Friday, February 3, 2023 Shadow Cat Den -- Part 2

This Week's Bad Decision Guild Adventurers

• Faelin Amok the Scouting Rogue
• Nimrod the Vuman, a male warlock of Kas the Bloody Handed
• Gaffy the Blue, a female Vedalken Watcher Paladin
• Chumbawamba, the always loyal pet wonder warg
• Nimbat/Nimowl, Nimrod's enthusiastic, ever-helpful bat/owl familiar
• Dormin, Nimrod's trusty shadow spirit
• with occasional appearances by Lucinda the female Twilight Cleric Tortle.  This week she was who mostly sleeping within her shell while strapped onto Chumbawamba.  (Maybe she was having an allergic reaction to fungal zombie spores or shadow cat dander.)
  
  

The party is currently at level 5.

The team reached level 6 at the conclusion of this session. 

 

Notes from this session

1st encounter 

6 standard zombies

One was black knight zombie.  He kept coming back after being chopped apart.

       Amok found a periapt of wound closure from the corpses.  It went to Gaffy

2nd encounter

2 shadow cats ==> get 1.5 hides due to radiant damage on one cat

some shadow cat jerky made for/by lucinia.  

other shadow cat meat offered to any surviving ravens

Team slept in the raven's area. All but chumbawamba, nimowl, and amok were in Lucinia's tiny hut.  There were spooky sounds of an animal dying during the night.  But no encounters.  The team found a slaughtered partially devoured fox in the morning.

3rd encounter

alpha cats and 4 standard zombies

  nimowl killed while assisting gaffy

  nimrod avenged nimowl

4th encounter

cave fisher in cave at entrance

Gaffy and Amok got a tressym (flying cat) by kissing cave frog they saw in a pool further in the cave.

It is a small winged cat named Princess

Princess

We need to train it before it will help us.

• A tressym is a mischievous winged cat as big as a house cat, with a wingspan of 3 feet.
• Thought to be the results of wizardly experimentation on house cats, tressym are intelligent and have been known to form strong friendships with humanoids, particularly rangers and wizards. Tressym get along well with others of their kind, but they rarely lair or hunt together. They peacefully ignore bats, faerie dragons, and the like, but they hate stirges and evil flying monsters such as manticores. They also enjoy teasing dogs.
• Tressym feed on small rodents, birds, and insects, stalking and pouncing on prey much as normal cats to, but with the added advantage of flight. Tressym don't, however, attack nestlings or despoil eggs.
• Tressym mate with others of their kind, but they don't mate for life. A tressym can also mate with a normal cat, through only one out of every ten of their offspring will be a tressym; the others will be normal cats.
• Tressym have good memories, particularly when it comes to danger. For example, a tressym that sees a human use a wand of lightning bolts remembers the danger of "sticks of wood held by humans" for the rest of its life. A lucky, healthy tressym can live to be 20 years old.
• With the DM's permission, a person who casts the find familiar spell can choose to conjure a tressym instead of a normal cat.
• Traits
• Detect Invisibility. Within 60 feet of the tressym, magical invisibility fails to conceal anything from the tressym's sight.
• Keen Smell. The tressym has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on smell.
• Poison Sense. A tressym can detect whether a substance is poisonous by taste, touch, or smell.

5th encounter

final shadow cat

7 gems, each worth 250 gp

A corpse among the trearsure wore a simple cloak with an orchid symbol.

Within the cloak there was a map with a note saying "come here for your initiation"

The cloak wearer appeared to have been a half elf.

We can make 2 cloaks of displacement from our many cat pelts.