AP: Dungeon World Session 3

OKAY! This one is a bit hazy as the session was like 2 weeks ago and I wasn't feeling 100% focused while running it. But here's what I remember.

So the party took the goblet of Peldura, the Swamp Goddess, from the frog priest who in turn held on to Bengi's horn.

Poor old Humble Jack was melted to the cave floor. The priest laid claim to the gold inside the treasure chest the party had taken from the Kobolds and Whelp. The frogman who had helped them brought the gold to the village's keep, but took a few pieces for himself. He also helped himself to the best armor and weaponry the keep had to offer a frogman, and vowed to protect Bengi and the Goblet. His name is Irv.

The party embarked back toward town with their new member. Their first stop was a small fishing village at the ends of the swamps, called Silverbrook, which has a trade road leading back to town. There they rested and licked their wounds. They were put up in the tackle shed, and Clovis slept in the nude outdoors.

The next morning, as they set about their activities and prepared to embark through the mountain pass toward Delilah's Post, where the nobleman's son lay sick, A group of frogmen approached in the stream leading into the small pond where the fishermen make their livelihood. They began to bag the fish and make threats to the villagers.

Irv pleaded with them, buy the fish! Make Trade! They will tend to the fish and ensure their numbers, that you may always be able to trade for them in the future. Celion was standing nearby, enforcing everything Irv said with her fierce jungle cat at her side, more interested in the safety and well being of the fish than of the livelihood of the villagers. The frogmen agreed, though they made Irv pay their share for the first load. Weapons were raised but never clashed and the frogmen returned home, leaving the village safe.

The party ventured through the mountain pass, where they came upon an ogre guarding a narrow tunnel in the path. It was big and mean looking and stupid, its skin thick with the They murdered him good. I believe part of that involved Clovis creating a rockslide and burying the thing. They found some gold he'd been collecting from tradesmen.

When they got to town, they barged into the Nobleman's house, and quite offended the butler as they made their own way to the sick child's room. Edwyn Randolph lay in his bed, pale with a bucket of sick on the floor beside him. Bengi filled the goblet with swamp water from his waterskin and the murky water began to glow green and bubble and steam. As Edwyn breathed the vapors he was revitalized, color returning to his face.

His father, Lord Gregor Randolph, was ecstatic and announced a feast in honor of the fine adventurers to take place that evening. The Lord's Brother, whose dubious dealings and idiotic gambling are well known through the lands, approached Bengi as the rest of the party headed out to town. He asked about the frog eggs that Humble Jack and Bengi were supposed to procure for him. Bengi, remembering how the eggs were with Jack when he was sizzled and mutilated, said "Ahh yes, of course I have them. But not on me, here, no no!" (Lies.) They agreed to meet again after the feast.

The feast was dragged out with long boring ceremonious proceedings, and Irv did snatch food from the tables with his big gross tongue. Clovis, who had already raided the kitchen of the Nobleman's house, slept through the proceedings and snored loudly. When the speeches and such were coming to an end, the Nobleman gave a fat pile of gold to the party. Clovis and Irv put their shares toward knocking the feast up a serious notch, and much drinking and debauchery did ensue. Throughout the party, they learned of a floating city to the west rumored to contain beautiful treasures and items of mystery and magic. They also agreed to bring Edwyn with them on their travels that they might toughen him up and expose him to a life of adventure... great, a babysitting job.

Next day, the crew sent word through the town that they were looking to hire, offering a share of the treasure they'd find. They found Nora, a suitable priestess of the God of Trade&Commerce to accompany them and offer first aid in their travels. They embarked to return the goblet, with Edwyn and Nora in tow. As they came up through the mountain pass, they saw 3 ogres standing where they had had fought but one the day before. The Frogman lept into action but was snatched out of the air. Bengi bellowed a sharp note that confused one of the Ogres, and it slammed its cohort with its mighty club. Our fearless druid charged into the situation, morphing into his Mammoth form on the way. He engaged the Ogres and bashed and slashed them with his tusks. He gored one just under the ribcage, snapping all its ribs and tearing its arm from its socket in a single thrust. But sadly, the last remaining ogre got hold of one of Ajax' tusks and ripped it forcefully straight from his jaw. Ajax collapsed and withered back to halfling size, taking his last breath. At death's gates, Death told him he still had much work to do on the plane of the living. "You can return," Death told him, but "you'll remain in the last form you shifted into until you have proven your time on earth worthwhile." Ajax did not believe in returns from the black kingdom of death, tough, seeing them as a defiance of the natural order, and him being all nature-y and shit. So he stayed dead, appeased with his badass, viking death.

The rest of the party tussled with the remaining ogre, who slammed a club into Bengi, sending the goblet skittering across the mountain pass. It teetered at the edge of a cliff face, and Irv leapt over the ogre in an attempt to retrieve it, but failed. Pretty sure Clovis killed the thing, though I kind of forget. I didn't say much about Celion or Emory in this recap... yeah, they probably killed it. I know she was shooting arrows and shit, and Emory is a pretty fierce cat.

Will the party find the Goblet? What will become of meek, young Edwyn? Can the Priestess put up with the party's insane antics? Why is Clovis always naked?  These... ARE QUESTIONS!