Summary
A group of adventurers embarked on a quest commissioned by a hobbit occultist, Afuri Milespan, whose dreams of a four-armed silver goddess haunted them. The party consisted of Blurgan (mutated wizard’s apprentice), Elmar (newly graduated elf), Gerrick (dockworker turned adventurer), and Dunger Stoutheart (melancholic dwarf warrior). Their journey led them into a subterranean dungeon with brass walls, where they immediately encountered Skeletal Dogs controlled by Elmar’s magical horn, and discovered rooms containing peculiar human-shaped bells along with traces of small, barefooted creatures.
The adventurers delved deeper into the dungeon, navigating through an area filled with mysterious waters and magical phenomena. They discovered a black tapestry that served as a portal and a staircase that led to an elevated position above the water, where they also located a boat. The party’s spellcasting produced strange effects in this area, and they carefully deliberated on the safest method to traverse the water-filled chamber while maintaining control over the Skeletal Dogs.
The party encountered a Halfling Mob performing a ritual around a silver statue in a flooded chamber. The situation quickly escalated into combat when a Skeletal Serpent emerged from the waters, which the party defeated before observing the cultists marking the statue with red and black ink. A fierce battle erupted, featuring intense magical duels between spellcasters while the warriors engaged the cultists in close combat.
The confrontation reached its climax as one cultist was completely evaporated by a spell, while another aged rapidly before their eyes. During the battle, Blurgan experienced a mutation that caused their feet to grow even larger. The Halfling Mob fled in terror when confronted with the Skeletal Dogs, and the party ultimately prevailed against the Cultist Leader, securing both the silver idol and a mysterious magical bottle.
The victory was short-lived when the magical bottle, revealed to be a decanter connected to the elemental plane of water, catastrophically malfunctioned. The item began spewing hundreds of gallons per minute of vomit and urine before shattering, creating an unbound elemental vortex. In a tragic turn of events, Elmar failed to escape and was swept away by the disgusting flood, losing their life in the process. The surviving party members fled the dungeon and later returned to town, where they received their payment and discussed their experiences and future adventures. However, they mourned the loss of their companion.
Scenes
Party Formation and Mission Brief
- Blurgan introduces himself as a mutated wizard’s servitor with a second brain
- Elmar introduces himself as a fresh-from-school elf
- Dunger Stoutheart introduces himself as a bitter dwarf warrior
- Gerrick is a recently divorced dockworker who decided to become an adventurer out of self-loathing
- The party learns Afuri Milespan hired them to find a sacred idol
Initial Dungeon Exploration
- Party descends 50-foot brass ladder into darkness
- Encounter Skeletal Dogs at bottom
- Use Elmar’s magical horn to control the hounds
- Discovery of small bootprints in the muck
- Discovery of Bell Chamber with 12 human-shaped brass bells
- Party ties rope to bell and rings it from safe distance
- All bells begin ringing chaotically
- Shockwave occurs after bells stop
- Discovery of flooded eastern passage
Navigation Through Flooded Areas
- Party finds tracks leading to water’s edge
- Discover evidence of boat activity
- Consider setting up an ambush
- Cast cantrip to reveal a mosaic floor
- Magical backlash damages party member
- Discover black tapestry portal
- Find hidden pulley mechanism
- Climb steep staircase
- Find grated door leading to Elevated Water Chamber
- Spot boat in distance
- Successfully shoot arrow to retrieve boat
Major Combat Encounters
- Party encounters Skeletal Serpent with strange sigils on its skull
- Serpent attempts to constrict and drag someone into water but fails
- Character performs a Golden Axe leap attack
- Gerrick scores a critical hit lands but falls into water
- Skeletal Serpent is defeated
- Party finds Halfling Mob performing ritual
- Three cultists in black robes and masks leading ceremony
- Cultists marking silver statue of four-armed woman with red and black ink
Final Battle Sequence
- Warriors attack cultists in melee combat
- One cultist loses both hands in combat
- Complex spell duel occurs between multiple spellcasters
- Magic missile spell fails against cultist’s force lightning
- Spell reflection causes one cultist to evaporate
- Blurgen gains ‘delayed reactions’ defect and even larger, fatter feet
- Halfling Mob panics and jumps into water after seeing Skeletal Dogs
- Four halflings are incinerated in magical chaos
- Fighter attempts to attack Cultist Leader’s glowing nose ring
- Wizard uses ‘cantrip’ spell to style cultist’s beard while damaging him
- Cultist Leader is finally defeated and beheaded
Treasure Discovery and Catastrophic Ending
- Party finds valuable silver idol worth 250+ gold
- Hidden button reveals underwater passage
- Discovery of magical water-spouting bottle
- Dunger obtains a mysterious decanter
- Decanter activates, spewing 200 gallons of vomit and urine per minute
- Item launches and shatters against bells in the dungeon
- Creates an unbound elemental vortex
- Characters attempt luck checks to escape
- Elmar fails check and is swept away to their death
- Remaining characters flee the dungeon
- Characters receive payment from Afuri Milespan
- Group discusses splitting 100 gold
- Characters choose to spend gold on carousing
- Carousing XP awarded based on luck rolls
Npcs
Afuri Milespan
A hobbit occultist who hired the party to retrieve an idol. She’s been having dreams of a four-armed silver goddess and paid a wizard to locate the idol’s position.
Miijul the Dream Eater
An antagonist mentioned as sending cultists to seize the idol and who haunts Afuri’s dreams.
Skeletal Dogs
Undead canines marked with black sigils on their foreheads, controlled by the party through a magical horn
Cultist Leader
A scruffy bearded halfling with an ornate silver nose ring and mask, leading invocations to ‘Miijul.’ The ring glows when casting spells. Eventually defeated and beheaded by the party.
Skeletal Serpent
An enormous undead serpent with strange sigils on its skull, capable of constricting and biting attacks
Halfling Mob
Group of hostile halflings who panic and flee after witnessing magical combat and undead dogs.
Elmar
A character who met their unfortunate end by being swept away in the vomit and urine flood from the decanter
Locations
Brass-Walled Shaft
50-foot vertical entrance shaft with brass walls covered in verdigris and muck, accessed by a metal ladder.
Bell Chamber
Large domed room 70 feet in diameter with 12 human-shaped brass bells arranged in a circle, partially flooded in the northeastern section. The decanter incident occurred here.
Ceramic Tiled Room
Chamber with yellow and red tile mosaics, partially looted of gold and silver decorations, covered in green muck.
Black Tapestry Chamber
Room featuring a mosaic floor depicting pale revelers dancing around blue flames, dominated by an unrelentingly black tapestry that acts as a portal
Elevated Water Chamber
A large flooded chamber accessed from 15 feet above the water level, it contained multiple submerged doors and a boat. Initial combat with cultists and the Halfling Mob took place here.
Flooded Chamber
A water-filled room about 10 feet deep with a current flowing from the southeast. It contains a stone altar against the north wall where cultists perform their ritual.
Underwater Chamber
A hidden chamber accessed by pressing a button underwater contains a magical fountain and stone rack with a mysterious bottle.
Spells
Magic Missile
Spell cast during a spell duel, but was overcome by the Cultist Leader’s dark force lightning.
Force Lightning
Dark crackling energy spell used by Cultist Leader that overcame the magic missile in a spell duel
Items
Human-Shaped Brass Bells
Twelve 3-foot-tall brass bells shaped like plump human figures, alternating male and female forms, ring with mysterious magical properties.
Silver Idol
A one-foot-tall pure silver idol weighing 100 pounds depicting a four-armed being is worth at least 250 gold pieces in raw material.
Magical Nose Ring
Large, runed nose ring worn by the Cultist Leader that glows during spellcasting, covered in malodorous sigils.
Decanter of Elemental Water
A magical item connected to the elemental plane of water that malfunctioned, creating a vortex of bodily fluids when broken. Originally meant to produce salt water, but instead caused catastrophic flooding with vomit and urine when mishandled.
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