Session 3 — Escape from the Citadel

Played: 2026-09-14 · Where: Citadel of the Scarlet Minotaur

Before this session

• Rufus slew Brell with a smite in the last session.
• Some weeks earlier, the party found a key in room 5.

Events

• The party started in room 19, the Bas-Relief Hall, and moved carefully to room 20, the Mosaic Room.
• Rufus studied the mosaic and saw a hidden ochre jelly. Grumby shot it and split it in two. Both priests smote the jellies and killed one.
• The light spell ended, and the party was in darkness. The jelly attacked Rufus. Grumby lit a torch. Mirwena found the jelly on the ceiling, and it attacked her.
• The archers split the jelly again and killed one part. Rufus destroyed the last part with a smite. Grumby found a dull dagger, corroded by the jelly’s enzymes.
• In room 21, the Throne Chamber, the key from room 5 fit the lock. The party found a spear, a bronze throne and a pearl-set gold diadem. They read the pillar inscriptions about offerings to Oros.
• They shared the treasure by gear slots. Grumby carried the bronze throne.
• On the way out, they opened the door to room 16. Beastmen and ettercaps, about to fight in room 15, turned on them.
• The party fell back to the courtyard to look for a route near room 10. Two beastmen caught Rufus there. Grumby and Gibbo ran back to hold the door, but were too slow. Mirwena scouted the hall to the north exit and came back.
• The beastmen and ettercaps would not enter the courtyard. Their webs missed, and they fell back.
• The party escaped the Citadel and made ready to return to camp.