Setting out just after sunrise, their party got back just in time for lunch at the Outhouse. Or most of it got back anyway, I'm not sure if Taurus, the mysterious sword-wielding Juggalo they picked up en route to the dungeon, returned with the group or not. Either way, the other Outhouse guests have never met the man. The Outhouse, by the way, is the delightful nickname for the building at the edge of the grounds of the Abbey of St. Emmet. (With no inn anywhere in the area, the guest house of the Abbey is the best accomodations available nearby.) Surprisingly, all concerned returned alive and in possession of all their various limbs and organs.
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Father Geoffroy, Diarmud Duff and Rumpert can make their own reports of the events in the Caves if they so choose. But after being plied with a few drinks Rumpert's henchman Helmût will open up a bit. Not that Helmût is a great source of information. For one thing he's not terribly smart. And he speaks both Anglish and Norman poorly and with a terrible Scandinavian accent. On top of that he only starts talking after imbibing enough ale to slur his words. But here's what you think Helmût tells the adventurers gathered at the Outhouse:
Monsters defeated included an improbably large number of spiders, a trio of giant maggots with octopi for heads, lurking aspics in both tiny and giant size, a pile of vengeful kelp and a skeleton-demon with four arms. The latter was decapitated by one of the other party members.
The group also encountered a nun and a hunchback leading around a group of children. What exactly these people were doing in the cave is not clear to poor dumb Helmût. The nun was killed by the giant aspic, which had the ability to burst into flames. The hunchback and the children later disappeared, possibly victims of the Mysterious Clicking.
Any other info will have to come from the PCs or firsthand knowledge.
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Outstanding! I'm just sad that I sleep so late...
ReplyDeleteAspic? Like a big jelly dessert?
ReplyDeleteYes, that's exactly how the dude describes it.
ReplyDeletenow it's crème brûlée
ReplyDeleteAnd yeah, Taurus has presumably followed the others back to the "outhouse" and is likely sitting on a nearby stump playing strange, futuristic music on his weird foreign instrument.
ReplyDeletehttp://youtu.be/1dCCTwJXwxI
Wasn't getting eaten by giant blancmanges the basis of a whole Monty Python episode? :)
ReplyDeleteWasn't getting eaten by giant blancmanges the basis of a whole Monty Python episode?
ReplyDeleteI thought the blancmanges turned everyone into Scotsmen so they could win Wimbledon.
To be clear, not only did they get attacked by jellied meat stock, but the largest one set itself on fire?
ReplyDeleteThat is awesome.
Or maybe it was the nun who had the ability to burst into flames. It's hard to tell between the drunkenness and the horrible accent and the stupidity.
ReplyDeleteAaah Helmut, you speak of strange things indeed! But I think it's bedtime for you! *someone knock him over the head and drag him back to his room*
ReplyDeleteTo be fair, Helmut is some sort of Scandie; fire means "mission accomplished", and it doesn't matter much how any particular hamlet, monastery, or dessert happened to -become- on fire.
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