our final session of Rime of the Frostmaiden ! :(

*following her adventures in Ythryn, Andromache journeys to Neverwinter to reconcile with her family ... to a certain extent. Most importantly, she will formally renounce her claim to the d’Issir inheritance and make peace with her little sister, seeing in her the promise of a half-elf Rugrat. While in Neverwinter, she will put her treasure funds towards commissioning a manuscript of her adventures in the north. Once the manuscript is complete, she will make four copies : one to leave with her family, one to send to Candlekeep on Mai’s behalf, one to keep for herself, and one to give away during her travels. With her two copies in hand and this business settled, she will return to her true home in the mountains of Icewind Dale. There, she will get to know Wealbro better and strive to better serve the cause of good in the name of Kharash.

PS : apparently, Quar tossed a magic item to Andromache just before parting ways.
*VLAGOMIR'S SPARK**
The first time a barbarian, fighter, monk, or ranger touches the spear, the light around the spear fades as Vlagomir’s spark bestows the following supernatural charm on the character :
You gain 1 foot of height every hour and become proportionately heavier until you stand 21 feet tall and weigh 7,700 pounds. When you are 9 feet tall, your Strength becomes 19 unless it is already higher. For every 3 additional feet of height you gain, your Strength increases by 1, to a maximum of 23.
Armor and clothing you are wearing and weapons you are carrying magically increase in size to match your growth. If you are the recipient of a greater restoration spell or similar magic, this charm vanishes from you, and you immediately shrink back to normal size, along with any armor, clothing, and weapons in your possession.

Andromache recovers a straight staff of pale ash with a stern-looking owl’s head carved into its top.

we kicked Auril's ass

• Gold: 105 GP (3.5 Hours)
• Levels: +1 if you wish (+20 DT if you do so)

Magic Items: Arcane Grimoire, Illuminator's Tattoo, Potion of Healing (consumable)

Arcane Grimoire +1
Wondrous Item, uncommon (requires attunement by a wizard)
While you are holding this leather-bound book, you can use it as a spellcasting focus for your wizard spells, and you gain a bonus to spell attack rolls and to the saving throw DCs of your wizard spells. The bonus is determined by the book’s rarity.
You can use this book as a spellbook. In addition, when you use your Arcane Recovery feature, you can increase the number of spell slot levels you regain by 1.

Illuminator's Tattoo
Wondrous item (tattoo), common (requires attunement)
Produced by a special needle, this magic tattoo features beautiful calligraphy, images of writing implements, and the like.
Tattoo Attunement. To attune to this item, you hold the needle to your skin where you want the tattoo to appear, pressing the needle there throughout the attunement process. When the attunement is complete, the needle turns into the ink that becomes the tattoo, which appears on the skin.
If your attunement to the tattoo ends, the tattoo vanishes, and the needle reappears in your space.
Magical Scribing. While this tattoo is on your skin, you can write with your fingertip as if it were an ink pen that never runs out of ink.
As an action, you can touch a piece of writing up to one page in length and speak a creature's name. The writing becomes invisible to everyone other than you and the named creature for the next 24 hours. Either of you can dismiss the invisibility by touching the script (no action required). Once used, this action can't be used again until the next dawn.

• +1 level! You should be level 10. +20 DT if you level
• since y’all hit the gold limit for level 9, +30 GP (I may do some fudging for how much time you spent at each level because the leveling will be pretty quick from here on out)
• Staff of Frost acquired from Avarice (Quar currently has it). She also has a spell book (spells pending)
• You ended the session in the Mythallar chamber, staring down a God. Again

• chardalyn ring of the ram
• mantle of spell resistance
• bag of holding
• chardalyn staff of charming
• thermal cube
• 45gp
• Andromache purchases two diamonds worth 300gp each (600gp total)
• Andromache purchases one potion of greater healing (100gp)

gp = 863+45-(600+100)
163gp remaining

The first time a barbarian, fighter, monk, or ranger touches the spear, the light around the spear fades as Vlagomir’s spark bestows the following supernatural charm on the character :
Vlagomir’s Spark You gain 1 foot of height every hour and become proportionately heavier until you stand 21 feet tall and weigh 7,700 pounds. When you are 9 feet tall, your Strength becomes 19 unless it is already higher. For every 3 additional feet of height you gain, your Strength increases by 1, to a maximum of 23. Armor and clothing you are wearing and weapons you are carrying magically increase in size to match your growth. If you are the recipient of a greater restoration spell or similar magic, this charm vanishes from you, and you immediately shrink back to normal size, along with any armor, clothing, and weapons in your possession.

-234gp (miscalculated in previous sessions)
From the purple pear :
Charm of Cure Wounds
This charm allows you to cast the cure wounds spell (3rd-level version) as an action, no components required. Your spellcasting ability for this charm is Wisdom. Once used, this charm vanishes from you.

we explored the basement of Grimskälle, passed the four tests (cruelty, endurance, solitude, preservation), and retrieved the Codicle of White. Bobby, Maverick, and Belwarp tempted death when invited to receive the blessing of Auril : Bobby failed and was turned into a big ice cube. Maverick and Belwarp succeeded, gaining immunity to cold damage and the ability to cast Cone of Cold once per long rest. Andromache was thoroughly repulsed by the test of cruelty, and desperately seeks guidance from Kharash on how to persevere in this evil region.

we fought Auril the Frost Maiden in her tower at Grimskälle.
The party fought well, defeated her first two forms, then nearly died when she enshrouded herself in a snowstorm and called on her roc to help her. Andromache fell, but was healed by Mai just in time.
She let off two parting shots at the roc before falling backwards off the tower, trusting her baby roc chick to cast feather fall and save them both. Auril invited the party to rest, retrieve the grimoire, and leave. We took the long rest.
session end

Andromache trades Melchior Ra'Pamuk her Shield Guardian Amulet for his Cloak of Displacement. She removes her Ring of Protection to adhere to the 3 magic item limit.

90gp earned
9gp spent (Wealbro, owlbear friend)
gathered frost giant fingernails, boots and a net

+120gp
-19gp (owlbear, arrows)

-20gp (for Mai)

+90gp for the session
-50gp for ...? I forget.

our final session of Rime of the Frostmaiden ! :(

*following her adventures in Ythryn, Andromache journeys to Neverwinter to reconcile with her family ... to a certain extent. Most importantly, she will formally renounce her claim to the d’Issir inheritance and make peace with her little sister, seeing in her the promise of a half-elf Rugrat. While in Neverwinter, she will put her treasure funds towards commissioning a manuscript of her adventures in the north. Once the manuscript is complete, she will make four copies : one to leave with her family, one to send to Candlekeep on Mai’s behalf, one to keep for herself, and one to give away during her travels. With her two copies in hand and this business settled, she will return to her true home in the mountains of Icewind Dale. There, she will get to know Wealbro better and strive to better serve the cause of good in the name of Kharash.

PS : apparently, Quar tossed a magic item to Andromache just before parting ways.
*VLAGOMIR'S SPARK**
The first time a barbarian, fighter, monk, or ranger touches the spear, the light around the spear fades as Vlagomir’s spark bestows the following supernatural charm on the character :
You gain 1 foot of height every hour and become proportionately heavier until you stand 21 feet tall and weigh 7,700 pounds. When you are 9 feet tall, your Strength becomes 19 unless it is already higher. For every 3 additional feet of height you gain, your Strength increases by 1, to a maximum of 23.
Armor and clothing you are wearing and weapons you are carrying magically increase in size to match your growth. If you are the recipient of a greater restoration spell or similar magic, this charm vanishes from you, and you immediately shrink back to normal size, along with any armor, clothing, and weapons in your possession.

Andromache recovers a straight staff of pale ash with a stern-looking owl’s head carved into its top.

we kicked Auril's ass

• Gold: 105 GP (3.5 Hours)
• Levels: +1 if you wish (+20 DT if you do so)

Magic Items: Arcane Grimoire, Illuminator's Tattoo, Potion of Healing (consumable)

Arcane Grimoire +1
Wondrous Item, uncommon (requires attunement by a wizard)
While you are holding this leather-bound book, you can use it as a spellcasting focus for your wizard spells, and you gain a bonus to spell attack rolls and to the saving throw DCs of your wizard spells. The bonus is determined by the book’s rarity.
You can use this book as a spellbook. In addition, when you use your Arcane Recovery feature, you can increase the number of spell slot levels you regain by 1.

Illuminator's Tattoo
Wondrous item (tattoo), common (requires attunement)
Produced by a special needle, this magic tattoo features beautiful calligraphy, images of writing implements, and the like.
Tattoo Attunement. To attune to this item, you hold the needle to your skin where you want the tattoo to appear, pressing the needle there throughout the attunement process. When the attunement is complete, the needle turns into the ink that becomes the tattoo, which appears on the skin.
If your attunement to the tattoo ends, the tattoo vanishes, and the needle reappears in your space.
Magical Scribing. While this tattoo is on your skin, you can write with your fingertip as if it were an ink pen that never runs out of ink.
As an action, you can touch a piece of writing up to one page in length and speak a creature's name. The writing becomes invisible to everyone other than you and the named creature for the next 24 hours. Either of you can dismiss the invisibility by touching the script (no action required). Once used, this action can't be used again until the next dawn.

• +1 level! You should be level 10. +20 DT if you level
• since y’all hit the gold limit for level 9, +30 GP (I may do some fudging for how much time you spent at each level because the leveling will be pretty quick from here on out)
• Staff of Frost acquired from Avarice (Quar currently has it). She also has a spell book (spells pending)
• You ended the session in the Mythallar chamber, staring down a God. Again

• chardalyn ring of the ram
• mantle of spell resistance
• bag of holding
• chardalyn staff of charming
• thermal cube
• 45gp
• Andromache purchases two diamonds worth 300gp each (600gp total)
• Andromache purchases one potion of greater healing (100gp)

gp = 863+45-(600+100)
163gp remaining

The first time a barbarian, fighter, monk, or ranger touches the spear, the light around the spear fades as Vlagomir’s spark bestows the following supernatural charm on the character :
Vlagomir’s Spark You gain 1 foot of height every hour and become proportionately heavier until you stand 21 feet tall and weigh 7,700 pounds. When you are 9 feet tall, your Strength becomes 19 unless it is already higher. For every 3 additional feet of height you gain, your Strength increases by 1, to a maximum of 23. Armor and clothing you are wearing and weapons you are carrying magically increase in size to match your growth. If you are the recipient of a greater restoration spell or similar magic, this charm vanishes from you, and you immediately shrink back to normal size, along with any armor, clothing, and weapons in your possession.

-234gp (miscalculated in previous sessions)
From the purple pear :
Charm of Cure Wounds
This charm allows you to cast the cure wounds spell (3rd-level version) as an action, no components required. Your spellcasting ability for this charm is Wisdom. Once used, this charm vanishes from you.

we explored the basement of Grimskälle, passed the four tests (cruelty, endurance, solitude, preservation), and retrieved the Codicle of White. Bobby, Maverick, and Belwarp tempted death when invited to receive the blessing of Auril : Bobby failed and was turned into a big ice cube. Maverick and Belwarp succeeded, gaining immunity to cold damage and the ability to cast Cone of Cold once per long rest. Andromache was thoroughly repulsed by the test of cruelty, and desperately seeks guidance from Kharash on how to persevere in this evil region.

we fought Auril the Frost Maiden in her tower at Grimskälle.
The party fought well, defeated her first two forms, then nearly died when she enshrouded herself in a snowstorm and called on her roc to help her. Andromache fell, but was healed by Mai just in time.
She let off two parting shots at the roc before falling backwards off the tower, trusting her baby roc chick to cast feather fall and save them both. Auril invited the party to rest, retrieve the grimoire, and leave. We took the long rest.
session end

Andromache trades Melchior Ra'Pamuk her Shield Guardian Amulet for his Cloak of Displacement. She removes her Ring of Protection to adhere to the 3 magic item limit.

90gp earned
9gp spent (Wealbro, owlbear friend)
gathered frost giant fingernails, boots and a net

+120gp
-19gp (owlbear, arrows)

-20gp (for Mai)

+90gp for the session
-50gp for ...? I forget.