BMG-MOON-MD-05 Fleeing Snowdown

Game Code -
BMG-MOON-MD-05

Game Name -
Fleeing Snowdown

Location -
Contrarian's Game Cafe

DM -
Mike B

Party -
Sir Mancha, earth genasi Pa-6/Wi-1 (Joe)
Gossemyr, elf Bb-5 (Asia)
Garothe, hill dwarf Bb-7 (Cooper)
Vall, triton Ra-7 (Brian)
The Temp, orc Dr-5 (Neel)
Tandur, human Cl-6/Fi-4 (me, Thomas)

We are an existing party. We were returning by boat from a job. Ran into storm. Ship needed repairs. Docked ship at island, in the town of Westphal. We've been awaiting repairs for 4 days.

We have learned some information about the setting.

Lady Drysen Israh is the queen of this island. There is another island run by High King Kinrock. Israh may have set her sights on getting that island. Her police/army is called Dara Dragoons.

In tavern. Bell ringing. Patrons stand like zombies and walk towards door. Door flings open. Man with wound enters. Runs to back door followed by 4 Dragoon guards. Outside it's all red light.

Sent owl. Owl observes groups of zombies and groups of Dragoon guards. The guards are searching for something, entering buildings. Owl listens. "We must find him, or face her." The zombies were in groups of 10-15, and so were the guards.

We rescued the wounded man, Captain Stephan. He had been on a mission to rescue Prince Olin, son of King Kinrock. We decided to help him. He needs to get off this island and report back to Kinrock. All the ships are burning in the harbor. He's got a backup boat in the northern town of Lanring. We have 11 hours to get him there and 10 more hours of night.

We ask him what's going on. Oh, Queen Israh is probably doing a blood moon ritual. It allows her to take control of all undead.

We decide the large groups of zombies and guards are too likely to discover Capt. Stephan, so we choose the sewers. After hitting a dead end, we decide to exit through the grate and make for a nearby gate. The closest gate is the main northern gate which is crawling with guards. Owl discovers another gate, a pedestrian gate, to the east. We go there. Sir Mancha puts Capt. Stephan on his horse which teleports 60 ft away, outside the gate. We then successfully talk our way out the gate.

We find the horse and Capt. Stephan. We decide we will head north, staying parallel to the main north-south road.

No loot

Session Notes 2025-04-02

Party -
Rhyndera (f), Pa-5/So-5 (Andrew)
Kookey Gobas (m), kobold PA-6/SO-4 (Lv10) (Jamison)
Elly (m), elf Wizard-5 (Doug)
Bane (f), tiefling Mo-10 (Veronica)
Salem (th), tabaxi Mo-5/Ro-2 (?) (Forrest)
Tarenth Shadowood (m), shifter Mo-2/Ra-2/Ro-1 (Conrad)
Tandur (m), human Cl-6/Fi-4 (me, Thomas)

When we left off, we had encountered a small hole, through which we could see an encampment. The Bear went into the encampment. But that player is not present tonight.

We attempt to follow the trail of the goblins with human (townsfolk) captives.

We move on. We encounter a group of six Quaggoth.
C1 init 12

We kill 5. The sixth surrenders. We gain a little information.

We explore further. Door with green light coming through the crack. We open the door. 2 mind flayers (illithids). We attack. Tarenth gets grappled and stunned. Most of the rest of us get stunned at distance (only 1 round). We had enough allies still active that we didn't get too damaged. We killed one. The second tried to teleport, but Counterspell prevented that. We killed it. We kept 2 heads (bag of holding) in case we want to speak with dead.

In the room is a stone statue of a mind flayer with a brain in each hand. It wears a pendant. The brains move (change?) when we aren't looking. There is a glow of green coming off it. There is no magic. We detect the trace of teleportation magic.

The goblin/captive tracks end here. We find a closet built for and containing more mind flayer robes. We explore rooms.

Perfume, gem. - see loot

A door has a placard saying something like:
she of sacred flight and knows only the truth

We find a room with 2 prison cells. Under the trash on the ground a scrawled message:
3 monsters lead them all

We enter various rooms. One contains a gray skinned mind flayer. The usual ones have purple skin. She asks if we are there to join. We explain we got separated from our goblin allies. We attempt to get information. She shows us in her floating crystal a set of doors down a hallway south of the battle.
First door on the left.

Finally she offers information as to the destination of the prisoners. They went 3 ways. Some to:
Chishinix
Hashutu
Voalsh

Desk with letters in Undercommon.
Ink well - see loot

A mind flayer doing a dissection of a non human creature with a lot of eyes. We can't determine more. Also there are two 1-eyed creatures in that room.

We continue north. We find a large prison room.
My notes indicate we will start with a fight. I didn't write down what we saw.
End session.

Loot
5 x 500 gp bottles of perfume
Subtle Mind Crystal to character sheet
Ink well: 280 gold
2780 / 7 = 397 gold each.
Added to character sheet.

PO-BMG-MOONCA-POB-01 The Joust of Roses
DM: Kurt Hoffstaetter (1320736111)

Session Notes 2025-04-04

Party
Rhydian (m), human Dr-10 Moon (John K)

Miaxisys Rothenel "Max" (m), wood elf Ra-10 Hunter (Grawler)
https://www.dndbeyond.com/characters/137136584/go6FGR

Tandur (m), human Cl-6/Fi-4 (me, Thomas)

Kwyjibo (m), human Bb-8/Ro-1 (Mark)
https://www.dndbeyond.com/characters/144261311

"Number 8" [Automated Food Processing Unit 8], auto gnome lore Bard Lv? (Philippe G-V)
Team name Crimson Cabal

Intro by guide, Kithren
Trinket
Roses everywhere
Collect steed

Rules
1 There must be a jouster. Not to hurt.
2 Land bound creature, but you can flavor it.
3 Everyone must cheer loudly

3 passes. Judges can adjudicate ties.
Words have meaning.
Don't lie, here.

Our selected opponent: The Black Knight.

We prepare for the joust and discuss ideas.
Your choice of Athletics, Acrobatics, Animal Handling, or Insight.

Black Knight arrives and taunts us.

We joust: Kwyjibo, Number 8, Rhidian.
We win 2 out of 3.
Success.

Next chapter.
Lightning. 3 sisters appear. One is an image.
Chitterbone, Rowena, & Urphania. Each offers 3 challenges, we must choose 1 from each.

Urphania
Earth Wind Fire; we choose earth.
Rescue a kid.
We ask if it is a human child. No answer.
Reduce makes Number 8 tiny. He goes into the tunnel and finds the goat.
We pull the rope and free the goat.
We are teleported back to the joust.

Chitterbones
Mind Body Spirit; we choose spirit
Fey in an artist commune are debating art. 2 camps: social message or aesthetically pleasing. We help them choose social message. We help them paint. Some are poisoned. We revivify them. We finish helping them with the art. They complete most, but not all of the paintings.

Next chapter.
Rowena
Good Bad Ugly; we choose Good
Combat 1
We have to enter a locked door. There are 10 creatures who will attack. When we kill one, we can take its key. We failed to get through the locked door in time.

10 minute break

Final chapter
Prismatic Knight taunts lord and lady.
Combat 2
Prismatic Knight adds 6 more smaller knights each of a color. On each of their turns, they kill civilians, unless they are engaged with 1 of us. We beat most of the colored knights. But there was still 1 or 2 left, plus the Prismatic Knight. Time.

We submit our score: 18

We did not win. Wedding Crashers won the contest.

Rewards

PO-BMG-MOONCA-POB-01 The Joust of Roses
DM: Kurt Hoffstaetter (1320736111)

Tandur: Dice made from dyed wood in an assortment of colors

Hey there! Thanks for playing PO-BMG-MOONCA-POB-01 - The Joust of Roses today with me, Kurt Hoffstaetter, during Slot 2.

All characters earn the following:

Level Milestone
10 Downtime Days
1,000 gp (5,000 gp divided) -- on character sheet
Five Star Sapphires (1,000 gp each)
Woodcutter's Axe
Fabulist Gem
Saddle of the Cavalier

Woodcutter's Axe- now on character sheet
Weapon (Greataxe), Rare
You have a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon.

When you use this axe to make an attack against a plant (an ordinary plant or a creature with the Plant type) or a wooden object that isn’t being worn or carried, the attack deals an extra 2d6 slashing damage on a hit.

Fabulist Gem- now on character sheet
Wondrous Item, Uncommon (Requires Attunement)
This glittering red gem is commonly found embedded in a ring or brooch.
While wearing the gem, you gain the following benefits.

Counterfeit Coins. You can use your action to magically create a pile of coins, worth no more than 100 gp total, in an unoccupied space within 10 feet of yourself. The pile must appear on a surface that can support it. After 1 hour, the coins vanish, regardless of where they are. Once this action is used, it can’t be used again until the next dawn.

Illusory Fashion. As a bonus action, you can magically change the appearance of your clothing and armor. You can change the style, color, and apparent quality of what you’re wearing, or you can make it appear as if you were wearing different garments entirely. In either case, the changes wrought by this magic fail to pass physical inspection.

Saddle of the Cavalier - now on character sheet
Wondrous Item, Uncommon
While in this saddle on a mount, you can't be dismounted against your will if you're conscious, and attack rolls against the mount have disadvantage.

From Vault to Character Sheet
Pot Healing
Pot Healing
Pot Acid Resist
Lantern

Buy Pot Healing x2 on char sheet

AL Limits of Magic Carried

Permanent Magic
LIMIT
3 of Uncommon or greater
5 of Common

Inventory
1 rare ring
1 uc shield
1 uc Lantern of Revealing

CONSUMABLES
LIMIT
10 consumables

Inventory
Bead of Force
Bead of Force
Scr: FoM
Mind Crystal Careful
Pot Healing
Pot Healing
Pot Healing
Pot Healing
Pot Acid Resist
Mind Crystal Subtle
=10

Inventory & components purchase

More incense & diamonds (components) reflected on character sheet

Sold (for 25) Scale Mail
Bought (for 400) Breastplate
Reflected on character sheet

Session Notes 2025-04-06

PO-BMG-MOON-POB-07 - Of Romance and Dalliances
Tier 2

DM: Paul Maloney

Jarick (m), dwarf Art-6/Wiz-4 (Trey McBride)
https://www.dndbeyond.com/characters/136204377

Kwyjibo, human Bb-8/Ro-2 Berserker (Mark)
https://www.dndbeyond.com/characters/144261311

Romaz, human Wa-5 Archfey (TrooperS96/Stephen Moseley) "autistic"
https://www.dndbeyond.com/characters/137991528/nYjFJX

Tandur, human Cl-6/Fi-4 Twilight/EK (me, Thomas)

Players:
Stephen Moseley
Trey McBride

Description:
"Are you ready to perform a heist of your own in this adventure where every decision matters?"

I love D&D, but I'm not very good at it. I'd appreciate the help. Here are the spells (aside from healing) I've prepared for this heist adventure.
- Tandur (Cleric)

Cantrips
Message
Guidance
Prestidigitation
Mage Hand

Lv1
Bless
Detect Magic [R]

Lv2
Zone of Truth
Silence [R]
Locate Object
Find Traps
See Invisibility

Lv3
Dispel Magic
Clairvoyance

We begin in Castle Caer Callwell, the location of the upcoming wedding, only a few days away. We are summoned to the war room; some have been here before. King, queen and princess want us to personally deliver invitations to guest in the castle. This is an old tradition originating in Waterdeep.

Bride comes from Waterdeep. Her mother and father are not present. ? That doesn't sound right.

Queen missed it Kendrick
King Dav...
Princess Taralina

Invitations are done using the Seals of Approval ceremony.

Process
1. Deliver food
2. Deliver invitation
3. Guest responds negatively
4. Act surprised
5. Attempt to convince guest
6. Guest relents, accepts and offers a gift, which used to be an official seal, but now is an object to fit into a piece of jewelry, necklace or bracelet.

A man rushes in. They confer.
Oh, we must ask you for an additional task. All the wedding gifts have been stolen. As you deliver the invitations, see if you can gather information about the stolen gifts.

We are tasked with 4 invitations.

1. Feyren, a satyr
   He complains about the noise.
   Jarik offers to make stylish earmuffs.
   And we have to steal a bottle of wine. We succeed. He accepts.
   He gives gift of wooden object.
   He seems to have been only around the study or his quarters.
   We further discuss his knowledge of the property. He is concerned with growing crops in the harsh soil.

2. Captain Kree & ?
   One is playful and acts like a pirate. When Tandur offers to spar, he admits he's not a real pirate.
   They decline because if the princess relocates the local parties will cease. We suggest party boats, pirate party boats. Success.
   No clues about the stolen gifts.

3.
Lord Aster & Lady Artemiz.
Very concerned with linage, fashion, gossip & status.
They object because the princess' parents will be lonely.
We persuade mentioning the pirate boats. Success.
We had no ideas how to get more info, as they deigned to pay us much attention.
They did mention something about forgery in Waterdeep.

4.
Name + name
in love, feed each other food.
One is alchemist, the other herbalist.
Objection: no love spoons. Jarik makes some.
Invitation: success.
We detect the herbalist doesn't know very much and was reluctant to be fed food.

We report to queen. She agrees they are suspicious. She summons them. The man changes form into a female fey, and vanishes. Seems to have teleported. We conclude this is the thief and may have captured the real husband.

The queen summons all the guests. They offer to help. We need to investigate the town.

New handout, a whole page.
For future reference, I cannot read (and internalize) rules while the game is going on. I need to actively separate from the game and read the new rules.

4 tasks
Help druids
Listen to rumors in bars
Craft stuff
& ?

We work on them as best we can. Earning points to be converted immediately or later into spells or objects.

What we learn
There are new rogues here, from Waterdeep, from the Shadow Thieves.
Satch, the hag, is probably involved, possibly as the fence.
The Shadow Thieves have the job to steal the goods. The locals feel overlooked.
The hag has an encampment
The Shadow Thieves have an encampment near Wintergreen.
Satch is looking for something of high quality, expensive.
Gnome alchemist, in-town for trading, seems to know more than he can reveal. Has mixed memories, missing memories.
Dispel Magic. Partial success.
He reveals the description of the stone cottage. A spider on the ceiling attempts to get away. Kwyjibo kills it.
TC: In hindsight, that probably prevented them from being prepared.

Long Rest
We stop by druids in the morning. Earn more points. Eat food for +20 Max HP.
Vigilant blessing
Healing potions. Never used, so returned.
Teleport to encampment.

Stone cottage with tents. We reconnoiter. We decide to enter where the voices are after using Silence. One runs into an adjacent tent. The first surrenders silently. The other is attacked and also surrenders. We learn about the plan. The hag is in the cottage with her boss.

The hag needed the loot for a ritual which had started. The loot in the other tent is being consumed by insects. Some items have already been lost. But we can take the rest after removing the insects. We have difficulty freeing the captive husband. Voices in the cottage are alerted. We flee.

We return with the remaining loot.
Partial success.

Loot
Thank you for completing the adventure with me today, I hope you had a good time and enjoyed it.

For completing the adventure your character is entitled to the following:

Gain one level
3,000gp split equally amongst the party (1,000 gp each) - now on character sheet

You find the following magical items during the adventure, each player gets each item

Hag’s Pincushion (a bracer of flying daggers)
Hawthorne’s Horn (a horn of silent alarm)
Potion of Greater Healing
Spellwrought Tattoo of Thunder Step
Spell Scroll of Dispel Magic

Session Notes 2025-04-08

BMG-MOON-MO-05 Fleeing Snowdown

Game Code -
BMG-MOON-MO-05

Game Name -
Fleeing Snowdown

Location -
Contrarian's Game Cafe

DM -
Mike B

Party -
Chet, Fi-8 (Nate)
Vall, Ra-9 (Brian)
Gossemyr, Bb-5 (Asia)
Tandur, Cl-6/Fi-4 (me, Thomas)
Garothe, Bb-8 (Cooper)

Cloudy, animals, mostly quiet, mass deforestation.
Farm houses, huts
Soil is bad
Perception
Horses in distance, coming closer.
Dire/giant wolves, faster
2 running humanoids equally fast.

4 groups went north
2 groups went west: 1 group of guards & 1 group of undead.

We go east. Brian calculated hexes. 6 hexes = 36 miles. We cannot get there in time. DM: time will adjust. Don't worry.

Somebody learned: queen did this. Only living plants are thorns and vines.
Faeries departed. Nameless Forest.

Body. Loot 100 g. /

C1 (combat)
Dire wolf x7
Vampire (or similar) x2

[] Name my owl Dr Whoo?

Healed Capt. Stephan. +22 health.

Final Loot:
1 healing potion / replicated > onto character sheet.
20 gp each. > onto character sheet

We are halfway to the narrow part.

End

Session Notes 2025-04-09

BMG-DRW-OD-01 Something in the Way

Game Code -
BMG-DRW-OD-01
(OD, as in Obscure Devotions)

Game Name -
Something in the Way

Location -
CCGHouse

DM -
Andrew B

Party -
Eerie (m), human So-5 (Joe)
Elly (m), elf Wi-6 (Doug)
Tandur (m), human Cl-6/Fi-4 (me, Thomas)

We being in Neverwinter.
Meet with Zahira Daryon
New star in the trail of Selune. Has something to do with the battle against the Red Wizards. They are using magic from outside the Weave.
Wants us to travel to Cormyr (country) & Suzail (town).
Meet with Tasia (Tisia) Granjane in temple to Augmah.
Something about emerald gem dragon. Not sure if it is hostile, supportive or neutral.

Before leaving, Eerie asks if we should have a formal letter. Oh, yes. She writes one up and seals it with wax.

She gives us each 100 g to start with. - now on character sheet

We can speed things up by taking the teleport circle in the Covenant (mages guild). We agree.

[] Tandur pays 600 gold for all 3 of us. - now on character sheet
Tandur gives 2 regular healing to both Elly & Eerie. - now on character sheet

Arcana check: the teleporter looks old but functional.
Next morning.
Begin teleporting. Something wrong. We can help stabilize by expending spell slots.
We supply 10 slots. Enough.
We arrive in the correct town, Suzail, in the back of a building (which one?)
We walk to Temple of Augmah.
It's a library. Elly wants to read the books. We agree to come back later.
We ask for Tisia. We are brought to study of Master Sage.
She offers tea. Eerie gives ours a spike.
She has been watching through a telescope. It's a rogue planetoid. There are many lights upon its surface, making it look like a star.

We should get the assistance of Ranil Scorson (Ramis Scorsesee) because (don't remember).

Before we can leave, a man and a metal creature barge in claiming they (two) are the real adventurers and that we are frauds. We point out the wax seal on our letter. We persuade Tisia. She orders them removed without asking for their names. Tandur makes a mental note of their descriptions.

She gives us a Moon-Touched Longsword (common)
https://www.dndbeyond.com/magic-items/36822-moon-touched-sword
https://www.dndbeyond.com/magic-items/36819-moon-touched-sword-longsword

Give 3 Greater Healing potions. - now on character sheet

We depart and go to a tavern where Tisia thinks we can find Ranil.
[] 5 gold - Tandur gives to Eerie to help persuade. - now on character sheet

Darla, bartender, says Ranil won't be in the bar until her debt is paid. Eerie pays the debt (forgot how much). Darla equips battle axe with peace binding and guides us to a place where Ranil hangs out (house, guild, ? don't recall).

Another person talks to Darla through the door slit. We are admitted. Darla departs. We explain our mission. Ranil agrees to help. We need to get to the rogue planetoid. The best way is by using a spelljammer ship. But we need to catch that at the Spelljammer Academy. She will help us get there. We must hurry to catch Captain Mert of the skyship, the galleon, Cloud Bearer's Fortune.

Ranil guides us to the captain's quarters where he is sleeping off a hangover. She wakes him and persuades him to take us all to the Spelljammer Academy.

Aboard, we learn he is the Mert, the money lender, the old wolf.

Long Rest.

We travel to Nimbrill, to the Spelljammer Academy. We land the ship (I missed it: either in a cave or on top of a tower). We are met by Saerthe, the head instructor. We explain our mission. He says we need to take a spelljammer to Iskirthos, the rogue planetoid.

Spelljammers work by flying really fast (1M miles per day) unless something large (missed detail) is within (missed distance) of the ship, in which case it just slows down automatically. Then the ship and the object are pulled towards each other by (missed that detail). If it's a planet, then the gravity does that. And the spelljammer takes along a bubble of air which can last a (period of ?).

We are granted a helmsman. I remember this. The helmsman uses spell slots to direct the ship, I think.

The helmsman is located behind doors in the aft of the ship.

Why did I write this name? Maybe the helmsman?
Jean Val Dano, Lunar Courtier.

We have to make saving throws against space sickness. Tandur fails and now has 1 level of Exhaustion.

[] I want Tandur to be looking for
Potion of Vitality

We slow as we come near to an asteroid. Creatures (I entirely missed the description, except they attack with tongues) leap aboard. One in particular attempts to move towards the helmsman's station.

Combat 1
We prevail. No damage to, no attacks on the helmsman.

One of the killed creatures vomits up Bracers of Defense. - now on character sheet
3200 gp / 3 = 1066.6.6 each.- now on character sheet

Loot summary
100 g each
1 greater healing potion each.
Moon-Touched Longsword
Bracers of Defense
1066.6.6 gold (each)

Bracers of Defense - from Vault to character sheet
- now on character sheet

Bead of Force - from Vault to character sheet

Bead of Force x5 - from Vault to character sheet
- now on character sheet

Spent 10 g for Find Familar components - now on character sheet

BMG-MOON-MD-05 Fleeing Snowdown

Game Code -
BMG-MOON-MD-05

Game Name -
Fleeing Snowdown

Location -
Contrarian's Game Cafe

DM -
Mike B

Party -
Sir Mancha, earth genasi Pa-6/Wi-1 (Joe)
Gossemyr, elf Bb-5 (Asia)
Garothe, hill dwarf Bb-7 (Cooper)
Vall, triton Ra-7 (Brian)
The Temp, orc Dr-5 (Neel)
Tandur, human Cl-6/Fi-4 (me, Thomas)

We are an existing party. We were returning by boat from a job. Ran into storm. Ship needed repairs. Docked ship at island, in the town of Westphal. We've been awaiting repairs for 4 days.

We have learned some information about the setting.

Lady Drysen Israh is the queen of this island. There is another island run by High King Kinrock. Israh may have set her sights on getting that island. Her police/army is called Dara Dragoons.

In tavern. Bell ringing. Patrons stand like zombies and walk towards door. Door flings open. Man with wound enters. Runs to back door followed by 4 Dragoon guards. Outside it's all red light.

Sent owl. Owl observes groups of zombies and groups of Dragoon guards. The guards are searching for something, entering buildings. Owl listens. "We must find him, or face her." The zombies were in groups of 10-15, and so were the guards.

We rescued the wounded man, Captain Stephan. He had been on a mission to rescue Prince Olin, son of King Kinrock. We decided to help him. He needs to get off this island and report back to Kinrock. All the ships are burning in the harbor. He's got a backup boat in the northern town of Lanring. We have 11 hours to get him there and 10 more hours of night.

We ask him what's going on. Oh, Queen Israh is probably doing a blood moon ritual. It allows her to take control of all undead.

We decide the large groups of zombies and guards are too likely to discover Capt. Stephan, so we choose the sewers. After hitting a dead end, we decide to exit through the grate and make for a nearby gate. The closest gate is the main northern gate which is crawling with guards. Owl discovers another gate, a pedestrian gate, to the east. We go there. Sir Mancha puts Capt. Stephan on his horse which teleports 60 ft away, outside the gate. We then successfully talk our way out the gate.

We find the horse and Capt. Stephan. We decide we will head north, staying parallel to the main north-south road.

No loot

Session Notes 2025-04-02

Party -
Rhyndera (f), Pa-5/So-5 (Andrew)
Kookey Gobas (m), kobold PA-6/SO-4 (Lv10) (Jamison)
Elly (m), elf Wizard-5 (Doug)
Bane (f), tiefling Mo-10 (Veronica)
Salem (th), tabaxi Mo-5/Ro-2 (?) (Forrest)
Tarenth Shadowood (m), shifter Mo-2/Ra-2/Ro-1 (Conrad)
Tandur (m), human Cl-6/Fi-4 (me, Thomas)

When we left off, we had encountered a small hole, through which we could see an encampment. The Bear went into the encampment. But that player is not present tonight.

We attempt to follow the trail of the goblins with human (townsfolk) captives.

We move on. We encounter a group of six Quaggoth.
C1 init 12

We kill 5. The sixth surrenders. We gain a little information.

We explore further. Door with green light coming through the crack. We open the door. 2 mind flayers (illithids). We attack. Tarenth gets grappled and stunned. Most of the rest of us get stunned at distance (only 1 round). We had enough allies still active that we didn't get too damaged. We killed one. The second tried to teleport, but Counterspell prevented that. We killed it. We kept 2 heads (bag of holding) in case we want to speak with dead.

In the room is a stone statue of a mind flayer with a brain in each hand. It wears a pendant. The brains move (change?) when we aren't looking. There is a glow of green coming off it. There is no magic. We detect the trace of teleportation magic.

The goblin/captive tracks end here. We find a closet built for and containing more mind flayer robes. We explore rooms.

Perfume, gem. - see loot

A door has a placard saying something like:
she of sacred flight and knows only the truth

We find a room with 2 prison cells. Under the trash on the ground a scrawled message:
3 monsters lead them all

We enter various rooms. One contains a gray skinned mind flayer. The usual ones have purple skin. She asks if we are there to join. We explain we got separated from our goblin allies. We attempt to get information. She shows us in her floating crystal a set of doors down a hallway south of the battle.
First door on the left.

Finally she offers information as to the destination of the prisoners. They went 3 ways. Some to:
Chishinix
Hashutu
Voalsh

Desk with letters in Undercommon.
Ink well - see loot

A mind flayer doing a dissection of a non human creature with a lot of eyes. We can't determine more. Also there are two 1-eyed creatures in that room.

We continue north. We find a large prison room.
My notes indicate we will start with a fight. I didn't write down what we saw.
End session.

Loot
5 x 500 gp bottles of perfume
Subtle Mind Crystal to character sheet
Ink well: 280 gold
2780 / 7 = 397 gold each.
Added to character sheet.

PO-BMG-MOONCA-POB-01 The Joust of Roses
DM: Kurt Hoffstaetter (1320736111)

Session Notes 2025-04-04

Party
Rhydian (m), human Dr-10 Moon (John K)

Miaxisys Rothenel "Max" (m), wood elf Ra-10 Hunter (Grawler)
https://www.dndbeyond.com/characters/137136584/go6FGR

Tandur (m), human Cl-6/Fi-4 (me, Thomas)

Kwyjibo (m), human Bb-8/Ro-1 (Mark)
https://www.dndbeyond.com/characters/144261311

"Number 8" [Automated Food Processing Unit 8], auto gnome lore Bard Lv? (Philippe G-V)
Team name Crimson Cabal

Intro by guide, Kithren
Trinket
Roses everywhere
Collect steed

Rules
1 There must be a jouster. Not to hurt.
2 Land bound creature, but you can flavor it.
3 Everyone must cheer loudly

3 passes. Judges can adjudicate ties.
Words have meaning.
Don't lie, here.

Our selected opponent: The Black Knight.

We prepare for the joust and discuss ideas.
Your choice of Athletics, Acrobatics, Animal Handling, or Insight.

Black Knight arrives and taunts us.

We joust: Kwyjibo, Number 8, Rhidian.
We win 2 out of 3.
Success.

Next chapter.
Lightning. 3 sisters appear. One is an image.
Chitterbone, Rowena, & Urphania. Each offers 3 challenges, we must choose 1 from each.

Urphania
Earth Wind Fire; we choose earth.
Rescue a kid.
We ask if it is a human child. No answer.
Reduce makes Number 8 tiny. He goes into the tunnel and finds the goat.
We pull the rope and free the goat.
We are teleported back to the joust.

Chitterbones
Mind Body Spirit; we choose spirit
Fey in an artist commune are debating art. 2 camps: social message or aesthetically pleasing. We help them choose social message. We help them paint. Some are poisoned. We revivify them. We finish helping them with the art. They complete most, but not all of the paintings.

Next chapter.
Rowena
Good Bad Ugly; we choose Good
Combat 1
We have to enter a locked door. There are 10 creatures who will attack. When we kill one, we can take its key. We failed to get through the locked door in time.

10 minute break

Final chapter
Prismatic Knight taunts lord and lady.
Combat 2
Prismatic Knight adds 6 more smaller knights each of a color. On each of their turns, they kill civilians, unless they are engaged with 1 of us. We beat most of the colored knights. But there was still 1 or 2 left, plus the Prismatic Knight. Time.

We submit our score: 18

We did not win. Wedding Crashers won the contest.

Rewards

PO-BMG-MOONCA-POB-01 The Joust of Roses
DM: Kurt Hoffstaetter (1320736111)

Tandur: Dice made from dyed wood in an assortment of colors

Hey there! Thanks for playing PO-BMG-MOONCA-POB-01 - The Joust of Roses today with me, Kurt Hoffstaetter, during Slot 2.

All characters earn the following:

Level Milestone
10 Downtime Days
1,000 gp (5,000 gp divided) -- on character sheet
Five Star Sapphires (1,000 gp each)
Woodcutter's Axe
Fabulist Gem
Saddle of the Cavalier

Woodcutter's Axe- now on character sheet
Weapon (Greataxe), Rare
You have a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon.

When you use this axe to make an attack against a plant (an ordinary plant or a creature with the Plant type) or a wooden object that isn’t being worn or carried, the attack deals an extra 2d6 slashing damage on a hit.

Fabulist Gem- now on character sheet
Wondrous Item, Uncommon (Requires Attunement)
This glittering red gem is commonly found embedded in a ring or brooch.
While wearing the gem, you gain the following benefits.

Counterfeit Coins. You can use your action to magically create a pile of coins, worth no more than 100 gp total, in an unoccupied space within 10 feet of yourself. The pile must appear on a surface that can support it. After 1 hour, the coins vanish, regardless of where they are. Once this action is used, it can’t be used again until the next dawn.

Illusory Fashion. As a bonus action, you can magically change the appearance of your clothing and armor. You can change the style, color, and apparent quality of what you’re wearing, or you can make it appear as if you were wearing different garments entirely. In either case, the changes wrought by this magic fail to pass physical inspection.

Saddle of the Cavalier - now on character sheet
Wondrous Item, Uncommon
While in this saddle on a mount, you can't be dismounted against your will if you're conscious, and attack rolls against the mount have disadvantage.

From Vault to Character Sheet
Pot Healing
Pot Healing
Pot Acid Resist
Lantern

Buy Pot Healing x2 on char sheet

AL Limits of Magic Carried

Permanent Magic
LIMIT
3 of Uncommon or greater
5 of Common

Inventory
1 rare ring
1 uc shield
1 uc Lantern of Revealing

CONSUMABLES
LIMIT
10 consumables

Inventory
Bead of Force
Bead of Force
Scr: FoM
Mind Crystal Careful
Pot Healing
Pot Healing
Pot Healing
Pot Healing
Pot Acid Resist
Mind Crystal Subtle
=10

Inventory & components purchase

More incense & diamonds (components) reflected on character sheet

Sold (for 25) Scale Mail
Bought (for 400) Breastplate
Reflected on character sheet

Session Notes 2025-04-06

PO-BMG-MOON-POB-07 - Of Romance and Dalliances
Tier 2

DM: Paul Maloney

Jarick (m), dwarf Art-6/Wiz-4 (Trey McBride)
https://www.dndbeyond.com/characters/136204377

Kwyjibo, human Bb-8/Ro-2 Berserker (Mark)
https://www.dndbeyond.com/characters/144261311

Romaz, human Wa-5 Archfey (TrooperS96/Stephen Moseley) "autistic"
https://www.dndbeyond.com/characters/137991528/nYjFJX

Tandur, human Cl-6/Fi-4 Twilight/EK (me, Thomas)

Players:
Stephen Moseley
Trey McBride

Description:
"Are you ready to perform a heist of your own in this adventure where every decision matters?"

I love D&D, but I'm not very good at it. I'd appreciate the help. Here are the spells (aside from healing) I've prepared for this heist adventure.
- Tandur (Cleric)

Cantrips
Message
Guidance
Prestidigitation
Mage Hand

Lv1
Bless
Detect Magic [R]

Lv2
Zone of Truth
Silence [R]
Locate Object
Find Traps
See Invisibility

Lv3
Dispel Magic
Clairvoyance

We begin in Castle Caer Callwell, the location of the upcoming wedding, only a few days away. We are summoned to the war room; some have been here before. King, queen and princess want us to personally deliver invitations to guest in the castle. This is an old tradition originating in Waterdeep.

Bride comes from Waterdeep. Her mother and father are not present. ? That doesn't sound right.

Queen missed it Kendrick
King Dav...
Princess Taralina

Invitations are done using the Seals of Approval ceremony.

Process
1. Deliver food
2. Deliver invitation
3. Guest responds negatively
4. Act surprised
5. Attempt to convince guest
6. Guest relents, accepts and offers a gift, which used to be an official seal, but now is an object to fit into a piece of jewelry, necklace or bracelet.

A man rushes in. They confer.
Oh, we must ask you for an additional task. All the wedding gifts have been stolen. As you deliver the invitations, see if you can gather information about the stolen gifts.

We are tasked with 4 invitations.

1. Feyren, a satyr
   He complains about the noise.
   Jarik offers to make stylish earmuffs.
   And we have to steal a bottle of wine. We succeed. He accepts.
   He gives gift of wooden object.
   He seems to have been only around the study or his quarters.
   We further discuss his knowledge of the property. He is concerned with growing crops in the harsh soil.

2. Captain Kree & ?
   One is playful and acts like a pirate. When Tandur offers to spar, he admits he's not a real pirate.
   They decline because if the princess relocates the local parties will cease. We suggest party boats, pirate party boats. Success.
   No clues about the stolen gifts.

3.
Lord Aster & Lady Artemiz.
Very concerned with linage, fashion, gossip & status.
They object because the princess' parents will be lonely.
We persuade mentioning the pirate boats. Success.
We had no ideas how to get more info, as they deigned to pay us much attention.
They did mention something about forgery in Waterdeep.

4.
Name + name
in love, feed each other food.
One is alchemist, the other herbalist.
Objection: no love spoons. Jarik makes some.
Invitation: success.
We detect the herbalist doesn't know very much and was reluctant to be fed food.

We report to queen. She agrees they are suspicious. She summons them. The man changes form into a female fey, and vanishes. Seems to have teleported. We conclude this is the thief and may have captured the real husband.

The queen summons all the guests. They offer to help. We need to investigate the town.

New handout, a whole page.
For future reference, I cannot read (and internalize) rules while the game is going on. I need to actively separate from the game and read the new rules.

4 tasks
Help druids
Listen to rumors in bars
Craft stuff
& ?

We work on them as best we can. Earning points to be converted immediately or later into spells or objects.

What we learn
There are new rogues here, from Waterdeep, from the Shadow Thieves.
Satch, the hag, is probably involved, possibly as the fence.
The Shadow Thieves have the job to steal the goods. The locals feel overlooked.
The hag has an encampment
The Shadow Thieves have an encampment near Wintergreen.
Satch is looking for something of high quality, expensive.
Gnome alchemist, in-town for trading, seems to know more than he can reveal. Has mixed memories, missing memories.
Dispel Magic. Partial success.
He reveals the description of the stone cottage. A spider on the ceiling attempts to get away. Kwyjibo kills it.
TC: In hindsight, that probably prevented them from being prepared.

Long Rest
We stop by druids in the morning. Earn more points. Eat food for +20 Max HP.
Vigilant blessing
Healing potions. Never used, so returned.
Teleport to encampment.

Stone cottage with tents. We reconnoiter. We decide to enter where the voices are after using Silence. One runs into an adjacent tent. The first surrenders silently. The other is attacked and also surrenders. We learn about the plan. The hag is in the cottage with her boss.

The hag needed the loot for a ritual which had started. The loot in the other tent is being consumed by insects. Some items have already been lost. But we can take the rest after removing the insects. We have difficulty freeing the captive husband. Voices in the cottage are alerted. We flee.

We return with the remaining loot.
Partial success.

Loot
Thank you for completing the adventure with me today, I hope you had a good time and enjoyed it.

For completing the adventure your character is entitled to the following:

Gain one level
3,000gp split equally amongst the party (1,000 gp each) - now on character sheet

You find the following magical items during the adventure, each player gets each item

Hag’s Pincushion (a bracer of flying daggers)
Hawthorne’s Horn (a horn of silent alarm)
Potion of Greater Healing
Spellwrought Tattoo of Thunder Step
Spell Scroll of Dispel Magic

Session Notes 2025-04-08

BMG-MOON-MO-05 Fleeing Snowdown

Game Code -
BMG-MOON-MO-05

Game Name -
Fleeing Snowdown

Location -
Contrarian's Game Cafe

DM -
Mike B

Party -
Chet, Fi-8 (Nate)
Vall, Ra-9 (Brian)
Gossemyr, Bb-5 (Asia)
Tandur, Cl-6/Fi-4 (me, Thomas)
Garothe, Bb-8 (Cooper)

Cloudy, animals, mostly quiet, mass deforestation.
Farm houses, huts
Soil is bad
Perception
Horses in distance, coming closer.
Dire/giant wolves, faster
2 running humanoids equally fast.

4 groups went north
2 groups went west: 1 group of guards & 1 group of undead.

We go east. Brian calculated hexes. 6 hexes = 36 miles. We cannot get there in time. DM: time will adjust. Don't worry.

Somebody learned: queen did this. Only living plants are thorns and vines.
Faeries departed. Nameless Forest.

Body. Loot 100 g. /

C1 (combat)
Dire wolf x7
Vampire (or similar) x2

[] Name my owl Dr Whoo?

Healed Capt. Stephan. +22 health.

Final Loot:
1 healing potion / replicated > onto character sheet.
20 gp each. > onto character sheet

We are halfway to the narrow part.

End

Session Notes 2025-04-09

BMG-DRW-OD-01 Something in the Way

Game Code -
BMG-DRW-OD-01
(OD, as in Obscure Devotions)

Game Name -
Something in the Way

Location -
CCGHouse

DM -
Andrew B

Party -
Eerie (m), human So-5 (Joe)
Elly (m), elf Wi-6 (Doug)
Tandur (m), human Cl-6/Fi-4 (me, Thomas)

We being in Neverwinter.
Meet with Zahira Daryon
New star in the trail of Selune. Has something to do with the battle against the Red Wizards. They are using magic from outside the Weave.
Wants us to travel to Cormyr (country) & Suzail (town).
Meet with Tasia (Tisia) Granjane in temple to Augmah.
Something about emerald gem dragon. Not sure if it is hostile, supportive or neutral.

Before leaving, Eerie asks if we should have a formal letter. Oh, yes. She writes one up and seals it with wax.

She gives us each 100 g to start with. - now on character sheet

We can speed things up by taking the teleport circle in the Covenant (mages guild). We agree.

[] Tandur pays 600 gold for all 3 of us. - now on character sheet
Tandur gives 2 regular healing to both Elly & Eerie. - now on character sheet

Arcana check: the teleporter looks old but functional.
Next morning.
Begin teleporting. Something wrong. We can help stabilize by expending spell slots.
We supply 10 slots. Enough.
We arrive in the correct town, Suzail, in the back of a building (which one?)
We walk to Temple of Augmah.
It's a library. Elly wants to read the books. We agree to come back later.
We ask for Tisia. We are brought to study of Master Sage.
She offers tea. Eerie gives ours a spike.
She has been watching through a telescope. It's a rogue planetoid. There are many lights upon its surface, making it look like a star.

We should get the assistance of Ranil Scorson (Ramis Scorsesee) because (don't remember).

Before we can leave, a man and a metal creature barge in claiming they (two) are the real adventurers and that we are frauds. We point out the wax seal on our letter. We persuade Tisia. She orders them removed without asking for their names. Tandur makes a mental note of their descriptions.

She gives us a Moon-Touched Longsword (common)
https://www.dndbeyond.com/magic-items/36822-moon-touched-sword
https://www.dndbeyond.com/magic-items/36819-moon-touched-sword-longsword

Give 3 Greater Healing potions. - now on character sheet

We depart and go to a tavern where Tisia thinks we can find Ranil.
[] 5 gold - Tandur gives to Eerie to help persuade. - now on character sheet

Darla, bartender, says Ranil won't be in the bar until her debt is paid. Eerie pays the debt (forgot how much). Darla equips battle axe with peace binding and guides us to a place where Ranil hangs out (house, guild, ? don't recall).

Another person talks to Darla through the door slit. We are admitted. Darla departs. We explain our mission. Ranil agrees to help. We need to get to the rogue planetoid. The best way is by using a spelljammer ship. But we need to catch that at the Spelljammer Academy. She will help us get there. We must hurry to catch Captain Mert of the skyship, the galleon, Cloud Bearer's Fortune.

Ranil guides us to the captain's quarters where he is sleeping off a hangover. She wakes him and persuades him to take us all to the Spelljammer Academy.

Aboard, we learn he is the Mert, the money lender, the old wolf.

Long Rest.

We travel to Nimbrill, to the Spelljammer Academy. We land the ship (I missed it: either in a cave or on top of a tower). We are met by Saerthe, the head instructor. We explain our mission. He says we need to take a spelljammer to Iskirthos, the rogue planetoid.

Spelljammers work by flying really fast (1M miles per day) unless something large (missed detail) is within (missed distance) of the ship, in which case it just slows down automatically. Then the ship and the object are pulled towards each other by (missed that detail). If it's a planet, then the gravity does that. And the spelljammer takes along a bubble of air which can last a (period of ?).

We are granted a helmsman. I remember this. The helmsman uses spell slots to direct the ship, I think.

The helmsman is located behind doors in the aft of the ship.

Why did I write this name? Maybe the helmsman?
Jean Val Dano, Lunar Courtier.

We have to make saving throws against space sickness. Tandur fails and now has 1 level of Exhaustion.

[] I want Tandur to be looking for
Potion of Vitality

We slow as we come near to an asteroid. Creatures (I entirely missed the description, except they attack with tongues) leap aboard. One in particular attempts to move towards the helmsman's station.

Combat 1
We prevail. No damage to, no attacks on the helmsman.

One of the killed creatures vomits up Bracers of Defense. - now on character sheet
3200 gp / 3 = 1066.6.6 each.- now on character sheet

Loot summary
100 g each
1 greater healing potion each.
Moon-Touched Longsword
Bracers of Defense
1066.6.6 gold (each)

Bracers of Defense - from Vault to character sheet
- now on character sheet

Bead of Force - from Vault to character sheet

Bead of Force x5 - from Vault to character sheet
- now on character sheet

Spent 10 g for Find Familar components - now on character sheet