At The Tower of Zordaz the Merciless!

Tonight we had our second session, and it was a blast! We played 6 and 1/2 hours, from 10 pm till 4 am, and this is in brief what happened:

• The party explored Castle Bélial (pretty different from the one found in the free download bar);
• They fought a Grey Ooze;
• They saved the kidnapped girl;
• Then fought some Zombies right out of the mansion;
• They came back to the village and had a feast in their honour;
• They so decided they wanted to see some of Ibkah, and were sent by the Lord of Tadék to the city to ask the sorcerer ruler for some more men-at-arms to defend the village against the rising darkness;
• They arrived in the city and talked with The Hand of the sorcerer;
• The Hand agreed to provide more soldiers in exchange for more taxes;
• The players agreed;
• Before leaving the city, they went all around asking questions;
• They came back to the village with 20 soldiers on light horses;
• They went back to the mansion, trying to find the reason for so many zombies;
• After an incredible uber-lucky combination of random encounters (all failings), they managed to find the Minor Vampire responsible and to kill him during the day, never having had to face him in combat;
• Then they decided to follow the rumors about the orc tribes meeting in the mountains;
• They arrived at the Tower of Zordaz;
• They found the entry and descended to Level 1;
• They explored the laboratories, fighting some Crawling Claws;
• Cagliostro (Chaotic Neutral Gnome Thief of the new player) almost died due to a room's collapsing ceiling;
• They ended up fighting 2 Giant Leeches, defeating them and going back to the village.

I don't have pics of the session to share, but we were all full-of-beer and the middle of the session (from midnight till 2 am) is still a bit foggy. I'm glad I made some notes during the game! It looks like the characters gained about 1000 xp each (some more, some less, due to 10% bonuses and such stuff), only because of the monsters they killed (yeah, the Minor Vampire sped up the count, with 3,000 xp – lucky bastards!)

For the near future, I need to improve some of the tables and note sheets I made (the session log, xp chart and combat tracker, in particular), and write a whole lot about the surrounding wilderness, since the party clearly showed interest in exploring it. I think I should also make some "Fast Monster Lairs" tables, including fast dungeons. All in all, it was GREAT.