Eleventh Session – An abandoned manor house has turned into a rat pus factory that’s infecting nearby waterways, so we go kill a large number of rat-themed opponents.
Our first opponent is a big mean rat-fiend that sprays quite damaging pus when wounded. We manage to put it down, though we take an unfortunate amount of damage and stat loss for the first fight. It does warn us what to expect at least.
Podrick takes advantage of the rat fiend’s vulnerable position to stab it right through the ghoolies. Everyone is well aware of the pus that will follow and avoids taking damage. And then Hemp the Weaver cuts straight through the creature’s jaw and into its brain.
Hemp high-fives Podrick, “That’s how we do it in Weebrook!”
Dead rats that burst into pus, live rats that burst into pus, pus-infected peasants, rats being chopped up and turned into pus spray, rat revenants, rat ogres, a rat swarm demon – the whole thing is pretty icky. We get in a poor tactical position in a big group fight where extremely damaging cloud spells come into use from the bad guys. Most of the session is this one big hard complicated fight, with several times folks got badly wounded – we’re getting used to the game system and so no one actually goes down, which is a bit of a miracle, though we pretty much all lose a bunch of stat points.
Finally we chase off the final rats and collapse in a heap, getting the largest XP award we’ve ever gotten!
P.S. I tried to search to find what adventure this was from to no avail, now I have managed to just happen across it, it’s “The Rat King’s River of Death,” a bonus adventure from DCC 83 The Chained Coffin boxed set.
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