Session 21: A Lost Empire - The Krasis Rises Report

General Summary

The party arrives at the maroon arches. It's a desolate colony that is a shell of its former glory. The destruction was recent.   Exhausted after their encounter with the Kraken Priests, the party takes watch. During their watches, Nolfravell & Kenrith hear a whistling and clicking coming from inside the catacombs. They go in to explore and write the noises off as wind rushing through the tunnel and crabs inside.   At daybreak, they head in and are ambushed by crab-like category 1 crisis who used their cryptic skin to blend into the rocky wall. They immediately decapitate one of the dwarves in the middle of the group and knock another unconscious. The party starts to take the three krasis down, each squealing as they go down. The krasis take down 3/5 of the dwarves.   As the last krasis dies, the catacombs shake and the failed category 3 breaches the surface of the water, breaking through the arch the party is in.   They successfully navigate out of the collapsing tunnels, but the elder busts her hip and is at half movement speed. The party scoops up the unconscious dwarves as they sprint towards the ship.   Nolfravell climbs atop the category 3. Another of the dwarves is swallowed up by the krasis. Nolfravell punches down on the krasis, dealing as much damage as he can. Korac'h lands a lightning bolt, bursting the krasis's left eye. Nolfravell bursts its right eye before the krasis swallows Kenrith and then Korac'h. The boys inside slice and dice to try and fight their way inside out. As Kenrith uses his smites, the krasis reveals glowing runes that protect it from some of the magic.   Korac'h dimension doors himself and Kenrith onto the ship while Nolfravell holds onto the krasis as it dives.   Kenrith wraps rope around himself and dives deep after Nolfravell. Nolfravell grabs hold of a nerve in the krasis's head, killing it as Kenrith catches up to him under water and the dwarves + elder are able to pull the boys back up.   They sail back, the dwarves resigned to leave their colony after the dangers of the krasis are yet unknown. The party arrives back, getting a promotion for their job well done.   They get access to one magical item, 5 soldiers, and a skyjek roc for Kenrith.   But as they're recovering in the mess, a singular soldier bursts through the gates of Deadwood and collapses. A messenger brings the party, mostly Nolfravell, a message. It's Agosto's #2. Agosto's outpost has been seiged. The party is tasked with rescuing the inhabitants.