My first run of Orvald’s Tower

1. https://icvtt.net/game/JD9UHklWT6mwbcawnTlvEA/orvaldstower

After celebrating from your last adventure together. You all grew a tab a few yards in length at your favorite tavern, and unknowingly were broke before you knew what happened.

Anyways as good adventurers you told the bar keep you would be back with riches enough to pay twice your tab, so they should make preparations for another week of celebrations.

Looking for work, there wasn’t much going on, until you were approached by a cloaked figure who offered you 100 gold each to defeat a mad mage named Orvald. You accepted the hooded figure’s proposal and went to hunt down the Orvald, and recover a magical codex he had stolen.

— introductions —

Who are you?

Who has the codex? have you studied it yet?

CRYSTAL SANCTUARY: Form a grid of hexagonal energy shields. All allies within NEAR range now have +3 DEFENSE. Lasts until you’re harmed or your next cast

COUNTER SPELL: Any time you see an INT SPELL cast, roll immediately, cancel it with this SPELL. If you fail, you are overwhelmed and take 1D8 damage

⚜️ Rest of party have a healing potion each d10hp (magic)

Everyone has taken d6-1 damage so far

Roof

Statue thrown down on the door to stop the monsters from coming up (2 hearts of effort).

Hole down into the exploding well seems very dangerous. Spirits leaving like ghost busters, blinding light, likely dangerous to go down

Orvald’s dead body loot

⚜️Gyroscope of Falling, Item, When falling roll CON to change your gravity field for 1 ROUND

⚜️Dead Sword, MAGICAL, Ghosts, specters, and wraiths follow your commands, still hate you

⚠️Lighting strikes at end of round then every d4.

Floor 8

The Soul Monger has exploded

Orvald’s servant monsters (Gnoll mercenaries) are being consumed by feeders.

Wis to avoid being entranced by spectacle

Charisma to stealth by unnoticed by Feeders

⚠️ Every round a feeder decides to attack the party

Gnoll, Trazz

Floor 7-6

Spiral stair cases, there was a dragon’s skeleton hanging here, it has crumbled. Only some scaffolding remains.

You remember there were huge emeralds in its eyes, but the skull has fallen to the floor below

Takes 2 far distances (4 moves) to reach the bottom.

😈 There are imps flying around in here.

d6 happenings

Imps attack if hit jump/fall to avoid or take damage.

stairs collapse, dex or fall

stairs crack, Move near to avoid breaking the steps (dex or fall)

stairs fall on you from above, dex to avoid hurt for d4

nothing

nothing

Floor 5

Dragon Skeleton is crashed into the floor, one 💎Emerald is still in the eye socket (1 heart to remove safely), the other 💎emerald has come loose and is in the rubble (hard wisdom check)

⚠️stairs are falling from above it is dangerous (d6)

can feel the heat from below

This was an alchemy lab - many strange fumes around

⚜️Find a healing potion
⚜️Find an elemental resistance potion
⚜️Asbestos robe, protects against fire and acid. It is heavy.

Room 4

Flaming library room

⚜️There is an ivory map collection, taking fire damage, but not consumed yet

😈Firekin have risen because of the souls taking fire forms

They are disconcerted and looking at their new bodies, and have the need to burn!!

⚠️Chasm, hard jump due to fire

fail means you either failed to jump struck back by the fire (no damage)

(-3) crossed the chasm but took d4 fire

(-4+) holding onto the ledge of other side burning legs for d4 damage and have to pull up Str or take more damage as you fall to the floor below

Floor 3

more burning on this floor it is an inferno of fire and

A flameskull, Orvald’s assistant Rubes is now here. Was killed by the party when going up the tower. He is confused, pondering his burning corpse. But will recognize the party and scream next turn try to flame strike them next round.

Floor 1

An avenger (angel) Usiel, guardian of secrets, is here to make sure Orvald’s research is destroyed. Is currently facing the doors casting a protection spell.

Unfortunately the characters already know too much, and can’t be let go.

Outside

Str to run as far as you can! or be hit by lightning.

😈Hellion destroying the tower!!!