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Session 19: Stymied

Bennettj — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 17:21:37 GMT

Session 19: Stymied

Bennettj — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 17:21:00 GMT

Created page with "'''Continued From [[]]''' ==[https://www.patreon.com/u3015466/posts/session-19-174095021 Original Page]== Here I have a new motive to writing these posts about the party's g..."

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'''Continued From [[]]'''

==[https://www.patreon.com/u3015466/posts/session-19-174095021 Original Page]==

Here I have a new motive to writing these posts about the party's gaming, and there really isn't that much to tell about last Friday's session. The party had previously set out at the end of the prior session for Vac (correctly Vác, pronounced "vahts") from their semi-established base at Keszeg. Vác is on the Danube and it can be seen that it's in a [https://wiki.alexissmolensk.com/index.php/Hex_Group type-1 hex], so that it has a [https://wiki.alexissmolensk.com/index.php/Hammer_(symbol) full market available], the equivalent to that in Budapest. The town, rolling the population now, with the players not asking during the game, is 1,140—so, a substantial place. The party spent the first half of the running purchasing things for themselves, but not as it happened for the dungeon they were entering. They've gotten so used to my permitting fast movement in and out of dungeon environments, as the party usually arrive unexpectedly, encounter no traps and merely follow the entrance to whatever is inside. This will be their first time for returning to a dungeon of intelligent creatures (trogs have a 5 intelligence in my game)… and they did get caught unprepared, as the reader will see.

The dotted line shows a foot path through the "[https://wiki.alexissmolensk.com/index.php/Hinterland hinterland]" hex between the type-5 and the type-1, which is a wilderness with proximity to civilisation. I don't normally record footpaths on [https://wiki.alexissmolensk.com/index.php/6-mile_Hex_Map 6-mile maps], of which this is a part, unless they matter. As a [https://wiki.alexissmolensk.com/index.php/Roads_%26_Routes route], footpaths are uneven, narrow routes over a hard clay surface and are impassable to carts. Mounts must be ridden single file. The width is typically between 4 and 6 feet. Surfaces are covered with roots and scrub, with brooks and rivulets that must be jumped. There are occasional places, every few miles, where the path squeezes between trees or rock outcroppings. I did not roll the 1 in 30 chance of a rockfall, but I would roll for an avalanche if they were moving through the same area once it was snow-covered, as the hills shown are a thousand ft. above the bottom.

Last session, to remind the reader, Ti rolled up his ranger hench Orban. Now Zoltan paid for Edvard the soldier-at-arms to get his [https://wiki.alexissmolensk.com/index.php/Progress_to_Fighter_(sage_ability) training] as a 1st level fighter, just as Fenwick had in an earlier running. He thus is gone from the party until the 22nd of September. The party managed their equipment needs, with much discussion of the equipment tables—always hopelessly in a state of disrepair—before setting out back for Keszeg. Pandred set up a work gang of nine housebuilders to arrive on the 10th of September, to arrange his property according to the [https://www.patreon.com/u3015466/posts/making-carpenter-170750028 post here]. I really should add the details to the wiki. Sigh. That’s set to be done before the end of September, and now other party members are considering what to arrange for when that's done. They can commission the same people, who would be glad for the work through to the first snows and thence on after that.

ChatGPT tells me that the practical lower limit for outdoor carpentry in the era would be what I call "[https://wiki.alexissmolensk.com/index.php/Cold_Conditions cold conditions]," down to about –10ºF. For that temperature, they'd need woollen clothing, leather gloves and substantial footwear; sawing, chopping, drilling, shaping beams and assembling timber frames would remain practical. Their principal inconvenience would be keeping their fingers sufficiently warm for delicate work. But that's for another session.

The party returned back to Keszeg and readied themselves to set out for the bugbear dungeon on Sep. 3. Employing their [https://wiki.alexissmolensk.com/index.php/Augury_(spell) augury], they asked a number of questions: were there more than 50 bugbears in the lair? The answer was "yes." They asked if there was a human-sized entrance other than the one they found (I took this to mean, was there another entrance a human could enter through—the gods are not stupid). The answer was "no." These things interested them a great deal. They also asked other things, but for the time being I'm going to keep those of this account for reasons I won't give now.

This was about halfway through the session—and shortly after they entered the dungeon, things ground to a halt as they entered these familiar layers:

My logic was that the bugbears, knowing there was a dangerous group out there aware of their presence—more dangerous than the local Ottomans, more dangerous than anything they'd encountered before—decided to build traps through the upper levels and ensconce themselves down below. They are self-sufficient, with their own water and food sources, so they don't actually need the surface. So, for the next hour and more, the party found themselves avoiding offal-covered stakes, pungi traps, swinging arms, falling planks with stones and such, with Pandred braving these with his formidable dexterity of 14. It was check after check, and both he and Lexent took damage as a result, but no one died. Lexent failed a poison save but Mikael cleaned out the wound with his [https://wiki.alexissmolensk.com/index.php/Clean_(cantrip) clean cantrip], which permitted Lexent another save (DM arbitration mid-game, page in the wiki needs updating)… so, no ensuing [https://wiki.alexissmolensk.com/index.php/Disease disease]. There was only half-an-hour of play left in four hours by the time the players got to the bottom, where they found the gate they'd used on their previous adventure had been sealed closed with molten iron. Worried that attempts to break it with banging away would produce the bugbear archers from their previous adventure, with the party caught in a small ten-foot-wide pocket—and lacking the tool anyway—they backed away to the straggled room in the bottom right of the image, where they'd fought rats last time. By this time their torches were running out; no one had bought any in Vác, nor lanterns, nor anything really to help them with their present situation. They have candles, but that won't help them with moving in a fight.

They agreed to send Lexent into the outside, with his tentatively heading out to find the earlier discovered [[Session 15: Lokos Valley|Balint in Felsopeteny]], whom the party once had as a guide. He's a contact in an inhabited place nearer than Keszeg, which offers perhaps something other than what the party has in storage. But the choice is inevitably Lexent's in the next session. Meanwhile, the rest of the party is hunkering down to allow Mikael to rest and regain his [https://wiki.alexissmolensk.com/index.php/Break_(cantrip) break cantrip]—which he used to get through one of the blocks up above, a board blocking the bottom of a stair fixed with two-foot sharpened stakes, which stumped the party a bit until the mage split it in half. The cantrip would break the iron-sealed door and let them move further.

So, this is where we left the session. I'm just going to add this updated image of the Lokos Valley that's been mapped that the party knows about. There's more map to add between this and Vác that I haven't drawn yet.

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Session 18: Down into the Bugbear Lair

Bennettj — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 17:08:37 GMT

Fenwick

Bennettj — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 15:45:37 GMT

Experience

Harek

Bennettj — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 15:44:11 GMT

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Lexent

Bennettj — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 15:43:24 GMT

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Fenwick

Bennettj — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 00:58:14 GMT

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Lexent

Bennettj — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 00:57:52 GMT

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Bennettj — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 18:20:06 GMT

The Hungarian Chronicles

Lexent

Bennettj — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 17:50:01 GMT

Daily Use Abilities

Orban

Bennettj — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 17:48:56 GMT

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A male human ranger.

[https://zingor.maxwelljoslyn.com/character/22/ External character sheet]

==Character History==
[[Session 19|Started adventuring]] with the Hungarian party in Vac on early 31 Aug of 1650.

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Session 18: Down into the Bugbear Lair

Bennettj — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 20:05:25 GMT

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'''Continued From [[Session 17: Hunting, Hunting]]'''

==[https://www.patreon.com/u3015466/posts/session-18-down-172821797 Original Page]==

On Friday the 16th, the players began wisely. The previous fight had chanced to produce a single not-dead but unconscious bugbear with minus 2 hit points. Having thought about it, the consensus was to allow the bugbear to wake up, expecting it would head for home… but the question arose, if a creature's hit points are in the negative, would it just "wake up." On the one hand, it's not dead, nor is there any reason why it's hit points should diminish; on the other, the rule is plain that hit points heal per day, not over a shorter period, with rest. That's a fairly long wait.

But does a creature that can't eat, and is laying on open ground without a blanket, "resting"? If I were on a bike and hit by something that knocked me unconscious, and then left me on the ground for two days without someone there to feed me and ease water into me, would I get better? I'd rule not. But, I pointed out, that if two hit points were healed, the creature would not be wake instantly; I do have a rule, "rouse sleeping creature" that stipulates that a sleeper will require 1, 2 or 3 action points to wake up. That's after being awoken, a rule I haven't written yet for the wiki, though there are links asking for such a page. I ruled that the player, healing the creature, would probably have a full round to run away before any waking would occur; from a dead stop, at full possible movement for 4 AP, that's a distance of 30 hexes—in what has already been identified as "open woods."

So the druid Arduin gave the bugbear two goodberries and hightailed it. The bugbear woke, looked about… and then led the party straight to the bugbear's lair.

This is a clear case of the players being able to use their comprehension of the environment to judge their abilities and make a concrete plan they know they are safe to apply. The rules are comprehensible, they can be thus employed and the players feel they're playing a game, not acting according to the DM's wishes or against them. Though complicated, a setting and the game's rules can be structured to allow rational, logical decision-making without anyone being forced to guess.

Thus the players found the hole in the ground they were looking for.

(please ignore some of the flaws in the map above; the transparency goofed)

The party then began their descent. This consisted of one stair well after another, as the party descended 90 feet into the dungeon. In 4018, they encountered one single large rat (3HD, 1AT, damage 1-6, 3-18 hit points) which scurried, then two others which they fought in the space at the bottom right. They did not take a single point of damage.

I thought they might hesitate a bit, as each stairway was very steep, with a dexterity check required if hurried, but the party simply shrugged off the descent as nothing. I suppose that's the nature of things; I wasn't there to protect them or anything, but at least I appreciate a party that isn't incomprehensibly panicked about every detail. So they more or less rushed through this part of the dungeon as fast as I could put it up on the Discord site, while the party was hungry to get at the bugbears they knew were down below.

Descending another 15 feet, the party encountered a long hall, with a gate at the head of it; paying no mind, the character at the fore (either Lexent or his hench Herek, both run by the same player) opened the gate and there was a terrific clatter. The shot here isn't from the actual game—I never think to take screenshots, as I'm focused on running, not setting up this post—but this is more or less what the party encountered:

That is a worg; it stood and snarled at them; I expected it to engage until it was hurt, whereupon it would cry out and be called back by its master. There was a second one waiting just up around the corner, in case the first got into trouble.

Well… the party seriously hurt the first one, pathetically easily I thought, then killed the second when it tried to help. At last the party had a bad round where no one hit and the first one fled, having lost 2/3rds of its hit points. And at this point in the game, the party had yet to take a single hit point of damage.

Naturally, the party strutted a bit and felt properly invulnerable as they poked ahead… but not incautiously, I noticed, because they are beginning to know me. We'll move onto the third sequence of the night.

The screenshot here comes at the point when the party ran away. They moved through the door at the upper middle, rushed into fight the remaining worg and it's handler, noted the archers on the gallery thirty feet above them… then saw around the corner a heap more bugbears coming at them. They rushed forward and met them, killing the worg, killing the handler, doing some damage… but the archers were vicious.

They would step back out of sight, load, then step forward to fire. Their arrows are bigger, because bugbears are bigger, so they did 2-9 damage each. In addition, the archers are hand-picked; each had a 17 dexterity, so +2 to hit above their 18 THAC0. It only took two rounds of that to make the party think, especially since on the second volley I rolled my one 20-crit of the night, doing 14 damage to Pandred with one arrow and 4 with another.

This was just after she'd delivered 10 damage to the bugbear in hex 1020… which stunned, but my posting 29 remaining hit points (caught the players' attention). Yes, it's probably wrong for me to actually show how many hit points the enemy has left, it does detract a little from the legitimate uncertainty the players should feel, but posting the h.p. right on the battle map saves enormous game time spent… so I just concede the marginal emotional benefit to the larger momentum saving.

An apparently more formidable bugbear was advancing through the door as the party arrived. My assumption was that the bugbear that had led the party back to the lair was also free to report on what he'd seen in the 17th session: "There are a group of very tough combatants, fighters, druid, wizard, clerics, and they wasted us. They aren't like the Ottomans and other intruders we've encountered." And indeed, the party was not. So they pulled out their Subchieftain, 6th level, in scale armour, AC 1, 4 attacks every 3 rounds, to make sure this assault on their lair was put off. And that is precisely what the bugbears managed. Pandred's stunning encouraged him to call for a general retreat, which the party managed fairly well, while the archers above reloaded. By the time they could fire again, the party had retreated back into the "worg's hall," where they waited until the Subchieftain and his 3rd level hench tossed two flasks of flaming oil into the hall. One flask failed to break while the other did marginal damage to the party; that convinced them. They took off and ran, while the bugbears, a lot of them licking their wounds, let them.

I failed to note here that Zoltan the 4th level cleric and Mikael the 4th level mage did not join this session. I think they would have enabled another two rounds, but the number I had stacked against them, particularly those archers, would likely still have overcome the party. I know the total number of bugbears in the lair; they had little reason to hold back and meet this party with a moderate group; the wish to protect their home meant a serious resistance, and the party met it.

Ti went up a level during the session, so that upon returning to civilisation the party ventured to the river town of Vas on the Danube, where he obtained a henchfolk 1st level ranger. Eduard the man-at-arms contributed 10 damage to an attack and achieved the 1500 x.p. necessary to obtain his level training, just as Fenwick did earlier in the campaign. That's two hirelings the party has been able to help survive through battle after battle, despite having less than 10 h.p., sufficiently long enough to make them levelled followers. That is pretty impressive. It shows a good grasp of tactics, care, respect for NPCs and the way in which the party makes themselves more formidable without depending on the arrival of more players.

They were driven out of the lair, but they returned with all their people alive and with advancement earned. A good running.

'''Continued on [[]]'''

Session 17: Hunting, Hunting

Bennettj — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 20:03:03 GMT

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'''Continued From [[Session 16: The One with the Flail Snails]]'''

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This session, played October 2, 2026, began with the party having dealt with the snails and being on their way back to their undeveloped base in the abandoned hamlet of Keszeg. Taking advantage of the recent rules related to falcons, I had Pandred's falcon drift in a circle over a place some three hundred yards west of the footpath they were venturing upon, and the party went to investigate. There they found the slaughtered bodies of nine Ottoman soldiers in the woods, with tracks that looked like upright standing bears. The party (correctly) identified the tracks as belonging to bugbears (there are limitations to playing with a game-savvy party) and then did the right thing. They went straight to the Ottoman outpost in the area, introduced themselves, and sorted out any possibility that the "new adventurers" in town might be mistaken for the killings.

Leading the Ottomans back to their slaughtered soldiers, the Turks managed the bodies while the players discussed the repercussions of this. They were told that the Turks were under orders not to investigate again, because already scouts had headed up into the low mountains adjacent (they're just big hills, really) and had unsuccessfully lost all such scouts. As such, they were under orders to let the Sanjak handle it, which the Sanjak hadn't yet; a new missive would be sent and that is all the local constabulary plan to do about it.

Here the party surprised me. They had made noise about wanting to build their house, which is why I'd built this design. Now they skipped all that and decided to take the bit in their teeth; without prepping themselves or anything, they marched straight up into the "mountains" to search for the bugbears, which durn it, they were going to find.

Normally, a DM would just help them along. I had enough of an idea for where the bugbears were and the basic structure of the dungeon… but I hadn't physically designed the dungeon and in any case, my feeling from the start was that you can't just go up into a moutain ridge and instantaneously find a hole in the ground that's about eight feet wide. That is not how the wilderness works and I wasn't buying it. I figured, if they were resilient enough, they'd find clues and eventually work it out, and that when they got physically close, I'd set up an "event" (I knew what this was going to be and it did happen during the session, as will be seen), but I was going to make them figure out themselves how to get "physically close" without my helping them.

Here, GoogleEarth proved to be helpful. The path at the bottom where it meets the trees is about where the party found the Ottomans. One has to recall the above image is 1985, while in 1650 all this would be forest. Thus the party faced the gully to get up said ridge above them, which they did without a ranger in the party, thus taking them some time. But the image importantly gives them a sense of place and shape of the land.

And here the party began to employ it's two clerics, one 5th, one 4th, both of whom possess the augury spell. They did not go at their questions as cleanly as Jerome suggested (that post being inspired by this session). They asked general questions about "north", "west," "south"… until I had to more or less explain what logical interpretations of such answers would be. My premise during the session was that thousands of clerics employing the augury spell over the course of at least two centuries (since the spell's formulation, which must have happened at some point historically) would produce a "scientific" interpretive basis for how to apprehend the meaning of the yes/no responses received. As I was raised in a time of definitive textbooks (Dana for geology, Gray's for medicine), I postulated a "Jerome's Guide," to the comprehension of augury, which surely both clerics would have read in their seminary days, as required reading. It was after the session that I conceived of writing the blog post that I've linked to above.

Thus the characters found themselves atop this ridge, looking by the compass for the direction they should go next. I pointed out that they could literally see from this height the mountains on the horizon to the west. the bigger mountains to the southwest (on the left hand of the map) and the hamlet of Agard (circled) down below them, not really that far away, though over various foothills and, of course, again, everything in the map being forest. Likely, the top of this hill is bald, since it doesn't show a field, but then again it might have been logged since 1650, so one can never be sure. The view is telling enough to give a real sense of place in 3D that most game maps simply cannot offer.

Then decided to turn about on the basis of their augury investigations (somewhat accurately, they missed the bugbear dungeon (they had wisely asked if the bugbears were underground by about a thousand yards.

That brought them down this sharp slope all the way to the bottom, moving through trees until they came out on a footpath they recognised as putting them a few hundred yards east of a hamlet called Felsopeteny, about halfway between it and the burned-out ruin of Alsopeteny, where they'd dealt with the flail snails in the previous running. So, their familiarity with the land was growing.

Here they camped (red circle), at the bottom of a low knob (off the bottom of this image), looking up at the gulley on the left side of the above. Futzing around with Augury again, they eventually determined to go up that gulley, sure they'd find what they were looking for. This time they passed about two hundred yards from the bugbear dungeon entrance, again missing it (and I wouldn't have been saying this except that we have played the 18th session now and they know where this entrance is), climbing right to the top of the ridge. That frustrated them somewhat.

In fact, I'd rolled a die to see if they'd stumbled across the "event" I spoke of before, declaring it a 1 in 10 in my head. I told the party that I had rolled, because they were quite aware that the bugbears were there somewhere through their augury, since the compass direction had changed which meant they'd gone past it somewhere. I did not tell them what the chance was of finding that ", however, or even why I had rolled a die. I only said I had rolled a die and left it at that.

By this point, a little more than two hours of session had passed. The players were not bored, they were a wee bit frustrated and they had the bit in their teeth; but that last miss did get under their skin and they talked about giving it up until another day. Then they decided they'd climb down the slope and have another look. I doubled the likelihood of their finding the "event" and rolled a 2.

I had readied this battlemap and the party fought it out with seven bugbears, including one 1st level bugbear as a leader-type. The bugbears have 2d4 per die, so their hit points were 6d4+1 each, with the leader adding an additional d10+2 constitution. Their strength was +1+2 and their unmodified THAC0 18.

I'm afraid I didn't save a copy of the battlemap pre-fight. This is the aftermath, where the battle ended. The druid was able to use "entangle" to great effect, and one of the bugbears literally rolled minimum hit points: six 1s +1 for 7 h.p. I could not believe it. But this wasn't a patrol; in my mind, this was a hastily assembled group that were "available" and got drummed up out of the dungeon without prior notice… thus one hyper-weak link is feasible, so I let it stand. The party evicerated them. They didn't even get hurt enough to stop looking for the dungeon entrance. One of the above, the one with "-2" on it, is unconscious at –2 hit points. That is where the 18th session began two days ago.

'''Continued on [[Session 18: Down into the Bugbear Lair]]'''

Session 15: Lokos Valley

Bennettj — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 19:58:58 GMT

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Session 14: Wandering and then Home

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Session 16: The One with the Flail Snails

Bennettj — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 19:58:14 GMT

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'''Continued From [[Session 15: Lokos Valley]]'''

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All right, it has been a while since I weighed in on D&D, given all the events from last week. The deepest kicker of all was learning that because of the established stroke, Tamara could not count herself an insured driver again until examined in at least thirty days and medically approved. We learned this having driven to the hospital, not insured, though we did not know that at the time. This meant abandoning our car at the hospital last Friday, paying for a full day of parking and then obtaining it's relocation from the hospital to our driveway… while at the same time I was hurrying home to pick up my discord campaign on the 18th, online. I don't drive; I've never had a driver's license. I'm just not a safely focused person… so in such cases, I am no help at all.

Since we've been adjusting to the mental punch of it all, the lack of the car, the feeling Tamara has now with her health turned topsy-turvy again; while I've avoided the responsibility of writing here, especially about the last running. So, it being Friday, it's about time I got on that. We skipped a session, so it had been four weeks since our playing together.

I talked about mislaid plans relating to setting up an encounter back on the 13th, an issue I'd sorted by last week's running after someone in my circle had mentioned "flail snails," which as long been a joke staple of D&D reaching way back to the Fiend Folio. Back in the 80s, I'd thrown them a number of times at parties as "easy to slaughter staples" to fill up a dungeon now and then. The Folio's write-up is pure garbage and the creature itself not very threatening, so that my present wiki does not even acknowledge them as a creature. But I began to think… suppose the armour class were raised, and the "flail" arms lengthened so that the creature could attack in any direction, ridding the beast of a flank or a rear. And suppose, for other reasons, the creature was blessed with a protection against normal missiles and a 50% magic resistance? How would the thing play then?

Nicely, as it happens.

Thus the burnt-out village of Alsopeteny, with a 5 HD snail, armour class 1, crawling out of a mysterious hole in the earth lined with hard clay. The party engaged, found it very difficult to hit, even for those with THAC0 of 16. Then they found they could not throw things at it. Then the cleric and mage found their spells were 80/85% ineffective (+5% magic resistance for every level the character is less than 11th, plus the aforementioned 50%). Five attacks for 2-8 damage per attack, with a THAC0 of 17. Took a bit for the players to concoct a strategy, based on the snail's most important weakness. As the cleric Lexent put it, he "never expected to be able to say I fought flail snails in a serious campaign." The snails did 75 damage to the party before they went down, for a total of 4,400 x.p. distributed. There was no treasure.

But, to explain the weirdness of the snails and their unusual abilities, the party discovered by going down the hole the apparent workings of a mage who was studying "something" which they weren't able to find out yet. They did plunder a lot of papers, which they gathered over about an hour and a half, with Mikael the mage giving directions… only to then find out they'd been gone down the hole for five days. Their followers were keeping a vigil. This is where we ended the session.

Thus, not that much to tell. Fight, get banged around, actually keep giving ground because no one knew for sure what to do… then solve the problem and take the snails down one by one… then figure out the hole, plunder the papers and get out. That's it.

The end follows the advice of this post. The encounter hasn't led to treasure, but Alsopeteny is "cleared," at least so far as the players know, and they have information that will take time to examine. There are perhaps an endless pile of enticements in those loose sheafs of paper: one of them the party already knows about, called the "Meselo." One of them has probably thought to look that up already, knowing that my game world is so often based upon the real… but in fact, that won't help all at once, because of what that thing is and what it looks like. I invite the reader to have a search themselves, to see what they find.

So, I am sorted on the party's chosen hex; I have both "ruins" sorted, I have a nice supply of expositional material, I have other things to find, I have the means to build a continuity among the entities in the area… it's the best I've felt about them entering this "Lokos Valley" hex. I shall of course continue to keep up descriptions of our game in the future, while the players are clearly stoked to keep it going—more so than ever, perhaps, despite this having been our eighth month of playing.

'''Continued on [[Session 17: Hunting, Hunting]]'''

Session 15: Lokos Valley

Bennettj — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 18:28:05 GMT

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Fenwick

Bennettj — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 16:43:38 GMT

Fields & Studies

Lexent

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Fields & Studies

Fenwick

Bennettj — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 01:54:16 GMT

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Lexent

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Harek

Bennettj — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 01:53:22 GMT

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Fenwick

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Lexent

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Defence

Harek

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	They were driven out of the lair, but they returned with all their people alive and with advancement earned. A good running.		They were driven out of the lair, but they returned with all their people alive and with advancement earned. A good running.

−	'''Continued on [[]]'''	+	'''Continued on [[Session 19: Stymied]]'''

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 ! Level !! XP !! Next level
 |-
-| class="zingor-level" style="text-align:right;" | 1 || class="zingor-xp" style="text-align:right;" | 594 || style="text-align:right;" | 2001
+| class="zingor-level" style="text-align:right;" | 1 || class="zingor-xp" style="text-align:right;" | 611 || style="text-align:right;" | 2001
 |}

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 ! Level !! XP !! Next Level
 |-
-| class="zingor-level" style="text-align:right;" | 1 || class="zingor-xp" style="text-align:right;" |1131|| style="text-align:right;" | 2001
+| class="zingor-level" style="text-align:right;" | 1 || class="zingor-xp" style="text-align:right;" |1161|| style="text-align:right;" | 2001
 |}
 Cannot gain a bonus to experience earned (Predispositions and Shortcomings)

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 {| class="wikitable"
-| [https://wiki.alexissmolensk.com/index.php/Stun_Lock  HP] || class="zingor-current-hp" style="text-align:right;" | 39
+| [https://wiki.alexissmolensk.com/index.php/Stun_Lock  HP] || class="zingor-current-hp" style="text-align:right;" | 30
 |-
 | [https://wiki.alexissmolensk.com/index.php/Hit_Points HP (max)] || style="text-align:right;" | 39
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 ! Level !! XP !! Next Level !! F.E.L. !! Next F.E.L.
 |-
-| class="zingor-level" style="text-align:right;" | 5 || class="zingor-xp" style="text-align:right;" | 21043 || style="text-align:right;" | 27501 || style="text-align:right;" | 5 || style="text-align:right;" | 35001
+| class="zingor-level" style="text-align:right;" | 5 || class="zingor-xp" style="text-align:right;" | 21313 || style="text-align:right;" | 27501 || style="text-align:right;" | 5 || style="text-align:right;" | 35001
 |}
 Receives a 10% bonus to all experience received, regardless of his or her ability stats; if the character already benefits from this, increase bonus to +12% (Predispositions & Shortcomings).<br/>

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 {| class="wikitable"
-| [https://wiki.alexissmolensk.com/index.php/Stun_Lock  HP] || class="zingor-current-hp" style="text-align:right;" | 10
+| [https://wiki.alexissmolensk.com/index.php/Stun_Lock  HP] || class="zingor-current-hp" style="text-align:right;" | 13
 |-
 | [https://wiki.alexissmolensk.com/index.php/Hit_Points HP (max)] || style="text-align:right;" | 13

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	* While doing so, [[Mátyás]] meets up again with the party but is killed.		* While doing so, [[Mátyás]] meets up again with the party but is killed.
	* After succeeding '''[[Session 14: Wandering and then Home\|the party is escorted]]''' to the border and then make their way further west where they meet [[Harek]], get [[Fenwick]] trained, and visit Vienna before heading back towards Ózd.		* After succeeding '''[[Session 14: Wandering and then Home\|the party is escorted]]''' to the border and then make their way further west where they meet [[Harek]], get [[Fenwick]] trained, and visit Vienna before heading back towards Ózd.
		+
		+	=== Colonising the Lokos Valley ===
		+	* '''[[Session 15: Lokos Valley\|Travelled]]''' through the wilderness on their way to the Lokos Valley.
		+	* Found a strange monument where the shadows cast by the members of the party point toward their places of birth.
		+	* Explored the Lokos Valley learning about the towns of Agard, Alsopeteny, Felsőpetény, Keszeg, Romhany, and Nezsa.
		+	* Decided to settle in Keszeg and began clearing it out and setting it up as a base of operations.
		+	* Explored the ruins of Alsopeteny and discovered the abandoned extradimensional lair of a researcher named Hacer who was searching the area for something known as Meselo that was a source, stone, or hole.
		+	* Found a slaughtered patrol of Ottomans and tracked down the responsible group of bugbears to their lair.
		+	* Killed around a dozen of the bugbears before being forced to retreat.
		+	* Travelled to Vac to buy supplies.

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 | || [https://wiki.alexissmolensk.com/index.php/Protection_from_Malevolence_(spell) Protection from Malevolence] || protects against attacks.
 |-
-|X|| [https://wiki.alexissmolensk.com/index.php/Aid_(spell) Aid] || aids attacks and gives hit points (2d6+8).
+| || [https://wiki.alexissmolensk.com/index.php/Aid_(spell) Aid] || aids attacks and gives hit points (2d6+8).
 |-
-|X|| [https://wiki.alexissmolensk.com/index.php/Augury_(spell) Augury] || queries the gods.
+| || [https://wiki.alexissmolensk.com/index.php/Augury_(spell) Augury] || queries the gods.
 |-
-|X|| [https://wiki.alexissmolensk.com/index.php/Dust_Devil_(spell) Dust Devil] || conjures a controlled dust devil. 1AP to move up to 6 hexes. Automatic hit 1d8 damage. 5 rounds.
+| || [https://wiki.alexissmolensk.com/index.php/Dust_Devil_(spell) Dust Devil] || conjures a controlled dust devil. 1AP to move up to 6 hexes. Automatic hit 1d8 damage. 5 rounds.
 |-
-|X|| [https://wiki.alexissmolensk.com/index.php/Hold_Person_(spell) Hold Person] || immobilizes creatures.
+| || [https://wiki.alexissmolensk.com/index.php/Hold_Person_(spell) Hold Person] || immobilizes creatures.
 |-
 | || [https://wiki.alexissmolensk.com/index.php/Death%27s_Door_(spell) Death's Door] || Sets HP to 0 and stabilises.
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 ! Used !! Ability
 |-
-|X|| Grond's Bane 3d4 HP to one target
+| || Grond's Bane 3d4 HP to one target
 |}

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 *A mule and cart, [[Morning of May 7th, 1650, in Stavanger|purchased]] in preparation for a fourth expedition to Mimmarudla.
 *Lettfetti - A horse.
 [[Embla Strand|Embla]] - [[The Women Hear a Story at the Greasy Cod|Joined the party]] for the second trip to Mimmarudla. [[Aftermath Goblin Camp|Retired]] from the party just before they entered Grond's lair.
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 '''[[Zoltan]]''' - One of the [[Session One, Sprites and All|initial founders]] of the Hungarian party.
 *Edvard - Male human soldier-at-arms. [[Session 6: Where's the Boy?|Hired]] shortly before the party sets out looking for Peter.
 '''[[Tihomir]]''' - One of the [[Session One, Sprites and All|initial founders]] of the Hungarian party.
 *Barb - A pony. [[Session 6: Where's the Boy?|Obtained]] shortly before the party sets out looking for Peter.
 [[Orsos]] - One of the [[Session One, Sprites and All|initial founders]] of the Hungarian party. [[Session 4: Campaign Goes to the Dogs|Left]] the party just prior to entering the goblin village.

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	==[https://www.patreon.com/u3015466/posts/session-15-lokos-167666127 Original Page]==		==[https://www.patreon.com/u3015466/posts/session-15-lokos-167666127 Original Page]==
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−	[https://c10.patreonusercontent.com/4/patreon-media/p/post/167666127/b564d7dcc694477f949e9f2e11ec7024/eyJhIjoxLCJ3Ijo4MjB9/1.jpg?token-hash=qtwfgsh1M_YGrlniFzkkcScjgCZavHEABBgtAbr6mas%3D&token-time=1790985600 Travel Path]

	Friday's session began with the party entering the map above from the upper left, along the river shown. The party suggested that I wipe out everything beyond the path they travelled, thus not revealing the remaining map... which I have done, with some exceptions, including those things the party saw or have heard about sufficiently to find that place.		Friday's session began with the party entering the map above from the upper left, along the river shown. The party suggested that I wipe out everything beyond the path they travelled, thus not revealing the remaining map... which I have done, with some exceptions, including those things the party saw or have heard about sufficiently to find that place.

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	That was the session. The party (temporarily at least) find themselves in the possession of a derelict hamlet, which they'll have to figure out in the next running; they are anxious to run off and fight something else in the hex. The concept of settling down has rooted itself in their heart and I'm going to try and divide a land hex similarly into "blocks" that are 145 yards wide. Wish me luck.		That was the session. The party (temporarily at least) find themselves in the possession of a derelict hamlet, which they'll have to figure out in the next running; they are anxious to run off and fight something else in the hex. The concept of settling down has rooted itself in their heart and I'm going to try and divide a land hex similarly into "blocks" that are 145 yards wide. Wish me luck.

−	'''Continued on [[]]'''	+	'''Continued on [[Session 16: The One with the Flail Snails]]'''

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 ! colspan="4" class="zingor-chosen-field-name" style="background-color:#ccf;" | Training
 |- class="zingor-sage-study" |
-| class="zingor-sage-study-chosen" | || class="zingor-sage-study-name" | Athletics || class="zingor-sage-study-points" | 7
+| class="zingor-sage-study-chosen" | || class="zingor-sage-study-name" colspan="2" | Athletics || class="zingor-sage-study-points" | 7
-|- class="zingor-sage-concentration"|
+|- zingor-sage-ability" |
-| || class="zingor-sage-concentration-study" style="opacity: 0; width: 10px; max-width: 10px; white-space: nowrap; overflow: hidden;" | Athletics || class="zingor-sage-concentration-name" | Swimming || class="zingor-sage-concentration-points" | 4
+| || class="zingor-sage-ability-from-study" style="opacity: 0; width: 10px; max-width: 10px; white-space: nowrap; overflow: hidden;" | Athletics || class="zingor-sage-ability-name" | Swimming || class="zingor-sage-ability-points" | 4
-|- class="zingor-sage-concentration"|
+|- zingor-sage-ability" |
-| || class="zingor-sage-concentration-study" style="opacity: 0; width: 10px; max-width: 10px; white-space: nowrap; overflow: hidden;" | Athletics || class="zingor-sage-concentration-name" | Scrambling || class="zingor-sage-concentration-points" | 3
+| || class="zingor-sage-ability-from-study" style="opacity: 0; width: 10px; max-width: 10px; white-space: nowrap; overflow: hidden;" | Athletics || class="zingor-sage-ability-name" | Scrambling || class="zingor-sage-ability-points" | 3
 |- class="zingor-sage-study" |
-| class="zingor-sage-study-chosen" | || class="zingor-sage-study-name" | Empowerment || class="zingor-sage-study-points" | 5
+| class="zingor-sage-study-chosen" | || class="zingor-sage-study-name" colspan="2" | Empowerment || class="zingor-sage-study-points" | 5
 |- class="zingor-sage-study" |
-| class="zingor-sage-study-chosen" | || class="zingor-sage-study-name" | Instruction || class="zingor-sage-study-points" | 5
+| class="zingor-sage-study-chosen" | || class="zingor-sage-study-name" colspan="2" | Instruction || class="zingor-sage-study-points" | 5
 |- class="zingor-sage-study" |
-| class="zingor-sage-study-chosen" |X|| class="zingor-sage-study-name" | Military Engineering || style="background-color:#fcc;" class="zingor-sage-study-points" | '''8'''
+| class="zingor-sage-study-chosen" |X|| class="zingor-sage-study-name" colspan="2" | Military Engineering || style="background-color:#fcc;" class="zingor-sage-study-points" | '''8'''
 |}

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 {| class="wikitable"
-| [https://wiki.alexissmolensk.com/index.php/Stun_Lock  HP] || class="zingor-current-hp" style="text-align:right;" | 28
+| [https://wiki.alexissmolensk.com/index.php/Stun_Lock  HP] || class="zingor-current-hp" style="text-align:right;" | 34
 |-
 | [https://wiki.alexissmolensk.com/index.php/Hit_Points HP (max)] || style="text-align:right;" | 39
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 |}
 {| class="wikitable" style="display: inline-table;"
-! colspan="4" | Theology & Customs
+! colspan="5" | Theology & Customs
 |- class="zingor-sage-study" |
 | class="zingor-sage-study-chosen" | || class="zingor-sage-study-name" colspan="2" | Astronomy & Astrology || class="zingor-sage-study-points" | 5