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Short roleplay-focused session today before a longish break before we found more schedule space.

Dramatis Personae:

Izgil, who is mostly engaged in a research project due to player absence
Viepuck, who is intermittently cosplaying a villain
Celyn, who is having a very long day
Robin, who is out of patience

When we left off we had killed the Hag, though there were consequences to doing so.

( So we dug out of the lair. )

Three lunatics and a paladin, once more.

Dramatis Personae:

Viepuck, twelve-year-old social deception gremlin
Izgil, here for the magical theory
Celyn, who is actually to the point of getting cranky about events happening all the damn time
Robin, the paladin

When we left off we had just chased a bear fey off but not killed him and were kind of in our feelings about that.

(Doing my best to do writeup despite hideous splitting headache.)

( So in the aftermath of that... )

We had tried to resolve a bunch of stuff in email before this session and completely failed to do so due to, among other things, everyone's brains being on fire post-election. Then we had various player issues hit, and decided that the better part of valor was to go dig into the email situation and resolve that and hope that people managed to join in once we got through the bookkeeping. This worked out pretty well!

Dramatis Personae:

Izgil, stuff identifier
Viepuck, trouble manufacturer
Celyn, necromancer irritater
Robin, pretty pretty paladin

When we ended the last session, Celyn had just stabbed Areschera, the fey who had infiltrated the Baroness's court, through the heart, despite her saying that she had information and Viepuck reading that that information included 'the Baroness is a necromancer' out of her mind.

( While this did not produce pandemonium there was a bit of chaos. )

Honestly the whole party is "will nobody rid me of" but I am the only cleric so I get to steal the joke. Because I'm also the rogue.

(Also I made a Celyn icon from a drawing I did of him and Robin.)

Our party is still three lunatics and a paladin:

Celyn Bettws, Meddlesome Priest and Fairy Appreciator
Viepuck, still the Doogie Howser of Eldritch Fantasy Lawyers (new and improved recipe with added criminal law!)
Izgil Moonseeker, Moon Appreciator, Dwarf, and Responsible Adult
and of course Robin of Abenfyrd, the Paladin

When we left off we were about to be ambushed.
( A session! )

It's time for another edition of Three Lunatics and a Paladin!

Our party is:

Celyn Bettws, whose most relevant hat this session is "trained at dealing with the fey in a region of the world where there are a lot of fairies, but mostly friendly ones"
Viepuck the eldritch tween (and Es*tiaslos, his purple flying octopus)
Izgil Moonseeker, who would like the moon and also everything going on to start making some fucking sense any day now
and of course Robin of Abenford, paladin of the Wanderer.

Previously we had dealt with a spot of mayhem, after which we as a party levelled up and are now level 6. This produced several substantial effects: Robin has his Aura of Protection power; Viepuck has third list spells and took 'Sending', converting him into a very potent telegraph machine; Celyn hit fourth level rogue, and took the feat Observant, about which I have been making Magenta-from-RHPS jokes since, given also his stealth skills. ("Well-secluded, I see all!") (Izgil also picked up something but I am so cheerfully baffled by his character mechanics that I don't know what it is and also I am not 100% sure it was relevant today unless it was the lunar spellpoints thing.)

( So things have happened, some of them in email. )

Have now made a tag for this campaign so you can find the relevant posts under "three lunatics and a paladin". The last two sessions we are down a lunatic so we planned a two-session arc without him.

When we left off our heroes had joined the party that defeated the "stink monster" that destroyed the town of Eftly in a tavern back room to talk shop, tell stories of our respective exploits, and be extremely weird when talking about magic. After we did this we divided things up so our sorcerer (the missing lunatic) continued to hang out with their sorcerer (divine soul subclass, of the goddess of magic, natch) and talk shop on the way to solve other background problems.

After distributing various NPCs and the missing PC to go poke various other problems, we reformed into a six-person party (three PCs, three NPCs) consisting of:

The party, all 5th level:
Celyn (one of the lunatics; glass cannon rogue/priest)
Viepuck (the other lunatic present; child bardlock)
Robin (the paladin; a paladin)

Armand (4th level; cleric of the Night Queen, goddess of, among other things, these undead should be resting in peace already)
Emilie (2nd level; a tremendously perky "ganbatte!"-style fighter with an axe she has named Sharp Justice, who is Just Very Excited To Be Noticed By Such Illustrious Heroes)
Odo (1st level; polearm fighter originally from the destroyed Eftly, basically a kid in the guard of the city we're loosely attached to who we've been trying to train up into an additional hero)

in order to deal with our chosen problem: a local lake appears to have a lake monster. It appears to be a giant undead eel. Further, said lake monster is a) getting larger and b) has recently slaughtered the adventuring party attached to the relevant lake city, with the sole survivor being the local wizard who washed ashore, unconscious. Cultural assumptions are that wizards are Up To No Good so this has not helped her reputation at all.

( So we go forth to do things. )

After dealing with the sea serpent eelthing and taking some recovery time, we took a journey up to Fellburn, a city that is being besieged by a rampaging army of skeletons, to discover that a very organized and competent army is handling that problem and may be technically committing mutiny by doing so. (They were ordered to the national capital and collectively went "You have got to be fucking kidding me" and went to join the skeleton war instead.) We have joined these forces as skirmishers and will probably sort through what happened there in email.

( The footnote, which has a character personality note to it. )

I have previously posted about the party I call "Three Lunatics and a Paladin". Today's session ended on a gloriously deranged note which I must chronicle.

It must be distinctly understood that everyone in the party has the Fae-Touched feat or nothing absolutely batshit will come of the story I am going to relate. Or, okay, it's still a bit batshit but the whole thing is a whole lot less ridiculous if people forget that every single member of the party has a short-range teleport they can use once a day. More if they have and want to spend a second-list spell slot. (Two party members have those; two do not.)

To reprise, the party:

My character, Celyn: Rogue 2/Priest 2, started with Fae Touched because he's a fairy-faith kinda guy.

artan's character, Viepuck: Warlock 3/Bard 1, started with variant Fae Touched because his warlock patron (a Great Old One type) did something Strange. Has a familiar who is normally a flying, camouflaging telepathic purple octopus-squid, but who has alternate forms as well (dog, bee, and baby, I think).

paladin_of_gaia's character, Robin: Paladin 4. From the same (technically ruled by an absentee archfey) nation as Celyn, picked up Fae Touched explicitly over the course of Plot.

Kaoity's character, Izgil: Homebrew sorceror 4. Dwarf who's so autistically obsessed with the moon he gained magical powers from it. Also picked up Fae Touched because Plot.

(The overarching plot of this game seems at this point to involve Hostile Fae Activity. I am not sure if that is part of this specific subplot we are working on.)

( And now, the game. )

As I was writing this I kept remembering more bullshit we came up with that was not in previous renditions of this story; I think I remembered all the nonsense we tried.

This is the sort of thing that happens when you have a party that OOCly knows we're out of gaming time in a half hour and thus don't want to start the final battle and has an IC arbitrary amount of time before something will happen to spend on ridiculous problem solving techniques.