Session 06
General Summary
Magma Force stepped through the portal Felihda had shown them and found themselves
transported into Letherna. Stepping into the Temple of Temples they saw an imposing audience
chamber, but the Raven Queen was absent. Instead her guardians were present - shadow creatures
know as the Sorrowsworn. These guardians appeared put out that mere mortals were summoned to
do the Raven Queen's work and in an effort to prove the mortals unworthy, they attacked our
heroes! Magma Force were up to the challenge of course and soon many of the Sorrowsworn and
their summoned allies lay dead on the floor of the Raven Queen's audience chamber.
Suddenly the Raven Queen's throne was no longer empty and the Sorrowsworn broke off their
attack to swarm to her. She berrated them for challenging Magma Force but seemed pleased that
Magma Force had once again proved their worth. She addressed our heroes, asking them if they
would help her. They questioned her about what it was she needed help with and she told them she
needed them to enter Death's Reach to find out what Orcus' minions were doing there. They of
course agreed and the Raven Queen opened a portal from Letherna to Death's Reach, a pocket
dimension inside the Shadowfell. This was a place no morals were supposed to go and the
pathway there was a dangerous and difficult one to traverse.
Camero and Braken took the lead as this strange path through the multiverse required knowledge
and wit to traverse, rather than brawn. Astral winds tore at the travellers, trying to rip them apart.
Camero and Braken appeared to be leading the party on well, but the path was too difficult even
for their knowledge to take them through safely and right at the end they found themselves falling
and landed in a heap on the floor of an alien landscape.
They were in Death's Reach. Above them roiling clouds crashed with thunder and green and
purple lightning. Occasionally an orange orb would fall screaming to the ground to crash with a
wail and dissipate on the ashen ground. These they realised were the souls of those who had fallen
into Death's Reach since it had been opened rather than going to the Raven Queen for judgement
as they should have done had Orcus' minions not opened up this place. The whole area was
surrounded by large cliffs which lead up into the clouds.
Suddenly from behind large black stony pillars three panther shaped Blackstar creatures sprung.
The group would have been surprised but for Braken's uncanny ability to see a few seconds into
the future. The Blackstar Host were quickly upon the party but they soon recovered and within
less than a minute the alien creatures were reduced to rubble.
Camero looked at the cosmic map they had been given by the Raven Queen. It showed their
current location in Death's Reach, and where they wanted to go next - Nerull's Gate. This location
was some 100 miles to the north east. Camero summoned some astral mounts and the party set off.
As they flew, low to the ground, they passed numerous signs of a giant worm active in the
landscape - like a massive purple worm perhaps.
Some ten miles along their trip they were interrupted when a bright blue and violet orb fell from
the sky, seeming to split into five smaller orbs as it fell. It then formed into one angelic being
which took out a moonstone in the shape of an eye and the angel then peered off into the distance
to the north. The party began to pass it by but it turned and confronted them. A long discussion
ensued in which they discovered the creature was some sort of agent set here with much the same
mission as theirs. It seemed to hint that it was a servant of Sehahine and yet the group suspected it
was perhaps instead a minion of Vecna. At the end of the conversation the angel presented
Camero with the moonstone and told the group that some ten miles to the north of them now they
would find a cache of weapons and armour from the Dawn War period. These might prove of use
in their battle in Death's Reach. The party thanked the angel which then headed off north east.
What were they to do next? Trust this alien creature or not? Use this moonstone? Head to the
place it said the cache of Dawn War weapons and armour could be found? Decisions had to be
made...
Report Date
11 Apr 2024
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