Session 07
General Summary
Magma Force faced their greatest threat to date: High Priestess Embril was seconds away from
completing the ritual to release the demon-lich Larin Karr from his millennia old prison in Carceri
and they had a horde of undead and elementals to battle past to reach her. To say nothing of the
wall of force she had erected between them.
Harley, with his invisibility cloak wrapped tight around him, rushed into the room like a ghost,
undetected by the skeletons arrayed ahead of the heroes. These skeletons pushed forward,
blocking easy entry into the room and engaging the party with their swords of shadow. The fight
streamed forward as Embril completed another side of the Cube of Xarthus. There was an
elemental flash from the side chapels of the temple and four primordials slid into view -
summoned by the cube's manipulation.
As Embril continued to complete further sides of the puzzle, more creatures were summoned until
the party were surrounded. Camero chose this time to unleash hell and in a rain of blood and
arcane energy he obliterated most of the opposition, leaving only two resolute and powerful
skeletons to face. Bracken called on St. Cuthbert's aid and blasted the skeletons with holy power.
Gotrek and Morgan finished them off as Camero flew forward to inspect the wall of force.
Embril was not finished however, and in fact as they neared her they realised she was only a few
seconds from completing the puzzle and releasing Larin Karr! As she completed the fifth side of
the cube, four more elementals appeared in a flash of frozen energy and swarmed over Camero.
He simply closed his eyes and in a blink appeared on the far side of the wall of force, near Embril!
He called upon the dark magic of his blood pact and blasted Embril with his most powerful
incantation! She reeled with the impact of the spell and her concentration was broken, stopping
her from finishing the ritual, for now.
Sora rushed the group of frost elementals which had been surrounding Camero moments before
and she suddenly teleported behind the wall and, turning into a ferocious direwolf, she slashed the
stunned Embril across the chest with her claws. First blood to Magma force but Embril's only
concern was finishing the ritual, not fighting back.
Braken put on a turn of speed and rushed across the room to within range of the group of ice
elementals. One call to his god and he shattered them all into a thousand tiny pieces! Magma
Force were really showing their powers at last!
Gotrek rushed up the stairs to the wall of force and swung his axe with all his might. The wall,
which Harley had been chipping away at steadily for a while, shuddered and exploded in a blast of
force which almost knocked the dwarf back down the stairs.
Embril, under the effects of Camero's dark magic which would have left any other mortal stunned
for a week, shook her head and focused her vision. She was only one turn of the cube away from
finishing the ritual which would return Larin Karr from Carceri to his place in the mortal world.
One turn of the ancient artefact and her life's goal would be complete. Then Sora spoke a word of
power, known only to the Archdruid's most trusted aides, and in a flash of druidic energy Embril
warped and twisted and suddenly in her place was a small, harmless mouse.
Gotrek rushed forward and with a huge sweep of his axe smeared the mouse all over the platform.
The mouse changed shape back into a black and bloodied Embril, on death's door. Feebly she
reached up to try and make the last turn of the cube but Camero's magic arched into her and she
collapsed, dead.
Report Date
11 Apr 2024
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