#dnd session notes

[luveoux]

The Perris…

Also all my notes from the last session!

[masks-of-halcyon]

Campaign Intro

Welcome to Halcyon City, a place where the skyline is ever changing due to constant alien attacks, godzillas gone wrong, and plain old explosions.

AEGIS (The Advancsd Expert Group for Intervention and Security), based in Halcyon City, defends the United States from all of these threats, including the metahuman superpowers that have integrated into daily life in the past three generations, but all is not as it seems. Every spotlight casts a shadow, and problems are slipping through the cracks.

But I'm sure that's fine! Welcome to the Modern Age of heroism, and please welcome...

The Heralds of Halcyon

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Hey! My name is Lotus and I pilot Taaroa Kautai, one of the three player characters of Masks: a New Generation: "Heralds of Halcyon"! I will be responsible for notes in the form of this blog for this campaign, and will be working alongside our GM (@indigo-404) and my fellow players (Aquafina and @cormorantcolors) to keep this blog updated.

Follow along as the Heralds explore their new powers, investigate the strange happenings of Halcyon City, and become far greater than they could have ever dreamed.

Thanks, and we hope to see you soon!

[masks-of-halcyon]

Meet the Cast! Part 3: Taaroa Kautai

Taaroa Kautai

Alias: Feti'a

"The only Scion of two of the deadliest supervillains in Halcyon history (Mahana and Marama), Taaroa is comfortable in the shadows (despite his magical girl-esk powers) and knows how villains think, which gives him a huge advantage as an AEGIS agent.

In his two years since being taken in by AEGIS following his parents' arrest, he's worked hard to prove himself, but there's something about him that just feels...too perfect to be real."

(Art, character, and description by your own loyal storyteller: Lotus! @justadragonflower)

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Session 4

Posting my D&D sessions’ notes here so that I can find them again

(continuation of day 3 in Barovia)

we take the fight to the winery

first, we wander into the fields leading to the winery

then we get fucking surrounded by a mega huge crowd of tree bois

like evil spikey tree bois

we dip the fuck out of those fields that lead into the winery and walk right in, locking the door behind us

we come into the wine vats-area thing

like ya know where they brew the wine in those super big barrel thingies?

There.

and there are 4 big barrel thingies here

there's an evil druid on the one side pouring his evil juice

aka poison

into the barrel thingy that's full of wine

we go "Hey, stop that"

homie is like

SCREAMS IN GIBBERISH

we go, "What the hell was that?"

homie is like

SCREAMS IN GIBBERISH BUT LOUDER THIS TIME

(ya know, it's just like the most helpful thing ever)

actual game quote: "Sprechen Sie, Common?" -MiMeow

and then he finally says in common

"go away"

BITCH. WE JUST GOT HERE.

anyways

we proceed to come take away his evil juice but he casts a lot of smaller tree bois

we kill them bc duh

and then more start pouring out of the nearest barrel thingy

once my character realizes this and gets a clearing to move there

she blocks the hole in the barrel with her bootilicious butt

no more tree bois from this barrel

lol

and of course to add insult to trapping the trees in the barrel

she's filling that barrel with hella farts

bc I am definitely a mature adult

the farts keep on ripping as we mow down those trees

eventually, Dad makes me roll to see how the farts are going

bc of course he does

I roll low on the percentile, so my character

sorta...

accidentally...

SHITS DOWN THE SIDE OF THE BARREL BC SHE WAS STRAINING TO FART FOR SO LONG

man that stinks

literally.

we eventually wipe out the trees and then the druid thereafter

we do however leave my shit pile on the floor

we travel the rest of the ground floor and then upstairs before taking a short rest in an upstairs room

we travel down to the basement and sneaky sneak into the wine cellar

there is 1 druid and like 8 mega tree bois

we nearly get 3 players killed in that room and I was out of spell slots as a healer

so I grabbed Kas (who had 1 hit point left) and carry him to safety while I also have 1 hp

Cat Damon runs up after us, also with 1 hp

MiMeow supercharges her attacks and beats the shit out of the remaining tree boi

Kaida blows up the druid to finish him off

Kas decides to blow a hole in the side of the poisoned barrel and flood the entire winery???

like whyyyyy?

Kaida steals the dead druid's staff

they come upstairs and we all hear these awful awful screams and shredding noises

we are gathered in the main room then

ankle deep is poisoned wine

that may or may not have my character's shit floating in it

then there's a knock at the front door

and low and behold

it's the winery owner and his wife and 2 sons

they pay us and we explain that the druids were for sure the ones that destroyed the place

and that they also poisoned at least some of the wine so like try to be careful?

we go outside and see hundreds of those mega tree bois laying shredding all around the front of the buildings

but we didn't do that

so who did?

we go back to Villaki and its night time when we get back

we barely make it into town when a werewolf that was apparently tracking us has to be repeatedly shot at to chase it away from town

we sleep in the hotel and get rewarded for finishing our quest

(next game to pick up on day 4 in Barovia)

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Session 2

Posting my D&D sessions’ notes here so that I can find them again

It's Travelling Time!

We get zip-zap-zoomed-temporarily dissembled- re-assembled- and we were suddenly in a new realm

This place is spooky, dreary, and hella stinky

Like it literally smells like death here

Gross

There's a fancy gate that closes when you approach it and opens as you walk away from it which is like the worst fucking automatic door I think I've ever seen

Oh also we're all gothy and evil now!

....at least temporarily

....We hope...

We find the dead body and it has a note on it about abandoning hope and shit like that

Whatever (eye roll)

We find a nearby village as it nears dusk and its quiet

too quiet

well except for that one lady that's sobbing so loud that it echos through the whole village

We go to a tavern, and they won't give us a room, but this guy called Ismark said we could stay at his house

(also I thought Drake called him Bismark, like the donut, and then all I could think about was donuts, which was honestly like really distracting??)

Oh and we asked him where we are

WE ARE IN BAROVIA

AKA WE ARE IN ONE OF THE MANY REALMS OF DREAD IN RAVENLOFT!

AKA THESE MIST REALMS ARE ALL THE RAVENLOFT REALMS OF DREAD

(Ravenloft is a Horror D&D setting with Realms of Dread (each worse than the last), its known to be some of the most difficult terrains and areas in the greater canon D&D multiverse)

(I've spent so much time in my D&D life as a player and DM actively avoiding everything to do with the Ravenloft settings and especially the Curse of Strahd aka Barovia module...)

(and this Motherfucker throws me into it with no fucking warning?!)

(BRUHHHHH)

so like, anyways

we're fucked

and this is the first fucking realm we've come to like what the fuck?

Ismark is apparently the son of the Bergermeister (town master/mayor) and has a sister named Irene

(possibly Irena? it was hard to tell over Born coughing while Drake was talking)

Oh and Strahd, the noble that runs this fucking place (hence the module being named "Curse of Strahd") has a major jones for her

Oh and he bit her

But not in the kinky way, just in the vampire way

well unless it was intended in the kinky vampire way, but Drake refused to elaborate on that

so anyways we come to their mansion and meet Irene and their dead dad that's just like chilling on the floor

Like most other places in town, there are wolf scratch marks all over the outside of the house and all the windows are boarded up for safety

In exchange for a place to stay for the night and some information, we help carry their dead dad to the church for burial in the graveyard and then help to move Irene to a larger village nearby that's supposed to be safer

easy peasy

we all (including Ismark and Irene) slept on the floor in the dead body room, which was sketch but like whatever)

night was weird bc of the wolves scratching the house all night

and the random lady voice consolling the wolves

and someone walking up and down the porch steps

Next day we take the dad for burial and meet Father Danovich

we see him praying with a noose just like hanging behind him

he does the funeral and there's screaming from below the floorboards

turns out Strahd sorta turned his son into a vampire, so he locked his son in the basement and isn't feeding him in hope that he turns back

which is also really fucking sketch but everyone shrugged it off???

also the priest is gonna hang himself, but I was confused, bc I thought he would hang his son to put his son out of his misery, but I guess that's not where that was going

Oh well

We travel to a Vistani (basically Russian nomads/travellers) camp just outside of town to talk to Madam Eva (their leader that's super ancient)

She tells us that Strahd controls the mist

Also, that Barovia was removed from the prime material plane to imprison and punish Strahd, so that's why it's all misty

Eons ago General Glaive (the reason there's a continent in Azaroc named Glavon) recruited him to help fight for his master

No clue who Glaive serves though

You need Strahd to be able to enter and/or exit these realms but he's a high-key jerk about the whole thing and only lets the Vistani out and even then it's iffy

Strahd has been hella distracted by Irene recently and has been shirking his mist gate duties

like an asshole

Also dude has 3 or 4 wives already

but no kids?

I asked if since he was undead, his swimmers would also be undead and that would be why he doesn't have kids

DESPITE HAVING 3 OR 4 WIVES LIKE GOOD GRIEF

Drake once again refused to answer my well thought out and totally appropriate question

Also he took another young woman like 2 weeks ago so can he just like chill for a second?

Anyways everyone keeps calling him the devil and the game closed there

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Session 0/1

Posting my D&D sessions’ notes here so that I can find them 

Who are the characters:

My character- Mordia the Morbid, an orc cleric of the war-god Gromgore, thinks she's a prophet of his work. She is modeled after a Gospel Church Woman (HALLELUJAH!)

Jade's character- MiMeow Swiftpaw, a panda-person monk, who wants to be the next top chef in Azaroc (the world). She is modeled after Kungfu Panda

Born's character-Kazinutarmingahnis (we're calling him Kaz or Nis bc wtf is that name?), the kobold (think Mushu from Mulan) wizard

Sephie's character- Kaida, a halfling mage (not sure what type yet and she won't tell us) that loves fire

Lindsay's (one of my besties) character- Cat Damon, a tabaxi (cat that talks and walks on 2 legs) rogue, is modeled after Puss in Boots and is a grey/white version of him. My character continually calls him "Pickles" and insists that he's her pet. Cat Damon is tied to my character to repay a debt to her

Aeris's character- Valida, a sun elf fighter with some magic

We meet at a tavern/inn in the city of Elthor

wow who hasn't started in a tavern before

Captain Sanders (ship- Crimson Maiden) took us from Elthor Inn (Tipsy Mast) to Mist Marsh to answer our summons

Also, there were some griffons

like were griffons bc they fuckin dead now bois

MiMeow food poisoned us

wtf MiMeow???

No more griffon steaks for us I guess

Gator Bait (the groundskeeper) picked us up

we were not fed to gators

LAME

he took us to a castle in the swamp

yawn, seen it before in an old campaign

we meet the mysterious benefactor, Lord Hunter (aka goth boi)

Goth Boi gives us a list of questions to answer

is the castle the source of the mist or just a funnel for it

(now I want funnel cakes, but can I have a funnel cake? no bc it isn't fair season yet)

why could Shariah the dragon not use the mist as a weapon?

(bc she's incompetant, duh)

how do we control the mist?

(but like why are we controlling it??)

who are the dark masters?

(and why the fuck do they have such an edgelord ass name for their group??? what are they? a group of 15 year olds???)

which planes protect us vs have the dark masters?

(do we have to visit all of them?)

How do we stop the dark masters?

(probably with light, but I'm just spitballing here)

if the mist can get in from their planes, can they get in?

(tbh probably)

We meet 2 researchers

Haggle Blasthelm the goblin dude in a funny hat

Tim Sabbin the gnome archmage in a better hat

they give us the PLANAR RIPPER

DUN DUN DUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNN

(oh by the way it fucks up a lot and we lowkey may be permanently altered by said fuck ups)

(but LOL what can you do?!)

(oh yea and it only works like once a week ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

[tabletopjourneys]

Session 96 Notes

Yep, we're still going, I'm just really bad at making the notes available to anyone but the DM lol

(Diem left 1000 platinum with their mom) In this session we finish up our last day and night in Budelia (the second visit), Diem visiting with their mother and joining the party only for dinner at Upa's tavern. We set out early the next day, help a very angry squirrel find a new home and meet a new, strange friend when we camp down for the night in some familiar ruins (where we fought some dire boar...or hell boars? the first time through). ~ Details under the cut ~

Rana investigates the outskirts of town with Hickory, looking for ways in and clues about the slime and also looking for a really big tree - 11 survival. She finds a very large oak on the far outskirts of town, Northwest that should be big enough for future purposes.

Fee goes to talk to all the shop owners and do some window shopping, talk to the locals and just hang out and chill. She’d restock supplies, general stuff like dried roadsnacks, rat snacks, rope replacement, etc. 2g spent total. No alchemist so no potion restock.

Ixie checks in on the guy she saved, he’s definitely in awe of her and smitten has poetry. Ixayl'anu's response: “No no that’s quite alright.” /leaves

Everyone spends a nice relaxing day in or just outside town. Rana doing her druid thing that she hasn’t had much of a chance to do with a whole group of people. 

As we arrive at the tavern for dinner together Diem is hyper and more energetic than usual, but Jutira, while looking happier and more settled, also still has a bit still deer in the headlights look to her.

Tira: Thank you for taking the time to let me spend the day with Diem. It’s been a long time and I understand you all have to go places.

Fee: Take all the time you need!

Ixayl'anu: Right within reason.

We chat a bit, Jutira gets pulled away eventually. During this time, Diem tells the story about how their gran had been poisoning her and then when they get to the dream crab story, performance 25 has the whole inn paying attention. ~ Reveal ~ Our one shot with different characters 10 years earlier had Diem's mom in it as an npc they all helped.

We discuss what happened to those characters at the end of the one shot, options they would’ve had for interacting after etc. along with what the characters are doing now. Almost everyone elected to have had those one-shot characters help Tira out upon waking. ~ Back to the main campaign ~

Diem goes to bed at their mom’s and is woken up way earlier than they wanted, and gently nudged from bed to start their day. Rana passes them on her way to the tavern from the inn and they exchange greetings (with Diem still half asleep). Not wishing to interact with the loud and lively innkeeper directly this early, Diem crawls into Fee’s window at the inn for cuddles and more sleep. Fee says they should talk about how their mom apparently doesn’t trust them to stay there alone.

Diem is tired though and just wants to cuddle (and sleep more).

At the tavern, Upa gives Rana a glowing pearl for our group, to help on our adventures. Rana opens the box and it glows enough everyone probably noticed it get opened. Rana plays with it like a cat because it’s pretty and shiny and it makes Upa happy to see her entertained.

When we arrive Diem notices and asks about it, Rana hands it over without saying it’s from Upa so they identify it and then say it’s a pearl of power (“It appears to be another pearl of power that’s all you get from it.”).

Ixayl'anu: Where’d you find it?

Rana: Upa gave it to me.

Diem: Upa gave it to you? Then why’d you have me identify it? Why didn’t you just ask?

Rana: I didn’t, you did that on your own, I thought you just wanted to see it ‘cause it’s pretty.

Diem: Well…it is very pretty.

Brief discussion so full of RP terms about Rana not having attunement slots left and Diem says they do, but Upa gave it to her. After a little back and forth between all spellcasters, Rana asks Upa if it’s okay to give to Diem, she says of course, she gave it to her to be the most useful to whomever among us.

Ixayl'anu points out that Diem is always the one wanting a nap. Diem suggests trading it back and forth before they’re reminded it’s an attunement thing.

Diem also gets specific permission to call Upa Grammy. Upa promises to take care of their mother too.

Even so Diem stops in at the guard house to give their mom the tolling tulip, ring of lightning resistance, and scroll of protection from undead while the others check on road conditions to Averni with Sean.

On the way there is a fallen tree on the path, overgrown, creating difficult terrain all over.

Fee hears barking - a tiny dog-like sound just before an acorn hits her. She sees the tiny grey squirrel that is angry with her that’s standing on the log. She gets chewed out. Fee throws something back at it, the squirrel dodges and disappears. The next time it throws an acorn it hits Rana’s shoulder.

Rana: Hey! (casts speak with animals then says “Hey!” again)

Squirrel: Get away from my tree!

Rana: Your tree is on the ground!

Squirrel: I know! (super distraught) squirrel goes back in tree “Go away!”

Even without a nature check Rana can tell this is just a very dead snag that toppled over.

Rana: Your tree doesn’t look like it’s gonna be a very safe tree anymore.

Squirrel: All my stuff is in here :(

Rana: We might need to move your stuff... It comes out to stare at her with thinking tail flicks.

Rana translates what's going on for the rest of us.

Rana: What happened to your tree, we were not here

Squirrel: There was a lot of wind and it got knocked over and it was loud and scary!

The squirrel is increasingly distraught and doesn’t know what to do now.

We eventually move the tree away with Diem volunteered as an elephant when Rana asks for polymorph volunteers (we ruled awhile back that Diem's shapechanging flexibility allows them to *choose* to let the polymorph magic take hold if they know it's coming, otherwise typical shapechanger immunity). Diem has a blast as an elephant being all big and strong. Rana has speak with animals long enough to hear how happy they are to be so huge and super strong look at me! /elephant flex /uses trunk to play with peoples' hair (gets bit trying to pat squirrel), animal handling checks must be made on wiser but less intelligent Diem to get them to do as requested.

Fee rides them the rest of the hour down the road after we've successfully moved tree out of the road and helped squirrel relocate to new, better tree. Hickory wanted to solve the problem with squirrel snack, this was not allowed.

We camp where we were for the haunted doll prank about a month ago and Diem minor illusions fake chalk remains to see how long it takes Fee to notice.

Hickory warns Rana someone’s coming.

Rana perceptions after letting us know, some woman offers to help with food if we share the fire.

Rana asks if we’re alright with company everyone but Diem hesitates. 

Diem: Sure we love company!

 (Rana telepathically with Hickory: play nice Hickory: She smells weird Rana: (missed response)

Hickory watches newcomer in definitely not horse like fashion.)

Rana insight checks her and can tell she’s a loner who doesn’t really like civilization, not really used to being around people but she seems friendly enough, she offers the two rabbits that look freshly caught. Rana notices things only Rana and Fee get to know in the secret room.

Her name is Tessa HillHollow

Rana takes the rabbits and makes a point of checking out the more ragged kill method. She will dig in her pouch and pull out a few dried soup balls and hand them over as trade.

Tessa is surprised and slowly takes them. Rana steps outside the ruin walls, away from camp to gut and prepare the rabbits. She tosses the innards to Hickory as she does this.

Fee: So where do you come from?

Tessa: I just have a couple of trap lines around here and uh…it’s a livin.

Fee: Oh you live here?

Tessa: In the area, yeah, not really in town, I do go to some of the bigger ones occasionally when I need some supplies.

She has a quiver, bow, and small pack she set down.

We chat her up, talk about how she’s been here a few years and we must’ve just missed her last time. Diem asks about the nearby haunted house stories and insights 11 that she looks a little unnerved so probably doesn’t like spooky stories. They revert to saying they’re a story teller, and ask what kind of stories she does like. Tessa: Adventure.

Before Diem launches into story time Fee convinces Ixayl'anu to do a perimeter check "Like we do EVERY NIGHT" (Diem insight 1 on that lol). Diem proceeds to try and stress how safe Tessa is with us, talks about being an elephant recently, how we handled a bunch of wild boar here last time.

Fee gets far enough away with Ixayl'anu to talk about her Tessa suspicions and asks her to do divine sense, making special note of the fact that creepy chalk circle still being there is super strange (all the laughter). During the divine sense perimeter check Ixayl'anu does ping a grave sight of some kind just southwest of the ruin campsite walls.

Meanwhile, sidenote: The chalk circle pieces disappeared after only a minute, occasionally Diem brings a glint of it back every now and then.

Diem 29 performance (nat 20) telling Tessa stories to entertain and help her feel safe with us but without focusing on us in a way that sounds braggy and arrogant.

She tells us some things about the area in exchange, including a warning about a spider-scorpion like thing that looks like branches and plants in the area as a disguise to ambush prey and she’s seen it grab things as big as a cow before. They are spider monsters with step shelf fungi-like growths on their legs.

Diem sets up an alarm spell for the next 8 hours.

Survival rolls for the night 12 Rana, 8 Hickory, Ixie 13, Diem 17, Fee 8.

Ixie and Diem hear wolves off in the distance, but they’re pretty far away.

Fee’s watch with Tessa goes pretty easy and a little bit before dawn she packs up and leaves and says to Fee that she’s gonna go tell the others that meeting us was nice and she enjoyed having some company for the night, but she’s got stuff she’s gotta do bright and early.

[thornyymayora]

So I have finally discovered Onenote for recording my D&D notes and I can’t believe how much better and more organised it’s making everything.. wish I’d used it for the first campaign I was in but at least I’ll have this system in place for my new character 🤗