Rappan Athuk #112: The End Is Nigh

The party was rejoined by the mage Susurrus and the monk Doomfist to take on the Ravager.

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7th day of Sarenith, 4722 AR

We then started the process of pre-buffing, but we were cut off by two meteor swarms flying at the party…

At first, I was reluctant to leave the golden toilet. But when I heard about my party fighting the Ravager’s spawn I rushed to their aid, all the way down through the labyrinth we call Rappen Athuk.

N, Shia, Grom-Gil-Gorm, and DFSIFA had already slaughtered the beast, describing it as a strange shape-shifting creature. After the story time, we made our way towards the third tunnel that had red light that sucked our life if we touched it. As we walked, DFSIFA noticed that the pyramid had stabilized and was back to containing the Ravager and its spawn, but before we could fight the ravager we had to get to the end of the tunnel with red light.

N cast a wall of force at the end of the tunnel. We then started the process of pre-buffing, but we were cut off by two meteor swarms flying at the party, one flying past and doing minor damage but the second directly impacting Grom-Gil-Gorm, before anyone had time to react a fireball came flying at us dealing a petite amount of damage. Doomfist then preceded to fly at the pit fiends and smack one, failing to bypass its damage resistance. Then DFSIFA shot a few arrows dropping one of the two. The battle ended with Grom-Gil-Gorm crushing the second one’s skull

We proceeded then to waste around one or two hours on how to release the Ravager and its spawn. We ended up sealing ourselves in the room and going in the red tunnel so that when we deactivated the red light the creatures could not escape and we would have a chokepoint. After a quick rest, we finally disabled the last light beam. Nothing happened for almost a whole minute, but then the room started to rumble and the pyramid started to crumble into light shards, revealing what I could only describe as a heap of hideous creatures that spilled out onto the ground around where the pyramid used to be.

DFSIFA with his quick and nimble fingers nocked an arrow or two, maybe more, and launched them straight into the Ravager’s skull, clearly weakening it greatly.

Signing off so I can go have some fun killing the Ravager.
Doomfist (Cayden)

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Death from Somewhere Irrelevantly Far Away, tiefling slayer 20 / fighter 1
Doomfist, oread monk 18
Grom-gil-Gorm, half-orc viking fighter 20
n, elven haunt-collector occultist 18
Shia Labeouf, human bard 18
Susurrus, sylph wind-listener wizard 20

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Rappan Athuk #111: The Light at the End of the Tunnel

In a missing chapter of our tale, the party encountered a prismatic pyramid containing the Ravager, powered by three beams of light. They nearly fell to the manifold eye-beams of a Gibbering Orb, but prevailed.

We bid a fond farewell to Valestar Eckhart, the last remaining member of the original party and its first scribe nearly four years ago. His conversion to Iomedae to unlike the powers of his new artifact sword came at the price of duty to a higher Cause, for he now joins the crusaders standing watch at Kenabres at the edge of the Worldwound.

Susurrus is on a sojourn, and Deckard Cain had to look into mysterious portents in the town of New Tristram.

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6th day of Sarenith, 4722 AR

Three of our number have left us, and one mysterious stranger from this ancient prison has joined. None of us who remained had any healing power, so we were forced to rely on potions and scrolls. After maneuvering around some obstacles in our path, we returned to the great glass prism. It had not changed since we had left it, but we checked the blue tunnel anyway. There was nothing in it save a strange staff. After temporarily dispelling the blue light, the staff was revealed to be a potent staff of the magi.

“This world puts a dangerous amount of trust in elf-magic,” said I, “Where I come from, the elves destroyed themselves with their greed.”

It was then that I noticed the stranger, n, had pointed ears. I was in the presence of an elf! When I asked about his people, he told me he didn’t remember anything.

 

Rappan Athuk #108: Monsters, Monsters Everywhere, but Not a Coin to Loot

Grom-gil-Gorm does not forego his go to grumble.

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6th day of Sarenith, 4722 AR

How did the trees live without sunlight?

We reached the bottom of the murky tunnel. The area was completely dark until Susurrus lit his elf-torch. What sort of monsters would you expect to find in a dark cavern? Rats, trolls, oozes perhaps? No, the monsters that assaulted us were trees. How did the trees live without sunlight? Where was their soil? What did they have against us? I asked myself these questions as we turned the attackers into splinters, and could not come up with the answer. (They were special stone treants! -GM)

Yet another padlock awaited us at the end of the room. The others were all frail of form, built for stealth instead of strength, so the burden of forcing the padlock open fell upon my shoulders. The door opened into a room filled with whirling blades of stone.

 

I knew the elves had a spell that turned stone into mud, but Susurrus told us that we faced “special” stone that did not respond to his elf-magic. We were forced to walk through and accept that we would receive a few cuts.

 

The walls of the next room we entered had a bas relief of the army that imprisoned the Ravager, along with a single statue in the center. These carvings failed to imprison themselves, as they all came to life and attacked us.

 

The others killed many of them, but they did so at range, cowering in the corner with their bows. I was the only one brave enough to face them head on. If there was any treasure in that room, it was I who’d be most worthy of it, yet there was no treasure. Not a single object of monetary value. It seems the heroes of this age would be paupers.

 

Signing off,
Grom-gil-Gorm

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Deckard Cain, aasimar oracle 19
Death from Somewhere Irrelevantly Far Away, tiefling slayer 20
Doomfist, oread monk 18
Grom-gil-Gorm, half-orc viking fighter 19
Susurrus of the Wind, sylph wizard 19
Shia Labeouf, merfolk bard 18
Valestar Ekhart, aasimar paladin 20

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Rappan Athuk #107: Vault of Horrors

The party has gone “down the well” to stop the Ravager, and have found themselves in a lethal dungeon.

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6th day of Sarenith, 4722 AR

If it wasn’t for Deckard Cain we would all be dead. Seriously. After being surrounded by wraiths he clutched up. Shia gave him a little more time to cast his spells so he was able to cast three spells in rapid succession. He first weakened all of the wraiths and made them more vulnerable to his spells. After that he cast Storm Bolts which, in case you didn’t figure out, makes giant bolts of lighting come out of his hands and strike everything. The enemies were about to descend on him but he burned them with his flames. Some survived but were wiped out when he regained his breath.

We retreated out of the room but this time made sure to not have everybody leave. We did not want to have to fight the wraiths for a third time. We summoned an apple tree with our Sapling Rod and Grom-Gil-Gorm and I ate a few apples to restore the damage the wraiths had dealt to our physiology. Those with more severe damage had to return to the capital to buy scrolls of spells that could heal them. 

Finally, we were all back together and ready to address the vault door. It was unlocked but very heavy. However with Grom-gil-Gorm’s mighty strength, we were able to pry it open enough for us to slip through. The walls in the room beyond were made of a strange rock. The rock was embedded with strange colored crystals and our wizard informed us that it had the special property of being immune to any magical effects. The room itself was filled with small pillars that seemed to go into the floor and up into the ceiling. There was another vault door on the other side of the room, but as I scanned the walls and ceiling, I noticed a secret door on the right hand side.