Session 24: Tomb of the Moon Fiend

General Summary

The next morning, the party awoke to find the old man Bart already up. As they all descended into the dining hall they also noticed that Apieros had left for the capital. After getting some breakfast, the party began their journey north towards the very foot of the Allerdale Mountains. After traveling for almost the entire day, with Bart riding behind Ravojhan on his horse, they rode past a crone selling grilled frogs, squirrels, and rats along the road. Refusing to pay for food they could make themselves, they continued onward to a waterfall at the edge of the mountain range. Behind the waterfall, Bart pointed out an entrance, a dark tunnel leading downwards. The party tied up the horses, and bork, before entering the narrow path down into the dungeon. Inside they found a light at the end of the path which slowly turned into a staircase. With the help of Bart's map they entered a room with a basket. Inside the basket, they found a rat which Trinky wished to capture but was unable to. Continuing onward through a locked door that Trinky managed to pick open they found themselves in a circular room with a door to another circular room with a pool of water in the middle of it. Not caring to investigate further they remembered seeing a hidden room in the area. When they went to check this further they found that Bart had lost the map. Aurora still managed to find the entrance and inside they found a storge for riding equipment, as well as a magical fleece and a magical mirror. Behind the mirror, they also found a magical mask. Bringing the things with them, they continued further into the dungeon and found another identical room with a basket. Not willing to lose the rat again Trinky went right up to the basket and managed to quickly grab the rat inside and tried to bite its head off. As she bit into the critter it transformed into an imp that stung the goblin in the face with its scorpion-like tail to escape. After consoling the now distraught goblin they continued and came to a room with a chain-clad creature seemingly torturing zombie-like beings. The party jumped the chain creature and overwhelmed him, managing to kill it before it could even react. Inside this room, they also found a key which Quinumo grabbed. They finally reached what seemed to be their destination. A room with a ring on top of a pedestal. It was, however, surrounded by three hooded figures. They began to bargain with these cloaked figures who didn't seem at all willing to give up the ring. In the end, Aurora managed to make them sell her a fake, identical ring that they could give Bart to trick him. This didn't work since Bart seemed to notice that the ring wasn't magical like his. They went back to the figures who called them thieves and asked them to leave. As they turned to leave, Ravojhan made a break for it and cast a spell to snatch the ring and run. As they did, the enraged cultists turned into three, winged, devilish creatures. One blue, one yellow, and one red. After an attempt to get the ring failed, they tried to fight the creatures but found their endeavors to be in vain. And when the red devil put the ring on his finger, they witnessed these powerful beings combine into one, huge creature as they all became conjoined by the hips with one snakelike lower body. The party panicked and fled in different directions. Trinky fled into the corridor behind the creature. Quinny and Aurora fled north and further into the dungeon. Ravojhan and Bart fled back the way they came. Ravojhan and Bart were at first chased by the creature, who seemed to have difficulties attacking Bart for some reason. As if the ring prevented it. But it seemed like they gave up the chase soon thereafter. The two thought about the alternative to go back for the rest of the group but realized there was nothing they could do and left. Trinky on the other hand ended up running up a long, narrow staircase. In the end, she found herself by a cliff on the mountainside with a several hundred feet drop down to the forest. She thusly and rightfully panicked. Quinny and Aurora who had run into a corridor found a locked door, but with the key Quinny had grabbed they managed to get inside and closed the door behind them. They found themselves in a treasury filled with gold and gemstones, as well as a magical mantle. They began to gather what they could. Thats when the monster arrived and smashed the locked door down. However, they luckily managed to escape with the aid of Aurora's magical arrows and fae magic. However, Aurora did get mauled by the beast and sustained some serious wounds. Quinny lead them up the same staircase Trinky had escaped through, but now they were chased by the monster. When they reached the cliff they found the panicking Trinky, but with Aurora's magical arrows they managed to make it down the cliff safely and thus escaped the beast. Running back south to reconvene by the dungeon's entrance where Ravojhan had hidden to give them all a chance to escape, they finally managed to reunite and leave. But before they did, an argument broke out with Bart who wanted them to go back in, since he still didn't have his ring. The party argued that it was a lost cause and that he should pay them anyway since they were put in danger. He refused and they parted ways. The QQQ made their way south to camp safely by the road.

Campaign

The Broken Eye

Protagonists