Session 15 - Trial by Blood
General Summary
The party, now consisting of Vashti, Lada, Light-Heart, Ivan, Nogat, and Irina, knew they needed to find an exit to this cave as quickly as possible. And with the lead from the skull, the party decide to search the last part of the cave. Vashti stayed behind for a little while, keeping an eye on Nogat's health. The rest of the party went 'south', only to find the snakes wrapped around the totems, somehow still alive after the party had killed them.
The party tried to avoid them, but they lashed out with speed, and surprised the party with how large they were. Eventually, Irina managed to compel them with a symbol of the Trinity, and the party retreated east, due in no small part by Ivan's stubbornness, but not before most of the party were poisoned with some sort of venomous miasma projected by the snakes. The party, now including Vashti and Nogat, rested in what they hoped was a safe location until the poison ran through them.
Afterwards, the party explored the 'eastern' part of the cave, and found an area of darkness, that even Irina's light could not penetrate. Vashti, however, could see a swarm of misshapen frogs, spewing forth from a pool of blood. That said, no exit was noticed. So prayers were made, and the Trinity answered; the party would need to travel through the underground pool of blood, through the swarm of frogs, to escape.
The disgust of traveling and squishing the frogs was felt by all, most keenly by Ivan, Lada, and Nogat, before eventually the party travelled through the blood pool. Upon leaving it, however, it seemed it had brought the party nowhere. They were still stuck in the cave.
To make matters worse, physical changes had overcome the party, small bovine horns on Ivan's head, Lada seemed to have grown hair everywhere on her body, Light-Heart had white pupils, Nogat grew a raven's tail, and Irina's nails grew to almost 4 inches in length. But, it as this moment of despair that one of the party members saw a narrow tunnel out. And so the party escaped through it.
Missions/Quests Completed
- Party makes it out of the caves
Report Date
18 Sep 2022
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