Aboleth Group D&D Blog

22nd Aug 2019, 7:45 – 10:45pm In-game timeline: Start of session, day 9. End of session, day 9. We last left our “Heroes” standing before a blank wall in the cellars of Tresendar Manor – the current base of operations of the Redbrand ruffians that have been terrorising the town. After some discussion over remembering why they were here – primarily to rescue Pruni’s cousin, Carp, but also to hopefully wipe out the Redbrand threat to the town, and find out what happened to Sildar’s old friend, Iarno (though they forgot to ask Sildar what he looked like) – they started to look for the mechanism for the secret door that they were pretty certain was around somewhere. Derrick found it, and pushed on, into an empty room containing some barrels, crates, and a cistern of water, fed from pipes above. They considered using Esme’s Find Traps spell, as they knew a trap was around somewhere, but decided against it and instead decided to use Thaumaturgy to open each door in the room in turn, fro...

7th Aug 2019, 7:30 – 11:15pm  In-game timeline: Start of session, day 8. End of session, day 9. We resume our tale with our “Heroes” back in the town of Phandalin, learning new skills and arguing over loot. After spending considerable time only a couple of days previously having a heated debate whether Derrick should give a large part of his inheritance from his own family’s meagre possessions to the ‘group loot’ of the party, Mallorn’s admission that he was only giving half of the money that he found on an unknown, dead elf in Thundertree to the party was, surprisingly, met with gratitude. Derrick felt aggrieved. Mallorn decided to use his find familiar spell to call up a new friend. A spider. Who initially was definitely NOT called Geoff. However, since everyone else was calling him Geoff anyway, the name seemed to stick. Geoff the spider became a member of the group.  Inspired at having a new, named, member of the group, Pruni and Derrick decided to go about ...