The Great Dungeon Crawl, Session 17: Barney and Friends

November 8th, 1084 Korlai Reckoning.
Recap written by Krusher

Characters:
Krusher as "Dagnos"
Vic as "Buckles"
Teragen as "Bea"
Clayton as "Lokum"
atm09st as "Rochefort"

        The delvers went to the temple after doing some purchasing in town. They followed some tracks and found the entrance where Kip's Fools most recently went. We went down some stairs where there was an open door, and pushed on a wall to open an area. We pushed open the door and found a hallway that went left and right. 

        The door to the left had iron banding, and it smelled like rotting flesh. It appears to be unlocked. Dagnos used his spyhorn, but did not hear anything. Buckles saw that there were four creatures that were of unknown origin when they were alive, they look vaguely humanoid, on some biers and all have magical broadswords.          

        There was also a statute of a knight holding out a severed head of an elf by the hair, and has a long sword drawn in his right hand. He was wearing full plate. There are also two altars in the room, which looked to be for some unrecovered dead. Before the group could do much, they sall all of the things on the biers* sit up and look up with burning white eyes. The enemies did not pursue. 

*: Like this, but with a body on it

 
        They heard a group of Hogmen (described as Hogheaded Beastmen) that were squealing and setting up an ambush. Instead, Buckles charged up an 8d-8 (converted to 6d) explosive lightning bolt, threw it, and did massive damage, killing all but two of them, one of those two being the leader. Dagnos spotted a trap and he and Lokum jumped over.  After they had begun to march towards the fried beastmen, the leader's sword began to float in the air and attack the party. The Thief/Fighter and the Magic-User/Fighter made quick work of that. (Damn multi-classers!)

Appearance of the Hogmen. They are SM+0.

        Bea then gave a dose of her healing potion to the surviving hogman and he managed to utter a few things: 

• Karthrunax gave him the Magical Heavy Cloth Armor; he's the one with the red armor 
• Thrunax will have their head for this
• He said that he found the sword all-the-way down a spiral staircase on an altar

        After that, they hog-tied him and looted their kills. The hogman leader's armor was magical, and Rochefort put it on. It was later identified as +1 Heavy Cloth armor. They party then went back up to the surface, saw some orcs passing by, and decided to go back down to fight them another time.

        They then went to the bathhouse that Kip informed them of. There was a latrine that was open and a secret door led to a passageway down. They avoided it; they saw tracks from the other party leading to and fro, and assumed that they looted it already. 

        During their travels toward the underground bathhouse, they found a door that had numerous zombies in it, and closed it. They finally made it to the bathhouse, resting there for a while. After that, the party finally made their way to the ultra-realistic statue that they set out to find. Rochefort used Stone to Flesh from a scroll Buckles nabbed in town, and the statue turned to Flesh once again.       

        As he came to, he shot the wall with his Wand of Disintegration before he figured out that he wasn't where he once was. The party talks to the man and discovers a few things:

• His name was Kaden. He appeared to be a 200-250pt Fighter. He was last alive in ~800 KR.
• His party is gone, probably dead. Same with his family and other friends.
• They were fighting 8-10 monsters of some sort.
• He knew that Karthrunax or Thrunax is a dragon that lived up in the mountains
• Claimed that he killed hundreds of the Foleks, but that when they fought they only had spears and clubs, not Wands of Disintegration.
• There were twenty Men in his company; no demi-humans. Half of the dwarves he met in his entire life were in the Giantslayers.
• He spoke of the Maze of Madness, down a spiral staircase. If you end up down there, there's a room with metal (steel?) furniture where his group found some of the Wands of Disintegration and some other junk that the wizard used. You need a bunch of them to really use them well. If you get five of them on a belt you have five shots and then have to wait a week; apparently that's their recharge time, but it is free. 
• He said he was being taught how to cast basic spells but is otherwise a warrior. (He knows Colors, Odor, and Recover Energy.)
• They created the bathhouse and their wizard knew how to enchant things. 
• He never made it past the Maze of Madness, according to him--the one with all the crazy hallways. He wasn't sure the dungeon went deeper.
• He thinks it was a (different) Wizard that turned him to Stone with the Flesh to Stone spell.

        Kaden then convinced the party to go to the right rather than leaving, and the group then found a room that was so large that they couldn't see the ends of the room. There was a massive purple dragon in the room that appeared to be sleeping. The party high-tailed it out of there, but on the way out came four Godlugal, charging toward the party from the direction they came from. 
        The party messed them up, and one surrendered. Dagnos decided to go back into the room where the dragon came from to see what was in there because the dragon was gone. Finding nothing but a bunch of doors and a lack of Dragon, they left the dungeon for the day and headed home.

Author's Notes 
        No notes given.

GM's Notes                      

        Huh, who knew that some statues might secretly be humans in disguise? The party also found out, after the session, that the man named Kaden they rescued was actually a national hero! I have no clue what they are planning to do next week, so we will see what that ends up being. This week was a "spur of the moment" mission that they were sent on by Kip, head of the other party, aptly named Kip's Fools.

        The name of this session actually is derived from a joke after the session, where the party was planning the next delve, and someone suggested that the purple dragon has resistance to "Barney & Friends".

Character Advancement
    +1-2pts from Loot
    +1pt from Roleplay
    +2pts from Exploration
    +1pt from "Freeing" Prisoners
    Total: +6-7pts