Notes

Notes

Bulletin Board #

  • The Flaming Fist wants YOU! Register at Fort Beluarian to receive a newly smithed set of armor and weapons, and help us take back the jungle from the undead hordes!
  • Have you seen this man? I’m searching for my father, an older human with a young face named Artus Cimber, last seen leaving the city with a reptilian man who smells funny. Please report any information to Xandala, staying at Kya’s House of Repose when in town.
  • We must throw the Flaming Fist and all other colonizers out of Chult! Rise up and take back our lands from those who seek to strip her of her beauty and grace! Lookk for the house in Malar’s Throat with the purple and orange flowers growing all around if you are a True Chultan!
  • Damn dirty pirates are slipping through the cracks and wrecking havoc on trade at the port! Zindar, the harbormaster, is offering a bounty for each pirate vessel captured, as well as an additional bounty for every pirate captain returned alive.
  • We! Are! The! MINSTREL CYCLE! and we want you! To join our troupe! We are looking for a lute player who’s fingers are as nimble as the wind, but can shred like a banshee! Applicants should be awesome, and able to both read and write music (because all real artists can cough) Must also have the voice of a siren, needed for backup vocals or when Brinjolf can’t get off work. Also, if you have a cart that can pull our stuff to gigs then you’re pretty much hired. Let’s do this!
  • The Company of the Yellow Banner seeks recruits for an adventure to the Lost City! We seek to save the soul of one of our own, and delay the inevitable misues of such a powerful item, by finding the legendary Eye of Zaltec! If you are a brave adventurer seeking glory and renown, a brotherhood of likeminded individuals, or simply coin, then you should be flying the Yellow Banner with us!
  • Bravus Boulderhorn was here
  • Ubtao has abandoned us. He tired of our constant warring. All praise be to the Trickster Gods! They will save us from the dark.
  • The Order of the Gauntlet seeks individuals of purpose and honor to help push back the wilds for the people of Chult, and the glory of our Lords. Speak with Commander Fastinav at Camp Righteous about joining up today. If you are traveling to Camp Righteous, please speak with me first. I have a packet of information to deliver to the commander there and do not wish to brave the jungle alone, signed Undril SIlvertusk.
  • LOOKING TO BE A VIRILE AS A DOZEN MEN? WANTING TO NBE THE DESIRE OF EVERY WOMAN IN CHULT? GET SOME RYLATH ROOT AND FEEL AN ENERGY COURSING THROUGH YOUR VEINS THAT YOU HAVE NEVER EXPERIENCED BEFORE!
  • Odd Carving of a maze
  • For one week only, the author extraordinaire, the prince of penning, the wily wordsmith Volothamp Geddarm himself, shall be spinning tales (and selling copies) of his adventures through the perilous jungles of Chult. Don’t miss out! Extra copies of Volo’s Guide to Monsters for sale, 50gp is a cheap price to pay for information that may save your life this day!
  • Canoe, extra-slightly used. Ask for Bork.
  • GLAMOUR & VALOR playing one night only! at the THUNDERING LIZARD, suneday, summertide, dusk. with special guests Redgar’s Revenge, Jeannie and the Efreeti, Mordenkainen’s Manhood, and Kobold’s Ate My Baby. Don’t miss the only show on the Chult leg of the Sword Coast Tour!
  • The Lord’s Alliance seeks Adventurers! We need able bodied men and women to map the jungles of Chult, specifically the regions surrounding Nangalore and Orolunga. This is a paying offer. If you are willing and able, please speak to Lerek Dashlynd ay Kaya’s House of Repose for more details.
  • Looking for work? Ifan Talroa pays a fair wage for animal hunters, trappers, and trainers.

Mbala to Orolunga #

  • Killed a bunch of villagers we thought were zombies
  • Goblins in a town gave us food
    • Went into a hut with a person who cast a spell were we cannot lie
    • Opened a door by making human pyramids
    • “These goblins, do they honor truth and goodness” - heard when entering door and seeing a snake mosaic, we said yes
    • A rubix cube like thing pops out - can try once a day to solve it.
  • Killed a zombie stuck to a tree
  • Followed a walnut trail
    • Giant (undead, zombified ogre) carrying a bag, walnuts falling out of bag, squirrels following
    • Well, lets kill it
  • Went through a ravine of zombies
  • Dream where allies are gone, stone floor, stone wall, trapped in a maze
  • Massive brick and stone ziggerot

Orolunga #

  • Massive brick and stone ziggerot
  • Chultan in origin
  • Temple to ubtou
  • Orchid to go through thorns
  • Stone obolisk
  • Artis and dragonbait
  • Guardian Naga - Huge snake that talks to us
    • People came before searching for the lost city of mezro
    • Vision from ubtou, city of omau, lost city of chult, city of the betrayer razensi
    • Seek omau between the city of lost honor and the peeks of flame
      • Air or higher ground will make it easier to find as the city of omau has sunken

Orolunga to Vorn #

  • Large chuck of earth floating 120 feet off the ground
    • Reggie stayed behind because he’s not riding a bird
  • Heard something large outside, went in a cave
    • Failed con save and now really want to stay close to reggie
    • Snap is now your lucky charm. You don’t know why, but you feel better when you’re near him. If you are ever more than 30 ft from him, you have disadvantage on everything as things just don’t feel right. Message @BuhCawk
  • Quicksand!
  • Huge turtle
    • Great race occurrs every 10 years, vale between chult and fay wild is weakened
    • Death curse may be something of The Sewn Sisters
      • Originally from the fae wild
      • 3 wemon
        • Widow Grote - Gold coins covering her eyes, ants in her skull that serve as her spies
        • Baggy Nanna - leather sack over head
        • Peggy deadbells - childrens teath around neck, hops around on a pegleg
  • Found treehouse with skeleton in plate armor and an asshole snake
    • Scorpion armor, +5 to initiative, no steath disadvange, cursed when you take it off /put it on
  • Peggy deadbells take blood from Snap???
  • 8 ft statue, offerings around feet - Shield Guardian
    • Was bodyguard for a wizard
    • The statue IS Vorn
  • Bunch of traps around a village - goblins

Vorn #

  • 8 ft statue, offerings around feet - Shield Guardian
    • Was bodyguard for a wizard
    • The statue IS Vorn
  • 3 footprints leave vorn
    • Tiny
    • Anfibious
    • Human
  • Follow tiny ones north
  • Yellyark - east of vorn
  • The queen wore a bronze and adamantine medallion that has the word “Vorn” etched into it.

Leaving Vorn #

  • Tree with an eyeball and mouth?
    • Grows bags with rats?????
  • Taking river back and attacked by grungs
  • Statue of ubtau with maze on it

Port Nyanzaru #

  • See handouts…
    • Ethan talrowwa - merchant prince of beats
    • Jessamen - plants / assassinations
    • Jobil - deals in guides
    • Qualthe - in charge of incect repellent adventuring gear, fruits, perfumes
    • Azanthi - trades in gems / jewlrey / hides
  • Hall of gold / temple of walkine / golden roof
  • Materials - rope, holy water, guilded acorn with at least 200gp, Several seeds of any moonseed plant and a piece of opalescent feldspar
  • Thunder lizard?
  • Inventers / beauty / luck / money / magic - temples to bring reggie back
  • Dyonykus - raptor like dinasour, but bigger
  • Qualu - bartender
  • 2gp rope
  • 25gp holy water
  • Oralunga and ruins of nangalor

Leaving Port #

  • Frost giants
  • Alter with carving of a maze, statue of warrior with a lepord head
  • Omu
  • mezro

Mezro #

  • Found camp, bunch of plant traps
  • Attacked by rapors
  • Find an axebeak
  • (From The DM (GM)): Sounds like the Sewn Sisters. Tales used to frighten children in obedience, or so you thought…
  • (From The DM (GM)): The scar on his head is a different shape. Instead of a claw, its a circular shape
  • Quippers in a 30 ft sinkhole
  • Dragon’s Den Loot:
    • hide purse
    • dino skull box
    • femur with a plug on one end and five perfectly smooth stones inside

Leaving ataaz muhahah #

  • Found camp, bunch of plant traps
  • Attacked by rapors
  • Find an axebeak
  • (From The DM (GM)): Sounds like the Sewn Sisters. Tales used to frighten children in obedience, or so you thought…
  • (From The DM (GM)): The scar on his head is a different shape. Instead of a claw, its a circular shape
  • Quippers in a 30 ft sinkhole
  • Dragon’s Den Loot:
    • hide purse
    • dino skull box
    • femur with a plug on one end and five perfectly smooth stones inside

Kier Sabal #

  • Bird folk
  • Kier Sabal was a sancuary to ubtau, assumed lost long ago
  • Met Asharra
    • Quest to restore the lost heir of omu
    • Nagalor, black orchid, material component to give us flight
  • Razenzi through ritual became a snake person
  • Gardens of nagalor to south, evil intelligent birds there, greedy, keep hoards of treasure, can be paid off - eblis
  • City of omu - soulmonger and razenzi may be here
  • avoid city of nangalor - a black lotus can be retrieved, spell for flight
  • Nafir from firefinger should be arriving here
  • “protect the princess” - Mwaxanare and Na (younger brother) - Qween of Chult -wishes to restore omu to its former glory, if you do this, mezro will be next to be restored - whishes Rai to be first of many followers
    • Require the skull chalice of ch’garkare - located in the ancient city of omu, holy symbol must be returned, artifact (“it’s a symbol”) will be used to restore chult and then she rule as qween
  • Rai gets a ring from qween
  • Behemoth - massive creature that would carry moving cities.
  • Thunderlizard - t-rex

Nangalore #

  • Eblis - big birds
  • Plants in garden like I’ve never seen
  • Something written in old omuin
  • Faces of regal woman and condescending expression
  • Manga leaves - 1 ounce will give 1hp, collect 9oz, don’t take more than 5oz per day
  • Zalkore - ruling queen of omu
  • Chwinga - small creatures

Floating Island (Heart of Ubtao) #

  • Stone heart hanging in the sky
  • Cavern, woman at bookshelf (name Valindcra Shadowmantle)
    • She’s looking into the death curse
    • Location narrowed down to the city of omu as the origin
    • Soulmonger creating the death curse in omu
    • Has no idea how to handle it
    • On the island doing field research
    • Soulmonger is growing necromantic energy and going in power and area of effect.
    • She has a room with runes on the floor to get back to candlekeep (teleporter)
  • Spell plague causes it to float and rotate about once per hour
    • War between the gods, arcane magic ceased to function, thought to be brought on by the goddess of magic, caused a cataclysm of magic

Omu #

  • As we approach a few hexes away, no animals
  • Eventually lots of undead ahead, some trapped in roots
  • Tree that assumed we were not good news
    • 374 gold pieces
    • Ring - wood - top frog with bunch of tentacles
  • Small ruin, partially flodded, in middle of maze, temple to ubtou
    • Suit of platemail, golden guided maze of ubtuo on chestpiece
    • White robes with golden thread that create a maze of ubtao
    • A dark hooded cloke with a dark silver maze of ubtao
    • Mace who’s head resenbles a T-Rex
    • Shield in shape of triceritopes head with 3 small ivery horns
    • Golden broach with small rubies that create a circular maze
  • Followed by comodant - appears thin and hasn’t eaten in a long time
  • Ruins out in the open - small stone building
    • 15 foot tall statue of comodon snake in pool of water with 3 stones snakes towards creature
    • Murals on wall of camodon fight huge grung
    • Platform floated with with snap, water touch gave vision that said “show no mercy to evil”
  • Random encounter with giant snake
  • Walk through fog, appear in hall with walls of corpses. Wooden door that looks like a cacaling witch.
  • Floating head of snap
  • 50+ year older version of rai
  • Mazitech (myan) throne with jade stone
  • Grafiti “Fear the fangs of Ras Nsi!” “Erik, I’ve gone in search of the nine shrines. V.” “The puzzle cubes are the key.” “Beware the frog monster!” “Who is Unkh?” “All hail the King of Feathers!” “The snakes are not what they seem.” “Kubazan = bravery. Shagambi = wisdom. Moa = ?” “Bravus Boulderhorn was here”
  • The wantee are coming (snake people) - city is overrun with them
  • Was with the “company of the yellow banner” - haven’t seen lord brixtan
    • 5-6 individuals, traved from port neiarzu
  • Broken green house
  • Temples / holy sites
  • Half of city is flooded
  • Magic users with markings and red robes wondering city (they red wizards of They - country)
  • Runes in maze like patterns, bottom floor of building flodded
  • Visited a greenhouse
  • magic academy building
    • Book: Fall of omu started when ubtou left, with ubtoau gone, spirits raised from the forest. Belltower
    • The bell allows humans and dinosaurs to communicate according to writing in the tower
  • Bridge
    • Humanoid plants? (Vegepygmy)
    • Dancing around a grung
  • Snake in a spiral with a circle in its jaws in ash
    • Symbol of dendar the night serpant (eats nightmares to bring about the end of the world)
    • Symbol of her eating the sun
  • Mittle aged man in rubble - Orvex Ocrammas
    • Wantee happened attack, this was a red wizard encampment
    • He was hired by the red wizards - scribe and translater - someone to read old omuan
    • Red wizards searching for the soul monger - study it
  • Pool of murky water
    • Frog statue
    • “Kubazan urges us to tread without fear and give back as much as we take” ○ Kubazan - one of the 9 gods - trickster
    • Forghemoth
    • Kubazon’s Puzzle Cube
  • Shagabe teaches us to fight evil with honor
    • Trickster god in the form of a combadan Shagambi teaches us to fight evil with honor. At noon, a brave kamadan hopped down from her rock. She saw the evil in the Omuans’ hearts and decided to lance it like a troublesome boil. The kamadan fashioned a holy spear, but she left it by the riverbank and a crafty grung stole it. In her rage, Shagambi the kamadan forgot all about the Omuans and chased Nangnang the grung forever across the sky.
  • Pole with dirty yellow cloth
    • Yellow banner was searching for the eye of zultech and company has a good lead
      • Ancient artifact known to raise the dead
      • Location that houses the eye, looking for clues to obtain the eye
      • Shrine to each of omu’s nine gods
    • Lord Brixton’s letter Handout
      • Beats,
    	Devlin has a lead on the Eye of Zaltec! The old goat found an obelisk in the north that marks the entrance to the Tomb of the Nine Gods. The Eye must be within, but the door is magically locked. We think the secret to opening it lies in the holy shrines.

	We're headed into the ruins to check them out: Gods willing, we'll be back tonight. Ras Nsi's serpent people are on the prowl, so be careful. If you get into trouble, sound the bagpipes loud and we'll come running.

	For the Yellow Banner,
	Lord Brixton
  • Find 3 trangle fruits with fruits with 3 fruits inside
    • Twig dialated eyes
  • Egine teaches us to take the path least expected
  • Bag of Nails
  • Snail, 5 sudapods instead of antenna, 6 iron keys, carved pedistal with a keyhole in its base
  • “contrast all options before acting”
  • Tread wearily and stay in the light
  • Fang of the nightserpant
  • PITs
    • Female chultan human
    • Creature of liquid fire? (firenewt warrior)
    • Tavo (praying to Tymora for help)
    • Fane (sacrificial chamber)
    • Lomar (missing a spell book, was searching for Artis Simber [ally], was drugged and woke up here)
    • Loma (crew member of air ship)
    • Pottery Shard (tabaxi)
    • Mung (goblin, malnourished)
    • Kunush (tribal warier, malnourished)
    • Zilla (was part of crew, thrown overboard)
  • Yaru - Slavemaster
  • Azi Mass - Huge talking snake
  • Fenthaza -
    • Black opal crown in tomb of the nine gods, key to her accention
      • Passprase to armory
      • Create a slave uprizing
  • Wagon, bees nest, freshly cut flowers
    • Follow tiny footprints (vegepygmy)
    • Building with black rot
    • Disk under wagon
      • “Queen Napaka proclaims that the free people of Omu fear nothing. Brave new gods protect us, as Ubtao did before but does no longer. Omu will rise again, and Napaka shall reclaim all that is hers by right of conquest.” (rosetta stone for old omuan)
  • Better to be wongo’s friend than his enemy
    • Masks lion, zebra, boar, vulture
  • Base -wongo friend knows where to poar the water
  • 1 - lion - I ate one of the boars friends
  • 2 - boar - the vulture is lucky to be alive
  • 3 - zebra - My only friend starved to death
  • 4 - vulture - one of the others has no friends
  • Acererak’s First Warning Handout
  • Kobolds under building
  • L to r clockwise
    • Lizard
    • Jaguar
    • Lobster
    • Toucan
    • Bat
    • Frog
  • Shortsword wooden handle, carved with dinosaurs
  • Magic item - Helm of telepathy
  • Farkas father’s sword

Tomb of the nine gods #

  • Acerekak’s Second Warning Handout
  • Acererak - is a litch
  • Yellow banner - Devloled Bashier
  • Devlin’s Journal Excerpt Handout
  • Skeleton Keys Handout
    • Trangle
  • I devower all but the greatest theives
  • Sad face golden tankerd
  • Tube of bone with cork on one end
  • Handouts:
    • Amulet of health
  • Skeleton key
    • 3 sided
    • 4 sided
    • 5 sided
    • 6 sided
    • 8 sided
  • Eyes:
    • Red
    • White
    • Purple
    • Pale Green
    • Pink
    • Orange
    • Dark blue
    • Vibrant purple
    • Red Crystal
    • Bright Green
  • Statues:
    • God of magic wizards
    • God of courage and self sacrifice
  • Starfallen protected Beats from death??
  • What can old Gora do for you
    • Acererak sealed Gora down here
  • Handout: Withers’s Journal Excerpt Handout
  • Stork-headed males with handaxes (the figure on the east wall has the crawlway to area S36 between its legs)
  • Lizard-headed females with maces
  • Panther-headed males with blowguns
  • Unarmed hawk-headed females (the east mural is illusory; see area S31A)
  • Goat-headed males with sickles
  • Frog-headed females with tridents
  • Jakel huminoid with gold madallion (with horned devil on it)
  • Yellow banner
    • Seforous went though tiny hole and never came back
    • Not successful in finding the eye
  • Handout: Potion of Diminution
  • Handout: Bead of Force
  • Handout: Acererak’s Fourth Warning
  • Door: “Warm like flame, cold for the cruel, still for the dead, gruel for the ghoul.”
  • Hornet headed humanoid statue clutching spears
  • Septer to destroy construct named after queen napaka
  • Met Tlad
  • Remember there are runes in the room
  • I grabbed the eye of zaltech
  • “What now gora”
  • What cause have you to summon karosus
    • Minds of marcellon
  • hellish landscapes, different breeds of devil
  • got a skull chalice
  • trangle room: glass tube with lever inside
  • square room: parchment and lever
  • 5 side room: feast, male in black suit, devil mouth in tapistry, pentagon
  • 6 sided room: 6 sided mirror, 5 candles, 6 cracked mirror, blood caps piggy piggy piggy
  • 8 human skeletons falling and screaming behind wall in front of a book
  • I can add a d6 to a d20 roll once
  • Advantage on strength checks
  • Temp Loose God powers
  • Disadvantage on 2 out of 3 sisters
  • Hidden on this level of the dungeon is a library of lost lore, guarded by an arcanaloth whose true name is Ygga Raxyg."
  • “There is only one way to leave the dungeon: the ebon pool. Charred bones point the way.”
  • “The Red Trail leads to death.”
  • 50 tmp hp
  • 3d6 psycic damage if hit
  • Behold the fate of those who defy me

Homebrew #

  • Artis Simber
  • Ring of Winter
    • halts aging process
  • Find Nessica
  • Merchant prince, collisium
    • Shago, guide
  • kabahah, led by matago
  • qualmac sealed away, shabalac
  • negenie plato, to go to martal
  • meta
  • Ride Couatl
  • Met Mesika, she came from Mezro over 100 years ago
  • 3 places to go
    • ziggeraut
    • tower in water
    • jade building with roof torn off
  • Jade building
    • met Adrinith
  • Ziggeraut
    • received a shard that can be used to get out
    • return to the garden plateau and when you are ready make your way to the shadowfell
    • got an onyx and jade hammer
    • Received Oathbinder (TODO)
  • Shadowfell - Shadewalk (dark mirror of chult)
    • Disadvantage on death saving throws and initiative
    • Irunji
    • Rai got a paper from a child, written on it a “7 with three lines through it”
    • feed of conduit in spire
    • go through maze, infiltrate the blightspire
    • abjoration magic chanes
    • center piece masking detect magic
    • gold skinned winged elf
    • single perfectly fall colored leaf, driad