Session #79: Agog, A Grog!

 It has been an age and a day since the auction at the Ringing Anvil. It is therefore not unreasonable that one may forget that it was Citizen Sesel who won the "talking plant" presented as part of the auction. Fortunately, Sesel has not forgotten his purchase, and has since claimed that his "purchase" was really an individual of the elusive Zoq-Fot-Pik kobolds, and that he intended to return it to its peoples.

To that end, of course, Sesel must needs gather a company, and so one was rightly gathered at the great tavern of Cothon-Under-Star, under the nacreously shining interior of the vast shell that stands as that tavern's roof. Such were those gathered:

the "talking plant"

• Sesel (fighting-man 8)
  accompanied by Raoden (magic-user 5)
• Bartholomew Pettibone (magic-user 8)
  accompanied by Gan ad-Din (fighting-man 5)
• Durham (fighting-man 8)
  accompanied by Pako (renyu)
• Heijo (magic-user 6)

Out through the Mourners' Gate they went, seeking the Weirding Caverns where the Zoq-Fot-Pik are said to dwell, on the eastern side of the Tel al Safina and deep beneath. Hiking around the curve of the Tel's huge slopes, they disappeared from view of even the most distant Poor Brothers of the Dead ... only to eventually return at the end of the day, somewhat weathered but bearing packs no doubt laden with treasures!

To Cothon-Under-Star they returned, as so often, and there laid out their gains. The treasures are rumored to be many, but most conspicuously was a strange dark helmet, a kind of huge black and gleaming sallet which was cause for no little excitement among the adventuring-barbarians. Nevertheless, just what it is will of course be subject to the researches of those who recovered it ...

As to the fiend that held these treasures within its lair, Sesel was heard to mutter that it seemed rather ... phallic ... in its shape, much in the way that certain sea-peoples are said to inhabit rather obscene-seeming towers beneath the ocean. But surely that is all fantasy and the stuff of overworked artists!

And the Zoq-Fot-Pik? The company returned without Sesel's "talking plant"--hopefully that means something was arranged. Or perhaps it was all some odd ruse? Nevertheless, there was a fair haul recovered this expedition, to whit:

The Lucre

• a piece of pink coral carved in the shape of a group of Zoq-Fot-Pik (1300 dinars)
• 1130 dinars (gp) from 24 semi-precious stones: 5 @ 30, 7 @ 40, 2 @ 50, 10 @ 60
• 12300 dinars from 12 gemstones: 3 @ 1000, 4 @ 1200, 5 @ 900
• a scroll of 5 spells (TBD)
• a MAP
• a strange black sallet-helm
• 
  a pair of strange metallic boots
• 600 mithqals (at 5 dinars ea., this is 3000 dinars!)

The Learning

• 17730 xp from treasure
• 437 xp for the "cone-creature" (400 + hp)
• 200 xp per player-character for exploring new caves

The Cut

• 109 mithqals (x5gp), 2678 dinars (gp) per player-character
  56 mithqals, 1339 dinars to Raoden, Gan, and Pako
• 4742 xp per player-character
  2371 xp to Raoden and Gan
• the black helmet
• the spell scroll
• the map scroll
• a pair of strange boots