Session Thirty-Two Summary (Graveyard of Empires: After the Fall)

Session 32, February 17 2021

Introduction

We continue at 11:30AM on the 22nd of Tenrilden with the party crossing Malgrim's rift in the Sky Car on their way to visit Clan Nachak, the Upper Terrace shops, and a theatrical performance based on the adventures of Commander Talon and Lady Em ...

Larry's Summary

While the sky car is still over terraces a few hundred of feet below, an enormous earth elemental springs up and starts smashing the wheel on the far side of the chasm.

The manager and the slave crew flee.

Rallion has the group grasp hands and shadow steps them to safety. Most of the party runs down the stairs and Rallion steps up and uses the scepter to charm the elemental. Rallion tells Gath to go with Lambertus.

Rallion commands it to stop and just as it does, gnome guards run up and fire darts at it. One manages to hit and the elemental succumbs to the sleep poison.

Rallion stops the gnomes from killing the unconscious elemental. It soon wakes up and gets up, and Rallion asks it to sit.

The elemental stares unnaturally at Rallion and the gnomes are suspicious of Rallion. Velkin was acting as the translator, and the head of the guards, Drusticc Ragathi, told Velkin to stop translating.

The party prepares to leave and Gath will have none of it and gives the spider box to Lungmold, grabs his axe and runs up to help Rallion fight off the gnomes.

Lungmold affixes a grapnel with a rope from the terrace below.

Rallion tells Gath to stop and that convinces the gnomes that Rallion is the cause of the rampaging elemental.

Rallion does his best "Why can't we all get along." speech to no avail. The gnome guards shoot at him and miss, he sacrifices his shield to block one. Rallion tries to dissuade them but the rush him, one goes to grapple him, but Rallion strong arms him and knocks him out. The guard from downstairs runs up. Rallion appeals to the Czizak Ygna to deaf ears. Two more try to get Rallion and he strong arms both of them, the other two guards run off to get more guards.

Rallion paces and rants about all his bad luck and decisions that lead to this situation.

The others find a jeweler, the Silent Jeweler, who tells them that the gem is a golden topaz and is basically priceless. He offers 150,000 in gems and the party accepts and he gives them a chest of 150 thousand gp gems.

Brendil buys a magic glowing mace from an armorer for 6,000 GP.

Then the party heads to see the Czizk Ygna.

Rallion tires of waiting and tells Gath to "get over here!" and tells the elemental to take him to the Under Market in an alley. A yellow hat guy, but not THE yellow hat guy who works for the "Champion of Azmodeus" Belial Lord of Curanost (where Edan is from) "Destroyer of the Elven Nation."

They want all the paper, especially a map of the island. Will let us keep whatever else we find. They don't want to know any other information we might have, just want to get the paper.

At the meeting place the party is attacked by ten cloaker assassins.