Session 04
General Summary
Magma Force were on the 571st layer of the Abyss on the plane of Occipitus, in the shadow of the
mountain known as the Skull. Next to them lay an ulcerous pool of bubbling red goo and the
lantern which was guiding them pointed at this ulcer. The group were beaten and broken after an
epic fight with a dragon and needed a spot to rest. They looked around and sure enough found
somewhere suitable. Being inside the hunting grounds of the dragon and with said dragon having
been given a severe beating, they had a quiet few hours rest and soon felt ready to continue.
Braken took the lead, diving into the ulcer and swimming through the goo to a tunnel beyond. He
signalled and the others followed him in. They followed the tunnel upwards in a big spiral until
they could see it opening out ahead. They could hear loud voices arguing in a language they could
not understand. Harley snuck forward and spied a large room dominated by a huge iron throne. In
front of it stood a massive fire giant and a strange tiger-man, a rakshasa. He snuck back to the
party and they prepared to ambush the pair.
The group ambushed the arguing giant and rakshasa and unleashed all their powerful abilities onto
the giant. Morgan charged it whilst Braken blasted and then charged the rakshasa. Making their
advantage count the group very quickly killed the rakshasa before it was able to do much more
than scratch Braken. Morgan and Harley surrounded the giant who was trying to shake off the
effects of Kaurophon's messmerizing psychic assault. Camero dropped an ice storm on the area
and Harley at this stage noticed a large figure seemingly hiding behind the throne. He recognised
it as a flesh golem - a creature put together and animated for a purpose - often as a guard. The
flesh golem began to try and get to the party but was held frozen stuck to the ground. Magma
Force were able to drop the fire giant before the golem got free and arrayed themselves ready to
assult it, when suddenly it broke free and rampaaged towards them. It was a beserk, rampaging
storm of flesh and bones and bowled into and over the group, laying about them with abandon.
Somewhat surprised by this tactic the group poured all their might, magical and mundane into
defeating it and soon it was ripped into pieces. A quick search revealed some mundane treasure of
good value.
Taking a quick breather the group spotted a spiral staircase leading up out of the back of the room.
They headed up it wit the redoubtable Morgan taking the lead as usual. This staircase came out to
a chamber with many side passages leading off. In the centre of the chamber was an opaque black
fire of evil eldritch power, identifed by Braken as a nexus of great evil. The group spotted a
further spiral staircase the far side of the room and their lantern indicated that was the way they
were to go. They decided to skirt carefully around the side of the chamber, keeping as far as
possible from the nexus. About half way around the nexus flashed and four skeletons popped into
existence next to it. Camero reacted quickly and dropped a spell on them which ripped them all
apart. The group decided to rush forward and beyond this room as fast as possible. They reached
and headed up the stairs when the whole staircase suddenly was awash with freezing necromantic
energy, hurting and slowing them greatly. They decided to continue up the stairs and soon got out
of the effect. Stopping to catch their breath, Braken warned them he heard footsteps behind them
so they hurried on up the stairs away from whatever was following them.
They came out of the spiral stairs and into a giant chamber which was the eye socket of the Skull.
In the centre of the room red plasma was being vented into existance as if through a rip in the
fabric of the plane itself. This plasma was gushing out of the roof through the eye hole. Stood next
to the plasma was another (or the same?) mummy proctor. Ignoring him the group arrayed
themselves around the entrance from the staircase, preparing to meet whatever was coming up the
stairs. Morgan spotted what he recognised as a lich in the stairwell and suddenly the area was once
again freezing and evil as the lich threw necrotic energies at the group. Magma Force scattered to
avoid the effect and the lich dropped back out of sight. A while later it reappeared and fired off
another zone of necrotic damage. Those that could attacked it from range but it was regenerating a
lot of the damage they were doing and it seemed content to stay in the stairwell inside it's necrotic
field and hurt them from range. Harley then bravely rushed in, tumbling over the top of the lich
and knocked it out with a smack over the head! Morgan also closed on it and with the lich
unconscious it was unable to maintain its frostburn effects so the party were temporarily safe and
had Morgan and Harley either side of the lich. The fight was on a knife edge...
Report Date
11 Apr 2024
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