Session 45 - Overwhelmed
This
write up is based
on my memory of our December 11, 2024 session. (Our Scribe, Kay
could not make
that session). Since our group is scattered around the country,
we used Discord for our voice communication
and Roll20 for our virtual tabletop.
Thanks to JoJo
for the screen shot and Kay for the proofreading.
Continued from: Teleport Rooms
Date: May 26, 3517
Location: The Fountain of Pestilence
The huge room reeked with the smell of rot and disease, an overwhelming miasma that rose from a huge central pool of pus and filth. At the middle of the pool, the horrid liquid fountains upward to a height of 5 feet. Five large rivulets of the fluid trickle away from the fountain, threading their way across the floor to disappear down corridors or through gaps in the walls.
The room itself was obviously once used as a
temple: a huge alcove in the
northern part of the room contains a 10-foot-tall statue of a
benevolent-looking figure wearing white-painted robes. However,
the statue was
splashed with blood and filth, and a grisly necklace made of human
hands had
been draped around the statue’s neck like some sort of
psychopathic offering.
These were all left hands.
5 PM
Two more eggs bobbled to the surface and Elron reminded
us that we wanted the demons’ eyes, so we should wait until they
hatched next
time. He said, “We should
damage them as
much as we can, without killing them, let them get on the hard
surface and take
them out there.”
Everyone used light attacks to hurt the
eggs, to avoid
splitting them open and causing them to sink back into the
pestilence. It turns out
that when they did hatch, the
creature inside came out uninjured, so the attacks were wasted.
Much to the
party’s disappointment, these contained zombies instead of demons.
The first zombie went down before it could get halfway
across the pool, exploding before its remains sunk into the slime.
As the second one waded across the pool, Elron shouted, “Let it get onto the hard surface before finishing it off so we can loot it.”
“I don’t want that stuff on me,” said Blaze as she slung a stone at the approaching zombie. It exploded, with fragments landing just short of her feet.
Breena shouted, “We have giant rats coming from the far tunnel!”
Her Gnomish eyes, which could see better than most in the dim light, had spotted a horde of Doberman-sized rats approaching down the passage on the east side of the room.
The party fell back into the library as three 6-foot-long centipedes crawled out of the pool. Blaze cast flaming sphere in the doorway which kept the rats from advancing.
As the party pulled back, they could hear splashing in the flooded tunnel between the rooms. “The rats were trying to get behind us!”
The party pulled back to the stairs, shooting rats when they started to climb out of the slime. Blaze closed the door and moved the flaming sphere to the base of the stairs.
As the party retreated up the stairs, two demons teleported into the room next to the flaming sphere. One went down quickly after everyone in range shot at it. The other demon cast grease on the landing above Elron and Breena.
The second demon died shortly after and Blaze threw a rope to Breena and she and Elron got over the grease without tumbling down the stairs into the flaming sphere.
Someone said, “We got a head start, we should run to the top of the stairs.”
Blaze reminded everyone the sphere had about 15 seconds left and she couldn’t cast it again that day.
Everyone ran up the stairs.
Continued in Session 46 - Payday!
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