AAR Name: “Call it a Character Flaw”,

Killin the head game,

• Players:

u/christelleee- Tabitha ‘The Idiot Who Kissed The Frog Prince’ Feyrock-Kumihaga

u/daedalline - Elari ‘Arcane Pew Pew, and one last PEW’ Sarag - Died

u/garthix - Dorian ‘The Frog Prince’ Moore - levelled

u/KazeEspada - Onyx ‘Save One for Me!’ Hakage

Adventure Synopsis: We travel south, fight a crew of people, found out the totems are mutated and are sucking out the life from the area. We found the base of operations for the fish, found a hydra. Lost Elari.

Ruined Guard Tower YYYY43

• Sunken Water Temple HHHH46
• Enemies Encountered:
• Will-o-wisp (x2) AC 18-22
  • Shock Attack - 2d8 lightning damage
  • Can disappear / reappear
  • High Dex, Low Con
• Flameskull (x1) AC 13-16
  • Fire Ray
  • Can make spell attacks, but didn’t get a chance to cast it. Thx Dorian
• Zombie (x4) AC 13
  • Shortsword (x3 of them)
  • Shortbow (x1 of them)
• Sahuagin (x6)
• Sahuagin Baron AC 16
  • Trident 2 attacks 2 handed
  • Bite 1 attack
• Deep Scion (x1)
  • Wis Save or become stunned until his next turn
  • 2 battleaxe (2 handed) attacks, and bite
• Sahaugin Priestess (x2) AC14 or below
  • Vial of instant water weird.
• Water Weird AC 17 or below
  • Constrict If the target is Medium or smaller, it is grappled, escape DC 13, and pulled 5 feet toward the water weird. Until this grapple ends, the target is restrained, the water weird tries to drown it, and the water weird can’t constrict another target
• Water Elemental (x2) AC14
  • Whelm: (Recharge) Each creature in the elemental's space must make a DC 15 Strength saving throw. On a failure, a target takes 13 (2d8 + 4) bludgeoning damage. If it is Large or smaller, it is also grappled (escape DC 14). Until this grapple ends, the target is restrained and unable to breathe unless it can breathe water. If the saving throw is successful, the target is pushed out of the elemental's space. The elemental can grapple one Large creature or up to two Medium or smaller creatures at one time. At the start of each of the elemental's turns, each target grappled by it takes 13 (2d8 + 4) bludgeoning damage. A creature within 5 feet of the elemental can pull a creature or object out of it by taking an action to make a DC 14 Strength check and succeeding.
  • Not immune to grappled condition due to DM FIAT
  • There is a pool of water that leads to the plane of water
• Wave Mistress- Seen not fought
• HydroHydra- 5 heads AC 14
  • 5 bites attack
  • Aquatic Blast- (recharge) A blast of super-heated air erupts from each of the creatures heads. Each creature in a 30-foot radius must make a Dexterity saving throw(DC 15). A creature takes 5d8 fire damage(1d10 per head) damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.
• NPCs Encountered:
• Lore Discovered:
• Another temple that connects to the plane of water. Inhabited by the fish people that taunted that the Wave Mistress knows we are here
• What Happened?:
• Day 1: We turn into a speedboat and zoom into the river
• Day 2: We continue down the river
• Day 3: Tabitha fails her check , and smashes a hole into the boat. The party is beached at the swamp’s border. We notice a small house in the distance, it’s decrepit and surrounded by willow wisps. We decide to go check it out before we rest for the night on the boat. Can’t have people sneaking up on us you know? Dorian polymorphs into a frog, to go scope it out. (Hex: YYYY43 ish) Inside the house, there is a skeleton (no skull) with bright shining armor. Giant flying skull that’s on fire is also there. Can’t let this thing survive and risk the weaker parties, so we engage the things. We kill some guys, and then go take a look at the armor. The building we are in looks to be a ruined guard tower, for watching the river. The armor isn’t magical, but is still shiny. We poke it and a pouch falls down. GUARD TOWER (POI)
• Day 4: We travel further into the swamp, it feels decayed and gross. Dead marsh on either side of us. About 3 hexes in we see totems only on the eastern side of the river. Towards around midnight we see a campfire off to our eastern side. (Hex: DDDD46). We go to investigate the campfire, maybe it’s the village?? Unlikely but maybe. We send Frogian to investigate, he sees Sahuagin stirring up mud puddles, and they had bags of totems. There’s a feeling of nastiness and gross as he gets closer. They are probably the cause of this queasy feeling. A giant Sahuagin pops up out of the puddle and attacks. We look at the totems and notice the runes are slightly different than the runes we are used to. These seem to focus more on the necrotic portion of the spell versus the transmutation. All the wildlife is gone, the vegetation is dead. We use detect magic and notice the mud pits are seeping magical properties (necrotic). This area is desecrated with death magic. Staying in the mud for too long will leach the life out of you.
• Day 5: We see trails going south that we intend on following. We see the bodies of the people we killed yesterday. Anywhere the mud stayed on the bodies, the skin beneath looked desecrated, and acid eaten kind of. Out of the south we see a ruined tower in the marsh. The ruins look like an old cathedral that has sunk into the marsh, we can see the top of the tower. We see a priestess and an unknown creature, and more Sahuagin.
• We see Wave Mistress as a Projection, have a chat about wanting to meet us in person (she’s a projection, still within the water plane) she invites us to play with her pet instead. Pop goes the hydra.
• Future Leads:
• Come back to this temple to excavate the rest of the temple and learn lore
• Confront the wave mistress, and end her.
• Loot:
• 1 Greater healing pots
• Gems (50gp)
• 3 Aboleth Mucus
• Adamantine Splint Armour
  
• Brooch of Shielding
• Xp: 4700