Session 35 - They Beat the Countdown!
General Summary
The fight with the cambions continues. Benny is pummeled pretty hard and goes down. Shadowfury also takes some damage. Nilgan stays invisible, counterspelling spells that happen. Some of the cambions try and kill the archons before they can recover, the rest are attacking the party.
Joice manages to go forward and heal Benny. Jakahaiel takes out the cambion that is attacking Zephyr and Thimansl, freeing them to go help the others as well. Jakahaiel then runs to the nearest bad guy and attacks.
Zephyr creates a poisonous cloud, which gives them a round to recover as the bad guys stumble out of it. The cambions don't manage to take out the archons but the archons are still recovering. Nilgan casts spells on his turn, blasting the cambions and also dispelling the main cambion spellcaster when he tries something.
The group manages to rally and slowly whittle down the cambions. The cambions aren't able to heal as well so when one of them goes down, that's it for them. Benny gets back into the fight after healing and takes out a cambion.
Soon the fight is done. The archons aren't able to do much for them. They heal them some and the party is grateful. Then the archons leave.
The group decides to teleport to the next place while spells are still in effect. Nilgan is low on spells and not liking what they are about to face. They teleport to the ziggurat.
When they get there, it's covered in a fog cloud! Nilgan manages to dispel the fog so they can see their adversaries. It's a group of lizardfolk, archers, casters, and a druid. Under the fog cloud are more defensive spells. They see black tentacles, a storm cloud, and entangle all along the main steps up. A lizardfolk druid asks them to leave, saying they just want their own country. The party retorts that summoning a demon lord isn't the way to start it.
Nilgan manages to burn away the first entangle and then Rivenn uses his ranger knowledge to take down the other two. Nilgan had to move forward and is the target of a lot of arrows but survives. Jakahaiel manages to dimension door next to the druid and attack. Six attacks later, the druid dies as does the call lightning cloud. Jakehaiel attacks one of the casters and when he pummels that one down, one of the black tentacle spells goes down. The other casters, not seeing Jakahaiel, try to dispel to see if someone is invisible. When both fail, they figure it was a spell, and stop looking.
Zephyr brings in a poisonous cloud on top of the archers and kills most of them with it. Then Nilgan follows up with a fire snake spell that weaves its way around to the bad guys, killing all but one. The last one doesn't last long.
They go into the ziggurat and find stairs down to the final room. Benny dispels several traps on the stairs and then they are in the main room. There, they find a pit fiend, a balor, several demons, and a solar. The solar is floating in a trap, similar to what the archons had been in.
The pit fiends tries to talk to them but Zephyr casts a spell to disrupt their ritual on the solar while Jakahaiel sneaks up on the pit fiend. It's a fight!
There are two mariliths here as well that come forward to attack. The group probably wanted to get out into the room but it may have worked in their favor that they couldn't. They were able to have a defensive position in the hallway. A few of them got pounded pretty hard but others were able to step up and help deflect or absorb damage that might have killed someone.
Rivenn manages to call upon his goddess as Thimansl buffs the group. Rivenn becomes a juggernaut, dealing out a lot of damage. He tells the group later that he made a deal for that power, to restore the temple to Mielikki they had found. Further, he says that what set him in a rage was that if he had lost, the demons would take the power he had been given to attack Mielikki and he wouldn't allow that!
As Zephyr and Nilgan work to disrupt the ritual, the others attack the demons. The balor teleported around and attacked several wounding them. Benny and Joice, who are now buffed, work together to cut down the mariliths. The balor gets several good hits in that the party has to heal but they manage to strike back as well. The balor goes down by blade as the casters ruin his ritual.
The pit fiend nicely says that with the balor dead, his contract is fulfilled and he leaves. That allows the group to check on the angel, Chon. They help him and he thanks them by healing them. Then he explains that he can't stick around for long but will make sure that the demon lord they were attempting to call will not be able to make it. He says it would be best if they were not in the area when he unleashes the energy he needs to, so sends them all back to Llorkh!
They group finds themselves in their rooms having saved the area from a demon lord being called forth. What an adventure!
Rewards Granted
376,532 xp
Missions/Quests Completed
They stopped the third ritual.
The stopped the final ritual before the demon lord could be summoned forth!
The stopped the final ritual before the demon lord could be summoned forth!
Character(s) interacted with
Archons
Solar
Solar
Notes
GM Notes
- With this session, ends this campaign. A bit shorter than some but I think it worked out well.
- We will do one more session on this where I explain my campaign ideas. Then we will discuss the next thing.
- The players thought the final fight was quite cinematic and a great way to end it, so I'm glad for that!
Report Date
06 Jan 2024
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