Llashanna

Player: Kadie · Member of The Shattered Coin

"Lash." An axolotlan — tiny, lavender, cheerful, and unhinged ("she killed a guy
cuz he wanted to kill a crab that she liked" — Ashlyn). Born to an isolationist
axolotlan sect deep in the Veilwood: a cave complex behind an underwater entrance,
whose society revolves around appeasing an enormous, ancient Stonecrab god that
grants long life and protection in exchange for yearly sacrifices. (Crabs are
sacred. This explains a lot.)

A born explorer, she escaped, was saved from a blackened monster by feyfolk Venatori
(gaining a fey boon), traveled with them as cook/tailor/smith until their camp was
ambushed — she fled rather than die ("Lash was no hero") — and became a renowned
repairsmith for Venatori gear in a tiny Veilwood town. Her hammer arm's
reputation got her "encouragedly conscripted" into the reclamation; the born explorer
didn't mind. The party's only crafter; pickpocket habits.

Session 3

• Bribed the squatters' guard Rick with 6 gold + a pickpocketed ham sandwich,
  learning the manor's full layout and occupants.
• Received a guard-summoning whistle from Taximus Maximus (works anywhere in Varia).
• Signed up at The Urina as "The Hammer" (non-lethal bout) — specifically to
  fight "a guy who hates crabs." Helped the arena chef cook.

Session 4

• Won her arena bout against the banjo prisoner with a lethal finishing blow (her
  second kill — the bout was booked non-lethal; nobody told her); prize:
  Lash's Magic Hammer; title "Untouched in the Urina," undefeated.
• Scooped the sleeping Goopo into a vial — later handed to his son so Kain could
  pour the champion back out. Grateful Goopo offered her the champion's chair.
• Learned the card game Conquest from Brebo Goldfang (won 1 of 3; got a water
  starter deck and 9s/9c "change" on her gold-coin bet). Nat-20 insight: "This guy
  wants to f— you." (Correct.) Spent the night at his manor; next morning's shopping
  spree yielded a deluxe +1 bedroll.
• Will fletch Magra's crossbow bolts overnight.

Session 5

• Morning with Brebo Goldfang, then a Highside shopping spree on his coin:
  reinforced smithing apron (+1 AC, fire resistance), a silver ingot (enough
  to silver one weapon), full smelting/crafting supplies, and an extra-large wizard
  hat (she's 5'7" in it). Said "goodbye, people mouse" — her first use of a name.
• Established her permanent sharpening service: ritual success = +1 weapon damage
  (+2 two-handed), forever; she'll repair the party's gear after rough battles.
• Confirmed she holds the Crab Pearl that summons the Crab Wizard ("I slayed the
  great evil"). Also: she's missing a finger. It'll grow back.
• Opened Lash's Blacksmithing Emporium in a defensible corner of
  The Expedition Ship's deck — baby anvil and all — with Tilda's tinker cart
  setting up next door; Brebo, aboard with armfuls of Orathos land deeds, calls her
  his girlfriend.

Session 6

• Backstory shared: failed guard, failed seamstress, then the armorsmith's — she
  became the Venatori's go-to fixer of monster-hunting weapons (hooked chains,
  giant swords, arm-length-bolt crossbows), was rope-and-cart "recruited" for the
  expedition, and misses the mushroom people's tea parties. Her severed finger is
  visibly regrowing; moonlight makes her sleeping skin glitter like diamonds.
• First silvering: dismantled and relocated the ship's smelter to her corner,
  then spent 8 hours making the Silvered Short Sword for Silithane —
  serviceable work marred by one speck of unfused silver only she notices.
• Bluffed past the Ashwalkers ("we are just going to inspect the fire people"), then
  actually inspected them — fixing one guard's misaligned buttons ("Back in line,
  Jeremy").
• New commission from Jugs: 5 gp to mend two holed iron pots, materials
  reimbursed against receipts. The ghost-sword test Thalia asked for? Immediately
  forgotten.

Session 7

• Finished Jugs's two holed iron pots ("very well made," now nesting) for 5
  gold after relocking into the rhythm of crafting on a moving ship.
• Took Kain's death the hardest — waited by the fire-statue's far side "like a dog
  waiting for someone to come home" for him to "come out the back," then slowly accepted
  he was gone; claimed his leftover bag of iron teeth for smithing ("I can make
  swords and stuff").
• Became Draak's self-appointed teacher, attended ship school alongside him (trashed
  the class by already knowing everything), and spiked his great club into an Improved
  Great Club (+2 damage); flagged the cursed War Machine Club as "the bad one"
  ("it has a ghost in it").
• Bluntly asked Tilda "do you want to sleep with me?", got a smoke bomb to the face
  and a fleeing mouse for her trouble; kept the spent bomb.

Session 8

• Set Tilda up for life: shoved open the landmaster's 10-foot door ("Big door
  pusher! I like your attitude" — Erdl Bonebreaker the Third), pitched Tilda's
  tinkering with the smoke grenade once used to escape her, and delivered both rental
  folders plus 45 gold of her own. Tilda stays at Fort Foothold; steamed-up
  goggles, tight hug, "Thanks, Lashana." Lash scratched Tilda onto her
  Reclamation Signet as next of kin.
• Talked Draak through land-boat economics ("maybe you're just born in the water
  and then that's like your larva stage"), put in 7 gold, and haggled Gizbump's oars
  down — then tipped the discount away. Her seat on The Land Boat: the
  decorative crow's nest.
• Drank free rum with House Mayfore's proud corsairs while the others stood through
  speeches; passed her con save and resented it ("are they watering down the rum?").
• Holds one of Brebo Goldfang's two sealed land documents. Running generosity
  tally this arc: ~100 gold given away.

Session 9

• Fought the initiate spar from the bushes: Inspired/Helped Draak, stealthed
  19–21 ("cease to exist"), and sniped opportunity bonks while one trainee searched
  in vain ("There's an axolotlian in here!"). Never touched.
• Stared at the sun to test Drak's egg theory — taking escalating fire damage
  through her apron resistance until she dropped unconscious ("I have discerned the
  egg sun"). Blind for 12 hours; her 21 perception felt something cold, stern,
  punishing — not a Flame Queen — slap her away like a hand on a cookie jar.
• Blind misadventures at Ankley: requested raw sour beads and orange juice from
  the Candied Man ("chemistry"), then appointed herself chef of the fled inn's
  kitchen, finishing the party's soup orders by feel (cooking 14; egg via forehead).
• Refused to give Vernon Cleave her signet number — she paid for her food
  and did nothing wrong — unaware that refusal is manhunt-grade; Thalia covertly
  read and relayed it. Escorted down the Thousand Steps to the Sand Gets In, where
  she ended the session with spiced rum, coconut, and grilled leeks, thoroughly fed
  up with everyone.

Session 10

• Played model citizen at the Sand Gets In — paid for her meal, demonstrated axolotlan
  regeneration to Old Margaret (18 HP of hit dice to the old healer's 4-point
  paste), and took on the message-quest to Margaret's lost spy grandson, Old
  Margaret Jr. — then undid it all with a bedtime Kiss of the Sun fire-eyes
  "warning" to Vernon Cleave ("even I could tear out your throat... so do
  better"). He fled his own gate the next morning.
• On Ankley Island: dug to the ancient ruin's floor (re-homing each clump of
  moss), declared the Prehistoric Longsword cursed, and slipped the
  weaponsmithing check (rolled 2) — "I think I know what this is" awaits a workshop.
• In the pirate battle: an entire side-plot of mutually failed cliff-shoves with the
  archer Rowena, settled by double knives, daytime sun-eyes, and going fully feral —
  a different archer was so scared of Lash she jumped off the cliff herself.
• Claimed the rogue's tool sash (poison as a bonus action — now she needs
  poison); her looted-breakfast cooking adds +1d8 healing to a short rest. Plans to
  serrate Draak's new Giant Cutlass.

Session 11

• Finally identified the Prehistoric Longsword material during the boat trip: auricalcum — pre-modern alloy, stronger than steel, off-red-silver hue, suited to wet/underwater conditions. Ancient and degraded, but worth far more than its weight in gold. Choice: restore the blade, or smelt it down and reforge with modern technique. She now carries it.
• Fell off the cliff in the coelodon encounter (failed Dex save) but chose to surf the fall to land standing on the baby creature's nose rather than grab for safety — pure Lash. Used the Crab Pearl and offered meat to charm a large beach crab that had been mimicking Silithane's calming dance; gained a pet crab (needs keeping wet twice daily).
• At the tiny-race caravan, attempted to flirt with the caravan owner's wife (Animal Handling 9 — "we're both small, that's pretty cool, right?") — learned the woman is permanently bonded and her wife recently died in grief.

Session 12

• Worked the Gwyndinas Colosseum: chatted up superfan Lee for arena-team intel (persuasion 21), then took +1 HP from The Serpent's training camp.
• Forged through the week — advanced her 21-day weapon project to ~8 days in, and serrated/double-bladed Draak's Giant Cutlass (+2 damage, weight-cutting fullers, metal-tipped scabbard).
• Picked the monster fights ("I want fancy spiky parts for crafting"). Landed the killing blow on the killipede by leaping into its toothless mouth and smashing the soft lower jaw; harvested 498 killipede spines and a liver.
• Recognized the second monster, the Grievek, from her axolotlan homeland (battle-cries "Shavalesh!", "Savinash!", "nodus lavis"); burned all her self-heals surviving its poison claws; harvested its hide and 6 claws. Got "gummed" enough that Magra had to save vs. biting her.

Session 13

• Slept in the Clapton's Hammer backyard wash-tub (the innkeeper bottled her bathwater as "axolotlan water"); her Perception spotted the dead body in the corner and her instinct that the inn "reminds me of the Veilwood" cracked the mystery open.
• Lost her pet crab. Sent it (via a telepathic-link spell) into the grief-demon's hole; it was killed. She crawled in after it, found it dead, and — after the demon was slain — crawled back into the hole to chase the source toward the underworld, ignoring its grief-illusions. As the session ends she is still crawling (an estimated 20+ miles / a week of travel), and the party doesn't know if she's alive.
• In the fight (before vanishing): smoke-stepped across the basement to Help Ashlyn and tried to snap her free of the demon's control.

Session 14

• Surfaced from the grief-hole — it wasn't the underworld after all, just a long crawl — barely hurt (one scratch), hauling a ~30 lb sack of strange ore dug from the depths. Vowed to her revived crab never to send it ahead again ("I'll go first next time").
• Got her pet crab back alive, via paid magic Silithane arranged (she assumed he'd learned a spell, surprised it was bought).
• With Thalia, identified the haul as pyroxene (hell-baked, won't melt by forge heat — must be ground/knapped): jadeite (natural magics), quartz/rhyolite (toughening), brimstone (sharpening), orgite (fire/magic-enhancing), slag iron, plus two gems. New raw material for her ever-growing craft pile.
• Shared her origin over the rocks: she glows in moonlight because, as a child first leaving her Veilwood home, she fought back a great black creature — and a powerful fae, amused by her guts, tapped her on the nose and vanished, her skin glowing ever since (the fey boon her bio records).

Session 15

• Lead detective of the day. Played the "special investigator Lash, an axolotlan" act at every door — cathedral, ziggurat, Mage's Society, crime scene — bluffing past guards as a "heightened super special investigator."
• Ate her long-held death cap mushroom to cast her own Speak with Dead on the latest victim, Margaret Everdeen; every one of five questions drew only a scream that grew longer each time. Her insight check landed the case's grimmest finding: the corpse isn't refusing to answer — its soul is already screaming, in all-consuming torment, and the spell merely catches it mid-scream.
• Pressed Louis and the morgue priestess on whether souls can be trapped, and floated the grief-demon parallel (death by fear, not injury).
• Bought a vial of Ironrot Bile poison (3 platinum) at the Westport Black Market for her poison belt. By session's end she's with Thalia, Ashlyn and Draak in wanting to drop the detective work for arena fights ("I don't think we're smart enough"). Wry self-summary: "You murder one guy who's killing crabs and suddenly you're the group's murder hobo."
• Means to return to her workshop to keep improving her hammer/blacksmithing; the grief-demon basement still isn't fully sealed.

Session 16

• Stole the gang leader's "well, well, well" entrance line, then played the leader along ("your armor could be strapped better") while refusing to step into his reach.
• Fought the ambush largely non-lethally — hiding in barrels to "Boo!" enemies, dealing repeated max-damage knee-bashes, and knocking out three thugs rather than killing them ("You could have been a good guy, I can feel it"). Healed herself to full with a bonus-action hit-die mid-fight.
• Looted Rikard's longsword (carried behind her like a tail, scraping the cobbles) — Palumbo's hand-signal bought her exactly one item off the body from the evidence-guarding guards, and she took the sword over the coin purse and the tome of hateful hymns, which stayed at the scene. Later lifted a gang bandana and a kitchen knife off a captured supremacist during Silithane's distraction. Tried (failed) to plead leniency for the one gang member she liked.
• Baked everyone 4-temp-HP "death-save" cookies on the long rest.

Session 17

• Worked auricalcum at last. Brought the Prehistoric Longsword to the Eastport Deep Sea Smithmaster — a dripping blue water-smith and kindred wet-handed crafter — who taught her the metal must be cold-forged only. Rolled a 27 with his help and folded 3 of auricalcum's 5 properties into her in-progress crafting "mega" hammer (now 12 days from done). Paid the cash-strapped smith a token 10 gold.
• Bought 100 gold of silver (Fenric to repay) for a long-debated plan to silver Fenric's claw-tips, then talked through cat-claw biology — but a poor roll showed his claws were too cracked and eroded to fit, so the job was deferred until he grows them out.
• In the squires' arena fight, played her usual role: hid in the rivers, dodge-tanked the blind knight Elgamaia (eating 23- and 30-damage greatsword hits), self-healed with hit dice, and shoved Thalia to safety. Ended the fight Sleep-spelled alongside Drak; woke confused ("Did I die again?").
• Asked whether the arena could provide a third leaving-signature (it can — next session).

Session 18

• The swarm's support engine. Rather than fight directly ("more effective than me lightly bapping something"), she ran a buff economy all combat: help-actions with bonus d6s, a +1-to-all-saves aura within 600 ft, and her Magic Hammer's 3 rerolls per long rest — repeatedly rescuing allies (especially Draak and Fenric) from the mushroom men's fungal-infection CON saves. Bonked with her arena hammer when nothing better offered.
• Her cookies are now worth 6 temp HP (twice her proficiency bonus); the table briefly feared she'd baked her own (four, light-blue) fingers into them.

Session 19

• Confirmed the draft-marked false wall was a secret exit, not entrance, and had Draak punch a hole through it to scout the spore-plant passage beyond.
• The party's changeling expert: delivered the session's chilling lore lecture on the three changeling grades — shifters, doppelgangers, and the dreaded Twin Stranger that consumes a target and inherits all its memories (her example: what if one ate Queen Ysolde) — framing the whole sewer lair discovery.
• Spent her last inspiration die to back Silithane and Fenric's 34 on the trapped door; cared for the bound "failed changelings" (don't step on them) and pushed the party to catch the shapeshifter immediately before it flees. Also tried to get the doctor to stop turning the sewer water green.

Session 20

• Went up the ladder with Fenric to spring the basement ambush, her +1-to-all aura running through the brief fight.
• Her own dire Session-19 changeling lore ("a perfect serial killer") softened as the captured changeling read as a Reclamation helper — though Veilwood-bred party members still grumbled that "all changelings are bad." Took the day's first short rest with the group before sleep.

Session 21

• Cooked a rare, heartfelt morale meal in the sewers — and rolled her worst result ever (10% below average), undone by missing spices and the shelf-keeper repeatedly putting her on the shelf mid-scramble.
• Told Eldrich the Elder plainly she'd been conscripted by the Venatori (against Reclamation norms) but is happy now; he declines to punish them at her word.
• Was the party's quiet diplomat through the changeling pitch, and forged Magra's copper full plate ("lashed armor," armorsmithing 21) as the group's crafter.
• Bought and tamed the salamander Squishy from beast-tamer Dervin in Keraford for 100 gold — alarmed it would turn feral at adulthood without the calming song her axolotlan people sing, she stayed an extra night teaching it the song so it could safely pull the land boat. The episode pulled loose a guarded glimpse of her Veilwood lake-cavern home.

Session 22

• Won the parley with a bluff. Chatting up a bandit goon, she sold him a fictional archmage who could collapse the cliff plus the real mage-hunter Fenric — passing the deception and leaving him visibly rattled (then cheerfully admitting she was messing with him).
• Talked the giant-fearing locals at the inn into letting her forge 3 copper horseshoes by the trough, kindred-spirit bonding with the apron-wearing stable master.
• Greenlit Tycho's death: after confirming to the stable master that Tycho was a spy, she declined to stop the man caving his skull in ("Hell nah") — then looted the body and (vetoed) offered it to Squishy.
• Was the party's bridge to the new PC Jex, swapping notes on regrowing limbs and warning her off the cursed Veilwood.

Session 23

• Looted and laundered. Came back from rifling Tycho's corpse covered in blood (and trailing it on Squishy), washed at the well, and pinned the kill on the stable master to Thalia — "I'm not going around murdering people right now."
• Smith and student. Melted Tycho's ruined splint mail to forge the stable master a full set of horseshoes plus eight spares, and won hammer-fighting lessons from the secretly ex-soldier ("make every swing your only one") — bittersweetly ruffled off as "just a normal person."
• Assessed Valmora's damaged flight scale-mail (fixable, but needs a town forge and ~125 gold), the reason the party improvises the rope crossing instead. Her hammer is 4 days from done.

Session 24

• Buffed the Grabbler fight in her support-engine role — advantage + d6 help and her +1-to-all-saves aura (which saved Valmora's concentration), narrated as throwing distracting pebbles ("effectively cast a 3rd-level spell") — then carved the hands off the corpses for the bounty, digging the Ring of Independent Digits out of the smart one's "brain."
• Rode Squishy across the chasm, then solo-swam the flooded passage (she breathes underwater, swims 35) ~4–5 minutes deep — surfacing at a red-candle "temple" corridor and a flooded 30×30 ft tomb with a 14-ft coffin, both radiating deadly danger. Returned safely and reported the find to Valmora and Thalia.
• Flagged that the Mama Grabbler might fit a wider bottom tunnel, urging the group to find a thinner route. Levels to 6.

Session 25

• Gave the opening recap and stayed the party's tireless scout: wiggled at and intimidated the giant Veilwood centipedes off (no daggers won), crawled the manufactured bug-tunnel ~75 ft to map a route down, and tried (and failed) to climb the waterfall — saved from drowning only because she breathes underwater.
• Examined a woodling's broken pocket watch (smith's-tools 30): oxidized steel, a "Happy Birthday Dad"–style inscription, mechanism beaten in — repairable by a fine-tools specialist.
• Threw the brass-pot lure to bait the gobblers, then ran her buff economy — Help to Silithane and a d6 to Squishy — and floated the gleefully psycho plan of cutting off everyone's hands to make the Queen leave them alone.
• Levels to 6: now rolls always-max HP and can Mass-Inspire several creatures at once. Swears off ever taking a 100-gold bounty again.

Session 26

• The session's discoverer. Following her usual compulsion to chase every hole "to the end," she swims ten minutes down the flooded chasm, breaks open a stuck pull-door, and finds the under-prison and its lizard-people — talking her way in with axolotlan (a partial match for their Aquan).
• Befriends one crocodilian and names him "Friend" (the Grenkh have no names of their own), leads him up to meet the party and glimpse the Queen, then escorts him back to report to Grank.
• Pieces together the prison's story for the Grenkh — the escaped Hand Lady, the six remaining prisoners — and confirms the Queen is now too big to put back. Tallies this as her 6th hole of the campaign.
• Recovers a Damp Sprout from the deep water; helps the chased group escape into the prison. (She breathes water, so she alone sails through every swim untroubled.)

Session 27

• Found the key that unlocked the session: sifting the throne-room scrap-tub, rolled a natural 20 to pull out a perfect smith's key — which proves to open Malifax's workshop. Recognised the Forge Lord's maker's mark linking the throne, the scrap, and the sump-lids.
• The party's mouth with the lizards and prisoners again — relaying Half-gore's confession that the spear-barricade is "for comfort," questioning the Nice One about her crime and escape route, and pressing Malifax on the prisoner-moving tool, the Needy One's old cell, and a giant new cell to dig.
• Got her auricalcum hammer all-but-finished: baited Malifax with her old Urina champion's hammer, then wowed him with the real one — earning two days' work in an hour (now 20/21 days), the spiked edge, and a "clang" rider, with the last day left for her to forge.

Session 28

• Fed a crab instead of fighting it. Faced with a large crab blocking a secret door, she pulled the severed finger she keeps for her own pet crab and lured it aside with the treat — to Malifax's confusion that this "did not count as a combat."
• Studied a master's work. In the cupboard she pored over Malifax's masterpiece twin swords (smith's-tools, advantage), reading every deliberate "flaw" and recast — craft insight from the one finished legendary work she'd ever seen.
• The meteorite proves unbreakable. She hammered her chisel into the gifted meteorite until the chisel itself dulled without leaving a mark; Malifax's own chisel managed 0.3 mm, putting a single split at ~6 months of night-work. Too dense and awkward to haul over the chasm, so it's left for later.
• Took the long rest in Malifax's quarters to forge the final day of her hammer in his workshop.

Session 29

• Masterpiece finished. Completed the last ~2% of her auricalcum hammer overnight — coring and sharpening the double head (hammer + rear pick) and adding a diamond-shaped bottom spike — declaring it done and offering to take on other projects (and to mend Valmora's flight armor next rest).
• Cut the "heist" short. Unlocking Keith's cage (she'd rather have smashed the lock with her new hammer), she catches his whispered warning, then hammers and grapples him (10 damage) when he won't stop accusing the party — "Pretty sure we're trying to get the Grabber Queen in a cage, so shut up and get out of that one."
• Sat the absurd council arc out from the floor with Salamandine ("You guys done playing tea party yet?"), the only party member never bound to its votes — leaving her free to act against Cheve where the others can't.

Session 30

• Repaired Valmora's flight armor — and found it heaven-forged. Tackling the long-deferred breastplate fix, a Religion 20 revealed it as angelic armor woven by angels from "garbage heaven materials" she has none of; she solved it (after a despairing first day) by alternating heavenly scales with steel ones, reassembling it scale by scale into something functional, if a notch worse than new. Earned Valmora's pledge of a future favor.
• Recruited the Grenkh. Persuaded The Grenkh to send a "good number of lizards" to the Queen fight — though the huge elder will only rouse himself if the little lizards fail.
• Still carries the Grabbler "brain" bounty token, petting it; the GM hints she could feed it hands to grow her own loyal Grabber Queen (its fingers don't regenerate, so the feeding is finite).

Session 31

• Shoulder-checked a one-ton boulder in half. When Caressa's Boulder Toss came her way, Lash tanked it on her CON save and cracked it over herself — "a Lash that's against the impossible still standing."
• Buff engine, as ever: Help-actions and d6 / +1-save aura, and a Magic-Hammer reroll that saved Silithane's Shadow Blade concentration ("basically cast a 4th-level spell as a reaction"). Sent Salamandine dashing in to bite the Queen all fight.
• Taunted a Grabber off Jex with Animal Handling, screaming and pointing at the defeated Queen, covered in blood — "low-quality hands are more quality hands than Jax, who is a blob."
• Looting the den. As the resident magpie/crafter, she'll sort Caressa's massive hoard (sent via Discord midweek) — the party leaning toward returning the cave-folk's share and keeping ~half plus the magic items; the aqua regia "piss pool" can be bottled as a valuable alloy-separating reagent.

Session 32

• Apprenticed to a master. Sized up the Northern Trading Company craftsman Big Finn's work (a Weaponsmithing check: he out-does her on crossbow bolts, handles and balance, she out-does him on weapons proper), showed off her masterwork hammer, and agreed to apprentice under him in the evenings for a week or two to learn woodworking while adventuring by day — taking on his request to find his snatched granddaughter.
• The party's haggler. As a fellow commoner, persuaded Ragnar (advantage) to slip Fenric a discounted silver bar through her platinum membership, and brokered much of the loot-selling on others' behalf.
• Confessed to the witch. In the church confessional laid out the snatcher case to the horse-folk priestess — framing it as Laewendas's curse-agent — and brought back the bargain: the party must earn the town's trust with good deeds first. Showed off her crab familiar; her Insight caught the priestess merely reasoning her secret crab-god from a tiny crab, not knowing it.
• Reassured the worried Squire Faethlyn she's fine playing bait ("I can regrow stuff and heal myself"), popping a finger back to demonstrate.

Session 33

• Dressing the part of a child. Still set on posing as bait, she bought commoner's pants (1 silver, to look "less suspicious") and, ever the smith, Forge Master flame-resistant goggles (1 gold) at Renforth's shop — refusing anything that looks like armour.
• Adopted a cow. Doug Dillinger's twitchy cow Milkshake licked her forehead and instantly defected to her ("I'm my cow now").
• Floated non-lethally penning the walking tomatoes rather than killing them, before the party settled on extermination; recognised by Renforth on sight as "the blacksmith they own."

Session 34

• The bait diver. Devised the harpoon-on-the-logging-winch rig and jumped into the river as bait (declining Silithane's offered Invisibility); was death-rolled (immune to drowning, which the beast didn't know) and survived it on her Session 33 AC gear ("the magic items you just bought saved you"). When the crocolion launched itself as a missile she took only 7 on her Con save — the ~50 damage landed on Jex, who rolled a natural 1.
• The pox con. To finish the frog-folk's wish, spun a credulous lumber worker a tale that the southern (poison-sapped) trees carry a spreadable pox — first watching him scheme to dump the "cursed" wood on the Reclamation, then scaring him off the grove entirely so the mill leaves it alone.
• Harvested the kill — took the crocolion's dog-sized head and hide for bounty proof, trophy, and crafting/sale; assessed whether the tough hide could become armour.
• Sweet beats: adopted Salamandine through the fight, sniffed steam off fresh bread "with her eyes," and brushed off two elven gossips by calling herself "a poor child blacksmith" (to their horror — "don't ever say you're a child here").

Session 35

• Ethical awakening. Renforth's "everything is alive and can suffer" philosophy overturned her worldview in a single dinner ("there's nothing we can eat… we should just sit down and die"), and she vowed to never again eat anything that can suffer. Bought his unwanted Goodberry Wand (8 zero-suffering berries/day, enough to feed the whole party forever) for 1,000 gold — paying 100 down and a 900-gold IOU on her honor (her first real use of social credit, an honor check of 20), offering her crafting hammer as collateral.
• Played the child at the dinner — apple juice, a high-chair, gold-star stickers — with Thalia's glass-bobble pigtails for the bait disguise, then pressed Renforth with the session's smartest theory (a possible moon/cloud trigger for the wyrm's screaming).
• Crafting system, established. Explained her downtime plan: with ~2 weeks to learn masterwork woodworking, she can make one masterwork item per party member (her own always a tier higher) and slowly upgrade common items to uncommon (+1) — taking signature-gear requests from the group.

Session 38

• The sincere negotiator. As the only one carrying no weapons (a "commoner"), she alone could persuade Billy's Mom to talk inside the warren — promising to stop the "checkered men" (lumberjacks) "or die trying." The mushroom mother wouldn't risk her family on half a promise, but Lash's honesty got further than Magra's pitch; she floats magic-growing ethical "fake" trees so the mushroom folk and mill both have wood.
• Ethical eating, hardened. Post-Renforth, refuses to chop a real tree as bait, and declares she'll eat only her conjured berries (threatening to un-friend anyone caught eating "food food").
• Combat support. Used her commoner Help-at-range (works by hearing, not sight — clutch in the dirt cloud) and her Magic-Hammer rerolls to save allies all fight (including Silithane from the poison half); rode Silithane's back to keep Helping, and bit the Guardian (7 piercing). Still level 6.

Session 39

• Brewed the cure. Hers was the Help (a 20) that let the orc medicine woman Rhia Gagra reverse-engineer the wyrm venom into antidote (1 vial → 4 doses), saving the patient, Warmaiden Yngraf and Silithane — and she hammered the wyrm teeth loose with her Magic Hammer where chisels and pitons failed.
• The mad scientist of the bath. Tested the Toxico venom — confirming it rots metal and ignites into magical toxic flame (cutting off her own tail-tip to write in blood) — while plotting to burn down the lumber mill and frame the trees. The party talked her down; she pivoted to ethical "fake" trees (Renforth + Horibus, the Goodberry seed) as a way to keep her "stop the checkered men or die trying" promise without dooming the town.
• Level 7 — and a new weapon. Levels up with the party (her saved-up new weapon now due) after the long rest.

Session 40

• The smith and the claw. Visited the Ponterford town blacksmith to show off her orichalcum hammer (which he covets and insists must be "from the orcs"), and walked away with a free claw-weapon blacksmithing pattern — earmarked for a claw weapon she'll forge from the five wyrm fangs for the "cat man" Fenric. Learned the south-side drake skeleton is the same venom-wyrm, but a dead end to harvest.
• Cracked the trap corridor. Reasoned that no one should have died in the cave's trapped hall if the traps are in the walls — so the dead-centre line is safe (and the corpses likely planted to sell the warning); confirmed it by sending Salamandine and a bat down the middle untouched. Floated a rope-climb across the 47-ft ceiling chains (shelved as noisy).
• Swam the river of villains. Invisible (via Silithane), she scouted the underground-river camp — cataloguing the Toe Skinner, the Hat Man, the stitched tea-party, and the dormant Candleman — and survived the crocodile man's ambush only by acting first and riding the current, dodging a 100+-damage one-shot. Schemed afterward to poison the river upstream and antitoxin it downstream. Still level 7.

Session 41

• The diplomat with the dead. Crawled the secret tunnels into the bone tomb and met the Ghoul of Gythfield — bonding over their shared fang teeth and her axolotlan origins (which he placed at a glance) — then negotiated his help clearing the cave in exchange for the party's Reclamation vouch, agreeing to spare the stitched maiden and lure the Wild Man away. Drew out his lore on the Candleman, Thunt and the Hat Man.
• Gentle to the ghost. Identified the tunnel-haunting Abigail Miller by name, coaxed her story out, and promised to carry word to her searching father.
• Off her game in the one fight. Repeatedly whiffed her swings against the AC-12 skeleton businessmen ("a combat well-suited for Lash" — and she missed); herded lost magmites back to their mother. Still level 7.

Session 43

• The protector. Debuted her new reaction — negating a hit that barely beats an ally's AC (Salamandine's tongue yanking the blade aside) — to keep Silithane alive against Kregit, tracking the party's ACs on a sticky note; took the heaviest Gutter hits to shield Fenric, crit-hammered the Gutter, and revived a downed Pavid with a potion poured into his mane.
• The engineer's solution to the hat. Once the Hat Man was dead, she solved his hat the practical way — pushing the brim through itself like a bag of holding turned inside out, dumping a head-first Thalia and 15–20 corpses onto the floor.
• Plotter. Schemed to poison Thunt (he won't drink it; the "bubble" would stop it anyway), to needle his bubble with a "tiniest of needles," and to pair the cave's cursed mask with its symbiotes on an evil host. Still level 7.

Session 44

• The bones returned. Carried the Miller's daughter's bones home to the old farmer Gordon Miller — accepting his pea soup and a rat-chewed coin purse (8 silver, 42 copper) — and gently let him know there'd be no more snatchings. Talked the tinker-kid Lonka into making his murder-machine a soft, blunt plushie-bear.
• Sold the witch on Pimothy. At the witch church she reported the cave cleared and sold Pimothy's heroism so well the witch-keeper fell for him — then admitted no children survived.
• Smith's downtime. Built the fence by day and trained with Salamandine by evening, consulting smiths Big Finn and the otter Yuko on lightweight barding for the salamander; bought an animal-affection ring, Cecil's treat belt, and suspenders worn as a cape (+3 Animal Handling). Her ~1,000-gold IOU to Renforth was wiped by trading him the fire grimoire.
• The doomed romance. Played out a 16-day "dating sim" with a rabbit-folk crab-trapper from South Shore, then deliberately ended it with an underwater argument so as not to break the woman's heart. Still level 7.

Session 45

• The whip-silversmith. Over the night's rest she silvered Thalia's thorn-whip with a bought silver bar — and, creatively, hid the silver among the natural thorns so it takes a DC 13 Investigation to even tell the weapon is silvered.
• The Goodberry chef. Cooked Goodberry stew and 4-temp-HP cookies (seasoned with cave spices and Thalia's medicinal herbs) at the abandoned house; took crafting commissions (a teeth-claw weapon for Fenric) but made each party member commission her properly first.
• Combat helper. Sent Salamandine to bite the zombie horse (eating 2 "rancid" poison back), Helped Silithane's killing Green-Flame strike, let him reroll the blight-infection save, and staked the horse's head to the ground; kicked the campfire onto the corpses to burn them.
• Druid kinship. Bonded instantly with the pacifist Clover over their shared Goodberry-only diet and refusal to kill needlessly — discussing druid groves and ethical eating while she cooked. Still level 7.

Session 46

• The camp smith. Bought Tony's Houndmaster's whistle (100g), then over the rest sharpened and resized two veterans' swords (Golgain's oversized looted longsword and Andross's sidearm) to +1 damage.
• Salamandine's swordsman. Salamandine double-crit a plague-spreader dead with a tail-swat; to fight the touch-dangerous undead safely, Lash strapped an agile longsword to his tail — birthing plans for a permanent blade-fin attachment.
• The Veilwood blacksmith. Her moon pendant drew Stunghelm Elkheart's admiration, then his alarm when she named it (and herself) as from the Veilwood — "the Veilwood is scary" (rendered "Valewood" in the transcript, a known mishearing). Still level 7.

Session 47

• The tunnel scout. Small and slick, she torpedoes through a Lash-sized gap (taking 7 piercing from the inward-facing thorns) to scout the grove interior — reporting the dead soil, the corpse-filled pond, and something big beneath it — then backs out rather than press on alone.
• The Sun-God berserker. In the boss fight she activates her Kiss of the Sun (triple-fire eyes and head), wins an advantage intimidation, and lands a crit hammer-blow on the amalgam; pockets Dreadweaver Corpsefortune's arcane focus crystal.
• The clutch kill. Stunghelm Elkheart's upcast Fire Shield on her is what ends the fight: at 4 HP the amalgam slams her, and the 48-damage retaliation immolates it before its lethal hymn — she eats the killing blow (18 of 25 HP) and lives. Quits the grim body-disassembly once her rage fades. Still level 7.

Session 49

• The pathfinder. Rolled a 19 Survival to thread the right trail to the forbidden mine through a maze of fishery, herbalist and mountaineering paths; earlier ran a long slapstick mini-game searching the Tapped Clapper's bathroom for a secret door before being pointed to Eldrich's real hidden room.
• Burrito's mother. Mid-fight against the badeedle brood she tamed one with a treat from her treat belt (Animal Handling, a 35) and adopted it as the brood's new "mama," giving the four-foot bird-beetle a crouching pep-talk about pupating and minding the nest. Otherwise ran her usual support engine (Help, inspiration d6s to Fenric) and sent Salamandine to tail-swat and tank.
• The fossil climb. Hauled herself (and Salamandine, who lacks grippy fingers) up the 50-ft cliff via the skeletal "dragon tail" embedded in the dirt. Still level 7.

Session 50

• The scout who cased the whole camp. The party's lead all session: a Stealth 18 into a scrap-heap to read the facility (buildings, guards, the trial, the glowing-ore carts), a peek through the alchemy-shed window at the mole-man alchemist Snuffles, and a nerve-wracking tree-climb into the second-floor barracks — a slip-means-death Athletics check she saves by spending Magra's Heroic Inspiration — to steal miner and hauler disguises for the whole party (4 miners, 2 haulers).
• The disguise logistics. Organises the infiltration — who dresses as what, weapons into backpacks and Thalia's hat, Jex tucked into her own backpack loaded onto Salamandine as a beast of burden — and walks the group in with the returning shift.
• The crafter reads the god-crystal. Inspects a chunk of the glowing vein (a Smith's-tools 18): it's not metal but a crystal/gemstone growth, glowing, unfamiliar — matching the skeleton's "something weird under the mountain" fable and, per the GM, the same substance the "scientist guy" (Dr. Provostinalkov) makes. Judges the cage-hoist shaft could plunge 10–30 miles. Aborts a Sleight of Hand 13 attempt to pocket a crystal once she sees the diggers will kill to defend their vein.
• Beast-whisperer of the burned deep. In the skeleton fight, lands the finishing crit on the last bone-pile. In the flooded cavern she tames the tiny crab swarm with a "crab orb" (~80 follow her across the bridges before she sends them home with a treat) and, when the shark bites Salamandine, drives it off with Aquan intimidation (a 20 — a bop on the nose) rather than a fight, protecting her mount.
• Talking to hermits. Greets the cave-dwellers Pentuckle and Walter Gilman in Aquan, works out (via yes/no claw-clicks) that there's a nearby underwater city, and gathers the deep mine's layout — locked cage, mage's ghost-office, the "scary hole" — over a shared pork sandwich. Still level 7.

Session 51

• The digger and the schemer. Puts in the four-hour stairwell dig with Magra (her hammer's a pickaxe on one side), then drives half the escape plans — asking the birds, the hermits and the water where the missing drive pin/cogwheel went, floating aiming the digging machine "40 degrees up for two days," and pushing to check every chamber.
• The crafter. Repairs some Grabber Queen loot (a broken watch, a dented engraved goblet — re-engraved "Lash-ified") and offers to forge the party custom personalised weapons on her banked crafting days, starting with an upgrade to Silithane's Silvered Short Sword. Weighs making a copper drive pin to fake the lift's missing part (too weak to trust with everyone's lives).
• The one who woke it up. Curious about the cordoned blue crystal, she tries to chip one free from behind — and awakens a crystal creature, opening the cliffhanger fight. Still level 7.

Session 52

• The magpie of the deep. Tail-lashes the crystal golem through the fight, then hauls out its watermelon-sized crystal core — an "epic," immovable, gravity-effect heart the GM wants her to forge into a hammer, shield or armour (dropping ~50 lbs of red crystal to carry it). Also fishes a spare set of tunneling-machine keys out of the drowned filter-pool and grabs more sturdy rope, ever "the only one who doesn't have rope."
• Reader of the shades. Throws the Foredweller water-lever that reverses the flow, watching the kneeling shade scream — and pieces together that the mine's shades are "the remnants of the safety inspectors," warning the party off the mistakes that killed the miners; also lights the sabotage barrel to blast open a wall.
• Down the dragon hole. Talks the party into lowering her 220 ft on four knotted ropes into the pit, unties the leash to explore, and finds — then wakes, by standing on — a titanic undead dragon (see Deep Skeleton Dragon), scampering back up the rope as it scents for her. Meets the deep scientists as "the Five," fielding Marge's waterway interrogation with subaquatic first-hand data. Still level 7.

Session 53

• The sun quest. Recognises the alligator-mouth sideways-V the sun once burned into her brain on the spine-page of a Foredweller book, described to the chief librarian by making the shape with her arms and then her whole body, one leg in the air. Signs up for a library card (next-of-kin paperwork included) minted "Secret Underground Bunker," borrows a book the size of her torso, and talks Rosa into burning her hoarded 5th-level sunlight scroll — taking a cone of daylight to the face for 1 fire damage, absorbed by her blacksmith goggles, plus a light sunburn.
• What the sun-eyes found. The book does not translate. But the symbol in it and the symbol above Rosa's lever both flicker with distant sunlight, and the lever itself resolves as a magical illusion disguised as an ordinary lever — which is why nobody has ever been strong enough to pull it. Her illusion-piercing sight lasts only a minute and had lapsed before the party met Malaika.
• The sun's answer. For all of it she gets one wordless message: the sun is not her friend, does not like her, is not hostile, and is entirely indifferent to her. The first time she reached for it, it burned her until she blacked out; nothing has changed. "I'll be very upset if this is all a waste of time."
• Negotiator. Invents the 0-to-5 Laewendas meter on the spot and walks Dr. Xiao Li from 3.5 down to 2 with the village whose children were taken for thirty years, the quarter-share taxes, the uncontrolled zombie forest and the pillaging commanders — then floats the plan the session ends on: turn the scientists, stage a collapse at the north tunnel, and parse each oath's exact wording for who is really bound.
• The symbiote gambit. Proposes feeding one of the party's grafting-gland symbiotes to the green pool — either it takes the 50/50 and the party shares its blood, or it drinks the reservoir dry. Refused by both Malaika and Dr. Xiao Li. She also flatly declines the deal herself: "doesn't seem worthwhile." Still level 7.

Session 54

• Dug up the gauntlets and the ceiling with them. Two pickaxes, an Athletics check the GM waved through ("way up your alley as a commoner that focuses on digging") and a d10 where a 1 would have ended badly. She stacked leaning rocks like a house of cards, reached blind into the pocket at the bottom — "rib bone, rib bone, clavicle, skull, tooth, arm, arm, metal gauntlet" — and pulled the first gauntlet out. That started the collapse; she grabbed the second anyway, and Silithane hauled her out by the ankles as the passage came down on the miner, his ghost and the rest of his skeleton. "I wanted to get the whole skeleton out and make the ghost happy."
• New gloves. Takes the Gravity Gauntlets — a no-save, no-check 20-ft pull on every creature near a chosen point — over her blacksmith's gloves, once Thalia refuses to be "the sucking character" and Silithane and Fenric pass. Her reasoning is sound: her turns are mostly Help, dodge or attack, and pulling enemies off her friends is a free upgrade. She also negotiates the errata, asking the GM to make the fall damage land instantly.
• Downed by the Bonestorm. Took the tail for 17, then failed the bone-cyclone save and hit 0 — the new gauntlets' advantage against being knocked prone doesn't apply to a failed save on a spell. One death-save success; Thalia whipped her 10 feet clear of the radius, and she spent her downed turn drinking her last real healing potion. Fenric gave her one of his at the long rest.
• Everything scaled to Salamandine. Spends her whole level-8 feat on Advanced Beast Training for Salamandine: +4 to all damage, +3 AC, +3 to all saves, 50 max HP. Turns down Beast Boxcar — the homebrew feat that teaches a companion to drive land vehicles, brackets trains — despite the GM's genuine lobbying. This is her last level of d6 inspiration dice; d8s at 9.
• At her carrying cap. Leaves up to 70 dragon teeth on the floor — not crumbling ("not like crumbly," says the GM) but already damaged, the bone around them in such poor condition that no check was needed to pull them free, unlike her sun-dried Toxico ones, which had to be worked out of the skull. Her own inspection is what condemns them: "screw it, they're too damaged." Drops 20 lbs of ore besides, the GM pointing out that about 90% of her sheet has been written as weighing nothing. Reminder for the record: the restored Grabber carpets she cleaned up are in the caravan, not on her.
• Named the Dragon War out of Polos. Needles Dr. Xiao Li and her scientist about Laewendas's legend of flying a dragon and killing all the others, and gets the story's title from a man who has no business in Rivalonian propaganda. Now level 8.

Session 55

• Two commissions delivered in one morning. She spent the long rest at the forge instead of sleeping. For Fenric: ten claw tips cut from the Gravek claws she has hauled since Session 12, with ten metal bands, a two-segment clasp system worked out to the percentage (20% off the width of the front inches, 5% behind for the band), and soft gum caps so he doesn't poison himself in his sleep — +1 to hit, +1d6 poison. For Silithane: she stole the Silvered Short Sword out of his kit overnight and gave it back as a +1 silvered longsword balanced to handle like a short sword. "We've been thinking about it for a while, so I decided just to hammer it out last night, and I want to use all these fancy monster parts that we have."
• The queue is open. Two magic items done; the next is three sleeps out for anyone who names what they want rather than taking whatever she feels like making. She also agreed to let Silithane watch her work at night as a substitute for teaching him to smith — "I can yap at you like I do my work, and then I'm not yapping at nobody."
• Made jelly out of Thalia's bloodberries, walked it into the middle of a conversation about what everyone would taste like, and could not work out why Jex was offended.
• "I don't even kill plants anymore." The session's fault line. With four of the party voting to destroy the two jarred grafting-gland symbiotes with the new shard, Lash refused outright and kept them. Her argument, made alone and angrily: the party has carried these things for months and they have done nothing; Gray Veil was Caressa's doing, not the symbiote's ("she wanted to be hugged and she got all those hands… I think they would not blame a little goopy boy"); and judging a slime in a jar by a shadow in a rock is "like comparing that rock monster we fought to Jex." Her closing line to the group: "you've had these things with us for months now. Because we see something completely different, do something weird, does not mean we should apply that to everything we know." She then walked off to fetch the scientists and missed the oath — the one member of the party with no claim on the shard.
• She did test it, though. Held the jar up to the green crystal and asked the thing inside whether it looked good or bad; it moved to the far side of the jar. Her read: "even in the greens — green crystal's a baby killer."
• Not sure who's in the party. Her History check after the erasure came back worst of anyone: she isn't fully certain of the current roster, is "pretty sure Brebo's in the group but no one else ever talks about him," and genuinely wondered whether Draak existed.
• Harvested the Morkid. Rolled Survival rather than her +0 Intelligence (allowed on the grounds that she gives the GM "the energy of someone that could gather monster parts") and cut out the creature's tongue where the gorilla's flesh meets the plant — about 5 lbs, still alive after death and reaching to grab things and drag them toward a mouth that no longer exists. "This is like plant business." It can be grafted to a weapon, or to her shoulder if a symbiote is ever let out of its jar. She checked the weight first; she is still at her carrying cap.
• Moon-guard maxed. Two clear moonlit nights on the road (the 25th and 26th, four days short of the full moon on the 30th) take her Aethelric moon-guard stacks to their new maximum of 7.
• Fed everyone, honestly. Volunteered unprompted that she has rations for one extra mouth and not two — Thalia doesn't need to eat while the moon is up, so it works out exactly. The GM thanked her for it rather than making anyone delete rations. No level-up; still level 8.

Character Sheet (mechanics)

In-play co-pilot sheet. No authoritative numeric character sheet exists in the sources; all values below are stated in play. Anything not observed is marked unknown.

Identity

• Class: Commoner (homebrew class — key stats CHA & CON, tags "Social / Support / Utility"). Source: DM Companion class table.
• Level: 7. Hit 6 at Session 25 (gained always-max HP + Mass Inspire); hit 7 at Session 39 (the long-rest level-up, with a saved-up new weapon due). Still 7 through Session 44; confirmed still 7 through Session 50 (no level-up across the mine approach and infiltration — GM defers mine "pips" until they go deeper); still 7 through Session 51 (the GM again defers a level/"pip" as the party delves the deep mine); still 7 through Session 52 (the GM keeps deferring pips as the party delves deeper — killing the crystal golem and reaching the deep research facility grant no level); still 7 at the end of Session 53, now explicitly one pip short of 8 — the GM names the three rewards left in the mountain (the bone dragon, the phased spiders in the water tunnels, and the mining-camp boss with his Queensguard, "worth like a pip and a half"), and any one of them levels her (Session 53). Level 8 at Session 54, on the bone dragon — the level-8 slot was an ability score improvement for every class at the table, and she took a feat instead: Advanced Beast Training for Salamandine (+4 damage, +3 AC, +3 saves, 8 ASI points for the beast, and max HP recalculated to 50). Her inspiration dice stay d6 at 8; they become d8s at 9. Level 8 is not a proficiency-bonus level — she checked, expecting her cookie value to tick up, and it did not (Session 54). Still 8 through Session 55 — the Morkid was not worth a pip ("it was not needed against the plant thing"), and she checked at the end of the road: "Hell yeah, did not level up" (Session 55).
• Species: Axolotl (Amphibian Beastfolk). Source: DM Companion species table (Amphibian → Axolotl).
• Background / origin: Smith and crafter — the party's only crafter. Born to an isolationist axolotlan sect deep in the Veilwood (a cave behind an underwater entrance), trained as cook/tailor, became the Venatori's go-to repairsmith. No standard 5e background is named in the sources. Carries the Chef feat (granting the extra-d8 cooking benefits seen in play). Source: Session 06.
• Member of The Shattered Coin.

Combat stats

• AC: unknown as a number — never announced. Known contributors: reinforced smithing apron (+1 AC, fire resistance, Session 05) and Forge Master goggles (Session 33); GM noted "the magic items you just bought saved you" at Session 34. Refuses to wear anything that looks like armour (Session 33). One relative datum at Session 54: "Salamandine has more armor than me" — and the level-8 feat then gave him +3 AC on top.
• Max HP: unknown as a number. Since level 6 she rolls always-maximum HP (Session 25); the Chef feat adds extra hit-die HP. Hit-dice self-healing observed at 18 HP in one short-rest spend (Session 10). Repeatedly heals herself to full mid-fight with a bonus-action hit die (Session 16).
• Key saves: unknown as numbers. CON is a class key stat and her defining defense — tanked a one-ton Boulder Toss on a CON save (Session 31), passed a con save vs. rum (Session 08). No save bonus was ever stated. (Note: her own +1-to-all-saves aura affects allies within 600 ft, not necessarily herself — see Abilities.)
• Initiative: unknown modifier. She added a +1 initiative rider to her crafted hammer (Session 12); base modifier never stated.
• Attack / damage bonus: unknown as a flat number. She fights as a support/buffer ("more effective than me lightly bapping something") and her own hits are described as low-accuracy (Session 18, Session 41); observed hammer hits land for ~6–10 damage (Session 12, Session 29). Post-Session 54 that has moved: against the Morkid, with the thing surrounded and "nobody really needs help or anything," she led with damage rather than buffs — both attack rolls on her first turn landed, for 16 and 13, and a later turn hit for 20 and was totalled aloud as "29 is what I did damage-wise" (Session 55). How much of that is her own hammer and how much is Salamandine's empowered tail attack is not broken out in the source.

Abilities & features (seen in play)

• +1-to-all-saves aura (Commoner): while she is alive, allies within 600 ft get +1 to all saving throws — stated verbatim at Session 24; running through fights at Session 18, Session 20, Session 31.
• Inspiration dice (bardic-style): hands an ally a die to add to a roll. Scaled from d4 (early sessions, Session 10–Session 14) to d6 at level 6 ("it'll be a d6 next level," Session 17; d6 confirmed Session 18). Range 30 ft (Session 12). A given die lasts until the end of combat and is used once (Session 18, Session 19). She tracks them on her sheet as stacks: mid-Morkid fight she counted "how many stacks of things I actually have… 6 of them back," then spent two of them on d6s to Fenric in the same fight (Session 55) — the first number ever put on the pool.
• Mass Inspire: can inspire several creatures at once (gained at level 6, Session 25).
• Ally-granted Heroic Inspiration (held resource): can be handed Heroic Inspiration by an ally (e.g. Magra) and carry it across sessions, spending it as a full reroll of a failed check (not advantage) — held Magra's from Session 49 and burned it to save a slip-means-death barracks tree-climb Athletics check (Session 50). Handed Heroic Inspiration by Magra again (her Encouraging Song) on the post-golem-fight short rest (Session 52).
• Help action at range: grants an ally advantage; works by hearing, not sight (clutch in a dust cloud), out to ~15 ft (Session 12, Session 17, Session 38). Routinely paired with an Inspiration die in the same turn. At Session 53 she Helps from 30 ft — the earlier ~15 ft figure unreconciled — and does it out of combat, granting Fenric advantage on the Sleight of Hand to touch the sword in the sleeping dragon's skull; the GM confirms on the spot that it is a limited-use feature and so may be spent on any check, not just combat rolls (Session 53). Range is still unsettled — she measures "15 feet, 20 feet" before Helping across the dragon fight (Session 54). She plays a granted Help as lasting about a minute (so an ally can carry it into a later turn), which the GM neither confirms nor denies, and she happily hands out a Help and an inspiration die in the same turn (Session 54).
• Chef feat — cookies: bakes 4 treats (last 8 hours); a creature can eat one as a bonus action for temp HP — +4 at Session 10/Session 11, later +6 ("twice her proficiency bonus," Session 18). At the level-8 sheet update she reads the value off her own sheet as 4, expects it to become 5 at the next proficiency tier, and confirms level 8 is not that tier — "it is still 4 on the cookie" (Session 54). That does not reconcile with the Session 18 figure; see Unknowns.
• Chef feat — short-rest healing: each ally who spends hit dice on a short rest gets one extra d8 of healing (once, regardless of dice spent) (Session 10); her looted-breakfast cooking also added +1d8 on a short rest (Session 10).
• Magic Hammer rerolls: 3 full rerolls per long rest (a true reroll, not advantage), spent to save allies' rolls — repeatedly rescued Silithane's concentration (Session 31, Session 40) and allies' CON saves (Session 18, Session 38). The three can be spread across three different people — "I can give 3 people rerolls on this as well. Wow, I have 3 rerolls, I never get to use them" — and she spent one on Fenric's Bonestorm Dexterity save (Session 54).
• Protector reaction (new at level 7): can negate a hit that only barely beats an ally's AC (narrated as Salamandine's tongue yanking the blade aside); tracks party ACs on a sticky note (Session 43). She names the trigger for the first time at Session 53: her Magic Hammer catching moonlight — "I have this hammer that when moonlight strikes it, I can protect people" (Session 53). She calls it "the shield thing" and had been keeping Salamandine beside her to use it — "I had him beside me because I could do the shield thing" — before sending him round the far side of the dragon to spread the party out against the breath weapon (Session 54).
• Moon guard (moonlight stacks): a resource whose maximum scales with sight of the moon. She asks the GM directly whether the party could see the moon on both nights of the overland trip; told yes — the 25th and 26th, four days off the full moon on the 30th — she raises her cap: "Oh, I can actually have 7 now… Max stacks are now 7 as well." Previous ceiling therefore 6, new ceiling 7 (Session 55). She names it "my moon guard" and attaches a second word the transcript renders as "Ethelric" / Aethelric, which is unresolved. Whether these stacks are the same pool as her inspiration dice (she counted 6 back and spent them as d6s in the same session) and whether they feed the moonlight-triggered protector reaction above are both unconfirmed — see Unknowns.
• Rejuvenation (bonus-action self-heal): the name she finally gives the mid-fight self-heal she has been using since Session 16 — "roll a heal of my Rejuvenation as my bonus action" (Session 54). Recharge and die size still unstated.
• Commanding Salamandine: she directs his attacks as part of her own turn and can make one "empowered tail attack" — the tail-strapped longsword (Session 46) hitting the bone dragon for 11 bludgeoning — while also Helping an ally and taking her bonus action (Session 54).
• Kiss of the Sun (rage): a Sun-God rage giving her a triple-fire eyes/head visage, advantage on intimidation, and a heavy melee hammer-blow (landed a crit during the amalgam fight); it fades after a time, after which her combat drive drops off (Session 47).
• Sun Sight (sun-eyes): channels the sun-mark the entity burned into her at Session 09 — her eyes glow and she sees through disguises, illusions and hallucinations, and reads sun-aspected magic as distant sunlight flickering on it (both the book's symbol and the glyph above Rosa's lever flickered, and the lever itself resolved as a magical illusion of an ordinary lever). It requires real sunlight to switch on — a Daylight-grade spell counts, but ordinary light and the facility's artificial lights do not — and lasts one minute; she treats it as not reusable the same day. It does not translate text. Run at Session 53 off Rosa's expended 5th-level sunlight scroll, and already lapsed by the time the party met Malaika (Session 53).
• Field weapon-sharpening (smithing): over a rest she can hone a weapon at a quick forge spot to grant it +1 damage — sharpened both Golgain's (resized, ill-fitting looted longsword ground down to size) and Andross's blades (Session 46).
• Wilderness navigation (Survival): capable pathfinder — threaded the only safe trail to the hidden, unaskable-about forbidden mine on a 19 Survival, past a maze of decoy fishery/herbalist/mountaineering tracks (Session 49).
• Poison as a bonus action: via the rogue's tool sash (Session 10).
• Speak with Dead (via consumable): cast it by eating a death cap mushroom, no spell slot (Session 15).
• Species traits: breathes underwater (immune to drowning — confirmed Session 25, Session 26, survived a death-roll Session 34); swim speed 35 (per brief); regeneration — regrows a severed finger and pops one back on demand (Session 06, Session 32); speaks axolotlan (a partial match for the lizard-folk's Aquan, Session 26) — usable both as a threat and for diplomacy: drove off a shark with Aquan intimidation (a 20, a "bop on the nose") and greeted/parleyed with the Aquan-speaking cave hermits Pentuckle and Walter Gilman (Session 50); glows in moonlight (fey boon, Session 14).
• Spellcasting: not a prepared caster — utility "spell-like" effects come from items/consumables (Goodberry Wand, death-cap Speak with Dead). The party narrates her buff turns as "effectively cast a 3rd/4th-level spell" (Session 24, Session 31) — that is flavor, not slots.

Items & equipment

• Auricalcum/orichalcum masterwork hammer (reforged Prehistoric Longsword) — her signature weapon. Cold-forged auricalcum folding in 3 of its 5 properties; double head (hammer + rear pick), diamond bottom spike, spiked edge, a "clang" rider, and a +1 initiative rider she added at crafting. Finished Session 29 (worked Session 17, Session 27). Its front pick side doubles as a working pickaxe / pry-bar — she dug out the collapsed mine stairwell and pried crystal-vein boards loose with it (Session 51).
• Magic Hammer — her old Urina arena-champion prize; 3 rerolls per long rest, the backbone of her buff engine. Session 04.
• Reinforced smithing apron — +1 AC, fire resistance. Session 05.
• Forge Master goggles — flame-resistant; absorbed the 1 fire damage from a point-blank cone of the sunlight spell, leaving only a tinge of sunburn (Session 53). Session 33.
• Gravity Gauntlets (worn — replaces her blacksmith's gloves) — high-quality mining gauntlets with processed white golem-crystal (the same substance as the crystal golem's core) set into the backs of the hands. Name a point and every creature within 20 ft of it is dragged to it: no saving throw, no ability check, no attack roll, and no opportunity attacks, since the movement is involuntary. Creatures only, not objects. Rated "definitely above common, but not epic or legendary." Aimed 20 ft above a target it is 2d6 fall damage. They also grant advantage on a check to resist being knocked prone — which the GM ruled does not apply to a failed save against a spell, so they did not save her from the Bonestorm (Session 54). Post-session errata, two of them her own doing: range capped at 200 ft (as written it was unlimited, which the table worked out could drag the sun down), no target larger than the 20-ft square it is being pulled into, and, at her request, the fall damage lands instantly. Recovered from the miner who died wearing them; she took them after Thalia, Silithane and Fenric all passed, reasoning that her turns are "usually dodge or attack or help" and pulling things off her friends is free value. Not yet used in anger. Session 54.
• Rogue's tool sash — poison as a bonus action. Session 10.
• Goodberry Wand — 8 zero-suffering berries/day, feeds the whole party. Bought from Renforth for 1,000 gold (IOU wiped Session 44). Session 35.
• Crab Pearl — summons the Crab Wizard "in greatest need," lures crabs. Session 05, Session 11.
• Reclamation Signet — Tilda scratched on as next of kin. Session 08.
• Animal-handling kit: affection ring, Cecil's treat belt, suspenders-worn-as-a-cape (+3 Animal Handling). Session 44. The treat-and-talk combo landed a 35 Animal Handling to fully tame a wild badeedle mid-fight (nicknamed "Burrito," left at the cliff rather than kept) (Session 49).
• Guard-summoning whistle (works anywhere in Varia) from Taximus Maximus. Session 03.
• Houndmaster's whistle — summons up to ~4 fighting dogs a day; bought from Tony for 100 gold (Session 46).
• Moon pendant (from the Veilwood) — a worn keepsake (likely tied to her moonlight glow); Stunghelm Elkheart examined it and was unnerved to learn it came from the Veilwood (the transcript renders it "Valewood") (Session 46). It reads out the current phase of the moon on demand — she checks it twenty to thirty miles underground at Session 53 (waxing, about 8 days off full, 22nd of New Summer) — which pairs it with the moonlight trigger on her protector reaction (Session 53).
• Companions: Salamandine (a.k.a. Squishy) — tamed salamander that pulls The Land Boat, kept calm by the axolotlan song (Session 21); a pet crab (keep wet twice daily, Session 11); Milkshake the defected cow (Session 33). In combat Lash strapped an agile longsword to Salamandine's tail so he can attack touch-dangerous (infectious) enemies without contact — with plans for a permanent blade-fin attachment (Session 46). Salamandine at level 8 (Session 54, via Advanced Beast Training): max HP 50 (an 18 base plus 4× her level, backdated because she had never scaled it), +4 to all damage rolls, +3 AC, +3 to all saving throws, and 8 ability score points to place — the GM's pitch being 8 into Strength for +4 to hit and +4 more damage. His HP now rises every time she levels. He also gained a long-rest self-heal ("licking his wounds"), written on his sheet as a flat current healing figure because Foundry has nowhere to put hit dice on an NPC and clicking the button breaks his health outright. She turned down Beast Boxcar, the fifth and joke option in the GM's beast-bond feat list (Beast Bond, Beast Bonder, Beast Boxcar, Advanced Beast Training, Master Beast Training), which teaches a companion to operate land vehicles — trains included.
• Arcane focus crystal — a palm-sized crystalline gem, the necromancer Dreadweaver Corpsefortune's spellcasting focus; pocketed from his ashes. Session 47.
• Looted off Rikard: a longsword (carried like a tail) — the single item Palumbo's distraction bought her; the coin purse and the tome of hateful hymns stayed with the evidence. A gang bandana and a kitchen knife came off a captured supremacist later the same night. Session 16.
• Grabbler "brain" bounty token — pets it; GM hints it can be fed hands to grow a loyal Grabber Queen. Session 30, Session 31.
• Crystal golem core — a watermelon-sized, white "epic"-grade crystal heart looted from the shattered blue-crystal golem; it is immovable (immune to any effect that would move it against its will) and carries gravity-based properties, which the GM flags as craftable into a two-handed hammer head, shield or armour bearing an "I-don't-want-to-be-moved"/gravity effect. She dropped ~50 lbs of red Menagoles crystal (plus grabbed a few more blue/white crystals) to haul it out of the reverse-gravity chamber. Session 52.
• Spare tunneling-machine keys — a second set of the giant digging machine's drive keys, fished out of the drowned filter-pool (distinct from Magra's recovered lift keys). Also topped up on sturdy mining rope ×several from the alarm-room crates — "the only one who doesn't have rope." Session 52.
• Grafting-gland symbiote (jarred) — she personally carries at least one of the party's "Grafting Gland Legendary Living Creature Symbiote" specimens from the under-prison, and produces it from a little jar to pitch feeding it the green reservoir. A grafted symbiote absorbs a thing and then lets that thing be grafted onto people (the under-prison woman's ten thousand hands); the GM allows that one could theoretically drink the whole pool, which is why Malaika and Dr. Xiao Li refused. Session 53. Both jars are hers as of Session 55 — she pulls one out to show the room, and when Thalia, Magra, Silithane and Fenric vote to have the shard destroy both, she refuses and keeps them in her pack. Two marks against them recorded the same session: held up to the green crystal, the specimen moved to the far side of the jar, and the GM's own note is that it "doesn't not resemble" the thing that came out of the Void Stone — "the same brand of family" (Session 55).
• Library card — one of a kind, minted "Secret Underground Bunker" in engraved Foredweller lettering, issued by Minimika against full next-of-kin paperwork and stamped on return. Borrowing rights in a library of ~10,000 untranslated Foredweller books, twenty to thirty miles underground. Session 53.
• Mining pickaxe — one of the two waiting in the digging shade's passage, taken and used to break through into the buried miners' meeting room. Session 53.
• Craft hoard (raw materials): bag of iron teeth, the pyroxene haul (jadeite, quartz/rhyolite, brimstone, orgite, slag iron, two gems), 498 killipede spines + liver, grievek hide + 6 claws, crocolion head + hide, a Damp Sprout, five wyrm fangs (for Fenric's claw weapon), the epic crystal-golem core (see above), silver stock. Session 07, Session 12, Session 14, Session 34, Session 40, Session 52. Trimmed at Session 54: she dropped 20 lbs of crystal to stay under her carrying cap and declined up to 70 dragon teeth — damaged, and set in bone in such poor condition there was no check to pull them out, unlike her sun-dried Toxico worm teeth, which are now priced on the sheet at 0.5 lb each. Spent at Session 55: the six Gravek claws she had hauled since Session 12 went into Fenric's claw tips. The five wyrm fangs are still unspent — that was a separate commission. Added: the Morkid tongue (see above), weighed before she took it.
• Shard of the Autarch (party tool, not hers) — Anita's shard, given on a sworn oath to use it only on void-things. Lash never swore it — she had walked off to fetch the scientists — so she is the one member with no claim on it, and it lives in the galley wagon as a shared tool rather than on anyone's sheet (Session 55).
• Morkid tongue (new — ~5 lbs) — cut out where the gorilla's flesh meets the plant, on a Survival check the GM allowed in place of her +0 Intelligence ("you do give me the energy of someone that could gather monster parts"). Still alive after the creature's death, reaching to grab and drag things toward a mouth that no longer exists. It can be grafted to a weapon — feasibility depending entirely on what she attaches it to — or onto her shoulder if a symbiote is ever let out of its jar. She asked its weight before taking it, being "careful with my weight right now." Session 55.
• Not actually carried: several entries filed under her loot live in the caravan, including the giant Grabber-cave carpets she cleaned and restored in downtime — "I don't carry giant carpets on me." Session 54.
• Smith's tools / forge — her portable "Blacksmithing Emporium" (baby anvil, relocated smelter). Session 05, Session 06.

Resources (last known)

• Spell slots: none (not a caster).
• +1-to-all-saves aura: passive while alive, 600 ft.
• Inspiration dice: d6 each at levels 7 and 8 — level 8 is her last d6 tier, and they go to d8s at 9 (Session 54). Can Mass-Inspire; range 30 ft. Number available per rest is unknown — she hands out several per fight and refers to spending her "last d6" (Session 18, Session 19) — but she counts them in stacks and had 6 recovered going into the Morkid fight, spending two of them there (Session 55).
• Moon guard stacks: ceiling raised from 6 to 7 on two moonlit nights of overland travel, the 25th and 26th of New Summer, four days short of the full moon on the 30th (Session 55). Her moon pendant is what reads the phase (see Items).
• Rations: enough to feed the party plus one extra mouth, not two — declared unprompted with two civilians in tow, and it works out exactly because Thalia doesn't need to eat while the moon is up. The GM's alternative was deleting three rations off someone's sheet (Session 55).
• Magic Hammer rerolls: 3 per long rest.
• Chef cookies: 4 per batch, 8-hr duration, temp HP 4 on her current sheet at level 8 (against the ~6 recorded at Session 18 — unreconciled, Session 54); short-rest +1d8 healing benefit once per rest, which she called out and rolled for the party at the long rest (Session 54).
• Healing potions: none of her own. She drank her last real potion on her downed turn in the Bonestorm, and confirmed at the long rest that she has nothing left but a swimming potion; Fenric handed her some of his (he was holding 4 minor and 5 normal) (Session 54).
• Heroic Inspiration: holds one from Magra's Encouraging Song, handed out at the Session 54 long rest along with Thalia and Fenric; she believes she still had the previous one as well — "I still got inspiration unless it goes away." Spent as a full reroll of any die.
• Encumbrance: now a live constraint — she is at or just under her carrying cap, and the GM's audit is that about 90% of her sheet has been written as weighing nothing, so the real figure is worse than the sheet says (the worked example: 60 rations — six stacks of ten — at 2 lbs each). Cap number never stated (Session 54).
• Protector reaction: 1 reaction/round.
• Hit dice: drive her self-healing (always-max rolls); pool size unknown.
• Poisons held: Ironrot Bile vial (3 platinum, Session 15) and Toxico samples she tested (Session 39).
• Coin: ~1,000-gold IOU to Renforth cleared (Session 44); spent 100 gold on the Houndmaster's whistle (Session 46); gained ~27 gold as her share of Humphrey's 162g8s reward for finding Stunghelm Elkheart and saving New Halfwood's food (Session 48); current purse total unknown.
• Crafting projects (banked days): has banked crafting/downtime days she is now spending on custom personalised weapons for the party — first up an upgrade to Silithane's Silvered Short Sword; also did quick repairs on misc Grabber Queen loot (re-handed a broken watch, re-engraved a dented goblet) (Session 51). Now also holds the epic crystal-golem core as a premier future-craft material — a live crafting decision the GM wants her to forge into a gravity/immovable hammer, shield or armour (Session 52). The GM adds a second future project at Session 53: she can upgrade the +2 dragon-slaying short sword when she levels, and eventually raise it to legendary ("a long way off") — if the party ever prises it out of the bone dragon's skull (Session 53); that sword is now in Magra's hands, so the upgrade is live (Session 54). Two more commissions open at Session 54: she can spend a night turning Jex's +3 dragon-slaying arrow into a bolt after its first five uses, so Magra gets the other five of its ten; and she offered to make the archers blunt arrows for skeletal targets, which shots pass straight through. The cadence is now stated (Session 55): a magic item costs three sleeps — "Next person who wants a magic item, it will be 3 sleeps and then I can deliver it. So if you want me to make something that's not just completely random, then let me know what it is." Two were delivered that morning off the Session 54 long rest, both built out of monster parts she had been hoarding: Fenric's claw tips (ten bone tips, ten metal retaining bands, a two-segment clasp, soft gum caps; worn as a weapon rather than an unarmed strike for +1 to hit and +1d6 poison, and they still retract into his sheaths) and Silithane's +1 silvered longsword, reforged overnight from the short sword she stole out of his kit and balanced to handle like a short sword. She banked two of the next three sleeps on the road home — "One more and I can craft a weapon… or armor or an item" — with the slot unclaimed at session end. She also took Silithane on as a night-shift observer rather than a student: "you can watch me work if you want some nights."
• Rest state (end of Session 53): no long rest — roughly 25-30 hours underground and awake as the party crosses into the 23rd of New Summer, and she calls herself "a little bit injured" while choosing to press on into the bone dragon's lair rather than sleep. Nothing of her own was expended: the 5th-level sunlight scroll burned on her sun-eyes was Rosa's (Session 53).
• Rest state (end of Session 54): long rest taken — the party's first in about thirty hours, on the research facility's second floor with hot showers off the Foredweller fire-machines, and the level-8 sheet work done there. She was dropped to 0 by the Bonestorm earlier in the day (one death-save success, no failures) and came up on her own last potion. Everything recharges, but the party as a whole burned nearly all its hit dice at that rest, so the GM's warning stands: a fight the next day is fought with no healing left (Session 54).
• Rest state (end of Session 55): two long rests taken, camped in the woods on the nights of the 25th and 26th of New Summer on the two-day march back to the Menagoles — "unmolested and unattacked," hit dice fully replenished. The 15–20 hours up the north tunnel before that were short-rest only ("walking up a mountain and having one break… that's not restful"). She took no damage in the Morkid fight — nobody did (Session 55).

Unknowns / to confirm

• Ability scores — none ever stated as numbers (CHA & CON are the class key stats; CON shows up repeatedly in saves).
• AC total, max HP total, save bonuses, initiative modifier, attack/damage bonus — never announced; only effects and outcomes observed.
• Proficiency bonus — inferred +3 (cookies = "twice proficiency" = 6 temp HP at Session 18); not stated outright. Confirmed only that level 8 is not a step-up level and the next tier is still ahead (Session 54).
• Cookie temp HP — recorded as 6 at Session 18 ("twice her proficiency bonus") but read off her own sheet as 4 at Session 54, with 5 expected at the next proficiency tier. One of the two is wrong, or the feature was rewritten in between; the current sheet says 4.
• Full Commoner class feature table — homebrew; the DM Companion only gives the class-name row, so the level-7 feature list is unconfirmed.
• Inspiration dice per rest — how many she gets and how they recharge (long rest assumed).
• Level-7 "new weapon" — saved up at Session 39; exact item/benefit to confirm.
• Confirmed background — she functions as a guild smith but no formal 5e background is named.
• Sun Sight's limit — the duration is stated (one minute) and she plays it as once a day, but the actual recharge, and whether anything short of true sunlight ever qualifies, are unconfirmed (Session 53).
• Help-at-range distance — played at 30 ft at Session 53 and measured aloud as "15 feet, 20 feet" at Session 54, against the ~15 ft of earlier sessions; the real range and the number of uses per rest are still unstated. Whether a granted Help persists for a minute into an ally's later turn, as she plays it, is also unruled (Session 54).
• Carrying capacity — never given as a number, but she is now at cap and roughly 90% of her sheet carries no recorded weight, so the sheet cannot be trusted until she prices it (Session 54).
• Rejuvenation — the bonus-action self-heal now has a name but no stated die, pool or recharge (Session 54).
• Moon guard — named for the first time at Session 55, with a stack ceiling that rose from 6 to 7 on sight of the moon. Three things are open: what the second word she attaches to it is (the transcript renders it "Ethelric", colliding with the vault's known Aethelric/Eldrich name-static); whether its stacks are the same pool as her inspiration dice, which she also counted as stacks and spent as d6s in the same session; and whether it is the resource behind the moonlight-triggered protector reaction she described at Session 53. None of the three is stated outright (Session 55).

SUMMARY: Level-8 axolotlan Commoner support-smith Lash; buff-engine mechanics transcript-confirmed, but AC/HP/scores unknown.