The Meysam Chalice: Session 7

General Summary

The party awoke and met briefly with Lt Sharpton to review the plan to locate a den of nightmares in the Sentinel mountains, find the dog tags of Cmdr Titus' three missing pathfinders, and safely recover them. Although, to say there was a "plan" to discuss is being generous. Our heroes found themselves mostly on their own when they touched down in the rocky mountain passages. Sgt Breckor stayed in contact with them via radio and their RLA ear pieces, but Shiva would need to locate the nightmare den using their own wits... and a bit of luck.
Kinsara transformed into an eagle to better search and peer inside the many mouths to dark caverns that littered the northern Sentinels. Upon gliding through the air, she spotted the familiar shriveled face of Olga, the nephilim in her mocking disguise. She seemed to point Kinsara in the direction of one cave in particular before making a dramatic, but silent disappearance.
Inside the cave, the party discovered the ruins of an ancient chimera city. The architecture suggested to the scholarly Cayenne that it was one of the many underground settlements of the enigmatic Deep Dwellers. Further, after their first confrontation with a few nightmares in the northern chambers of the cave, Rüppellain found the earth-bound spirit of a girl, dead for nearly 2,000 years. She revealed herself to be a capramera: a chimera with goat-like features including curved horns and thin, low-set ears. The spirit explained her kind left shortly before the Fall and the end of the Era of Dreams.
With the spirit having pointed them further into the cave, where they might find their query, the heroes delve into the depths, and entered the Dwellers' long-abandoned blue glowlite mines. Many nightmares clung to the ceiling and slumbered, but with a little magic trickery provided by Miri, the party glided across the ground, making nary a sound. Together, the ladies found two grotesquely mauled bodies in A-Sec uniform and recovered their tags. The third is found deeper still, where the body was laid in a pool of cold spring water, surrounded by blue glowlite crystals. Just behind the body, napped a large red-skinned nightmare... a horror.
Cayenne used her magic to rapidly degrade the already-rotting tissue of the corpse, which freed its head from the neck, all to easily slip off the dog tag without having to disturb the body and the waters. Her quick thinking spared her and Kinsara from waking the monster and they escaped, together with their comrades.

Rewards Granted

• Gideon's Shroud, Quest Digital Game Book, Pg 143
• Needful Giftbox, Quest Digital Game Book, Pg 143
• 4 Ancient Coins

Missions/Quests Completed

Recovery Operation: Left Behind

"A pathfinder team was ambushed by nightmares when scouting the Sentinels. Three personnel are missing. I need someone on the ground to locate that damn den. Any chance of survivors by now is slim to none, but A-Sec wear identifiers we call 'dog tags' on our person. Recover the tags if you can and bring them home. Don't engage the nightmares unless necessary. Transport and evac will be provided. Do me this favor, Shiva, and all of A-Sec will owe you."

-Jonathan Titus, Cmdr, E-ASF

Character(s) interacted with

Lt Rayna Sharpton
Sgt 1st Class Terry Breckor
Capramera Spirit (Name Unknown)

Report Date

28 Jun 2021