Session 105: Treasure and werewoves.

General Summary

Session 105 – Wednesday December 11th, 2024: Clearing out Hellgate

4-hour Treasure/Battle/Exploration session 5:30 PM to 9:30 PM.

The Stone Bearers. Party of 5:

It is the 4th day of the month of Ches (The Claw of Sunset) in the 51st year of the Age of Enialis (Late March.)

• Ajani– High Elf, L19 Wizard – Nathan Gioconda (Absent)
• Cassidy – Human, L19 Blood hunter – Ryan Armstrong (Remote)
• Gazlowe – Goblin, L20 Artificer – Josh Pozsonyi
• Isabella – Forest Gnome, L19 Barbarian – Jackie Armstrong
• Juan Peyote – Gnome L19 Paladin – Will Johnson
• Seften Mitcaver – Human, L19 Cleric – Jacob Munson

The Treasure room

Cassidy figured out how to use the elevator, but before they moved on, the party took a short rest. On the next floor up the party saw a panoramic view. Instead of an ashen wasteland, the view showed the surroundings as they were before the gods created mortals. Rolling fields of wildflowers in oranges, purples, reds, and pinks stretched as far as the eye could see. They examined the magical walls but found no secrets. They went back into the lift, and went up to another floor.   The room branched into four alcoves, each containing a yellow-runed ritual circle that hummed with protective energy. Two were empty, the other two were filled with treasures. Cassidy said the password “Kitseth” and the fields fell. They collected the treasure (See Treasure Below.)
  The party rested for a bit and learned how to use the magical items. Gazlowe was interested in the Sphere of Erasure, an object that can erase a person from everyone’s memory except for those who used the sphere. They talked about using it to erase Niptu, but that wouldn’t really change his plans. Gazlowe suggested Eversus, simply for the humor of it. They seriously considered the White Lady and that way they could easily install Ajani as the king of the forest.   The party again discussed what to do now that the main elemental threat has been destroyed. They decided to destroy all the other orbs (much to Gazlowe’s frustration.) But first Gazlowe dispelled the teleportation circle in the Queen’s tower. Seften fixed the front door and Gazlowe used his sovereign glue to seal the door completely. He felt comfortable that nobody would be able to resurrect the queen if they can’t get into her tower.

Guards on the way out.

They made their way out of the plane of ash and back into the tunnels in Hellgate. They walked past the broken fiend teleportation circle and through the halls back towards the ancient city, being sure to close the doors behind them so the next could open. As they walked into one of the rooms near the exit and closed the door behind them, the Ioun stone over Seften’s head fell to the ground and all the magical lights went out. They immediately knew they were in completely dead magic zone. They heard the door in the next room open just a crack. Cassidy went forward to explore and encountered a werewolf.   2 more werewolves were hiding around the corner, and they asked Cassidy if she was the one who had the window. Cassidy told them, they had just come from visiting the Queen of Ash. The werewolf asked, “Where is the Druid and the Wizard.” Cassidy explained they were gone but offered to take a message. The Werewolves were not interested in talking and, believing they had the advantage, attacked.

Fighting werewolves without magic.

Isabella raged and charged in first and hit the werewolf hard with her axe but did no damage. The others realized they have no magic and no silvered weapons. Seften hit with his axe, but it too doid no damage. Cassidy said, “Run!” Juan bit the werewolf, but it did no harm. The werewolf clawed and hurt Juan. Another hit Isabella twice. Gazlowe pulled out some poison from the Shadowfell and found it to be effective. He found some drow poison, but the werewolf resisted. Cassidy pulled out a vial of wyvern poison and jabbed it into werewolf. He put another dose into his mouth. Isabella lit up her torch. Seften pulled out 5 1lb bars of silver and threw them on the floor towards the other players. The party picked up the bars of silver and used them as clubs, bashing the werewolves with them, finally making some progress.   Gazlowe pulled out some vials of flammable tar and dumped them on the wolves, Isabella set them on fire. The battle raged on with Gazlowe and Cassidy going through their bags and pulling out various poisons and spores and continued to hurt the werewolves with them. The rest of the party bashed with the silver bars. Isabell grappled one of the flaming werewolves and used him to bash another. The werewolves still did considerable damage to the party before they started to fall one at a time. Gazlowe killed one with poison, fire and the silver bar. Isabella killed the last two by bashing them into each other.

Demons!

The party heard an expression of astonishment on the other side of the door. Cassidy lifted it up and said, “Okay, who bet against us?!” Several smaller demons backed away but one very overconfident powerful Molydeus, a demon general, stepped forward to finish the job. The party felt the power of magic fill he room. Cassidy insulted the demon, and it attacked.   The Molydeus cast lightning bolt, striking Isabella, Cassidy and Seften. The party started pounding on the creature. Cassidy tried to curse it, but it failed. The Molydeus tried to imprison Cassidy, but Gazlowe aided her to prevent the effect. Isabella downed a healing potion. Seften tried to banish the creature, but it resisted that too. The creature was able to bypass Seften’s resistance and sliced him deeply. Gazlowe cast a powerful spell but again the Molydeus resisted it. Cassidy landed a blow and was able to brand the creature. The creature tried to dispel the brand but failed. He tried it again, but Gazlowe counter spelled it.   Juan bloodied the creature, and the others continued to pile on and Isabella landed a critical blow leaving the creature near death. The Molydeus polymorphed Gazlowe into a field mouse. Seften picked up the mouse and threw it hard at the Molydeus. The damage both killed the mouse (returning it back to Gazlowe form) and simultaneously killed the Molydeus.

Demon slaves

The other demons in the room cowered in fear. Juan and Cassidy intimidated the creatures and Gazlowe demanded them to hand over any magical items they have. They handed over a ring of spell storing and a splash potion of supreme healing. Isabella grabbed the potion and Gazlowe took the ring.   The Demons bowed before the stone bearers and Gazlowe basked in it. He pulled out a statue from his backpack of the Demon lord of hedonism and said, “Bow before me.” He then rolled a critical success on intimidation. One of the demons pledged himself to Gazlowe as a personal slave. The demon promised to escort the party through the dungeons but noted that the devils will not listen to him. Gazlowe assured him that they will kill any devils they encounter, and the demon “Zorguk” was excited to finally kill some devils! Gazlowe told Zorguk to refer to him as “Prince Hedon.” Gazlowe turned to the party and told them, “Always carry statues of demon Gods with you.”   Zorguk told the party that he knows where the red, green and blue orbs are but not the White. Before moving out of the tunnel the party took a short rest where Isabella wanted to attune to the 9 lives stealer. Gazlowe gave Isabella a belt of Hill Giant Strength. Seften took the Gauntlets of Ogre power. Cassidy and Isabella used up Isabella’s healing potions. Seften cast mass cure wounds to heal the party even more.   The party opened the door and was immediately faced by a small group of Devils: A Rakshasa, 2 horned devils, an Orthon and an Erinyes. The Rakshasa said, “You may have dealt with the demons, but you will not get past us!”

Rewards Granted

Treasure

From the Queen of Ash vaults.

• Blade of forlorn hope
• Energy bow (Random choice of long or short.)
• Well-worn leather hip satchel containing
  • 2 beads of force
  • Ioun Stone of Reserve
  • 3 potions
  • a potion of giant strength (storm)
  • a Splash Potion of Superior Healing
  • a Splash Potion of Supremeior Healing
  • 2 feather tokens:
  • feather token bird
  • feather token tree
  • 2 Spell Scrolls:
  • a spell scroll of Xolund’s Levitation
  • a spell scroll of Embreace Eternity
• Sphere of Erasure
• 10-pound cube of ice that never melts (worth 2,000 gp)
• Coffer containing 20 primordial sapphires (worth 5,000 gp each)
• The oldest mortal-made axe in the timescape (worth 40,000 gp)
• 6 ancient gold holy symbols (worth 72,000 gp total)
• 29,465 gp
• 5,123 pp

From the Demons

• A ring of spell storing (with a fireball in it.)
• A splash potion of superior healing.