# Old Man Katan > [!overview] > [date:: 2023-06-21, 2023-07-05] > [type:: One-shot] > [game:: [[Dungeons & Dragons 5e]]] > [system:: [[5e Game System Compatible]]] > [dm:: [[Nick Dumas|deezy]]] > [player:: [[SlRvb]], [[jethoof]], [[Leah Ferguson]]] > [pc:: [[Captain Cook]]] ## Notes ### Characters - [[SlRvb]] = Thava - [[jethoof]] = Limgi - [[Leah Ferguson]] = Captain Cook ### 2023-06-21 - Captain Cook - Human (Variant) Soulknife Rogue - In a swamp, old man… trying to sing… tone deaf and loud… - A dozen 2-ft mushrooms join in the singing. - …and steal his clothes. - We sit a bush for a while. - And then we were on a boat. ### 2023-07-05 - We head out into Glitchegumee Swamp - Dense trees; tough navigation - It's quiet. Too quiet. Captain Cook doesn't find this to be a problem though. - We come to a clearing because [[SlRvb]] rolled a nat20. - Captain Cook and Thava dance a jib and trigger combat. - Thava notices the air is getting dence. Captain Cook, rolling a nat1, doesn't. - Captain Cook is charmed and I dance towards a giant plant with a tendrilled maw. - Captain Cook is engulfed, ergo blinded and restrained. - Captain Cook's psychic blades are glowing oversized lobster claws. - Chaos. - The plant corpse coughs up… something that has been digesting for a week. It's a small dog-sized mosquito. - Short rest! - A twig snaps. Captain Cook sees green eyes dart away towards the rest. - As we get to the tree, both Limgi and Thava roll nat1s… and Captain Cook rolls 18. - They think it's haunted. - …Captain Cook just realizes it's the wind. - They go into the tree. - Limgi finds mushrooms inside the tree. They glow purple. ### 2023-08-09 - We can tell the mushrooms are magical, and don't seem toxic. There are three of them. - Thava spots a mushroom person. They drop down on all fours, non-threatening. It approaches them. - Thava picks it up. - We crusing through the water on our boat. - Thava notes the mushroom stops singing, and starts shrieking to itself - Captain Cook smells something combustable… like methane. - The mushroom looks upset. - There are swarms of giant mosquitos. - Thava lassoes a hammer, and clocks both Captain Cook and Limgi - The little mushroom, Campestri, calls its friends… swarms of mushroom people. - They scare off the giant mosquitos. - Limgi sets off a torch, and explodes a good chunk of the swamp. - We keep heading back towards Katan's place. - Thava finally spots something… lights in the dark. - They are willowisps… and not something we should go to. - We make it back to Katan's ### 2023-08-16 - Katan is sleeping on the roof, next to a pile of shingles and a hammer - Captain Cook makes a damn fine meal of their rations and some of Katan's potatoes - Limgi refuses to eat any local produce - Captain Cook realizes the mushrooms singing has kept the mosquitos away and tells Katan - Thava mentions the green eyes - Katan is excited… it's his kitty, Hlaupa… - Favourite food? Fresh fish - We head out in the swamp. - We fight spiders. ### 2023-08-23 - I tried to feed a dragon, and then others tried to kill it… and I gave it the killing blow with my psionic lobster claws - RIP dragon - We meet a shambling mound - Limgi doesn't like it, but it likes Limgi…