Session #100: Peshyk's Hidey-Hole and Other Fun Finds

Arngeir wanted to follow up on the success of the last expedition to deal with the Old Pale Worm. There was more to be discovered in the lair, and not everything had been explored.

To this end, he gathered a company of stalwart adventurers to join him in this secondary expedition:

• Arngeir (fighting-man)
• Fa Min (elementalist 2)
• Lord Althis (magic-user 5)
  accompanied by Hry-Haya Yehat (Alkari 1)
• Heijo (magic-user 6)
• Durham (fighting-man 8)
  accompanied by Lars Ghar-Rider (magic-user 5)

Almost everyone returned looking rather worse for wear, with singed clothing and burnt eyebrows and hair and soot-blackened armor. Heijo and Althis were curiously unscathed in this regard.

Nevertheless (and despite certain dirty looks cast at Heijo) there was a fair amount of rejoicing for what had been retrieved from the twisting passages of the Weirding Caverns--not least of which was Lars' new prize, the head of a serudla! Surely more fine treasures were uncovered--but could they rival the hoard that was retrieved during the last expedition against such worms? Sadly, no; though they were certainly no meager pickings either!

The Lucre

• 250 ithnayan (worth 2 gp ea.), 500 dinars (gp), 1000 nufdinars (ep), 10,000 dirhams (sp)
• 8 gems worth 1720 dn (dinars)
• two @ 60 dn
• two @ 200 dn
• four @ 300 dn
• "raw" silver ore in two chests worth approximately 5000 dinars
• a legal claim to certain silver veins, signed over from one "Peshyk" to "the Company" and undersigned by those present on this expedition ... worth perhaps 20,000 dn if it were to be sold
• a collection of aged maps of locations within the Weirding Caverns, poorly preserved (worth perhaps 5000 dn if sold)
• an amulet--a silver broadhead arrowhead depending from a silver chain marked with magic signs (magic)
• a curious metal box, intricately ornamented, with a lens on one side and a touch-stud on the other ("tech")
• a tulwar, matching the one Arngeir formerly claimed from the serudla-lair (magic, claimed by Arngeir)
• the head of a (smaller) serudla (claimed by Lars)
• the heart of the same serudla (claimed by Arngeir)
• a dagger of excellent make (magic)
• a warpick marked in archaic script naming it "Deep Children's Foe" (magic)
• 2 pints of serudla-acid (one to Durham, one to Althis)
• unfertilized serudla-roe (Althis)
• the skin of a serudla which could be used to create perhaps two suits of serudla-leather armor, or the equivalent

The Learning

• 9220 xp from realized treasure (not counting the deed or map-collection)*
• 328 xp from a serudla (300 + hp)
• 390 xp from Peshyk (350 + hp)
• 754 xp from 2 others (700 + hp)
• 337 xp from 6 restless dead porters (50 + hp ea)
• 650 xp from 13 bypassed flying octopoids (50 xp ea)
• 200 xp to each player-character for following up on further explorations in two places

The Cut

• 50 ithnayan, 444 dinars, 200 nufdinars, and 2,000 dirhams per player-character
  25 itn, 222 dn, 100 nf, and 1,000 dr to Lars and Hry-Haya
• 2576 xp to each player-character
  1288 xp to Lars and Hry-Haya
• claim to the silver-veins
• collection of maps
• arrowhead amulet
• curious box
• the tulwar claimed by Arngeir
• the serudla head claimed by Lars
• the serudla heart claimed by Arngeir
• the serudla roe claimed by Althis
• magic dagger
• magic warpick
• one pint of serudla acid each to Durham and Althis
• serudla skins

*if the deed or the maps were sold, gp and xp shares would increase accordingly, but if they are being retained for the use of the company (and other associates), then their value is counted in their usefulness rather than in their price