Session 35: A Worm's Truth
General Summary
The Vandals of Fate make their way into the Temple of Long Shadows through its western entrance, here they find a large room with a giant pit, as if something had exploded outwards. As well as three doors on each of the walls. Exploring clockwise they find themselves in a torture room. Here the Vandals are ambushed by an undead Elf, along with two undead celestials. The two undead celestials break the glass walls on the west and east sides of the room spilling out two large swarms of Kyuss' worms. However despite this our Vandals have very little difficulties in slaying the undead forces. Killing the three undead triggers another vision. This one shows Kyuss and an insectoid like being taking a Kyuss worm with a pair of iron tongs from a jeweled gold box. As the group moves along they enter the next door they find themselves at the eastern entrance into the ziggurat, wanting to not exit the facility they head to the next room and discover a library. Inside they also find four minions of Kyuss. The Wormcaller manages to hit our Vandals with a Flame Strike, while the three Swords of Kyuss close in to take our Vandals in close combat. With teamwork however they manage to strike all the undead down. Once they do they are given another vision. Kyuss is studying large bronze disks. The bronze disks seem to show something sinister however it is difficult to make out what it is.
As they explore the library they discover twelve Kyuss Worms with strange runes on them. Studying a book on a pedestal the Vandals learn that Kyuss infused knowledge into twelve worms and by allowing the worms to burrow into the a brain they will pass along all the knowledge stored within. Fedi volunteers to take all twelve worms within her body. With some augmented magics to boost her vigor she manages to consume all twelve without much fuss. The group also decides to help themselves to the library. They spend the evening hauling all the books into their pocket dimension headquarters. Now they have books filling their personal library. They then spend the night relaxing within their pocket dimension and get a proper night's rest in.
The next morning our Vandals continue their trek into The Spire of Long Shadows. Seeing the only way forward is to enter the blasted pit in the center of the room, they tie a rope and begin lowering themselves into it. They quickly find that the walls are cavernous and they begin to explore said caverns. It takes about half hour of exploring but they find themselves in a small treasure room with multiple magical items, and gold. The Vandals gather everything stuffing their bags. Now they must continue to travel downwards into the pit. More visions might await probably, danger most certainly so.
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17 Oct 2024
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