Session 06
General Summary
The heroes of Magma Force found themselves in a water slide, falling along with the huge
amounts of warter they had released when they opened the grate in the grotto above. The fell
down into a large pool of heated water. In fact this water was a lovely temperature, about the same
as most would like their bath water. It smelt of sulphur and was unnaturally bouyant, meaning
even Morgan in his suit of plate armour was able to float.
They swam effortlessly to the side of the pool and climbed out. They were in a small chamber, lit
by a lava stream flowing through it. The air was dry and hot and they quickly dried out. Sat in the
lava stream was a boat of unknown material which Braken and Camero could see was heavily
enchanted to provide heat and fire protection. Seeing little other choice the group climbed in and
cast off. The strange little boat slipped off downstream and carried them into the next chamber.
Here two more similar boats were already moored and the little boat pulled up along side them.
Magma Force got out and entered the one tunnel leading out. This lead into a large fiery cavern
which was split by a deep chasm filled with evil and toxic looking black and red fumes. One rock
bridge spanned the chasm and numerous ledges jutted out over the edge. On the far side were four
dogs which appeared to be made of smoke and a little imp in red silk clothes, sporting a jaunty
hat. Battle ensued.
The smoke hounds leapt or ran across the chasm into the fray and tried to grab people in their
maws and drag them into the chasm. The imp threw clouds of poisonous burning ash and vapours
at the group from long range, flying about back and forth across the chasm making it extremely
hard to catch him. The hounds were soon eliminated but the imp was a much harder proposition.
Harley and Gotrek gave up trying to catch the imp and got to the far side of the chasm where a
locked door stood between the group and the exit. A quick check and Harley could see there were
three very complex locks which would need opening. He set to work whilst the others hassled the
imp. The imp, seeing his prey about to escape came in to fight Gotrek and Harley and Gotrek was
finally able to let lose with his axe. This turned the fight and soon the imp lay dead.
Morgan spotted some powerful magical platemail armour in the bottom of the pit which Sora ran
in to retrieve. Then the group rested up and bound their wounds. By their calculations they had
only one more elder elemental to defeat - a huge green dragon if all reports were to be believed.
Heading on through the now unlocked door more stairs led down. As they descended they noted
grasss and moss growing through the cracks in the rubble in greater quantities until as they
reached the foot of the stairs they were walking on a lush grass floor and lichens and moss covered
the walls. The air smelt of a lush medow after a spring rain. It was very pleasant.
The staircase opened into a large verdant chamber. Lush grass covered the floor, lichens the walls
and all manner of interesting verdant terrain covered the place. In the centre, sat within a fey circle
was a huge green dragon.
The party charged in, spreading out as they did so, wary of the dragon's breath. The dragon, an
ancient beast who went by the name Vhelt, launched into the air and flew siftly across the
chamber, raking at Morgan as he flew overhead. The paladin ducked and the dragon spiralled and
returned to his roost in the middle of the chamber. Spells flew as the rest of Magma Force
unleashed their powers on the dragon and Morgan and Gotrek rushed across the chamber to
engage Vhelt. But then a yuan-ti stepped from the cover of some giant mushrooms and charged
Gotrek. The dwarf and Sora double teamed the yuan-ti whilst the rest swarmed over Vhelt.
As the fight continued the yuan-ti took a desperate gamble and rushed to the side of the dragon,
taking great rends of Sora's claws (she was in the form of a wolf at the time) and a great gash from
Gotrek's axe. But when fighting in close quarters with his dragon companion, the yuan-ti was a far
more formidable opponent. The dragon breathed a piosonous gas cloud, which the yuan-ti seemed
immune to, and the snake man was lethal with his poisoned blade.
But this was Magma Force, heroes who would not be stopped by a mere ancient dragon and his
lackey. Soon their overwhelming power shone through and the dragon and yuan-ti were both slain.
After a short rest to bind wounds and regroup the party headed out of the far side of the verdant
chamber. Further stairs descended into the darkness and then the group came into an ancient and
well built part of the Lost City of Barakus. The walls and floor of this staircase changed from the
verdant life of the previous chamber to an ordered, volcanic brown brick colouration. The floor
became tiled, neat and orderly. The walls of the chamber were dressed and straight.
The dressings on the walls of the corridor were painted pictograms showing a great demon being
battled by servants of the orders of good. As the corridor progressed the scenes changed. The
demon was slowly getting beaten. Finally the forces of good overcame the demon and killed it.
But at this stage it crumbed to dust and blew away on the wind.
Further scenes showed the demon's body regenerating and returning to life due to what could only
be a phylactery. So this demon was part demon, part lich! A super powerful, unkillable lichdemon.
The scenes thereafter showed the demon-lich returning to wreak havoc in the world. They then
showed the forces of good going out and capturing six creatures of great power and binding them
into a cube of unmistakable power. The Cube of Xarthus. With this cube the forces of good
tracked down the demon-lich once more. This time though when they defeated him, rather than
slaying him they captured his essense in the Cube and then used a powerful ritual to imprison the
demon-lich's soul in some sort of prison plane (Carceri).
This was clearly the story of Larin Karr's imprisonment and gave great clues that he was not just a
demon but a lich as well.
At the end of this dressed corridor lay a pair of mithril doors enscribed with many glowing runes.
Beyond this pair of doors a ritual chanting could be heard. The voice was that of a woman - and
they recognised it as Embril Aloustinai. The end of their long quest lay just through the other side
of these doors...
Report Date
11 Apr 2024
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