Daggerford: Out Of The Frying Pan...

Game Date: 2/19/2022

Location: Roll20
Campaign: Daggerford, Session 24

System: D&D 5e
DM: Mike

The Party:

Azul (Cliff) Dragonborn Fighter
Nikolice Gomez (Steven) - Human Fighter
Khemed (Rusty) Half-Elf Wizard
Navine/"Spider" (Steve) Elf Rogue
Vanya Bennett (Matt) Half-Elf Bard

The Session:

Last session we retrieved the Elemental Key of Fire. We escaped the collapsing dungeon, only to run smack into a new danger. We started the session face-to-face with a Raksasha and a dragon. The Raksasha threatened us, demanding the Fire Key. Nikolice started pressing random buttons on the key, and the party was teleported...elsewhere.

Navine, Azul, and Nikolice found themselves in an unfamiliar room. There were two apparent exits, one leading up and one down. The doors had buttons on them, similar to the ones on the key. They went to one of the doors and experimented with pressing some of the buttons. Pressing the wrong combinations damaged them, but they finally found the right combination to open one of the doors.

In the next room they saw a throne, with a body on it. They had trouble breathing the foul air. They quickly passed through the next door, where the air was fresher. They were outside, near the base of a pyramid. It looked like they were on a different planet.

In the distance, they saw Khemed and Vanya standing in a battlefield, between two rival bands of bloodthirsty savages. They were white-furred beast people called "Kith". Khemed put some of them to sleep, and Vanya used her guitar to hit a few with lightning. The rest of our party was on top of a cliff, and attacked from the distance. The two tribes attacked each other, and us. Eventually the last few opponents fled, leaving one sleeping Kith. We tied him up and took him prisoner.

He didn't speak any language we knew, so Vanya cast Tongues. We interrogated the survivor, and he mistook Vanya for some sort of "ascended being". While Vanya interviewed the Kith, a few party members decided to investigate the pyramid a bit more. Among other things, they found a magical device used for astral projection. 

We attempted to take a long rest at the pyramid, but we were low on food and water. Vanya convinced the Kith to help us find some food and water. There were several kinds of weird mushrooms, which we experimented tasting. We drank some mushroom milk and killed a lizard for food. 

During our rest, three Strekelions quietly attempted to surround us. We managed to kill them in a few rounds, and harvested them for meat. We completed our long rest and ended the session. 

Behold!

I love beholders. They've always been my favorite D&D monster, even before I'd played D&D. I just have a thing for eyeballs. Lately, I've been picking up multiple copies of Nolzur's Beholder miniature. It's just a fantastic miniature, and it's fun to paint. Every time I finish one up, I get an idea (eye-dea?) for another one. Here's the ones I've done so far. 

First up, we have the Death Metal Beholder. My original idea was to make it look like the Death Star, but that didn't really work out. So instead, I tried to make the scariest, most evil-looking Beholder possible. Mostly black and silver, with red eyes, firing four eyebeams.

Death Metal Beholder

Next up, we have the Pride Beholder. Black with rainbow plates and eyebeams.

Pride Beholder

Side View

This is the Pineapple Beholder. While painting one of the others, it occurred to me how much the back of this model looked like a pineapple.

Pineapple Beholder

Back View

Here is a Beauty Beholder. I stole the eyelashes idea from this reddit thread. More pictures of her here.

Beauty Beholder

Eyelash Close-Up

Here is a Jester Beholder:

Jester Beholder

Here's a Joker Beholder. A lot of people have been painting this beholder model to look like the Joker, so this is my attempt.

Joker Beholder

Back View

Finally, here's a Metallic Beholder. Originally I wanted to go for disco ball, but then I started thinking of Bubo the owl from Clash of the Titans. Anyway, he ended up a little bland, but I like having a metal Beholder in my collection.

Metallic Beholder

Here's a group shot:

Group Shot

As long as I'm here, here's one I printed with my 3D printer, using this model. It didn't turn out very well, but it was kind of a tasteless idea anyway.

Coronavirus Beholder

All of these go really well with the pre-painted Beholders I already owned: