Aboleth Group D&D Blog

10 th July 2019, 8:00 – 10:45pm In-game timeline: Start of session, day 5. End of session, day 8. Our “Heroes” are attempting to clear out the zombies and blight creatures from Thundertree before the end of the ritual. They are pretty certain they have cleared out all the zombie creatures, and are feeling a little battered and bruised after some tough fights. Ignoring the blights they know are somewhere in a nearby set of bushes, they spend a while looking at, and in, another house, which is covered inside in cobwebs. After much debate, deliberation and discussion, they decide to look inside using a glowing arrowhead fired into the building. It seems to show nothing but cobwebs, so they move on the last building they have yet to check out. Pruni sneaks in, and her great skill as moving silently means the blights in there don’t see her. However, she also doesn’t see them either. But Pruni decides to fire blindly into the bushes, in the hope of hitting one. And hit ...

10 th July 2019, 7:30 – 10:45pm In-game timeline: Start of session, day 5. End of session, day 5. Our ‘Heroes’ are found, mid-ritual, in Thundertree, having just rested after a couple of difficult encounters with hardy but slow zombies, and weak but vicious twig monsters. And that’s just the first of potentially 3 buildings of zombies, and an unknown number of groups of twigs. The group is in for a tough evening! They headed to where they thought the garrison was located, on the other side of town, stopping briefly to pop a head in the door of the small cottage near where they are, to check there were no zombies in there. There weren’t. Arriving at the town square, identified by the once-impressive statue in the middle of a junction of paths, there is a garrison-looking type building on the other side. In a trait that would become common this session, Derrick went to the door, which was opened by Esme’s thaumaturgy spell, and ‘poked his head round the door’. I...