May 2020 part 1

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Climbing thin stairs. All bar Gundark see a couple of Green Dragons circling party, about a half-mile out.

  • Three different dragons. Look to be taking turns circling.
  • Gundark realises 3-5 other humanoids have travelled ahead of party.
  • Essen checks. Definitely 5.
  • Two distinct groups.
  • One had an incoporeal passenger.

Party comes to a fortified ruin. Sarpadian bodies scattered. Fresh earth. Ejected out of the walls (?). Drawn out by something. About 30 bodies in total. Think Roman Praetorian Guard. Essen investigates.

  • No bones taken.
  • Fresh bones with flesh recently removed (human).
  • Not teeth, but filleting knives.
  • Evidence of a fight.
  • Ophion noticed a whole lot of Eldritch Blast effects.
  • Evidence of bodies reforming (?).
  • All skeletons have arcane scrimshaw.

Skeletons reanimate at night. Two of the skeletons are from the group of 5 who came through yesterday (Lvl 14 and 16 Warlocks).

  • Symbols of Kord Moebius on skeletons.

Party moves on. Gundark fails CON check.

Party reaches top. The mist rolls in. Two tiny green dargons appear in the mist. Whispers in Draconic, 'The Professor'.

Ophion replies, 'Not the Professor, his brother.'

A gargantuan green dragon slams to the ground, same as Dwayne spoke to last night. 'Needs Professor' and flies away.

Ophion turns into Rueben to prove his existence. Swears on his blood to Gundark. O answers Essen's questions about past.

Four purple lights emerge from the fog. Look like spectres, one pulsating.

  • Dwayne takes 10 Necrotic damage.
  • Doesn't wake up.
  • Same to Gundark.
  • Next is Ophion.
  • Critically fails 'wake up' roll.
  • Essen attacked by
  • Hypnotic Spectre.
  • Giblenock Fireblasts it.
  • Ophion takes another 10 necrotic.
  • Responds with Hellish Rebuke.
  • Ophion takes down Hypnotic Spectre with a Fireball.
  • Essen takes down two regular spectres with Sunbeam.
  • Third flies away.

One of effect - Necro damage equal to level added to one attack. User takes equal damage. CON checks over next three days (11,13,15), if failed 2d8 hit points.

NEXT DAY

Party avoids undead (zombies, wights, skeletons) during travel. That night, baby green dragon rests between Gundark and Ophion, looks at Gimblenock, says in Common 'Warlock? Wraith?' Touches Essen 'Wraith Assembly?' Keeps insisting.

  • Sniffs Gundark 'Professor? The Bad Thing? But Professor will stop the Bad Thing. Uncle Arky says this is the Professor.'
  • Claws Gundark across the face and darts away into the fog.

Reach final plateau. Vast battlefields. Huge forest. 50 miles across.

Party sees a crowned figure - Phraates, one of the Warlock Kings - level 20 warlock. HP 145.AC 18. Essen sees two invisible companions with him. He whispers "State your coven.' 'We have none.' He disappears.

  • 64 psychic damage and Stun to failures. 32 damage to pass (Ophion, Dwayne).
  • Two more warlocks appear. Eldritch Blasts to Dwayne. Gundark dragged towards enemies.
  • Maddening Darkness. Party is encased in darkness.
  • Dwayne Dimension Doors out of darkness and attacks Phraates. 18 damage.Knocked prone. 30 damage. Maddening Darkness ends. 32 damage.
  • Ophion casts Evard's Black Tentacles on the two warlocks.
  • Gimblenock acrobatically crosses the field WHILST drinking a healing potion.
  • Phraates uses Word of Pain on Dwayne on Gimblenock.
  • Warlock 1 attacks Gimblenock with Eldritch Blasts. 2 attacks Dwayne for 24 Radiant damage.
  • Ophion fireballs the warlocks for 28 damage.
  • Dwayne again attacks Phraates for 20 damage.
  • One warlock falls to the tentacles. Ophion hits Phraates for 25 with Firebolt.
  • Gimblenock Firebolts Phraates.
  • Phraates walks past Dwayne - Attack of Opportunity for 7. Grabs Warlock 1 and planeshifts away.

That night, whilst the party sleeps, one of the Bakenzenzi appears - 7"2', shapeshifter, - with an acacia tree behind him. Milky Way behind him. 

I speak of a girl, the sixth child of ten. 
The stealthiest. 
The nastiest.
While hunting in the deep forest
She drank from a well.
A well that drew water from a much older time.
With eyes buring bright
She returned to the forest hut with her siblings.
One by one.
One per week
Her siblings died. 
Her eyes were dry while her siblings filled theirs with tears
On a liminal night
At a liminal time
She took her 2 remaining siblings to drink from the well
She alone returned
Her siblings now fuelling her
ONE OF THE WITCHES - EMTARIATH
A WEAKNESS REVEALED.
  • Previous story was for Sili.
    • One of the children never graduated - FIND THE WORD OF POWER TO CONTROL SILI**

Next day. Climbiing to final plateau. All bar Dwayne and Gimblenock fail. Dwayne saves Essen and Ophion. Reach the top. The Wraith Assembly is happening (a meeting of warlocks) to choose the new Witch.

  • The 50 mile desolation is a pucker mark from one of Arcetutheis' tentacles when it last penjetrated this reality.
  • Holocene was built by the Dolg Catar before the Carkade and Alin arrived
  • It rested upon a green dragon warren used for hundreds of thousands of years
  • the Star Warrior lead the last of the Dolg Catar at Holocene when he fought the Alin
  • After the Alin were defeated , Holocen sunk into the warren of petrified wood of the Green Dragons
  • The party sees a glimpse of Kunoh grabbing Rueben.

Therian Coven - Skeleltons on lower plateau. Party agrees to use their name of questioned

Kode Moebius - "The Great Terisia braved the currents of the great dark..."

  • Statue of Toreja in the middle of the room. Skeletons on floor. Fetishes on the statue.
  • Ophion examines fetishes. Flashes of Musaset and Siadrake, leaders of covens who have entered already. Essen rfecognises a symbol

of the Great Old One Karthis T'Chellar (?), draws power from the Great Horned One, placed by Kord Moebius.

Move on to a limestone cavern. Pass through a door and see the Wraith Witch. Ophion gives name.

  • All hail the great Belial (lieutenant of Asmodeus).
  • The Wraith Witch is the gatekeeper of the event.
  • Purpose of the Wraith Assembly is true anoint the first true Witch since the Sarpadian Empire.
  • A Witch is a warlock who has thrown off their patronage to become a patron in their own right.

Head deeper into the fortress. Find 6 petrified dragon eggs. Gundark removes them.

"...anoints her successor persons..."

Shield (+5). Legendary. Blue. Round. Star decal. Dolg Catar. Magical, requires attunement. Gundark picks it up. Gundark and Essen to determine who you wield it.

A skittering is heard. Skar and her coven have transformed themselves into thousands of rats and are heading for party.

ESSEN ROLLED 21 INVESTIGATION AS GAME ENDED.

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