletons and the rotten flesh of the zombies, finding lots of gold, a scroll, a magical spear, a gladius and a rapier and a magical sai.
Returning to the surface, deckard cain reveals that the leather armour was magicaly called azure leather armour, identified the spear as a beryl spear, and the sai as a magical sai of health.
Session 3 [4 February 2005]:
The Party got to know the mage's real name... Sadak. After Leaving Tristram, all went back down the vaults. They found two doors which they had not opened yet. Blog Goth lead the party to the north door. After searching for possible traps, the barbarian opens the door. The room (h) was very small. Bookcase lined the far wall, a and a lever in the middle of the room. A brazier was lighting the room.
Sadak searches the bookcase and finds a scroll of blindness, which he immediately gave to the cleric. The fighter moves onto the lever and pulls it. A grating sound rumbles at the other end of the dungeon like some metal door opening. The adventurers emerge from the small room on their way south to the other door. Peering inside the room (i), 2 ghouls could barely be seen. The mage immediately puts bolt in his crossbow and shoots planting the bolt into the ghoul's chest. Blog Goth rushes inside and swings his gladius but the blade missed one of the ghouls by a breadth of a hair! Lysander followed the barbarian inside the room, instantly crashing down the ghoul with his morning star. The fighter runs in to help his companions and strikes the last remaining ghoul. The hit injures the flesh ridden undead. The mage reloads but misses his shot again, while Lysander turns and engages the ghoul. The Morning star injures the fiend more, but it remained yet on its feet! Magnus thrusts his sword into the rotting flesh puncturing but not killing the ghoul. It was the barbarian who finally strikes down the hellish fiend! In A quick search of the bodies, Blog Goth finds a shortbow. Lysander went over to a flag-stand and picked up a flag. Being a magical flag but of unknown magical properties he puts it in his pack. The party goes back up to Tristram to rest and sell unwanted equipment and prepare themselves before descending more deep into the dungeons. Deckard Cain tells them that the flag was a Lizard's flag.
