S09E06 – Alligators, toxic gasses, and traps

The heroes delve into a dungeon, defended by alligators, and filled with traps, at the edge of a mountain.
2024-02-11 – ⁠2024-02-17 2nd draft

The adventure kicks off with a flashback: a few days when Tiny Timmy was aboard a galleon traveling with his parents. Pirates raided their ship, but Timmy’s parents hid him inside a cabinet, but died at the hands of a sleazy pirate with half of its teeth missing. Thankfully, the pirate was content with Timmy’s parents’ gold and modest jewelry and left the cabin without spotting him.

Fast forward to our heroes who just arrived at the edge of the jungle, at the base of a mountain surrounded by swampy mangroves. After seeing a ghoul enter the ancient, elevated temple, the heroes climb the nearest trees right just as six converge below them. Saefa takes to the skies, ferrying the heroes to the temple’s entrance while carefully evading the blue mist covering the area. Meanwhile, stirges arrive, and the rest of the heroes take them down before they do any damage. With the stirges down, Sophi misty steps into the temple’s entrance, and Ellie, as a giant wolf spider, climbs up to the canopy and walks over the mangrove tree tops to the temple. Finally, Saefa ferries the remaining heroes across.

The heroes trying to safely reach the dungeon’s entrance without getting eaten by alligators of touching the dangerous blue mist.
The heroes trying to safely reach the dungeon’s entrance without getting eaten by alligators of touching the dangerous blue mist.

The heroes then approach the next room, filled with putrid poisonous gas, a murmuring sound that seems to come from everywhere, and a shrouded corpse hanging from a chain in the center. Ellie crawls through the ceiling, bites open the shrouded corpse, and lets it fall on the tiles causing a trap to block the exit door, and a pit trap on the floor to open, revealing more than a hundred undead in a cavern underneath, and intensifying the poisonous gas. Avilos rolls a natural 20 and picks the lock of the doors with a dagger. The door turns out to lead into the undead swarm below. On her turn, Saefa discovers and pulls a lever that rewinds the pit trap and unlocks the entrance door and its opposite door across the room.

Chos leaving the poisonous gas trap room right after Saefa found the hidden lever.
Chos leaving the poisonous gas trap room right after Saefa found the hidden lever.

The new door reveals a stone bridge with short railings surrounded by a big chasm. Saefa, Ellie, and Sophi cross the bridge in different ways and peek into the room next door through an open wooden door. Sophi stealthily walks into the room but disappears, literally. Carnivore, excited and eager for his sweetheart, follows her. Saefa, pointy sword first, is next and then the rest of the group, except for Ellie, follows, teleporting to the temple’s entrance on top of the alligators. Ellie crawls onto the bridge, has no idea where everybody is, and decides to crawl back to the dungeon’s entrance. On her way out she notes the undead that are starting to pour from the door they unlocked earlier in the gas chamber and accidentally trigger, again the floor trap, almost trapping her inside. When she reaches the entrance, she joins her allies who are in a bloody fight with the alligators.

Carnivore being pulled away by one of the alligators, while the rest of the heroes are fighting its friends.
Carnivore being pulled away by one of the alligators, while the rest of the heroes are fighting its friends.

The session ends as one of the alligators pulls Carnivore underwater.

Mementos

  • Chos climbed from a 12m canopy to the nearest tree without dropping Tiny Timmy.
  • While observing one of the alligators try to get closer to the heroes: “No, they can’t go on top of each other, that’s crocodile code.”