# [[Grumblebum]] Grumble is a dwarven Tomb Warden barbarian. ## Recent Events ### Session 097 - Mulvenboom Combat - **Door Breaking**: Participated in breaking through the eastern door alongside [[Jaspen Bond Callistair|Bond]] - **Combat Damage**: Took 20 bludgeoning damage from the [[Mulventok]]'s fist attack - **Shield Defense**: Raised his shield for defense during the battle - **Critical Hit**: Delivered a critical hit (natural 20) for 38 damage against the Mulventok, though it wasn't bloodied yet - **Follow-up Attack**: Dealt 30 damage to the Mulventok in a subsequent attack - **Tactical Positioning**: Worked with the party to coordinate attacks against the fleshwarp guards ### Session 095 - Door Breaking and Chafkem Rescue - **Door Breaking**: Used his axe to hit the jammed door multiple times in attempts to break it open - **Coordinated Effort**: Worked with [[Ash]], [[Zuhri]], and [[Bond]] in multiple attempts to break through the door - **Ring of Ram**: Witnessed [[Bond]] using his Ring of Ram to further damage the door - **Chafkem Discovery**: Participated in the discovery of [[Chafkem]], the paper-wrapped administrator trapped for centuries - **Administrator Observation**: Witnessed Chafkem's communication with [[Vayle]] in Nekril and learned about his centuries-long imprisonment ### Session 091 - Poltergeist Battle and Search Activities - **Search Activity**: Participated in searching the VIP dining suite during the party's 10-minute rest - **Combat Participation**: Fought against two [[poltergeists]] in the VIP dining suite - **Discovery**: Found the [[lead-lined steel box]] that had been thrown around by the poltergeists for centuries - **Tactical Support**: Worked with the party to defeat the incorporeal undead spirits - **Environmental Observation**: Witnessed the [[magical glyphs]] that control stone transparency in the VIP suite ### Session 089 - Level Up and Gauntlight Exploration - **Level Up**: Reached Level 7 along with the rest of the party and went through character changes - **Character Background**: Revealed he's from [[Dongan Hold]], a dwarven city near [[Alkenstar]] - **Clan Trade**: His clan makes guns for export because they trade with Alkenstar - **Resistances**: Has resistance to fire and sonic damage - **Character Traits**: Described as patriotic (to his race without care for others) and has no restraint when it comes to fighting - **Door Destruction**: Kicked open a southern door in [[The Gauntlight]], shattering it to pieces - **Stockroom Discovery**: Found a [[Gauntlight Stockroom|stockroom]] with surgical tools, armor racks, and jars of preserved humanoid parts - **Disturbing Find**: Discovered jars containing what appears to be preserved [[halfling]] and [[dwarven]] body parts ### Session 088 - Barracks Exploration and Potion Acquisition - **Barracks Visit**: Explored the barracks in [[Otari]] where they were only selling two items - **Equipment Discovery**: Found [[Troll Hide Armor]], [[Armor Bracelet]], and [[Obsidian Wedge]] for sale - **Elixir Purchase**: Bought an *Elixir of Life* from [[Magiloi]] at [[Crow's Cask]] - **Roaring Potion**: Received the [[Roaring potion]] as part of the party's loot distribution - **Level Up**: Reached Level 7 along with the rest of the party ### Session 087 - Black Frost Zombie Encounter - **Tactical Action**: Tied a [[mimic]] corpse to a rope and dangled it like bait in the water, inadvertently causing its reanimation - **Curse Contract**: Contracted the [[Black Frost]] curse along with [[Vayle]] when the mimics reanimated as [[Black Frost Zombie]]s - **Emergency Treatment**: Had to flee back to [[Otari]] with the party to seek treatment from [[Vandy Banderdash]] - **Cure Received**: Successfully cured of the Black Frost curse by Vandy, though the party now owes her a favor - **Combat Participation**: Engaged in combat against the Black Frost Zombies using tandem moves and strikes ### Session 086 - Jade Quarion Tree Investigation and Mimic Combat - **Critical Hit**: Landed a critical hit that blinded the [[Death Shepherd]] during combat - **Fire Discovery**: Discovered that the [[Leafy Fleshwarp]] tree reacts to fire, throwing a torch at it - **Tree Analysis**: Found the tree feels like hard rubber rather than normal wood and regenerates through glowing green buds - **Locate Dwarf**: Used his *Locate Dwarf* ability and found no other dwarven things in the area - **Clan Daggers**: Possesses many clan daggers from [[Death Wardens]] who were trapped and cannibalized each other - **Mimic Combat**: Fought two mimics disguised as weapon racks in the supply room - **Combat Performance**: Got stuck to one mimic but managed to defeat both creatures - **Supply Room**: Explored the supply room after defeating the mimics ### Session 082 - Death Shepherd Respawn Battle - **Combat Participation**: Fought against the [[Death Shepherd]] and its ghoul thralls in an underground chamber - **Locate Dwarf Spell**: Used his *Locate Dwarf* ability to track the Death Shepherd, revealing it has dwarven origins - **Thrall Detection**: Discovered that the Death Shepherd's thralls are also dwarven, explaining their connection - **Combat Performance**: Dealt significant damage to the Death Shepherd and its thralls during the battle - **Tactical Support**: Worked with the party to coordinate their approach to the respawning Death Shepherd - **Knowledge Discovery**: Learned about the Death Shepherd's unique ability to hide within its thralls and respawn ### Session 081 - Death Shepherd Tactical Battle - **Combat Participation**: Continued battle against the [[Death Shepherd]] and its ghoul thralls in [[The Gauntlight]] - **Strategic Planning**: Participated in developing a multi-phase plan to permanently defeat the Death Shepherd - **Combat Strategy**: Focused on eliminating all minions first, then preventing the shepherd from reaching the pit - **Tactical Support**: Worked with the party to coordinate their martial arts stances and positioning ### Session 080 - Death Shepherd Battle - **Combat Participation**: Fought against a [[Death Shepherd]] and its ghoul thralls in [[The Gauntlight]] - **Dreshkan Analysis**: Realized that something in this level of [[The Gauntlight]] was reanimating the [[Dreshkan|dreshkans]] - **Combat Performance**: Dealt significant damage to the Death Shepherd and its thralls - **Tactical Support**: Worked with the party to defeat the undead commander - **Dreshkan Destruction**: Destroyed one dreshkan during the encounter - **Combat Victory**: Helped defeat the Death Shepherd through coordinated efforts ### Session 079 - Soulgem Golem Combat - **Combat Participation**: Fought against a soulgem golem in [[The Gauntlight]] - **Critical Hit**: Rolled a critical hit but the construct was immune to crits - **Damage Dealt**: Dealt only 3 damage out of 17 total due to construct immunities - **Construct Analysis**: Discovered the golem had AC 22 and was resistant to critical hits - **Soulbound Technology**: Encountered a [[Soulbound Doll|Soulbound]] mechanism created by [[Volluk Azrinae|Volluk]] ### Session 076 - Clan Dreams and Underground Laboratory - **MAJOR DEVELOPMENT**: Dreamed of returning to clan wardens - **Magical Items**: Received two items from [[Hearthmother Saesella]]: - Eternal eruption crystal ball (lava bomb that detonates as a fireball within 70 feet, 5d6 damage) - [Feather token](https://app.demiplane.com/nexus/pathfinder2e/items/feather-token) balloon - **Teleportation**: Used [[Zarmavdian]]'s clan dagger to teleport to an underground laboratory - **Dwarven Language**: Spoke Dwarven to greet the mysterious voice in the laboratory - **Combat Performance**: Used Intimidate attempts and grappled the real [[Zarmavdian]] during combat - **Physical Description**: Described the dwarf as "quite small and thin... and naked! And there's a lot of unruly dwarven beard. It's the smell of a dwarf" - **Underground Discovery**: Found himself in a dark place that smelled like home, with strong earth smells ### Session 075 - Xal'garoth's Boon - **MAJOR DEVELOPMENT**: Received a powerful boon from [[Xal'garoth - The Apex Beast]] - **Locate Spell**: Gained the spell *Locate* at will to find dwarves and dwarven-made items (weapons, places, and their corpses) - **Enhanced Martial Abilities**: Improved movement, tumbling, climbing, and shield speed - **Lightning Axe**: His axe can channel lightning energy, scorching the ground around him while leaving him undamaged - **Woodland Helm**: Received a woodland-themed helm with antlers that enhances his abilities - **Beast's Message**: "There's something similar between him and the beast. They both understand duty. Grumble has a duty to his people and to the [[Tomb Wardens]]." - **Duty Recognition**: The beast thanked him for letting it do its duty to protect the wilderness - **Enhanced Capabilities**: "You have faced many challenges in pursuit of your duty. But you'll face more difficult ones. Is your might enough?" ### Session 073 - Lamashtu Temple Combat - **Temple Exploration**: Explored an ancient temple to [[Lamashtu]] within the werewolf lair - **Multi-Creature Combat**: Faced an [[owlbear]], wasp swarm, wolves, crooked tree, and the [[Alpha]] werewolf - **Status Effects**: Was affected by the owlbear's frightening screech but eventually recovered - **Combat Performance**: Used shield and grabbed wolves during combat - **Damage Dealt**: Dealt significant damage to the Alpha (33 damage) and wolves (10 damage) - **Damage Taken**: Took 18 damage from the owlbear, 7 damage from wolves, 2 damage from wolves, 24 damage from the Alpha - **Status Effects**: Had various status effects including grabbed, shield, and aided - **Mystical Experience**: Heard lightning and wind in his brain when the Alpha died, as it tried to communicate with him - **Alpha's True Nature**: Witnessed the Alpha's transformation into smoke, revealing it was actually a dwarven body in armor - **New Threats**: Witnessed the emergence of new enemies (Shepherd, Spawn, [[Dreshkan]], and various ghouls) after the Alpha's defeat ### Session 069 - Arbor Felix Defense Preparation - Saw the lack of organization and lack of diversity of skills in [[Arbor Felix]] as a problem - Worried that if the leader(s) is killed, they won't know what to do - Noted that archers without bows will be useless and nobody really knows about tactics - Split the fighters into four groups (one for each cardinal direction): N: 75, S: 75, E: 50, W: 50, with 50 reserve - Assigned the best fighters to [[Hunter Elise]] - Asked for where the alpha wolf will be during battle - Hit the Alpha wolf but they're immune to bludgeoning damage, took 14 damage ### Session 067 - Character Changes and Arbor Felix - Has 5 hero points - Rolled a critical success to navigate the party - Everyone but Grumble has been touched by Suli elementals (their elements are ash/smoke and air) - Participated in the party's arrival at [[Arbor Felix]], a heavily fortified village - Was not targeted by [[Hunter Elise]] when the villagers attacked (unlike [[Vayle]], [[Malleus]], [[Zuhri]], and [[Varlon]]) ## Session 066 - Equipment Upgrades and Secret Goals - Received equipment upgrades worth 147.25 gp worth of monster parts with various properties - Offered the option to gain Suli heritage (though it would replace current heritage) - Established secret personal goals - Got a boon from his deity [[Torog]], gaining the effect of a single dwarf ancestry of Torog's choice - Both Bond and Grumble are far from their homes - Thinks it's weird that [[Ashnefrotty|Ash]] and [[Zuhri]] are always together because he likes being solitary - Finds the way Ash and Zuhri move at the same time weird - Thinks the whole group is weird because they take every opportunity to climb a tree - Woke up to find the creepy doll watching them again, now with "Grumblebum" written on her dress ## Session 060 - Bulette Rodeo - Successfully foraged during morning activities - His axe is named *Gutsplasher* ## Session 059 - Now we're just a party of wild animals - When a dangerous underground creature emerged while camping, everyone climbed trees except Grumblebum, who stood at the base of the tree waiting for it ## Session 058 - Werewolf Woodland During the werewolf investigation, Grumble navigated the party through rural areas and discovered a mysterious house with a metal door. He found a hidden trap door made of metal under a bed, designed to be locked from the inside, containing manacles for five people. He suggested using a ration to create a cloth mask with water to act as a filter for poisonous swamp fumes, providing a +2 circumstance bonus. He also set up fortifications and tracks around the camp during their rest. ## Session 056 - Guilt of The Huntress - Identified that the [[Desolation Locket]] was the focus of [[Esefna Menhemes|Esefna]]'s guilt - Explained that the guilt enchanted the locket, transforming it from its original form - Acquired the [[Cloak of the Huntress]] from [[Esefna Menhemes|Esefna]]'s tomb ## Session 057 - Blessings from the Berry Bush - Attempted to convince [[Auloria Gallentine]] at [[Gallentine Deliveries]] to share travel information but failed - Tried to convince [[Dot Rajani]] to join the party on their trip to [[Absalom]] with a roll of 4 (failure) - Purchased two Moderate Healing Potions from [[Magiloi]] at [[Crow's Cask]] for 50 gp each - Rolled a 28 on Survival for the first day of travel, successfully navigating despite heavy downpour - Attempted to gossip during the second day but failed - Set up fortifications during the party's camp on the second day - Successfully completed the first day of travel despite heavy downpour ## Session 065 - Complex Combat with Shooter - Discovered three humans had captured [[Varlon]] (holding a knife to his throat) and were inspecting [[Malleus]] - Learned that drow tricked dwarves into having their souls sucked into gems to keep elementals captive - Agreed with the party to destroy the gems and free the trapped souls - Vowed revenge against the three drow who had worked with the dwarves, including [[Volluk Azrinae]] - Witnessed the freed dwarven souls from [[Clam Hammarauc]] (The Mechanist Dwarves) thanking the party ## Session 064 - Summoned Creatures and Magical Duplicates - Engaged in combat against a diverse array of summoned creatures including monkeys, snakes, rams, eagles, wolves, and various humanoid constructs - Faced a creature called "Punchrr" that appeared to be a magical duplicate of Bond with Ash's fighting stance - Discovered that the shadow entity was creating constructs based on the party members themselves ## Session 063 - Dwarven Souls and Shadow Spheres - Identified that the 10 dwarves in the tomb were from long-lost clans, none of which were particularly known for working with [[Zarmavdian]]'s clan - Recognized that these dwarves were artisans and warriors rather than arcane practitioners - Attempted to extract gems from the wall housing but failed, determining they couldn't be removed - Engaged in combat against shadow beetles and scorpions summoned by the mysterious smoke entity - Successfully killed several creatures during the battle ## Session 062 - The Fallen Tomb Wardens - Rescued [[Varlon]], a small boy with dreadlocks, who became his follower - Helped [[Vayle]] escape from a silver-tipped bear trap - Discovered that one of the dead dwarves was a member of the ancient [[Tomb Warden]] order - Identified that the Tomb Wardens were created to guard the tomb of [[Zarmavdian]] - Found it strange that a Tomb Warden was so far from the Dwarvenlands, as they typically bring their dead home - Recovered four clan daggers from different dwarven clans, which he considers his duty to return - Acquired *Boots of Free Running* and splint mail from the fallen Tomb Wardens - Found a mysterious creepy doll with "Grumblebum" written on its dress, which he interprets as being from a secret admirer - Successfully navigated the party (roll of 20) and foraged without spending rations - Identified that a mysterious door was of dwarven make and found patterns in the words that needed to be touched and twisted to open it ## Session 098 - Vordine Alliance - Threw a torch on a tree that got burnt but healed itself back up again - Knocked on a door and tried to communicate with whoever was on the other side - Asked the [[Vordine]] devils [[Inqator]] and [[Zemna]] what they knew about the north door - Asked the Vordine devils to join the party, but they declined as they only take orders from their commanding officers - Learned about the [[Irnakurse]] creature and its abilities from the Vordine resistance