Days 40 - 41
Session 19
The fight against the Yuan-ti in Oralunga takes a turn for the worse when Solana joins Scully in death. Thankfully, the golden egg that Temor had carried all this way came to their rescue, as it was revealed that the egg was a receptacle for souls crafted by an ancient golden dragon. The egg resurrected Scully and Solana and the fight turned. The party captured one of the Yuan-ti and discovered that a creature known as Acererak had built a device which is what was absorbing all of the souls of the recently and not so recently departed to fuel his ascent to godhood. With the gravity of their task laid bare for then, the fellowship decided it was time to pay Mbala a visit in order to search for powerful lore hidden within.
Session MVP: Temor
Day 40
- The fellowship continue to struggle against the yuan-ti in the temple of Oralunga,
- scully fell;s her soul become pulled in a southward direction towards a huge blackened maw, she is being pulled towards the maw, she looks to temor who appears to be holding a beacon of warm glowing light, scully drifts towards the egg, her eyes clear and she is looking an an ancient golden dragon, be at peace young one i have foreseen this come forward - it says
- Meanwhile the party continue to fight, Harwin drags scully into the fog cloud cast by percy and the rest of the party retreat towards the exit through the fog cloud
- Percy tries to persuade the guardian naga to join them in fleeing but it says that it is bound here and cant leave even if it wanted to
- Solana is killed as she tries to run away and her soul goes on the same journey as scully, scully is with the golden dragon and the dragon reveals that the space they inhabit is the golden egg that temor has carried around all this time,
- Harwin grabs solana's corpse and brings it beside scullys, temor places the egg between them and the magic within bursts forth, reviving them
- The guardian Naga realises what happened and sends out a burst of hopefulness which bolsters the party, they turn on the yuanti and charge forward,
- The guardian naga is called Saja N'Baza, percy asks about Baalin, he still lives but the naga doubts we can find him in time, baelin is already on our path,
- The naga suggests that we interrogate a captive yuan-ti before continuing on with it, temor asks about his master feran, she recognises it, now n'balsi see, this is ferans new name, feran underwent a yuan-ti ritual, the ritual took place in Omu which is now under Yuan-ti control, Omu is northeast of the peaks of flame
- Yuan-ti says that acererak is behind the soul stealing curse, he has teamed up with the yuan-ti, he is harvesting souls to use to ascend to god hood,
- The party ask the naga how Acererak is able to harvest the souls of this land, he has created a machine ancient in design and hidden away that draws souls to it, it feeds the souls to a creature, he needs to wait until the creature has imbibed enough souls before enacting the next part of his plan,
- The party want to go straight towards acererak in the south but percy suggests that they will need to gather power first, he tries to convince them to go looking for auntie arial to try and get his beard back but they seem unconvinced, the naga suggests they look for the library at Mbala to seek ancient knowledge and the party agree to make that their next destination,
- The party choose to stay in Oralunga and get to know Harwin over the duration, Harwin has been in the jungle for almost as long as we have, his mother has been ill for slightly longer but is still up and about similar to prince wakanga
Day 41
- The party is ambushed by two kamadans but rip them to pieces
- That night the party are contacted by sending stone by prince wakanga, prince wakanga has new information regarding the soul curse, he introduces us to the archmage of baldurs gate -, lord brixton - company of the yellow banner, every commoner who has been resurrected is now long dead, people with higher constitution are faring better but are slowly but surely, soul sucking device is suspected to be in Omu, anyone who dies close to Omu are being risen as zombies, merchant prince Jessemine is struggling and as such her spy network is suffering too, Lord Brixton has reached the peaks of flame and is now searching for Omu, percy tells the group that acererak is behind the soul curse, the archmage explains that he is an archlich of the multi-verse, apparently millions of people have slaughtered by him,
- The council thinks there might be a teleportation circle at the library in Mbala,