Fourteenth Session (5 page pdf) – “Omaru’s Wilderness” – Our pirates visit the next Wendo spirit to get one of Mama Watanna’s items. The visit goes smoothly; the exfiltration does not. Then they go to meet Lo Lulu, wendo spirit of the dead, and on the way they meet the Bone Collector, who does a good job of collecting Wogan…
Omaru aka Omaro aka Oggun aka Ogun is drawn from the RL Yoruba deity Ogun. As with Pele, their actual encounter with his is peaceful and full of them being super polite. Unfortnately their ship isn’t as lucky, it gets attacked by stone crabs Pirates of the Carribbean style.
On their way out they roll a dangerous random encounter, a Dragonship (Tome of Horrors Complete), but manage to evade it. But they don’t evade an ambush by a hag and spriggans and “hungry fogs”, which ends on a cliffhanger… To spice up the encounter since they interrogate one of the spriggans (“ugly gnomes with moustaches” that seem to sometimes be backed up by “cyclopses”) I give a backstory to the hag that she is the “Bone Collector” and they find her massive collection of “country clutter” style art made from bones.
Unfortunately, the subsequent session summary was lost to the sands of time somehow. But in it they go to Lo Lulu, the “Night Lord”‘s realm of death (based on Baron Samedi) which is one of the more complex setpieces in the adventure, where there’s a land of the dead dance hall – I add some people the PCs knew and have killed to it. It’s a RP puzzle to find out how to get Lo Lulu’s attention at all to get the comb (he’s happy for everyone to stay in the land of the dead) which they do by really annoying Lo Lulu. Consequences – next time!
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