https://froghat.club/ Recent content on Frog Hat Club Hugo -- gohugo.io As Syf Tells It in 3207 M.E. Fri, 18 Nov 2022 19:22:02 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_102_el_zikrin_part_iii/ Fri, 18 Nov 2022 19:22:02 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_102_el_zikrin_part_iii/ The party pushed on through the darkness, but before long the abyssal soldiers could be heard struggling through the tunnel behind them. Tense, close-quarters battle ensued, with Magnus, Keen, and Ara holding the soliders back while their friends pushed further into the dark. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_101_el_zikrin_part_ii/ Thu, 07 Jul 2022 19:22:02 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_101_el_zikrin_part_ii/ The creature – a Nashtahl – slammed Sirlius into the ground under powerful forelegs ended in stone-like fists. The party raced to his aid and chased the beast onto the rooftops, laying into it with staff and arrow, with magic and blade, before finally felling it in the dust in front of the Juus apothecary. https://froghat.club/beastiary/nashtahl/ Thu, 23 Jun 2022 21:54:22 -0700 https://froghat.club/beastiary/nashtahl/ A fiend of nightmares native to the Abyss, the Nashtahl resembles a huge war destrier, 6 feet at the shoulder, but its musculature is twisted and unnatural with too many joints. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_100_el_zikrin_part_i/ Thu, 23 Jun 2022 19:29:12 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_100_el_zikrin_part_i/ As the captain raised his greatsword to split Keen in two, Magnus popped the top of his Iron Flask and captured the creature within. The party quickly dispatched the remaining two soldiers. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_99_invaders_and_acolytes/ Thu, 09 Jun 2022 19:15:13 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_99_invaders_and_acolytes/ The gruesome hyena creature quickly closed the distance and tackled Keen. The halfling found himself pinned beneath its massive paw, dodging its barbed stinger tail and fending off slathering bites. Yuna sent Stella forward to take down the creature and defend Keen. https://froghat.club/beastiary/hand_of_graz_zt_oppressor/ Fri, 27 May 2022 19:56:00 -0700 https://froghat.club/beastiary/hand_of_graz_zt_oppressor/ https://froghat.club/beastiary/hand_of_graz_zt_seducer/ Fri, 27 May 2022 19:56:00 -0700 https://froghat.club/beastiary/hand_of_graz_zt_seducer/ https://froghat.club/beastiary/hand_of_graz_zt_captain/ Fri, 27 May 2022 19:36:59 -0700 https://froghat.club/beastiary/hand_of_graz_zt_captain/ Hulking abyssal soldiers standing 8ft tall with purple-black skin, patches of red scales, and a thin, segmented tail ending in three prongs glistening in oil. The face has no nose, no mouth, and is dominated by huge, jaundiced eyes. https://froghat.club/beastiary/hand_of_graz_zt_foot_soldier/ Fri, 27 May 2022 19:36:59 -0700 https://froghat.club/beastiary/hand_of_graz_zt_foot_soldier/ Hulking abyssal soldiers with purple-black skin, patches of green scales, and a thin, segmented tail ending in three prongs glistening in oil. The face has no nose, no mouth, and is dominated by huge, jaundiced eyes. https://froghat.club/posts/the_first_acolyte_s_epistle_to_the_weak/ Wed, 25 May 2022 20:50:31 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/the_first_acolyte_s_epistle_to_the_weak/ What use the neighbour who does not tend his own garden? Who then shall do it? You, whose back aches with work before the dawn and whose sweat chills upon your skin in the night? https://froghat.club/posts/episode_98_the_beginning_of_the_end/ Tue, 24 May 2022 20:28:29 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_98_the_beginning_of_the_end/ Yuna channeled her divine magic into Greater Restoration and restored Sirlius’s memories. The party then listened while Levani quickly related what she new of the activities of the Trazjte ur Flasch since she had been recaptured the previous winter. https://froghat.club/posts/what_levani_tells_you/ Thu, 12 May 2022 22:36:03 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/what_levani_tells_you/ The Trazjte ur Flasch (“The Burning Truth”), is a tiefling cult started by Rashtek, a necromancer seeking to become a lich. They took Levani when she was a child and raised her. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_96_the_palace_of_ice_part_ix/ Thu, 05 May 2022 19:19:27 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_96_the_palace_of_ice_part_ix/ Keen absorbed the Shard of the Heart of Bahamut, and found himself in a black void, without form. From the darkness emerged a most unexpected visage: Ginny Myrndottir, agent of the Skink and Keen’s ex-lover. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_94_the_palace_of_ice_part_viii/ Sat, 02 Apr 2022 16:19:40 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_94_the_palace_of_ice_part_viii/ Competitive Party Trebuchet ended with Whisper, Keen, and Sirlius victorious but not before one trebuchet was completely destroyed and their opponent was knocked unconscious. Their unorthodox performance gained significant attention from other party-goers, and even a respectful nod from Towards the Within, one of the arch-fey that ruled the Winter Court. https://froghat.club/beastiary/dreams_made_flesh/ Fri, 18 Mar 2022 19:18:05 -0700 https://froghat.club/beastiary/dreams_made_flesh/ https://froghat.club/posts/episode_93_the_palace_of_ice_part_vii/ Thu, 17 Mar 2022 16:19:47 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_93_the_palace_of_ice_part_vii/ The party made their way to the dance floor where they found a dance battle just completing. The victors included a halfling, a dwarf and an eladrin lord – none other than Elstuvian “Stu” am Vaskaralithien, the Herald of the Whisper King and their brief ally. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_92_the_palace_of_ice_part_vi/ Wed, 02 Mar 2022 20:24:09 -0800 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_92_the_palace_of_ice_part_vi/ Magnus made to leap into the pool after the axe, but Whisper interposed herself between him and the ice. The Kenku declared it too dangerous a weapon to be wielded, but Magnus countered that the consciousness of the Myconid colony whose spores lived with him had provided a solution: they would absorb the berserker rage the axe created and allow Magnus to retain his senses. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_91_the_palace_of_ice_part_v/ Sun, 13 Feb 2022 10:54:45 -0800 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_91_the_palace_of_ice_part_v/ The dracolich roared, filling the party with a magical terror, before unleashing a blast of icy breath that froze Stella, Yuna, and Sirlius in place as they were enveloped in the viscous, flowing gelatinous ooze. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_90_the_palace_of_ice_part_iv/ Sun, 23 Jan 2022 15:47:21 -0800 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_90_the_palace_of_ice_part_iv/ With Sirlius’s sphere of darkness enveloping the Fomorian’s baleful eye, Keen was able to safely bring Magnus back to the party. The party debated whether to push on through this cavern or turn back to seek a place to rest. https://froghat.club/posts/the_party/ Fri, 21 Jan 2022 18:04:42 -0800 https://froghat.club/posts/the_party/ The Heart of Winter has been transformed into a multi-level night club and is hosting a party for guests from across the realms. Looking down over the massive, multi-tiered space is Mab, sat upon her throne in a garden of ice and attended by the assembled Lords and Ladies of Winter at the Queen’s Table. https://froghat.club/campaigns/castle_mystery/castle_mystery_part_viii/ Wed, 19 Jan 2022 20:29:03 -0800 https://froghat.club/campaigns/castle_mystery/castle_mystery_part_viii/ The party scrambled to find their footing as the tower floor crumbled around them. Most of them, including rescued captives and a number of the stasis pods, fell down to the 1st floor. https://froghat.club/campaigns/castle_mystery/castle_mystery_part_vii/ Mon, 20 Dec 2021 16:29:23 -0800 https://froghat.club/campaigns/castle_mystery/castle_mystery_part_vii/ Combat ensued, with a number of harrowing close calls. Loopy, at the mercy of the large coral smasher sahuagin, nearly perished on a few occasions but kept getting healed back up. https://froghat.club/campaigns/castle_mystery/castle_mystery_part_vi/ Fri, 17 Dec 2021 19:38:13 -0800 https://froghat.club/campaigns/castle_mystery/castle_mystery_part_vi/ Contemplating their next step, the party decided it would be better to risk a long rest again rather than pushing on ahead with depleted spell slots and a weakened little miss. https://froghat.club/campaigns/castle_mystery/castle_mystery_part_v/ Thu, 02 Dec 2021 20:23:18 -0800 https://froghat.club/campaigns/castle_mystery/castle_mystery_part_v/ Now in addition to the surprise of a zombie in the closet, the party found themselves face to face with a fiery haired young human woman who had vaulted through the window. https://froghat.club/beastiary/gelatinous_dracolich/ Fri, 26 Nov 2021 08:28:55 -0800 https://froghat.club/beastiary/gelatinous_dracolich/ For time uncounting the great peak darkened the Feywild skies not with ash but unending blizzards of snow and sleet. The mountain slope flowed with rivers of frigid gelatinous ice in a bizarre geology obeying rules no mortal has ever delved. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_89_the_palace_of_ice_part_iii/ Sun, 21 Nov 2021 20:22:45 -0800 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_89_the_palace_of_ice_part_iii/ Securing the heavy door, the party decided to risk a short rest in the collapsed chamber. Magnus, true to form, immediately fell to napping and was asleep in moments. As the party bandaged wounds and collected their gear, Sirlius was surprised to see Magnus’s recumbent form first flicker, then vanish completely. https://froghat.club/campaigns/castle_mystery/castle_mystery_part_iv/ Thu, 11 Nov 2021 17:10:14 -0800 https://froghat.club/campaigns/castle_mystery/castle_mystery_part_iv/ Their long rest complete, the party decided to take care of some business before setting back out into the castle. Pistachio had been able to build a new steel defender using miscellaneous parts from the weapon and armor strewn about the store room. https://froghat.club/campaigns/castle_mystery/castle_mystery_part_iii/ Tue, 26 Oct 2021 19:03:51 -0700 https://froghat.club/campaigns/castle_mystery/castle_mystery_part_iii/ The party immediately began attempting to free the trapped figures from the stasis pod, though they were harried by the sounds of snarls echoing up from the well and heavy footfalls encroaching from the stairs. https://froghat.club/campaigns/castle_mystery/castle_mystery_part_ii/ Mon, 04 Oct 2021 20:08:27 -0700 https://froghat.club/campaigns/castle_mystery/castle_mystery_part_ii/ While the party proceeded to explore the rest of the castle, Cithrel and Dahlia doubled back and freed Xinas from his stasis pod. Upon questioning, Cithrel offered information regarding her research into the missing villagers, the premises, and the previous tenants who mysteriously disappeared a few years prior - the Chasteler family. https://froghat.club/campaigns/castle_mystery/castle_mystery_part_i/ Mon, 20 Sep 2021 20:58:27 -0700 https://froghat.club/campaigns/castle_mystery/castle_mystery_part_i/ The village of Galehaven has been plagued by mysterious disappearances for the last few months. It started first with smaller creatures and the occasional livestock, but now it has progressed to villagers. https://froghat.club/posts/betrayed/ Mon, 06 Sep 2021 09:54:21 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/betrayed/ We came for our Lady, though she knew it not. We reject the false balance; Winter is no opposite but a blight, and M– no queen but a guttersnipe whore. We would have freed the Fey of her tyranny and restore the Garden of Chaos, the Rapture of Summer Growth Unending. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_88_the_palace_of_ice_part_ii/ Mon, 06 Sep 2021 08:51:50 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_88_the_palace_of_ice_part_ii/ Magnus stepped forward to pick up the sword, but out of sorts and more careless than usual, was surprised to find himself engulfed by a Gelatinous Ice Cube, all but invisible in the passageway. https://froghat.club/beastiary/icy_ooze/ Fri, 03 Sep 2021 17:12:48 -0700 https://froghat.club/beastiary/icy_ooze/ An Icy Ooze is solid ice transformed into a thick, viscous liquid by the raw arcane nature of the Feywild. When it moves, it slithers like a liquid snake, rising to strike. https://froghat.club/beastiary/gelatinous_ice/ Fri, 03 Sep 2021 16:25:41 -0700 https://froghat.club/beastiary/gelatinous_ice/ A Gelatinous Ice Cube is solid ice transformed into a thick, viscous liquid by the raw arcane nature of the Feywild. Huge colonies of Icy Oozes – and their larger, more terrifying counterparts, the Gelatinous Ice Cubes – can be found far to wintershins in the Feywild, moving through the deep recesses of the Shatterspine Mountains. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_87_the_palace_of_ice_part_i/ Wed, 01 Sep 2021 20:41:52 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_87_the_palace_of_ice_part_i/ The party left the ruins of Amouradiath, set upon their journey into the heart of Winter itself, there to find the Palace of Ice, the seat of Mab’s power over the Unseelie Court. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_86_oh_rats/ Sun, 08 Aug 2021 07:50:21 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_86_oh_rats/ Hundreds of cranium rats swarmed around the party. To their horror, they merged into a golem with elongated arms, thick legs and a massive central mass all formed of writhing, crawling rats. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_85_into_the_feywild_part_ix/ Wed, 14 Jul 2021 21:20:00 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_85_into_the_feywild_part_ix/ Magnus stepped up beside Whisper to observe the shadows moving under the water, but could see nothing. With a shrug he turned his back to the water’s edge, and was promptly snatched up in the jaws of a reptilian horror – the Laughing Hydra, a multi-headed serpent that made its lair in the Laughing Swamps. https://froghat.club/beastiary/laughing_hydra/ Sun, 11 Jul 2021 09:13:25 -0700 https://froghat.club/beastiary/laughing_hydra/ The laughing hydra is a fey reptilian horror with a crocodilian body and multiple heads on long, serpentine necks. Although its heads can be severed, the hydra magically regrows them in short order. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_84_into_the_feywild_part_viii/ Sat, 26 Jun 2021 13:16:35 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_84_into_the_feywild_part_viii/ The party left the Freeling Hideaway fortress, and found Peaseblossom, their fey giant friend, in his usual task of sweeping the front steps. Yuna, remembering the magic rock he had which allowed him to planeshift into the Material Plane while looking for his lost hat, thought to ask if he still had it and intended to borrow it to get home. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_83_into_the_feywild_part_vii/ Sat, 26 Jun 2021 12:20:44 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_83_into_the_feywild_part_vii/ The party – all save Keen – completed their rest, and together they made their way back through the Sphinx’s labyrinth and up the stairs to the Assembly Hall. As they went, they discussed what three questions they would ask of Azam. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_82_into_the_feywild_part_vi/ Sat, 26 Jun 2021 11:32:55 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_82_into_the_feywild_part_vi/ As Magnus and Ara attempted to navigate the sand pit, their companions waited on the other side of the solid stone wall. Before long Keen grew bored and snuck off to investigate the other forks in the tunnel. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_81_into_the_feywild_part_v/ Wed, 05 May 2021 20:52:31 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_81_into_the_feywild_part_v/ Peaseblossom, the Fey Giant the party had encountered on Uman’s 7th looking for his hat – the titular Hat of True Frog – greeted the party warmly. A circuitous conversation followed, and from him the heroes learned that this fortress was not in the Feywild at all, though the giant was unable just where precisely they were. https://froghat.club/posts/the_trials_of_gofa_the_mighty/ Fri, 30 Apr 2021 14:41:39 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/the_trials_of_gofa_the_mighty/ Gofa the Mighty came to the mountain fortress of Azam the Seer to demand the knowledge to defeat his enemies. But Azam denied him, for the Seer took little notice of the affairs of the world. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_80_into_the_feywild_part_iv/ Sun, 18 Apr 2021 20:06:47 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_80_into_the_feywild_part_iv/ The party attempted to pull Ara from the whirlwind that was whipping about him, but were unable to penetrate the wind – Whisper and Sirlius tried to grab him but were blown backwards and landed in a heap. https://froghat.club/posts/five_tales_of_ara_am_akiir/ Thu, 15 Apr 2021 19:29:57 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/five_tales_of_ara_am_akiir/ One It is the year 2392 ME. The town of Kessian, on the shores of the eponymous Lake is happy, prosperous, and safe. Harvests are bountiful, the weather mild and the many dangers of Telisar seem to give the place a wide birth. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_78_into_the_feywild_part_ii/ Sun, 11 Apr 2021 09:33:26 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_78_into_the_feywild_part_ii/ From the Treant the party confirmed Magnus’s earlier insights regarding travel in the Feywild – it requires intent, and foreknowledge of the location. It also said the location must wish to be found, suggesting the intentionality of the space goes both ways. https://froghat.club/posts/the_library_of_amouradiath/ Fri, 02 Apr 2021 17:42:15 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/the_library_of_amouradiath/ As you crest the top of the hill, you see a plain of large flowers stretching out before you, something like sunflowers but taller, with droopy blue petals and umber pistils. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_77_into_the_feywild_part_i/ Sun, 07 Mar 2021 20:46:38 -0800 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_77_into_the_feywild_part_i/ The party tumbled through the portal and found themselves by the side of a well-travelled road which cutting through a clearing in a dense forest not dissimilar to the Forest of Stars. https://froghat.club/posts/the_signpost/ Fri, 05 Mar 2021 17:02:16 -0800 https://froghat.club/posts/the_signpost/ The various arrows read: Wendell’s Rock Amouradiath Vakaralithien The Shifting Sands Incessant Babbling The Teeth That Look Like Rocks The Crystal Palace of Enduring Sadness Perfectly Normal House Draconia But Not The One You’re Thinking Of Shimmers You Are Here The Death of Stars Horseman’s Regret The Freeling Hideaway Cliffs of Insanity Certain Doom Uncertain Doom Too-Bright Woods Rillifane’s Respite Florin The Dream of a Thousand Cats It’s a Secret to Everyone The Swamp Where It Is Isn’t! https://froghat.club/posts/zandilar_danced_summerwise/ Fri, 05 Mar 2021 16:33:33 -0800 https://froghat.club/posts/zandilar_danced_summerwise/ Zandilar danced summerwise To the dawnward side of twilight She twirled and skipped from frost to veld Until the snows were melt Zandilar danced wintershins While the Weaver’s daughters shone Her toes tripped ‘pon the starlit snows Beneath Mab’s very nose https://froghat.club/posts/episode_76_sirlius_and_the_zu_yexa_keso/ Sun, 21 Feb 2021 22:14:53 -0800 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_76_sirlius_and_the_zu_yexa_keso/ Following the path south, Ara led the party into a denser portion of the forest, marked by huge stone outcroppings and many hills, the ground growing steady beneath their feet. As the day wore on, the temperature warmed, and the snow turned to sleet and a dense fog came about them, obscuring their vision. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_75_traded_favours/ Sat, 06 Feb 2021 16:27:37 -0800 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_75_traded_favours/ The old woman trudged through the snow with the party following behind. As the wan daylight gave way to dusk, they arrived at an unassuming cottage nestled beneath a bluff. As they approached the woman was greeted by two excited skeletal canines, their green-flamed skulls chattering happily. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_74_three_owlbears_and_a_worm/ Mon, 01 Feb 2021 21:46:54 -0800 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_74_three_owlbears_and_a_worm/ The passageway led deep into the earth, twisting and turning for some time before intersecting with another of large, rounded burrowed tunnel similar to the one the party noticed as they exited the Wanderer’s Temple. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_73_the_sentinel_in_darkness/ Sun, 10 Jan 2021 20:11:50 -0800 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_73_the_sentinel_in_darkness/ Magnus drew his attention away from the residium dust and considered the temple. Drawing on a dim memory of a lecture he heard centuries ago in the El Astrum Public Library, he realized that this place was a Wanderer’s Temple: an ancient, sanctified space built by Dragonborn adventurers for millenia to provide aid and succor to those who would come after. https://froghat.club/beastiary/sentinel_in_darkness/ Sat, 09 Jan 2021 13:00:59 -0800 https://froghat.club/beastiary/sentinel_in_darkness/ Deep in the hidden parts of the world, the Dragonborn built sanctified temples designed to provide aid and succor to those who came after them. Three offerings are made available to those who enter a Wanderer’s Temple, guarded by the Sentinel in Darkness: a stone construct in the form of a 10ft tall, four-armed, blindfolded Dragonborn. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_72_snow_sand_and_shadow/ Sun, 03 Jan 2021 19:54:23 -0800 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_72_snow_sand_and_shadow/ Through the power of the Residium Binding Telepathy, Yuna and Magnus could feel, though they could not see, Ara and Keen teleporting erratically from point to point in the fog, now hundreds of feet west, now dozens south, now hundreds north, all the while being attacked by the tiny glowing orbs of light. https://froghat.club/posts/the_offerings/ Fri, 01 Jan 2021 09:48:32 -0800 https://froghat.club/posts/the_offerings/ Arranged in a half-circle before you are five stone bowls each 2ft in diameter and 6 inches deep and resting upon a low stone plinth. Into the stone of each plinth is carved the names of five prominent Dragonborn dieties in Draconic. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_71_fog_will_tear_us_apart/ Sun, 13 Dec 2020 20:56:35 -0800 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_71_fog_will_tear_us_apart/ After a much-needed night of rest at the Temple of Mimir the party made haste to leave the city. As they traveled to the 7th tier they debated whether they should press forward with their quest to retrieve the shards of the Heart of Bahamut and seek passage into the Feywild or detour into the underdark beneath their manor home and attempt to locate the source of the curse that has plagued them since uncovering Solafein Margoleth’s hidden cache of platinum. https://froghat.club/beastiary/will_o_wisp_stalker/ Sat, 12 Dec 2020 12:57:41 -0800 https://froghat.club/beastiary/will_o_wisp_stalker/ Will-O'-Wisp Stalkers are usually found in deep in forests, swamps, and bogs where their magical fog can be mistaken as normal weather and lure unsuspecting victims to their death. They will not attack large groups, preferring to first confuse targets with hallucinations and then rely on the Culling Fog to isolate targets. https://froghat.club/posts/the_stone_is_standing/ Fri, 11 Dec 2020 19:14:04 -0800 https://froghat.club/posts/the_stone_is_standing/ The stone is standing Where water is breaking The sentinel in darkness Protects the path The stone is standing Where hills are rising The Green Way Arch Atop the stairway of bone https://froghat.club/posts/episode_70_the_truth_or_something_like_it/ Sun, 06 Dec 2020 10:29:26 -0800 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_70_the_truth_or_something_like_it/ Returned to Telisar by the Mad Mage as abruptly as they were taken, the party found themselves meeting the dawn of a new day at Whisper’s tower – all but Whisper herself, who was returned to the streets of Uman. https://froghat.club/posts/the_schism/ Fri, 27 Nov 2020 10:07:43 -0800 https://froghat.club/posts/the_schism/ The history of the Tiefling race as promoted by the great Tiefling scholar Pheseis Eternal has achieved the status of orthodoxy and is generally considered, by anyone bothering to consider the matter, as accepted historical fact. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_68_wraitherbusters/ Sat, 14 Nov 2020 19:11:50 -0800 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_68_wraitherbusters/ The party was surprised to find themselves whisked away from combat in the deep snows around Whisper’s tower to a small stone chamber filled with arcane sigils. Whisper too was plucked from the streets of Uman, leaving a bewildered Reva Soonrop behind. https://froghat.club/beastiary/compound_mimic/ Sat, 14 Nov 2020 13:17:29 -0800 https://froghat.club/beastiary/compound_mimic/ Compound mimics are the unnatural result of concentrated arcane energies infecting the hunting grounds of regular mimics. They are found in dungeons, wizards towers, sewers and other urban areas subjected to high-energy magic for long periods of time. https://froghat.club/beastiary/gozer/ Thu, 29 Oct 2020 22:00:33 -0700 https://froghat.club/beastiary/gozer/ “Then, during the Third Reconciliation of the Last of the Meketrex Supplicants, they chose a new form for him, that of a giant sloar! Many Shubs and Zulls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of a sloar that day, I can tell you! https://froghat.club/beastiary/haunted_library/ Thu, 29 Oct 2020 19:50:45 -0700 https://froghat.club/beastiary/haunted_library/ The Haunted Library of the Mad Mage is a towering, 100ft-tall space of twisted, looping staircases, a labyrinth of shelves and full to bursting with books on every topic conceivable. It is also ruled by the Librarian, a Class 5 Full Roaming Vapor that values silence and order. https://froghat.club/posts/enchanted_leather_jumpsuit/ Sat, 24 Oct 2020 20:17:31 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/enchanted_leather_jumpsuit/ This baggy, ill-fitting jumpsuit made of soft beige leather is surprisingly effective protection against physical and arcane damage. It stains easily, though. https://froghat.club/posts/yuna_s_dream/ Sun, 18 Oct 2020 21:27:35 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/yuna_s_dream/ Your mother stands before you, watching your childhood home burn. You call to her, but she does not respond, You reach out, touch her shoulder to turn her away from the flames, but try as you will she only has her back to you. https://froghat.club/posts/whisper_s_dream/ Sun, 18 Oct 2020 21:15:27 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/whisper_s_dream/ It’s gone! It was here! It was right… You search frantically through the treasure of entire lifetime, knee-high on the floor. Baubles, trinkets, toys and tools and wondrous artefacts fly left and right as you become more panicked. https://froghat.club/posts/sirlius_s_dream/ Sun, 18 Oct 2020 21:06:47 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/sirlius_s_dream/ You stand in the middle of an empty street, the city looming and twisting all about you. Everywhere is iron, black and pitted. Gates, doors, window frames, roof tiles, gargoyles, all blackened, covered in ferric soot. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_67_leverage/ Sun, 18 Oct 2020 20:18:02 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_67_leverage/ The party slowly, stealthily made their way through the streets of Uman and successfully retreated back to Whisper’s tower, outside the walls and across the Throm. They quickly set to work on trying to break the cipher protecting the contents of Madame Elethi’s ledger, knowing that their freedom depended on providing Bartok Brescht an alternative to declaring them responsible for the murder of nearly 50 people at Elethi’s tower. https://froghat.club/posts/p_k_e_meter/ Wed, 07 Oct 2020 21:41:09 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/p_k_e_meter/ This small, hand-held device consists of a glass orb in a brass setting mounted upon the wood-and-leather handle of a wooden clockwork mechanism. Two ratcheting brass arms protrude from the top of the device to either side, each with 5 corundum chips embedded in them. https://froghat.club/posts/box_of_incorporeal_imprisonment/ Wed, 07 Oct 2020 19:08:38 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/box_of_incorporeal_imprisonment/ This iron-banded wooden box, 12" by 4" by 4", has a raised handle and four small wheels, and is connected to a small pressure switch at the end of a long flexible air hose. https://froghat.club/posts/residium_accelerator_pack/ Tue, 06 Oct 2020 21:10:12 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/residium_accelerator_pack/ The Residium Accelerator Pack is a two-handed magical weapon designed to restrain free-roaming vapors, spooks, spectres and ghosts on the Material Plane. It consists of a steel wand embedded into a wooden battle-axe handle grip, with a residium crystal tip. https://froghat.club/beastiary/slimer/ Tue, 06 Oct 2020 19:41:07 -0700 https://froghat.club/beastiary/slimer/ A focused, non-terminal repeating phantasm, Slimer is the green, partially-translucent ghost of King Remils the Gluttonous. The dwarfs of Thorimfel say that Remils so loved food that he ate himself to death at his own coronation banquet, and was doomed to haunt his own castle grounds, hungry for all eternity. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_66_politics_and_justice/ Sun, 04 Oct 2020 19:11:36 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_66_politics_and_justice/ Ara and Yuna closed on the vampire spawn to defend Magnus while Keen assisted Whisper and Sirlius in scaling the shaft. The vampire was quickly dispatched, and the party briefly debated returning to Elethi’s vault to see what else could be retrieved from the supply cache, before Keen, Whisper and Sirlius simply climbed back down the rope. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_65_the_instruments_of_debt/ Sat, 19 Sep 2020 20:20:16 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_65_the_instruments_of_debt/ Sabetha quickly approached the tower and entered without invitation, greeting the party with a silent, expectant look. Whisper produced Madame Elethi’s ledger, and passed it over. Taking it, Sabetha commented in her odd telepathic voice that she almost couldn’t believe it: the party has against all probability slain Madame Elethi, an ancient and powerful vampire that has held the political world of Uman under her thumb for centuries, and here in her hands she holds the proof. https://froghat.club/posts/elethi_s_vault/ Fri, 18 Sep 2020 19:51:58 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/elethi_s_vault/ The circular lift ends its descent at a small landing before an archway of stone leading to a low-ceilinged room about 60 feet across: Madame Elethi’s Vault. Bolted to the stone of the archway is a plaque, with a curious inscription and an oddly-shaped lightning bolt inscribed with small circles. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_64_the_longest_rest/ Sun, 06 Sep 2020 14:38:19 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_64_the_longest_rest/ Having escaped the grounds of Madame Elethi’s Finishing School For Girls unseen, the party decided to hastily leave the area. As they made their way through the 4th Tier, eastwards towards the Grand Stair, they saw a pair of guards racing from the main gate of the school ahead of them to alert the city Watch – apparently evidence of their encounter with the erstwhile Madame Elethi had been discovered. https://froghat.club/posts/the_fey_courts/ Fri, 04 Sep 2020 17:46:32 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/the_fey_courts/ The Feywild is ruled, to the extent a plane of existence composed of semi-material, nondeterministic manifestations of story can be ruled at all, by two opposing royal courts: Summer, and Winter. https://froghat.club/posts/myrndottir_s_marvelous_menagerie/ Thu, 03 Sep 2020 22:10:04 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/myrndottir_s_marvelous_menagerie/ A hand-made wood and brass statuette 4" in diameter and 12" tall, depicting a duck, riding a monkey, riding a pig. There is a switch on the back of the figurine with three positions, one for each animal. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_63_madame_elethis_ledger_part_iii/ Sun, 23 Aug 2020 19:36:37 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_63_madame_elethis_ledger_part_iii/ Now then," said Madame Elethi, “Mr. Keen, perhaps we can speak without reservations, as friends do. Let us discuss the possibility of working together, to our mutual benefit, yes?” “Keen?” said Sirlius, in a worried tone. https://froghat.club/beastiary/madame_elethi/ Sat, 22 Aug 2020 09:45:07 -0700 https://froghat.club/beastiary/madame_elethi/ https://froghat.club/posts/the_slaying_of_enod_al_usaloth/ Fri, 21 Aug 2020 12:01:14 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/the_slaying_of_enod_al_usaloth/ As Thorus tells it, the Dead Wastes were once not as they are now, harsh and barren and dry, but a great inland sea. At the centre of the sea was an island, and upon it, glittering like a jewael, was the Elven city of Usaloth. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_62_madame_elethis_ledger_part_ii/ Sun, 09 Aug 2020 20:27:36 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_62_madame_elethis_ledger_part_ii/ Yuna landed hard on the surface of the water, Whisper’s Water Walking spell saving her from submerging. It did nothing to protect her from the swarm of undead rats that rose up out of the murky waterway and began attacking. https://froghat.club/beastiary/swarm_of_undead_rats/ Sat, 08 Aug 2020 11:04:09 -0700 https://froghat.club/beastiary/swarm_of_undead_rats/ Wherever powerful undead creatures lurk, a single dead rat might be reanimated by the ambient necrotic energy in the area. Thus warped and twisted, the undead rat can overtake its living counterparts and rapidly multiply into an infestation of hundreds or thousands. https://froghat.club/posts/madame_elethis_ledger/ Fri, 07 Aug 2020 17:59:16 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/madame_elethis_ledger/ Page 26 94 M07L HEVMBEJLA 35 21 78 89 87 94 S01B TERINEVF 55 13 18 84 75 93 W13B NENEN 78 69 50 56 59 93 M12R URYREVR 48 35 61 27 40 92 T09O MLYCUVAR 68 35 97 40 23 92 S31F DHVYRGU 44 95 53 28 30 91 S41L SHYBZNE 87 43 21 18 99 91 F35L ZHAVE 25 14 11 58 65 91 W18O XVEHMNEN 64 33 25 33 60 90 M22F CHLVZVEN 14 35 95 34 72 90 M22F OEVGV 90 92 89 64 43 89 S01F FNORGUN 90 31 65 26 80 88 W13E XRGBZNE 14 98 87 68 65 88 F35R EBURTHE 60 75 97 50 12 87 T09S TLANENY 79 22 47 66 39 Page 247 3. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_61_madame_elethis_ledger_part_i/ Sun, 26 Jul 2020 12:01:09 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_61_madame_elethis_ledger_part_i/ As the party made ready to leave the manor and pursue their task of retrieving Madame Elethi’s ledger, the were greeted with the grisly sight of the corpse of the Brother Initiate of the Martial Order of Bahamut, which they had pushed outside the door and left overnight. https://froghat.club/posts/bartok_brescht/ Sun, 12 Jul 2020 10:09:56 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/bartok_brescht/ Bartok Brescht is the Captain-General of the Uman City Watch and the leader of House Brescht, one of the seven ruling families of Uman. He is a towering, imposing half-orc standing 6'6" with broad shoulders and a powerful, barrel-chested physique. https://froghat.club/posts/jules/ Tue, 30 Jun 2020 03:18:57 +0000 https://froghat.club/posts/jules/ Born Julia Ultardottir, Jules (she/her or they) is a non-binary Dwarven rogue, standing 4'6 with the stocky build typical of her kind, though years as a message runner has built a leaner, more wiry musculature. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_60_ara_and_the_storm/ Sun, 28 Jun 2020 19:56:32 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_60_ara_and_the_storm/ The party fairly collapsed into rest in the hours before dawn on the 1st of the Fox. A light snow started as Ara kept watched and listened to the city slowly quiet after the terrors of the night. https://froghat.club/posts/sabetha/ Sun, 28 Jun 2020 13:17:25 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/sabetha/ A graduate of Madame Elethi’s Finishing School For Girls, Sabetha (she/her) is a refined, educated and brilliant woman. A gifted dancer, she performs often at Zandilar’s, the club and casino owned by Madame Elethi. https://froghat.club/posts/draconic_runecasting/ Mon, 22 Jun 2020 21:30:22 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/draconic_runecasting/ The Dragonborn of Telisar had a highly advanced magical tradition millenia before others. Runecasting consists of the arrangement of individual runes into complex forms that focus and channel raw magical energies into coherent spells. https://froghat.club/posts/hat_of_true_frog/ Mon, 22 Jun 2020 21:04:56 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/hat_of_true_frog/ A small green leather skullcap, with two bulbous white eyes atop it and a chin strap whose clasp is reminiscent of a three-toed frog’s feet. Keen obtained this artifact by cheating Lord Shimmerscale, a fairy dragon living in the Feywild, at cards. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_59_the_wizard_the_demon_the_dream_and_the_dancer/ Mon, 15 Jun 2020 20:22:52 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_59_the_wizard_the_demon_the_dream_and_the_dancer/ The demon incursion seemingly stopped and the great fiery alnaar demon possessed by a living dream of Vaxrithar the mad beholder sent north at Magnus’s command, the party slowly made their way from the 2nd Tier down the Great Stair of Uman. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_58_magnus_and_the_demon_snake/ Sun, 31 May 2020 13:44:19 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_58_magnus_and_the_demon_snake/ Keen slept, beginning his long recovery from the ordeal of resurrection. The rest of the party engaged in such minor celebrations of the Festival of the Hunt as they could, exchanging gifts and enjoying the festival foods Magnus had had delivered earlier in the day, though the ridiculously oversized, curved dining room table made this awkward. https://froghat.club/posts/the_reign_of_pharaun_the_mad/ Sun, 31 May 2020 10:26:02 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/the_reign_of_pharaun_the_mad/ Drow history and lore are comingled and difficult to tease apart, and reliable accounts are hard to come by. Nevertheless due in part to the long life of elvenkind, knowledge of events of millenia past can be unearthed. https://froghat.club/beastiary/acid_ant_queen/ Wed, 20 May 2020 21:18:46 -0700 https://froghat.club/beastiary/acid_ant_queen/ https://froghat.club/beastiary/acid_ant/ Wed, 20 May 2020 20:55:06 -0700 https://froghat.club/beastiary/acid_ant/ Acid Ants are rare, predatory insects native to hot climates, especially jungles and rain forests. Each one is the size of a small dog, standing up to 18 inches tall, 32 inches long and weighing up to 25 pounds. https://froghat.club/beastiary/vaxrithar_unshackled/ Wed, 20 May 2020 20:31:20 -0700 https://froghat.club/beastiary/vaxrithar_unshackled/ Vaxrithar is a beholder that was captured, chained, and pressed into service as part of the Pashtum Bank’s vault security system, its face and eye stalks held fast, protruding from the ceiling of an antechamber to the vault itself. https://froghat.club/beastiary/swarm_of_stonebreaker_spiders/ Wed, 20 May 2020 20:12:47 -0700 https://froghat.club/beastiary/swarm_of_stonebreaker_spiders/ The stonebreaker is a small spider, not more than 2cm in length at adulthood, with grey-brown mottled carapace and two sets of mandibles. The stonebreaker lives in colonies burrowed deep inside rock, stone and old masonry. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_57_the_death_of_keen_part_ii/ Sun, 17 May 2020 20:38:30 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_57_the_death_of_keen_part_ii/ Keen’s soul sat on the Shore, watching the black waves lick the black sand. After a time, he was joined by Abel, his erstwhile partner in the Spectacular Spectacular, and perhaps, until recently, his only true friend. https://froghat.club/beastiary/peaseblossom/ Sat, 16 May 2020 15:06:00 -0700 https://froghat.club/beastiary/peaseblossom/ Fey Giants vary widely in appearance and characteristics, but are generally huge, standing over 15ft, monstrously strong, naturally resistant to all forms of magic, and outright immune to transmutation spells. They also tend to be dim-witted and easily fooled, making them the frequent targets of jest and trickery in the Fey courts, but are formidable opponents when enraged, so all but the most capricious of fey accord them a formal respect – and a wide berth. https://froghat.club/posts/death_and_resurrection/ Thu, 14 May 2020 21:55:47 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/death_and_resurrection/ While there is no actual prohibition against the raising of the dead in the orthodox religions of Telisar, the power to do so is extremely rare and it is generally understood that to truly raise the dead is Necromancy in its purest form, a violation of the natural order and an attempt to subvert Fate. https://froghat.club/posts/kings_of_uman/ Wed, 13 May 2020 15:37:47 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/kings_of_uman/ Kings of Uman is a dice bluffing game for two or more players in which the object is to lie your way to the top of social status in the great seven-tiered city of Uman. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_56_the_death_of_keen_part_i/ Sun, 03 May 2020 09:24:19 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_56_the_death_of_keen_part_i/ Keen, Yuna and Whisper, realizing they had disturbed some creature’s lair, decided to retreat out of the tunnel but before they could make much progress were set upon by dozens of stonebreaker spiders pouring out of tiny holes in the surrounding stone and rock. https://froghat.club/posts/gates_of_na_aldrathzil/ Fri, 01 May 2020 19:48:20 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/gates_of_na_aldrathzil/ HEREIN LIES THE DEAD REALM OF PHARAUN THE MAD FORSAKEN OF LOLTH FIRST AND ONLY KING OF UNDREK’THOZ KNOW HIS VISAGE AND BEWARE FOR ALL HIS WORKS ARE ACCURSED AND YE SHALL PROFIT ONLY RUIN BY THEM https://froghat.club/posts/episode_55_last_minute_holiday_shopping/ Sun, 19 Apr 2020 20:15:04 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_55_last_minute_holiday_shopping/ Whibraxis spent his brief visit with the party revealing the secrets of the Blood Memory, the genetic memory encoded in every member of the draconic race, and which grows more powerful and complete as the dragon matures. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_54_more_platinum_more_problems/ Sun, 12 Apr 2020 20:32:34 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_54_more_platinum_more_problems/ With the fallen aasimar Mera Maryndottir subdued by the Ring of Bliss, the party turned their consideration to how to escape from the compound. Yuna and Sirlius debated attempting to trick the religious mob outside the building into believing that Mera had released them. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_53_yuna_and_the_fallen_sister/ Sun, 05 Apr 2020 20:31:41 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_53_yuna_and_the_fallen_sister/ After a fitful long rest the party made ready to exit the mine shaft after their harrowing and bizarre jungle ordeal; their mission to rescue trapped miners apparently a failure. They made their way up the shaft, until they found it blocked by a cave-in. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_52_the_bird_lady_and_the_demon_tree/ Sun, 22 Mar 2020 11:06:46 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_52_the_bird_lady_and_the_demon_tree/ The voice was there again. How long had it been? Years. No matter. It spoke now, and it spoke in its same quiet urgency. Something was happening in the hills outside Uman. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_51_welcome_to_the_jungle/ Sun, 08 Mar 2020 19:03:19 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_51_welcome_to_the_jungle/ The party stood bewildered in the centre of dense jungle foliage. No indication of a portal, gateway, or illusion could be found; however they had arrived here, there appeared to be no way back to the collapsed mine shaft. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_50_the_plight_of_angels/ Sun, 23 Feb 2020 11:17:23 -0800 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_50_the_plight_of_angels/ The aasimar introduced herself as Mera Maryndottir, avatar and daughter of Drahni, God of the Hearth. She led the party over the hill and down into a compound where they saw groups of people engaged in various works: farming, planting, forging, building. https://froghat.club/posts/anoshka_and_the_demon_tree/ Mon, 17 Feb 2020 20:38:44 -0800 https://froghat.club/posts/anoshka_and_the_demon_tree/ The curved edge of her sikwa flashed. She dropped the thick, fibrous limoo stalks into a shallow flat-bottomed basket tied to her ankle and took one muddy step to the left. https://froghat.club/posts/mob_rules/ Mon, 03 Feb 2020 13:40:14 -0800 https://froghat.club/posts/mob_rules/ Our group plays over voice chat, with no battle map or visual aids, and my players can get confused when confronted with a large battlefield with many individual targets. To help large encounters run more smoothly, I devised the following rules for handling groups of enemies. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_49_a_pact_of_piggies/ Sun, 26 Jan 2020 09:35:36 -0800 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_49_a_pact_of_piggies/ Despite the protestations of the gnome Panaver Knacklebun, Bartok Brescht seemed reluctant to take the party into custody, and while irritated at their continued disregard for his warnings about their conduct, it was plain the guard captain-general disliked the snivelling gnome even more. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_48_the_heist_part_4/ Sun, 12 Jan 2020 13:50:44 -0800 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_48_the_heist_part_4/ The party briefly considered what to do with the beholder, a creature of unspeakable evil and terror, but a creature held prisoner for centuries. While they considered whether to kill the Beholder and ends its suffering, the Caretaker suddenly placed an empty bucket over his head and raced out of the chamber, muttering “balls balls balls balls. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_47_the_heist_part_3/ Sun, 08 Dec 2019 10:15:54 -0800 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_47_the_heist_part_3/ Ara, Keen, Sirlius and Yuna quickly reversed course back up the shaft as Magnus was yanked away from them. Ara, swiftest of foot, emerged first into the alcove to see Magnus grappled by a bizarre creature, its conical, rock-like form bearing close resemblance to a stalactite but for its horrible gaping eye, its toothy maw and its writhing tentacles. https://froghat.club/posts/the_revelation_of_rimmon_upon_the_material/ Mon, 25 Nov 2019 13:52:16 -0800 https://froghat.club/posts/the_revelation_of_rimmon_upon_the_material/ Yes, my dear, just there. Yes. Hmm? Ah, did our newest, the young Lord Pashtum not explain? How unfortunate. Still, you’re here now. Learn by doing, yes? I shall explain. What? https://froghat.club/posts/fools_pass_skill_challenge/ Sat, 16 Nov 2019 20:03:08 -0800 https://froghat.club/posts/fools_pass_skill_challenge/ The party (5 PCs at Level 6 at the time) was forewarned by an NPC that they would need to prepare for climbing. Taking the hint, they stole three sets of climbing gear and two potions of climbing from a couture sporting goods store (as you do). https://froghat.club/posts/episode_46_the_heist_part_2/ Sat, 16 Nov 2019 14:55:00 -0800 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_46_the_heist_part_2/ The Party met with Sabetha at midday as scheduled, and the mysterious tiefling led them through the back streets of Uman’s Westfalls 4th neighbourhoods. They followed a circuitous route until, at the base of the mountain wall at the westernmost edge of the tier they reached a narrow arched passageway that led inside the mountain itself. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_45_the_heist_part_1/ Sun, 03 Nov 2019 09:12:43 -0800 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_45_the_heist_part_1/ The assassins closed on the party in two groups and battle was joined. The assassins moved with a fluid, dancer-like martial grace which had the effect of confusing the eye and making it difficult for melee attackers to land a hit. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_44_plans_and_complications/ Sun, 20 Oct 2019 14:15:21 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_44_plans_and_complications/ Having successfully fought off Elethi’s Wards, a team of assassins sent to kill Keen on behalf of “Handsome” Henry Smalls, the party made their way down to the Forth Tier to find a place to rest and regroup in a tavern they could afford. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_43_the_haberdasher_interrupt/ Sun, 06 Oct 2019 09:35:06 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_43_the_haberdasher_interrupt/ The party tentatively approached the giant creature, whose search for a missing hat was causing incidental destruction and death in the Westfalls 7th as he collapsed buildings, scooped up and then dropped panicked citizens, and swung his outsized 3-bladed stone axe. https://froghat.club/dramatis_personae/ Sun, 22 Sep 2019 10:48:09 -0700 https://froghat.club/dramatis_personae/ Name Gender Race Description Last Known Whereabouts Notes Skonk M Goblin green skin, underbite, muscular, left ear torn Thorimfel Below (deceased) Led a party of Black Tack goblins to kidnap the party Drek M Kobold red skin, scrawny, nervous, stupid Greencrack Copper Mine Given the worst jobs by the Tribe Jules Ultarson NB Dwarf redhead, long braided beard Whitebridge Rogue; born Julia Utarson, child of Ultar Ultar Ultarson M Dwarf brown comb-over, freckles, fat, loud Whitebridge Owner of Greencrack Copper Mine; dotes on Jules but has trouble not deadnaming them Anthol the Elder M Dwarf Ancient, bald, liver spots, thick spectacles Whitebridge Former adventurer and arcanist; tends to fall asleep in conversation Lord Shimmerscale Fluid Fairy Dragon cat-sized, iridescent scales, wings like a dragonfly Feywild, location unknown Loves pranks, puzzles and games. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_42_a_perfectly_fine_tiefling/ Fri, 20 Sep 2019 23:24:56 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_42_a_perfectly_fine_tiefling/ Having dispatched the oblex that had taken the form of Lady Margoleth and her young wards, the party turned their attention immediately to their missing friend, Levani having been snatched away via magic during the fight. https://froghat.club/posts/the_diary_of_esme_margoleth/ Sun, 08 Sep 2019 13:38:38 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/the_diary_of_esme_margoleth/ Freydag, 40th of the Raven F.40.R It rained axebeaks yesterday! The poor things just falling out of the sky, making an awful mess. Some of the sevenfolk tried to pluck and roast them, Trumi said, though I guess this is easier said than done – the hides are tough as leather and taste rotten. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_41_the_truth_or_something_like_it/ Sat, 07 Sep 2019 20:30:23 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_41_the_truth_or_something_like_it/ With Tak securely stowed in Ara’s pack wearing the Hat of True Frog, the party returned to the Lovers' Lament to decide what to do with their prisoner, and their next steps. https://froghat.club/posts/the_truthseekers_or_down_and_out_on_the_westfalls_6th/ Sat, 24 Aug 2019 12:03:39 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/the_truthseekers_or_down_and_out_on_the_westfalls_6th/ I argued to my compatriots in the mine that if we banded together and demanded more equitable stakes in the profits, management would have to give in to us. They agreed, but someone did the math and realized that fewer shares meant more equity and ratted us out to the boss. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_40_levani_and_tak_reunited/ Sat, 24 Aug 2019 09:50:11 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_40_levani_and_tak_reunited/ Refusing to be poked by an ambulatory mummified hand all night, Keen slipped the Ring of Bliss – which he had managed to hide on his person after all, despite the party’s equipment being confiscated by the guards – onto the hand’s finger. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_39_the_costume_change/ Sat, 13 Jul 2019 07:35:15 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_39_the_costume_change/ Sabetha regarded Levani, and for a moment it seemed as if a clash was inevitable. But as tensions mounted the dancer suddenly sighed, snapped shut her fans, and pushing through the confused party sat at her dressing table and began to remove her stage makeup. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_38_on_the_trail_of_a_thief/ Sat, 29 Jun 2019 10:43:29 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_38_on_the_trail_of_a_thief/ Before leaving the town of Whitebridge, the party spent some time investigating the abandoned shops and manor homes, looking for supplies and things of value. Ara found a bundle of yew-wood longbow shafts in the blacksmith’s shop. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_37_the_liberation_of_whitebridge_part_ii/ Sat, 15 Jun 2019 13:11:33 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_37_the_liberation_of_whitebridge_part_ii/ The party began rushing to the Mayor’s residence to help Keen, although Levani, aware of the fact that they were running headlong into a burning building with a dragon inside, followed at a distance. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_36_the_liberation_of_whitebridge_part_i/ Sat, 01 Jun 2019 13:46:13 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_36_the_liberation_of_whitebridge_part_i/ The party made ready and followed Jules out into the frigid winter night. The plan: sneak their way up Coin Row, the wealthy district of Whitebridge, avoiding the mobs of goblin looters where possible, to the Mayor’s residence. https://froghat.club/maps/ Sat, 25 May 2019 17:33:16 +0000 https://froghat.club/maps/ A map of the Thorimfel Plateau in northern Telisar, hand-drawn, of dubious accuracy. Purchased by Ara from Anthol's Amazing Arcana. A map of the Thorimfel Plateau in northern Telisar, hand-drawn, of dubious accuracy. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_35_the_burden_of_choice/ Sat, 18 May 2019 17:32:43 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_35_the_burden_of_choice/ The party continued to discuss their options: continue their quest to recover the shards of Bahamut and “Save the universe,” as Anansus the Trickster god described it, or further delay their search to find some way to liberate Whitebridge from the hordes of goblins and their hobgoblin taskmasters that had taken over the vacant town. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_34_behind_enemy_lines/ Sat, 04 May 2019 11:34:23 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_34_behind_enemy_lines/ Battered and exhausted from his battle with the Fist of the North Wind, and overwhelmed by the revelations surrounding his ancestry, Ara retreated to relative privacy for a time to rest. https://froghat.club/posts/some_of_the_truth/ Sun, 28 Apr 2019 15:22:00 +0000 https://froghat.club/posts/some_of_the_truth/ Since life is a dream I think I’ll stop eating and drinking so much," he told me, “do some ethereal daydreaming instead. Go in the mansion of the mind and close all the doors, not traveling in the back of this cart for 5 days & 5 nights, broke. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_33_convergence/ Sat, 20 Apr 2019 14:32:00 +0000 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_33_convergence/ At the moment Keen’s knife was drawn across his throat, Magnus found himself standing next to himself, watching as if in tableau. Next to him stood a young human-looking woman with pale white skin, long black hair, and black leathers. https://froghat.club/posts/concerning_the_akiiri_fist/ Thu, 18 Apr 2019 20:53:44 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/concerning_the_akiiri_fist/ El Akiir was the name given to a group of five Elven cities in the Last Age, united under the rule of King Orin, a mage of great power. Orin’s secret police were known as the Fist; a team of five warriors, one in each city, tasked with keeping the peace and protecting Orin’s rule. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_32_consequences_and_complications/ Fri, 05 Apr 2019 23:48:00 +0000 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_32_consequences_and_complications/ Yuna’s Revivify spell was successful, returning Magnus from death and in so doing freeing him of his geas. But all was not well; as the party watched in terror, his left arm withered, becoming a twisted, dessicated thing that resembled mummified flesh, parchment-thin skin stretched over bone. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_31_death_is_a_heavy_trip/ Sat, 23 Mar 2019 17:24:00 +0000 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_31_death_is_a_heavy_trip/ The party continued their deliberations, debating ways to release Magnus from his servitude to the El Astrum Public Library in general and the necromancer Banu in particular, without surrendering the residium. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_30_f_magnus_magnusson_pashtum/ Sat, 09 Mar 2019 09:00:00 +0000 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_30_f_magnus_magnusson_pashtum/ Driven by the loss of the Dragonhead, Keen and Levani pursued the fleeing tiefling thief, and Ara went with them. They picked up the trail of the strange woman further back in the ruins of the buried Dwarven city through which they had been travelling, but the trail ended in a cramped basement in which the woman had inscribed, and used, a teleportation circle. https://froghat.club/posts/the-library-card/ Wed, 06 Mar 2019 17:11:16 +0000 https://froghat.club/posts/the-library-card/ EL ASTRUM PUBLIC LIBRARY MEMBER CARD The bearer of this card, FELURIUS MAGNUS MAGNUSSON PASHTUM is hereby granted restricted access to all public collection materia marked for lending in accordance with Library Statue 36 and is permitted, upon presenting this card, to remove such materia from the grounds of the El Astrum Public Library for a period not exceeding 45 DAYS. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_29_three_goblins_and_a_thief/ Fri, 22 Feb 2019 23:00:00 +0000 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_29_three_goblins_and_a_thief/ Skaggark, Skaggit and Skarsgaard, referred to as the Three by the other goblins of the Black Tack tribe, attempted to bolster their defenses against the party with magical spells. Skaggark created a sticky web to restrain Magnus and seal off the window, and began to yell for help. https://froghat.club/posts/religion-myth-and-folklore/ Sat, 16 Feb 2019 20:33:00 +0000 https://froghat.club/posts/religion-myth-and-folklore/ The Five When the Dwarven explorer and iconoclast Ereland Wavebreaker and his followers arrived at Wodenshore at the start of the Modern Era, they found in the Dragonborn tribes' tales close parallels to several cults of the Old Era they brought with them: gods and goddesses of Law, War, Knowledge, etc. https://froghat.club/posts/inns_and_taverns/ Sat, 16 Feb 2019 10:22:22 +0000 https://froghat.club/posts/inns_and_taverns/ Inns and Taverns in Telisar are named after the Major Arcana of the Tarot, for no reason other than it amuses me. Some establishments' names refer directly to figures from Telisaran myth and folklore, the context of which implies the Major Arcana connection. https://froghat.club/posts/mimir-and-the-farmers-son/ Wed, 13 Feb 2019 21:21:00 +0000 https://froghat.club/posts/mimir-and-the-farmers-son/ There was once a farmer (or so Mimir tells it) who was a good man, who worked hard, who had a wise and kindly wife and a fine young son. For many long years the farmer tended the land; his crops grew tall and strong, and his wife, a healer, tended to the community, and it too flourished. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_28_ambushed/ Fri, 08 Feb 2019 23:49:00 +0000 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_28_ambushed/ Keen awoke from a deep sleep, totally unware of events that had transpired around him. The party decided not to remain near the Myconid Colony’s central nexus and, leaving the Djinn/Myconid hybrid behind, made their way into a maze of tunnels they knew would eventually lead to their goal, the Residium crystal deposit. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_27.5_keens_and_ginny/ Wed, 06 Feb 2019 22:40:25 +0000 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_27.5_keens_and_ginny/ While the rest of the party engages with the Myconid Colony and its war against the Deurgar Zombies in the present day, Keen finds himself reliving his past, specifically the events that culminated in a turning point in his life, when the man he was became…someone else. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_27_myconids_and_zombies_and_djinns_oh_my/ Fri, 25 Jan 2019 23:29:00 +0000 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_27_myconids_and_zombies_and_djinns_oh_my/ Adrift in the joy of the collective consciousness of a myconid colony deep in the Underdark, the party struggled to retain their sense of individuality. The myconids sensed the coming of what they termed a False Joy, some invasion intent on the destruction of their colony, and were preparing to defend its nexus against this threat. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_26_thorimfel_below/ Fri, 11 Jan 2019 23:22:30 +0000 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_26_thorimfel_below/ The party made camp in the cavern beneath the Stone Forest, to rest and regain strength before pushing on into the Underdark. The watch went quietly, except when a nightmarish vision of “Handsome” Henry Smalls, the Goliath ringleader of the Spectacular Spectacular, the traveling circus of which Keen was formerly a part, spilled out of his dreams and into reality. https://froghat.club/posts/myconids_vs_zombies/ Sun, 06 Jan 2019 09:35:00 +0000 https://froghat.club/posts/myconids_vs_zombies/ The Myconid colony is being threatened by zombies! Deurgar are marching on the Myconid central intelligence, controlled by parasitic fungi growing out of their brain stems. You must help defend the colony against this threat – withstand the zombie horde and the Myconids survive, be overrun before time runs out and the colony is destroyed. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_25_the_bell_ringer/ Fri, 07 Dec 2018 08:43:00 +0000 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_25_the_bell_ringer/ Having failed to sneak past the giant, one-eye-socketed skeleton and the flying, leathery chicken things, the party was forced to do battle. The skeleton, using its massive stone club rained down powerful blows on Magnus, knocking him to the ground. https://froghat.club/posts/anansus-and-the-spinning-top/ Sat, 17 Nov 2018 14:45:00 +0000 https://froghat.club/posts/anansus-and-the-spinning-top/ Thorus once gave Anansus a spinning top with five sides; on each was depicted a face of one of the Five - Thorus, Wodan, Syf, Mimir and Freya. “Here you go, little bird,” he said, “see if you can predict which of us will greet you when the top stops spinning. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_24_the_paladin_of_bahamut/ Fri, 16 Nov 2018 23:59:00 +0000 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_24_the_paladin_of_bahamut/ Yi-na-Hotep, Goddess of the Moon, invited the party to ask questions of her before she passed from the material plane. During the ensuing discussion, the party learned several things about the Blood War, an eternal struggle for power between celestials, with the children of Bahamut on one side and the forces of Tiamat and the Abyss on the other. https://froghat.club/posts/yi-na-hotep-shames-the-gods/ Sat, 03 Nov 2018 06:22:00 +0000 https://froghat.club/posts/yi-na-hotep-shames-the-gods/ There are still no suns in the sky. The Land is still dark, and the People are still living in darkness. The Five Tribes of the People are saying to the Gods, “The crops are not growing during the day! https://froghat.club/posts/episode_23_yuna_and_the_moon/ Fri, 02 Nov 2018 23:59:00 +0000 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_23_yuna_and_the_moon/ The party continued deeper into the Temple of the Moon, solving another test, this one involving a mathematical analysis of lunar cycles and magic. Deep understanding of the astronomical significance of the room was beyond them, but Yuna and Ara were able to decipher a pattern in the numbers. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_22_the_teeth_of_the_world/ Sat, 20 Oct 2018 10:56:00 +0000 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_22_the_teeth_of_the_world/ Another night and a day of travel out in the open proceeded entirely uneventfully, with no further signs of the great peryton beasts, or indeed of any threat. The stony moors were empty except for Keen leading his four companions through the rocks, guided by instinct and by the Thieves Cant markings for “treasure ahead. https://froghat.club/posts/yi-na-hotep-and-the-five-suns/ Sat, 13 Oct 2018 15:23:00 +0000 https://froghat.club/posts/yi-na-hotep-and-the-five-suns/ The First Land has 5 suns in the sky. Each day they are rising together and they are scorching the land. They are withering crops; they are killing the herds; they are creating great hardship for the People. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_21_a_helping_hand/ Fri, 21 Sep 2018 23:58:00 +0000 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_21_a_helping_hand/ With Keen still grievously wounded from their battle with the Gibbering Madness and Yuna suffering the exhaustion resulting from her spell sickness, the party decided to make camp and rest. As they were packing, a scruffy brown terrier emerged from the treeline carrying a severed hand in its jaws. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_20_the_fools_errand/ Sat, 08 Sep 2018 00:32:22 +0000 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_20_the_fools_errand/ The party had previously arrived at the Fool’s Errand Inn and Tavern seeking respite from the freezing rain and hail that had dogged them for most of the day’s journey in the black of night, the sun not having risen at all this Wodag. https://froghat.club/posts/modelling_sympathetic_compression_of_intra-planar_resonances/ Sat, 11 Aug 2018 21:27:19 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/modelling_sympathetic_compression_of_intra-planar_resonances/ As we have thus shown, a review of the literature reveals a consensus amongst credible sources that the Magon Resonance Theory – that expression of Will on the physical planes, viz. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_19_unfinished_business/ Fri, 10 Aug 2018 23:35:00 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_19_unfinished_business/ The party awoke Wodag morning after a mostly uneventful night, to discover that Levani had undergone significant changes as a result of Anansus, the Trickster God using his divine influence to return her soul to her physical body. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_18_the_high_cost_of_living/ Fri, 13 Jul 2018 23:11:00 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_18_the_high_cost_of_living/ The party quietly made their way through the ironworks, narrowly escaping detection by several of the dozens of devils working there. The devils were engaged in the manufacture of a massive stockpile of weaponry formed out of some sort of iron alloy comprised of molten ore and some unknown substance added to it. https://froghat.club/timeline/ Sun, 08 Jul 2018 18:35:54 -0700 https://froghat.club/timeline/ Date Event 3.2805.1.37 Magnus Burns His Research 3.2805.1.43 Magnus Enters Servitude At The library 3.3132.7.41 Ara Enters The Temple Of Rillifane 3. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_17_the_feather_and_the_ferryman/ Fri, 29 Jun 2018 23:30:39 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_17_the_feather_and_the_ferryman/ The party awoke and made preparations for the journey out of Dis. Levani related the events of the previous night, when she was visited by a raven who left behind a single black feather. https://froghat.club/posts/always_pay_the_ferryman/ Fri, 29 Jun 2018 10:53:44 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/always_pay_the_ferryman/ “Papum? How does death find us?” “A very penetrating question, Granddaughter. To understand the answer you must first know something of the many worlds beyond this one.” “Other worlds besides Telisar? https://froghat.club/posts/ginnys_letter/ Mon, 25 Jun 2018 22:16:25 -0700 https://froghat.club/posts/ginnys_letter/ This message is encoded in Thieves Cant; click to decode. Lord Blacktongue, Regarding the debts of the Spectacular Spectacular, I can assure you Raffa speaks the truth when he tells your man there is nothing else to give (I have tossed his tent myself). https://froghat.club/welcome_to_telisar/ Mon, 25 Jun 2018 22:16:25 -0700 https://froghat.club/welcome_to_telisar/ The Arcani Extus, those bookish scholars pursuing lost lore and deep truths of the universe, believe that Telisar is but one of an infinite number of worlds that make up the Material Plane, that portion of existence where wild, raw philosophical and physical forces coalesce. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_16_come_by_my_fire/ Sat, 23 Jun 2018 00:15:12 +0000 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_16_come_by_my_fire/ The party, still stuck in the Dissian Catacombs beneath the lake of flesh that surrounds the Iron City of Dis, were succumbing to fatigue and injury. Magnus Stairwell was caught in a mechanical stone trap that crushed his right foot, leaving it a mangled, bloody mess. https://froghat.club/posts/thorus-and-the-beggar-man/ Fri, 22 Jun 2018 18:46:35 +0000 https://froghat.club/posts/thorus-and-the-beggar-man/ As Thorus tells it, a beggar man was walking the long road. He had nothing, neither cloak nor finery nor shoes; not one copper jot had he to his name. The Bear was well into its slumber and the frozen scrub was sharp beneath his feet. https://froghat.club/posts/a-tale-from-aras-past/ Sun, 10 Jun 2018 22:54:06 +0000 https://froghat.club/posts/a-tale-from-aras-past/ The freshly fallen leaves crunched beneath his feet on the trail while a crisp wind whistled through the treetops, bringing a promise of snow. Animals in the forest were well along with their preparations for hibernating, and after weeks on the road, Ara knew it was probably time to seek out somewhere to see out the swift approaching winter. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_15_three_druids_an_eye_and_a_voice/ Sat, 02 Jun 2018 00:14:16 +0000 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_15_three_druids_an_eye_and_a_voice/ The Black Tack tribe led a typical Goblin existence, worrying caravans of big folk on the roads, hunting game upon the back sof Wargs, and making war with the other tribes in the hills of Thorimfel. https://froghat.club/posts/anansus-and-gruumsh-and-the-coming-of-the-elves/ Sun, 27 May 2018 15:10:42 +0000 https://froghat.club/posts/anansus-and-gruumsh-and-the-coming-of-the-elves/ “Too ebulliant for the Sisterhood, and too chaotic for the Five, Anansus was ever apart from the elder gods. She (when she decided she was a she) cavorted and danced through all of creation, existing here as a flock of birds – she loves ravens best – and there as a lightning storm raging across the sky; now a golden tortoise, or a twinkle of light from the Evening Star, or the sigh of your lover’s last kiss. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_14_reap_the_whirlwind/ Sat, 19 May 2018 00:24:53 +0000 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_14_reap_the_whirlwind/ Still far underground in the Dissian Catacombs searching for Levani’s body, the party took a brief rest after their encounter with a mimic. They rummaged through the monstrosity’s small horde of treasure, taking a sizable stash of gold coins, and a large, heavy iron padlock and key. https://froghat.club/posts/labyrinth/ Sat, 12 May 2018 16:05:41 +0000 https://froghat.club/posts/labyrinth/ Your presence has awakened the defenses of the Dissian Catacombs. Between you and safety lies adeadly labyrinth, full of monsters, dead ends, traps, obstructions and secret passages. But you haveno time for caution -– a djinn is pursuing you in a whirlwind of sand, thunder and lightning. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_13_the_reticulated_glowing_wooden/ Fri, 04 May 2018 23:50:30 +0000 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_13_the_reticulated_glowing_wooden/ With Levani’s floating owl bear leading the way, the party descended deep into the catacombs under the Iron City of Dis, in an attempt to recover Levani’s body and restore her soul. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_12_the_shield_of_whitebridge/ Sat, 21 Apr 2018 08:35:48 +0000 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_12_the_shield_of_whitebridge/ Morning in Whitebridge brought the party a much-needed rest. During his meditation, however, Ara dreamt of an encounter with Aleh Xa Akiir, an eldery elven woman who claimed to be both his ancestor and childhood friend, from a city also called Akiir. https://froghat.club/posts/on-the-subject-of-tieflings/ Tue, 10 Apr 2018 22:26:05 +0000 https://froghat.club/posts/on-the-subject-of-tieflings/ It is said that all Tieflings can trace their ancestry back to Asmodeus, the god of sin, and Supreme Master of the Nine Hells. Intoxicated by the promise of powers beyond their imagining, these earliest human descendants made a pact with the archdevil. https://froghat.club/posts/raven-steals-time/ Sun, 08 Apr 2018 11:25:22 +0000 https://froghat.club/posts/raven-steals-time/ When there is no time, Raven lives in the starsRaven listens to the Gods’ stories of TelisarRaven loves the stories, and watches the First PeopleBut Raven is young, and the young are capricious https://froghat.club/posts/on-the-war-of-the-sisterhood-and-the-creation-of/ Sat, 07 Apr 2018 15:33:36 +0000 https://froghat.club/posts/on-the-war-of-the-sisterhood-and-the-creation-of/ On the subject of the Nine Hells, The Dragonborn have this to say: that before her eternal sleep at the bottom of the Abyss, Tiamat, despairing the loss of her metallic children to Bahamut and wishing for companionship, willed five daughters to rise from the waves of the Sea of Chaos: Aegiraxus theBlack, Angrochinach the Blue, Greipani the Green, Karixus the Red, and Gjalpithor the White. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_11_its_only_the_end_of_the_worlds_again/ Sat, 07 Apr 2018 00:12:09 +0000 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_11_its_only_the_end_of_the_worlds_again/ Levani found her discorporated spirit standing on the shores of a black sea, on a beach of black sand under a sky of night. There she was nearly consumed by Rashtek, a lich whose blood pact, the Trajzte ur Flasch, is powered by the souls of tieflings forcibly ejected from their bodies at the moment of death and then consumed. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_10_bone_thug_and_goblinry/ Sat, 24 Mar 2018 00:11:53 +0000 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_10_bone_thug_and_goblinry/ Failing to successfully avoid a confrontation, the party – with the aging and mostly ineffectual wizard Anthol the Younger, and without the missing Levani – took the fight to the camp, slaying several hobgoblins and preparing to face down several more, when a monstrous, giant insectoid creature made of polished bone emerged from the darkness, eviscerating the hobgoblins. https://froghat.club/posts/episode-9.5-levani-and-tak/ Thu, 15 Mar 2018 00:04:25 +0000 https://froghat.club/posts/episode-9.5-levani-and-tak/ While the party engaged with the hobgoblins outside of Whitebridge, Levani was gripped by a strange magical force and ripped from the material plane. She found herself standing in a summoning circle, in the centre of an underground chamber constructed out of huge stones of baked redish/brown clay. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_9_cheats_and_consequences/ Sat, 10 Mar 2018 00:31:11 +0000 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_9_cheats_and_consequences/ The party, with some begrudging help from the aging Dwarven wizard Anthol Antholson, solved the riddle of the faerie ring and met its constructor, an irridescent indigo fairy dragon named Lord Shimmerscale. https://froghat.club/posts/tiamat-and-the-lords-of-the-abyss/ Sat, 03 Mar 2018 15:15:57 +0000 https://froghat.club/posts/tiamat-and-the-lords-of-the-abyss/ Tiamat the Scorned was cast out from her family by Bahamut Falsefire, Mother of Lies, for no crime besides willing her children to be strong. The Rainbow Queen flew alone across the surface of the Sea of Chaos, until at last she could bare her broken heart no longer, and despairing, plunged into the swirling depths whence she was borne, seeking to be unmade. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_8_false_gods_and_fast_frogs/ Sat, 24 Feb 2018 00:14:55 +0000 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_8_false_gods_and_fast_frogs/ Ara further explored the cavern he found himself in. He discovered the goblins he had fought had some sort of old surgical wound, as if something had been embedded under the skin. https://froghat.club/posts/the-tale-of-moradin-kinslayer/ Fri, 23 Feb 2018 23:25:50 +0000 https://froghat.club/posts/the-tale-of-moradin-kinslayer/ We reckon the days of the Modern Era beginning three millenia ago when the Dwarves of the East first landed on the shores of Telisar, sailing the tides of woe and war. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_7_do_these_dice_really_go_all_the_way/ Sat, 10 Feb 2018 00:11:09 +0000 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_7_do_these_dice_really_go_all_the_way/ After making a kind of peace with the Whitebridge Thieves Guild, the party learned that Keen was wanted for the murder of his circus performing partner, Able. Keen asserted his innocence, with mixed reactions from the group. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_6_thats_right_we_kill_children_now/ Fri, 26 Jan 2018 23:59:33 +0000 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_6_thats_right_we_kill_children_now/ Yuna awoke in the Hanged Man’s Wink tavern, having been left there a few hours earlier by Magnus. She was rested, but not without troubling dreams. Dreams of spiders. She wandered the town of Whitebridge, looking for her friends, and was met by Levani, who told her Magnus, Ara and Keen had taken off after some children, one of whom had stolen Keen’s coinpurse. https://froghat.club/posts/the-beginnings-of-fate/ Tue, 23 Jan 2018 22:01:22 +0000 https://froghat.club/posts/the-beginnings-of-fate/ Go on then, brother, tell us more about Garl Glittergold,” said Thorus, his laugh the crashing ofthunder across the Night, “I like these gnomes he has fashioned!” And Woden laughed also, and thewide, twinkling grin of the gnome god flickered in the flames of the fire around which Bahamut’s Children sat. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_5_respite_in_whitebridge/ Sat, 20 Jan 2018 00:34:08 +0000 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_5_respite_in_whitebridge/ As the party lay stunned by the devastation the explosion in the sky wrought all around them, Keen let out a yelp and pulled off his boot. And from it tumbled an oversized gold coin,inexplicably glowing white hot, to land in the dirt. https://froghat.club/posts/the-myth-of-creation/ Thu, 21 Dec 2017 17:33:16 +0000 https://froghat.club/posts/the-myth-of-creation/ There are many worlds beside this one. Between the planes of existence flows the Sea Of Chaos, a boundless, formless ocean of potential. The first thing that happened was this: Bahamut emerged from the waves in the form of an infinite platinum-scaled dragon, Her great glistening metallic wings radiating light across the surface of the Sea. https://froghat.club/posts/the-telisaran-calendar/ Thu, 21 Dec 2017 17:33:16 +0000 https://froghat.club/posts/the-telisaran-calendar/ The Telisaran calendar derives from a mixture of the traditions of the Dwarven settlers who reached the Eastern shores of Telisar at the start of the Modern Era, and those of the Dragonborn peoples already there. https://froghat.club/posts/thieves-cant/ Thu, 21 Dec 2017 17:33:16 +0000 https://froghat.club/posts/thieves-cant/ The criminal underworld in Telisar is comprised of several independent, sometimes-aligned, often warring factions separated by geography and areas of concern. But even amongst competitors communication is important, and concealing communications from the city watch, the nobility, the Order of Woden and other such ne’erdowells is crucial. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_4_daylight_and_distrust/ Thu, 21 Dec 2017 17:27:06 +0000 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_4_daylight_and_distrust/ After a long, plodding trek out of Greencrack Copper Mine’s excavation pit with a group of freed captives and one surly red-haired dwarven rogue, the party was forced to contend with a flesh golem, constructed out of the rotting carcasses of dead kobolds and summoned forth by an alarm, presumably raised by the kobold that escaped them in the previous battle. https://froghat.club/posts/magnuss-dream/ Thu, 21 Dec 2017 17:25:43 +0000 https://froghat.club/posts/magnuss-dream/ You leave this place, this vault. You fly overground, across hills and stone and rock, and plummet down into the Earth, seeking joy. You feel your body extend, for miles, all through the earth. https://froghat.club/posts/keens-dream/ Thu, 21 Dec 2017 17:25:17 +0000 https://froghat.club/posts/keens-dream/ You dream of dragons: Dragons filling the sky, moving in great swarms of color; hundreds of them, thousands of them, so many they blot out the sun. Looking up you long to soar, and with a “Woop! https://froghat.club/posts/levanis-dream/ Thu, 21 Dec 2017 17:24:52 +0000 https://froghat.club/posts/levanis-dream/ The world around you goes black, and you feel the inky darkness spread across your skin, and crawl up your neck, cover your face, and begin to push into your eyes, your mouth, your nostrils. https://froghat.club/posts/aras-dream/ Thu, 21 Dec 2017 17:24:28 +0000 https://froghat.club/posts/aras-dream/ You are wandering the forest of your youth, the woods nestled deep within which can be found, by those who know to look, the Temple of Rillifane. Every tree, every blade of grass, every flower and plant is familiar. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_3_daggers_and_dreams/ Thu, 21 Dec 2017 17:23:34 +0000 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_3_daggers_and_dreams/ Holed up in an empty treasure vault, the party risks a rest to recover their strength and heal. Not long into their rest Magnus discovers them, though bloodied and near death himself. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_2_sick_lizards_and_bug_baskets/ Thu, 21 Dec 2017 17:23:06 +0000 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_2_sick_lizards_and_bug_baskets/ The party, shaken from their unexpected encounter, take a moment to compose themselves. Keen takes the fallen Kobolds’ daggers, and Yuna, feeling strangely euphoric, pockets a handful of ashes from the Kobold she incinerated. https://froghat.club/posts/episode_1_grabbed/ Thu, 21 Dec 2017 17:22:21 +0000 https://froghat.club/posts/episode_1_grabbed/ Magnus, Yuna and Levani are each assaulted by a pack of goblins that appear out of thin air. They are injected with some sort of paralytic, and black out. They awake on a cart, being delivered up a dirt path towards a cavern cut into the side of a miles-long rock wall made of dirty white stone.