Blingdenstone Rockblight(Recap from 7-7-23)

Blingdenstone Rockblight(Recap from 7-7-23)

(Grissen the 16th of Horisal) After a restful night in “The Foaming Mug”, the group made their way to the staging area to gain access to the Rockblight. Along the way they met Gurnik Tapfinger, head priest of Callarduran Smoothhands in the Stoneheart Enclave, who approaches the party greeting Flink and asking them to undertake a dangerous task in a closed-off area of the old city known as Rockblight, where the temple of his god stands desecrated. The party agreed, and he gave them a ruby spell gem containing the hallow spell and asked them to place the gem in the Steadfast Stone's menhir.

Gurnik warns them that once they place the gem, Ogrémoch's Bane will send its servants to stop them. They must defeat these servants until the gem awakens three temple guardians, at which point the temple will be cleansed and the characters can leave. Once the characters accomplish this task, Gurnik will channel the power of the cleansed temple, bestowing a blessing of protection or a blessing of weapon on each of the characters (each player's choice); and a 1000 gp gem.

They reached the cavern known as the staging area and requested access to the Rockblight area to recover the remains of a deep gnome named Udhask and bring them to the catacombs. They met Sark Axebarrel, who warns the party of the reports of a medusa lurking in the caverns beyond the doors. Since they decided to explore Rockblight, Sark asks them to find out whatever they can about the medusa and if possible kill her if they are successful. He offers a payment of 500 gp per character for useful information, plus a diamond worth 2,000 gp if they bring back proof that the medusa is dead. 

The party ventured into the sealed off portion of the city sealed off since the Drow massacre over 100 years before. The find and Kill Udhask’s restless tortured spirit and find his remains gaining the following loot:

A rotted pouch containing six 1000 gp rubies and a potion of invisibility

The party fought five Gargoyles at the top of a waterfall overlook, and as the final Gargoyle dies an enraged earth elemental appears and joins the fight. On defeating these monsters they find:

Ten Gargoyle Talons, Worth 10 gp each.

One vial Elemental Earth Essence (vial) worth 100 gp each.

A cursed earth elemental gem. Before it can be used, it must receive a remove curse spell from a priest of the Stoneheart Enclave. Otherwise, the elemental summoned by the gem is always hostile toward its summoner.

The party made their way to Neheedra's Lair and engaged in combat. Then the party quickly defeated the medusa when Uthemar stabbed her with a dagger dripping with Drow sleep poison. She failed her constitution save by a lot, and was put to sleep. The party quickly covered her head with a sack and put manacles on her hands behind her back effectively binding her and ending combat. Searching her lair they found:

Five of the sexy dresses in Neheedra's wardrobe rack are made of spider silk shaped by drow magic. They are worth 2000 gp each if sold in the markets of the Underdark. The drow magic on a dress fades when the garment is exposed to sunlight, causing it to fall apart.

Coins: 1150 cp, 2540 sp, 2810 gp, 163 pp

Gems: 13 gems worth 500 gp each

[5 Quartz, 1 Citrine, 2 Jasper, 2 Carnelian, 1 Star rose quartz, 1 Moonstone, 1 Chrysoprase]

Magic Items (2): [1 Wand of Secrets, 1 Dust of Dryness](x9 pinches)

Next they ventured into the cave filled with thirty statues of drow warriors, all standing as if on guard. In her madness, Neheedra turned these warriors of her house to stone. Over many years, Ogrémoch's Bane has used its power to animate these statues, turning them into elemental creatures. The party defeated the statues that animated and attacked, and as the last one fell Ogrémoch's Bane, which was banished by one of the party members. There was a chest containing:

Coins: 2532 cp, 1116 sp, 70 gp

Art: 7 art objects worth 500 gp each

[2 Small gold bracelet, 1 Pair of engraved bone dice, 2 Silver ewer, 2 Gold locket with a painted portrait inside]

Magic Items (4): [1 Weapon +1 short sword drow,  +1 Cloak of Protection, 1 Trident of Fish Command]

With Ogrémoch's Bane banished the Cleansing of the desicrated temple of Callarduran Smoothhands, went without any dangerous encounters the temple cleansed and curse removed from the Elemental gem the party headed back to the staging area where the guard Galtri Nuggetbones, took them to Sark Axebarrel who was shocked to see the unconscious “living” bound medusa. Chardalyn cast a Greater Restoration (which failed as the curse from Lolth was too strong), Chardalyn tried again channeling the divinity of the Luxon into her spell which successfully transformed  the medusa back into her Drow form NPC Neheedra Duskryn.

Sark Axebarrel paid the party members 500 gp and a diamond worth 2,000 gp each, and the Queen, seeing the party's solution to the Medusa problem without killing her, also gave the party members another 1000gp gem each. Gurnik Tapfinger,aside from channeling the power of the cleansed temple, bestowing a blessing of protection or a blessing of weapon on each of the characters (each player's choice); also paid them a 1000gp gem each.

Total loot: 

Payment given for completing their tasks: 4500gp in gems and gold coins each.

Loot from Monstre encounters:

Coins, harvested goods, gems, and art objects: 32,011gp or 2667gp each.

(Session enned on Grissen the 16th of Horisal)