Awesome Loot Score

We defeated some Rock Mites and Slugbeasts in Kevin’s Eastmarch game. We beat them, and there were some prime adventurers who’d been killed in the same region whose bodies we got to loot. Coincidentally, they were killed on the same mission we’re on. Hmmm.

In any case, Kevin rolled a bunch using Dungeon Fantasy 8: Treasure Tables, and we decided any unprotected metal items that weren’t something special got ate up by the Mites.

We totally scored:

• A kukri made of greenish-black metal and of exceptional balance and very fine make. The hilt is inlaid with bone (+2.5 CF). (Very Fine, Balanced Poisonmetal Kukri) $3775. (Kevin retconned this to ‘hits with monster drool on every attack’ so as not to deal with the very picky rules in a DFRPG game.)
• An oak tinderbox. The lid has a 2-carat piece of polished obsidian set in the center ($24), and the outside of the box is inlaid with black demonbone in complex geometric shapes (+14 CF). The interior is lined with silver (+2 CF). Anyone with Outdoorsman or Druidic Power Investiture can use the tinderbox once a day to start a fire that will also work as a Watchdog spell (Spells p.65) with a 10-yard area at no FP cost. $4060 ($60), neg. weight.
• 600 6″x6″ pieces of tanned pixie skin in a bag
• A fine (+20% to 1/2D and Max, +3 CF) ST 16 composite crossbow of white-lacquered wood (+5 CF) enchanted with Accuracy +3 and Puissance +3 that are effective only against Demons ($150,000). The crossbow’s stock is decorated with a gold inlay in the pattern of a feathered angel’s wing (+6 CF). Anyone holding the crossbow feels a faint sensation of sorrow (-0.1 CF). $164,155 ($14,155), 7 lbs.
  (1d+6 imp, Acc 4, range 480/576, Weight 7/0.06, Shots 1(4), ST 8†/16, Bulk -6)
• A sculpture of a three-walled castle in carved and polished sandalwood (+2 CF). The towers are two feet high, and each wall is eighteen inches long. A large bloodstone (3 carats/$630) is set in the base of each of the three towers, and the underside of the sculpture is inscribed with text in Demonic that describes a ritual to activate the item’s magic. If the ritual is completed , the next person to touch the sculpture becomes infected with a pestilence: there is no resistance roll to the initial infection, but afterwards the victim must roll HT daily or lose 1 HP and 1 FP that cannot be recovered through rest or magical healing. If this reduces the victim below 1/3 HP, they become contagious; anyone in close contact (within 1 hex) with the victim for more than a few seconds must roll HT or contract the disease themselves. Removing the pestilence requires an Exorcism or Remove Curse resisted by the item’s Power-20. $62,415 ($2415), 64 lbs.
• Five pieces of copal incense in a plain leather pouch. When set afire (requires a fire source and a Ready action), creates a double-cost Sandstorm (Spells p.16) with a five-yard area and a two-yard eye. Anyone holding the incense can move up to half their move; the Sandstorm will move with them. The incense burns for one minute. $4011 ($11) per piece, $20,055 total.
• Full suit of dragonhide +3 leather armor
• A stuffed cloth doll, dressed in a brightly dyed (+8 CF) soldier’s uniform. Underneath the uniform, the doll has been torn and stitched up dozens of times. Anyone who sleeps with the doll on their person gets the benefit of a Healing Slumber spell (Spells p.37); however, the doll develops rips in the cloth (often representative of healed wounds) that must be sewn up before it can be used again (requires a roll against Sewing skill at +2, or DX-2 using personal basics). $18,036 ($36).
• leather quiver with 11 silver-coated meteoric blunt arrows
• a 10 foot pole
• 1 wooden balanced small shield
• 2.5 oz of cinnamon in a pouch $375
• Bow of Su (Artifacts p 11)

This is a truly ridiculous haul. Akin to the troll lair in Tolkien, or the vast quantity of wealth left in Erebor. Sometimes you just get lucky.

That being said, the kukri is darn nasty, and the deadly sculpture not less so. Plus the skins of several hundred pixies? Whomever collected this stuff was not nice.

The Fight

I didn’t really include details of our foes. We were facing two slugbeasts and what seemed like eight to a dozen rock mites. The mites came in two waves, and we’d mostly dispatached the first wave when the second showed up. The mites had DR 5 but were otherwise not too hard, but their mouths were magma and they ate metal. So while AnMen (my martial artist) basically spent the fight pressing the A-for-Attack button kicking the mites (this is pretty much is go-to move, he’s good at it, and it was effective), the rest of the team managed to mostly hold off the mites and kill a few.

So AnMen was on mite duty. The slugs were low HT, no DR, not too many HP for SM +2 creatures (horse-sized), but they had DR 20 vs crushing…and everything that touched their trail or their bodies was grappled for 1d+1 control points (enough to give -4 to DX on a good roll, -2 otherwise, and you tended to lose your weapon really fast).

Toby, our Saint (a cleric variant using Divine Favor) wound up getting nom’d on pretty good. I think our party bard got chomped a bit too. We drove off the slugs and the mites just about ‘nick of time’ and then looted. It was not an easy fight, but it was not overwhelming either. We did lose our primary mundane light source – a lantern – when a mite found it tasty.

Not Irredeemable