- Note that the date on the last one was wrong. We played on August 3.
August 10, 2022
Days: 3rd day
Glaston and Dworm find themselves waking up from sleeping in the basement of the Church of Thoth to a bright light. Followed by a kick to the head. Followed by lots of tiny, slimy hands tying them up, putting a hood on them, a gag on them, and a noose around their necks. They suspect they’re on a gallows based on the wood floor and nooses. However, they seem to be very small gallows. But they’re very small humanoids.
The rest of the party is at The Tipsy Bullywug. The bartender comes over to say he doesn’t know much about hat-wearing tentacle monsters, that’s just drunk talk. But he came from a clan of bullywugs not far north of town and if there are bullywugs around, they’re from there. He refers to them as a ‘bunch of hillbillies” and notes he and them do not get along. One might suspect he’s particularly intelligent and capitalism focused for a bullywug.
Before setting out, the party rests at the Church of Thoth. The Bishop, Ka-tet, back for the moment from wherever he’d been when they were there before tells them he’s cleaned the basement and thanks them for the donation of gold to the church [apparently there were filaments of gold amalgam inside the tentacle monster]. The party finds sleeping in the basement seems to have curative/healing properties.
Later that afternoon, the party approaches a small village of Bullywugs and sees a gallows. Rather than debate the merits of their approach, they wander straight into the middle of the excited, bloodthirsty, semi-amphibian crowd gathering at the gallows. Wing is starting to ask questions when a leader-ish looking bullywug with his oversized [yet still small] axe-wielding bodyguard announces, ‘String them up.’
Stabbing begins. On both sides. Although Oleg is being stabbed in the knees. And then a full on fight erupts with the villagers.
During the fight with 9 bullywug villagers, a bullywug barbarian, and a bullywug cleric or perhaps druid [the party can’t tell. The bullywug seems to throw a magic missile, but it’s not the pointy kind], the women and children of the village start to sneak away fearing they’ll be murdered by the interlopers. As they do, a dome of light appears and the party sees the man from the dome of light in the church basement [presumably the same person who kicked Dworm and Glaston in the heads and gave them to the bullywugs, but who’s to say? Not Dworm and Glasto] step out of the brilliance and announce that they’ve killed al the good bullywugs he was harvesting. He grabs a pair of bullywug women and steps back into the dome before Oleg can get to him.
As Oleg reaches the dome, a tentacle monster, much like that at the church, comes out of the dome with two bullywug women attached to two of its tentacles.
Part way through the fight, as the party finally starts to carve into the central body of the monster, and as Ilduul finishes the mass bullywug grave he’s digging, hands again emerge from the dome and grab two bullywug children. The other bullywug women and children scatter for good as a Conjoined Bullywug Twin with Six Tentacles [CBT] emerges from the dome after a quarter turn of the dome [the party notices that now and then the dome flickers and seems to do small shifts or spins].
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The party dispatches the twins and their tentacles. The skin of the CBT seems less tricky to cleave than the skin of the TTM [traditional tentacle monster]. Dworm investigates the dome and finds a wand with wires leading out of it. When he uses his newfangler kit to snip the wires, the dome vanishes [but fortunately not him nor the wand].
The party picks apart the bodies of the two monsters and finds the bishop of Thoth, Ka-tet, was correct and they are full of precious metals. Their nervous systems are heavily laden with gold, to the tune of about 2000 gp [total].
The grave Ilduul is digging is finalized and all the bullywugs and other chunks of flesh laid to rest in a mound in the middle of the village. Hal finds water skins and provisions in the huts including jerky he tests on Oleg first [should the druid take a good long look and sniff and maybe a taste, Iduul will conclude it’s fly jerky]. The party stands at the center of a small village of about ten huts, now completely abandoned.
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