Session #15: The Oil Barons

 A confluence of interests between certain adventurers at the Kantor Kabljauhof and Cothon-Under-Star led several such to gather at one of the lesser taverns between. The talk was of returning to the Weirding Caverns where certain individuals claimed to have seen terrible tree-like fungal monsters guarding a hoard of treasure--some of which must surely remain, despite what was already hauled out.

Whatever plan they hatched involved a great volume of oil, given their collective purchase of three man-drawn hand-carts, each of which were to carry two amphorae of lamp-oil ... Somewhere in the vicinity of 500 gold spent on oil alone!

Having acquired the huge amount of oil and secured the employment of Gan ad-Din and Warda the Rose, the party set out from the Gate of Mourners toward the Weirding Caverns:

• Bartholomew Pettibone (magic-user 2)
  accompanied by Gan ad-Din
• Heijo (magic-user 1)
• Durham (fighter 4)
  accompanied by Pako (renyu)
• Persephone (fighter 3)
  accompanied by Finbar (renyu) and Warda the Rose (likely lass)

The same party returned through the Gate of Mourners with but a single hand-cart (bearing a slumbering Durham), but holding their heads high (faces smudged with oil-smoke) and carrying backpacks weighted down with not a little silver and other valuables. They all smelled of burned-fungus and burned-oil to any who got too near before they were able to bathe at their respective taverns.

Regrouping to evaluate their lucre they counted out a handful of gems, several bejeweled valuables, a couple thousand silver coins, and a strange item resembling the war clubs of certain tribes--a metal rod with a handle, while the length of it is studded with jagged discs of strange greenish metal. Undoubtedly, naked flesh struck by it would be badly, though not deeply, cut up, and the force of the blow could certainly also do blunt damage.

Collecting their lesser shares, both Warda and Gan then continued on to enjoy their new wealth by carousing through the taverns of Cothon. Each remembers different aspects of the adventure to those sharing wine with them--Warda tells of Heijo's remarkable throwing-arm, of how he hurled a burning flask of oil right into the nest of tendrils at the top of one of the great fungal tree monsters in the depths of the Tel, and how the oil pooled there to burn the thing to its doom. Meanwhile, Gan speaks of how he and his employer, Bartholomew, were separately set upon in the dark by a pack of gigantic red-carapaced ilwraths, but how Bartholomew's sorcerous ways laid the creatures under an enchanted sleep, and were then easily dispatched.

The Lucre

• 6 gems of varying value (1310 gold altogether; 1x10, 3x100, 2x500)
• a helmet fashioned like the chitinous head of a klackon, with gems for "eyes" (3000 gp)
• the panoply of a noble warrior, including a fine sword, shirt of silvered mail, silver-chased helm, etc. (3000 gp)
• a belt of fine jild, supple, white, and studded with gold (400 gp)
• from the corpse of a Klackon, a curious cloak of silken strands knotted in varying patterns and with intricately styled knots--shown to the Klackons Under-Star, they indicate that it is a short epic, woven into the form of a cloak (500 gp)
• 2000 silver pieces
• the disc-studded war club

(any piece of treasure that strikes one's fancy can be "bought out" of the pool by a character, and thus they will possess the item rather than it's value in liquid cash; no duplicates, obviously, so please comment below as to what you're "buying" if you do so)

The Experience

• 8410 from gold
• 1090 from fungal monsters x2 (500 + hp ea.)
• 274 from giant "ilwrath" x5 (50 + hp ea.)

The Cut

• 2443 xp per character
• 2002 gold per character (200 gold each to Warda and Gan)
• the strange war-club

As ever, written accounts of the adventure, or art, or anything representing the expedition for others, will garner a PC 100 xp per level and be posted to the blog