D&D Post Game 12-15-18

Adventurers:

Kromden- dwarf fighter

Tendious- Human Cleric of Tempus

Garriegh “Gary”- Human Cleric of the Storm (dude worships Thor kind of…)

Paleus- Elf warlock

The party enters the ruined fortress/citadel/castle looking for the last two cultists.

HIGHLIGHTS/EVENTS

• Searching the first few rooms the dwarf finds a giant toad who does its best to swallow him whole. The rest of the party is assaulted by angry smaller toads.
• Also in the room beneath the toad’s location is a female arm still in a purple robe sleeve and one of the cultist holy symbols.
• They party finds a giant door carved in the likeness of an angry dragon. It is locked and no party member can pick the lock.
• They discover a room full of six animated skeletons adorned with helms in the likeness of the five chromatic dragons. They also wield shields with dragon carvings on them that match their helms. The sixth skeleton has no helm or armor. The room also has a small altar covered in dragoon carvings.
• The skeletons attack! The holy men cannot seem to exert their will upon the undead to turn them away. It is like a dark presence is thwarting them.

• After the melee the party finds loot! In One Also in the room is a silver holy symbol that appears to be for Tiamat worship, a small pouch of five gems (diamond, emerald, ruby, onyx and sapphire) and a small onyx whistle in the shape of a sleeping dragon.
• Tendious the Tempus priest, is intolerant of other religions. He smashes the Tiamat symbol really really good because well it isn’t Tempus and everything besides Tempus is drek (Tendious is even skeptical of the thunder god worshipping priest in the party)! This could be detrimental in the future….  
• Soon the party discovers a room in shambles a large broken cage and a frightened bullywug. It seems the bullywug was charged with guarding and caring for the creature called as Calcryx. The creature that was missing from the cage. The bullywug, Meepol, said it was their pet black dragon and that a nearby clan of goblins had stolen Calcryx. He pleads for the party’s help. The agree and Meeple leads them to his clan leader  where they can get more information about this citadel, Calcryx, the goblins and the remaining missing cultist.

• Party meets with bullywug leader Yidrassyl. They get info about Durbluk goblin tribe, the “pet” black dragon Calcryx, and the lack of info about the last cultist. They offer to help the frog men, because they are better than goblins.

• As they search for the Durbluk tribe they find a strange dragon fountain that will activate when a scrawled draconic phrase is read. Luckily and surprisingly the warlock can read and speak dragonic. He activates the fountain that spews forth a red viscous and flammable liquid. They leave it be and move along. L
• Here the party splits!
• Paleus, Tendiuos go toward goblin tribe via a hallway full of goblin archers.
• Kromden and Gary make their way deeper into the citadel where they find a dead human in a spiked pit. It appears to be the last town cultist. They climb down, but don’t find his wacky cult amulet. They were going to use that as proof of his death. These two double back and try to find the warlock and cleric.
• After a bit of exploration and little discovery....the party meets back up and begin to clean out the west side of the citadel as it is full of goblins and their “fun” traps.

• They eventually find a makeshift trophy room that appears to have been ransacked. As they search the room they see a long black tail behind an up turned table. Suddenly a large reptilian head peers over said table and turns slightly to the left as it looks at the party (like a dog hearing noise on the t.v.). They have found Calcryx and he is very interested in what has just entered his room.

• The party remembers that this dragon was fond of dead rats and Meepol had given them a sack of them. They toss one to Calcryx as he approaches the party. The dragon gobbles it down. They toss him a second rat and back out of the room slowly.
• They travel down a long dragon statue filled hallway and stumble upon the throne room of the goblin chief Durbluk, his shaman, few guards and a few goblins carrying small sickly pale saplings in clay pots from a large hole in the center of the room. The warlock, being an amazing orator, defuses the surprising situation. He spins a tale about looking for cultists and apologizing for trespassing on their territory and inquires about the job they are doing with the plants. All while playing to the goblin boss’s ego.

• Being dumb goblins they give up a lot of information, until Paleus has heard enough and blasts Durbluk’s shaman with a blast of agonizing energy. Battle begins!
• The party falls upon the goblins quickly, however a nearby door swings open and more goblins spill out into the room. It appears the room beyond is full of dozens and dozens of filthy goblins!
• Paleus pulls the onyx dragon whistle and blows it! A high pitched screech echoes through the halls. Calcryx has been summoned! Well this should be interesting…….
• The party continues their battle with the goblin leader and his goons.
• The black dragon wrymling ( he is just the size of a great Dane, but with wings, tail, long neck and acid breath) comes crashing into the room about 30 seconds later.
• Tendious holds open the door to the room  full of goblins. Calcryx’s tail wags and he bounds into the room! He looks excited to play with all the new squeaky toys in the room, i.e. the goblins.
• Tendious slams the door! Keeping the party safe from the dragon and dooming all the goblins in the next room. A room that was a giant living quarter. Yup full of goblin warriors, common goblins, women goblins and….children goblins. Paleus has a sick feeling in his gut as does Gary, but Tendious and Kromden seem unfazed by this event.
• The goblin leadership falls. The party searches the room. The find a hole to the depths below. A little bit of loot is found in Durbluk’s “throne” including the missing cultist amulet they party was needing as proof.
• They head back to tell the bullywugs where to find Calcryx, that the Durbluk tribe has also been removed from the area. Yidrassyl gifts the party with a key to the locked dragon door they found at the beginning of the adventure along with a handful of loot.

The party heads back to explore the locked dragon door. They have pieced together this was a citadel housing some dragon priests of Tiamat. Now they were looking for more information about what this place was and possibly more treasure.