Castle Whiterock game log 9 November 2020: Half-a-ton of garbage, with implements of destruction

Who are these yahoos?

Ibizaber (aka Zaber) the Clever, Gorgeous, and Besotted, most beloved person in Cillamar
Garreth, strongest person in all Cillamar
Polly Daze, the incredibly cute deadly archer
Stonemaul, a dwarven cleric of Danethar
Korlos, tea-sipping wizard

So, what havoc did they wreck?

Back at town, Polly brings some orichalcum to Urgus to get him to make her a long knife. Garreth also goes to Urgus, bringing Scalemar, and Urgus enchants it with Penetrating Weapon. There, Garreth finds that Urgus has a fine dwarven epic plate suit of weightlessness in stock. This is where I come in; he has to borrow money from me to buy it. Gladly, G; what else am I doing with it now that we have a limitless tab for booze?

At one of the stalls in the market, I think the same day, I buy a heavy composite crossbow and 100 doses of monster drool, and pour it over the crossbow bolts. Garreth has to crank the crossbow for me. It's big.

So, after a week of fun, I find myself again at the Slumbering Drake. I have a few drinks and dance with Polly, smashed on hard carrot juice, and then she tries to get Ixnay drunk off that juice. She has to be more sauced than I am, since nobody but she gets drunk off that stuff, and Ixnay sips it like he's drinking water. It's a great time, and I don't remember much after that.

So then I awake from a massive thud which just makes my hangover worse. I go outside, and there is a glowing dead whale on the ground, and everyone is gawking.

Is anyone dead? No? Then we have a fish fry. Problem solved other than the right wine to serve, and that will take two minutes.

Instead of this logic, a priest of Danethar shows up and starts debating how to properly handle the body. Korlos comes out and says that he thinks it is here because of summoning in Demonhold gone awry. The priest says that we need to go to Demonhold. No! Fish fry! And stop telling me that it really isn't a fish because I don't care!

OK, then. At least the priest blesses my knife.

We fly back down into the dungeon and go down a shaft, chatting all the while about hangovers. Garreth says he hasn't gotten a hangover since he was eight. I wish I had a good come back to that other than when he was eight, he was my size. Anyways, when we get to the bottom of the shaft, we smell then see an otyugh standing before a magic altar. 

We hold in our lunch from the smell, and I get out my crossbow and start aiming. Garreth meditates to get his internal Great Haste. (If I stop having hangovers, can I get that?) Korlos casts Great Haste on Stonemaul. I have a bead on one of its eyes. We're ready.

I shoot the otyugh in an eye with a poisoned bolt. Polly likewise shoots the otyugh with three cutting arrows, but they bounce off its skin.

Stonemaul goes screams for the might of his god, then slams the otyugh, using his Rune of Protection to soak the slam damage. As the otyugh still stands, Stonemaul starts chopping it. Garreth rushes up to do the same. 

The otyugh throws a dead giant wasp at me, but I get out of the way, Then it lashes at Garreth and Stonemaul with two tentacles each, but they parry and block the bad touch. It then tries to bite Garreth, but he gets out of the way. 

I draw my knife and get nearer. Korlos casts Mass Daze on the otyugh, but it shrugs it off. Stonemaul and Garreth keep chopping at the otyugh.

Thge otyugh again lashes at Garreth and Stonemaul with two tentacles each. Garreth parries, as does Stonemaul, and the otyugh stumbles after its tentacle hits Stonemaul's shield. The otyugh tries to hit Polly and me each with a tentacle, but we get out of the way.

I call the otyugh a "trash compactor," but it doesn't understand me, which is just as well since it wasn't my best barb. Korlos casts Grease under the otyugh. Stonemaul and Garreth again chop at the otyugh, this time killing it.

I cut open the otyugh, finding nothing useful. I go up to the alcove and try to shove open the top of the well, but cannot.

Unable to open the well, I look around the much of the floor and funds coins, quartzes, and a magical long knife.

Korlos looks at the altar and tries reading the runes, but the are in an unknown tongue. So, he finds a scroll of Gift of Letters in his belongings, and casts that, and then reads the runes: "If you gaze into darkness, it gazes back."

Garreth takes the everburning torches off the altar. When he takes the second one, the well opens.

Other stuff

I have two other game logs to write up for my own game. How do I get extra points for my own game? That's a good question and I'd like to know the answer.

I think we're done with the folks coming out of nowhere. We might have others join us this week, but they should be playing characters that started out back at town and whom we've met before.