GM: Sean Nittner
Players: Red, Doug, Paul Riddle, John Powell, Jeremy Tidwell
System: Shadowdark
Our final Shadowdark session at Go Play, starting with a naked wizard covered in grey ooze! This time, thanks to Red, we have lots of photos!
Party Members
- Sraxl (John)
- Tirolas (Jerry)
- Lenk (Rob)
- Malchor (Doug)
- Rosk (Paul)
Journal
Sraxl wandered off alone and got lost. Found Tirolas and Lenk. Tirolas had a lit torch!
They hail a group ahead. Ulf meets us. We encountered a flock of Stingbats, who bite Lenk.
Straxl tried to summon fog and failed. Sraxl almost dies of their wound, but Tirolas stabilizes her.
Malchor catches and graples with a [sting]bat. The grey ooze on them keeps failing to catch the bat. The ooze is hurt by the bat!
We rested. Hrovic joined us, running from the doom of his friends. He told us they sold us out to [to the Horth], but died anyway. The night passes without incident.
Sraxl met with the Sea Nymphs and went int the Shrine of Thurne.
Lenk made peace with Garatha’s people, and they gave her a great axe of one of their fallen friends.
We follow Garatha deeper into the caves. Safety in numbers. Malchor joined. Rosk follows Garatha.
Rosk probes the underground river and finds a lake. We pull Rosk back via a rope.
Tirolas convinced Garatha to go ahead, and convinces her that Tirolas would be a valuable ally.
Garatha fights the Sea Nymphs. Rosk rushes in to join her.
Lenk, Malchor, Tirolas debate stealing the boat. Sraxl joins her countryfolk Rosk.
Rosk helps Garatha against the Sea Nymphs, despite their people being allies.
Tirolas, Lenk, and Solveig [not played by a player, but she was in the camp from last session so I played her as an NPC] attack the lone Nord guarding the camp to steal the boat in safety.
Rosk [takes hold of Garatha’s spear and holding it remembers the many lizardfolk that she has slain and] breaks his oath to Garatha to avenger her violence against his folk.
The fight between Garatha and the nymph turns to Garatha’s advantage.
Garatha takes vengeance on Rosk [for breaking his oath and attacking her]
The [torch goes out and] the fight is plunged in darkness.
Malchor steals the Cloak of Sea Elevenkind and is hit by a lightning bolt [from the statue of Thrune], terribly wounding him.
Rosk wounds Garatha, making her berserk.
Tirolas, Lenk, and Solveig being to escape on the boat. They make it out!
[In the darkness] The Sea Nymphs fell Garatha, who is finished off by Rosk.
Malchor dies from his wounds [alone].
Thank you to our note taker Luca
Thank you to all our cartographers, Paul Riddle in this game!
Eight Brave Aventurers
At the end of three sessions, here’s the character sheets for the total of 8 characters that were played. And seven of them survived!
Thoughts on the Game
Darkness falling in the middle of a fight is fantastic. Rosk taking Garatha’s spear and slaying her with it, the stuff of legends!
One little detail that I just love from Paul’s map was the “unproven” and the “winners” campfires. Solveig lost her duel, Rosk won his, so he was invited to Garatha’s fire, which became the “winners” fire. When the Stingbats attached Garatha rolled a Nat 20 and killed one in a single hit so the momentum just kept building that she was invincible…until she wasn’t. What a wonderful game!
