Ox ---> Tiger Campaign Session #2

 

Session 2- A Trip to Gusakov

12/5/2021

• Tim and Fecus travel SW to the city of Gusakov to sell the crystals

• Stay at Golden Grape, where they meet the server Josh

• Josh directs them to an armorer, a fence, and a sage

• The PCs visit the armorer, fence, and sage to get armor, sell crystals and see if 

  they can remedy Fecus’ language issue

• Kishani 7-Ways-Out sells Fecus a language book and informs him that she also 

  does tutoring

• Tim buys 4 puppies

• Back to the cave!

Ox ---> Tiger Campaign Session #1

Session 1- The Andrew Problem

11/28/2021

• Characters arrive in Uhniv to discover the Andrew Situation as detailed in 

  The Doom Cave of the Crystal-Headed Children and go into the hills to investigate

• They discover the entrance to the cave and see several children with large blue 

  crystals emerging from their heads

• They enter the cave and encounter Wiki Dot Pod, soon entering into combat with 

  him

• After four rounds of combat, Wiki tries to summon (LotFP summon spell!) an 

  extra-planar entity, but he loses control of it and the entity, a swirling mass of color, 

  returns to it’s plane of existence taking Wiki with it

• Tim and Fecus find several children to take back to Uhniv and are rewarded with a 

  mule

• Tim recovers Wiki’s spellbook

• Spellbook spells

• Level 1

• Blacklight

• Shield

• Charm Person

• Enlarge

• Detect Magic

• Identify

• Mend

• Summon

• Level 2

•       Levitate 

•       Ray of Enfeeblement

•       Forget

•       Speak w/ Animal

•       Stinking Cloud

• Level 3

•       Suggestion

•       Speak w/ Dead

    

• Tim and Fecus return to the cave and explore

• Fecus creates a child and a dog child hybrid using the crystal in room #2

• Fecus loses his ability to speak common in room #5, the PCs take 26 

  green crystals worth 100sp each

• Taking the SW door in #5 leads them to room #16

• Ring the instrument and the alien pops out of the wall, the alien decides the

   unnamed dog must perish

• Look around at the crystals encasing various beings in #17, #18, and #19

• Go back to #5 and enter Underhallways 

• Push buttons at 9a, 9b, 9c, 9d

• Tim crosses bridge at #10 

• Tim makes it to room #12 and turns back to reunite with Fecus

• Fecus and his dog child Pinus Contorta turn into humans in room #11

• Take another kid back to Uhniv, rewarded with another mule

• 1350xp each

• Crystals worth 2600sp divided by 2

• Wiki Dot Pod 100xp

    

 My notes on this session as of today (7/27/22)...

This is a great example of the LotFP summon spell biting the caster (the NPC villain Wiki-Dot-Pod) in the ass!  My players just played their 35th session this past Sunday, and they are still talking about some of the weird aspects they encountered in The Doom-Cave of The Crystal-Headed Children;-)  The PC Fecus began this campaign as a Halfling and was transformed into a human (his player chose to play the Specialist class upon the transformation) during the first session's exploration of this dungeon.

Ox Gives Way to Tiger Campaign

I started a new LotFP campaign in my existing campaign world back in 11/21.  We're 35 sessions in and going strong.  I will be sharing my after session notes with you.  If blogs are dead and I'm shouting into the Digital Void, so be it.  If you read this and prove the prior statement wrong, great!

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 Lamentations of the Flame Princess    

                      Ox Gives Way to Tiger

                        Campaign Notes

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PC Notes

• The Mighty Tim (played by name redacted)

• Magic-user

• Wants an enchanted ram’s horn helmet

• Had four puppies, now down to 2, Hewie and Dewie 

  (Lewie died session #8)

• Fecus (played by name redacted)

• Halfing for part of 1st session, now a human Specialist

• Had two dogs, but one died the 1st session

• Has a set of ritual gear, including a mask

• Has two dogs again as of session #5 

  (Launchpad and Andrew)

       

Important NPCs

• Wiki Dot Pod (pulled into another dimension)

• Pinus Contorta (Eliminated from existence by an alien entity)

• Josh (server at The Golden Grape in Gusakov)

• Adalbrecht Adler (armorer in Gusakov)

• Fritigern Knecht (fence who owns a curio shop in Gusakov)

• Kishani 7 Ways Out (elven sage specializing in languages)

• Thora Volkerode (bespoke armorer in Gusakov, trained under same armorer

   as Adalbrecht)

• Medved the Master

• Oldrich

• Ondrj (dead)

Names of the Dead (PCs, hirelings, pets)

• Nameless dog

• Pinus Contorta

• Nameless puppy

• Dagmar

• Yeoman Klang

• Lewie

• Mohac

• Arsus

• Malinka

• Mordcant

• Voga

• Hedviga

• Lardikus

• Old Blue

• Jorl E

• Brown Tomas

• Kracki

• Kochka

• Puutra

• Sandal (Crystal) Vo

• Elder Juri

• Mad Mox

• Chunky Konrad

• Harristo

• Flamm

• Kraccus

• Bohuil

Supplements and adventures used

• The Doom-Cave of the Crystal-Headed Children

• Slumbering Ursine Dunes

• LotFP Rules and Magic

• Vornheim

• Ghosts of Saltmarsh

• Red Tide

• Party like it’s 999 carousing table from Jeff Rients

• Nature Is Red in Tooth and Claw wardog table from Noisms and Zak S.

• 20 Quick Questions Regarding My Campaign Setting from Jeff Rients B.M.S.F.

• Labyrinth Lord rules PDF (treasure, spells, and monsters mostly)

• LL Advanced Edition Companion

• The Nine Hells of Baator PDF from Reddit user leguan1001

• What Ho, Frog Demons!

• Fever-Dreaming Marlinko

• Ruins of Future Past (DCC)

• Tales of the Scarecrow

• Old School Essentials Advanced Fantasy: Player’s Tome

• The Misty Isles of the Eld

• Hill Cantons Blog

   

  7/28/22 As I was in bed about to fall asleep last night, I realized I had

  forgotten to add two great resources to the list above. The Underworld Adventurer blog

  is from my friend and DM, Nick. He's been running a Dying Earth themed megadungeon

  that I've played in since 2020. I've borrowed his hireling table to use in one of the cities in 

  my home campaign and I've linked it below. 

   

   https://underworldadventurer.blogspot.com/2020/05/retainers-and-hireling-of-twilight-age.html

   

  The other resource is a random equipment generator from a blogger I ran across in the G+

  days. Their blog is in both Italian and English. I've linked the English version of the post

  containing the die drop table below.

   

  https://dismastersden.blogspot.com/2017/01/die-drop-complete-equipment-generator.html?zx=620d0f348032c9e8 

    

Betina's Musings While Drinking with the Blue Elves of the Lunar Sphere

 How odd is it to meet people who come from one of the spheres represented by sculptures on the 3rd level of the Complex that we have been trying to remove over multiple delves without success?  How strange is it to have met these beings from the lunar sphere after we failed to gain access to the portal that would take us to yet another world represented by the sphere sculptures?  How uncanny is it that I'm one the people responsible for the disappearance of the compatriots of these blue elves from the lunar sphere and I barely remember my participation?  Before I had my worldview/philosophy changed by physical contact with an altar on the 3rd level of the Complex, would I have felt any guilt about the part I had played in the first encounter I had with the blue elves; binding them and leaving them to whatever fate they encountered afterward?  Probably not, but I've touched that alter and been changed by it and ALL of my experiences in the Complex and now I do feel guilt about this.  Our conversation on philosophy and religious ritual has been utterly fascinating, but when Scamandros and Dogmouth depart the Burning Witch, having not made the same headway in conversing with the elves, I'll have to own up to my responsibility in the fate of the Blue Elves' friends and offer my services to help them track down the missing duo....  if they'll take my assistance, and if
they don't kill me on the spot for revealing what I've done.  I wasn't alone in the encounter with those first elves, but I cannot reveal the identities of the others who were present.  It wouldn't be fair to my fellow adventurers to out them for something they did out of a sense of survival.  I can only hope the Blue Elves will understand my reasoning for taking sole responsibility and offering to do whatever it takes to satisfy their investigation into the disappearance of their friends.  Alright, there go Scamandros and Dogmouth... if this was my last delve and drinking session with them I hope they remember me fondly.

 
"This has been a lovely conversation," Betina says to the Blue Elves after the departure of her delving companions Scamandros and Dogmouth, "but I have a confession to make.  I'm responsible for some of what has happened to the two you are searching for and I want to make it right if I can."

 

Update 8/9/22

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Betina Is Blind And Other News

Betina the Blind

Several sessions back in Nick's Dying Earth inspired campaign, my character Betina was blinded by a creature known as the Slithering Devil.  The session after being blinded, a party of adventurers including her made their way to a location in the dungeon known as the White Alter.  After several hours of meditation the characters that sat vigil in front of the White Alter came away transformed either psychically or physically.  Betina had the good fortune to have her sense of touch enhanced to the extent that her ability to participate in combat was restored (OSE rules heavily penalize blind characters to the point they are unable to engage in combat).  I'll be playing my 9th session as Betina on Friday.

Real Life Steps On the Gas

As the Covid 19 pandemic swept through the world, many folks' lives moved into a weird limbo state of self-quarantine.  Not for me.  At the time things began shutting down I was a temp worker in an essential job.  Then within five days I got sick (never got tested or needed hospitalization, so not sure if it was the 'rona or not), my grandfather died (not the' rona, he was elderly and had cancer; he was like a father to me), and my outdoor cat was injured and required veterinary care.  My temp job ended on April 30th and I was able to line up another job  that started the following week.  It came with travel requirements and a graveyard shift schedule that I'm still adapting to as I write this post.  Gaming has been one of the bright spots in life lately and I'm grateful to have the opportunity to play!

Will DM for Birthday (or any) Cake, LOL

Woohoo!  One of my players has a birthday on Saturday and I get to resurrect my LotFP Year of the Goat Campaign as part of the celebration!  We dipped our toes into to Call of Cthulhu for awhile which was fun, but I'm so thrilled to go back to running LotFP.  I'm trying to alchemize my nervousness to DM again into excitement!  The last game of anything (Cthulhu) I ran was over the Winter Solstice.