Eldritch Earth: Five Hacks Deep

Player: Andrew
Frankish, Hermetic, Level-5
Hit Points: 30
Armor Class: 11 (Dex)

Str 10 (+0), Dex 13 (+1), Con 14 (+2), Int 20 (+5), Wis 13 (+1), Cha 7 (-2)

Proficiencies: Simple weapons, INT and CON checks, Create Scroll, Create Potion

Archetype Benefits:

• 1/rest, reduce damage from one attack by INT modifier as a Quick action
• Assuming they have a written formulae, you may create arcane scrolls for spells that you do not know by copying them from another scroll.
• When you roll damage for a spell you cast that deals cold or thunder damage you may reroll any die that comes up as a 1 but you must take the result of the reroll.

Skills: Arcana, Investigation, Lore (Animals), Lore (Plants), Lore (Geography), Medicine, Persuasion, Stealth (taken at level 2)

Languages: Primary: Breton: Secondary: English
Ancient: Latin, Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, Sanskrit, Aramaic

Spells:

• Cantrips - Discern Magic, Dowsing, Ghost Sight, Whispermind (from the book of Nimqmaddu)
• 1st Level - Arcane Arrow, Sleep, Arcane Aegis, Prophecy, One Among Many (from Coils of the Serpent), Levitation (from Aristotle's Metaphysics)
• 2nd Level - Empower, Noxious Cloud, Shield Aura
• 3rd Level - Lightning Stroke

Special Feature: Guts - You have seen it all. You make any checks to avoid Stress at advantage.

Stuff: Digesta Hermetica, Scrolls, Herbals, 2 x Holy Water, 2 x Lamp Oil, Two torches, Flint & Steel, Spell Components, Hunting Bow

Herbals: 5 x Comfrey Root Garlic, 2 x Woundwart, Felwart, Healing Salve

Scrolls:

• Arcane Arrow Scroll - 1
• Sleep - 2
• Phantom Punch - 3

Background: It was told to Raoul at his 12th birthday that he descended from Joseph of Aramithea and is part of the Grail Family, related to Percival and Galahad of old. He may be called on one day to perform a service for the Grail. Raoul is immune to all diseases, including lycanthropy and tomb rot. He has leveraged his lore skills to masquerade as a simple farmer, but his intellect and education gives away his ruse that he is in fact a collector of occult lore.

Last Will and Testament: Raoul names his former roommate Skule Runar the Lege as his inheritor if he should pass.

Library:

• THE COPPER BOOK OF NIMQMADDU
• Lead scroll of Phantom Punch
• Notebook of Borhault, written in Aramaic
• Book of Giants, written in Aramaic
• Commentaries of Rufus the Mad
• Coils of the Serpent
• Another copy of the Book of Giants
• Corpus Hermeticum Vol-1
• Aristotle: Metaphysics - original Greek
• Early History of Nessex
• De Architectura

Scribe Cottages:

• Each occupant has their own stool, wood chest, small bed, bedclothes, spoon, fork, cup, pot, pan, mug, spurtle, bowl and ladle.
• There is a single table in the center of each cottage and a cabinet to store food.

Laboratory:

• Four drafting tables, four stools, a storage cabinet, and a central standing workbench
• 200gp worth of outfitting:
  • Iron cauldron
  • Alembic
  • Various copper tubes and beakers
  • Several sizes of glass jars
  • A cask of Aqua Regia
  • Several mortar and pestle sets
  • Chopping board and knives
  • Stirring spoons
  • Funnels
• 60gp worth of paint, ink, and parchment for making scrolls

Corruption: Raoul has at least one corruptor demon.

CURRENT XP TOTAL: 6471.25

• 30XP - Paid for Timmy Worm's wergild (50gp) and memorial (10gp)
• 900XP - Retroactive totaled the XP award
• 50XP - Session 8 (no show)
• 100XP - Session 9 (inactive)
• 50XP - Session 10 (no show)
• 200XP - Session 11 (GM)
• 53XP - Upkeep since 1/1/1130 until 4/15/1130
• 100XP - Session 12 (inactive)
• 300XP - Two rustic huts at 150gp/each
• 23XP - Upkeep 4/16/1130 until 5/31/1130 for Raoul and his nag
• 60XP - Scribe materials from Kingston
• 18XP - Upkeep for scribes until 5/31/1130 (full XP because the money goes toward scroll-making)
• 200XP - Session 14
• 15XP - Upkeep from scribes until 6/10/1130
• 5XP - Regular upkeep XP until 6/10/1130
• 60XP - Herbals purchase
• 400XP - Laboratory building purchase
• 100XP - Purchase of Alchemical black sand as a spell component
• 50XP - Upkeep for scribes from 6/11/1130 - 7/31/1130
• 31XP - Regular XP upkeep from 6/11/1130 - 7/31/1130
• 100XP - Session 15 (inactive)
• 100XP - Session 16 (inactive)
• 100XP - Session 17 (inactive)
• 100XP - Session 18 (inactive)
• 200XP - Session 19 (active)
• 200XP - Cash paid to outfit the laboratory to help make potions and scrolls
• 200XP - Session 20 (active)
• 140XP - Alessandro Fantastico's Funeral
• 164XP - Furnishings and Utensils for lab and huts
• 200XP - Session 21 (active)
• 200XP - Session 22 (active)
• 300XP - Bought De Architectura
• 31.25XP - Upkeep for scribes from 8/1/1130 - 8/31/1130
• 700XP - Two cottages for scribes
• 30XP - Upkeep for scribes 9/11/1130 - 9/30/1130 (Dunstan and Marge join on 10/1/1130)
• 2000XP - Building the stone tower house to hold Raoul's agricultural academy
• 200XP - Session 23 (active)
• 200XP - Session 24 (active)
• 200XP - Session 25 (active)
• 200XP - Session 26 (active)
• 100XP - Session 27 (inactive)
• 200XP - Session 28 (active)
• 200XP - Session 29 (active)
• 200XP - Session 30 (active)
• 6067XP - Spent on books or some sort of stuff like that

CURRENT GP TOTAL: 807.25

• 1253 - 4/16/1130
• +850 - 4/22/1130 - Monies collected from the manuscript of The Beet Knight (GM share of loot)
• -300 - 4/23/1130 - Commissioned two rustic huts in town
• -60 - 5/8/1130 - Purchased fine ink and paper for scribing scrolls and books in Kingston
• -46 - Upkeep 4/16/1130 until 5/31/1130 for Raoul and his nag (5sp/HD/day)
• -18 - Upkeep 5/20/1130 until 5/31/1130 for scribe retainers Alice, Alassandro and Alfwine
• -60 - Herbals purchased before crossing the river to Deadman's Town
• +425 - Recovered from Deadman's Town Sector Two
• -10 - Payment for Alassandro to accompany Raoul to Deadman's Town
• -25 - Upkeep for scribes, nag, and self up until 6/10/1130 (when Raoul reaches second level)
• -400 - Construction of a wooden storage building just North of the crude huts for use as a laboratory
• -100 - Black sand for the sleep spell purchased from Johnny Venice
• -112.5 - Upkeep for scribes, horse, and Raoul from 6/11/1130 - 7/31/1130
• +1417 - 8/12/1130 - Gold and silver idols dug from the ground located through the study of THE COPPER BOOK OF NIMQMADDU (GM share of loot from Session 19)
• -200 - To outfit the laboratory with supplies and furniture for making potions and scrolls
• -10 - To have Alessandro Fantastico join an adventure to Deadman's town in 07/14/1130
• -20 - Hired Prostitutta from Johnny Venice to help unlock rooms in Deadman's Town
• +965 - Following the haul from all the stuff from Deadman's Town on 07/14/1130
• -140 - Paid for a fine funeral for Alessandro Fantastico following his death in Deadman's Town
• -62.25 - Upkeep for scribes, nag, self, and Alassandro until his death on the 16th from 8/1/1130-8/31/1130
• -84 - Furniture for the laboratory
• -80 - Furnishings and utensils for the huts
• -300 - purchased De Architectura at the book auction
• -700 - Two cottages for scribes
• -30 - Upkeep for scribes from 9/1/1130 - 9/30/1130
• -45 - Upkeep for Raoul and his nag 9/1/1130 - 9/30/1130
• -2000 - Stone tower house to ultimately house an enchanter's furnace
• 650gp for Session 29
• 6067 gold for Session 30