Session 9: A Burial Niche Bonanza

The inevitable consequence of putting off writing session reports for so long is that the details start to become hazy, and try as I might, I can't recall which rooms were explored in which session, but thanks to my Dungeon Master's Adventure Log, I do know what monsters were fought and how much treasure was recovered.  So, this report is going to be very short, which is actually a blessing, since I have two sessions to catch up on before this evening's session.

During this foray into the Barrowmaze, the party was short-handed due to the absence of several players.  Nonetheless, it was the sort of expedition that every adventurer dreams of: very few monsters and a great deal of treasure!  Of all the creatures encountered, swarms of giant carnivorous flies proved to be the most persistent and annoying.  And, aside from a battle with a giant rattlesnake, the only other fight was with six skeletal undead in tattered robes that crawled out from the burial niches in which they were interred.  Ironically, though these Huecuva posed one of the deadliest threats they were quickly dispatched with little harm to the party, thanks to a long succession of lucky saving throws.  Although the party was short a couple of characters, their mercenary crossbowmen acquitted themselves well, providing some deadly accurate ranged attacks proving, once again, the value of hirelings.

The party recovered a veritable fortune in gems from the burial niches - enough for every player to gain a new level, and to celebrate with a drunken debauch in Catapesh.  During the course of the revelry, the warrior, Ebin, came to blows with an off-duty guardsman over a tavern wench.  The angry and humiliated guardsman stalked off, vowing revenge against the upstart outlander, and it was only after he left that a nervous bar keep told Ebin that his adversary was Watch Captain Jerhyn Dragomere.  Scions of noble houses make for bad enemies, and this one is sure to make trouble for Ebin in the future.