Campaign Stormwreck Isle: Spores of Seagrow Cave (1-2)

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THE STORY SO FAR:

Journey to Stormwreck Isle (1-P)
Welcome to Dragon's Rest (1-1)​

THE QUEST:

• At the behest of Tarak, travel to Seagrow Caves to get past the guardian at the entrance, see what's wrong with the Myconid, and recover a harvest of heart cap mushrooms for him.

THE LOCATION:

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THE MAP:

Local Party Map​

THE PARTY:

Aims'Orreh Mwuh'Bwadd	Moonsprout Beandirt	Short Order	Nac McWeeble	Zesty Zapcrackle

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ITEM GLOSSARY:

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	Wind Spore Mushrooms 30 gp each​	A rare fungus with a unique magical property. When a creature squeezes a wind spore mushroom's cap, it releases a small cloud of spores. For 1 hour, the creature doesn't need to breathe, as the spores provide it with oxygen.
	Obsidian Chunk 10 gp each​	An uncut opaque black gemstone.
	Heart Cap Mushrooms 30 gp each​	These mushrooms bear an unsettling resemblance to human hearts.
	Potion of Healing 50 gp each​	This potion's red liquid glimmers when agitated. You regain 2d4+2 hit points when you drink this potion.

 

[Dungeon Master]

((DM:

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[Short Order]

So do you want to take a rest now that you're almost dead?

Short Order looks for anything useful that may have been left behind after the fight

 

[Short Order]

((Also I can't believe I boss moded the shit out of that while NOT killing Aims))

 

[Dungeon Master]

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So do you want to take a rest now that you're almost dead?

Short Order looks for anything useful that may have been left behind after the fight

You quickly rifle through the corpse of the being you just murdered.

You find 25 chunks of obsidian, each worth 10GP.

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[Short Order]

Is there anything else going on here?

Short Order places the obsidian in his bag and looks around

 

[Dungeon Master]

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There's nothing else of note in this chamber, now the vent is opened. The smog is clearing some, but you again note that it's coming from cracks in the ground, from somewhere below.

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[Short Order]

Doesn't look like there's much else to do around here. Let's find us a safe place to take a long rest before we venture further.

 

[Zesty Zapcrackle]

We should probably let the myconids know about this. They'll want to know that without the light, they'll be safer. Then, perhaps they can give us a safe place to rest and directions to what's below this chamber for the rest of the mist.

 

[Dungeon Master]

((Just to clarify, this chapter is resolved when you return to Tarak.))

 

[Short Order]

We should probably let the myconids know about this. They'll want to know that without the light, they'll be safer. Then, perhaps they can give us a safe place to rest and directions to what's below this chamber for the rest of the mist.

yeah let's go talk to Tarak.

 

[Aims'Orreh Mwuh'Bwadd]

Aims finds himself sitting on the ground, leaning against the cave wall with half his body nearly completely frozen up with some ice shards sticking up from his limbs. One moment, he's nearly decapitating a "dragon", and next an explosion throws him off his feet and he's nearly dead. Whoa...

By the Hells, druid.... WHAT THE HECK?! That wasn't your normal nipple chilling magics. What did you EAT today to beef you up like that? You're more dangerous to me than the monsters around here. Did I do something to offend you somehow? I swear I haven't pissed in your stout or anything.

He lumbers up and starts brushing the frost and icicles off his body. Clearly this time he's all slow and numb, from both bloodloss and the icesplosion. For sure, it's rest time even for the half-orc.

I think umm.... I think we should go say hi to the sovereign and take a long nap.

 

[Short Order]

((Is my druid still good neutral or should he be a bit more chaotic at this point with the collateral damage he's causing?))

 

[Dungeon Master]

((Is my druid still good neutral or should he be a bit more chaotic at this point with the collateral damage he's causing?))

((In 5e, anything can really be any alignment, so you didn't have to be true neutral to begin with. I'd definitely say you're Chaotic at this point.

I don't know if this adventure was scaled a bit weird, but it's seemed fairly easy for you guys so far.))

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Aims ragged breaths add a punctuation mark to the air.

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((Maybe I should be sure I'm scaling each of these battles to be a "medium" challenge.))

 

[Aims'Orreh Mwuh'Bwadd]

((Maybe I should be sure I'm scaling each of these battles to be a "medium" challenge.))

((Maybe. I know once we level up almost all of us get a very significant power boost. Could throw a couple slightly scaled up fights in there for sure though.))

 

[Moonsprout Beandirt]

Dang, you guys killed that snake before I even had a chance to try to charm it.

 

[Aims'Orreh Mwuh'Bwadd]

Dang, you guys killed that snake before I even had a chance to try to charm it.

You can always try to charm Mai'Cokk.

 

[Nac McWeeble]

((So are we heading back to the Myconids or all the way back to Tarak? My brain hasn't woken up yet...))

 

[Moonsprout Beandirt]

You can always try to charm Mai'Cokk.

Hell to the nah,I don't know where that thing's been, man...

 

[Moonsprout Beandirt]

((I doesn't make sense from a character standpoint to head back to Tarak right away IMO. We should stop by the myconids, get some healing and rest, and then head back IMO))

 

[Aims'Orreh Mwuh'Bwadd]

((I doesn't make sense from a character standpoint to head back to Tarak right away IMO. We should stop by the myconids, get some healing and rest, and then head back IMO))

((Myconids would make more sense to me too. Chat up the sovereign, get maybe rewarded, and I also got a thing to ask of them too if it doesn't resolve while we chat normally.))

 

[Nac McWeeble]

((Excellent! I agree. And I was also so tired that I apparently posted in the wrong thread...))

 

[Dungeon Master]

((Excellent! I agree. And I was also so tired that I apparently posted in the wrong thread...))

((Nah, I didn't realize I'd posted the video in this one so I moved my post and the response to the Tavern. You ain't that tired.))

 

[Nac McWeeble]

((Nah, I didn't realize I'd posted the video in this one so I moved my post and the response to the Tavern. You ain't that tired.))

((Cool cool.))

 

[Dungeon Master]

((So like... What did Tarak send you here to do?))

 

[Moonsprout Beandirt]

((three things that I remember:
-bring rotting food to the myconids
-make the area safe again (implied)
-bring back some mushrooms for health potions.. mushrooms we haven't found yet))

 

[Nac McWeeble]

THE QUEST:

• At the behest of Tarak, travel to Seagrow Caves to get past the guardian at the entrance, see what's wrong with the Myconid, and recover a harvest of heart cap mushrooms for him.

((This. I'm thinking we can go ask the Myconids where to find heart cap mushrooms.))

 

[Moonsprout Beandirt]

Well whatever dudes, I'm gonna go tell those mushroom men that we took care of some baddies and their cave, and maybe ask the big one of our chill bro Hipsiz can join us on our adventure back to Dragon's Rest if he covers up. Peace.

 

[Zesty Zapcrackle]

Well whatever dudes, I'm gonna go tell those mushroom men that we took care of some baddies and their cave, and maybe ask the big one of our chill bro Hipsiz can join us on our adventure back to Dragon's Rest if he covers up. Peace.

((I mean, sunlight kills them, so I wouldn't count on him joining us. ))

Zesty nods and follow Moonsprout back to the myconids.

((I wonder how normal it is that we take forever to have a consensus on what to do next?))

 

[Short Order]

We should tell him that we were unable to find any heart cap mushrooms in this cavern, but did take care of some beasts and an intruding crystal, and they we discovered the issues are coming from an external magical source. Also we should ask if there's another place we can look for those mushrooms.

 

[Nac McWeeble]

Aye, I agree, my druidic friend. Let's mosey!

 

[Dungeon Master]

((The mushrooms do come from this cave. You just didn't actually look for them.

Maybe I neglected to make it obvious what was what while trying to mind-meld as a mushroom.

If someone wants to gather up mushrooms, tell me where you're going in the cave to search for them.))

 

[Aims'Orreh Mwuh'Bwadd]

Aims puts on his thinking cap.

There was that little pond thing with some mushrooms nicely around it. Maybe those are the ones were looking for.

 

[Short Order]

((The mushrooms do come from this cave. You just didn't actually look for them.

Maybe I neglected to make it obvious what was what while trying to mind-meld as a mushroom.

If someone wants to gather up mushrooms, tell me where you're going in the cave to search for them.))

((Oh I thought I did look for them with my perception check before but oh well))

Investigate cave for mushrooms

 

[Moonsprout Beandirt]

((I mean, sunlight kills them, so I wouldn't count on him joining us. ))

((That's why we'd make sure he covers up so the sunlight can't get at him ))

((The mushrooms do come from this cave. You just didn't actually look for them.

((EXCUSE ME???????))

((I'd like to ask the myconids for mushies))

 

[Zesty Zapcrackle]

((I'm just going to let you all hunt the shrooms... ))

 

[Short Order]

Does something something find a mushroom

 

[Dungeon Master]

((Oh I thought I did look for them with my perception check before but oh well))

Investigate cave for mushrooms

((Certainly possible you meant to, and I just took it as looking around for other shit in the area. If you didn't specifically say "I'm looking for those Mushrooms Tarak wants" I probably wouldn't have assumed that's your goal.))

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Short Order, Aims'Orreh and Nac backtrack through the cave the way they came in, to reach the fungal farm at the entrance of the cave system. On returning to this area, you notice several smaller Myconid Sprouts have returned to this area after having fled out of fear of you earlier. These small mushroom folk ferry fertilizer from another cave chamber and are spreading it around the cultivated beds of fungi.




The cloying fog of the blight has mostly dispersed from this area, and the smell of decomposing matter now overpowers the brimstone.

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Short Order
@A Pineap-Alu-zer​

| You begin to rifle through the beds of muck, looking for anything resembling what Tarak had asked for. It's surprisingly difficult for you, as you struggle to remember what a mushroom looks like.


After 30 minutes of searching around the beds in this farm, you manage to recover 4 Heart Cap Mushrooms. |

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((That's why we'd make sure he covers up so the sunlight can't get at him ))

((EXCUSE ME???????))

((I'd like to ask the myconids for mushies))

((You I mostly recall trying to lick every living-mushroom in the area. I don't think you went specifically looking for stuff to harvest, either.))



Yourself and Zesty return to the sovereign's chamber. Hipsiz is still here with the two others, puffing the spores around Sinensa, but the larger Myconid is still unconscious and immobile. While the blighted miasma may be clearing, the caves have not yet been fully ventilated and you suppose it would take time for the plant life to recover anyway.

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Moonsprout Beandirt
@Smacktard​

| You think about Hipsiz joining you. |

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Hipsiz​

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Hipsiz refuses to leave the cave. |

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Moonsprout Beandirt
@Smacktard​

| You think about mushrooms Tarak usually harvests.|

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Hipsiz​

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[Nac McWeeble]

Does something something find a mushroom

(())

 

[Nac McWeeble]

((@Ben can I also roll for mushrooms? I'll do a roll for if I can, otherwise just ignore it. ))

 

[Dungeon Master]

((@Ben can I also roll for mushrooms? I'll do a roll for if I can, otherwise just ignore it. ))

((I didn't make Short do it since we'd already wasted some time and I may have missed him checking that area earlier, but anyone else looking for mushrooms will have to tell me which chamber you're searching in, and roll a nature or survival check.

Though I guess I can just take your roll and change the modifier...))

 

[Aims'Orreh Mwuh'Bwadd]

Aims is still barely alive and not super eager to actively look for mushrooms. But what he is suffering from doesn't apply to Mai'Cokk. The little lad was curiously looking at the party shuffle around, looking and picking mushrooms, and thought it looked pretty fun. It started recalling if there was anything else special in the cave to go fetch.

 

[Nac McWeeble]

((I didn't make Short do it since we'd already wasted some time and I may have missed him checking that area earlier, but anyone else looking for mushrooms will have to tell me which chamber you're searching in, and roll a nature or survival check.

Though I guess I can just take your roll and change the modifier...))

((Oh, alrighty! Do a survival check then, since the modifier is the same for that one! And also in this chamber. ))

 

[Dungeon Master]

((Oh, alrighty! Do a survival check then, since the modifier is the same for that one! And also in this chamber. ))

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Nac McWeeble
@Nae'blis​

| You try to find an area that the gnome hasn't already pawed over, finally finding a small bed that contains 1 Heart Cap mushroom ready for harvest.

You get the feeling the farm has been depleted for now. |

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[Short Order]

((So we've found 5 mushrooms so far?))

Aye, do you think we've gotten enough for the moment to satisfy our friends' needs?

 

[Aims'Orreh Mwuh'Bwadd]

Let me grab Mai'Cokk and we can be on our way to see Tarak.

Aims looks around for Mai'Cokk. You'd think it would be easy to see its bulbous head moving about between all the other mushrooms, but it doesn't seem like it. Maybe its looking for something. Maybe it had to go use the little fungi room? Do... do fungi poop?


Meanwhile, Mai'Cokk is aimlessly walking around the cave still trying to recall any time it had found special mushrooms in the cave.

 

[Dungeon Master]

((Am I to assume you're all set and wanting to head out of here? Where are you going, and by which route? I would assume backtracking along the coastline to Dragon's Rest as that's still likely the fastest route back? Unless you want to cut across the center of the island.))

 

[Aims'Orreh Mwuh'Bwadd]

((I'd say just taking the scenic coastal way. We'll worry about jungle monsters after some rest and leveling up.))

 

[Dungeon Master]

((If the majority of you are in alignment by the morning, I'll get you back to Dragon's Rest.

Really it's Moonsprout and Zesty who're lingering in the back of the cave. Until they're up front with you guys, I'm assuming you aren't leaving without them.))

 

[Zesty Zapcrackle]

((Did we take a rest to heal Aims? I'm fine with the backtracking route.))

 

[Zesty Zapcrackle]

((If the majority of you are in alignment by the morning, I'll get you back to Dragon's Rest.

Really it's Moonsprout and Zesty who're lingering in the back of the cave. Until they're up front with you guys, I'm assuming you aren't leaving without them.))

((In that case I'll grab Moonsprout's hand and we'll frolic back to the group so we can go!

And that's going to be another Ben masterpiece I just walked into.))