Session 3: Gas Chambers and Crack Heads

Player Characters

• The Bonz - Level 2 Human Cleric Chaotic Evil

• Little Jacob - Level 2 Human Druid Neutral

• Gregg "The Crack Head" Level 1 Human Assassin Neutral Evil

• Otto Von Sphincter Level 1 Human Fighter Chaotic Neutral

  Down Time Resolution:

  Both The Bonz and Little Jacob spent two weeks self training to level two. Little Jacob would then pay to find a henchmen for hire primarily looking for a thief. Afterwards he would forage for plants and herbs during the duration of down time. The Bonz would spend his extra down time getting people very intoxicated by buying more brews for exceptionally drunk patrons, and he bought the supplies to make deviled eggs.

9/15/23 The Bonz and little Jacob are waiting at the Banana Cabaña for anyone willing to answer Little Jacobs job posting. A tall muscular man with dark circles under his eyes enters the tavern he spots our boys and slumps down in a chair and says he is here about the job posting. His name is Shady and before they start talking about anything, he requires some drinks from the bar, He has to get messed up before anything important he does.

The Bonz buys him three bottles of Banana Brew and they get down to business. Shady wants 5% of treasure and one magic item per location they hit. The boys accept the terms and hire him on. Then the doors of the Tavern swing open and a very energetic man smelling of some strong nasty chemicals with a slight twitch. He zooms over to the table. He introduces himself as Gregg and saw the job posting. He isn't really a thief but he has killed men for pay, mostly in crack, and is willing to offer his services. Being a group of low ethical standings they agree to have him join them.

Legends of a Sunken Temple full of riches have been told around Brightoni since its founding. The Temple can be seen to the East looming over the Jungle Marsh across the ancient stone bridge built by the savages. It is a several day Journey and many have attempted to make the big score but none have returned mostly due to the lizardmen who claim the marsh and temple as their home. This sounds like exactly where the boys can find some moolah, however Gregg says he needs some crack in order to make the journey, lucky for them Shady knows a plug they could meet with before they head out.

Shady takes the boys to a grimy establishment outside the walls of Brightoni known as "The Worn Boot". It is surprisingly packed with about sixty patrons all trashing about to some edgy punk music. The place is an absolute mess from piles of puke swept up into the corner and the strong chemical smell that fallows Gregg seemingly permeating from all around the bar. Gregg takes a whiff and says, " Oh yeah baby, Shady wasn't lying!"

The boys sit down at a table and Shady spots his plug, a small twitchy man who goes by the name of Splatz. He has two body guards at both ends of the booth he is in. Shady goes to speak with the man. After a couple of minutes some shouting is heard but what really stood out was, " I told you to come alone, remember?!"

Some how Shady is able to smooth it over but he can only take one of the boys for the deal so Gregg naturally volunteers first. Splatz says it will be 20 gold, a standard price, but Gregg is itching for a deal. He offers 15 gold. now Splatz is no fool and crack is cheap to make and very addictive. He is the only plug in town and gets his supply from "The Big Guy" so this shlump will have to buy form him. a new perminite customer. Splatz counters with, " If I do this, you have to buy two sacks at regular price next time." This deal is a no brainer for Gregg and he accepts. The boys leave the bar and search for others to hire. The Bonz hires two MSC troops off duty to assist them and two link boys Nat and Geo.

The Boys now having a much larger party still felt like something was missing. They really wanted to hire a Mapist which I will refer to as a MAP for here on out. The party has never done this in any of our games so I thought this would be interesting so I decided there was one available but he was known as a bit of an odd fellow. He was an elderly gentleman who was known around town as Joey B. They went to his home and met with him. Upon seeing Nat and Geo, Joey B asked if they would mind if he gave the young lads a sniff. The Bonz replied, " I'd be insulted if you didn't!" Joey B. seemed a little out to lunch but the boys were glad to accept him into their group and they Finally leave for the Sunken Temple.

9/16/23 The party crosses the ancient bridge and heads East to find the Sunken Temple. Once Camp is made Little Jacob whips up a Druish jam from his foraged herbs and fruits that will prevent the come down and addiction to the crack rock, or in his words," Kill da Heebie Jeebies mon." There are no encounters.

9/17/23 The morning is smooth but around mid day our boys run into trouble. They find themselves stumbling upon a lair of brigadines adorn in the crimson red skins of lizard men. Meanwhile IRL our fourth player shows up and I decided his PC is being held prisoner inside the camp. Anyway the party's druid rolls an excellent reaction roll and since these are seedy unethical men the brigadines, who refer to themselves as "The Scalies" decide they might be able to work out some kind of deal. They will be not only spared but allowed to proceed to the Sunken Temple in exchange for eight percent of treasure recovered. Little Jacob asked to sweeten the deal by providing them with some assistance to assure their return and the Scalies agree to send three men along with the party, one of these men being their captive Otto Von Sphincter. They are to keep these men alive, mostly the two Scalies or their will be repercussions.

Von Sphincter was part of a lawful good party before they were intercepted by the Scalies and they were not as communicative that day. Being the only member left, fearing for death and cringing at the Scalies "fan art" he was ready to leave the camp behind. The Scalies however inform Von Sphincter that they planned to sell him into slavery and he owes them a thousand gold for his freedom and they expect him to start paying it off once he returns. Von Sphincter was keen to agree on anything from what he was through so he accepted and got the party moving quickly towards the Sunken Temple. They decide to travel through the night to make up for lost time.

They almost make it without another encounter.... well almost. Lucky for them they won surprise on a pack of giant frogs so they casually slip around them. They survive the rest of the night and a new day dawns.

9/18/23 The party gains a point of exhaustion. If they could travel faster they could make it to the temple by nightfall. That's when Gregg finally decided to pull out the crack pipe. The Crack will allow them double speed and carry weight with the edition of ignoring the exhaustion point, however after twelve hours they will move at half speed, be at half carry weight and gain not be able to sleep gaining another exhaustion point.

There is no time to waste so everyone, I repeat everyone smokes crack. The Bonz even makes Nat and Geo join in. When doing hard stimulates you have a 1/20 chance to have a heart attack and for Joeys age he was twenty five percent more likely. Thankfully no one had a heart attack and the party started zooming across the Jungle Marsh.

They come across one encounter a large constrictor snake but the druid is wise and had animal friendship prepared. The snake fails its save and becomes a loyal companion to the Druid joining his pet hawk and guard dog. Their are no more encounters for the rest of the day and the boys finally arrive at the base of the Sunken Temple, which stands crooked with parts of the bottem level submerged in the waters of the marsh. The party eats Little Jacobs Jammin' Jam and they are able to set up camp and rest, except for Shady who climbs up a tree to keep watch all night. There are no encounters.

9/19/23 Its time for the boys to secure the bag. The party climbs the large stairs to the top of the sunken Temple. They find a small alter area at the top that has been partially collapsed and has knocked a hole in the floor. Gregg investigates and climbs down finding a small room with stairs descending deeper into the pyramid.

The party heads in and starts exploring the ruins. They find many stuck doors and corpses of burred salvages from an era long ago. several rooms they find nothing of interest until they stumble upon a door that actually opens on the first try for them. The party spots three floating round creatures with weird tube like appendages sprouting from their heads. They win surprise and plan to execute the unknown creatures. The party will charge into the room whilst the link boys, two Scalies, and Joey B. will wait outside the door.

The boys pounce and with ease they kill the targets one two three. Unfortunately after each one gets hit it pops open and starts to flood the room with gas. A trio of Gas Spores were killed. As the gas filled the room saving throws were made. Only The Bonz, Little Jacob and one MSC hireling passed only taking seven hit points of damage each whilst the others took a massive fifteen hit points of poison damage. The Bonz and Little Jacob carry the MSC mercenary out of the gas chamber and the Scalies close and help spike the door behind them. More than half of the party killed in an instant. The Bonz then says "Oh no I must heal this MSC agent quickly but instead of healing wounds he uses cause wounds and kills the man offering his soul to his dark patron unknown to the remainder of the party. They exit the dungeon and Little Jacob with his high wisdom is able to cast cure disease on himself and they take a long rest so he can do the same to The Bonz saving them from the instant death after twenty four hours.

9/20/23 The boys cured of aliment could of gave up they needed something to bring back especially because of those crazy Scalies and Otto getting gassed. They go back into the dungeon and go the opposite way of the gas chamber. They come to a room with a corpse of some king of savage priest with a feather head dress on and a pile of gold on its lap. It looked easy... too easy.

The Scalies do a listen check and pass. They hear the faint sounds of something crawling around inside the corpse. The Bonz lights an oil flask and yells," fire in the hole!" The flask lands and the body goes up in flames. Then three burning Rot Grubs burrow out of the corpse engulfed in flames, burning them to death. The Bonz checks the pile and counts two hundred and forty gold coins and finds a small gem that he is able to hide from the Scalie goons. They consider it w win and exit the dungeon heading back to the Scalie camp. No encounters for the rest of the day or night.

9/21/23 Without the crack to speed them along the way the party has to take a full day to travel back to the Scalie camp. The have one encounter another large constrictor snake and again the druid successfully charms in into joining a party. Hopefully this one doesn't die as quickly.

9/22/23 The boys arrive at the Scalie camp. they are somewhat upset about their slave Otto but they can find more. They receive twenty gold as their cut. Not very satisfied they agree to let the boys camp with them if they will try again for an actually decent score. In the mean time they will have to help the camp in whatever they ask including defending it incase lizard men attack durring down time.

XP and Treasure split between The Bonz and Little Jacob

Gas Spores - 66xp

Rot Grubs - 396xp

250 gold - 250xp

One unidentified gem - ???

Ratings

The Bonz - E - Sacrificing the NPC was for his deity unknowingly to his party very kewl!

Little Jacob - E - He not only charmed the snakes, he prevented the 24 hour instant death with his cure diese. Lucky he has high wisdom.

Gregg "The Crack Head" - D - Dead, it was his first time playing and he had a best. He cant wait to redeem himself with a new PC.

Otto Von Sphincter - D - Dead, He is on a two session death streak hopefully next time he survives.