[Day 62 – First look at the Inner Sanctum]
[This game uses the Pathfinder 1E roleplaying game. Game sessions happen once a week. This session happened September 20, 2021.]
[SPOILERS! If you are likely to adventure through the Shattered Star Adventure Path from Paizo, this campaign will be spoilers all the way down.]
Player Characters
Via Roll20
Templeton von Trapp – male ratfolk 6th level Summoner (Synthesist)
Roscuro – male ratfolk 6th level Monk
Hrefna – female changeling 5th level Omdura
Swamprover – female grippli 5th level Wizard
Marativy – female ratfolk 6th level Ninja
Zitch Grimreaper – male ratfolk 6th level Witch with a donkey rat (capybara) familiar
NPCs
Gridik Stormstride – male blue kobold 4th level Wizard (Invoker)
Ariphi – female tiefling 5th level Rogue
Mel Sharples – male halfling Cook (Expert of unknown level)
Alice Hyatt – female halfling Bodyguard (Warrior of unknown level)
Flo’ Castleberry – female gnome Bodyguard (Warrior of unknown level)
Autumn
Day 62 (Continued)
Marativy had just disappeared in a flash of light from the hidden shrine to Nocticula the Ratpack had discovered in a secret area off the Grey Maidens’ bathhouse. Not certain that all had heard what Marativy had said to cause the teleportation, Hrefna wrote down “Amivadeus Yasrin” on a scrap of paper and set the paper down on the shrine’s altar. Pointing to the scrap of paper, Hrefna said, “She said, ‘Amivadeus Yasrin’.” This caused Hrefna to also teleport to an unknown location.
Roscuro asked Zitch to use the earrings of telepathy on him before saying the words and teleporting to where Marativy and Hrefna were. Both were fighting a group of sinspawn and for some reason a giant image of Nocticula was also fighting some of the sinspawn! [Marativy had used the Major Image power of the shard in her possession to attempt to cower the sinspawn and it had not gone well. Incidentally, lust sinspawn are disturbing, being the definition of “monster porn”.] Roscuro quickly relayed the situation to Zitch so he could tell the rest of the Ratpack the situation. The rest of the Ratpack joined Marativy, Hrefna, and Roscuro in the inner sanctum and the fight against the sinspawn, which wrapped up the fight fairly quickly.
The room they were in was spacious with two large alcoves, north and east, that those teleporting in were randomly split between. There was a corridor in the south wall and stairs up in the west wall. There were some benches made of solid pieces of obsidian that looked both valuable and too heavy to move plus a thick rug covering most of the floor.
The first order of business was to try and find a way back to a part of the dungeon the Ratpack knew. Roscuro stepped back into the eastern alcove [the one he had arrived in] and said the words that had teleported him here. Nothing happened. Zitch cast Detect Magic and looked around. The northern alcove had magic. He started concentrating on that to identify what kind of magic, but Roscuro, slightly impatient, stepped into the alcove to say the words. Before he had time to say anything, he teleported to another room, one he had not seen before.
The room he arrived in was long, more of a hall, with black marble statues of Sorshen down the center and large gold squares on the floor. It was quite tacky in appearance. There were doors at either end of “Gaudy Hall” and Roscuro checked the one at the west end first. It opened to the Grey Maidens’ bathhouse, being the eastern door of that room. Roscuro used the still extant telepathic link with Zitch to explain where he was and that it was safe for everyone to teleport through.
Once everyone was in Gaudy Hall, there was some cursory investigation of the hall and discussion about whether to return to the Inner Sanctum or return to camp to rest. The consensus was that the group was running low on resources and returning to camp would seem to be a wise choice.
The group made their way out of the dungeon. On the way through the tunnels to the surface, the group spotted some ochre jellies in a side passage and decided they wanted nothing to do with them.
Late Afternoon
The Ratpack returned to camp and cleaned up. Mel prepared an excellent dinner.
Third Watch
In the early hours of the morning, Zitch, Gridik, and Templeton were on watch and noticed some light flashing to the east. It appeared to be flames of some sort. Zitch and Gridik consulted and thought the lights appeared to be from a Burning Hands spell. Whatever was causing the lights never got closer to the camp, so they did not raise an alarm.
End of Session
Rat Whispers
[Several characters leveled after the night’s rest: Marativy, Roscuro, Templeton, Zitch, and Gridik. This was one of the factors in the group deciding to return to camp. I also seem to have missed updating Gridik’s level a couple sessions ago. He turned 4th level at the end of Session 32 and will be 5th level next session (Session 36).]
[I’m not detailing the combats anymore unless something cool/significant happens, particularly the short, unimportant fights. This might make for some short session summaries when several short combats take up most of the session and I apologize if that happens. I will detail the fight when we get to the story boss for this book.]
Ratpack
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