Session 010 - Nightmares
General Summary
Date 25 to 29 Peonu (2) 720TR (Spring)
Recent Events
Last night the heroes witness a battle between Priests of Naveh, the god of assassins. On the dead bodies, they find four strange dice in the shape of Skulls. These are cursed items containing Gytevsha which the characters invariably release into the world. Each of the characters are now possessed, with one of the fiends hiding in the character's subconscious ready to haunt their sleep and nightmares.
Continuation of Session 9 - Skeletons.
The Exorcism.
The characters are taken to the Temple of Peoni to meet with the experts in exorcism. Brother Merric, Shieldman is a member of the Shield of Belsirasin, the congregation of Priests of Peoni skilled in dealing with evil spiritual entities, fiends, undead and possessions. He is a skilled exorcist and puts the players into a light sleep. They start dreaming of traumatic events from their past. The Gytevsha emerge to torment them.
Quazzy's Dream.
Quazzy dreams of some form of sacrificial chamber. A ritual is underway with cultists, a woman in a black mask and a man in a golden skull mask which attack and eventually kill Quazzy. Quazzy only has the vaguest memory of this place.Yureb's Dream.
Yureb is with three of his old gang of thieves, robbing from the Wizard Elzoldor's house. Suddenly he is stunned, and everything goes black. Awaking from a daze he sees this three friends dead with huge holes in their heads, and a monstrous humanoid figure with tentacles instead of a mouth feeding on their brains. It attacks as does his brainless, but dead friends. Yureb after a harrowing battle is able to escape.
Athena's Dream.
Athena is back in the keep of the Hamlen's. Late one night she overhead Rarval and Gerhan Hamlen gloating as to how they organized the death of her family and were planning to kill her after her marriage to Gerharn (and claim her family lands). Athena recovers her father's sword and battles the Hamlen's and their guards, eventually killing them all.During the nightmares the Gytevsha are vulnerable, and Brother Merric able to exorcize them from the heroes bodies. They are first entrapped in a magical symbol and then contained are in small Dream Box. This Box taken is taken by a Mysterious Warrior, Tien, Agent of the Argent Order who was observing the ritual from the doorway. However they are warned, there another such entity is free and it will likely seek revenge on the characters for interfering with their plans, whatever they were.
Several Days Later at the Inn.
As the players were settling in at the Stake Inn for the night when their door was broken in by a man, the Inn's stable-hand, with an axe and a deranged, angry look. The stable-hand attacks with a berserk fury and accompanying him are a motley mob of Inn patrons which included an old lady, a young girl, a fat merchant, and several bar patrons.Players subdue this insane group and believing that they were under some form of charm and noticed a mysterious particularly pathetic beggar in the hallways. Athena's senses a strong fiendish evil originating from this man and attacks. It proves to be fearsome in combat, with his touch causing mental trauma as well as rotting the flesh. He used magical mind-control to make Athena want to attack and hack Quazzy into little pieces and in the confusion he escapes. However Athena was acting, only pretending she was under a creatures influence.
The Sewers
The characters follow the trial of the beggar into the Sewers. There they meet and negotiate their way past a gang of thieves.
Later they pass into a surge chamber. Inside is a swarm of small mud elementals which ambush the heroes leaving them very dirty and exhausted.
Character(s) interacted with
Tien, Agent of the Argent Order
Dream versions of people from the characters past.
The stable-hand and random patrons from the Stake Inn. The stable-hand so much enjoyed attacking people with his axe he has abandoned his job at the stables and plans to join a mercenary group or become a gladiator.
Created Content
Building - the Temple of Peoni
Religious Organisation - the Shield of Belsirasin
NPC - Brother Merric, Shieldman
NPC - Tien, Agent of the Argent Order
Language - Besha
Monsters background - Gytevsha
Notes
Players Character Status
Athena - Level 4 Paladin of Vengeance.
Yureb - Level 4 Arcane Trickster.
Quazzy - Level 4 Necromancer (gained level).
Quazzy
Athena
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