Kingdom on the brink - session 16
General Summary
The party short rests while Runsha and Swift Paws enter the caves to scout ahead, they notice some oozes and are about to continue forward when a floating creature with eyes and tendrils turns and looks at them, they slowly back away and return to the group. Oneiro goes in to try and lure out the monsters while the group sets up an ambush, before he can do that he gets hit by three magical beams, he fires an arrow with light on it and runs back to the group. After Oneiro tells them what happened the group decides to go in and attack the monsters. The group reaches the area with the monsters, the floating Mindwitness fires three rays (one each on Hendred, Ashara, and Artimus), the ray that hits Ashara causes her to become frightened. Swift Paws moves up and attempts to hide, during her movement she notices one of the oozes, the oozes began to move towards the group. Runsha smites the closest ooze, while severally hurting it the ooze also casues some acid damage to Runsha and degrades his warhammer. Oneiro fires a banishing arrow at the ooze to the north of the group and it disappears, Ashara begins to fire arrows at the ooze next to Runsha, Hendred and Artimus begin to pelt the ooze with ranged magic. The Mindwitnesses unleash another volley of magical rays, the majority of the group passes but Ashara hears a pschic scream in her head. Gareth moves up and throws his javelin of lightning at the far Mindwitness and Swift Paws begins shooting at the other one, Thorne keeps his distance and uses sacred flame on the ooze near Runsha. Runsha, not wanting to cause further damage to his warhammer, gets in position and breathes ice on the ooze, which appears to have little affects. Ashara drops her bow and runs towards the furthest Mindwitness and unleashes several melee attacks, Swift Paws takes a moment to line up her shot and unleashes a devastating arrow, which hits the Mindwitness in the eye and causing it to collapse. Talia continues to move her moonbeam around which inflicts radiant damage on the oozes, killing the northern ooze. The party finishes off the last Mindwitness and begins to focus on the last ooze, Gareth moves around and uses burning hands while Thorne hits it with sacred flame, killing it. The party begins to search the room, Oneiro and Hendred examine the Mindwitness and realize the eye might be worth something and begin to carve it out. Gareth goes to retrieve his javelin and manages to get it out of the tentacle corpse with an aggressive upward thrusting motion. Talia goes to check for other passage ways, Ashara and Thorne keep watch, and Swift Paws attempts to find something shiny. Artimus examines the eye and realizes the fluid could make an excellent base for a potion, Ashara get some water to help keep it moist.
The party continues up the northern passage, they begin to notice some abandoned and ancient structures, Hendred realizes it's ancient dwarven architecture dating back close to two thousand years ago. Talia begins to cross the bridge when three arrows hit her from a distance, she transforms into a dinosaur and charges into the direction the arrows came, finding two Driders. The group pulls out two arrows and gets Thorne and Hendred to cast light on them and passes the arrows to Oneiro, he fires them in the general direction of the Driders, getting close enough for the party to see them. The Driders attack Talia, landing enough strikes to knock her out of dinosaur form, Talia disengages and begins to retreat, Ashara clicks her boots and runs up to the Driders. Artimus, his skeletons, Swift Paws, and Thorne moves up and begins to focus on one Drider While Hendred stay back somewhat and launches a guiding bolt. Ashara notices some noise off in the distance but it appears to be moving away from her present position, the Driders attack and down her. Talia transforms into a Sabertooth tiger and and the party continues to chip away at the Driders, Ashara regains consciousness and disengages back to the group, the Driders follow and down her again. Hendred uses her channel divinity to bring Ashara back up and Gareth moves to attack one of the Driders, more members of the group notice some sounds and vibrations when an earth elemental appears and attack Oneiro. Oneiro backs up, causing it to attack again and unleashes a chromatic orb which cause thunder damage, Hendred notices the new foe and moves to help Oneiro. The rest of the party focuses on the Driders and downs one, Hendred uses her second channel divinity and heals Oneiro while also casting shield of faith and jumping down to help Oneiro. Ashara notices that Oneiro could use some help and runs over and jumps on the Elemental, somehow maintaining her balance and striking twice. The others dispatch the last Drider and begin to focus on the elemental, Artimus casts ray of enfeeblement while Gareth and Thorne hit it with Firebolt and Sacred Flame, Swift Paws finally fells it with a sneak attack. The group begins to search the room, finding some jewelry on the Driders and a diamond core in the elemental worth 200 GP.
The party moves on further down the passage and things begin to get hotter and more light appears when they finally come across a magma chamber where they spot a group of fire snakes and Salamanders. The group is torn on what to do so Oneiro attempts to talk to them in the Ignan dialect of primordial, he tries to persuade them the party means them no harm, but they don't believe him. Gareth surprises Oneiro and says he knows primordial (Just not a specific dialect) and Gareth begins to speak to them with Oneiro clarifying certain words. Gareth tells them about Kalzoz and a great army of the dead coming this way and how their quest leads them in this direction, Oneiro hears the Salamanders whispering if the party could be trusted with the power of the Ironworks. A salamander moves forward and motions for Oneiro and Gareth to move forward and tells them about the ruins of Varn Daruhm and the great artifacts it made, he tells them that if they bring them some of these artifacts so they might be able to defend themselves from the undead then they will be free to pass. Oneiro gives them his word and extends his hand, which the salamander accepts, and they clear the path. The group moves quickly through their territory and long rests, the next day they find themselves before the gates of Varn Daruhm.
The party continues up the northern passage, they begin to notice some abandoned and ancient structures, Hendred realizes it's ancient dwarven architecture dating back close to two thousand years ago. Talia begins to cross the bridge when three arrows hit her from a distance, she transforms into a dinosaur and charges into the direction the arrows came, finding two Driders. The group pulls out two arrows and gets Thorne and Hendred to cast light on them and passes the arrows to Oneiro, he fires them in the general direction of the Driders, getting close enough for the party to see them. The Driders attack Talia, landing enough strikes to knock her out of dinosaur form, Talia disengages and begins to retreat, Ashara clicks her boots and runs up to the Driders. Artimus, his skeletons, Swift Paws, and Thorne moves up and begins to focus on one Drider While Hendred stay back somewhat and launches a guiding bolt. Ashara notices some noise off in the distance but it appears to be moving away from her present position, the Driders attack and down her. Talia transforms into a Sabertooth tiger and and the party continues to chip away at the Driders, Ashara regains consciousness and disengages back to the group, the Driders follow and down her again. Hendred uses her channel divinity to bring Ashara back up and Gareth moves to attack one of the Driders, more members of the group notice some sounds and vibrations when an earth elemental appears and attack Oneiro. Oneiro backs up, causing it to attack again and unleashes a chromatic orb which cause thunder damage, Hendred notices the new foe and moves to help Oneiro. The rest of the party focuses on the Driders and downs one, Hendred uses her second channel divinity and heals Oneiro while also casting shield of faith and jumping down to help Oneiro. Ashara notices that Oneiro could use some help and runs over and jumps on the Elemental, somehow maintaining her balance and striking twice. The others dispatch the last Drider and begin to focus on the elemental, Artimus casts ray of enfeeblement while Gareth and Thorne hit it with Firebolt and Sacred Flame, Swift Paws finally fells it with a sneak attack. The group begins to search the room, finding some jewelry on the Driders and a diamond core in the elemental worth 200 GP.
The party moves on further down the passage and things begin to get hotter and more light appears when they finally come across a magma chamber where they spot a group of fire snakes and Salamanders. The group is torn on what to do so Oneiro attempts to talk to them in the Ignan dialect of primordial, he tries to persuade them the party means them no harm, but they don't believe him. Gareth surprises Oneiro and says he knows primordial (Just not a specific dialect) and Gareth begins to speak to them with Oneiro clarifying certain words. Gareth tells them about Kalzoz and a great army of the dead coming this way and how their quest leads them in this direction, Oneiro hears the Salamanders whispering if the party could be trusted with the power of the Ironworks. A salamander moves forward and motions for Oneiro and Gareth to move forward and tells them about the ruins of Varn Daruhm and the great artifacts it made, he tells them that if they bring them some of these artifacts so they might be able to defend themselves from the undead then they will be free to pass. Oneiro gives them his word and extends his hand, which the salamander accepts, and they clear the path. The group moves quickly through their territory and long rests, the next day they find themselves before the gates of Varn Daruhm.
It is the morning of the 11th day of Kyzet
Rewards Granted
100 GP of jewelry
2 old longswords
Level 7
2 old longswords
Level 7
Diamond worth 200 GP
Report Date
01 Aug 2020
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