ROTOE — OSE S02E02

herein we continue our Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil…

Dramatis personae

• Gondor, a pretty-boy fighter with his simp Farmere in tow
• Parson, an old statue that learned magic
• Maoam, an old man that learned magic
• Pastor Chase, surfer cleric
• Merry Poppins, normcore hobbit with his two snake sons
• Chidi, sneaky thief lad

Dramatic personing

• Regroup with the reinforcements by way of Parson’s wall-door (Chidi catches a fish!)
• Descends the stairs to the corpse of the ghast — ambused by ghouls! Chase surfs down the steps, knocks one ghoul to the ground, where it’s killed by a dagger from Maoam; the other ghoul is cymbal-clashed by Merry and Farmere, then killed by one of Merry’s snakes
• Brief exploration of empty prison cells and torture dungeon
• Through another door, and directly into an evil priest having a meeting with her two gnoll mercenaries: 6–6 on the reaction roll and a perfect “oh we were sent to join you all” from the cleric meant Gren mistook the party for actual reinforcement and new recruits — “we’ve found all the stuff we expect, want to see it? also we’re going to close up the obelisk in a few days if you want to take a look you better do so soon.”
• Guided through the dungeon to the barracks and shown the way down to the obelisk pool — “right I’ve got to finish stuff up, it’s just down there you see” — when left alone the party immediately broke into the locked box in the barracks (suffering a magickal acid-bath in the process and finding several objects of usefulness
• We leave them at the lip of the pit to the obelisk…

Rewards

• 225xp each
• Two potions, two scrolls, six tindertwigs, and a journal!
• The trust of Gren and reluctant acceptance from the gnolls and undead
• Insider secrets — information about the Temple of All Consumption and its location