Kythorn (June)

Session 11 “From the Shadows”

The group sets out to meet with a sage named Terry Goodnoodle to try to learn more about the Hags. Darius makes potions.

K5

Ophelia performs at the local tavern and learns of apathy towards the Red Wizards. The party meets the sage Clemont, who is a specialist in the region’s history. They get him to agree to look into the history of the temple of Tharzidun. Later in the evening, they continue communicating with Mr. Skorluni and Tasha’s father

K6

The party checks on Clemont, only to find him slain and a pair of shadows left in his apartment. Matters are made worse by the presence of some fiendish entity that escapes. They are able to destroy the master Shadow, which turns out to be the shadow of Meldst. The apartment is abandoned after claiming some scraps of paper and books on regional history.

After checking up on Goodnoodle, some gains are made in determining the nature of the threat against the party. They realize that one of the Hags may actually be in the city, possibly the sewers.

The session ends when the party returns to Clemont’s apartment, only to find it set afire.

Session 12 “Masks and Mayhem ”

Party travels to the Gnome’s nose to try to learn what people have been hearing about them. During their inquiry, they learn about the Masquerade Party at the DeSpare’s and decide to crash. They are able to acquire tickets from Loquacious and other members of the Academy’s Staff because the priests are not interested in attending. At the Party, they learn about current movements in Kielbastian Politics as well as meet a mysterious Satyr.

Party returns home late in the evening and set up their first night watch rotation (yay). On Eve’s watch, the shadow of Clemont approaches her and beckons towards the cistern behind Tasha’s Apartment. The party is quickly alerted and stumbles down into the sewers, some wearing only their night shirts.

The party explores the sewers that they have been led to, eventually finding a break in the pipes that leads to a underground hideout. They explore it, learning that the hideout is being used by a cleric of Tharzidun, a number of gnolls, and that the cleric is controlling a number of undead. The party defeats the cleric and her minions, capturing her and dragging her back to the surface.

K7

Session 13 “My ass! My Ass!”

Party Sends Alexander all over the city and up to the Academy to find Loquasious. They find that the clerics of Red Knight are being reactivated for deployment to the north.

The party gains access to the captured cleric of Tharzidun and interrogates her. They are unable to learn much besides the fact that she is insane.

The party returns to the sewers and tries to find an alternate route into the temple. They encounter numerous gibbering mouthers and suffer many wounds fighting them. Particularly, Alexander keeps falling prey to confusion spells and attacking party members. Notably, while crawling through some tunnels, he wreaked havoc on Darius’s ass. As they search for a way out of the temple, they find a secret door that is activated by the symbol of Tharzidun.

The door is a curtain of inky blackness, which gives the group pause. After debate, the group travels through, leaving Eve and Darius to continue discussions. During a daring time-space experiment, Eve is released to the currents of the nether while Darius encounters a mouther alone. He is chased around and through the portal, where he is eventually reunited with the group. The group then summarily destroyed the creature.

K8

Session 14 “Through the Looking Glass”

Party continues to explore the temple, first killing a number of Gnolls and their leader. As the party pushed on, they encountered a chain golem as they moved through the inner halls. The Golem defended a complex altar that semed to possess a dark intelligence. The party narrowly defeated the construct, but had to return to the earlier sections to rest. Although the high priest never showed their face, the priest’s presence was felt as the party tried to rest.

While resting, the priest sent a force of Ghouls led by a Ghast to attack them. The assault was assisted by a small earth elemental and resulted into a fierce contest of wills between the party’s clerics and the temple’s high priest. The priest fled down into the temple’s cellars, which the party discovered contained a gargantuan obelisk.

The session closed as the party descends a series of platforms to arrive at the bottom of the complex with no sign of their adversary, but a number of dark shapes floating overhead.

K9

Session 15 “The Obelisk”

The party explores the base of the Obelisk, trying to discern the significance of the two symbols. As they search, Alexander touches a foreboding archway and summons a Grell. While the Grell attacks, the Cleric Festrath joins and casts a Harrier Spell. The party is able to barely knock out the attack and returns to move up the shaft. Two cloakers attack the party as it climbs, but are driven off. The party flees the temple and returns to the Surface for rest, but discovers that Morbur shattered the mirror of transport and trapped himself inside the temple.

Session 16 “Ring My Bell”

With the help of Monique, the group returns to the temple in search of Morbur. As thy search, they find the temple in the midst of a ceremony to sacrifice the dwarf. While moving through the crypt, the party is ambushed by a Crimson Death. After destroying the creature and reviving Darius, they move on the main temple area.

There, they interrupt a summoning ceremony and enter into combat with Festrath, four ghouls, and a black pudding. The battle was close, but the druid’s nature spells proved exceptionally effective against their foes. After combat, the party moved to the antechamber to rest or try to escape. During all of this, Darius continually receives pleas from numerous voices to ring the triangle in the temple and free “something” from the altar.

K10

Session 17 “Rescue Morbur”

The Party gets Monique to cast a portal spell to try to send a rescue party after Morbur, who has sealed himself in the temple. The Party enters the temple and fights their way through a pack of ghouls led by Aelvanna. They are able to fight their way through the temple and raid Aelvanna’s Room while she hides at the base of the pillar. They also find the scraps of the journal of Grenor Thon.

After their raid, the party survives the next 14 hours in the safety of Darius’s Rope Trick Spell.

K11-13

Session 18 “Fuck You One Eye!”

The group returns to the surface to find that the city’s harbor has been sabotaged and water elementals have scuttled the city’s fleet. Willow scouts through the water and discovers the cause of the sinkings.

After sending a note to Loquatious, they are told to meet with Riven, an elf. Riven explains that there is a gem, an elven Tel-Kiiara, that may be in the temple. They explain their missions and agree to accompany each other back down into the temple.

In the temple, the party encounters a large pack of ghouls, Aelvanna, and another Black Pudding. A fierce battle ensues, eventually leaving all their enemies defeated save Aelvanna. Aelvanna flees, and is chased by Eve and Alexander. She lays a glyph of warding trap and ambushes Eve as she runs after her. Still, Eve survives and Aelvanna gets knocked down a set of stairs. Above the hole to the pit, Aelvanna is struck by Eve’s Psychic Attack and then cut in two by Alexander.

K 14

Session 19: “Seek and Go Hide!”

The party heals and rests at Tahsa’s house for the evening. In the morning, a note is delivered to Tasha by a message boy. After reading “I Live”, Tasha gets a small ball of fire in the face as the explosive runes spell goes off. She leaves to try to find out more about the location of Loquatious. Riven returns from returning the brooch to its owners. The party is later joined by Cerrick and Tasha, who return from the citadel of Red Knight. They party also finds Terry Goodnoodle to ask him about hags, ways out of the city, and psionics. Terry is little help.

K15

The party decides to go out to Loquatious, and travels down a secret tunnel to a wooded area outside the city. They are discovered by a scout platoon and get caught up in battle. After the attack, Sylvia turns into a mute goblin and scouts out the invaded town. Darryl converses psionically with Loquatious, and the party prepares to fight a unit of hobgoblins sent to clear the wooded copse.

Session 20: “Darius Reborn?”

0800- A unit of hobgoblins and goblins, accompanied by an Ogre, rapidly charge down to investigate the group’s appearance. The party prepared their position using various traps to hinder the enemy’s approach. Riven used an illusion to make it appear that the group had ran off to the west, but an arrow from Alexander gave away the group’s position. As the opposing force neared, illusions, balls of fire, and an entanglement spell were exchanged, making life very difficult for both sides. Darius was struck down by a lance-strike and a charging barbarian ogre; leaving him at death’s door for a dangerous amount of time. However, the group was able to pull themselves out of their predicament by sheer effort and narrowly defeated the opponent.