Netherworld campaign

[mneme]

I'm playing in three D&D campaigns on thursdays, which rotate on a loose schedule (one player in one campaign is playing in another Thursday game, so that game needs to be on a strict "every other thursday" schedule even if it skips some weeks, so when we went to three GMs, we just had the third GM steal thursdays from both GMs; thus that GM is mostly on a strict "every third thursday" schedule while the other GMs run on a 101000 (every other but then skip a week) schedule). The normally every third Thurs game ran twice in a row because one of the GMs couldn't run today for some reason (we then go back to our regular schedule for the above reason), so we got two Netherworld games in a row.

So...last session: The PCs finished the Longest Day Ever, in which they, um. Helped crush a much higher level cult of Dagon fishpeople (the paladins who had recruited them took the lead, and they (at 3rd level) were very content at this when the bad guys started throwing out cones of cold and and 7th level spells on the paladins. Accidentally tricked a party nemesis into meeting them when he was on his way out of the city after looting the castle treasury and captured him. Tried to take a passage by boat out of the city and ended up getting atttacked by the crew of the ship, defeating them. Realized that the rumors about the city being attacked by the revolution (who they were friendly with) were actually true, and after trying (and failing) to hand their prisoner over the rebellion, instead camped out at the most likely escape route of the soon-to-be-ex king. And captured him on his way out. All in one day, and mostly without even a short rest. (we did level to 4th level...after the day ended).

So this session, the party:
Got awards for service to the new king (which apparently included summary justice? Good to be a hero).
Got awarded a base....which after some wrangling, was taken from the evil college of evilnesses' now empty frathouse. So, basically, an "explore a dangerous haunted house which you will now own" adventure.

Comments

[jl8e]

If we had been tracking time, that day was at least 36 hours long

[mneme]

Was it? I wouldn't think so; starting at the point where we entered Flintfind (the city) we had some shopping, then a fight, then (I think) an hour short rest...then the long sequence starting with heading for the docks to ambush a carriage (how the bulk of the army got down to the city in the same day we arrived is a fascinating quesiton--they would have had to head out early on the same day we left, given that armies typically travel considerably slower than small groups).

[selki]

an "explore a dangerous haunted house which you will now own" adventure sounds fun! (and dangerous, yeah, but who knows, maybe you'll make friends with the house / some of the ghosts.