Daggerford: Jenga! Jenga! Jenga!

Game Date: 3/5/2022

Location: Roll20
Campaign: Daggerford, Session 25

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 got beamed to another planet, befriended an alien, and spent some downtime learning about the area. Our guide, a Kith who we call Zeus, taught us about the local customs. He said it is customary to eat your fallen foes, or they come back as ghosts. We also realized that this planet's sun is on the brink of going nova.

We started a hex crawl. First we headed Southwest toward a body of water. We saw a war band in the distance, but we managed to evade notice. We reached the lake, which seemed lifeless and smelled acrid. Zeus told us the water was full of ghosts. We saw a sleigh at the bottom of the lake. Nikolice tried to swim to the bottom of the lake to retrieve the sleigh, but found the water to be acidic. He used an empty potion bottle to scoop up some acid.

We reached the base of a mountain right as some storm clouds started rolling in. We found some caves to hide in, which turned out to be a burial site for ancient warriors. We saw some runes similar to the ones we interacted with in the previous session. Zeus helped us use the runes, opening up a passage. We decided to check it out.

After the first right turn, Nikolice fell into a pit, but Khemed pulled him out with a rope. Around another turn, one passage led to a large round chamber. In the center of the room was a stone tower, which the DM described as looking like a Jenga tower. Nikolice investigated the room, and to our surprise, nothing jumped out to kill him. Khemed detected some magic, but couldn't identify what type.

Nikolice tried another door, setting off a trap. A part of the roof collapsed on top of him. Khemed started using telekinesis to play Jenga with the tower. As he pulled out one stone block, a mummified body fell out. It was loaded with loot: five gold necklaces, copper bracer decorated with runes, a two-handed sword, and three magic shards of green stone. We gave the sword to Zeus.

The rest of the doors were also trapped. By this time the storm had passed over, so we went outside. We attempted to identify the green stones, but didn't learn much. Nikolice attempted a psionic check, but just heard a psychic scream. 

A cloud of lizard vultures spotted us and started circling us, waiting for one of us to drop. We continued our hex crawl. A Kith scouting party spotted us and attacked. There were two Kith Warlords riding Strekelion (giant rat) mounts, and a whole bunch of Kith fighters. Vanya started things off by using her Axe of Thunder to cast Call Lightning. Khemed cast enlarge on Azul. 

They fired a hail of arrows at us, peppering us with small amounts of damage. A Warlord surprised us by using a raygun. It took a few turns for them to reach us, and we took a bunch out before they got into melee range. As more corpses piled on the battlefield, those vulture things started landing and picking at the corpses. After the fight, we looted the raygun gauntlet from the fallen Warlord. 

We took a long rest, during which Nikolice attempted to learn how to use his new raygun, and we ended the session.