[Day 42 – Naga and the Hydrodaemons]
[This game uses the Pathfinder 1E roleplaying game. Game sessions happen once a week. This session happened February 6, 2023.]
[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
Marativy – female ratfolk 9th level Ninja
Zitch Grimreaper – male ratfolk 9th level Witch with a donkey rat (capybara) familiar
Roscuro – male ratfolk 9th level Monk
Swamprover – female grippli 9th level Wizard
Winston – male ratfolk 9th level Gunslinger
Via Roll20
Templeton von Trapp – male ratfolk 9th level Summoner (Synthesist)
NPCs
Gridik Stormstride – male blue kobold 7th level Wizard (Invoker)
Hrefna – female changeling 7th level Omdura
Ariphi – female tiefling 7th level Rogue
Autumn
Day 42 continued (again)
The room beyond the exit door from the fish trap was a long, narrow room with an ornate door at the far end. On one wall was a mural of an underground city. In the mural were beings with no eyes and two mouths. [Zitch later identified them as Caul-Borne.] A naga took up a third of the room and looked ready for a fight until Roscuro asked her if she was Selany. She cautiously allowed that she was, opening up a conversation.
The Ratpack explained that the wizards of the Spire had sent them to rescue the previous group, hers, as the wizards had heard nothing in some time. Roscuro asked how long she had been down here, wondering if there was some sort of time distortion going on. Selazny said she had been down here several weeks, which aligned with how long it had been since the wizards had lost contact. Marativy asked if Selazny had found the Caul-Bourne and the naga answered she had not yet but expected them to be on the other side of this unopenable door.
The door in question had a sihedron rune [seven-sided symbol of the Runelords] on it with a large onyx plate in the center. Roscuro asked if the Ratpack could take a look and the Selazny said, “Be my guest.”
Thinking this rune behaved like the rune that entrapped the couatl several rooms back, Roscuro approached the door and applied the Shard of Lust to the rune. Nothing happened, but Selazny did start edging back away from the door [wisely as it turned out]. Roscuro touched the onyx plate with the shard and a glowing line appeared wherever he moved the shard. Thinking he needed to draw a specific rune on the onyx plate and with no apparent way to erase the lines he had drawn, Roscuro lifted the shard from the stone, triggering a chain lightning spell. Roscuro evaded the lightning, but Marativy, Selazny, Zitch, and Swamprover were all tagged by it.
Roscuro apologized for setting off the trap, but said he had two ideas for which rune he needed to draw. Everyone else cleared out of the room, all the way back to the centrifuge room.
Once the area was clear, Roscuro drew the rune of Lust on the onyx plate with his shard. This triggered another lightning bolt, which Roscuro evaded. He next drew the rune of Gluttony, as that was the rune the group was looking for in this dungeon. This triggered another lightning bolt, which tagged Roscuro soundly [he failed his save]. Zitch came in and healed up Roscuro some to keep Roscuro from dying.
Roscuro eventually decided that deactivating the trap was the better plan and called up Marativy to disarm the trap. Marativy took some time and worked on the trap, eventually removing the onyx plate from the door. This provided direct access to the locking mechanism, which she disabled. Hrefna came in and applied her healing aura to heal everyone back to full health [including Selazny].
The next room was a small cavern with a subterranean stream running through it. A small stone bridge arched over the river and a path went across it. The far side appeared to turn south, but was at the edge of the group’s Darkvision.
Cautious, the party started crossing the cavern, using the bridge to cross the stream. While crossing the bridge, three large hydrodaemons leapt out of the water and attacked!
The Ratpack concentrated attacks on one of the hydrodaemons, dropping it after a couple rounds of combat. Swamprover dropped another one of them down into a summoned pit and used burning hands on another, careful to avoid Templeton with the area of effect. Meanwhile, Selazny cast invisibility on herself and fled further into the dungeon. The adventurers felt they had a good handle on the fight until the one in the pit cast deeper darkness and then summoned another hydrodaemon. With his super sharp hearing, Zitch heard the summoning and responded with [a spell I didn’t write down in my notes], forcing the summoned Hydrodaemon to appear in the centrifuge room [and take damage].
[And this is when the GM’s laptop ran out of power.]
End of Session
Rat Whispers
[Going into this session, the Other GM warned us that he forgot the power cord for his laptop and so once the battery ran dry we were done for the night. His laptop uses a proprietary power connector for a brand we don’t have at the house, otherwise I would have supplied one.].
[The adventure never explains how the naga got past the fish trap, just plunks her in the following room, beyond a locked and trapped door with no other access. I don’t remember if I mentioned it or not, but the writing for this book makes a lot of assumptions and does things because the plot won’t progress if those things aren’t done. Not a big fan of this book.]
[Finally, this blog entry was delayed due to wedding anniversary activities. Sorry about that but the anniversary was more important.]
Ratpack
Book 1: Shards of Sin Landing Page – Links to all Book 1 sessions
Book 2: Curse of the Lady’s Light Landing Page – Links to all Book 2 sessions
Book 3: The Asylum Stone Landing Page – Links to all Book 3 sessions
Last Session: Session 23
Next Session: Session 25
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