It’s not Friday, I know. But I was not able to write a post on Friday, just a pre-scheduled post going up. But I did end up playing more Dungeons and Dragons on Thursday and it was another fun session. We were again down a player but the game still runs well. I’m glad that we added in a fourth player partway into the game because playing with two players doesn’t work what happened.

The Session

The group, Kip, Barrai, and Bokken decided to head off in search of Narduk, but going to the bar. Which, it actually works out for them. The bartender doesn’t know Narduk but the older man who runs the fights does. Narduk was an adventurer who used to go into the tower. But after some accident in the tower she stopped fighting and adventuring, but set-up a shop that buys curios from the tower and sells them.

They head over to her shop and find a sign on it that says “buy something or stay out”. Looking around a little bit, most all of the items cost a ton of money. They eventually try and buy information on the man they were following and Nazhir. Turns out that she had sold Nazhir an amulet that would control a sphere of annihilation. And that the man they were following was actually keeping an eye on Nazhir because he didn’t trust him. They are able to get this information by Bokken trading his cloak of the Arcane Stalker for a Sun Sword and the info, hinting that he didn’t know it’s full potential.

They slipped up with something they said and pushed her too hard. I forget exactly what they were trying to get from her that she felt threatened. She dropped two high level spells on them before they could react and ended up banishing them to Malbolge, where Barrai had been from. The group ends up in Barrai’s old cell which is thankfully unoccupied.

With no better plan, they decide to try and see the ruler of that level, Glasya. They spend some time sneaking around before they find a few high priority prisoners. They bust out an elf with thoughts that they might use him as a distraction and the same thing with a half-giant. But they are surprised to see Barrai’s sister there as well.

Glasya meets with them at this point. She is annoyed that Narduk basically messed up her plans with Barrai. So Glasya pulls Narduk from the mortal realm and sends all of the characters back. As well as Barrai’s sister who now kind of looks like Narduk, but with a few tiefling traits still hidden about her to run Narduk’s shop and aid in Glasya’s plan for Barrai.

Behind the DMs Screen

This was generally another wing-it session because I didn’t have time to prepare. But I thought it that it worked well. There was no combat really in the session just some good role playing. I think it’s useful to create some sessions that are really for role playing. They could have fought in Malbolge, but that wasn’t their best plan. I thought it was likely they would though, so I was finding the correct devils for them to fight.

Would you play in a game session like this one? How have you used the different layers of hell before in your games?

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