Matthew Hunter

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Shadowmaze -- Session 27

By Bancroft |  Oct 14, 2025  | shadowmaze, tuesday
Bancroft contemplated the holes in his gloves from handling gold coins over the past few days and the heavy weight of almost 400 silver coins in his backpack. After some thought he spent 200 sp to buy a chest and a master lock, put his remaining silver in the locked chest, and left it in his room at the inn. Bancroft and his friends returned to the barrowmaze and descended the block and tackle into its center.
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Shadowmaze -- Session 26

By Wyz |  Oct 13, 2025  | shadowmaze, monday
Wyz grumbled and groaned. His minions refused to obey him and return to the tomb with the tome. They insisted on opening a new barrow! And of course it was filled with ghouls hiding behind a tapestry. The undead creatures swarmed, striking Lessa and Wyz. Perch blocked the blow with his shield, but the creatures ripped it off of his arm. Wyz fell unconscious, and Lessa just stared into space, paralyzed with horror.
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Shadowmaze -- Session 25

By Bancroft |  Oct 7, 2025  | shadowmaze, tuesday
The scorpion grabbed at the sleeping toad with it’s pincer, but the claw splashed uselessly in the water. The stinger followed, but was deflected by the tough hide. Somehow, the toad slept on. Bancroft stepped in to swing at the scorpion, but missed as the magical light from the last of Helfa’s stones faded. Lacking other options, he took steps towards the barrow entrance. Druidly cast his Sleep spell blindly at the scorpion in the dark, but it had no effect on the insect.
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Shadowmaze -- Session 24

By Bancroft |  Sep 30, 2025  | shadowmaze, tuesday
Bancroft followed his friends to the swamp barrow. They were fed up with rats, and with four fresh volunteers joining the group, searching the large flooded space seemed more feasible. We reached the barrow without incident. Tohru did her toad mating call, and Druidly made them fall asleep so we could finish searching the room. Druidly’s dog Mike and Tohru’s duck Kyo were playing outside and attracted attention from a giant scorpion, which killed Mike.
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Shadowmaze -- Session 23

By Wyz |  Sep 29, 2025  | shadowmaze, monday
Wyz studied his spells while his friends caroused. Then, he studied his spells while they slept it off, pausing occasionally to try to kick them awake. Finally, they woke up, complaining of hangovers, and the group blearily set off for the barrowmaze. Before even reaching the barrows, four giant frogs hopped to the attack from ambush. The rest of the group were surprised, but Wyz had his goblin wariness to protect him, and reacted quickly.
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Shadowmaze -- Session 22

By Bancroft |  Sep 24, 2025  | shadowmaze, tuesday
The smart people had a plan this time. Druidly, the wizard, wanted to lure the rats one by one to the entrance. There he would put them to sleep with a spell, and then we would kill them one by one. His brilliant plan worked for precisely one rat. The rest fled deeper into the barrow. A few steps farther in, we saw more rats. Druidly cast aspersions upon their ancestry.
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Shadowmaze -- Session 21

By Bancroft |  Sep 16, 2025  | shadowmaze, monday
The squad of risen skeletons advanced upon Bancroft. Two bore sword and shield, closing to melee, while the rest took up positions with bows. Bancroft called once again upon the power of nature to turn them back. One of the sword wielders fled, but the rest remained intent, and their arrows struck deep from within the darkness. Bancroft staggered back up the stairs. Their aim would suffer in the light of day.
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Shadowmaze -- Session 20

By Wyz |  Sep 15, 2025  | shadowmaze, monday
Wyz stabbed the skeleton next to him in the back and fled out the entrance of the barrow. Wizards have no business on the front lines of a fight and he was too smart to die. Let his minions face the skeletons. El Vis stepped up promptly, matching action to thought. His great sword struck the skeleton that Wyz had already stabbed and shattered it into bone fragments. Hannah fell after that, hit by an arrow from a skeleton further into the barrow.
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Shadowmaze -- Session 19

By Bancroft |  Sep 9, 2025  | shadowmaze, tuesday
One day of carousing quickly turned into two. Bancroft woke the next day with his head laying on the dirt, A tuft of grass for his pillow. Despite the alcohol, he felt remarkably improved. A deeper sense of connection to the Earth filled him. A night spent outside of town had done him good. The fog of alcohol covered his memories of the prior night, but he had been separated from his companions earlier in the evening.
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Shadowmaze -- Session 18

By Bancroft |  Sep 2, 2025  | shadowmaze, tuesday
Somehow, Druidly managed to dodge the blows the bandit sent his way for long enough to send a good half dozen of them into a magical nap. Those that were left promptly returned the favor and he fell unconscious to the floor. While the bandit leader was distracted yelling at us, the rats came up on him From behind. He screamed as they swarmed over him, but lived long enough to flee toward the stairs, commanding his followers to keep Druidly inside the barrow.
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