Game log 13 September 2020: Even ogres can count to eight

Leaving this as a bunch of bullet points since I don't feel like writing things out.

• Since it’s 8 in the evening, they go to bed on the ogre cots (there are eight, they’ve killed four). Kurt eats a giant rat for food. Felcanis casts Watchdog on the door.
• Four ogres push the open door. When this happens, Kurt is on watch, Watchdog wakes up Felcanis, and Lucdalen awake since he only needs 4 hours sleep. An ogre with ribbons in his beard (the only male) thinks upon seeing PCs, then says, “Hey, they kill Grak and Mak. They eat our food! I see them by snake woman!” 
• First round
•     Kurt draws, attacks, Muzz the ogre parries
•     Kurg (cauliflower ear) M&A on Kurt, misses
•     Bozz (beaked nose) step and attack on Kurt from behind, misses
•     Gluz (gaunt) step and attack on Kurt from behind, hits, Kurt parries
•     Muzz (male, ribbons in beard) swings twice at Kurt, hits, not much gets through
•     Felcanis casts Sunbolt 3d
•     Lucdalen moves toward the ogres
• Second round
•     Kurt attacks Muzz twice, Muzz parries and dodges. “Puny maggot!” 
•     Kurg tries to hit Kurt on Skull (similar name issue, “There can be only one!”), misses
•     Bozz also tries to bop Kurt on Skull, misses
•     Gluz also tries to bop Kurt on Skull, misses
•     Muzz tries two strikes on Kurt, misses
•     Felcanis aims her spell
•     Lucdalen moves towards the ogres
• Third round
•     Kurt tries to hit Muzz twice, one misses, Muzz parries other
•     Kurg tries to hit Kurt on Skull, misses. “I say there can be only one! Only good grammar Kurg know!” 
•     Bozz tries to hit Kurt, misses
•     Gluz tries to hit Kurt, misses
•     Muzz tries to hit Kurt on Skull, misses
•     Felcanis fires Sunbolt and hits Muzz on the back
•     Lucdalen casts Terror, centered on Kurt. Bozz saves, Kurg and Gluz start barfing on Kurt (next 12 seconds), Muzz has sworn off eating elves since he now has a delusion that “Elves are demons and not edible! Eating one will give you a demon tapeworm!” 
• Fourth round
•     Kurt tries to hit Muzz twice, Muzz retreats and dodges
•     Kurg and Gluz barf
•     Bozz tries to hit Kurt on head again, misses
•     Muzz tries to “Kill demon tapeworm elf!” and Lucdalen parries with Iron Arm. “See! You no eat elf!” 
•     Felcanis steps next to the stew pot by the door and pulls out her mace
•     Lucdalen casts Paralyze Limb
• Fifth round
•     Kurt makes two swings, hits Kurg twice, Kurg falls down and loses her club
•     Kurg barfs
•     Bozz tries to hurt Kurt on the head again, Kurt parries
•     Gluz smacks Kurt through her retching, knocks him back but not down
•     Muzz tries to hit Lucdalen on the Skull, misses
•     Felcanis smacks Muzz on the back with her mace
•     Lucdalen punches Muzz, Muzz resists Paralyze Limb
• Sixth round
•     Kurt kneels
•     Kurg barfs
•     Bozz steps over Kurg and tries to hit Kurt on the Skull, misses
•     Gluz swats Felcanis as she pukes, Felcanis steps back and dodges
•     Muzz does something (I think I missed his turn)
•     Felcanis casts Sunbolt 4d
•     Lucdalen casts Shatter on one of his lock picks, boom! Most folks dodge and drop to avoid; Bozz and Gluz just avoid being hit, Lucdalen passes out
• Seventh round
•     Kurt stands
•     Muzz misses trying to bop Lucdalen in the head
•     Kurg barfs
•     Bozz tries to run around and hit Kurt from a flank, misses
•     Gluz steps through the puke and tries to hit Kurt, misses
•     Muzz bops Kurt on the skull, takes tons of damage but stays standing
•     Felcanis kills Muzz with Sunbolt
• Eighth round
•     Kurt fights off stun, pulls out his weapons, kneels
•     Kurg keeps puking
•     Bozz tries to hit Kurt on the head, but Kurt gets out of the way Bozz drops her club
•     Gluz swings for Kurt, knocks him out
• The ogre women tie up Felcanis, who fails at playing dead, and tie her to Bill. They string up Lucdalen and Kurt. The ogres then go to sleep.
• Felcanis works through her bindings as the ogres sleep. She finds that Kurt and Lucdalen are dead, and thus she slips out of the dungeon with Bill. After a couple of hours, she stumbles on the camp with Horace and Jiro.

What's next? There might be new players (actually, old players coming back, which is why they ran into Horace); there surely will be a character replacing Kurt and Lucdalen.

Dungeon Fantasy Castle Whiterock log for 24 August 2020: Do NOT talk to swords!

Who are these yahoos?

Ibizaber (aka Zaber) the Clever, Gorgeous, and Besotted, most beloved person in Cillamar
Garreth, strongest person in all Cillamar
Seépravir (aka Seep), possibly the mightiest and definitely the shiftiest wizard in Cillamar
Polly Daze, the incredibly cute deadly archer
Stonemaul, our new drinking buddy, a dwarven cleric of Danethar

What did they do?

Well, that was one helluva week. It was just me against the bars. I think I managed to get thrown out of each and every bar in Cillamar at least once in the last week, which seemed really long. Garreth once found me on the street and woke me up with a bucket of water. It was great; I romanced every barmaid in town. I might have succeeded with one or two; memory is really hazy, since at least three whacked me with trays and mugs.

Fun has to come to an end sometime, and I staggered into the Slumbering Drake somehow at the end of the week. Garreth and I were having beers with Seep and Polly; Polly was drinking that carrot stuff again. I haven’t had the heart to tell her it’s not really alcoholic; she just looks so cute when she thinks she’s drunk. But she has a weird look in her eyes nowadays; something with her and Seep. Makes me wonder … Elias went off somewhere, and I really don’t wonder in his case.

Anyways, there we were, drinking beer and mead and some of that mushroom wine, and along comes a dwarf armored up to the wazoo. He said he was named Stonemaul and sat down for a drink. Turns out he is a cleric of Danethar, and doesn’t seem to be as … what’s the word I want to use? … lame as Durkerle was. Drinks well, which you’d expect since he’s a dwarf, knows how to cast Bless, and he has a … katana. Just to mess with us.

Oh, speaking of weapons … I mean literally, speaking of weapons. Garreth keeps talking to his sword. At first I thought he had found some shrooms down in the dungeon and asked him for some, but he insisted that he didn’t have any, and was totally clean. Yeah, you keep telling me that, Big G, but then you keep talking to your sword. So forgive me if I’m skeptical. Anyways, he said it speaks back to his head and wants him to kill dragons.

Man, I need to get my best friend back on the sauce before he gets us both killed. I need a beer just to think about all this.

But in spite of my better judgment or because I’m always worried about not having beer money I went with him and the others and Maul (as he’s called for short, or shorter in his case) back to Whiterock. We quickly went back to the keep we sacked last week, and started along the causeway. Polly wanted us to check out the big bugs that flew up from pit as we assaulted the temple, so we stepped off the causeway, and started flying down.

That creepy feeling came over me almost as soon as I stepped off the causeway. The stench got nastier, and we heard a constant buzz. We saw four wasps as big as hobbits, and before I could slip up to one and stick my knife in its eye, Polly stabbed one and shot another one. I did get my knife in one’s eye, killing it, however, and Maul flew into another, slamming it into the wall. Garreth then drew close and apparently the sword didn’t tell him to be nice to giant wasps as he killed one. I managed to stab another one, and Maul stepped back from it, letting Polly pepper it to death with arrows.

Garreth pointed down asked me to check out a ledge a few yards below us. I flew down to it, and hovered above it; the ledge had all kinds of nasty slime on it. There were also big beetles on it, and we knew from the week before that they breathe fire. Stonemaul downed a Strength potion, then started to pray to make himself a runt, blunt, fighting … uh, I’m not going there.

What other stuff is going on?

We stopped right before fighting the beetles. We had some initial issues getting started, being the first session of a continuation game.

In this game, I'm not the game master. Thus, I'm writing in-character as Ibizaber the Sloshed.