Brawl with the Deep Mother

Session 18

Approximately April/May 2016

Gaspar – 5^th Level Human Monk, 3^rd Level Psychic

Baphomet – 8^th Level Tiefling Warlock

Hamoot – 8^th Level Hill Dwarf Cleric

Fiddlesticks – 8^th Level Rock Gnome Wizard

Gabriel – 5^th Level Human Paladin, 3^rd Level Warlock

Bojangles – 8^th Level Forest Gnome Bard

                The party attempted to parley with the glabrezu, and through the conversation they learned that the glabrezu was not the true mastermind behind the plot to take over the sahuagin and that his leader was known as the Deep Mother. He gave the party passage to the Deep Mother and he also gave them his gnome prisoner, Fiddlesticks, to aid the party with killing the deep mother. The party moved into the lair and attacked the Deep Mother only to find out that she was an aboleth. The party was ambushed almost immediately once the combat started by a pack of sharks and Gaspar was dominated by the Deep Mother for a good chunk of the combat. After the long encounter the deep mother managed to flee from her lair and further into the underwater catacombs. The group returned to the sahuagin who told them that they would throw a feast in their honour for driving the Deep Mother away and they invited the party to stay and help them continue the fight against the sahuagin who were still loyal to the Deep Mother and her rebels. The party politely refused and upon the feast starting all of the party passed out from drugged food except for Gaspar who somehow made a crazy Con saving throw. The sahuagin told Gaspar that if we ever returned to their kingdom that we would be killed on the spot and then proceeded to force feed him the food until he passed out.

            The party awoke on a small tropical island where they were stranded for three weeks. All of their magic items that allowed them the ability to survive underwater were taken away from them. During their stay on the island they learned from Fiddlesticks that they had been in the sahuagin kingdom for nearly two years and that in their absence an alliance between giants and orcs has been formed an they have been attacking every settlement along the Sword Coast. After three weeks on the island a merchant vessel came by and the party was able to get the ships attention and passage back to main land. However, 10 days into there voyage the ship was attacked by the sahuagin king who was riding a giant shark. The party was the only survivors from the attack. They spent the rest of the day surviving on drift wood until a thick fog overtook them and a boat came out of it. Baphomet, Gaspar, and Hamoot immediately recognized the boat as The Rainbow Way, the ship they had sailed two years earlier.

To Be Continued…

RIP Thane and Oceanus

Session 17

Approximately March/April 2016

Gaspar – 5^th Level Human Monk, 2^nd Level Psychic

Baphomet – 7^th Level Tiefling Warlock

Hamoot – 7^th Level Hill Dwarf Cleric

Thane – 7^th Level Human Rogue

Gabriel – 5^th Level Human Paladin, 2^nd Level Warlock

OceANUS – 7^th Level Aquatic Elf Fighter

            Gabriel and Thane quickly regained their composure and burst back into the room to fight the priestess. The group battled the priestess for about a round, but the priestess turned invisible and fled back out into the hallway. In the hallway she opened up one of the wedged doors and released 4 giant eels into the battle. The group battled the eels and eliminated them and forced the priestess to retreat into a corner of the hallway. Thane grappled the priestess and the rest of the group corned her.  The priestess cast plane shift and Thane and OceANUS decided to go with her. Upon arriving in the new plane Thane slit the Priestess throat before bowing to demons present in the new plane with OceANUS. The rest of the party fled back out into the main hallway of the underwater keep where they learned that the sahuagin honour guard outside was on their side and that he would prevent other sahuagin from interfering with them fighting the king.

            As the group prepped for the fight, Baphomet’s crystal started to glow and Bojangles, a gnome bard who helped taking the Haunted House from the red cloaks emerged. The party made their way to the king’s chamber, but on the way they found a human blacksmith named Armen, who was crafting weapons in preparation for the sahuagins conquer of the land. Gabriel told Armen to armour up and join them in their fight against the king. Armen did so and the group busted into the kings chamber. The party realised that the king was no sahuagin and that he was a demon called a glabrezu. The glabrezu had a gnome prisoner next to him.

To Be Continued…

OP Chained Vampire

                                                                      Session 16

                                                    Approximately February/March 2016

Gaspar – 5^th Level Human Monk, 2^nd Level Psychic

Baphomet – 7^th Level Tiefling Warlock

Hamoot – 7^th Level Hill Dwarf Cleric

Thane – 7^th Level Human Rogue

Gabriel – 5^th Level Human Paladin, 2^nd Level Warlock

OceANUS – 7^th Level Aquatic Elf Fighter

                The party entered the High Priestess’s chamber only to find that it was a large room with a scripture on display and the Priestess was nowhere to be found. Suddenly Baphomet’s crystal began to glow and Gabriel burst out after a 10 session absence ad I think OceANUS was sucked in at this point, maybe. We copied the script down and figured out that we needed to place the pearl we were given earlier on a pedestal to get a secret door to open, which lead into a hallway. The hallway had four single doors on each side and a large double at the end. We opened the first door on the right and found that the walls were scorched on the end. We then opened the first door on the right and found 5 eels in the room so naturally we closed it and wedged the door shut. After that we open the second door on the right a found an elf chained to the ceiling. Long story short, we won!

            After the 2 and half hour combat with the vampire, Thane wedged every door shut. We then pressed into the room at the far end and found the Priestess inside. She was unfortunately protected by two spires which were generating a forced field around her. Gaspar, Gabriel, and Hamoot all went to the green spire on the right side and managed to destroy it. Baphomet, Thane, and OceANUS on the other had managed to disable the red tower on the left with skill checks. Once the spires fell the Priestess cast a spell that caused Gabriel and Thane to flee out of the room. After they fled the priestess locked the door behind them.

To Be Continued…

CoolstuffInc.

     

         Shout out to CoolstuffInc., they sent me the wrong models replaced them and letme know I could keep the wrong ones.

Finally got this model

http://www.coolstuffinc.com/p/226876

the Gelatinous Cube, love it :)

Giants are coming!

It is time for something that I need to do. Once the group leaves the feywild I will give them an option to go into the steadying of the hill giant chieftess. If they take it, I really want to run G1 Steadying of the hill giant Chief.

I have been stealing ideas from Giantslayer a Pathfinder Giant story arc

http://paizo.com/pathfinder/adventurePath/giantslayer

I have not run G1 2 3 in years and I will use G1 for sure but not thinking I will use G2 & 3?
Will steal more ideas fro Giantslayer as its a more of a homebrew sandbox than railroad adventure.

Also found a conversion on DMguild for G1 2 &3

Cree Craw

session 15

Approximately January/Febuary 2016

Gaspar – 5^th Level Human Monk, 2^nd Level Psychic

Baphomet – 7^th Level Tiefling Warlock

Hamoot – 7^th Level Hill Dwarf Cleric

Thane – 7^th Level Human Rogue

Gabriel – 4^th Level Human Paladin (Missed Session)

OceANUS – 7^th Level Aquatic Elf Fighter

            The party casually walked into the guard station and told the guards that they were to retrieve magic items from the armoury for the high priestess. Once they were let into the armoury they quickly snatched up all of their items and armoured up. They burst out of the armoury and attacked all of the guards quickly putting them down. After hiding the bodies the party made their way back through the maze to the secret opening that lead out into and alley in the sahuagin city. Once in the city the group got the location of an inn from some locals and made their way there and bought a room for the night. In the room they rested up and identified some of the magic items they had stolen from the armoury prior in the session. After the night they made their way to the castle where the High Priestess was located. On the ay however a gang of sahuagin approached them and started to say some Cree Craw shit to Thane and after some failed bluff rolls (failed skill challenge) the party slaughtered the gang and continued on to the castle. Upon arrival we were met by the sahuagin honour guards. Once we told them we had magic items for the Priestess, they gave us a pearl and let us into the castle. After exploring some museums of the surface world within the castle, we found an honour guard who led us to the entrance to the High Priestess’s chamber.

To Be Continued…

           

           

They Took Us Alive

Approximately January/Febuary 2016

Session 14

Gaspar – 5^th Level Human Monk, 2^nd Level Psychic

Baphomet – 6^th Level Tiefling Warlock, 1^st Level Wizard

Hamoot – 6^th Level Dwarf Cleric (Missed Session)

Thane – 7^th Level Human Rogue

Gabriel – 4^th Level Human Paladin (Missed Session)

OceANUS – 7^th Level Aquatic Elf Fighter

            After the megalodon smashed through the wall the group began to flee back to underwater entrance and escape the sahuagin lair. With the megalodon hot on their heels the group was ambushed at the stairs to the higher level by allot of sahuagin. Thane was caught in a net and Gaspar was knocked unconcise by a sea troll. OceANUS and intern Tharagrim were grappled by sahuagin honor guards and Baphomet was knocked unconcise by sahuagin foot soldiers, an absolute massacre. The party awoke, each within their own prison cells, deep underwater in a sahuagin city called Abiding Hunger. After some time they were taken from their cells and forced to take an addictive drug to breath underwater and fight in an arena. In the arena the group engaged five sharks in combat while a fellow captive sea ogre fought a megalodon. After the combat they were brought back to their cells were Baphomet was approached by a sahuagin priestess who tasked us with killing the current high priestess Ger’ rulistaa. In return she would grant us freedom and prevent the sahuagin from starting a war with the lad dwellers. She made all the party member swear allegiance to her and then she gave them the keys to their cells, an amulet of comprehend languages, 6 doses of seaweed (each) that would turn them into sahuagin if they took 5 doses, and directions on how to get to the guard station where their stuff is and to where the secret escape passage was. The party took their doses and exited their cells.

            Now disguised as sahuagin the group almost immediately blew their cover at the first guard station, but some quick thinking on Baphomet’s end convinced them otherwise. Then came a giant maze and oh boy it was an adventure. There was a gelatinous cube that almost engulfed Thane, there was an octopus that Baphomet scared off with his eldritch blast, there were a few traps that were set off, and the secret escape passage was found. However the most important thing was that the party reached the guard station that had their equipment and they prepared to assault it. 

TO BE CONTINUED…

Land Shark

                                                 Approximately January/Febuary 2016

                                                                  Session 13 

Gaspar – 5^th Level Human Monk, 1^st Level Psychic

Baphomet – 5^th Level Tiefling Warlock, 1^st Level Wizard

Hamoot – 6^th Level Dwarf Cleric  

Thane – 6^th Level Human Rogue

Gabriel – 4^th Level Human Paladin (Missed Session)

OceANUS – 6^th Level Aquatic Elf Fighter (Missed Session)

            OceANUS was along with his sea lion were sucked into the Baphomet’s staff and Hamoot was released. The group found a stairway that lead further underwater and thus further into the Sahuagin lair. Arriving at the landing at the bottom of the staircase the group came too two hallways and decided to progress down the first one, first. They found a doorway on the side of the hallway that had light coming from under it. Gaspar opened the door and moved in, with the rest of the group right behind him. In the room were 4 sahuagin honour guards that were quickly slain. The party exited the room and Baphomet went to scout ahead. He found that the hallway opened into a large chamber which had a very large sahuagin with four arms sitting on a throne that was surrounded by honour guards. The group decided to double back to the landing and went through the second hallway. They followed it until they came to very large room that contained two sahuagin mages, a squid creature mage, and a megalodon. Gaspar went in through the front door and lead the megalodon out into the hallway and then down another hallway so it couldn’t turn around. The hallway it was lead down also lead to a back door that Thane snuck in through and assassinated the weird squid mage guy. Gaspar went in through the back entrance to evade the megalodon while Baphomet and Hamoot came out of hiding and entered through the front entrance.

The mages used some magic to paralyze Thane and Gaspar, but luckily Hamoot killed the mage that froze Gaspar and Thane managed to break out. Baphomet and Gaspar quickly went back into the hallway to blast the megalodon with spells while it attempted to smash in through the back entrance. Thane and Gaspar killed the last mage and then went to stab the megalodon from the front. Unfortunately a group of six sahuagin managed to sneak up on Baphoment and Hamoot and surrounded them. Almost killing Baphomet the sahuagin had the upper hand until Hamoot threw two of them into the megalodon tail killing both of them instantly. Thane and Gaspar heard this and managed to get back around through the front entrance to help them and help kill the last four sahuagin. As the last sahuagin fell the megalodon managed to smash through the wall and swam into the large room.

TO BE CONTINUED…

Sea Trolled

                                                            Approximately January 2016

Session 12

Gaspar – 5^th Level Human Monk, 1^st Level Psychic

Baphomet – 5^th Level Tiefling Warlock, 1^st Level Wizard

Hamoot – 5^th Level Dwarf Cleric (Missed Session)

Thane – 6^th Level Human Rogue

Gabriel – 4^th Level Human Paladin (Missed Session)

OceANUS – 6^th Level Aquatic Elf Fighter

                The sahuagin on the other side of the portcullis raised it and came to fight the group. Baphomet who was invisible snuck around through a back hallway, passing a large set of doors, and closed the portcullis from the other side, trapping the sahuagin with OceANUS, Gaspar, and Thane. The three heroes quickly killed the sahuagin and waited for Baphomet to reopen the portcullis. When the portcullis was finally raised the group ventured to the other side and found a path leading to a small prison where Hamoot and two other prisoners were being held. The two other prisoners were named Elmo, a human wizard and Tharagrim Fjor, a dwarf cleric. Elmo and Hamoot were placed in Baphomet’s crystal staff and the group ventured on into the Sahuagin lair with Tharagrim Fjor now helping them. The soon came to a large room where 8 sahuagin were lording over 10 slaves (3 orcs, 1 hobgoblin, 4 lizardfolk, and 2 dwarves). Baphomet threw a fireball at the sahuagin and the rest of the group ran in to finish them off. They set the slaves free and convinced the orcs to help the push forward and the hobgoblin to return to Phandalin and join Gaspar Reclamations. The group also found a pool of water that lead further down into the sahuagin compound. Our party ventured back to the double doors that Baphomet found earlier and opened them, only to find 2 sea trolls. One thing lead to another and two of the orcs were killed and a TPK was almost witnessed, but the trolls laid dead, the group had triumphed.

                After the brawl with the trolls the group explored the last room which contained lots of magical items that gave the ability to breathe water and a small figurine that summoned a large sea lion. The group “liberated” these items and made way to room with the entrance to the lower portion of the compound. Now underwater the group found an empty guard room, a guard room which they detected 16 organisms to be on the other side of, but most notably a large coliseum that was filled with roughly 100 sahuagin. The group continued exploring until they found another guard room that was filled with only 6 sahuagin. OceANUS summoned his pet sea lion and they group having the element of surprise quickly slaughter the 6 sahuagin.

TO BE CONTINUED…