da gloopy RPG diary

The party leaves the coffin room, choosing to inspect the jade man more carefully. Gruffie mayhem knocks on the body. Each time she does, the stuff corpses animate slightly, lurching towards the jade man. They debate whether the jade man is worth the inevitable attack. They decide it is. Lobsang and Clement lift the jade man. At once, green and yellow flames erupt in the corpses eyes and they spring to life. As their forms crack and creak to life, black sand falls from their joints. A battle ensues, the foes breaking into black sand when damaged. Just when it seems their forms cannot hold themselves together anymore, voids form in their chest, spilling with black dust. It is found (when the dust is thrown into the face of the knight) that the dust can turn one mad temporarily, causing ones eyes to burst into green and yellow flame. When the last of the creatures is finally cut down, the Tayan Theras clerics take some of the dust. They talk in hushed whispers about the temporary madness...

The peaks of Nildazi are arid and dry, not cold like one might expect. Journeying northwest along a dusty road, the party sees the towering volcano, mightiest of the Nildazi Crags. When the road splits, they take the old stone road, long past it's prime, heading southwest. It widens and thins, leads through overhang tunnels and bridges over vast crevices with gargantuan arches. They pass a great stairway that leads to the volcano. The road forks again, meeting an old worn trail. At the fork a massive circular cave stands. It's getting dark, so they choose to rest inside. An attempt to find the caves back proves fruitless, the tunnels snake and intersect. Gruffie Mayhem knows these caves were burrowed by something large. She also identifies the strawberry-scented orange mold as that which grants protection from the cold and can fill your lungs with fire. In the night, Balthazar and Icoriol find the shed skin of a giant serpent. They leave at daybreak. Following the trail southwe...

Clement led the frog army deeper into the kobolds cave. Finding a massive chamber full of men, women and children kobolds, Clement did not stop the frogs when they leapt forward to the slaughter. The party did not stick around to see the results of the battle. It is the depths of midnight when they reach the gates of Fangmire, having forgone a rest to press on further. Not but a few yards from the gate, the sky fills with a dazzling light. Above them, a shooting star, aflame, rockets through the air, crashing into the swamp and sliding to a steaming stop. Emerging from the crater is a perfectly unscathed naked man. He is questioned for a short time (it is revealed he is named Balthazar) before clothed and brought into the town under the wing of the party, who shield him from the guards questions. They rest for a week to level up, then returns to get the treasure they buried in the beast man’s camp. At the webbed crossing they decide this time to burn the webs and evict the spiders. The...

It's a warm, quiet night. Icoriol the elf stays awake while the rest sleep. His alarm spell keeps them safe from dangers. But, for an instant, the shafts of moonlight through the trees wink out, for just a fraction of a second. The sound of heavy rustling and an impact nearby confirm the elf's fears: something large and flying has just landed nearby. Then, the alarm sounds. Looming into view as everyone wakes up, a hideous beast with a long neck, white scaly flesh and a long barbed stinger poised over it's head, ready to strike. The wyvern hisses and snaps. It's here for a meal. Lobsang has brief success warding it away with a torch, but the thing is as big as their whole party combined. It leaps, narrowly missing as everyone leaps out of the way. When it lands, it stabs out with it's stinger. The stinger plunges into Castamirs stomach, lifting him off his feet and throwing him into the swamp. The wyvern grabs it's prey, and with a few great beats of it's wi...

We open on the road to Fangmire, a town clinging to the Prioro Marsh in the northwestern corner of The Ruby Crown: the domain of The Concubine Queen and capital of Orthos the great kingdom of jewels An elderly man walks beside a dishevelled drunk. The elder is Clement, cleric of Baron Paul the imminent. The younger is Lobsang, drunken monk A whistle sounds behind them - bandits! They are chased up the road to the gates of Fangmire. From adjacent roads they are joined by Gruffie, a half-foot druid; Icoriol, an elf(!); and Castamir, a devil-man from the desert Backed into the corner, Clement earns the ire of the guards by thunderwaving one off his horse. Before they can respond, the guards on the walls blow up a bandits head with an arbeques (it's renaissance times) and the party is saved, safely making it inside. After a quick stop at the temple (where a rumor is gathered), everyone meets in The Frog and Toad for a drink. After hearing about the gathering forces of chaos in some nea...