Book 3: Dreamers of the Nameless Spires

Chapter 1: A Most Unwelcome Truth

Or, Hotter Than a Spoon in a Crackhouse on Payday.

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Session Summary

The party explored Dr. Ritalson’s laboratory basement, battling four fleshwarp “guests” Dr. Ritalson created from Saumen Kar remains. They used tactics like closing doors, guidance buffs, and a wall of fire to defeat them, recovering a partial Saumen Kar hand granting cold resistance 10. Looting the area revealed scrolls, poisons, and notes on Ritalson’s plans involving dreams, Osoyo, The Nameless Spires, and his habit of mind-harvesting unsuspecting Gatewalkers.

After resting in Lepidstat, warning the house staff, and selling items, they traveled by horse to Lichgate in the ruins of an ancient elven stronghold called Mirianath. They fought four doppelganger guards mimicking party members and other Gatewalkers, using wall of fire and melee to win. Inside, they looted a survival chest with cold weather gear and a bag of holding.

Confronting Ritalson and his floating mind moppet Ogovip, the party quickly smashed Ritalson with critical maul hits before he could act fully. Looting yielded +1 dagger, armor, pendant, scrolls, elixirs, and a vat-grown brain. Activating the aiudara with a moonstone, they prepared to enter the portal to Icegate.

Timeline

1. Explored Ritalson’s lab, pulled levers to release and drain vat containing fleshwarp guests.
2. Initiative battle: Shylock recalled fleshwarp weaknesses (slashing), party buffed with guidance and stoke the heart.
3. Fought fleshwarps with Hector‘s maul trips, Sammakko‘s flurry of claws, cones of cold; retreated, shut doors, Sammakko cast wall of fire to melt them.
4. Recovered Saumen Kar hand (cold resistance 10), searched empty vat room.
5. Rested upstairs, warned Ulwin and Gatewalkers, sold poisons and items for gold.
6. Traveled one day east to Mirianath ruins (Lichgate), spotted recent tracks.
7. Searched cautiously: Hector scouted tracks/danger, Shylock investigated/detect magic, found chest with cold gear and Type III bag of holding.
8. Sammakko used an Eagle Eye elixir and and exposed the guards as doppelgangers;
9. Fought mimicking party (Sammakko, Hector, Shylock, Snowy Owl), used wall of fire, thunderstrike, mauls to pulp them.
10. Found Ritalson with doppelganger Lunja and floating mind moppet Ogovip (housed in a porcelain doll head).
11. Hector‘s critical maul crits on Ritalson downed him instantly; Sammakko and Shylock smashed the doppelganger and moppet with thunderstrike, divine lance, dragon breath.
12. Looted Ritalson’s gear: +1 striking dagger, +1 leather armor, Greater Pendant of the Occult (moonstone inside), scrolls (black tentacles, confusion, fly x2), elixirs, vat-grown brain.
13. Activated Lichgate aiudara with moonstone, prepared to step through to Icegate.

Treasure

• Partially mummified saumen kar hand fragment (cold resistance 10, as if it were a greater ring of energy resistance)
• expedition backpack containing the following survival supplies:
  • small tent
  • set of short skis
  • snowshoes
  • compass
  • astrolabe
  • snow goggles
  • 50 feet of rope
• Bag of Holding (type III) containing:
  • 90 days of rations
• +1 striking dagger
• +1 leather armor
• Ritalson’s Formula book
• Ritalson Manor keys
• Greater Pendant of the Occult
• Scroll of black tentacles
• Scroll of confusion
• (2) Scrolls of fly