Buried Treasure 4

Buried Treasure 4
Date	7/21/23
Storyteller	Foster
Tier	Trainee, Medium
Player Characters	Chrysanthemum Lavandula Orchidaceae Delphinium Helianthus, Mayel, Tuli Mrysky, Berta Stormhammer, Draumir, Aleth, Damian Brooks,Disorro Saur
Rewards	280 exp, 69 gold, Snake Oil (2), many formulas (see body of text)
Result	Success
Author	Disorro Saur

Log

Jeremiah, a halfling in a horsedrawn cart is surprised our group is so large – funny, because so many of us are small. We meet him at 7am and ride through the countryside until supper. He sets up camp and makes us an adequate stew of unknown meat.

Chrys offers to give me light for the duration we were down below and Mayel offers to be our guide, having been down thrice before. He warns of danger – slugs we should shoot from far away (this would prove too true), frogs that were hostile (we saw none of them), and spider webs but no spider. We absolutely did not see a single spider. We saw swarms.

“Don’t be afraid to run away as soon as things start getting bad – things will get bad quickly,” he warns. We largely disregarded this advice.

We make our way down the tunnel – about a 10-minute walk. We reach a door, closed to the darkness below.

We enter the sunken ruins and make our way past areas already cleared, over a river (the bridge is in good shape) and hear a noise in the distance. Slugs?

Berta checks a few doors before finding it. It is bigger than me, but not by much.

We engage and another slug comes forth and hits me.

Berta charges in, heroically. She is ganged up on by a slug and a different, glowing GOLD slug. Berta falls! Draumir runs up and hastily creates an elixir of life, reviving Berta. Chrys heals her more.

Aleth downs a slug! But it EXPLODES in a plume of acid. Most of us dodge out of the way.

On her feet again, Berta kills a slug! It also explodes!

Draumir notices that the golden slug is not very dexterous. Mayel takes advantage of that and shoots lightning at it. But the creature is immune to lightning!

The gold one takes big swings at Draumir and Aleth, but they both withstand it. Tuli tries to heal Aleth, but can’t. He shoots it with multiple arrow shots, leaving Chrys to heal Aleth.

Damien charges it, does something with his belt, and leaps with an exploding kick at the gold slug.

Draumir devises a mode of attack, lines up his shot, and kills the gold monster with no explosion of acid.

Heroic measures are taken to heal Berta. Draumir realizes he misplaced his healer’s tools so I sell him mine as they are of no use to me except for superstitious reasons.

I collect two vials of the goo from the gold slug. Each glows to a 10-foot radius.

A door in their room is locked. Tuli tries to pick the lock – but it’s rusted shut. Berta breaks it down. We find a book, some gold, and a large number of alchemy recipes.

We check several other doors and find nothing. A locked door – Tuli can’t pick, but Berta again breaks it down. A storehouse bereft of stores. Tuli finds a secret door that leads to a cave in.

We loop back around to the south, along the river. We pass a large room full of spider webs.

Tulli grabs one of the fireflies to throw it in the webs. Several other fireflies take umbrage and swarm at him. Berta goes and grabs another (the first to attack Tulli). The first one escapes Tulli and flashes him, leaving him with impaired vision.

Chrys convinces Berta to let the last one go and they flutter off.

Meanwhile, Draumir ignites the webs. A noise comes from within. A swarm of spiders emerges and attacks Stupid and Draumir.

Two full-size spiders come out. NO! Three spiders come out. They surround and all try to bite me, to web me, but only one bites and one webs me up.

I’m unable to escape, but Tuli takes one of the spiders down and Draumir heals me up while Chrys shares my pain and gives me protection against the oncoming bites.

Berta takes out another of the 5-foot spiders and Tulli launches a barrage at the remaining one but misses.

Berta smashes the last of the swarm as Stupid bites the final spider in half.

We clear the immediate area and decide to leave. To rest up and return another time to continue searching the ruins.

Alchemical formulas recovered

Acid Flask	Addiction Suppressant	Alchemical Gauntlet	Alchemists Fire	Bottled Lightning
Cheetah’s Elixir	Cognitive Mutagen	Cognitive Mutagen moderate	Energy Mutagen	Energy Mutagen Moderate
Focus Cathartic	Frost Vial	Healing potion (minor)	Juggernaut Mutagen	Juggernaut Mutagen moderate
Quicksilver Mutagen	Reading Glyphs	Serene Mutagen	Silvertongue Mutagen	Timeless Salts