Re: [Spoilers] Tomb of Annihilation
Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2019 4:15 pm
Session 35
01/16/2019
All present + visitor Lasarian
(Day 42, 12:40a Chult)
Sewn Sisters
The Soulmonger
01/16/2019
All present + visitor Lasarian
(Day 42, 12:40a Chult)
Sewn Sisters
- -Hags phased into the party’s reality surrounding Zidlur in the middle of the room.
-Zaan quickly phases right after them casting silence in the area of the hags.
-Jilto attempts to trap them in his Watery sphere, but they seem resistant to his magic and sends in the Slaad.
-Unable to speak to one another the coven fades back to the border ethereal plane while the group readies for their return.
-As they came back the group lit them up with bolts, arrows and missiles.
-In infernal the witches communicate to each other that they discovered that all of the adventurers are carrying keys to the gate, so they coordinate on the little one.
-One of the hags eyebite’s Zidlur, putting him asleep as another runs up to pick him up preparing to phase him to the ethereal plane.
-Jilto’s fast thinking slams the watery sphere into them pulling and awakening Zidlur from his slumber as he gets sucked into the sphere.
-Lisa breaks the hags concentration on the eyebite preventing additional unexpected sleepiness.
-In retaliation a hold person spell is casted Lisa’s way for a short period before Zaan is able to interrupt it.
-Eventually a hag went down, as the others were trapped in the watery sphere.
-When the hags lost their coven member and their advantage was lost they spoke in common with an attempt to make a deal.
-Teagan successfully grappled one that was being restrained in the sphere.
-However Zaan and Zidlur didn’t wait around to see what they had to say.
-The room was barricaded as the party decides to hunker down for a long rest.
-The bodies are looked over and they retrieve the hags heartstones , soul bags And 5 small black marbles were retrieved with an aura of conjuration emitting from them.
-The dolls tell you they are used in some way to leave the tomb, but they do not know how.
The Soulmonger
- -During the night Zaan pulls out the journal he looted from Withers earlier that morning and learns about the history of the tomb and its inhabitants.
-It also talks about Acererak’s purpose for the soulmonger and his baby death god that nourishes on the trapped souls of the world.
-With the fear that not only does the party need to deal with the soulmonger but with this atropol as well on the other side of the door, Zaan decides gives his Amulet to Zidlur to help with his casting abilities.
-Jilto disguises the group as the hags and dolls to buy them some time as they open the skeleton gate.
-The gate reveals a 10-foot-wide, 20-foot-long staircase of polished black marble that descends to a large room with Crumbling balconies overlooking a pool of lava filling this triangular chamber, above which is suspended an enormous crystal cylinder held in place by three adamantine struts. Wraithlike forms swirl inside the cylinder, and otherworldly screams hang in the air. Four long, writhing tentacles sprout from the cylinder’s cap. A shriveled monstrosity the size of an elephant floats near the cylinder. Its body is wet and malformed, its arms and legs are atrophied, and its oversized head drips black goo. The creature is attached to the cylinder by a twisted umbilical cord.
-Teagan quickly casts Waterwalk for any poor soul that might fall into the lava.
-The spirits speak to their hosts, Moa urging Teagan to free the trapped souls, Nangnang advising Zaan of the treasures that could be hidden in the bone filled alcoves and Papazotl recommending to Jilto to use radiant damage on the evil deity.
-Zaan searches alcoves, while Zidlur looks for ways of breaking one of the struts or the stone it’s attached to, and Lisa believes piercing the crystal glass of the soulmonger would be enough to destroy the device.
-Lisa lifts her enchanted heavy crossbow and fires!