Campaign Recap for 12/01/20

Playing: Lord Fatty (NPCed by Aaron), Thineli (Aaron), Sir Dawnstar (John),  Frog (Keiran), Ellalan (Julie), Yeusof (Jose)

Date in Campaign is: 23st of Grentle.

The party decides to head back to the town, 6 hr walking..But first Sir Dawnstar takes a short rest.. uses 3 hit dice. Ellalan summons a weasel from her bag of tricks. She picks it up "Hey friend. I like having a pet on my shoulder! Keep your eyes and ears open for any magical beings or creatures." Sir Dawnstar leads the way,... and gets lost making the 6 hour trip take 12 hours! And one the 11th hour... Three Darkmantles drop from the ceiling, popping their darkness bubbles. One covers the head of Sir Dawnstar and one on the head of Thineli. The third missed.. Then the hijinks begin.. Frog, in the darkness, casts Thunderwave hitting Thineli, Sir Dawnstar and Yuesof and the 3 mantles...Yuesof, out of the darkness, attacks and kills one of the Darkmantles that is wounded.. Thineli uses Poison Spray on the one on his head.. Sir Dawnstar slashs with his Greatsword at the one of his head but is not able to remove it.. then Lord Fatty casts Spirit Guardians and walking into the darkness.. almost killing Thineli.."Oh I have to see the things I don't want affected when I cast the spell.." meanwhile a Giant Scorpion has engaged Yuesof.. Yuesof almost is poisoned to death.. but kills the Scorpion. Yeusof calling the people trapped in darkness to run towards him... not realizing the Darkmantles on their heads are the source of the darkness...But they fight their way though and walk the rest of the way to Dagambi...

Ellalan heads towards the market to try to sell carrion crawler gland and 2 prowler tentacles. The alchemist offers and pays Ellalan 61gp for the gland and 12+15=27gp for the tendrils. Frog sells his two Crawler glands for 43+31=74 gp, Frog begs for 75 for both.. and gets it. Frog buys a planter pot and a small bag of dirt mixed with troll poop to help it grow for 10gp

The Person that might buy or sell magic items is Baish the Factor located in a corner of the market. To have items made or repaired you would see Kunaxx the Wizard. Frog goes to Kunaxx and is offered a job as an apprentice enchanter paying 6gp a day. Thineli goes to Lord Fatty's cottage/ church and gets "Owlie". he seems in good shape and high spirits. Thineli walking him through town, seems a lot of the locals know about this Owlbear. Yeusof wants fire bombs so goes to see the alchemist. But the alchemist tells him that magic would be better long term. Ellalan goes back to the inn with Sir Dawnstar, studies the Slates for 6hrs (16+6=22hrs out 48hrs down) and then she drinks with Sir Dawnstar. 

It is now the 24th of Grentle, Sir Dawnstar's sword was ordered on the 18th and will take 12 days. Owes 400gp. Yeusof orders his ring of storage on the 19 and 9 days to make it ready on the 28th, Paid. Thineli Armor was ordered on the 20th and takes 15days, ready on the 35th, Paid.

Kill Count=Giant Scorpion+(3xDarkmantle)

Exp=700+(3x100)=1000/6=167 exp. Fighting in the dark hijinks +100 exp

Current Exp Totals are: Ellalan 14049, Lord Fatty 13213, Thineli 15763, Yeusof 12760, Sir Dawnstar 11654, Frog 2920. Frog can level up to 4 and Ellalan can level up to 6.

Campiagn Recap for 11/24/20

Playing: Lord Fatty (Romo), Thineli (Aaron), Sir Dawnstar (John),  Frog (Keiran).

Date in Campaign is: 22st of Grentle.

The party talks to Cirha, then he tells them about the Cr'C!C!Kr! (the intelligent Phase Spiders) well what he knows about them so far. He also tells Thineli about two creatures he would be able to shapeshift to if he studies them, the Feral Hunting Lizard and the Giant Torment Frog.

He draws them a map to the area of the Hunting Lizards.

The party takes a long rest. (Thineli/Sir Dawnstar/Yeusof/Lord Fatty). 

While Thineli and Cirha are talking, one of the Guardian Shrubs tells him a spider is in the webbing nearby. Cirha approaches the webbing and starts making a display to the spider, turning into a spider to talk to it. When he finishes, Cirha explains that he thinks he has asked the CriC!C!Kr! to bring someone that is willing to talk with him.. he thinks..Cirha tells the party he smells Roper on them and they should wash to remove the scent as Roper brood will track that scent. Sir Dawnstar buries the Roper and Prowler parts the party has been carrying back to town.. but not that great a job...

On the 6th hour of the long rest..Another Phase Spider shows up wearing a harness and a hat!.. Cirha and the spider do their displays and then the spider puts out a slate to write stuff on.. after a few moments, Cirha bids the party well, turns to a spider and follows the spider in the webbing…

Date in campaign is: 23rd of Grentle.

After the long rest, Thineli, Sir Dawnstar and Lord Fatty will follow the map to the area of Feral Hunting Lizards...After 40min of following the directions they enter a cave with a large sandy area ahead of them.. Sir Dawnstar detects something hidden in the sand.. Thineli thinks it may be some kind of insect ambusher..two Giant Scorpions attack the three of them but are killed by them after a running battle... yay!

Lord Fatty used Spiritual Weapon and a 3rd Lvl Cure Wounds. Sir Dawnstar used 1 1st lvl smite and 20hp lay on hands.. Thineli used his Scorching Ray. Lord Fatty harvests one of the Giant Scorpions and recovers 2 Giant Scorpion Claws. Acts as a dagger. Can be mastercrafted (jeweler’s tools) into a musical instrument, 1 Giant Scorpion Stinger. Acts as a dagger that deals +1d6 poison damage (breaks on a roll of 1-3) and 9 rations. This takes 30mins. 

Frog shows up (he was left behind sleeping) and joins them.

They continue on and 10mins later than come to another large cavern system.. There is a large stoney "island" or hill about ten feet high in the center of the area.. As they enter the area Sir Dawnstar sees a shadowy figure ducking down behind some vegetation.. Sir Dawnstar climbs up the small hill. A stoney figure pops out and gives a him a glowing stare that paraylizes him.. the figure then pushes him off the hill. After a moment the paraysis wears off and they decide to go around the island and avoid the Stone Gazer..They head off on the final leg of the short journey and Sir Dawnstar gets lost for 35mins...getting back on track they make it to the cavern with the Feral Hunting Lizards..The area of the Lizards is a large cavern about 1/2 km across and with a roof about about 200 feet up. There are various ferns and other plants and abundant wildlife.. Most of animals seem to be lizard based. Thineli sneaks around invisible for a bit and then has to return to the cave were they are waiting. Frog kills a smallish lizard with his crossbow..They start killing the smaller lizards to get larger lizards to come eat the corpses.. after 5 hours of this.. the Feral Hunting Lizards show up...Thineli observes them for 20mins and connects to their form... he can now shape change to their form. Yay! So the group heads back, trying to avoid encounters.. getting back to the area where yeusof and ellalan are waiting in about 2 hours. On the way back, they clean their bodies and gear in some running water. Their whole side trip took 9 hours. Ellalan and Yeusof studied the Linan Slates for 4 hours while they waited. (16 hrs down for Ellalan, 4 hrs for Yeusof /48hrs needed).

Kill Count=(2xGiant Scorpion) Lord Fatty/Sir Dawnstar/Thineli (1xStone Gazer Avoided) +Frog

Exp=(2x700)=1400/3=467 exp. 700/2=350/4= 88 exp. Exploring the path to the Cave of the Feral Hunting Lizards +250 exp

Current Exp Totals are: Ellalan 13782, Lord Fatty 12946, Thineli 15496, Yeusof 12493, Sir Dawnstar 11654, Frog 2653.

Campaign Recap for 11/17/20

Playing: Ellalan (Julie), Lord Fatty (NPC:Aaron), Thineli (Aaron), Sir Dawnstar (John), Yuseof  (Jose), Frog (Keiran).

Date in Campaign is: 22st of Grentle.

Ellalan is on watch. Suddenly from beyond the mouth of the entrance to the Troll's lair she hears a bellowing roar in some gurteral language she can't understand (it's Giant btw). Some of the others wake up when this happens and they wake up the rest. After a moment's pause, the same bellowing is heard, closer now.. Then they hear (in common) "Sister, She isn't answering what should we do?" "Stay calm! Give her a moment, their lair may be quite large." The voices are rough and harsh, another loud bellow in Giant and they decide to move forward. The party has hidden themselves in the outer hall, waiting to see what has been talking.. A large shadowy figure enters in the range of Dark Vision.. It resembles a Manticore, except smaller wings and a more muscular body.. An acidic smell is also noticed by some. Thineli remembers this smell, from a long time ago, in the area of something called Omen, the DemiGod of Poison. The creature (a Spawn of Omen) called out in Giant and then Common, "Hello? We have come to parlay." The party is unsure what to do... Then Sir Dawnstar steps forward and says he is there.. The Spawn asks "Who are you and why are you here?" Sir Dawnstar states his name and that he is an adventurer and here to kill trolls. 

(Now what Sir Dawnstar didn't know was... This is from my GM notes.. Next session the party will encounter two Spawn of Omen "Uzith (male) and Shugerth (female)" and their slave "Hands". They are carrying the crudely butchered carcass of a giant lizard (about 400lbs of meat), bundled so they can carry it on their backs and Hands has two scrolls of speech of giants, 10 ft radius, duration 1 hour. Hands will use the scrolls when told. They have come here to open an alliance with the Troll leader, not knowing she has left the area. They will try to determine who the party is and what side they are on, but they are not too bright and are easily tricked. Will call each other brother and sister. The Spawn each have two Greater Healing Potions (each potion is a quart and in an easily bitten container). Shugerth has two Fireball Spells 1 use items (actually large wooden boards), in case the Trolls are hostile. They keep these items in their chest pouches.)

Uzith is understandably pissed off and attacks Sir Dawnstar with his Tail spikes. The battle starts from there... the party drives the Spawns off, forcing Shugerth to use her two Fireballs (which really pissed her off.. those are expensive!).. The party takes a lot of damage, so decide to stay where they are and finish their long rest so Thineli can level up (and gain a short rest to spend hit dice)... An encounter check gives them another encounter.. This time the returning from the hunt offspring of the Roper, a group of four Prowlers (the middle form of Piercer to Roper) ambush them, tracking them from the smell of the harvested body of their parent. They attack with surprise from the ceiling and do much better than they should have, almost killing Thineli (well A Nature 1 on death save counts as 2 fails). They party kills the Prowlers and after Sir DawnStar harvests one of the Prowler's corpses and gets the following: Prowler's Hide, 1 Prowler Tendril, 1 Prowler eye. This takes 20 minutes. At the same time Ellalan harvents one of the Prowler's corpses and gets 2 Prowler Tendrils. Finally the party decides to leave and heads back to Dagambi. Ellalan uses her bag of tricks and summons two weasels and a badger. The next four hours are harrowing as the Spawn has set up traps and ambushes on the way back. Lord Fatty needs light so they can see him way farther away then they can be seen from. The party avoids a few of the traps but..About 20mins out from the Troll Lairs, Sir Dawnstar steps on a trip wire and gets hit by a rock slide.. one weasel down. About 30mins later the party sees a bright mark on the wall of the tunnel about 8 feet off the ground, they puzzle it out for a few moments and then Frog is downed by poisoned tail bolts and Lord Fatty is hit by one. The Spawn are attacking from close to 250 feet away and retreat after a round. Lord Fatty casts a 10min healing spell and they continue onwards. An hour later.. they enter a large cavern they have to cross to follow the path to Dagambi.. They see a large area of the cave floor has a large painted area with acidic smelling 'paint'. The party springs into action, with Thineli turning into a Brown Bear (that can't see too far away from Lord Fatty's light), Ellalan, Frog and Yeusof drinking climbing potions and climbing up walls.. Sir Dawnstar hears a faint rumbling coming from the tunnel they have to go into so he moves closer to investigate, Yeusof going with him... Suddenly a herd of Giant Lizards come running up the tunnel. Sir Dawnstar kills one and Yeusof severely injures one.. they are almost crushed by the Giant Lizards running pass them but survive.. and watch the herd run to the north out of the cavern (the would have run to the party but the paint on the floor scared them.. said the Spawn weren't that smart). As the Lizards and stampeding, the Spawn shoot a few more long range Tail bolts. The party runs down the tunnel to the south east. That was the last ambush/ trap and so they made it to the area of the spider tunnels.. the halfway point to Dagambi. Seeing light and smelling cooking they sneak up on an old man tending a fire with a pot of soup on it. Standing near him are two humanoid plant creatures. Sir Dawnstar walks over and introduces himself. The old man is the Druid known as Cirha and the plants are his guardian Shrubs. Cirha seems old, canky and excitable. The rest of the party coming out of cover one by one didn't help.. and that was where we ended for today..

 

Kill Count=(2xSpawn of Omen Escaped)+(4xProwler)+(2xGiant Lizard)+(8xGiant Lizard escaped)

Exp=(2x700/2)+(4x200)+(2x50)+(8x50/2)=1800/6=300 exp. Evading/Surviving all of the Spawns traps +200 exp

Current Exp Totals are: Ellalan 13782, Lord Fatty 12141, Thineli 14691, Yeusof 12493, Sir Dawnstar 10439. Kendell 3458, Frog 2315.

Campaign Recap for 11/10/20

Playing: Ellalan (Julie), Lord Fatty (NPC:Aaron), Thineli (Aaron), Sir Dawnstar (John), Yuseof  (Jose), Frog (Keiran).

Frog jumps onto one of the dead Carrion Crawlers and tries to harvest stuff from the corpse. After about 20mins he gets 2 crawler glands (No immediate use. Can be crafted (alchemist's supplies) into Carrion Crawler Mucus (DMG pg. 258).) and a mostly digested corpse of a drow and on that drow's body is a fancy leather cap that is somehow untouched by the Crawler's acid. Ellalan harvests one also and gets a crawler gland. Sir Dawnstar also harvests one but doesn't find anything useful. This takes about 30mins. Frog ritual casts Identify on the hat he found. It has a minor magic spell on it that keeps it clean and in repair. He decides to wear it. The party votes and takes a short rest in the troll's lair moving back to the entrance. They then explore to the south of the Troll's lair and find a section of cave blocked off with large crudely made nets that are attached at the ceiling and weighed at the bottom with rocks. Looking in they see stacks of boxes(?). Frog goes under the netting and starts looking and touching things. He is attacked by savage Cave Spiders. Cave Spiders are a common food source in the Under Temple area and fill in the roll of chicken for a lot of area peoples (Chicken of the Cave!). However the Spiders raised by farmers and such have their poison sacks removed when small making them mostly harmless.. These spiders were raised by Trolls and were both poisonous and untame. They almost kill Frog but he is rescued in time by Sir Dawnstar and Ellalan. Frog then runs further into the netted area and is taken down by a Spider Swarm, again saved by Ellalan and Sir Dawnstar. Multiple investigation rolls reveal that this area is filled with spiders...(actually was pretty obvious). Frog was almost eaten by food. The party has found the cave spider coops where the Trolls raised their spiders to eat. Moving from that area, they enter a large cave passage that goes north and south. Ellalan and Sir Dawnstar find a big heap of Troll bedding against the west wall and investigate. Finding lots of Troll poop, chewed bones and smelly rags. Sir Dawnstar gets an infestation of fleas.. Heading north they find a branch to the east and continuing north find another exit to the lair, guarded with a set of strings with bells and two pit traps they manage to avoid. Investigation of the way east reveals the lair of the Troll leader.. There is a large better maintained pile of bedding and a big pile of loot next to the bedding. Ellalan digs through the pile of Troll 'treasures' and finds the following...A rusty dagger, a very stale loaf of bread, a hat, a glass jar with some suspicious jam inside, a book, a pile of chicken bones, another rusty dagger. She keeps the glass jar and book. Frog searches the bedding and finds a small dirty sack with 4 old onions, a dirty rag , 3 copper pieces, a small bucket and a cheap dagger, a small tanned lizard skin and a rotten apple. He cuts open the apple and finds 2 seeds.. he had never seen an apple before and wants to try to grow it. Yesof looks at the walls and finds a bunch of crazy primitive cave drawings, very violent in nature but is unable to make heads or tails of them. He calls Ellalan and when she sees the drawings and realizes they tell the story of a troll that was smarter than others and rose to become the leader of a group of Trolls and try to make a Troll village.. she is impressed..(Trollopolis!). Going south now, another crude troll pit trap claims a victim... Ellalan's poop covered feet slip while trying to make it across the edge of it... They are almost out of the south exit to the Troll's lair when they see a very unsuspicious pile of coins and shiny stuff piled in the middle of a largest room..Sir Dawnstar runs to the coin pile and starts digging in, frog standing next to him and looking for magic... suddenly a Piercer fall on Frog almost killing him... and then a Roper, on the ceiling and about 30 feet off the ground, shoots out it's Tendrils grabbing Sir Dawnstar, Ellalan and Lord Fatty...This battle seesawed back and forth with the roper grabbing people with it's tendrils and trying to reel them to its mouth and people breaking free and dropping to the ground. Gravity seemed to be the real enemy here. This battle lasted a lot longer than it would have if the party just moved out of the Ropers reach... but after a long needlessly drawn out battle the party defeats the Roper! Frog was the only one getting downed during the fight. They also destroyed the it's six Piercer spawn that fought with it. Sir Dawnstar careful cuts out the Ropers eyeball... as a trophy. 1 Roper Eye. No immediate use. Can be crafted (alchemist’s supplies) into a Potion of Darkvision (grants darkvision out to 60ft for one hour) or carefully crafted (alchemist’s supplies) into a Potion of Spider Climb (grants the ability to climb difficult surfaces, including ceilings, without needing to make an ability check). The party heads back to the entrance and makes camp there for a long rest... (Sir Dawnstar/ Thineli/ Ellalan/ Yeusof) and at the end of the 6th hour...Just as the rest was about to be over.... Something happens.. Cliffhanger!!!

Kill Count=(5xCave Spider)+(2xSpider Swarm)+Roper+(5xPiercer)

Exp=(5x10)+(2x100)+1800+(5x100)=2550/6=425 exp. Exploring the troll lair +50 Exp each, Frog almost getting eaten by food +50 exp, Sir Dawnstar not setting off or falling into traps +75 exp, Ellalan feeling empathy with the smart Troll +25 Exp.

Current Exp Totals are: Ellalan 13282, Lord Fatty 11641, Thineli 14191, Yeusof 11993, Sir Dawnstar 9939. Kendell 3458, Frog 1815. Frog will be level 3 at the start of the next session, Thineli can level to 6 when he has a long rest (or 4 more hours of rest).

Campaign Recap for 11/03/20

 Playing: Ellalan (Julie), Lord Fatty (NPC:Aaron), Thineli (Aaron), Sir Dawnstar (John), Yuseof  (NPC:Julie), Frog (Keiran).

Ellalan parked her two wagons at the stable. These are narrow wagons (about 3 ft by 8 ft long) that can fit though the main marked paths of the Under Temple area and what merchants use. Each can hold about 400lbs and can be pulled by a beast or man, worth 50gp each. This happened after the battle with the Hobgoblins and Bugbears, just keeping track of where they are.

Frog rents a room at the tarven. He than drags a naked headless hobgoblin body through the now silent tarven up to his room. The bar tender shakes his head, "That boy just ain't right in the head...". Frog then starts chopping bones out of the corpse, planning to make a necklace... Thineli goes to the Lemental King, doesnt see the bar singer, the bartender tells him Morgo wants to see him about the armor he is making from the Stone Lizard scales and Kendell is off hunting spiders., Morgo tells Thineli that he can make Studded Leather with a resistance to either Piercing or Slashing damage for 600 more gp. It will take 15 days. Thineli picks slashing and it will be eagerly waiting for it. This was ordered on the 20th of Grentle. Frog finishes chopping up the body in his room to gather bones.. and then goes somewhere to boil the bones....Thineli checks the board front of the chief's house. "Trolls 75gold per head, Magic Spiders 25gp per head, Bugbear Bandits KILL! 2gp per head! Hobgoblin Bandits 3gp per head!" Ellalan studies Linan Slates for 5hrs that day, being studious in her room (12hrs down/48hrs needed). Sir DawnStar asked Kunaxx for his GreatSword enchanted on the 16th of Grentle (it should be ready on the 25th). City guards check on Frog boiling his bones. Frog actions strange but isn't being anything really illegal so they ignore him. Frog gives the broth the homeless and poor peoples. At his house, Lord Fatty conducted a ritual with the orphans, giving them each 300exp so they are now lvl 2 sidekicks. this cost him 450exp.

Long rest. Today is the 21st of Grentle. The party of Thineli, Ellalan, Yuesof, Frog, Sir Dawn Star and a reluctant LordFatty (NPCed by Aaron) goes to hunt trolls. Thineli convences Lord Fatty to join the group, instead of teaching his children. Thineli leaves the baby owlbear in the care of Lord Fatty's orphans.. The party remembers the way to the trolls, Sir Dawnstar will lead the group on this two leg journey, first to the area of the spiders and then further to the lair of the trolls. Each leg is 6 hours. They make it to the area of the spiders with no difficultly. They see the tunnels are full of webs and maybe spiders and so decide to travel around the area. Sir Dawnstar gets confused in the unknown area and leads the party into various dead ends and cul de sacks, wasting 2 hours of walking around. At the end of that they are once again looking at a web clogged tunnel.... Ellalan, Thineli and Yuseof all at the same time see a small round sign, scratched into a flat piece of slate...Written in crude crude common letters that are just barely legible are the words: "This our tunnel.. stay out or be food" Realizing that going that way would be a bad idea, Sir Dawnstar leads the party away from the spider area.... and five hours later, when they are roughly an hour away from the troll's lair... They are wandering through a twisting section of caves when Thineli and Yuseof both hear footsteps coming from up ahead. The party hides and waits to see what is approaching.. A man steps into their view about 70 feet away and yells out "Who goes there? Be ya friend or foe?". Lord Fatty used his shield Bless, Thineli his camoflague device and Ellalan a climbing potion. The party tries to sneak forward, till Sir Dawnstar steps into view and yells "We are friends! We are adventures seeking trolls!" The rest of the party stays hidden as Sir Dawnstar conducts the parlay..The party has encountered a group of men and others patrolling from the town of Hartsong. After some talk the groups part ways.. The patroller seem to have a favorable impression of Sir Dawnstar. The party travels the last hour to the troll caves.. they seem abandoned, though the simple traps they had are still in place and catch Frog in a spiked pit. Ellalan makes a discovery..trolls pile their shit against walls... and that troll poop stays moist for a long time. Frog and Ellalan dig into the huge pile of troll bedding.. most of it is disguiesting filt, but Ellalan finds a rotted coin purse with with 26gp in various kinds of coins...Ellalan suggests hiding and ambushing the trolls in their toilet. but the idea is flushed down the toilet...ba dum dum. Frog searches the shit piles catches an infestation of bitting grubs (diease) and has to be cured by Sir Dawnstar laying on hands.. Frog investigates a boney corpse (bandly) sees a Carrion Crawler and fires a Chromatic Orb at it.. Missing and starting the combat..It is a small herd of Carrion Crawlers (50. At one point Ellalan is almost downed by the Crawlers, paralyzed and poisoned but is saved by Sir Dawnstar using Lay on Hands to cure poison and heal her. They quickly kill the Crawlers and then....Cliffhanger!!

Kill Count=(Carrion Crawlerx5)

Exp=(450x5)=2250/5=450 exp. Exploring the troll lair +50 Exp each, Sir Dawnstar parlaying +150 exp, Lord Fatty ritual with orphans -450 exp.

Current Exp Totals are: Ellalan 12782, Lord Fatty 11166, Thineli 13716, Yeusof 11518, Sir Dawnstar 9389. Kendell 3458, Frog 1290. Frog can level to 3 when he has a long rest.

Campaign Recap for 10/27/20

There was no game on 10/27/20 as the GM's car was stolen (and later found) and he didn't get any sleep or time to prepare for the game. Some stuff happened on Discord earlier in the week..

Lord Fatty @GMBob After cleaning up the armor, sword and shield. Lord Fatty will teach his new family how to become familiar with a shield, dagger, sword on the crappy hobgoblin chainmail as Target. Lord Fatty will explain that they need to be able to at least defend themselves in addition to learning how to breathe properly for their prayers. With communal prayerful discernment to find their spiritual connection to Mishakel

Thineli @GMBob, After getting back to town, Thineli wants to check on his owlbear to see how the hatching is coming along. And to go buy some dried meat to be ready for feeding time. :slight_smile:

Lord Fatty @Thineli Hey can Lord Fatty bring the kids to see Thinelli’s owlbear egg?

Thineli @LordFatty The egg and I travel together

GMBob @Lord Fatty if you had looked at the character sheets in your journal in roll20, you would have seen they all know how to use simple weapons and light armor. It will take a long time for them to use anything else and using stuff they aren't trained in has the following penalties: using a non-proficient weapon, you don't get to use the proficiency bonus. The real penalties appear if you use armor without proficiency, as that causes penalties to checks involving Strength or Dexterity, and prevents you from casting spells.

GMBob @Thineli When you get back to town you see the egg is about to hatch, you go and get milk (cause it will be nursing for a couple of days after being hatched). The egg is roughly football sized so you will be able to carry the hatchling around in a sling pouch or something. It will be eating a couple of times its body weight for a while after being hatched and will grow to the size of a giant rat in a matter of days.

Game ruleswise: Owlbears are extremely aggressive carnivores that eat everything that has a heartbeat. I will say the owlbear would grow to a full adult strength in about 1 years and live a maximum of 25 years. 

Timeline

0-1 months: infant AC:10. HP:1d4+2. Speed:15ft. No attacks

2-5 months: young AC:10. HP:2d6+4. Speed:20ft. Claw attack: +3 to hit, 1d6+2 slashing damage

6-11 months: teen AC: 11. HP:5d8+14. Speed:30ft. Claw attack: +5 to hit, 1d8+3 slashing damage Beak attack: +5 to hit, 1d6+3 piercing damage

1 years + adult: MM stats

I will let you add exp to it as a 'druid ritual' taking 1 hour per 100exp and be able to accelerate its growth by 1 month per 200 exp spent.

Lord Fatty @GMBob Lord Fatty and family will spend time setting up their new home. Meditate to commune with Mishakel. Lord Fatty brought chainmail, sword and shield. Daclor and Uzona will wear the armor during calisthenics to build endurance. Ubram will practice mending on the damaged items. Lord Fatty will arrange rooms as two bedrooms: one for Ubram and one for Daclor and Uzona. The third room has a general purpose kitchen/temple area/ Lord Fatty’s bed. Lord Fatty instructs on spell casting phrases and prayers to Mishakel. What do they use to preserve food in this setting? Barrel of salt for meat? Do we have a basement for cold storage or need to dig one out?

GMBob @LordFatty Meat is preserved with drying and or spices for the most part, though magical means also exist and are expensive compared to spices. Your cottage doesn't have a basement so you would have to dig one out and make a floor that wouldn't collapse into the dugout basement. None of you have the skill set for that so you may want to hire a person to guide you to do it or hire a team to do it. Unless you plan to do any of the other activities for more than a day it will not make any difference. Game rulewise: I will also let you "give' exp to your apprentice(s) to have them level faster (up to one level behind you) as a "cleric training ritual". Each 100exp spend will take an hour and  give one of them 200exp.

Ellalan @Lord Fatty Ellalan suggests LF share his part of adventuring goods with his acolytes. She refuses to share her cut of the wealth and treasures (and is angry if she has to split XP!) with another three bodies. In which case, she will keep her own wealth and become more aggressive in pirating loot. She will also spend time reading the Sacred Flame book for as many hours as she can without penalty and spend the rest of the time at the bar and in the market “listening, overhearing, cough cough, spying” to learn what she can about the town they are in, the people, and all the local news of the Finger God.

LordFatty @Ellalan At no point did LordFatty suggest adding his acolytes to cut in the treasure or experience. His loot from the bandit raid was given as training materials to familiarize themselves with. Thinelli and Lord Fatty Are being allowed to level up their sidekicks at the cost of their own exp.“Consume the Multiverse, Restore the body, Achieve immortal fertility” Is the next of Mishakel’s tenets to instruct

Thineli @GMBob Thanks Bob! I will spend time buying milk and meats. While buying meat I ask around for a steady supply of fresh/cured meats. I want to pass on the basement digging. Will the owlbear avoid biting me?

GMBob @Thineli The baby owlbear should imprint on you once it hatches and feeds. So no biting. Yes you can easily find a source of fresh meats (the hunters).. not sure where you were planning to dig a basement.

GMBob  @Lord Fatty ok so you are going to set up the ritual and spend a total of 450 xp which will bring the acolytes up to lvl2. At second lvl they will have 2 hd, know 3 cantrips and 3 spells, be able to cast 3 lvl 1 spells per day and use Magical Recovery (Beginning at 2nd level, when the sidekick finishes  a short rest, it can recover expended spell slots.  The spell slots can have a combined level that is equal to or less than half its level in this class (rounded up), and none of the spell slots can be 6th level or higher. Once the sidekick uses this feature, it can’t use the feature again until it finishes a long rest.)

Thineli Bob, I wasn’t planning on digging a basement, can I just shop for fresh meat daily? 

@Lord Fatty I would be willing to share the cost. I plan to see the hunters for most of the food though. Fresh meat:)

LordFatty @Thineli 50/50 split is fine since we each need to feed our wards.

@GM Bob Bob Lord Fatty will either spend this Tuesday studying Undercommon with the kids or have them join the group as a NPC healing troupe. As I’m working this Tuesday.

Campaign Recap for 10/20/20

The party of Sir Dawnstar, Yeusof, Ellalan, Frog and Thineli rush away from the spider's lair looking for a safe haven to heal up before anything else. Sir Dawnstar finds a safe cave, empty and large enough for the group.

They decide to take a short rest to heal up. hey vote and head back to town, getting there safey. Thineli goes to the Lemental King to see if any word on the scales. Yuesof wants to find a bag of holding or similar. Thineli buys a big bag of Rock Lizard scales from Borda the hunter for 80gp and is directed to Morgo's Hauberks.. Morgo takes an instant dislike to Thineli, but his gold is still gold so... They discuss various armor ideas, before deciding on a suit of enchanted Studded Armor that will have resist Slashing or Piercing on it, Thineli's choice, but he will have to come back tomorrow for the price and time to make it (Morgo has to talk to some wizard friends for the enchanting part). Yuesof askes for directions to and goes to see the wizard Kunaxx. He arrives at the wizards small stone tower on the NorthWest side of town, seeing some white smoke and sparks coming for it's roof. Since none of neighborhood seems to pay attention to it, he goes to the door and rings the bell (which hangs under the sign "Kunaxx the Wizard. Magic Items Created and Repaired." After a minute he hears the door unlatch and a tall thin male orc, on the older side and dignified in appearance. Yuseof notes that Kunaxx has the largest tusks he has seen on an orc, remembering that large tusks are considered a sign of sexual proless among orcs. Yuseof introduces himself, says he was recommended by the Elf Ellalan. "Ah yes. The pervert pirate elf maiden.. Couldn't keep her eyes off my tusks!... HA! Pirates, Am I right? So what brings you to my shop." Yuesof askes about bags of holding and is given a brief explanation of Spacial Storage devices. He finally orders a ring of Spacial Storage (10c,Ft, 150lbs, 3/uses, requires Atunement) for 400gp, with Kunaxx telling him to come back in 9 days. Ordered on the 19th. Ellalan reads the Linan Slates for an hour... sooooo boring but she has to learn this... She reads for an additional hour and makes the roll (7 hrs down/48hrs needed). She goes to the Alluring Bottle to drink. Asking about the Hobgobin bandits.. they find there actictivity at the north gate. Ellalan hears lots of stories about the bandits... some true some false..she tries to start rumors about important people leaving from the North Gate tonight. Their plan is to get two small wagons and have a few people hiding inside to draw out and then take the bandits. Thineli turns into a Giant Lizard to pull one of the wagons and Ellalan summons a Boar from her bag of tricks and has it put the other. Ellalan tells the boar to pull the wagon, and walk, and if frog stops and anyone attacks us, to protect frog or attack whichever is closer. They head out and while still in the giant cave with the town in it, they encounter bandits. An armored Hobgoblin steps out of some cover and on the road about 40 feet in front of the wagons and yells "Stop your wagons and prepare to be robbed!" Frog fired a Chromatic Orb at him, hitting him with a bolt of cold. Several hidden archers fires arrows and drop Frog. The battle goes on for a while and results with 3 Hobgoblin Warriors and two Bugbear Archers being taken down, and four other Bugbear Archers fleeing. Searching the bodies results in 3 cheap Chainmail, 3 cheap Short Swords, 3 cheap Shield, 4 cheap Daggers, 2 cheap Longbows, 2 quivers with 34 arrows and 2 cheap Leather Armor. In addition, they also found 11 days of hard tack rations, a pouch of iron hobnails, a stone arrowhead carved with notches and 2 well made arrows (count as +1 arrows). Lord Fatty keeps one of the Chain, Short Sword and Shield as his share of the loot. They party gather what loot there is and chop off their heads, Frog takes a body and puts it on the wagon and head back to town. The other weapons and armor are sold for 70gp and split four ways for 17.5gp each. The chief gives 4gp for the Bugbear heads.. looking at the Hobgoblins he is surprised... (and pays 3 gp per for 9 gp). 15/5=3gp each. "So Hobgoblins are behind the bandits..." He muses.. And writes on the board "Hobgoblin Bandits 3gp per head!" Kill Count=(Hobgoblin Warriorx3)+(Bugbear Archerx2)+(Bugbear Archerx4 fled) Exp=(100x3)+(100x2)+(100x4/2)=700/5= 140 exp Current Exp Totals are: Ellalan 12282, Lord Fatty 11116, Thineli 13216, Yeusof 11018, Sir Dawnstar 8739. Kendell 3458, Frog 790.