Chapter 9, Session 4: A meeting with Silas and a scrape of gunpowder.
General Summary
I am sick of people not involving me! I want to know what's going on but you all just keep stopping me!The party, relatively at ease after their short rest, decided to move down the right turn in the path they were travelling after revealing that more of them received a strange voice instructing them to go that way.
- Mimsi rails against the party after Fen stops her from reading the enchantment on Silas Povir's coffin.
Upon going left, Persicorum found themselves standing in a space called Silliscor Opera House; a large lecture theatre style building that looks as though it may have once been a grand hall but now was decrepit and rotted. In the centre of this hall there sat a coffin with it's lid partially ajar and furnished from a dark wood. The party moved to investigate and found that the lid of the coffin had an undercommon written chant emblazoned onto it which Fen, using Comprehend Languages, read aloud. ''We derive from Ashe, finding our purpose in him, our salvation... our saviour. To utter these words is to look through the door, to look through the door and to find our dark, wet, bloodied spot. Utter these words, utter them, utter them and feel that spot.' Upon reading this, the party watched as Fen vanished and panic IMMEDIATELY ensued. [At this moment, Fen was taken into a private conversation with the DM] Moments later, Fen returned in a weak state and panicked; claiming that he felt 'wrong' and that he saw Silas and the door that several party members had experienced a vision of but the door looked differently and he saw Silas enter through a portal next to it. With Fen's news, Ez checked him over but didn't notice anything wrong and the party asked Fen to write the chant onto a piece of paper so that they could say it. Fen initially refused before relenting and trying to stop Mimsi from reading it. However, as Fen attempted to tackle Mimsi and plead with the others to not read, Ez felt the note snatched from his hand and Kodo read the chant. [At this moment, Kodo was taken into a private conversation with the DM] During this time, Mimsi, Fen and Ez had an argument over the groups reluctance to involve Mimsi in dangerous events like these. Fen initially refused to write another chant until writing it for the pair of them and moving away, claiming he was 'trying to stop them making a mistake like he did'. At this moment, Kodo returned, laughing in a maniacal manner to himself and claiming that he had met Silas who was a spoilt and childish fool. Further frustrated, Mimsi asked for a straightforward answer and Kodo claimed that Silas was collecting keys of Entities and trying to hoard them. At this moment, Ez decided to read the paper. [At this moment, Ez was taken into a private conversation with the DM] Ez returned and told the party that he had also seen Silas who was in a feral rage and told Ez that he had infected Fen with the 'gift and curse' of his blood... likely turning Fen into a vampire. Ez also claimed that Silas warned that if Mimsi visited then he would make sure she didn't return. The party then decided, before moving on, that they would at least burn the coffin in the hope that it would hinder Silas in some way. As they slowly lit and charred the coffin they watched as an item dropped out of it's base as it burned away which Mimsi at first checked out but eventually gave to Fen to identify... however, the wizard was left frustrated as he revealed the identify spell simply told him that the item required attunement and nothing else. The party, with this knowledge, left the item, which a metallic spherical ball like shape, in the bag of holding. With the coffin successfully burned, the party retraced their steps and moved down the left tunnel where, after walking for a relatively long time and feeling that deep descent, the group came into another factory. The space was dusty and ramshackle and staffed entirely by strange stone statues that looks similar to the goblin the party found in the upper level of the dungeon. The group hesitated and stealthed for a time, leading Fen to volunteer to stealth ahead using invisibility to scout out the area; the party agreed and Fen wandered for a time, finding the inner offices which houses a conference table laden with burnt corpses and a series of stone statues completing strange and unsettling rituals. Fen returned to the party and they decided to move down the tunnel and completely avoid any complications in their travel. However, as they moved they came past a piece of working machinery that created pickaxes and a strange dusty grey stone. Ez decided to try to get a scraping of it with his dagger and, as he scraped it, a spark caught the powder and it exploded, damaging some of the party and drawing the attention of the factory. Leading to the party sprinting out of that area as fast as they possibly could in order to avoid an encounter. After this room, the party descended further down for around 2 hours in a gut wrenchingly boring section of the walk. Eventually, they came upon their next door. A room that was titled 'Silliscor Spa- for all you _ _ _ _ _ _ _ needs'. After spending some time discussing what the missing word could be, the party entered and were greeted by a fog and mist filled space before them. From within the mist, a voice rung out saying 'welcome to Silliscor spa, owned and ruled by our gluttonous fiend Tanha, relaxe weary travellers for we are here for all your sensual needs.' Thoroughly unnerved, the party endeavoured to stick together and move through the space unhindered... though this did not quite go to plan... The group were immediately split up with Kodo and Lyren Killian both failing wisdom saves to avoid being teleported away from the party and so they were isolated and found themselves in a room with the succubus workers in the spa. Upon both Kodo and Lyren passing their saving throws to avoid being charmed the succubi became rage filled monsters and the party were brought into a reluctant combat. Ez, in an attempt to locate and support the rest of the party, conjured eight ferrets to help in the search and notably left one with Fen whilst the rest moved throughout the spa to find their allies. In the starting rounds, Fen and a group of the ferrets were caught in a powerful fireball but Fen, in a moment of pure something used his cloak of absorption to protect one of the ferrets from harm and, moments later, Ez, in a moment of dark rage at watching his ferrets die, used a high level blight to destroy one of the succubi. As the party continued moving forward, they came across a final succubus named Serana the 4th, and, in a moment of masterful seduction, Mimsi took on her lady Green persona and convinced the final succubus to let the party go in return for Lady Green returning to have a relationship when she was doen with helping her friends. The party moved on from the succubus spa and, in their next room, found a veritable treasure trove of gold, weapons, armour and jewels...
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16 Sep 2023
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