Session One Hundred and Sixty-One (Graveyard of Empires Summary)
Session 161 July 26, 2017
Outside the temple of the Flesh God
Thorfus tests the golden circlet and he learns he can control a monkey up to 80 feet away. Edan has the nightcap. Serithaz can not scan into the ship but can past it. The golden circlet can not scan the clones. After an introduction by Thorfus, Nash interrogates Serithaz. Serithaz tells his entire tale from his emergence from Lysander. Nash believes him to be a false prophet. Nash rejects his testimony claiming him false but sees some value to his tales.
Session 161 : What goes up, must come down (Aug 1st, 2017)
After some discussion in what is likely the control room we come up with a plan to tackle the bats in engineering – we believe the information reliquary is important.
Due to the inconsistent gravity, we decide to lower a rope down to retrieve Thorfus, Lambertus, Nash and Edan with Mariantaxsis pulling up on the rope and Bellasante guiding.
While getting this ready Chuq positions himself to cover Bellasante or anyone coming up. It’s as he gets into position that he realizes that the door to the other side where the bat-like creatures are is open, but there’s no movement.
Since they’re not being attack, Chuck decides to lower the rope to Edan who has moved up halfway up the corridor in order to guide the rope further below to Lambertus who ties himself to the rope and signals for ascent.
Seeing Edan’s signal, Bellasante yells to Mariantaxis to begin pulling. Just then, Bellasante seems to have been affected by the bat-like creatures and drops the rope and attacks Chuck – striking him by surprise.
It doesn’t take long for Chuck to grapple and overcome Bellasante, but the damage was done. As Lambertus reaches them he too is afflicted and runs away in fear (deftly dodging Laurene, Chuq and Axel’s attempts to grapple him), but Chuck and Edan are unaffected due to their ESP block abilities and magic.
Chuq bolts after Lambertus and again swiftly disables the Cleric. With Harb’s help he’s tied up, while Laurente and Axel drag a very angry Bellasante out.
In frustration Chuq grabs the Dwarven Flamethrower and fills the Engineering Room with fire as Thorfus makes his way up and Edan fires arrows.
In a combined effort the bat-creatures are defeated.
We retrieve the information reliquary (which Edan confirms is a more complete schematic of the ship), a pair of green crystals and a small “very sharp” knife.
Shortly thereafter- everyone regroups at the barge to discuss the next course of action.