Raylan Dragonwing gathered his next closest friends, after his closest friends were all killed by dragon breath, and delved the Fist of the Angry Freya. I shan't bore you with a play by play of a pretty straightforward dungeon delve, but I'll try to hit the high notes.
Restocking and random encounters were extremely light, especially considering the time spent away from the dungeon. It was months at this point. However, I figured the corpses of their previous battles had the chance to turn into undead because ooooh mythic underwooooorld. Also, the known remaining entities in the dungeon had time to act, which I dropped a bunch of hints to starting with Norse runes for Death at every staircase landing. Very intimidating, I'm sure the players were beside themselves.
The Norse pantheon by and large can't heal, except in very particular circumstances, which means neither can their clerics, and I had recently notified the players that I would be enforcing that reality better than I had previously. Many jokes were made about how useless clerics were now, especially since two showed up for the session, until they ran into a bunch of undead fights made trivial by the Turn Undead ability of said useless clerics.
I thought they'd seek a way to a lower level or go back to the sekrit hand teleport room. Instead, Raylan led them back to the fire trap from their last delve to see what had changed. The treasure had melted under the unrelenting inferno into a molten pool. It was still inaccessible without risk of burning so they passed it up.
New parts of the dungeon revealed two things of note: A room full of life-like statues that veteran players immediately associated with petrification and a magical painting of a cavern entrance that tried to eat anyone who approached. They didn't find a basilisk or medusa nearby and nearly avoided being swallowed whole by the magic wall while figuring out how to disable it. It did 3d6 damage in a 30x30 area and swallowed whole on an attack roll of 18+. One very smart use of Detect Magic and one very bad attack roll by the wall saved a lot of heartache.
Richer by some magic treasure, a bit more knowledge about the potential threats of the dungeon, and a partially expanded map, they called that a win and bounced. I think to settle who might use some magic armor some of the players grappled for it. When asked if I would moderate said grapple, I wisely responded with, "Lol, lmao." Character loot distribution is a player responsibility. Someone won it or something idk, I suppose I have to figure that out for their magic item experience distribution. Good thing Discord records everything and is searchable.
Grading:
Dagnr: Excellent. Turned undead, focused on Freya detective work in dungeon.
Tadg: Excellent. Destroyed abominations to nature in undead. Good spell use.
Impius: Excellent. Bold, tracking
Raylan: Excellent. Bold, tracking, caller
Skelbroj: Excellent. Undead make it hard to flex as an Illusionist. Investigated the clearly magic mural, statues, wall thing
Laeser: Excellent. RIP
Bolvador: Excellent. Turned undead, good spell use.
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