Mattsters of the Mattiverse Session 15

...last episode

• Intimidated a hag, met some Geese, found a Swamp Temple, killed a huge frickin' troll, then three more crabby hags

To the elf bros!

• The party rests up. Gokar learns lesser restoration and promptly uses it on himself.
• They set off West, and get to the area of the cave just as night is falling
  • Russ is able to find, after a quick search, some suspiciously piled rocks!
• They dig the rocks, and as soon as an opening is wide enough, glyphs are set off.
  • The first one is shrugged off.
  • Inside are a steady progression of daises, creating wide stairs that slowly go up and into the mountain
  • A little ways in are two more. Edi dispels one, the other goes off without doing anything
  • A bit in, there's another glyph behind a cubby. It gives Apt bubonic plague.
  • Further in, there's a cliff. Russ climbs to the top and sets off a Symbol of Pain, which hits both Gokar and Apt
• There is a deep chasm on the other side. The party hears water at the bottom.
  • Inspecting the ledges, Russ notices that one side is rigged to collapse.
  • He uses a jump extract and takes 10. Gokar has no trouble
• A water elemental appears!
  • Apt blows the horn
  • Gokar rushes in to engage, and Russ follows
  • Edi uses a jump potion to get across so he can do what he does.
  • The elemental goes down, but then shadows appear. They smack Gokar and Russ, hitting both for strength damage
  • Edi's channels get pitiful rolls, but still do steady damage. Spiritual weapon does steady stuff
  • Two wights join the fray, just as the shadows start to go down. Terrible, terrible puns ensue
  • Two more shadows join in just as one of the wights is taken care of, and one of those manages to score another blow on Gokar
  • Two more wights come in just as the party is working down the shadows
  • Eventually all down but two, one of those is not in threat so he bolts. The group smacks down the remainder and give a slight chase, but don't go all the way, because they are in terrible shape.
• The party carefully retreats to regroup and rest.
  • One night's rest and bunches of restorations later, they're in much in better shape. They resume exploration
  • The Symbol of Pain is still there. Russ shrugs it off, and covers it with the tapestry from the Monastery. After waiting a while, they have successfully nullified its effects
• Exploration North reveals some minor treasure behind a hidden door, and tombs. There is also a closed door, with a zombie inside. It died in seconds.
• Exploration South reveals another hidden door, which explodes open! It does minor damage, but contained inside is a flesh golem!
  • It is slowed by fire, which the two alchemists discover quickly and take full advantage of. They plug the door and throw a couple of bombs before advancing.
  • It hits hard, but luckily gets no full attacks. Judicious application of claws, teeth, arrows and fire makes short work of it.
    • Russ discovers (heal check) that the bodies making up the golem are half-elven, and we somehow know that these are the bodies of the people forced to dig this tomb.
  • Requisite searching turns of an elven curve blade, that turns out to be magical.
    • +1 Spell Storing Elven Curved Blade
• Session ends here

Awards

• 25xp to slitherrr for remembering those jump potions he made
• 1600xp undead things
• 400xp more undead things
• absolutely zero xp for murdering a zombie behind a door
• 150xp disarming the Symbol of Pain
• 200 pre-alexandrian gold coins (50% markup if we can find a collector)
• 5x fairly precious gems (100gp each)
• 12x semi-precious gems (75 gp each)
• 25xp to gokar for stumbling on the golem bug
• 800 xp for a golem
• +1 mithreal elven curve blade of spell-storing (11880 gp value)