Session 03
General Summary
Camero and Harley returned to the inn and woke all their companions. They told their companions
what they had discovered and the group decided to launch an assault on the Cathedral that very
night. They returned to the site of the Cathedral and used a ritual to open a gate into the main
chamber of the church, using it to bypass the main doors which were locked with a fiendish lock.
They arrived in the middle of an earth titan, some orc guards and the cleric, Calmus Vel. The party
wasted no time laying into the occupants. As soon as Calmus Vel was struck his disguise as a
human was broken and he appeared like a gibbering squid-like abberation. Within minutes the orc
guards, titan and aberation had been slain.
From here they continued to look around the ground floor, finding Todd Vanderboren's body lying
in state in the back rooms. They then went upstairs and found a bedroom with some secret notes
hidden in it which proved that High Priestess Embril was a Cagewright! These documents also
told them about a Loremaster called Fetor Abradius who was studying Soul Pillars in a place
called Karran Kural. Heading upstairs they found Ike Iverson together with a group of undead
vampire spawn, some ghouls and an undead dragon skeleton. A massive fight errupted and it took
all the party's power to survive. But survive they did and they captured Ike alive. There they also
found a soul cage hanging from the ceiling of the Cathedral. They took Ike back to the Church of
St. Cuthbert and interrogated him. They found out loads of stuff about the Cagewrights in
exchange for his freedom. Ike was let free and Magma Force pondered their next move.
In the morning they returned to the Cathedral and raised Todd Vanderboren from the dead. It took
most of the day to do so and whilst they were there Braken learnt the Water Breathing ritual from
the library inside the Cathedral. During the day Gotrek visited the temple of Moradain in the
dwarven fastness and presented them with the head of the earth titan they had killed. Morgan went
off to find what was happening with the patrols and was alarmed to discover that Lord Vhalantru
had not been seen for a few days. He asked to be told if Vhalantru turned up or not. Todd
Vanderboren was raised and told of what was going on with the Cathedral. He went off to tell the
Stormblades. In the evening the whole party met up with Meerthan and the Striders to compare
notes. They gained a little more information about what was going on. At night fall Camero went
off to see Vortimax. He told the old wizard everything about the Cagewrights and all they had
found out. It turned out that Fetor Abradius was once Vortimax's apprentice. He said that Fetor
was no great battle wizard but that he was a very learned man.
The next day Gotrek went and found Gilenas who was now the highest priest of Wee Jas in the
city. He told the elf what had happened in the Cathedral and took him there to show him the
carnage. Gilenas was not impressed. During this day Braken researched the location of Karran
Kural and found out that it was a spellweaver tomb. Apparently the ancient green dragon Vitriss
Bale had been bound to guard it by the Spell Weavers in exchange for immortality. It seems
Vitriss Bale had become a dracolich as a result. The idea of meeting such a creature filled Magma
Force with some trepidation. Harley, ever suspicious of the half elf lord, spent the day researching
into Lord Vhalantru's past but to no great affect. Morgan spoke to Lord Vhalantru and Lord
Taskerhill via notes, trying to find out what was happening in the city with the half orc patrols.
Camero researched rituals in the Bluecrater Accademy and was pleased with his growing
collection of powers.
A few days later the group were ready to head out to the Demonskar in search of Karran Kural.
They summoned Sharpbeak and flew there in a few hours, spotting the lake where Karran Kural
was supposed to lie under to the north of the Demonskar. From a great height they were able to
spot some lava tunnels, now full of water, leading into a cliff face inside the lake. This seemed to
be the entrance to Karran Kural. They landed on a nearby beach and Braken cast a water breathing
ritual on the group and they swum into the lake and entered the lava tunnels.
Making their way into the tomb of Karran Kural they soon came across Spell Weaver coffins
arrayed along a corridor. These coffins contained floating Spell Weaver bodies which occasionally
twitched as the group passed them. At the end of the corridor they came to a room which was criss
crossed with an ice lattice. Each strand of the ice lattice crackled with necrotic energy and
standing in the middle of the room was a tall Ice Devil. It moved to attack. The party struggled to
fight the powerful devil in this room and so dropped back into the corridor where they were able
to employ hit and run tactics to eventually defeat the powerful guardian.
The question was: what was it guarding...?
Report Date
11 Apr 2024
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