(G551 24/02/2024 via Roll20 - JF, KT, AP(GM), AD) YI-B4

 (G551 24/02/2024 via Roll20 - JF, KT, AP(GM), AD) YI-B4

[Myself (Rollo), Reinward and Fang have teleported from Yag Island to a "Wasp Dungeon" on a quest to find the "Stone of the Sparkledingles".]

DAY 620 (13th Uktar) (November) cont ...

The next chamber we came to had a big minotaur in it. I was pushed forward to deal with it. It tried talking in common, and then in giant. This was a language that it understood.

We chatted and I found out it had been 'teleported here by a wizard'. It was so large it couldn't really get out of the room it was in by any of the exits.

I told it I could teleport it out later if it promised to be no trouble.

Through his room and out the other side we came to a corridor which led to a room full of hell wasps. This was our first real go at them and I cast Murderous Mist. It hurt them, but it hurt us too and there were just too many wasps so we ran back to the minotaur's room and teleported out.

We took the minotaur with us. His name was Wrunas and I said he could stay at the Barrow as long as he behaved himself. He seemed a bit baffled by everything, but happy enough to get some food and relax for a bit. I told Sylvia to keep an eye on him.

I got my books out and did some research on Hell Wasps. I then got Jiggles to go shopping for me and she brought back:

4 empty keg barrels

16 jars of jam

2 gallons of blood

The idea was I would make enticing wasp traps that would lure them out of our way and hopefully even kill them.

Reinward also bought seven vials of acid.

All the monster bits I'd collected so far I left with Sylvia to look after. I'll deal with them later.

Anyway, time to blow out the candle and go to bed. We'll try Wasp Dungeon again tomorrow.

DAY 621 (14th Uktar) (November)

We teleported back into the dungeon and I filled one of my kegs with water, jam and blood, then put it through the door of the room where the wasps were.

We waited about an hour and looked in on them from the other entrance to the room. They were certainly distracted and it was maybe killing some of them but there was still no shortage of wasps.

For the second barrel at different room I tried with a paper (jam smeared) top with holes in it. We watched from a safe-ish distance as the wasps went for the keg, but they also went for us so we pulled back to another room and shut the door.

Even with the barrels, the wasps were just too much work, so we explored other areas of the dungeon by simply distracting and avoiding them. As we worked our way around the corridors myself and Fang took the lead. Reinward followed along, muttering about someone called "Gemini". A girlfriend perhaps?

We came to one last room full of Hell Wasps. There was a trap and Reinward disabled it, then picked the lock. We discussed tactics and I told him about the spells I had at my disposal, one of which was Vortex of Teeth.

'Right, here is the plan!' he said. 'Smear me in jam and blood, then cast that with me in the middle bit where I can't get hurt!'

It sounded like a risky plan to me, but who was I to argue? We smeared him up good and proper then sent him in. The Wasps went wild and I cast the Vortex around him.

A huge school of transparent piranhas swam rapidly through the air, magical fish made of force that tore into the wasps ravenously. 

For some reason, as the wasps went for him, Reinward stepped backwards into the piranha swarm and for a few moments he waved his arms around going, 'ahh! the wasps! ahh! the piranhas!'

When his nerves settled he started through jars of acid about the place. He then cast Dispel Evil which destroyed one of the Hell Wasp swarms, then tried a Holy Smite. I cast a Flame Strike into the mix too.

It was just a mess of jam, wasps, fish, smoke and flames with Reinward still somehow alive in the middle of it. I cast another Flame Strike. Gradually the wasps swarms dissipated until there was nothing but smoldering insect carapaces all over the floor.

With that all done and Reinward patched back up, we moved on. More dungeon, more maze-like corridors. What a strange place this was!

We finally came to our final room. A large chamber that contained some sort of howling dinosaur ... thing? (I've since deduced that this was a "Destrachan")

We all charged in, as it howled at us with its sonic attack. Reinward left fly with some of his daggers, one of which accidentally hit Fang in the back. This enraged him enough to kill the beast with a few deft chops of his sword. He did it so quickly I didn't even have time to get my crocodiles summoned.

I chopped its head off and stuffed it in my bag for later study. In this room also - lo and behold! - was a large crystal ball that very much looked like the Stone of the Sparkledingles. We trousered the Stone and teleported out.

Back at the Barrow, Felia seemed delighted to get her hands on the Stone. I wonder what it does?