Creatures encountered so far. Please add to this as we discover more.
~Hilo Hattie Firepeak

Acid Glue Cube
The nearly transparent gelatinous cube travels slowly along the Trinsic Catacomb tunnels and cave floors. It appears to absorb anything it touches: trash, small animals, and carrion. It is roughly 10 feet to a side and may have an acid attack though we didn’t touch it to find out. Nico, the blacksmith apprentice, could have told us but he was too busy being consumed by the beast.

Dragon
Bigger than legends tell. Grand scales, steely eyes, wings that brush away clouds. Glorious.

Cavern Acid Ooze
This blob of acid was found in the hidden tunnel below the Alchemist’s house. It seemed a much smaller version of the Acid Glue Cube we discovered in the Trinisic Catacombs. It splashes acid on anything it moves and attempts to engulf and devour it.

Ghoul
Discovered in the rendering pit below Trinsic’s marketplace. This undead humanoid would feed on anything.

Harpy
Harpies like to entrance hapless travelers with their magical songs and lead them to unspeakable torments. Only when a harpy has finished playing with its new “toys” will it release them from suffering by killing and consuming them. Legend says that if a person is killed by a harpy, and then that harpy is killed, the person may return to life (not confirmed!).

Fire Elemental
Though humanoid in shape, these primordial beings are pure fire. Discovered in the abandoned mine which leads to the Dwarven kingdom and a dragon’s lair.

Lizardfolk
The Lizardfolk have their breeding grounds far south of Pyrlig’s hometown of Sandpoint. They are roughly six to seven feet in height, with green scales, and a long tail which is used for balance. The lizardmen we encountered were fierce warriors. Though they spoke Common, I suspect their native language may be Draconic.

Mushroom Folk

Mutant Spider
Discovered in the abandoned mine. All monstrous spiders are aggressive predators that use their poisonous bites to subdue or kill prey. Monstrous spiders come in two general types: hunters and web-spinners. Hunters rove about, while web-spinners usually attempt to trap prey.

Rat Swarm
Found in the temple ruins in the Trinisic Catacombs. The rats seem to travel in a pack and seek to surround and attack any warm-blooded prey it encounters.

Sewer Hag

Stirge
Discovered by accident in the Alchemist’s abandoned (haunted) home by Adela. This bat-like creature has four limbs and two sets of wings, is rust red in color, and has a large stinging, needle-nose which it uses to attack intruders. A stirge’s body is about 1 foot long, with a wingspan of about 2 feet. It weighs about 1 pound.

Tree Ent
A talking tree.

The Haunted House,

Recruited Adela into the party, and the group is off to Sandpoint!

We learn Malcolm, Pyrlig’s childhood friend, has gone missing out at the old mad alchemists place, deserted for over 20 years.

On our way to the house, we notice blue lights in the jungle, but we proceed into the house instead of chasing wisps.

After carefully searching (most of) the upper floors, and finding a note reading ‘Beyond Skeletons’, we are scared away from the basement by a loud roar, and following Hilo into the jungle, we eventually discover a shrine. Hilo also encountered some strange beings, but being already frightened she darted away from them.

We return to the basement, where we find Malcolm’s corpse, infested with nasty worms. Alamar wants nothing to do with Malcolm’s old plate armor, even though it appears magical.

Through the broken glass of the basement, we find a secret door into what appears to be an empty smugglers den. We searched it and the leader’s quarters, and found a naval almanac with tides for the entire coast, suggesting this is a large scale operation. We also found signalling lanterns on the second floor facing the sea.

We entered a room marker ‘Danger’, and when we touched the door on the opposite wall, Skeletons sprang to life! After a tough battle with skeletons, we discovered the alchemists laboratory, and what might be the secret to turning anything into gold. Among the objects we found were a gold book, a gold rose, a gold skull, and a gold apple. There was also a golden stone, which is playing havoc with our poor child sorcerer.

After escaping the skeleton trap, we headed down into the caverns that lead to the sea, where Adela had an acid blob drop onto her face and ruin her hair.

We confronted the smugglers, and after a tough battle, triumphed! We found boxes of swords though, which are troubling. Someone is arming a large number of people. Among the other items were 1000gp of ornamental gems, 50 gp worth of brandy kegs, and the swords are worth about 250gp, and a couple healing potions.

We left the ruined mansion, and headed back to the shrine where a judicious comprehend languages ritual revealed that this is the Shrine of Honor.

Major plot points still open:

A note throwing suspicion on the Governor’s wife,
Minax has returned
The Red Hills Gang is wanted, and a reward offered
An ancient city in the White Woods
A doorway sealed with a bronze plaque
A glowing blue portal that disappears during the day
The glowing sword
The library in the Catacombs
the Armor of Malcolm/Wyrms
Arms smugglers along the coast
The Shrine of Honor
The upstart criminals trying to displace the thieves guild
The philosopher’s stone

Met Hilo on the river. She joined us and we caught her up.

Wedding bells before we reached town.

Pyrlig went off to handle the wedding note.

Anya too the hunters to the gypsies.

The rest of us were at loose ends until the pageant that night (The Founding of Trinsic, starring big but stupid blacksmith apprentice Nico as the Avatar, and co-starring Della the innkeeper’s gorgeous daughter)
Alamar and Hilo hung out listening to the music
Emrys took Riff clothes shopping (and gave him a thieving lesson that went in one ear and out the other)

At the pageant, Riff pickpocketed 4 sp. Went back for more and got caught, but slipped away.

Della kidnapped by monsters during the performance. We rushed backstage, found that she had been taken down a sewer grate into the Catacombs of Trinsic (complex, eerie, not just humans down there. Emrys has been down there before)

Into the Catacombs!

Found interesting tomb, welded shut, with tracks. couldn’t find secret door (if any), marked location for future reference

Followed other tracks

Found secret door
Wood-lined room, bags of flour and similar. Rope ladder to ceiling (conclusion: storeroom below noble house. Marked location)

Found huge spiral structure leading down out of sight. (Amazing potential)

NICO ARRIVED TO HELP. (Caps to represent his VOLUME)
Group calmed him, Emrys pickpocketed him (got a dagger)

Deeper into catacombs, crossing sewer water. Spotted hag-like creature that disappeared.

Corridor lined thick with hallucinogenic mushrooms (Hilo gathered a few for Riff after battle)
Battle here with humanoids that clearly descended from humans. They were quite at home with mushrooms. Hereafter called mushroom folk.

Discovered AMAZING library. Books on all kinds of subjects (any research here done with advantage). Riff read about magic. Emrys started cataloging. Emrys had to be all but dragged out (Alamar swore to return with him)

Nico grew impatient and rushed out into hallway. Eaten by grue. I mean gelatinous cube.

Finished gaining 10 tracking tokens (earned by Hilo with Alamar’s assistance)! Yay!

Found Della dangling in cage above pit in round chamber. Scaffolding all around. Altar with giant, cobbled-together Cthulhu-like figure. Mushroom folk chanting in a circle.

We attacked. Killed the mushroom folk and saved Della. (Emrys, Hilo and Riff nearly died)

Tried to take short rest. Assaulted by swarms of proselytizing rats. Once peaceful, now they mobbed to try to convert us to their religion. Or eat us. Tough to tell. Either way, we avoided them by climbing the scaffolding.

Eventually managed our short rest.

Backtracked to library, for long rest and additional day of rest and recovery.
Emrys researched that structure in the forest. Bronze plate etching on the sealed door read Dungeon of Deceit. Said to have all manner of ill-will creatures in its depths, and that nothing in it should be believed. (Also, said to house a shard of the Gem of Immortality.)

Della didn’t want to rest. Wanted to rush home. Took three of us to calm and convince her (Emrys finally did the trick with a 21)

On the way back, the “hag” accused us of trespassing. Demanded to hear our tragedies. Emrys told her of his death. She got a good laugh. Riff told her about his own origins. She came closer. Then hissed at Emrys and demanded that he back up (called him “tainted”). Said Riff had “so many more tragedies” ahead of him (if I heard that right)

Found a rendering plant outlet. Nasty.

Found an actual grate below the market square.
We managed to kill some ghouls without anyone nearly dying.
Got out through the grate.

Continued, realized we were in a maze.

One week before Osterafest

Pyrlig woken by Tommen, a house in his hometown is haunted, and a heroic part is needed to oust the ghost. Pyrlig promises a possible moderate reward for helping remove the ghost to the party members.

Emrys shaken down by members of the Hands, threatened in his shop.

Anya hears about an ex-lover, Brandon, who’s annual delivery of pelts and meat is overdue with no word.

Alamar collects promises for future help from rest of the party, possibly in connection with the Red Hills Gang.

Governor Wym is getting married to Lady Amelia Kendrick next week.

Party decides to investigate Brandon and the disappearing furs and food first.

While on their way to the lodge, the party fails to negotiate a lower price from an unpleasant boatman.

The party arrives at the lodge to find it deserted for weeks, food on the table, beds unmade, and the food stores ransacked. There were also signs of destructive and wasteful skinning of animals. After a nights rest, the party found tracks, both human and kobold, leading into the woods. We followed them, and encountered the Tree Warden, who was furious at Brandon’s hunters for exploiting his forest. The Warden directed us to Tic-tic, the leader of the kobolds to help us find the humanoids. During the parties negotiations with Tic-tic, his hunters lead an owlbear into the encampment, which was summarily slain, shocking all of us for whom this was a first combat (Riff especially).

After locating the owlbears nest in an ancient city, we found several items of interest; 50 gp, a glowing sword, a note to the governor that warned of Lady Kendrick being ‘Not all she seems’, and an ancient door, sealed with a less ancient but illegible bronze plaque that Emrys took a rubbing of.

Then Alamar remember he could ‘track’ not ‘trek’, we resumed our search for hte missing hunters. We lost the trail, but eventually went back to the lodge. After most of the night, several of us were woken and charmed, leading the party to a nest of harpies, who killed Emrys, and nearly killed us all. after seeing them off, and rescuing a much abused Brandon, we watched with some trepidation as a blue panel casting otherworldly light slowly disappeared with the dawn. On our return to the lodge, the Tree Warden appeared and demanded the defiler, Brandon. Anya and Alamar struck a deal for Brandon’s life in exchange for reviving Emrys. Brandon was dead before protests could leave the other party member’s lips, and Emrys came back telling us that he had to promise to opose Minax, who was not dead but plotting and raising armies.

Fearing for the Governor, and hoping to curry his favor, the party hurries back to Trinsic….

Major plot points still open:

A note throwing suspicion on the Governor’s wedding,
A haunted house
Minax has returned
The Red Hills Gang is wanted, and a reward offered
An ancient city in the White Woods
A doorway sealed with a bronze plaque
A glowing blue portal that disappears during the day
The glowing sword