What lies beyond? Gunter gets a surprise! Report
General Summary
- Beginning the session the party had just reached back to the central chamber of the Aetherium Bastion with 3 party members down and everyone else on the brink of death themselves.
- Waiting for the Fireball merchant to awake so he can cast Tiny Hut, the party saw pebbles fall from some rubble down the entrance path they used to enter the center chamber.
- All of their attention fixed on the pebbles, but one.
- Dreamys notices a barbarish looking Orc woman and she's skulking after Gunter.
- Exclaiming aloud to the woman seemed to be of no matter to her as she lunged at him holding the sharp end of her glaive right at Gunter's nose.
- Gunter knows this woman.
- This is Ghel The Gouger, rival to Madam Blaze and teacher to Gunter and many other deceased members of the pit.
- She proclaims she followed the party into here after seeing smoke from the Eldertree all the way from the Desolate Wastes. On her way here she noticed plenty of "Disgusting Drow" and Goblins.
- She knew whatever fire that was able to set the Eldertree itself ablaze had to have been her rival.
- Keeping her distance and moving swiftly Ghel moved around until she came across the Mill with all the civilians at it with Dusk being noted as being amongst the few she saw.
- She eventually tracked the party here into the Bastion and she proclaims that more might be coming this way.
- Back to the situation at hand. Gunter wishes to kill Ghel as that is the rite of passage for the pit. Ghel having felled many of her former students (Many of them children apparently).
- Giving off the vibes of yet another battle crazed lunatic its clear to see how she is a rival to Blaze.
- Gunter with a natural 20 punches Ghel across her face as she retorts: "If you can hit like that all the time, it might be a fun fight!" as she smacks Gunter with the blunt side of her glaive sending him flying 5 feet and knocking him unconscious.
- She tells the party that she's going with them to the Spire to figure out where Blaze is at. She wont help unless she absolutely has to, and even then she looked reluctant.
- The party then proceeded down the Necromancy path, clearing out the underground chambers with relative ease.
- After completing the Necromancy path, a message from a Vedalken named Astro Shadowforge was played throughout the chamber of the path issuing some information on a book that Baelor might be seeking.
- The Grimoire of Eternal Midnight. Located at the Pyramid of Zahur in the Desolate Wastes.
- With the message fading and the party being sent back to the main chamber only one path remained. Conjuration.
- Entering the Conjuration path the party was met with a hall once more, but this one more grand and seemed to stretch infinitely.
- A ways down the path standing on a pedestal resided a humanoid elemental made of all 4 main elements and constatly shifting its elemental nature within its form.
- This elemental seemed surprised to see Daggoss, but had a case of mistaken identity as the elemental mistook him for Astro Shadowforge.
- After some talk and asking the party a straight forward question of attaining knowledge or saving the lives of an entire race of people the party chose knowledge in a vote of 4/3 initiating combat with the elemental.
- A very hard fought battle later and no one dying the party emerged victorious.
- Being transported back to the central chamber once more.
- The paths were complete, and the main chamber doors opened.
Joe Mama
Jack Necros
Morgan
Jade
Daggos
Dreamys
Hearth
Report Date
04 Sep 2024
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