Session One Hundred Summary (Graveyard of Empires: After the Fall)

Session 100, July 20 2022

Introduction

We continue at 1:30AM on the 16th of Denrilden (00.000.09.15 on the Apocalypse Clock) just as the party is ambushed between upper and middle Malgrim by the Ooze creatures previously seen accompanying the Silence attackers at the Embassy. Meanwhile, the convoy of pirate and imperial ships continues on its way toward Armada and now has roughly three and a quarter days to their destination. Will those in the Malgrim vanquish their attackers and escape Malgrim? How does the Silence know so much about the party? Could Asmodeus be driven from Meidia just by having Khelratha go talk with him? Only one of those questions has a definitive answer at this point ...

Borthan falls and Ceres pulls him into the midst of our group and Borcas binds wounds.

Kauri charms one that attacks another.

Velkin slips Drow sleep poison and sleeps the 3 drow sitting on a table and all 3 failed their saves.

Ranarth is dropped.

Suddenly 5 Drow show up, 4 draw weapons, one is still running.

On opposite rooftop Velkin sees 3 more cloaked figures.

Velkin shouts to draw attention to those 3 squid faces and look in Velkin’s direction and seem concerned as they look past the invisible Velkin.

Velkin kills one of the unconscious.

Ceres breathes on the one the dropped Ranarth. 4 drow attack the one being attacked by the charmed slime creature.

The 5th drow is a female and runs into the midst of the party.

Woman pulls out a small piece of webbing, “I was worried when you weren’t at the embassy, we have to leave here right now.”

Velkin is attacked mentally by the 3 squid faces across the way and is unable to think.

Toss Borthan then Ranarth into the portal, then the rest of us move in. Velkin lashed out and killed the last of the 3 unconscious squid faces/Silence.

Druul fails to get on the building to help Velkin. Druul helps Ceres who is stunned.

One drow is charmed by the Silence. One drow knocked down, one tosses Velkin in and the other sets the web on fire.

One slime creature slips through before the portal is destroyed.

We find ourselves in a hallway covered with webs. It looks like a building. Stone floor looks like marble and walls have a metallic golden gleam.

Drow and half spider drow appear.

One of drow women that ran up casts something. But the slime creature saved.

Vikram comes flying down the hallway.

Many misses.

Ithirialma changes form and is a blue dragon.

The DVL saved and was hurt. Lambertus hit with his last shot from his shear rifle and the driders finished it off.

Vikram gives a bow and says, “Greetings I welcome you to the City of Brass, the mistress of the house wishes to see you.”

Jarlanna is one of the Drow Priestesses who attempted to cast vs. the DVL.

Jarlanna escorts us to meet “the Mistress.”

Chamber completely encased in web. A pillar of web in front of us. Crouched in front of the pillar is the hugest spider ever seen, but has a woman torso with way too many eyes. Jarlanna and the other priestess and Vikram prostrate themselves before the spider lady. AKA Lolth.

Lots of drow, driders, and other figures in the room.

Also off to the side see a few figures, a cavefisher, a gnome, a cloaked figure, an elven lady, AKA Fisher, Bradler, Laris, Zandor, Paronel, Herasib, Sepa, Renthark the Githyanki.

--- Back to the ships.

As dawn comes on the 16th, there is a knocking on the door to the cabin. Excuse me sir, the captain needs you on deck. One of the other ships has dropped back, and the captain needs you sir.

Jardin joins Khelratha. Captain Hero is there with an orc we don’t recognize.

Khelratha, Jardin, this is captain Zullekon from the Wicked Wave. Looks like a pirate with a patch over one eye. Are you Rallion? No, he’s dead, I’m Khelratha. Asks about Bradler, Laris, never heard of them.

Prisoner. We’re bringing her back to armada, she was messing around the Shem village. I’d give you her name, but she gives a different one each time. She’s wanted by the Seer. He leans forward. I heard she killed the Prophet, the Seer’s gonna kill her. (Bavmorda)

The Seer, the one who sees with the eye of Lysander. Lysander’s dead is what I heard. The good news when we get there is an execution.

She overheard some talk from her guards and heard about the group who negotiated a deal with the other ships.

Khelratha asks to speak to the prisoner to see if she knows anything useful.