Rollohi-ep25-script

 Ep25: Titan's Table

There's no obvious sadlery and the inn they first see is closed. But there's a wagoner near it. Money and knocking loudly persuades the man, Keg Keo, to open the gates. The party brings its mounts in and re-ties bits of tack that are beginning to come apart. 

 

Is there a sadler in town no but there's a woman that is just as good, a mistress Axa. She was just saying business is down, she'll be glad of the work. 

 

Good because we need leather armor for three, pronto! 

 

Umbert is hungry and does not contribute to the debate. He munches cold, hard, iron rations and hunkers down for a nap before the inn opens its gates too. 

 

The inn is 1 nothing special 6 elaborate and sprawling 3, modest. As early risers begin leaving and early risers begin the day, the mounts are walked over into the innyard.  

 

BTW are any of the tourney participants in Taer Ypt? No. 

 

It will take Axa 6 hours to rough-punch and bind adequate leathers for Eryn Kylie and Xantu. 

The party rests, and plans. Ingle wonders very much about the Titans Table 

 

He asked Keg Keo about egg or fowl hunting, and then asked about anything special the slough is rumored to have. Aside from malicious sprite. 

Oh yes, [Cairn 2e for this] there's what they call the Titan's Table. I've never seen it myself. 

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In the taproom: i roll 05 on local sentiment after a yes but encounter, so just one idiot. He rides Eryn and there is  brief exchange of blows. Eryn uses her superior HD to adjust the strike and KOs the chap. 

 

That night Ingle is on watch, as the four fittest pixies launch off a skeleton (see below) and try another heist. He nudges Umbert who tries the wand. It works! Two fall victim and the other two grab them and flee. Now the adventurers can be confident. 

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In the meta sense the Leather+1 that Ingle wears is probably better on Jack, but the healer needs to be kept conscious. Those that have not had any healing today are Kylie, Eryn, and Cied, all pretty big hitters. 

 

Salt 

Iron 

Leather armor 

Food and water – Ingle is wondering if casting Purify on the pixie water will be a good or bad thing 

Light sources (torches, candle, flint and steel, tinderboxes) 

And, since it could be that the Titan's Table is the opening of a dungeon, their regular delving packs ropes tools and iron rations etc. 

 

Is it relatively easy to interview someone that recently birdsnested in the slough? Yes. 

Eryn gets "the lay of the land" so the party can approach from the most appropriate quarter for the Titan's Table. The youngster is unwilling to be horse-lad, so Eryn asks them to ask their older sibling who may be past birdsnesting but is still able to mind horses. This new young man's name is Kew Keo, Keg's older son. 

 

Best by horse/best afoot... by horse. So they do wait the whole day of final waning crescent, seething with rage. Axa finishes up the most vital sadlery repair and the tack is reassembled. 

 

It's obvious the pixies are nocturnal, so it will be the next dawn before they are ready. One watch's ride around south-east and the slough can be approached. 

Weather much as expected or a little better. Conditions breezy, very chill in dawn. 

Encounter no but the evidence of nesting birds is strong. 

 

Into the slough. The halflings take point. No encounter. Do they experience anything weird? Yes but the kinds of tricks that Kylie and the halflings can see through. Pixie-wrought binding on paths that would otherwise bend their steps is overcome easily.  

The weather warms quickly and as they come in sight of Titan's Table they alter party order somewhat. Jack moves up to point, followed by Kylie with bow, with the halflings covering flanks. Eryn and Xantu are the squishies guards. 

 

The progress slows (I roll a yes but) until they are at the Table. It is enormous and too large for them to read any ancient runes on it. Too big to climb without using most of the day. But what Jack is looking for is a dungeon entrance and he finds it. It seemed unlikely that the pixies were just sleeping in the open. 

 

I'm going to roll on the marsh/swamp and also on the dungeon charts to see what the boss might be.  

A skeleton seems the most appropriate. 

Wih that i can mve on to 1sitd. 

 

T Junction right is dead end, left is treasure (I assume down) and Jack will need to disarm trap. 20% so let's find some advantage! 

Then the pixies arrive! Kylie is ready and makes her WIS check. She gives Umbert the ok and the wand goes off. 

Only 2 of ten pixies are not paralyzed! The eight helpless are butchered quickly 

 

Jack makes 02 on d20 for disarming trap, and reveals... yeah mostly just party coins but a little extra, and a scroll. 

(1sitd) calls it mass invis but i might make an OSE roll) 

 

The party makes the cowardly decision, now we have what's ours, let's go! 

 

No harm at all to anyone. 

 

No encounters 

 

Although the town is more welcoming, 7 isn't exactly super friendly. And Eryn doesn't want another wasted day. They head out on watch 4 before the sun goes down. 

 

By night, they've reached a hamlet where the locals are happy to sell them hot dinner. They hit the road again for Opal!