Session 47: Guardian of the Heart
General Summary
As the Vandals enter the basement, Fedi notices a particular smell coming off Gazzilfek. Specifically a smell of rotten flesh, however the smell is quickly masked by cheap perfumes. Fedi questions Gazzilfek who mentions he likes to smell good. Fedi decides to keep an eye on him for now. As the group travels northward towards the open door Elora notices an odd spider sitting on the wall of the room. Not liking spiders she shoots it with her rifle. Quickly she discovers that the spider is actually a Marilith in disguise. Our Ratcatchers quickly kill the demon then spend the next ten minutes looting the room of its expensive rugs and hookah. Seeing the closed door in the previous hallway out Vandals decide to investigate beyond instead of heading down the stairs. On the other side of the door is a Frost Giant who is glued to his large book. Fedi tries a peaceful approach but she is unable to convince the giant of their peaceful intentions. The Frost Giant attacks by casting a chain lightning. Despite this our Vandals are quick to slay the giant. Searching the room they find some expensive tableware but most importantly they find a spell scroll of disjunction as well as the book the giant was reading. This book talks about needing two keys to enter the vault and that he will need to overthrow the current leader of the citadel to collect his key.
The Vandals then take the stairs as they find themselves at the very bottom of the Citadel of Weeping Dragons, they find a large ornate double door. Upon it is artwork of Kyuss and the Age of Worms. Knowing that what they find must be on the other side, they approach only to be met once again by Alastair Land. He explains that his family used to be guardians and descendents of the Vaati themselves. He also senses this blood line in our Vandals. He then tells our Vandals that they must slay Dragotha within the Wormcrawl Fissure just west of Kongen-Thulnir. He then gives a hint on how to open the doors. With that however our heroes decide to brute force the door. By using the disjunction spell scroll they had acquired just before they are able to remove the enchanted locks placed upon the door.
As the door opens Gazzilfek pushes past our Vandals in an attempt to grab the phylactery. As our Vandals go to stop him his mask comes off as green worms spill out of his eyes. Gazzilfek is clearly a servant of Kyuss. The battle is quickly interrupted however as an entire wall is removed from the side of the vault. Pushing his way in is an ancient red Dragon, clearly the most dangerous foe they have encountered to date. After quickly killing Gazzilfek our Vandals begin to attack the ancient red Dragon. With a few tense moments however our Vandals manage to slay the ancient creature. With that our Vandals quickly go to destroy the phylactery and with it they have severely injured Dragotha in the process.
Now they must travel to the Wormcrawl Fissure, here they will confront Dragotha the general of Kyuss's forces and hopefully once and for all put a stop to the Age of Worms.
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06 Feb 2025
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