Session 4 - The Fall, The Save and the Centipede.

I fell asleep and was instantly tormented by terrible dreams. I saw my beautifully enchanting wife, Guinnevere.
I looked into her beautiful eyes and was overcome by dread as her skull split open and a mindsucker bursted from her now open skull. It chased me for longer i thought possible. its fair to say i was not rested when i woke up.
 
We headed further down, ledge after ledge untill a strange magic filled the space. it was as if gravity was off, i felt almost weightless.
When we made it down to the bottom, we saw a large castle type of construction across from a broken bridge. at the middle of the bridge was what i surmise to be a Grell.
We attacked it at a distance, it seemed to not want to chase us. it was killed within a few seconds; something strange is going on.
I stepped upon the bridge and felt myself in a daze. i wanted to jump off into the depths below. Luckily, Talis saved me from certain death. What i saw at the bottom of the ravine however.. that will haunt me forever more.
A Gigantic centipede like creature, beyond anything in the realm of sanity. thousands of skittering legs, each as big as a guardtower.
We now knew a spell was put on the bridge, so we were careful and stepped on the bridge one at a time. this way, we managed to save a few from falling down.
We jumped the broken bit of the bridge, and when i looked back, both Dormund and Talis were gone. i looked into the dephts.. but no trace of them.
I almost decided to jump down myself to save them if possible.. but Cassius had casted 'detect magic' as he likes to call it. it showed the large castle walls to be an illusion. i peeked through and saw both Talis and Dormund, Suspended in the air near a dodecahedron of some kind.
I had to hope, nay, wish that removing that object would free Talis and Dormund. if they kept suspended.. we were doomed as right behind it stood a humanoid, lifting up a large Kruthick with magic, siphoning its blood into a void of some kind.
I knew we had but moments, so told Al'akir and Cassius to give me 30 seconds, before causing a diversion. I snuck into the illusion once more and made my way as close as i could. At the 30 second mark, the other two stepped into the room which alerted the creature standing near the void. As if on command, a large earthquake shook the world around us as a gigantic tentacle creature tried to pry its way through the void portal into this plane. as the other two made their way up close, Cassius was dragged into the air, closer and closer to the void creature. I quickly sprinted to my friends and lifted the dodecahedron into the air which lifted whatever spell was upon Dormund and Talis. i quickly tossed the dodecahedron to talis and told her to run. to get that thing out of here. due to the lack of other prominent items.. i believed it to be the beacon.
 
The humanoid creature had in the meantime turned around and i saw it was a nightmare. An Illithid, mindeater of the depths. a true monster.
Combat ensued, cassius was taken closer and closer to the creature, while Al'Akir drew closer. Talis ran as far as her little legs could carry her leaving Dormund and i to fight the Illithid.
 
The illithid casted a spell and i found myself overcome with fear. i had to get away. And so i did. i dont know what happened to the others as i ran but i was soon out of sight and back at the bridge. i kept running and prepared to take a leap, right as the same sensation as before came over me and i tossed myself into the depths below. I blinked and found myself back where i had just ran from. The others were under attack by some kind of blind humanoids. they creeped me out, and slashed at them.
Cassius was freed, Al'akir had made an epic jumping smite attack which brought the Illithid some pain. it seemed like the portal was closing the further the 'beacon' was taken away from it. As a last ditch effort, the tentacle monster started to pull Al'Akir to it. Dormund made some sort of prayer to his god, Ioun and tied a rope that was thrown by Al'Akir around some rocks. in a true divine burst of strength, Dormund pulled Al'Akir free. I swear i saw the rope emit light for a second.
 
The ilithid was clearly fed up with us and drew closer to the tentacle creature. In a burst of nothingness, they disappeared. Two red glowing eyes loomed in the void.. which quickly disappeared. i believe we may have made an enemy doing what we've done. but thats not important, not at this time.
We hurried and killed the blind creatures, i even managed to kill one by telling it 'your eyes are truly beautiful.. radiant.. if only the rest of you was like that. you know.. not existent.' which was kind of fun for me in these dire circumstances.