2025/05/23: The Second Animus Society Dungeon
General Summary
Union, Malakai, Othar, Terana, Buzz, Kelsey, Et-Kehri
Union has 2.2 pounds of mythium. Mythium is basically fantasy unobtanium. It can work with basically whatever material requirements the maker needs it for. Or something like that.
Malakai introduced Terana to Egwin.
The party headed for the more northern crystal target. Buzz was flying the Ragnarok and navigating. Othar helped the harpy crew member better control her "blow everything up and set it on fire" powers. Some of her abilities sound like standard fire spells, some of them sound like napalm. Et-Kehri chatted with Othar and the harpy. Kelsey trained Egwin with a longsword.
The party found the next dungeon location in Leithien. They discovered that something hundreds of miles north of them was interfering with divination of the dungeon location. Whatever the source, it was interfering with divination over a large chunk of Leithien.
Leaving that as a problem for another day, the party jumped down. The trees in this area turned out to be huge. Almost 200 feet tall, or even more. The branches were intertwined enough that they almost could fool one into thinking they were the ground.
It was late afternoon. Very mottled light through the foliage.
Met a team of Leithien rangers. Apparently there have been swarms of mutated snakes in the area. The ranger team has called for assistance from the palace, but no adventurers have arrived yet. The lead ranger introduced herself as Ren. She had a bag full of these weird and varied snakes, some of which were still moving despite not having heads or brains. These things seemed to be coming out of the mountains.
There have also been reports of weird haunting in the area. No confirmed undead, just weird whispering and the like. Might be undead, might be fairies.
Old house in the woods. Hundreds to a thousand years old. Once was large building with full stone foundation. Quite possibly a whole stone building. Sword theme to the decorations that remain. May have been religious; there's a spot that looks like what was an altar. Malakai found the altar stone scattered a ways outside the foundation. Symbols of swords, balance, and wheat.
Othar searched for more scattered rubble and discovered half of a brass bell. It was as if something exploded inside the temple.
Chaz-Achk-Thuum told Buzz that this seemed to be a temple of Lund. It still had a bit of power in it, but that god hasn't been around in a while. Malakai's investigation suggested the temple was destroyed by a shaggoth (shoggoth?). A half-mile-tall tentacled Old One monstrosity.
Terana did a rite for the altar. She was given a quest to return the corpses of 40 of the local abominations to the altar.
As the party headed out, they were attacked by an undead chimera thing.
At the cave, they were ambushed by snake people. Buzz's Lizard Wizard Blizzard killed all of them. (Summons a horde of little lizard wizards who fly around while time is slowed and blast all the enemies with frost damage.)
Fought a swarm of baby giant snakes that were being controlled by four big human-sized spellcasting snakes (nagas) and a bunch of larger snakes.
Inside the mountain there's a gigantic ruin. Inside, visible below, are the spine bones of colossal snakes. (Apparently this is an Old One snake dungeon that then had a temple of Set placed on top of it. Because look at that snake-themed ambiance! The Animus Society then built under that.)
Rewards Granted
2 xp
Character(s) interacted with
Egwin, ranger Ren, friendly baby giant snake
Notes
Malakai and Kelsey are both Lawful Neutral.
Union
Othar
Et-Kehri
Buzz Gizmo
Terana DelGarrod
Kelsey of Kaelund
Malakai
Report Date
23 May 2025
Primary Location
Related Plots
Related Characters
Comments