Planes of Discovery

 

SESSION (-2) 

End of Grayhawk OSR Campaign

The adventurers from Saltmarsh were traveling to the ruined city of Greyhawk to find a Scarlet Brotherhood agent who might know who was after their patron Anders Solmor. The adventurers were Calvyn (gnome warlock), Camus (half-elf fighter), Latina (halfling rogue), Nigel (shadar-kai bard), and Ulysses (ramag wizard).

They were attacked by a band of ruffians along the river leading north to the city from the overflowing refugee coastal city of Hardby. Defeating the bandits, they questioned one named Oliver. 

Oliver told them that the river gang was led by a powerful crime boss named Jinxinor who would be extremely upset that the adventurers had killed his half-dragon son, Jimbo. Oliver offered to take them to the hideout of the river gang in exchange for sparing his life. The party told Solmor to hide with their horse and wagon off the road and wait for them to return. Ulysses left his familiar as a guard, but Solmor was also accompanied by his girlfriend Eleanor Loveage, the mercenary Bayleaf, and the pirate Sonja. 

They found the cave in a hillside as Oliver had told them, and left him tied up to a tree. They went into the cavern and started murdering bandits, who were not very ready. Perhaps the Saltmarshans had gotten to the cave before the other bandits who fled the river battle. Perhaps the bandits were overconfident or just didn’t expect an assault from the adventurers. Either way, many bandits were slain. 

Stairs let down to a second level, a very warm cavern. Kobolds were there, one was lifting weights. Despite being swoll, Bob died quickly, along with the others and the few bandits that fled the upstairs cave. At this point, the river gang was effectively destroyed, but the party pushed on deeper into the hot caves. A river of lava flowed in a huge cavern, and that’s about when they discovered Jimbo’s dad, Jinxinor – who was a red dragon. A young one, perhaps, but he put up a pretty good fight and as usual, the meat shield Camus went down. 

Jinxinor’s young dragonlings came to avenge their father, who fell into the lava from a nice blast of eldritch energy from the warlock Calvyn. Alas, their vengeance was not realized, as Calvyn blasted away the one that Latina wanted to keep as a pet. Bad dragonling! 

They kept going through the caves and defeated some ghoul bats. Then was an ancient tomb entrance guarded by a nasty poisonous and necrotic ooze monster. After they defeated the ooze thing, they noticed that sand was quickly whirling around in the room, and it quickly turned into a crazy indoor sandstorm. The cursed magical sands in the ancient tomb adjacent to Jinxinor’s lair rapidly knocked all of the party into the sweet oblivion of unconscious, as they each became extremely exhausted.