Spelljammer
        Seas of Fate
Current Turn?NoSubject:The Dark Forest
Campaign:GreyhawkTurn Start Date:9/4/597
Adventure:Seas of FateTurn End Date:9/4/597
Adventure Number:AAJCharacters:Barthon Brightwave, Darkthorn, Dyson Teague, Kalin, Lorcan Smythe, Orielne, Wiley Finch
Turn Number:1.7Send To:fivewands@championsoftheempire.com; dntimm@gmail.com; mghaught@gmail.com
Greyhawk Campaign?YesCombat Turn?No
Name
Lethal
NL
Current
END
PROT
LOW
DEF
ROF
Flash
Heal
Luck Pts
Fate Pts
Darkthorn
84
0
25/109
/0
11
3
78
10
0/0
4/day
2/2
1/1
Dyson Teague
74
0
21/95
2/2
12
4
89
14
0/0
1/day
3/3
1/2
Kalin
75
0
-1/74
/0
8
3
73
0
0/0
1/day
1/2
1/1
Lorcan Smythe
41
8
15/64
8/8
10
1
30
0
1/1
1/day
1/2
1/1
Wiley Finch
80
0
10/90
/0
11
4
66
20
0/0
1/day
0/2
1/1
Barthon Brightwave
58
0
16/74
6/14
11
4
90
20
0/0
1/day
1/4
1/3
Aeryl Razorfin
59
0
19/78
8/8
7
4
56
10
0/0
2/day
3/3
1/1
Mage/Psioncist Name
Psionic Pts
Spell Pts
Spell Pool
Miscellaneous Information
Lorcan Smythe
4/6
3/19
2/19
Wiley Finch
/
22/23
11/11
Kalin
14/14
/
/
Darkthorn
9/9
/
/
NameNotes
DarkthornRanger Pool (26/27), 25% DR Crushing, Elemental & Non-Elemental, Detect Ambush, Accelerated Healing (1 day), Lesser Enchantment, Faerie's Feet
Dyson TeagueLesser Enchantment, Faerie's Feet
KalinCleric Pool (20/25), Lesser Enchantment
Lorcan SmytheLesser Enchantment
Wiley Finch25% DR Elemental, Familiar-Cristo (not along), Lesser Enchantment
BarthonMagic Points (19/19), Lesser Enchantment, Faerie's Feet
AerylLesser Enchantment, Accelerated Healing (1 day)


01/05/2023 (GM-Steve)

While the group remained on their Folding Boat in the Misty Sea, Lily Greyweb made her way to the Dark Forest to scout. She expected to be gone for about a day and maybe two. When she returned the next day, she had learned that the Green Man had been neutralized by a forest witch (aka Green Hag) and the simplest way to lift the curse on the Green Man was to kill the witch. Lily would not be much help in a direct fight but could hopefully prevent the witch from leaving the battle if they could draw her into a fight.

The group spent time planning out tactics and deciding on spells that might be useful. They decided to try to pull her into a battle by defiling the fairy circle they had previously found. They made their way back to the Dark Forest and the fairy circle. Kalin pretended to be doing some sort of ritual to defile the circle while Lorcan put up walls of water to prevent sniping from the forest on the other side of the stream. Wiley poked at one of the mushrooms in the circle but it wasn't until Barthon lopped off a mushroom cap that something happened. The forest witch and four phookas suddenly appeared in the fairy circle and attacked.

GM: Only 2 rounds of battle have occurred so far. The phookas are hard to hit and seem to be mostly immune to blunt weapons but swords and spears seem to work fine. The forest witch is also very hard to hit and has little difficulty hitting anyone in the group, even those with very high defenses. Her damage has not been very impressive however.

GM: When we start next week, Kalin has just cast a Blessing and the first round of battle next week will be the first round of the Blessing. Kalin had previously cast a Greater Blessing on everyone giving each person a Luck point that could be used in this battle. Lorcan and Barthon have already used their Luck points from this spell.

Greater Blessing - Darkthorn, Dyson, Aeryl

GM: This is where we stopped for the night.

GM: I have not yet awarded EXP for this session.

01/12/2023 (GM-Steve)

The battle continued. The following round, the vine wall behind the fairy circle started moving in places and, a couple seconds later, creatures came out of the wall. They were composed of thick vines and stood about 9 feet tall. There were a total of five of them and they hit very hard (average 20 to 25 points per hit) with attacks twice per round. The group was hard pressed, especially Kalin and Aeryl. Additionally, more phookas arrived from time to time, focusing primarily on spell casters. Aeryl was down to less than 5 HP when he dropped to play dead. Kalin switched to full parry but even so, had to burn a couple of luck points (one from the Greater Blessing and the other from his normal pool) to avoid some nasty critical hits. When Darkthorn finally took out his vine man, he ran over to help with Aeryl's. Dyson took out his and turned to help Kalin. Barthon almost dropped from the damage but used his Armor of Cure Wounds to breathe new life into himself.

Meanwhile, the Walls of Water that Lorcan had put up before the battle started dropping as their duration ran out. Lorcan put up another wall to close a gap but this was dispelled the following round. Fortunately, Wiley's Circle of Protection from Missiles was invaluable and, although an occasional missile got through, it stopped many more, including some Oaken Shards cast by the forest witch, who was hiding in the trees to the east.

By the time we stopping for the night, four of the five vine men were down. The forest witch is back and attacking Barthon. Two phookas are attack Dyson and another one is attack Darkthorn. Kalin was able to get a Mass Healing spell cast to help with the most badly wounded. Current hit points are:

Darkthorn is at 87 HP
Dyson is at 47 HP
Kalin is at 22 HP
Lorcan is at 47 HP
Wiley is at 41 HP
Barthon is at 26 HP
Aeryl is at 19 HP

GM: With the forest witch getting 4 attacks per round, Barthon needs the most help although no on is really in a good position to assist, other than Kalin if he can do some more remote healing.

GM: I have not yet awarded EXP for this session or last session.


01/19/2023 (GM-Steve)

The battle continued. Darkthorn finally took out the final vine man, leaving the forest witch and three phookas. The forest witch eventually forced Barthon to withdraw via one his his spectacular acrobatic moves. Then it started concentrating on the most wounded character that stepped up. Eventually the 3 phookas were killed and Darkthorn, Wiley and Dyson were fighting the witch. Initially Kalin was using his healing to good effect but then she started hitting Kalin with an oaken shard whenever he started casting a spell. People were able to use healing potions as well as crystals of healing. Lorcan hit with a couple of bolts of water and also began using psionic attacks to good effect. It was one such attack that finally dropped the witch. By this time, Kalin was unconscious, Wiley was very badly wounded, Barthon, Lorcan, Aeryl were badly wounded and both Dyson and Darkthorn had 25 or less HP remaining.

The following round, Lily Greyweb reappeared and announced that the Green Man had awoken and the war was won. Celeraph, Shayla and Thayla succeeded in keeping many of the phookas busy to prevent them from swarming the group but Thayla was killed in the battle.

GM: This is where we stopped for the night. Next week we will resume Gamma World. When we start up with Greyhawk again, be prepared for a session with some of your followers. If you want to fully develop them on the COTE server, feel free to do so (if you haven't already). Otherwise I can come up with some basic stats for them.

GM: I awarded 7,000 EXP for the last 3 sessions.

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Name
Spells

Spells Memorized

Darkthorn
1. 1/6
2. 1/5
3. 1/3
4. 0/2

  1. Brachiating, CLW, CLW, Entangle, Protection from Evil
  2. Faerie's Feet, Faerie's Feet, Resist Fire/Cold, Slow Poison
  3. CLW at Range, Detect Ambush
  4. Mass Healing, Plant Door

Kalin
1. 4/8
2. 3/8
3. 2/7
4. 2/6
5. 2/5

  1. Bless, CLW, CLW, CLW
  2. Faerie's Feet, Resist Fire/Cold, Spiritual Weapon, Silence 15' r, Withdraw
  3. CLW at range, Dispel Magic, Light Eruption, Prayer, Prayer
  4. CSW, Mass Healing, Neutralize Poison, Protection from Evil 10' r, Spell Immunity
  5. Anti-Plant Shell, CCW, Greater Blessing

Lorcan
24

  • GK - Deluge, Detect Magic, Fireproofing, Flotation, Liquid Purification, Mage Wind, Navigation, Speak with Aquatic Mammals, Summon Aquatic Mammals, Water Breathing
  • SK - Bolt of Water, Solid Fog, Torrential Geyser, Wall of Water, Water Walking, Waters of Vision, Windsail
  • COP - Animals, Greater, Detection, Holy Minor
  • Spell Wand (7) - Deluge, Wall of Water, Torrential Geyser, Hellfire.

Wiley
19

  • GK - Armor, Evil Eye, Invisibility, Lesser Enchantment, Location, Speak with Enchanted Creatures, Telekinesis, Walking Unseen
  • SK - Levitation, Mage Lock, Magic Missile, Opening, Passwall, Remove Curse, Web of Entanglement, Wizard Eye
  • COP - Animals, Missiles
  • Counterspells - Holy
  • Ring of Spell Storing - Visibility Field (4th level Cleric spell)
  • Ring of Spell Storing - Cure Critical Wounds



Limited Use Abilities
WhoAbilityNotesUses per DayUsed
KalinCure Light WoundsHealing Charm (self use only)11
KalinPelor's Penance12 charges but special recharge12
BarthonCure half HP from current woundsArmor of Cure Wounds11
DysonMind CloakHelm of High Sorcery1
DysonTelekinesisHelm of High Sorcery1
DysonMind LinkHelm of High Sorcery1
DysonMental BoltHelm of High Sorcery1
DysonCure Serious Wounds (self)Ioun Stone1
DarkthornLongbow ChargesMagic arrows or Speak With Dead12