Monday, September 27, 2021

FOW Log 3-6 For Pelor

 The Fish Outta Water (FOW) Campaign continues with...

Jerrison Shallowstream the half-elf tempest cleric,

Maw the gnome spirit bard, and

Zero-R-Alpha the warforged astral monk!



Session 3

Continuing from last time... Someone was in the room behind the orb; he called himself "The Carrion Crawler" (the necromancer later revealed to be named Victor). Victor wanted the group to release an evil force upstairs that was being held back so he could destroy the tome. He also revealed that Lord Foller from the town had been his apprentice, but they were now at odds. He promised to give the group a Wand of Binding in exchange for helping him. The team went back up and managed to get to the second floor, where they took out a group of zombies before finding the journal of Marlon the Paladin (who was Martha's son, the "lost boy" the group was tasked with finding and putting to rest). The team had to destroy a malevolent spirit of Marlon's squire Gav. They then got a map and the tome/ingrediants to do the ritual to release the magical force.

Session 4

Ritual time! The team heard a scream from below as the tome was destroyed by Victor. Marlon's spirit went into a magical sword with a citrus sun gem, claimed by Jerrison. As promised, Victor helped and gave the team the Wand of Binding. The team looted Marlon's library of Pelor lore before burying the evil tome under an elder oak tree that was a 20-minute walk from the keep ruins. They then walked a day back to the village to find the town in chaos (Victor had gone ahead); skeletons and zombies were battling each other as a war raged between the forces of Lord Foller and Marsha the Hag. The team decided to focus on infiltrating Marsha's manor...

Session 5

Victor sent a floating skull messenger to the group to let them know he was in the church, fighting his former apprentice Lord Foller. The team continued into the yard of Marsha's estate, defeating scarecrows in the courtyard. Inside were a team of boggles; Jerrison used magical wind to hold them off and then he and Maw used shatter spells to take them down. Upstairs, Marsha had transformed into "Hagatha" and had some varguille minions. The team defeated her! Then an old man named Vlad, his wife Elsa, and their two daughters (about 8 and 12) showed up needing protection from the undead. The team decided to help them, took a horse with two donkeys and a wagon, and left town with the family and the Pelor library.

Session 6

The group, along with the family they saved, arrived in the town of Belevor, a bastion of Pelor worshippers. They met the religious leader Father Milton and the mute paladin Daveth. They traded the Pelor library for a Ring of Protection for Alpha. The team was accepted into the Order of Pelor as a new division known as Fish Outta Water (FOW). Hijinks ensued with Alpha making pies, Maw befriending some locals, and Jerrison making door signs for their new quarters at the church. Daveth introduced the team to the local unstable Flint and his ranger friend Belboar, who gave the team some quests: (1) deal with the bandit problem on West road; (2) find the missing stable boy who disappeared chasing lights in the woods; (3) deal with the cambion (demon offspring) that are about. Father Milton also tasked the group with re-sanctifying a nearby burial mound. The team went deep into the woods/swamp looking for the lost boy and found the burial mound. Jerrison allowed Marlon to possess him to try to read some words in Celestial in the underground Pelor temple, but Marlon didn't know the words. Alpha and Maw found someone's journal in the side hall, who wrote how they tried to summon an angel to save them from the invading demons...

PLOG 89: 650,000+ Deaths

THE PLOG CONTINUES...

I took these screenshots about a week ago, but you can see the death toll in the US is higher than people had predicted it would get (and we're still in the middle of this pandemic:

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Be safe out there!

Monday, August 2, 2021

FOW Log 2: Chaos in the Basement

 The Fish Outta Water (FOW) Campaign continues with...

Jerrison Shallowstream the half-elf tempest cleric,

Maw the gnome spirit bard, and

Zero-R-Alpha the warforged astral monk!

Session 2

After clearing out the undead on the ground level, the team rested. During that rest some strange things occurred: (1) Jerrison noticed, even though he worshipped the storm god, that the sun god was trying to connect with him; (2) Alpha felt a dark presence, but he fought it off; (3) Maw heard tormented voices in his dreams. The group went down the well, into the basement, where they cleared out a bunch of rooms and tunnels of undead (lots of bodies left behind from some sort of battle, skeletons, dretches, and shadows). They looted some old coins with Pelor's symbol on them. Jerrison was able to seal away chaos energy. Alpha poured demon blood on some Iuz statues and gained glabrezu demon claw powers, and had a conversation about truth and his goals with supposedly Iuz. He then destroyed the Iuz statue and the team entered what looked like the final room with the book they had been searching for in a large glowing green orb.

To be continued...

FOW Log 1: Fish Outta Water

In true PLOG style, I feel I should give an update on the pandemic before diving into the RPG log this time:

Many of us have been vaccinated, but not everyone in society sees the value in getting the vaccinate. Unfortunately, the Delta Variant of the virus is about to hit us hard here in the US, as it's already been doing in many parts of the world. Apparently scientists are saying it's as contagious as the chicken pox, which is a horrible concept when you consider that schools are about to start again, mostly in full force in person without the proper funding for social distancing and safety measures:

News Link (with chicken pox comparison and more): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nj_jNORM8PU


But now, for an escape from reality...

FOW Log 1: Fish Outta Water

After over a year and a half break from our in-person weekly gaming, we finally met together again last week. That was before the new numbers were released to the public and before this new chicken pox comparison, but oh well. We're back together again for at least a little while. We decided to start fresh, which is good since the pandemic created this huge gap in our gaming time, but also unfortunate since that means the FOE3 group will be left on an ending cliffhanger like the finale for the TV series Angel. I'll just assume for now that our character weren't all killed by the drow army.

We created characters and had a short introduction adventure. I'm a player, not running the game. I made a (no surprise here) half-elf tempest cleric. His name is Jerrison Shallowstream and he's an archeologist from the Forgotten Realms who, while investigating a strange map he had found, went into a dungeon and ended up going through a portal into another world (which turned out to be AMC's Oerth) where my character found some new friends. That made him a "fish outta water" so to speak so he suggested they name their new party FOW (which was also a tribute to FOE, which he knew of, having even been trained by Clover).

The other players are a a warforged astral monk who was put in stasis during the times of the ancient Netherese of the Forgotten Realms, though apparently on the other side of the portal. He was discovered by a forest gnome spirit bard that both released him and opened the portal for my character to come through. The three of us bonded, accepted that we were "fish outta water" so to speak, and ventured out to realized we were in the region of a bunch of evil people. We accepted quests to go destroy some undead and try to find an evil book left behind by a necromancer. We found the ruins of the keep we were directed to and took out some undead on the ground level. We saw there was a well going down to some underground stuff and missing stairs up to the second floor. We decided, for the next session, we would continue exploring there since we hadn't found the missing book yet.

It was awesome joining friends in person for the game. I hadn't played D&D in over a year. That's right, not even online. I just hadn't been in the mood with the pandemic. I've been working on writing my own stories and trying to get published.

Be safe out there. Peace!

Tuesday, March 2, 2021

PLOG 88: We're Screwed

I'm breathing a little bit of life into the PLOG to share this news article about how screwed Texas is, starting Wednesday, March 10 (with the governor rescinding the Coronavirus mandates and no longer requiring people to wear masks):

https://news.yahoo.com/texas-governor-lifts-all-coronavirus-restrictions-on-businesses-rescinds-mask-mandate-204327939.html




Good luck out there!

Saturday, December 19, 2020

PLOG 87: 300,000 Deaths

 My PLOG seems to be coming to an end...

It's no fun writing about the pandemic. The US death toll is over 300,000 and the vaccine is - in my opinion - questionable. The NY Times is reporting that we are now getting over 250,000 people a day infected.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/12/18/world/covid-19-coronavirus#the-us-has-recorded-over-250000-cases-in-a-day-for-the-first-time

As I used to report in my blog all the time, people aren't taking the situation seriously. Assuming I survive all this, I hope to someday report on my RPG activities again.

Peace!

Jer


Friday, November 20, 2020

PLOG 86: 250,000 Deaths

 My PLOG just kind of survives, a little...

As I'm sure you could imagine, I got tired of writing updates about how many people were dying from the pandemic. But also, I found myself caught up in the routine of going to work every day and being part of a system pretending that this whole situation wasn't really as serious as it still is. In fact, it may be even more serious than it was before.

Here's one of the numerous news videos discussing the situation as of today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uc2gh-qt0h8


Have a wonderful Thanksgiving week.

Be safe out there. I'm hoping I'm still being safe too.