#overall it was a lot of fun! shoutouts to jorb for like. basically doing This Whole Bit without module

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doip. / 6.23.22

Folks, It Has Been Over Half A Year but dragon of icespire peak continues!

hey remember doip? yeah that's still happening

story so far: we're traveling around and rallying people back to town because a white dragon is sieging the area! we fought a manticore, survived the gnomish pita cutter, stole some barrel crabs, efficiently cleared out a dwarven excavation site, solved a pillar puzzle, escorted don jon raskin to were-rats and then just kinda left him there, stole a bell, and then wandered off to neverwinter instead of actually doing anything about the dragon. also found an orc hiding in a closet with a bucket on his head on the way, solved a totem puzzle, and oh god neverwinter isnt in the module jorb im so sorry LMAO

ended up talking abt sonic origins w jorb while nyx was afk. god i wish it was out when i was doing marathonic

I CAN POST IN CHAT AS THE BARREL CRAB?? nyx: does the barrel crab notice? jorb: the barrel crab does not notice because it is in phandalin

UH OH THE DRAGON IS HERE. ROLL FOR INITIATIVE

OH GOD IT'S CRYOVAIN LMAO

alidaar ducks behind cover, takes aim with his crossbow, aaaaand misses. whoops leo: im gonna save [my action surge] for when things get more dicey nyx: this entire situation is just a sack of dice.

CRYOVAIN FLYING IN FOR A BREATH ATTACK leo: the good news is i have cold resistance, so that's good nyx: the bad news is-- leo: --there's people behind me.

NAT 20 CON SAVE LET'S GO ALIDAAR TANKS THE HIT ali uses his fire runes and natural resistance to tank the hit! and basically just has a bit of frost on him alidaar: i give cryovain a shit-eating grin.

nameless goes bear mode jorb: ..ARE YOU GONNA GET OFF THE CART BEFORE YOU DO THAT? oh my god nameless just fucking Launched at cryovain ..and then got knocked off bc of a nat1. lmao whoops nyx: you know those pictures of bears just sitting there like a human person?

OUR CART IS GOING TO FALL INTO THE FUCKING RIVER

ali runs up and dual wields at cryovain! silvered battleaxe gets a nat20 but warhammer goes doip jorb: alright let's see if the breath weapons recharges leo: UH OH! (it didnt)

NAMELESS TAKES 20 PIERCING DAMAGE AND 8 COLD DAMAGE. UH OH LMAO MAX DAMAGE

"can i ask you to make a wisdom saving throw for me please?" nyx and leo: OH NO oh god nameless failed so nameless freaked out over the bell river situation and disengaged to focus on that instead. which leaves alidaar right up in the dragon's face. uh oh uh oh uh oh

VINCENT NOOOOOO THIS FUCKING OX IS TAKING OUR SHIIIIIIIIT THE BELL!! IS IN THE RIVER!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAA

THIS ENCOUNTER IS SO SCUFFED alidaar fucking books it to try and salvage the bell but is out of actions once he's by the river bc of a dash. cryovain now ALSO wants the bell bc shiny. everything is going tits up YES OMG CRYOVAIN TOOK ENOUGH DAMAGE TO LEAVE WITHOUT THE BELL. THAT'S A VICTORY, LADS

So The Bell Is In The River nyx: what do i DO leo: uhhh check your pack?? that's what i'm doing nyx: I Am Currently A Bear leo: oh. you are currently a bear.

nyx: every day. every day i suffer.

BELL RETRIEVED how many people and also a bear does it take to get a cart out of the water? The Answer May Surprise You

alidaar chats up a couple guards! apparently good ol buckethead scampered to neverwinter seeking safety and got captured, so the guards offered for us to interrogate him ..and also recommended that, seeing as alidaar is a fightboy, he go check out the gladiator arena! and ali's just like Haha Yeah Sounds Good (I Will Not Go There) alidaar: [annoyed] fucking neverwinter

everyone promptly gets distracted googling what binturongs sound like (they sound like angry cats)

WELCOME TO NEVERWINTER holy fuck we did it

note to self: remember tiber exists and that we need to get him before we leave i swear to god

Alidaar Is Now The Party Leader dear god. this is a trainwreck somehow manages to finagle his way into getting a room and meals at an inn without embarrassing himself too hard. also managed to roll like 2 nat 20s. how the fuck. TIME TO GET RID OF THIS FUCKING BELL let's go to the jeweler's guild! woO!! alidaar and nameless promptly have a tussle because Nameless Loves Bell. which results in alidaar holding a very angry binturong over his head while casually talking to the guildmaster. guildmaster was not impressed.

got an hour to kill while the bell is assessed, let's go interview buckethead! interrogate. let's go interrogate buckethead. we are now interviewing buckethead for the job of "staying alive"

some guy showed up to tell us about a new shop! Nameless Disliked That. meanwhile, alidaar has nameless on his head bad cop, bad cop, and binturong alidaar interrogates buckethead with a binturong on his head

buckethead's info: there's a rumor that there's some barrow southeast of neverwinter that's got a dragonslaying sword. also cryovain probably hates us and like [alidaar voice] Good HIS NAME IS BUCK buck im so sorry about your life alidaar fucking cackling at buck. buck i am SO sorry ilu

^ alidaar at nameless

ding, bell's done! 2500 gold! holy fuck! or 200 plat and 500 gold

alidaar, staring into the bag of money at nameless who has crawled into it: can you please be normal

shopping trip! aka time to buy things for the Literal Animal riding alidaar around scimitar: 25 gp / studded leather: 45 gp / boots of the winterlands: 100 gp / 20 crossbow bolts: 20 gp new boot goofin! (all of that except for the bolts was for nameless lmao. alidaar's good) (update: after the session we went back and got alidaar some splint armor bc it turns out he Can get an upgrade that isnt 1.5k gp)

nameless attuned to the boots! New Boot Goofin also nameless has been having external impulses to cling to gold. this is definitely because of the amulet they stole. this is normal nameless also has a binturong tail in halfling form! and beans.

alidaar thinks nameless is "like, twelve"

got a gilded acorn! nameless can now Summon Beasts also got some healing potions, a scroll of comprehend languages, and a scroll of remove curse! ali also got some smith's tools bc why not. proficiency.

time to check out the sus shop! the Shop of Secrets! contains: cloak of billowing, Infinite Mayo Hack (alchemy jug), gloves of thievery, dust of disappearance, ring of weaving (which gave ali the strong impression that he'd be better at underwater basket weaving), bag of holding which is now putting the fear of god into us OH NO THINGS ARE GOING WRONG IT JUST ATE NAMELESS oh my god it was a bag of devouring. lol. lmao IS THAT A FUCKING DECK OF MANY THINGS oh lmao it's just a 13-card tarot deck. jorb scared the shit out of me

(LOOK, AFTER THE BAG OF DEVOURING, MY PARANOIA WS RAMPING UP)

got the gloves of thievery (which are Always Invisible) and the dust of disappearance (one use)!

It's Been A Day. back to the inn

nyx's necklace is SO cursed jorb: in the module it is not cursed leo and nyx: YOU DID THIS

plans for next session: We Forgot To Turn In Our Quests In Phandolin