Part 4: A Beast Below

Written by MarblesOnGlass

The city is most glad that the recent string of break-ins has ceased, but more lies in the shadows. After stopping him, and (literally) beating him with his colleague, one of the cultists, Dareth, has agreed to take our adventurers deep into the caverns, where he and many others plan to free a beast like no other.

Components

Goals

After making their way through the tunnels to the cultists' hideout, they need to find more information about the Titan and fgure out their next move.

Relations

Protagonists

The Main Party:

B'leep the frog-man fighter

Thorin the hill dwarf cleric

Pen Name (Lovecraft) the goliath barbarian

Fade the divine domain cleric

Boris the aarakocra druid chef

Allies

Neutrals/Bystanders

Dareth

Adversaries

The Cultists

Zedaar

Spiders

Backdrops

Locations

The winding tunnels and cave systems leading out of Ider

The Cultists' City

The main square/The Pit
Jhari's cellar hideout

The marshlands

A ruined mausoleum

Threats

Cultists, spiders

Encounters

7:00p - The party leaves Ider, with Dareth as their guide through the tunnels. They leave him tied up throughout this entire thing.

7:30p - Spiders! Lots of them!

8:00p - PCs arrive at the edge of the cult city. Dareth refuses to go any farther so they tie him to a big rock and leave him there. There isn't a single person in sight, but the PCs can hear ominous chanting reflecting off of the cave walls. Turns out it's ritual time in the central square (surrounding The Pit).

8:30p - Most of the party decides that sneaking past hundreds of cultists is better than engaging them directly. Thorin and B'leep decided that engaging hundreds of cultists directly is better than sneaking past them. Pen Name and Fade meet Jhari and set up a meeting with her.

9:00p - Thorin vs. 100 cultists after he (very poorly) tries to impersonate their "god". Fade discovers that at the bottom of The Pit, you can see the Titan's eye staring back up at you.

9:30p - The party meets with Jhari, who tells them all about the Titan and the Five Keys. She knows that one is kept under close watch in the Cathedral, and that another is likely in the marshlands as it was last seen in an old temple, and the marshlands aren't very well-explored.

10:00 - The party sneaks back into the tunnels and towards the marshlands. In the marshes they find an old, ruined mausoleum and destroy a statue outside of it. On their way through the ruin, they pick up trinkets here and there, tossing some to the side, eventually arriving at the base of the crypt. There Boris opens up a coffin, grabs onto an earthen key, and is attacked by the undead.

Past Events

A group of cultists resides deep in the cave systems, hidden from the other cities, and have been there for a long, long time, worshipping the Titan which was burried there nearly 1000yrs ago, and trying to wake it up. Jhari and her team were raised as part of the cult, but have decided to work against them. In their meeting with her, Jhari tells the party the truth about the Titan: "Over a thousand years ago, before anyone lived under the ground, there was a kingdom ruled by a selfish, power-hungry King. Through dark magic, he created the monstrosity that is the Titan; a beast the size of a mountain which he used to defeat anyone who so much as looked at him the wrong way. Of course, it began to cause massive amounts of destruction, leveling villages and destroying rival keeps, and so with the help of the Gods, a powerful wizard was able to defeat the Titan, cursing it to be forever trapped under the ground from whence it came. The King and his followers were trapped with the Titan and have been trying to free it ever since. Of course, as the magic wears off over time, the wizard created a failsafe: 5 keys which were used to lock off the Titan's heart. The cultists have been trying to locate these keys because if they can unlock the heart, they can awaken the Titan once again, destroying everything which defies them. We, on the other hand, are working to ensure this never happens, so we need to get these keys first. Once we have the keys, we can open that gate, and destroy the heart before the Titan has a chance to wake up."

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Session

Parent Plot

Fell Cities Main Outline

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Part 4: A Beast Below

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Goals

Relations

Protagonists

Allies

Neutrals/Bystanders

Adversaries

Backdrops

Locations

Threats

Encounters

Past Events

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