Session 27 – Lost City: Lower Pyramid
General Summary
Having successfully completed their self-imposed mission to the so called ‘Isle of Death’ the group gets some rest while contemplating their next plan.
The vampires they dispatched on the island were in possession of a scroll of teleport but the location was not clear on the scroll. Knowing that the Cult of Zargon controls the area directly below the pyramid, but above the underground city and deducing that it is likely that Zargon itself dwells there, they conclude that the scroll may teleport there, or possibly back to the island from there so they begin exploring the lower reaches of the pyramid.
They first enter a large chamber with two large holes filled with slime, the walls covered with oozing cracks and bear murals of humanoids in mourning and the floors strewn with rusty mining tools.
As they explore the room a black pudding falls from the ceiling landing on Feebs, knocking him unconscious! Gunkyn immediately revives him with a cure wounds spell and the team springs to action against the ooze. Despite Gikhesh's flame tongue greatsword causing it to split into two smaller black puddings, they still manage to avoid being overly wounded by the creature, although Sylbella learns that directly attacking it in melee results in getting burned as though by acid.
After the black pudding is dealt with, they move on to a large set of double-doors are the east end of the room. There they encounter a group of twelve Zargonites chanting in some kind of ritual. Eleven of them surround an altar, while the twelfth stands atop the black marble altar convulsing as the others chant.
The group immediately engages, with Gunkyn using his favorite spell, Nathair’s Mischief before the others enter the room to try to disrupt the ritual. Despite being engaged in combat, the cultists still continue to chant even as their numbers dwindle.
As the chanting continues during the fight, the Zargonite atop the altar proclaims, “I have been chosen! Praise the Returner!” as they melt into an amorphous blob of chattering teeth and darting eyes.
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