Witcher 2022 Session Notes

by Eseld

20220702 | session 1

• My speaking order: 2 (after eregon)
• Speaking order
  • Eregon
  • Eseld
  • Nimrod
  • Okami
  • Quartzite
• Urgon:
  • Urgon(dwarf) became an ice statue and died
  • Eleroe’s (tavern keeper?) friend?
  • Tulgi (dwarf), she also has the same disease
  • Urgon’s home has been thrashed (searched?)
  • 2mo:
    • explored ruins
    • sick in a few days
    • all the king’s men couldn’t do nothing
    • blue veins
  • Tulgi fell sick yesterday
• Witcher’s contract:
  • has ribbons to show that this is a witcher’s contract
  • son gone missing while playing
  • father: address is given (close to the tavern)
• Party split:
  • nimrod, okami, quartzite: Urgon’s home
  • eseld, eregon: Tulgi’s house
  • all but quartzite accept the contract
• father:
  • in 30s, alcoholic
  • moved in fromt the continent
  • name: kraskalt
• son:
  • missing while plyaing (a clearing near the forest clear)
  • fav toy: a pair of wooden swords
  • name: jon
  • about 8
  • appearance: black hair, has another wooden
• forest clearing: apparently safe
• nekers? appeared a few days ago and were killed
• elf, dwarf kids near the clearing
• he kids were playing ‘trebuchet’ (brown-red) ball
• footprints of a small creature (same size as the boy)
• eseld uses detect magic
• general magical presence was in the area (related to the 1st conjunction)
• footprints are a bit more magical
• footprints are side-by-side (accompanying the boy)
• nimrod smelt a nekker’s smell
• the boy might still be alive, nekkers aren’t that powerful and might be just inquisitive
• the prints go around /.*ekro/ cove, offshoot of the main river
• we find: a large, painted rock by witcher picasso
• seems like a nekker ritual site
• okami shouted ‘jon’ and 2 nekkers pop up from the ground
• fight:
  • initiative:
    • nimrod
    • quartzite
    • eregon
    • eseld
    • okami
    • neKKers
  • both the nekkers die
  • 3 more nekkerfuckers pop out

20220705 | session 2

• ongoing fight:
  • the nekkers attack nimrod and okami (couldn’t hit me 😎️)
  • nimrod kills 1
  • eseld kills 1 (inflict wounds was OP!!)
  • okami kills 1
  • a nekker warrior pops out
  • eregon + okami + nimrod kill it
• Nimrod follows the sword’s smell trail and we reach a small cave.
• There’s a small child in the cave with a wooden sword who apparently killed a nekker.
• Jon tells us that the nekkers just wanted to play with them.
• Back in Jon’s locality, his friend’s mother tells us that kraskald sent jon out cause he was drinking (moonshine, a strong liqour so he might be drinking to forget)
• talkin’ to misa/nisa:
  • Urgon used to collect artefacts from those ruins (iselkros?) (on mountains we could barely see)
  • misa’s hubby: gana’weth (in novograd), demo’weth
  • he used to sell runes to Pelc’s curiosities
  • on Tulgi:
    • came here recently
    • dislikes humans
    • dislikes the idea of coexistence
    • never spoke to misa
• nimrod and okami @ kraskal’s:
  • idk
  • kraskal:
    • in the temerian infantry about a decade ago
    • his squad got TPK’d
    • he drinks to forget
  • okami gets a sword
  • ‘mai pay karunga’ vali bakchod happens
• Elro thanks us
• the party takes a short rest in the tavern and chats

20220709 | Session 3

• Speaking order
  • Eregon
  • Eseld
  • Nimrod
  • Okami
  • Quartzite
• Going to Urgon’s house:
  • 1 story log cabin @ the end of the villiage
  • there is a guard at the front door
  • we enter the house
  • mantle has a beast w/ white horns (leshen? skull)
  • dirty dishes, books, adventuring gear
  • knocked-over cabinet
  • adventuring gear:
    • armour
    • fur lined clothing
    • grappling hook
    • hooded? lantern
  • books:
    • elven ruins (iselkross chapters are marked)
    • how to sell (garreth Vee’s elven antiquity hustling guide)
    • book on notebandhi:
      • has a damp, muddy shoe-print on it
  • a receipt falls out of the bookshelf:
    • some artefacts sold to Pelc’s 1000gp
    • items:
      • dagger
      • scroll case
      • jade statuette
      • quiver with arrows x20
      • silver ring with jasper set in it
      • two blue glass vials
  • even the bed was searched
  • dron said something about ‘ripping apart floorboards’, idk if that’s a hint
  • footprints:
    • from the front door, exit through the back door
    • damp (one day of rain)
  • the backdoor:
    • the footprints continue outward
• the party splits
  • nimrod, eregon: footprints then Tulgi’s
  • okami, eseld, quartzite: pelc’s curiosities then Tulgi’s
• eregon thinks but knows nothing
• nimrod casts ‘detect poison and disease’, its not very effective!
• team pelc’s:
  • we befriend a wolf named dhaniya by feeding him elven parle G (for 5 sp down from 5gp)
  • doesn’t like the witchers
• team footprints:
  • they reach tulgi’s house
  • she was the thief
  • she stole Urgon’s belongings and gave it to her sister (hulil)
  • hulil sent some men from her group (Scoia’tael) to pelc’s
• pelc’s:
  • party reunites
  • some elves are standing there (grey dots in image)
  • the shop has been smashed
  • one of the elves tells us to go away
  • they were sent by hulil
  • the tension is gone
  • they are also looking for the artefacts
  • the artefacts Tulgi stole weren’t useful (the vials were useful)
  • we go to in the other room (purple in the image):
    • its a bedroom
    • single bed
    • there is an ice statue of verla pelc(elf)(store owner) there
  • verla is frozen, just like Urgon
  • i bluff about killing a member of the eternal flame and gain the main elf’s respect
  • eregon says there is grave danger:
    • any person exposed to these artefacts is in danger
  • the blue vials are sus (cue amogus theme)
• the elves take them to croaker cave (scoia’tael’s hideout):
  • there are pools mirky water created by melting snow with giant frogs inside
  • there is a giant snow frog (called old croaker)
  • we enter hulil’s place:
    • next to her is an elf called raegren
    • she also has blue veins
    • she says:
      • the blue vials are a key to this
      • she points to a (not her) chest
  • the chest has the (cracked) blue vials
    • the vial has blue spores which are cracked and leaking

20220712 | Session 4

• in Hulil’s room @ Croaker Cave:
  • in the box: -scroll case - 15gp
    • jade statuette - 25gp
    • quiver 6x +1 arrows
    • silver ring + jasper stone - 15gp
    • pelc’s curiosities receipt
    • another recepit: hulil sold vials to Irven (has hubby and daughter)
  • We learn that teafling only live in fairbank villiage
  • Irven’s daughter liked how the vials glowed.
  • Arcana check on vials:
    • not natural
    • magical aura
    • no idea about the type of magic
    • Elro asked many quacks (religious healers) and none of their spells worked on the vials
  • We take two vials and keep them in Nimrod’s alms box.
  • Okami is good at feeding bats to the toads.
  • Eseld tries to feed Dhaniya a bat, but Dhaniya doesn’t like it.
  • Okami uses axie to make him eat it. Quartzite throws a bat at Okami.
  • We roll initiative:
    • Okami
    • Eregon
    • Nimrod
    • Regular Frog
    • Old Croaker
    • Quartzite
    • Dhaniya
    • Eseld
  • Okami runs out of the cave, the frogs calm down.
  • Everyone leaves, Okami is outside
• We make Okami pay 5gp for elven (actual) parle G, Dhaniya likes him.
• We tell Elro everything, he takes the vials to study them and asks us to wait till the morning.
• I ask a Gnome lady to hook me up with a collar for my doggie.
• We eat and go sleep (long rest).

20220723 | Session 5

• @ the Tavern:
  • Eseld’s vision:
    • sees a mountain
    • orange light behind the mountain
    • there is a humming noise
    • it gets louder and he wakes up
  • Elro is paying for it all
  • Xeru, another witcher was also asked by Elro to help him
  • The Gnomish tavern keeper gives me a collar and a leash
  • I put the leash in the bag
  • Okami thinks the collar is kinky (for some FUCKING reason)
  • Xeru meets the party
  • Nimrod doesn’t like being surrounded by witchers (nimrod ke 2 aage witcher, nimrod ke 2 peeche witcher, aage witcher, peeche witcher, bolo kitne witcher?)
  • Elro rushes in, approaches us and talks to us:
    • Before the war and the conjuction, an old witcher came to Elro to ask about the Iselkross ruins
    • but the witcher had to go and help his student (vesemir (okami is looking for him))
    • Back then, Iselkross was under a glacier.
    • during the conjunction, there was a bright orange glow
    • they thought monsters were gonna appear but the didn’t
    • Recently, Urgon found out that the glacier had melted
    • then Urgon went to Iselkross on his own and got artefacts
    • Iselkross used to be an elven militiary research bunker
    • there had been an accident in Iselkross and no one heard from it
    • thus, the vials were military research, prolly something called ‘Frigid Woe’
    • it can’t be detected, removed or anything using a spell
    • they prolly had a cure (probably still in Iselkross)
    • Elro takes a vial and puts it over a flame, the contents turn black
    • the spores’ weakness is Fire!
  • what we need to do:
    1. get the cure
    2. destroy the vials
  • we accept, we get some climbing gear
  • Elro is going to quarantine the town
• autobots, rollout!
• We leave @ 8:30 am and take 4 hours to reach the peak
• Eseld and Xeru feel a magical disturbance
• We reach an obelisk with an ‘igni’ sign and is radiating heat with an orange hue
• Behind the obelisk, are the ruins of Iselkross
• The obelisk:
  • Xeru approaches the obelisk, it starts to hum and his medallian starts to glow
  • Eseld can ‘hear’ the humming say: ‘City of frost, city of storm, city of flesh and broken bone’
  • The obelisk glows and emits chaos energy? Eseld gains 1 1st level and 1 2nd level spell slots
  • Quill says he can ‘read’ the history of the place, a lot of chaos energy entered the world and Iselkross was covered in a sphere of fire which is why it melted
• Iselkross:
  • The entrance was concealed, but we find it
  • It says ‘Iselkross’, it is frozen shut
  • Okami casts ‘igni’ and the ice melts
  • On the door, there is some elvish “you can catch me, but you can’t throw me, if you catch me, i make your life miserable”
  • Eseld says ‘the common cold’, the door opens
  • there is a set of stairs downwards, which was only visible to Witcher senses
  • a sign in elvish: ‘warning, disease research lab | decontamination is strictly advised’
  • we go down and enter a hallway
  • there are more warning signs on the right wall
  • the witchers can hear a growling noise
  • there are 7 ‘icy zombies’, battle begins and we kill them all
  • One of the zombies has a ring w/ the inscription ‘to my light and darkness’
  • They were once humans (against the elves in the war) and were experimented on by the elves
  • The accident froze them but then the conjunction energy animated them
  • Okami talks to quill through Xeru
  • Xeru is kinda crazy

20220807 | Session 6 | Pati-Patni aur Frigid Woe

• There is a door named ‘main laboratory’ it is heavy, heavier than steel
• There is a ring already in the door in a sort-of ‘key-hole’, there is also another ring-sized hole to the next
• ring inscription: ‘my light in darkness’
• The zombies were all human wearing prisoner garb
• Eseld mage hands the ring onto the hole
• The door slowly opens and retreats into the wall
• There is a hallway w/ a small wooden door at the end and an alcove to the left
• Nimrod uses divine sense and says that the hallway is empty.
• There is a door marked ‘disease storage’
• The door ahead says “Ferol Isel’s Lab”
• Xeru opens the door
• Isel’s Lab:
  • The walls have shelves with random shit
  • an armed humanoid moves adjusting shit
  • on the opposite corner, there are blue vials
• The Wight points at us and asks who are we
• The wight used to be an elven woman
• Eseld tries to BS her about the elven race being in danger and claims to be ‘Solaro’
• Ferol has an identical ring
• Quartzite talks to her, gets inspired.
• She attacks us:
  • An icicle falls and becomes a flying thing and attacks some of us
  • Necrotic damage does half damage to a Wight :( #fuckTheDM
  • Okami hits her with a frigid woe tipped arrow but she takes it
  • Another ice thingy comes out
  • Okami slashes her limbs off

20220813 | Session 7

• She says the cure is in the ‘disease storage’ room or in the storage above
• We take a key and her ring
• We go to the disease storage
• idk what happened
• She snaps a finger and all the vials break, chemicals cover her and passes away (the party is safe)
• We take the cure
• We bring the remaining vials of Frigid Woe with us.
• We arrive at the village by 5
• Elro introduces us to two soldiers with black feathers on their helmets
• Captain Dradier of the Nilfgardian army greets us
• He doesn’t intend to destroy the vials
• Quartzite distracts the captian
• The party decides to just fucking burn the vials and be done with it.
• The witchers start burning the vials
• Frigid woe is gone
• Dradier tries to arrest us
• Battle starts:
  • Eregon tries to calm everyone
  • But Okami just attacks, the Captian hits Okami
  • Nimrod goes ‘only I have the right to kill Okami’ and also attacks the Captian
  • Xeru kills the Captian
  • We kill the other 2 soldiers as well
• Elro’s glassblades have rounded up the others
• We discuss what Elro will tell the Nilfgardian’s when they ask about the captain.
• We return to the tavern
• We get 50 gp each?

20221015 | Session 8

• Okami sharts.
• Okami finds a strange guy, called Professor Nyct.
• He buys everyone some expensive wine.
• Okami successfully gets a woman, and we hear ‘noises’.
• Xeru fixes a mandolin to drown out the voices.
• We all pass out in the tavern.