Kingdom on the brink - Session 28
General Summary
The party gets ready to enter the next room, and spread out into the mage classroom. Ashara and Hendred move to the left side while Runsha and Stormsong move to the right side, Oneiro activates his winged boots and Del Varis moves across the tables. Oneiro fires a volley into the Abjurer and blinds him, Hendred Blesses the group, and one of the Enchanters launches a fireball at Stormsong and Runsha which Runsha evades and Stormsong resists. Runsha infuses his weapon with holy energy and casts shield of faith on himself, Ashara moves up and goes prone, the other Enchanter launches a fireball at Ashara and Del Varis, the Abjurer turns invisible and moves. Oneiro and Hendred concentrate their fire on one of the visible Enchanters, the Enchanter closest to Runsha launches some empowered magic missiles at him. The Abjurer turns visible and is able to banish Hendred, Del Varis moves towards the Abjurer and lands several attacks which breaks his banishment spell and stuns him. Ashara moves up to the closest Enchanter but the enchanter casts suggestion on Ashara and tells her to leave, Oneiro launches two devasting arrows at the Enchanter who cast suggestion and kills her (Breaking the spell). The other Enchanter casts hold person on Ashara (Who fails the saving throw), Runsha moves up with his aura and Hendred stabilizes the downed Enchanter. Ashara breaks the hold person spell, and downs the second Enchanter and moves towards the stunned Abjurer, Del Varis and Oneiro focus on the Abjurer and Ashara moves up punches the Abjurer unconscious. The group starts to bind the mages and investigate the room, Oneiro finds a lever and pulls it. Ashara barricades the door and the party short rests, during the rest they hear beating on the doors and chanting, but are able to finish their short rest.
The party opens the door and Ashara is the first to exit, getting hit by two beams of radiance from the Guardians of Faith that got set up in the time the party was resting, Del Varis and Runsha follow behind her, both get hit by the radiance though Runsha is able to use his shield to block one, the Guardians of Faith disappear. Ashara moves up and fires a volley of arrows on the War Priest, landing a critical hit on one and using her ancestral guardians to ward him. Hendred moves up and casts spiritual weapon, but the War Priest moves closer and dispels the magic, the Diviner moves up and casts maze on Del Varis (causing him to vanish), the Enchanter moves up and hastes the War Priest. Stormsong covers the group with some Firebolts as Runsha moves up and breathes his cold breathe onto the War Priest who manages to evade part of it, Ashara moves up and switches with Runsha, runs past the War Priest, evades an attack of opportunity, and stops in front of the Enchanter that has Hasted the War Priest. Hendred attempts to throw her hand axes at the War Priest but he easily evades, The War Priest Banishes Ashara which allows the Enchanter to get away from her, the War Priest then uses his hasted action to strike Runsha (The Diviner uses his portent ability to foretell the strike). The Enchanter uses her empowered magic missiles on Hendred and Del Varis is able to break free of the maze, Runsha and Stormsong focus on the War Priest and break his concentration which allows Ashara to return. Ashara moves towards the Enchanter to attack but is charmed into focusing on the Diviner, landing both strikes, Hendred uses sacred flame on the War Priest but the attack is dodged. The War Priest gets bashed away and he moves towards the enchanter and uses Mass cure wounds to heal his group (Eliciting frustration from the party), he then uses his hasted attack against Ashara. The Diviner moves, provoking an attack of opportunity from Ashara, and teleports himself and his two companions out of the area.
The party enters the storage room and finds it filled with shipping crates, with marking saying they came from Druebar, filled with potions. Most of the potions appeared to be laced with Quartz, but there were a few that were uncontaminated. The party then heads to the final door, they enter a empty lecture hall and search the area. A few spell scrolls were found, some trinkets, and a lever (which is pulled). The party patches themselves up and head back out, they find the center stone has shifted to reveal a spiral staircase heading down, the group begins to descend the stairs. The party finds themselves in a great hall, were they see the people that had teleported away and one other, Allisa Ulanan. She remarks that the party has been a thorn in her side and she'd hope they'd have died in the library she led them to, Runsha charges at her, the Enchanter fires off a scorching ray which barely hits Runsha. Allisa smiles and says that while she'd love to stay around she has other things she needs to see to, but that she'll leave the group with a gift, she smashes an orb to the ground and teleports away, in the spot the orb shattered a Barbed Devil appears. The War Priest gets turned invisible and as the party moves forward they're met with a fireball, Runsha and the Barbed devil engage in Melee while Stormsong launches several Firebolts in support. She finds herself in melee with the War Priest appearing in front of her and striking, with one attack seemingly guided by divine will, the War Priest then casts spiritual weapon and attacks again. Ashara moves up and flips the chair over that the Enchanter was using as cover and knocks her prone, the Enchanter responds by casting hold person on Ashara and paralyzes her and moves back further. Hendred decides to support Stormsong and casts Sacred Flame which strikes true now that the War Priest isn't hasted. Del Varis and Runsha quickly begin to take chunks out of the Barbed Devil, leaving the creature weak and frightened, the Diviner tries to hit a paralyzed Ashara but only manages to leave a few mild burns. The Barbed Devil attempts to fight for its life but is overcame by fright and is reduced to ineffective flailing, Stormsong uses primal savagery and disengages from the War Priest. The War Priest sees that Stormsong is harder to hit due to illusion magic and instead fires off a a guiding bolt at Hendred which downs her, the Enchanter fires off more empowered Magic Missiles at Del Varis, Runsha tells him to deal with the mages and he'll finish off the Devil. The Diviner makes up for his earlier scorching rays and inflicts severe fire damage on a still paralyzed Ashara, Del Varis runs up and uses his ki to break Ashara's paralysis, Stormsong casts inflict wounds on the War Priest and a quickened firebolt, the War Priest is barely standing but is still determined to fight continuing to strike Stormsong. Ashara moves up to the Enchanter and strikes her down in two swings in a fit of fury, her excitement is dampened when she sees Hendred isn't moving, She and Del Varis begin to move on the Diviner who tries to strike Del Varis with more scorching rays (a faint spark of rage can be seen in Del Varis at this point). With Ashara and Del Varis distracted they fail to notice that the Enchanter has awoken and launches more magic missiles at Del Varis, Runsha ends the Barbed Devils struggle and heads towards the Diviner, Stormsong finishes off the War Priest and goes to check on Hendred. In a last ditch effort the Diviner casts mass suggestion, it effects Stormsong and Ashara who begin to move Hendred out, but Del Varis and Runsha are unaffected, Del Varis engages the diviner and after trading fists and scorching rays Del Varis downs him and begins to choke the Diviner. Runsha Throws a Javelin at the Enchanter and downs her and Throws another Javelin At Ashara and Stromsong to Break the charm effect. Ashara heals Hendred with a potion and they both go to save the Enchanter's life, Runsha goes to finish off the Barbed Devil, and Del Varis kills the Diviner, he then heads for the Enchanter. Stromsong sees to the War priest, removing all his equipment, The other four party members get in a confrontation over the enchanter. Ashara and Hendred stabilize her, But Del Varis pushes Ashara back so he can finish her off, Runsha finally steps between the two groups and everyone starts to settle down, though Del Varis is confused why Hendred was yelling at him and what he tried to do.
Ashara starts to carry the surving mages upstairs, Runsha looks around and finds a open casket with an elf inside, Stormsong and Del Varis carry the looted equipment upstairs. Runsha takes the Elf body and Hendred follows, as the party makes their way back to Dorbis several students point and whisper at Runsha and the body he's carrying. Once they have returned to Dorbis Hendred starts to prepare her spell and to think of questions, she then casts it.
1. How did you die? - "In the night there were two students who had gone missing and I remember seeing them over me and... then it went dark"
(From Ashara)2. WHERE IS KALZOS' FOLACTORY!? - "I don't know"
3. Who would you want to become the new leader of your guild? - "It makes no difference to me"
4. What did Alisa, and Bridgeford bring back from their expedition? - "Alisa brought back nothing except for tall tales. Tall tales of powerful darkness, and even taller tales of something that could fight said darkness.
5. What did Bridgeford bring? - "He brought back nothing. He just left"
After the spell ends Hendred looks at Ashara and realizes what she asked and she tells Ashara about her first mission, it was to Kalzoz's Sanctum (Kingdom on the Brink - Session 6), this leaves some of the party confused, Ashara then turns her attention to Dorbis and tells him about the Quartz laced shipping containers, he gets some for evidence. Dorbis looks through the crates and asks the party if they know anything about a note he found in the crate. It read "The experiments are going as planned, I think we'll be ready for a full demonstration very soon." The party's only guess is it has something to do with how Allisa summoned the Barbed Devil. Later in the evening the guild leaders meet and discuss what happened, Ashara also takes this time to show them the undead the party has (Ashara gives Dorbis two of the undead to study). She asks that Allisa Ulanan be branded a traitor as well as Bridgeford, the guild leaders agree about Allisa, but Bridgeford will be harder, there's Ricard Bridgeford and Gregory Bridgeford (Who was on the expedition), they're a very prestigious Bralorian noble family and will be hard to get to if what's she says is true. The guild members wrap up the meeting and say they'll be at Bernard Ursel's meeting, Ashara says the party is planning to leave in the morning if they have any last minute business, the guild leaders acknowledge but mention they're having one of the elections tomorrow so they'll be busy with that. The party long rests.
The party opens the door and Ashara is the first to exit, getting hit by two beams of radiance from the Guardians of Faith that got set up in the time the party was resting, Del Varis and Runsha follow behind her, both get hit by the radiance though Runsha is able to use his shield to block one, the Guardians of Faith disappear. Ashara moves up and fires a volley of arrows on the War Priest, landing a critical hit on one and using her ancestral guardians to ward him. Hendred moves up and casts spiritual weapon, but the War Priest moves closer and dispels the magic, the Diviner moves up and casts maze on Del Varis (causing him to vanish), the Enchanter moves up and hastes the War Priest. Stormsong covers the group with some Firebolts as Runsha moves up and breathes his cold breathe onto the War Priest who manages to evade part of it, Ashara moves up and switches with Runsha, runs past the War Priest, evades an attack of opportunity, and stops in front of the Enchanter that has Hasted the War Priest. Hendred attempts to throw her hand axes at the War Priest but he easily evades, The War Priest Banishes Ashara which allows the Enchanter to get away from her, the War Priest then uses his hasted action to strike Runsha (The Diviner uses his portent ability to foretell the strike). The Enchanter uses her empowered magic missiles on Hendred and Del Varis is able to break free of the maze, Runsha and Stormsong focus on the War Priest and break his concentration which allows Ashara to return. Ashara moves towards the Enchanter to attack but is charmed into focusing on the Diviner, landing both strikes, Hendred uses sacred flame on the War Priest but the attack is dodged. The War Priest gets bashed away and he moves towards the enchanter and uses Mass cure wounds to heal his group (Eliciting frustration from the party), he then uses his hasted attack against Ashara. The Diviner moves, provoking an attack of opportunity from Ashara, and teleports himself and his two companions out of the area.
The party enters the storage room and finds it filled with shipping crates, with marking saying they came from Druebar, filled with potions. Most of the potions appeared to be laced with Quartz, but there were a few that were uncontaminated. The party then heads to the final door, they enter a empty lecture hall and search the area. A few spell scrolls were found, some trinkets, and a lever (which is pulled). The party patches themselves up and head back out, they find the center stone has shifted to reveal a spiral staircase heading down, the group begins to descend the stairs. The party finds themselves in a great hall, were they see the people that had teleported away and one other, Allisa Ulanan. She remarks that the party has been a thorn in her side and she'd hope they'd have died in the library she led them to, Runsha charges at her, the Enchanter fires off a scorching ray which barely hits Runsha. Allisa smiles and says that while she'd love to stay around she has other things she needs to see to, but that she'll leave the group with a gift, she smashes an orb to the ground and teleports away, in the spot the orb shattered a Barbed Devil appears. The War Priest gets turned invisible and as the party moves forward they're met with a fireball, Runsha and the Barbed devil engage in Melee while Stormsong launches several Firebolts in support. She finds herself in melee with the War Priest appearing in front of her and striking, with one attack seemingly guided by divine will, the War Priest then casts spiritual weapon and attacks again. Ashara moves up and flips the chair over that the Enchanter was using as cover and knocks her prone, the Enchanter responds by casting hold person on Ashara and paralyzes her and moves back further. Hendred decides to support Stormsong and casts Sacred Flame which strikes true now that the War Priest isn't hasted. Del Varis and Runsha quickly begin to take chunks out of the Barbed Devil, leaving the creature weak and frightened, the Diviner tries to hit a paralyzed Ashara but only manages to leave a few mild burns. The Barbed Devil attempts to fight for its life but is overcame by fright and is reduced to ineffective flailing, Stormsong uses primal savagery and disengages from the War Priest. The War Priest sees that Stormsong is harder to hit due to illusion magic and instead fires off a a guiding bolt at Hendred which downs her, the Enchanter fires off more empowered Magic Missiles at Del Varis, Runsha tells him to deal with the mages and he'll finish off the Devil. The Diviner makes up for his earlier scorching rays and inflicts severe fire damage on a still paralyzed Ashara, Del Varis runs up and uses his ki to break Ashara's paralysis, Stormsong casts inflict wounds on the War Priest and a quickened firebolt, the War Priest is barely standing but is still determined to fight continuing to strike Stormsong. Ashara moves up to the Enchanter and strikes her down in two swings in a fit of fury, her excitement is dampened when she sees Hendred isn't moving, She and Del Varis begin to move on the Diviner who tries to strike Del Varis with more scorching rays (a faint spark of rage can be seen in Del Varis at this point). With Ashara and Del Varis distracted they fail to notice that the Enchanter has awoken and launches more magic missiles at Del Varis, Runsha ends the Barbed Devils struggle and heads towards the Diviner, Stormsong finishes off the War Priest and goes to check on Hendred. In a last ditch effort the Diviner casts mass suggestion, it effects Stormsong and Ashara who begin to move Hendred out, but Del Varis and Runsha are unaffected, Del Varis engages the diviner and after trading fists and scorching rays Del Varis downs him and begins to choke the Diviner. Runsha Throws a Javelin at the Enchanter and downs her and Throws another Javelin At Ashara and Stromsong to Break the charm effect. Ashara heals Hendred with a potion and they both go to save the Enchanter's life, Runsha goes to finish off the Barbed Devil, and Del Varis kills the Diviner, he then heads for the Enchanter. Stromsong sees to the War priest, removing all his equipment, The other four party members get in a confrontation over the enchanter. Ashara and Hendred stabilize her, But Del Varis pushes Ashara back so he can finish her off, Runsha finally steps between the two groups and everyone starts to settle down, though Del Varis is confused why Hendred was yelling at him and what he tried to do.
Ashara starts to carry the surving mages upstairs, Runsha looks around and finds a open casket with an elf inside, Stormsong and Del Varis carry the looted equipment upstairs. Runsha takes the Elf body and Hendred follows, as the party makes their way back to Dorbis several students point and whisper at Runsha and the body he's carrying. Once they have returned to Dorbis Hendred starts to prepare her spell and to think of questions, she then casts it.
1. How did you die? - "In the night there were two students who had gone missing and I remember seeing them over me and... then it went dark"
(From Ashara)2. WHERE IS KALZOS' FOLACTORY!? - "I don't know"
3. Who would you want to become the new leader of your guild? - "It makes no difference to me"
4. What did Alisa, and Bridgeford bring back from their expedition? - "Alisa brought back nothing except for tall tales. Tall tales of powerful darkness, and even taller tales of something that could fight said darkness.
5. What did Bridgeford bring? - "He brought back nothing. He just left"
After the spell ends Hendred looks at Ashara and realizes what she asked and she tells Ashara about her first mission, it was to Kalzoz's Sanctum (Kingdom on the Brink - Session 6), this leaves some of the party confused, Ashara then turns her attention to Dorbis and tells him about the Quartz laced shipping containers, he gets some for evidence. Dorbis looks through the crates and asks the party if they know anything about a note he found in the crate. It read "The experiments are going as planned, I think we'll be ready for a full demonstration very soon." The party's only guess is it has something to do with how Allisa summoned the Barbed Devil. Later in the evening the guild leaders meet and discuss what happened, Ashara also takes this time to show them the undead the party has (Ashara gives Dorbis two of the undead to study). She asks that Allisa Ulanan be branded a traitor as well as Bridgeford, the guild leaders agree about Allisa, but Bridgeford will be harder, there's Ricard Bridgeford and Gregory Bridgeford (Who was on the expedition), they're a very prestigious Bralorian noble family and will be hard to get to if what's she says is true. The guild members wrap up the meeting and say they'll be at Bernard Ursel's meeting, Ashara says the party is planning to leave in the morning if they have any last minute business, the guild leaders acknowledge but mention they're having one of the elections tomorrow so they'll be busy with that. The party long rests.
It is the beginning of the 29th day of Kyzet
Rewards Granted
2000 GP per person
3 Quartz vials
Potion of flying
3 potions of superior healing
potion of heroism
300 GP diamonds
1000 GP of spell components
full plate
3 Quartz vials
Potion of flying
3 potions of superior healing
potion of heroism
300 GP diamonds
1000 GP of spell components
full plate
Missions/Quests Completed
Cleared out the quarantine zone
Character(s) interacted with
Dorbis Quiethand
Allisa Ulanan
Allisa Ulanan
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