Sunday, October 9, 2022

The Life and Times of a Dead Man - Episode 5 - Guest note taker time

Disclaimer - not really guest note taker as there are 2 of us. I just didn't add anything to her notes before posting like I usually do....

 We are at the front entrance of Sawfish Brothers. The rain does not hide the smell. Hendra and Zita are not feeling well but they continue forward. Sabrina and Hendra enter the establishment, the rest follow. We hear a snarling sound coming from up ahead. Sabrina moves forward to investigate. She opens the second door she comes to and runs into a man and his guard dog. The dog charges and mauls Sabrina. She goes down.  A pack of dogs appear down the hallway. One bites Zita, another trips Bosley, and a third barely misses Audrey Rose. Despite being down, Bosley attacks the dog. Audrey Rose throws a bomb and burns the three dogs. Tweetie-Bear and Dol take out the main guard dog. Then Dol pours a potion down Sabrina’s throat. The dogs attack again, and Zita goes down. Hendra takes out a dog, and Audrey Rose takes out another.

Dol looks into the room to see what the guy is doing. The guy points a heavy crossbow at Dol and shoots at him. The crossbolt embeds in the wall behind him. Tweetie-Bear runs in, knocks over the chair, and pounces on the guy. The remaining dog goes after Hendra but misses. Hendra sinks her longsword into the dog’s neck.

The guy in the office drops his heavy crossbow and draws two heavy axes. He attempts to attack Tweetie-Bear but misses. Bosley pours a healing potion down Zita’s throat. Audrey Rose is unable to throw a bomb due to the close proximity of her allies, so she pulls out her parasol and leaps into battle badly missing the bad guy. He attempts to retaliate against Hendra but buries his axe into the wall instead. Bosely’s spell missed the mark. The bad guy manages to fend off Zita’s dagger attacks. Suddenly Hendra leaps in and slashes the bad guy across the gut. Zita’s rainbow potion awakens Sabrina. We search the room. The office is tidy. There are cattle purchases from different farms and sales to local butchers. Masterwork heavy crossbolt. Audrey Rose finds a hidden compartment in the cabinet. There is a red ledger book inside. It is written in code. We find two cure light potions, masterwork studded leather, two masterwork axes, 17 gold, and 30 silver.

We go back to the first room and unlock the door. The room is messy. Audrey Rose finds a loose floorboard. There is a hollow space with a ragdoll, wooden dentures, and a pouch filled with 60 gold and 188 silver. Zita carefully dissects the ragdoll and finds nothing inside.

We go down the hall to the next door. There is a Sharn City Watch uniform in the corner of the room. We go to the last door in this hallway. There is the odor of moldy food. There are filthy clothes, dirty dishes, and unmade beds. Sabrina finds a leather wrap under one of the beds. The wrap is filled with knives and bone saws. Two of the masterwork daggers have a hawk pommel.

We go down a different hallway. Tweetie-Bear warns us that he doesn’t like the feel of the upcoming room. The room is completely buried in bones. Down the hall there is another door. This one has a pin. Dol unlatches and opens the cold door. There is a pale lump hanging in the room. Zita buries a crossbolt into it.

“Beware! Something is here,” Tweetie-Bear warns. Shuffling around in the back of the room are two scaly figures lurching toward us. They are undead kobolds. Audrey Rose flings a bomb at them. Dol swings himself up on the meat hook and slides down. Tweetie-Bear claws one of them and kills it. The other goes after Tweetie-Bear. Bosley stabs the undead creature with his rapier right through its eye socket. Tweetie-Bear neatly bisects the remaining undead. 

We retrace our steps and check out a different hallway. We enter a room with a large collection of knives, meat cleavers, and bone saws. Suddenly two haggard women waving clubs pounce on Tweetie-Bear. A third opponent pops up, flanks Tweetie-Bear and skewers him with a rapier. Audrey Rose flings alchemy fire at them. Hendra slashes one of them and eviscerates her. Sabrina casts Hideous Laughter on the guy, and he falls over laughing. Bosley casts Ray of Frost on the haggard woman and takes her out. Audrey Rose hits the laughing man with alchemy fire. Zita strolls into the room and stabs the prone man twice. Sabrina neatly stabs him in the throat ending his life.

We find a masterwork rapier, four daggers, a potion of cure moderate wounds, and an unknown potion. The women are wearing two wooden amulets that we’ll identify with knowledge religion later.

We enter a room full of cows. The next room is covered in smoke. We back out of it and try the next room which turns out to be another office. It’s full of dust and appears unused. Next door is a neat, handsomely decorated bedroom. There’s a bear hide rug on the floor (150g). There are three paintings (35g each). The bedsheets are silk (15g). We find a chest with 119 gold, 257 silver, and 455 copper. There is a potion of Eagle Splendor.

In the following room we find another wooden chest. Inside we find 84 gold, 51 silver, and 3 pearls (100g each). There’s another cure light wounds potion.

We open the door to air out the smoky room and head downstairs. The smell coming from room makes Audrey Rose think it’s a rendering room. There’s the smell of tallow.

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