Find it, Destroy it: Part 2 Report

General Summary

Session Report!

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1489 DR - Summer - 6, Flamerule (7) - Sword Coast - Khundrukar

• After taking a breather from the fight with the Orcish Wight (The defiler), the crew decides to move in through the back of the barracks.
• While searching the old rooms that are largely empty, they hear moaning and are soon attacked by the ghost of Andruil, the mage who had animated the objects that have been attacking the party in random areas. The ghost is put to rest handily by their magical attacks, but it succeeds in aging Fallen and Damien by a decade through it's attacks.
• They explore a pool and drop in a lit stone which seems to distrurb something large in a pool of water below. They decide NOT to jump in.
• Further exploration of the back rooms finds another two animated objects. A Carpet which nearly suffocates Lucyan, and a suit of armor, that leaves them with some bloody noses before falling to dust.
• The last room is occupied by what appears to be a female prisoner, who begs them to let them go, while hinting to a now charmed Damien that Huden isn't really himself and is a doppelganger in disguise.
• She incites Damien to attack just as Huden stabs her! She vanishes into mist! Damien accuses Huden. Huden then unbelievably enters the room and they begin to argue over who is real! Damien strikes down Huden in the room (he is charmed after all) and he notices that he is bleeding black blood. Lucyan notices that the entering Huden has no equipment on him, and attacks back!
• The new Huden suddenly kisses Damien :-O and Damien is dried up to a husk. Damien then sees a dissappointed Sabyn in the dark place, the pit. She chastizes him and then seems to sacrifice something to bring him back.
• Meanwhile, Lucyan and Fallen seem to drive off the Succubus, as she was revealed to be. Possibly a less than intelligent choice of summons for the previously dead Andruil, and perhaps the reason he was a ghost.
• The party decides to pay the Duergar to guard them while they rest, knowing they are in rough shape. Fallen and Damien resign themselves to agedness.
• Huden reflects a little on how these creatures keep targeting him first, and considers the vibrating orb...
• In the night, the Succubus appears and tries to charm Lucyan! She fails and the party is awoken to defend themselves! They strike back mercilessly and she is felled, her corpse disappearing in flames and ash.
• Exploring a little further the crew finds a pit into the depths with a ladder. It seemingly leads to the abyss they have dipped into previously. Something stirs in the blackness.
• They climb down and explore the deep cavern, finding a large black underground lake. Fallen climbs across the side to explore while Lucyan sends a spider hand around the other side.
• As Fallen is climbing further in and crew waits by a crevice, a serpentine lizard head rises from the lake silently, and breaths a gout of acid over fallen, who barely hangs on amidst the burning. The whole crew retreats back into the crevice. The black dragon retreats into the lake again, but the crew know it is watching and waiting.
• The dragon gets bored and climbs into the crevice. The crew is hidden through Huden's magic, barely, and it taunts them with insults. The dragon then retreats to the lake and the crew nervously waits. After a minute of waiting the dragon fills the crevice again with acid! The crew is nearly dissolved and chooses to surrender. But Lucyan isn't noticed and hides back to keep exploring the cavern stealthily with his spider hand.
• The other three throw their weapons into the lake and drop all of their treasure, which is claimed by the dragon. They promise to loot the remaining treasures above (lying about knowing where they are) in exchange for their lives.
• They retreat back to the upper levels, reliving the death and combat they previously wrought. And in the process find valuable magical armor, some Durgeddin weapons, and a cache of coins. They use this to make a down payment to the duergar for their aid in ambushing and killing the dragon, promising additionally half of the dragon horde.
• Their ambush pays off and the dragon is overwhelmed by crossbows, but slaying most of the deep dwarves. The corpse is sliced up by Lucyan, and the remaining dwarves claim their treasure, taking all of the dragons coins, while leaving the items for the crew.
• The crew then heads to the back of the cave and discovers the true forge of fury, a seemingly endlessly hot and deep pit of purple and black coals in a shrine. The orb vibrates uncontrollably and Huden tosses it into the forge. It is destroyed and a rush of flesh and purple light stabs into Hudens forehead, knocking him over and unconscious.
• Immediately thereafter the halfliing and Jeryth (a Banite Priest they met briefly before) emerge from the darkness beyond the shrine. The Odd Halfling threatens the crew to return the charm. Fallen pockets it in defiance. It is not hot from the flames.
• Huden 'awakes' in the pit (the black void), and is alone except for a hunched emaciated figure with oddly growing tufts of hair mumbling to himself. Huden approaches and the figure rises quickly to it's full 7' height, widening three joint arms and four joint fingers into uncomfortable contortions. It explains a little of itself and what Huden should be doing (see interactions below), and then snaps Huden awake into the combat. Only to still be echoing it's mad cackling voice in his head, a new passenger in Huden's head.
• TO BE FUCKING CONTINUED BITCHES!

Rewards Granted

• The items from the dragons horde,
• some of the remaining loot from the above levels,
• a heap of experience,
• some traumatic memories.

Missions/Quests Completed

• Completion of the Forge of Fury
• Destruction of the Orb, revealing the key charm that was alluded to by Cyric's agent

Character(s) interacted with

• Jeryth and the halfling appear just after the orb is destroyed. They promise a quick death if they relinquish the orb.
• Abigor introduces himself: Huden speaks with Abigor, a cancer cut crazed lunatic who espouses an alliance, and talks in accidental slips and spurts of information - He tells them that the new Dread lord has chosen his final Avatar, and to be awarded his request he must bring his Avatar to bear on Toril by setting him free. It ends with "You must now go, find him, free him. His name was lost, purposefully discarded and forgotten, because true names have power. He is the Liar, the wicked, the Cruel, the dark one, the great one, the omnissiah, the Aperture of Chaos, the Channel of Ending, the one who reigns, the one who doesn't need to reign, The ender, the overloooorrrrd... keeeeeeeeeezorrrrr... fading silence as Abigor seems to vanish. No answer to Huden. Then from behind him suddenly: Oh I'm still here, I'm along for the ride now, hahahahahahaahhahahaha, now WAKE UP!"
• The shadows continue to incite Damien in certain directions, but were at least once twisted to a purpose of deceit by the succubus. Particularly obvious repeats included "You must brings forth the Dreadlords champion" and "You are ours now, act like it" among others.

Campaign

The Chosen

Protagonists

Lucyan Kilndar

Level 12 Shadar-Kai Neutral Evil Druid
(Outlander)

79 / 79 HP

Sabyn Talamoth

Level 5 Human... CE Cleric
(Herald of Strife)

/ 36 HP

Damien Crane

Level 4 Human (Amn) CE Warrior
(Apprentice)

/ 45 HP

Huden Golman

Level 7 hooman chaotic evil bard
(charlatan)

/ 38 HP

Report Date

10 Dec 2019