Session 98: Celestial Promises & Finding Senitar

Session Date: March 4, 2022

In-game date: 18 and 19th of Flamerule, 1491

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Celestial Promises

Ratez took command of the battlefield with a blanket of Forest of Spears. It immobilized the skeleton shock troops that tore Garren up with their volley of crossbow bolts. It also trapped a Ghast Warlmonger in the sewer channel. For three rounds it tried to break free from the mass of spears.

Treori finished off a Warlmonger through a constriction attack.

ElaDyn placed strategic hits through a series of hand-to-hand combat bouts on the Iron Ghoul. He also revealed his Anhk of Aten; the beam of radiance burning everything in the path. Ratez followed up with a Sudden Stampede, crushing the remaining skeletons.

On the NE side of the map, a swarm of rats, ghouls, ghasts, a troll, and a night hulk bore down on the party. Wolfy pulled a paralyzed Andrasti from the sewer channel and carried her up to the celling removing the threat of being drowned. Garren Launched a fire ball seriously wounding the horde. Forest defender continued to hack away at the swarm of rats. Darrin finished off the swarm with his breath weapon. Seeing defeat, the remaining Imperial Skulls fled.

Vuliev appeared and pondered out loud how the party should best break the news to Mezgon. Ratez noticed there is an anomaly in Zellix's star map that cannot be explained away as an error. So there could be something to the prophecy but it has been misunderstood. The ritual Mezgon was to perform may have an entirely unknown outcome.

Andrasti came up with a brillant idea, craft a dream with the Star Dust she pilfered and plant a vision of what happened, the truth, with Mezgon. This way they would not have to directly let Mezgon know she was fooled. It worked. They saved Mezgon's pride and in the process, didn't make her look like a fool.

Meeting Mezgon

Mezgon thanked the party for dealing with the betrayal. But she also needed to feel them out some more. She tossed down some tiles with pictures on them and asked the party to come up with a story using them. She again tossed down another set of tiles and asked for a different story. A final set was tossed down and she asked the party to connect the two prior stories to this one.

 

• They made up a story about a safe that only a troll could unlock and a hero in search of this troll.

• Next they told a tale of a dragon who was late to files taxes and ended up crushing an elderly person as the dragon made haste to not be late.
  
  
• Finally they crafted a tale where the Dragon and Troll fought one another on top of the pyramid but not before they ate a final meal together under a big tent. Just as the two were about to fight, a wizard conjured up a massive wind that blew them down off the pyramid.

Mezgon, impressed with their ability to communicate was now able to trust enough in them to hear them out. She gave them access to the sewer grate above her lair. She only asked for a small favor; acquire an onyx necklace from Quix, a worker in the prison. They need to do it with out killing him or letting him know she wants it.

Finding Senitar

The party entered the sewer grate in search of Senitar Bladestream. They rested and healed and made their way to another grate supposedly below the prison cell. Treori went up and did recon and found a lone person in a cell, not a half-elf. Some guards came in, they might have  heard the banging as the others attempted to bust open the grate. The guards sniffed and listened but eventually moved on after seeing just a snake [Treori] in the corner. Darrin and Garren muscled the gate open bending and breaking bars. Luckily no one entered to investigate the noise.

Caleb Rice

The prisoner, Caleb Rice, is an ostracized vampire whom displeased Lord Cedrick Lauron. Caleb, when you found him,  had a stake embedded in his chest. Garren removed it. Andrasti noticed a few things about the stick seemed peculiar but couldn't piece it together. Garren did not notice anything off. ElaDyn made sure to keep away from Caleb as Eretria's light was harming him. Eretria said Caleb is probably an important player in the Lauron family politics.

Open Loops:

• Finding Senitar
• Prison Break
• Dembe's revival
• Feeding Orcus
• Blessing the dead
• The Lauron Curse
• The Crow
• Eretria Awakens

Alliances formed:

• Holy Venomous Servants sewer gang (Mezgon)
• United Dead sewer gang (Vuliev)

Enemies made:

• Imperial Skulls sewer gang (leaderless?)

Allegiance unknown:

• Caleb Rice