Matthew's Game!

This week on Dungeons and Dragons… Matthew takes on the role of DM this week. We have a new setoff characters for this one shot and we do not know their identities when we start. We are in the small town of Bleakburn, despite the name, it is a lovely if small town. We are inside the establishment, The Foamy Tavern. We all awaken on the floor of what seems to be a small bedroom. We don’t know who we are or why we are there. To our shock and horror, we find among ourselves the body of a beautiful purple female tielfing who seems to be dead. As Bryan’s character tries to check for a pulse the door to the room bursts open. In walks in a beautiful blonde maiden named Loralei. Upon seeing the body she faints. Then almost instantly in bursts a young boy who shouts at us, “What are you doing with my sister why is she on the floor!!” We explain ourselves as best we can and he suggests that we make our way down and get some supper to calm ourselves. While downstairs we question a Bard about our identities and what happened last night that we can’t remember anything about ourselves. Eventually, we are able to work out who we are. Wayne is a Halfling Bryan is a human I am a Dragon born Kelly is an Orc Connor is a Dwarf John is a Half-Elf As we sit a shifty looking Hobgoblin named Daniel appears and serves us food. We also question him. The owner of the establishment appears, an imposing Bug Bear. He seems to be hiding something from us and doesn’t want to answer our questions too readily. We are also reunited with our companion, a large dog who seems to be fond of Kelly, despite us having no recollection of it. Suddenly an old emaciated man bursts into the room imploring us to listen to him. He urges us to find the lab, that this is all a ruse, a charade. Then he goes quiet and slumps to the floor dead with a poisoned dart sticking from his neck. We can find no source of the dart. The Bug Bear relents and shows us to a large door where through it, we will be able to find the lab and the tiefling, Anakis the Scorned. We come across three doors with messages on each one. Safe, Not so Safe and Do Not enter. We split up and take the doors separately. Kelly and John go through the first and find a terrified child with a key around its neck. They manage to release the child and take the key. Kelly also finds a book of experiments and a strange golden token. Connor and Wayne go into the next room, where another child is trapped. On his way to help, Connor falls into a pit of spikes, while Wayne sis able to make his way around to the young boy safely and take the key, however, the door slams shut. They are eventually able to break out and release the child. Bryan and I make our way through the third doorway, we see the little boy from earlier, Ivar, he calls for help and tells us they have taken his sister Loralei. We make our way down and find ourselves stuck and unable to move at all, it seems we are stuck inside a gelatinous cube and slowly being eaten alive! The rest of the group hear the commotion and being to attack the cube and free Ivar. They are able to release us. Wayne however, is not strong enough to resist and is sucked into the cube and ingested… John avenges his death by finishing off the cube with his crossbow. We use the three keys to open a strange mechanism with a fish, bear and spider inscription on the locks and we find ourselves in the lab and are able to heal ourselves with the potions we find. As we are searching, the tiefling Anakis slinks into the room. She lets us retrieve all our weapons and armour in order to make it a fair fight. We launch straight into an attack, she manages to kill our canine companion Buster and we are enraged and fight with renewed effort. So despite her best efforts and her pleas for mercy… Connor cuts off her head. After our victory the towns’ people burst into the lab and celebrate the defeat of the tyrant who had taken their children. We are carried back to the lab to celebrate. As the party is getting underway, Loralei calls us out to the garden. As we join her, her form twists and turns into a blue laughing dragon. The Blue Lord tells us he enjoyed toying and playing with us and the towns’ folk and it will enjoy this test of strength. Despite the best efforts of the group, we are picked off one by one until we are all defeated. Who knows what this terrible dragon will do to the innocent townsfolk…

Well done Matthew!