Last weekend, the Vaults of Ur game was on a Friday. Unfortunately for yours truly, I had a dinner engagement with my grad school program's faculty, staff and students. Actually, not so unfortunate since there was decent if not excellent food, free (cheap Korean) beer, and I got to sit next to and talk to some good looking classmates (just talking, no need to tell my wife on me).
Still, it looks like the session was a lot of fun. Here's Dean's recap of events:
Two
weeks ago our noble heroes stumbled out of the underdark of Ur with
their lives and some strange treasure. The erudition of Yargrob Elderbob
the young wizard was essential for the puzzling out of the mysterious
crystal pyramids, each the size of a baby’s head. Each one could store a
spell provided the user could attune himself to it. Happily the
scholarly youth did so. Carolus contented himself with a new suit of
plate mail who passed on his banded armour to an overjoyed Burg. Thomas
the Visionary stayed behind in Fort Low, determined to master one of the
crystals.
The Venerable Carolus and his newfound companions feared
to reenter the passageways beneath the stockade because of the ominous
daytime darkness which now perpetually shrouded it, and because the
ghostly mist which they had found seemed too strong. Therefore Carolus
took his friends and introduced them to the Hive. There the spider-like
Great Minds informed them that the darkness was probably the result of
someone tampering with a protective shrine of Law beneath the ruins of
Ur. (Many embarrassed noises at that.) The erudition of Yargrob Elderbob
the young wizard was essential for much of the puzzling out of the
It was further revealed that Ur had undergone ten cataclysms. The first
had torn it from this plane and sent it careening through the
multiverse. The last (and eighth) had returned it back to this world.
During the eighth cataclysm, eight heroes arose led by magician named
Lowfrick. Among them was a priest named Ider who had possessed a stone
hand (and so we now know whose coffin we looted many months ago).
Our close friend in the Hive, Forager, informed us that explorers from
the Hive have found a building on the underground river but were
attacked by swarms of “hell men.” We undertook to exterminate this
danger to the Hive and to learn more of the Vaults beneath Ur.
We
took a beetle-shell canoe down the river a short way and came to a stone
mausoleum with two obelisks depicting the cult of the same god of death
whose image we had found many months ago in other nearby passageways.
Burg the Orc and Ralex the veteran fighter muscled open the stone doors.
Inside we found two three stone chambers two of which were full of
burial niches. The hell creatures had torn apart all of the swathed
corpses to eat them, but being chaos mutated brutes they had left
numerous small treasures.
Suddenly a splash reminded the party that
the canoe was unguarded. Rushing back, we were attacked by several
ravening mutants and two large worms with mutated human heads.
Retreating into a small room, we managed to slay all the smaller
creatures despite suffering many grievous wounds. At the stone jetty
once more, the party realized that the canoe had drifted downstream. The
full armour of most of the party prevented swimming back to the Hive,
but the cleverness and nimble clambering of Yargrob’s beetle friend
passed a rope across to a nearby cave mouth which was hoped to lead
back. We shall find out the next time…
So cool stuff happened, monsters were fought, loot was gained, and puzzles were solved. I'll try hard not to miss the next session.
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