Happy 2026 from our D&D group, goodbye Martin, and hello Mateo!

Martin, the player behind great heroes such as Gray and Krariak has migrated to another continent. We composed a song in his honor:

Farewell Gray (S11E01 - S11E04)

farewell-gray.mp3

Rolled into Ironwound in my shining plate
Met a puppet and a druid, sealed a prison break fate
Threw daggers at a wall while Lyra held her breath
Won a drinking contest, left a guard for death

I'm Gray, the paladin, oath of vengeance sworn
Saving lives and ending them since the day I was born
Half my healing goes to fixing my mistakes
But I'll jump off every cliff for my party's sake

Tossed a puppet over fences into sleeping goats
Got knocked out by a ram, nearly cut my throat
Snuck into an inn while a dwarf fell down the stairs
Grabbed a gnome's belongings like anybody cares

I'm Gray, the paladin, my plans almost never fail
Sacred Flame on wagon wheels, sent a kid off the rail
I stabilized her after, that's what paladins do
Then a viper bit my ass and I went unconscious too

Purified every well in this cursed mining town
While my party's robbing merchants, burning bodies down
Sister Gloria knows we're guilty, got her letters anyway
Just a lawful-good paladin having a regular day

Ran into a wildfire 'cause I heard someone crying
Found that halfling girl again, somehow still not dying
Cast resistance on us both, thought we'd make it through
But the valley had other plans, now they're dead, I'm screwed

I'm Gray, the paladin, disasters in my wake
Every rescue mission turns into a tragic mistake
But I'll charge through flames and cliffs with my heart on my sleeve
The unluckiest holy warrior you'd ever believe

So here's to jumping cliffsides and guards I've set aflame
To puppets, druids, rogues who know my name
I may leave bodies everywhere I go
But that's just oath of vengeance, bro
That's just oath of vengeance, bro

(Kudos to Claude.ai and suno.com for being awesome tech)

Here are the members of the caravan:

Hadi

The caravan leader, a middle age tiefling that always tries to sound confident. He seems to be short sighted but you haven’t had too much contact with him after he fell ill.

Gnome family

Two little gnome kids and their mother. The kids love Feral and his strength.

Human family

A father and his 3 daughters. One of them is really fascinated with Feral.

We start the session as the heroes are about to go to sleep in the forest.

Once Lyra is meditating, Ike uses mage hand to rummage through Lyra’s belongings to find the vial with the drug that Azaernara had give her but she doesn’t find it because Nemo has it now.

Besides Ike’s addiction-driven search, the heroes hear a massive booming sound coming from Ironwound {TODO: edit previous synopsis to move that event here}.

We start this episode with a vignette to two months ago, to Soto’s mountain temple. He has just awaken in the temple’s main hall with amnesia, a strong headache, and deep, burning rage. The walls are sorched, and on the stone floor in front of him there is an alien-looking seal that must have been recently cast because it still has flames coming off it. Between the seal and him he sees his temple master’s sacred tuning fork, and his magical staff broken into two. There are fresh blood splatters everywhere, it looks like a butchery has taken place, but there are no corpses anywhere. Soto explores the whole building and the temple’s grounds but finds no one else. Everybody has suddenly vanished. After eating the half-cooked meals in the kitchen, he brings the broken staff to the master’s room and, lost about what to todo, leaves the temple in search of an explanation.

The heroes start the episode on the Wicks market where they decide to go to sleep to prepare for the next day’s trip to the cursed island. They go to the only inn in town which is at the brothel. There, Brand gets a free room thanks to his rustic background while the rest of the party (actually Nemo) has to pay for the second room.

Ike then spends 60min in one of the rooms with a brothel worker, Margarita, a 25yo, where Ike’s “hard wood” nature comes in very handy for his first sexy time with humans. Then he spends a bit of time cuddling with Sofia, a 43yo BDSM lover that carves “Sofia ❤️ Ike” under Ike’s hula skirt, on the butt cheek that didn’t have the Severance Protocol’s mark.

The heroes start the session in front of the minotaur guardian the bridge to the abandoned abbey. At the back, near the entrance to the abbey, they also spot two guards in front of the door.

Lyra tries to confuse and distract the minotaur sending him magic messages, but the minotaur doesn’t understand the messages and just gets very confused.

While they’re about to mess again with the minotaur’s mind even more using magic hands, psychic blades and message, Klik and Klak get bored and start throwing rocks to the lake. The minotaur goes to inspect and even though Soto tries to further distract him, it’s too late and combat starts. The minotaur gores him sending him unconscious on round one. The rest of the heroes, hiding from the edge of the forest, attack back and Ike casts Thunderwave pushing him prone into the acidic lake surrounding the abbey. The next turn, when he gets out, with acid burns all over his skin, Ike casts ??? and immolates him. The heroes kill one of the two thugs that stood at the abbey’s entrance, but the other thug escapes inside. While this has been going on, the heroes have also been hearing a roaring sound coming from inside the abbey several times.