The Age of Worms / Hall of Harsh Reflections pt. 2 / Vish the 29th, 3592 CE / 4-7-19

General Summary

Rikit and Drask have been imprisoned in the Sodden Hold, a warehouse that serves as the base of operations of a gang of doppelgangers. The two Adventurers have just escaped their cells, killing one of the doppelganger guards and capturing and torturing another. The little information they are able to get out of him leads them believe they will need to venture through the north door leading out of the holding cell area in order to locate their missing companion Lulu, who was being impersonated by another doppelganger. They are able locate their own equipment, as well as some additional items, in a storage closet, which also appears to have stairs leading to another part of the warehouse. Venturing cautiously through the north door, they find themselves in another short hallway, with a cell holding a drow woman. The woman introduces herself as Los, and offers to help them if they can get her out. Rikit is suspicious, but Drask agrees and frees her. She also retrieves some of her equipment from the cache they found. Passing through another door, they find themselves in a chamber where the floor has mostly collapsed into standing water from the bay, leaving only a framework of soggy timbers to provide tenuous passage around a corner to the far end of the room. Rikit also notices that the water has been lined with rusty spears and swords, providing a threat of additional injury for anyone that falls in. Deciding the way is too dangerous for now, the party backtracks to the holding cells. Rikit uses the stairs from the storage closet to investigate the warehouse from a catwalk. In the warehouse's central storage space, filled with crates and barrels, he sees the weird prophet known as the Rain Barrel Man, placing scraps of refuse into one of the crates. He also spots Los's horse, Beaver. Deciding this is an obstacle they can overcome in order to gain their freedom, Rikit returns to the holding cells to confer with Drask. When they open the southern door, Drask rushes towards the Rain Barrel Man in order to quickly overpower him. However there is more here than meets the eye, as the Rain Barrel Man sics two mimics on the party, and reveals himself to be a shape-shifting creature known as an aranea. In the pitched battle that follows, the mimics are slain, but the Rain Barrel Man turns invisible, escaping despite a grievous wound that Rikit delivers. Drask, badly hurt by the mimics, is killed by the effects of the spider-like aranea's terrible venom.

Character(s) interacted with

Rikit Bhang Drask Loscivia Cantri The Rain Barrel Man (aranea oracle) Regim (doppelganger guard), Beaver, 2 mimics,

Report Date

07 Apr 2019

Primary Location

The Sodden Hold

Secondary Location

Kedesh