This may be obvious but these AARs contain spoilers for those wanting to go into the Barrowmaze. The message is that if you're going to, don't take advantage of them. They're called spoilers because they spoil the fun. DON'T BE A DICK!
We met up last Sunday with the latest draft of the OSE Basic Rules to try out.and managed to fit in two delves into the Barrowmaze.
Barrowmaze
– 19 May 2019: First Delve
John
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Dungon Master
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Player
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Character
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Class
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Notes
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Tom
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Gwanton
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Cleric of St
Ygg (Level 1)
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Character’s
first delve
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Maddy
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Celian
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Thief (Level
1)
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Player and
Character’s first delve
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Tim
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Ambrose
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Dwarf (Level
1)
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Lizzie
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Gretchen
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Ranger (Level
1)
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Character’s
first delve
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Edwin
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Decimus
Stonehythe
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Gnome (Level
1)
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Has pet
badger – Dachs
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Steve
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Moonwhisper
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Magic User
(Level 3)
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Alec
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Baxton von
Dangerfield
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“Master
Wizard” (Level 1)
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Player and
Character’s first delve
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Sam
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Le Charles
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Cleric of St
Ygg (Level 1)
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Character’s
first delve
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Pre-Delve
In
the time since the last delve, new adventurers had arrived in Helix. Despite the attractions of a group known as
the Halflings’ Adventurers Guild, several these adventurers responded to the posters
we’d put around town and presented themselves at Galmar’s House. In addition, Brother Othar had pointed two
newly-arrived novice Clerics in our direction.
Given
that we had these two Clerics with us, the Plan was to return to the room to
the West of the Octagonal Room from which we had been driven back by large
numbers of animated skeletons in the previous year [game played 24 March 2019].
How we left it last time |
The Delve
The
journey to the Barrowmoor was uneventful, but took five hours.
We
proceeded to the 'Back Door' (instructing the new party
members on how to find the mound and open the secret passage). Ambrose was fascinated by the sarcophagus and
attempted to find pieces for his jawbone collection.
Fossil Skeletons |
Barrow Guardian |
Moving
into the corridor leading to the Octagonal Room, Ambrose and Gwanton engaged in
a theological discussion, during which their on-going suspicion that
Moonwhisper may be a Necromancer came to the fore. Gwanton started a list of potential heresies
within the party (including those he himself held).
Despite
warnings by experienced members of the party that this was dangerous territory,
Gwanton could not contain his curiosity.
As he passed the middle door on the west of the corridor, he opened it,
revealing a group of five skeletons standing over the butchered remains of
another party of adventurers. Given that
he was at the tail-end of the marching order, this proved to be a surprise to
the rest of the party. The skeletons
immediately attacked, dragging Gwanton into the room and severely wounding
Decimus, leaving him unconscious and bleeding-out (with Dachs, taking up
position to protect his body).
Decimus communes with his deity |
Le
Charles managed to grab Gwanton (who was still holding the door handle), and a
somewhat farcical tug-of-war ensued in order to shut the door while Gretchen
straddled Decimus’ body and fired into the room. Gwanton was also severely injured during this
struggle. Ambrose quickly fished a
length of rope out of his kit and rolled under Gwanton’s body to attach it to
the handle. The door was pulled shut and
the rope lashed to the handle opposite.
Gretchen
stabilised Decimus’s wounds, and it was decided that the best thing was to get
him and Gwanton back to Helix as soon as possible. Fortunately, the retreat from the Barrowmaze
and the journey through the Wilderness were uneventful.
Post-Delve
There was no
loot to be cashed in.
Decimus and
Gwanton spent five days recuperating.
Gwanton undertook a period of penance to attempt to atone for his
foolishness.
Score: 376
XP: 42
Encounters
Location
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Nature
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Casualties
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Notes
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Crossroads of
Death
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Fossil
Skeleton
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Defeated
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Crossroads of
Death
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Barrow Guardian
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Le Charles
injured.
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Defeated
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Room off
corridor to Octagonal Room
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Skeletons
(x5)
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Decimus down
and dying.
Gwanton severely injured.
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Left locked
in the room
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Treasure
Where and how acquired
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Value
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Notes
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None!
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