Session Thirteen Summary (Graveyard of Empires: After the Fall)
Session 13, September 30 2020
Introduction
The party's initial foray into the troglodyte lair did not go to plan. After Braadlur summons evil spirits from the Elemental Plane of Earth that animate ancient dwarven statues, the party flees with their charmed troglodytes. A major explosion, cave-in, death, and several brushes with death later, the party finds its way back to the lair. What have the statues been doing in that time? That answer will be revealed when we rejoin the group as they sneak back towards the statue room at 11:30AM on the 11th of Tenrilden ...
Session Summary
The party comes upon a gorup of troglodytes carefully carrying shallow bowls with liquid. We assume they are flammable with the troglodyte young. Rallion shoots one and it explodes. One trog throws his bowl and it lands on Braadlur and the young try to bore into him, before Lambertus and Oskar can dispatch them with a torch.
Two of the trogs go up some stairs, one is one of the remaining charmed by Rallion and it signals for Rallion to follow.
Another charges Peronnel, adn Laris backstabs it.
Then a creature with a squid face in black robes steps forward.
Rallion shoots and hits another bowl that explodes and sets off several more.
Aquidface does something and all in front except Rallion and Laris are affected. Rallion charges and hits hard, and Laris backstabs. Rallion and Laris cut off its head.
the remaining trogs attack, but Rallion shoots another bowl that exploded and Click Thump crashes through the wall and smacks a trog into the wall. The remaining trogs flee.
We wait about ten minutes for those stunned to recover from the mind trick.
Laris finds a satchel with 3 vials and hands it to Rallion. Braadlur tastes one of the orange yellow vials and it appears to be a potion of clairvoyance, the other is poison, but it only gives Braadlur a headache and sour stomach and terrible taste in his mouth. Squidfaces robes are magical for which Kauri sees a blue glow. Laris can read the silver thread that weaves among the black robes and it repeats a message about blocking the mind.
We go into the area from an entrance under the scaffolding we saw from the first door we entered from and see one of the statues carving on the dragon.
We shoot and shatter that statue and another resumes carving and two others charge. We easily drop the two that charged.
The dragon head then turns around as a portal opens and the statue doing the carving falls away. The giant dwarven head and "block head" and the dragon are all that remain.
the dragon breathes and kills 3 of Zaki's gnomes. We try to hit it, Click Thump hits it soundly. Oskar is dropped. A giant hand at the end of an are comes from the portal and is huge.
the dragon breathes and kills the rest of Zaki's gnomes. the giant hand smacks and shatters Click Thump.
We all charge the dragon, which no longer breathes fire on us, but it chomps first Felix then Braadlur.
Kauri charged in to save Oskar, then Felix, then Braadlur in the midst of combat.
The giant hand can't hit us.
We finally slay the dragon statue with the symbol of a portal. When the portal closes the arm is cut off and falls. The two remaining heads cease moving.
We gather up the wounded and head to the entrance we first saw this place, and move the round stone "door" so that we can close it from the other side.