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Dungeon Crawl Classics – Twentieth Session

Twentieth Session – The long awaited festival of Temptation’s Embrace gets underway but our attempt to be helpful and enable two hot lesbians to make out runs afoul of the gods, as it sometimes does.

But first we’re called down by the mayor to investigate a bunch of murders in the cult of Snuggoo in the salt mines. We go investigate and determine that, unsurprisingly, our party member Mordecai is the culprit. We also hear about an ‘always awake wizard named Mosh Sedation’ in the caverns but decide that we should leave well enough alone so we have our full capabilities for the springtime sex festival tonight!

Everyone gears up with beaver hunting, good dinners, and the like. Hemp discovered that the priestess of Jopha (Sybbyl) and the blind daughter of the Mayor (Julia) are having a relationship and if the former can catch the latter during the Festival of Temptation’s Embrace, the latter has agreed to join the former’s temple. And make out intensely, one can only assume. This inspires Hemp to volunteer to be the Marshal for the festival, and he still has his “Sex Marshal” sash in his inventory to this day.

Aphiel holy symbol (silver, 25 gp)
Aphiel flaming wings sword token (50 gp)
sex marshal sash
a gold death’s-head ring once worn by Carnifex assassins (5 gp)

The festival proceeds, half of the PCs madly fleeing from romantic entanglements and the other half madly pursuing them.

Well, so Hemp ensures the two women cross paths during the festival but this apparently annoys the patron goddess Camue the Enchanter so a super weird adventure ensues, with Sybbl’s heart turning into a stuffed bear and quest to find chocolate and pink flowers down a Tunnel of Love.

Apparently we have wandered into the “Love in the Age of Gongfarmers” Valentine’s Day module. Well, my IRL wedding anniversary with my ex-wife is on Valentine’s Day so I know plenty about having that day ruined – we must save the lesbians!!!

Read along for the blow-by-blow, it’s pretty wacky. Having a dwarf along (Julia) that can smell precious metals helped a lot. It gets as violent as you would expect Valentine’s Day to be (hint: very). It ends up with Old Man Fish and Hemp doing a weird mix of ER-style CPR and magical bullshit to revive Sybbyl while the rest of the party fights off cherubs and a crazy chimera type creature.

But in the end, love is saved! I enjoyed this one, Hemp put in “maximum effort!”

Dungeon Crawl Classics – Nineteenth Session

Goblin Fight At Last!

Nineteenth Session – The party heads back to Fythorp to recuperate and gather questlines.

But first on the way back to town, we finally encounter some goblins. Gallfred Weasel (Bruce’s character) got a magic sword that can be thrown at goblins and we have not met a single goblin in all 18 previous sessions which drives him absolutely bananas. They are leading some enslaved pilgrims but they could be handing out toys to orphans for all it matters, their fate was sealed when they entered our zip code.

Gallfred gets a quest from poisoner monks to root through some island dungeon. Sadly our travels and later campaign events have him not turning in that quest until a calendar year later.

Also, Podrick, Old Man Fish, and Mordecai go to collect giant beavers whose musk is used in the weird midsummer “Temptation’s Embrace” festival in town. We meet a pirate shanty singer named Charmeine – who, spoiler alert, we have to kill in banshee form about a year later. Alas. I woulda tipped her more had I known.

We also discover the salt mines have a weird demon cult in them to “Snuggoo.” They mainly take drugs and sleep. Hemp and Gallfred visit to get some vision-dream-inducing lamprey milk and we decide they’re mostly harmless. Mordecai gets a giant hard on against them for no reason we can figure out. He tries to get us to kill them, he tries to sneak in to kill them himselve, he tries to get the mayor to kill them, he tries to get Lady Skeam to kill them… Everyone else is like “eh.” This leaves him pretty irritated.

The milk does let Hemp and Morgan dream – he gets a quest from Aphiel to go mess with some guy named Glipkerio and then they have hot dream sex. (Hemp and Morgan, not Hemp and Aphiel, though I’m not saying that’s not on the table).