Session 36: Possessed
General Summary
Kayladay, Thirdden, Planting Moon, 751 AC, Brinton Ridge
Notes by Fizzywit Thimbledown- We debate resting a whole day
- Zagti does a lap and looks for dinosaurs
- We continue on!!!!
- Decide to take a double should we fail resting tomorrow
- We have made it to camp 2.0 that night
- Ishta takes first watch
- Something is moving behind Ishtas tent
- Ishta hides
- Its a Kari-Zaro walking towards campsite
- Ishta messages the approaching person
- Stop right there approaching the campsite unannounced is not cool
- He stops
- Says he is announcing himself
- Ishta goes and wakes up Farkhom
- Wakes everyone up
- Wert tries to recognize them and fails
- Asks for a name they say ‘Reavin’
- Ishta takes psychic damage and is scared
- He requires assistance they have been a tragedy
- Reavin: says he may need scholar something about someone that brings the light
- He thinks he was a scholar a mad mage perhaps
- Ishta ‘got a name’
- Reavin ‘he didnt get far enough to get a name’
- He walks into the fire…
- It was unclear what happens but I believe it was a mage
- Ishta notices there is some discordance about them
- He does not understand everything that transpired
- Wert believes this is some kind of spirit, wayward not malevolent
- ‘Farkhom’ that guy is not alive right?
- Reavin was slain before they even reached the top
- Climbed the dark mountain and he threw fire down upon us
- His companions did not take it as well
- Will not find eternal rest
- Ishta messages ‘you didnt’
- Reavin messages back you must help me find them and bury them
- Ishta tries to run away then agrees that we should bury them
- Doesnt know where they are buried
- We should climb the mountain
- It was inside the mountain
- Everything stop and it was green and red fire
- They had not reached the tower in the center of the mountain
- Ishta packs up their tent
- Farkhom wouldnt the morning be better?
- Wert says during the day tomorrow would be better
- Farkhom says we need to put ourselves at rest first
- Wert takes the watch and everyone goes back to bed
- Farkhom goes to sleep while Wert and Ishta debate about leaving
- Fizzywit also goes to bed
- Ishta tries to get people to do things Fizzywit ignores it
- Farkhom now gets assaulted by Ishta to try to wake him up
- Ishta is getting all squirrely
- Reavin says it would be difficult to bury them he thinks he is immobile
- Reavin goes to Fizzywits tent and starts yelling at him
- Fizzywit threatens stabbings
- Wert tried to negotiate with Revian
- Makes a reasoned argument…
- Reavin says they will hold you to their promise expect to be buried by sundown
- Ishta is upset about Wert not just turning him
- They bicker a bit
- Istha is still trying to wake people up
- And is debating about time to go
- Everyone but Ishta is going to sleep
- Farkhom continues to sleep and Fizzywit slaps Ishta and tells them to go to bed
- Wert casts greater restoration on the cat
- Cures a level of exhaustion
- We are going in the morning
- The debate continues….
- Ishta leaves everyone else goes back to bed
- Wert takes watch Fizzy takes second watch
- Farkhom and Fizzy have a dream
- Bound a Kari-Zaro is on a table they skin blackens and splits. They crack and burn then rise again larger and stronger
- Glare at us and walks away
- Fizzywit exhausted more
- Wert and Fizzy hear a sorrowful sound and its horrid and makes them shiver
- We take 6 points of psychic damage
- Farkum takes 25 psychic damage as well
- A Kari-Zaro starts to approach the camp again
- Different one
- They are clearly dead
- Ragged and shredded clothing
- Fizzywit suggest spirit removal to Wert
- They say they suffer
- Fizzywit wakes up Farkhom
- The ghosts seem threatening
- The party (minus Ishta) has had enough of the ghosts
- Farkhom
- Readies an action
- Wert casts daylight!
- Everything is in bright light
- Kari-Zaro move towards us
- Wert is hit for 11 damage
- Not frightened
- Fizzywit is frightened
- Casts shield and doesnt get hit
- Second winds
- Attacks twice (terrified) and hits both
- Farkhom
- Pounces at the banshee that Fizzywit has hit
- And knocks it down
- Wacks it a few times
- Farkum
- Attacks a bunch
- At the prone incapacitated creature
- Does bunch of damage
- Its not moving anymore
- Wert
- Turns undead
- The banshee fails
- Takes 18 damage
- Bonus action healing word on Farkhom
- 6 hit points
- Last banshee
- Flees!!!
- Wert shoots it with some rays on the way out
- Gives it some damage as it flees
- Fizzywit
- Remains of frightened of a dead thing
- Farkum tells Fizzywit to go back to bed
- Wert turns out the lights
- Fizzywit takes watch
- Stops being afraid of the powder
- Nothing else happens over night
Menday, Thirdden, Planting Moon, 751 AC, Brinton Ridge
- Ishta is missing
- No one gets a long rest
- Ishta looks for bodies on the mountains and the rest of us hang out here
- Wert suggests moving a bit and finding a new campsite
- We hike till lunch time and find a suitable camping spot
- Ishta is climbing the mountain
- Its cloudy and difficult to see
- Visibility is 5 to 40 feet
- Comes to an edge of the mountain that descends sharply on the other side
- Asks Reaver where they are going straight into the abyss
- Giant wall of black rock in front of the party
- Thick big rocks, little swirly looking
- Ishta is climbing down the mountain
- Can only see 10 feet, out to 20 feet is obscured
- Something reaches out from the mist next to ishta and its huge, takes a swipe at Ishta
- Ishta swings out into the mist and away from the hand
- Farkhum hears Ishta yell
- The big two creatures come down on either side of Ishta
- 10-12 feet tall dark skin
- Rippled with muscles and cracks
- Creepy
- They attack!
- Ishta takes like 30 damage
- Farkhum runs towards the sound
- Ishta disguises themselves to look like the creatures
- They think he is Rivan
- They ask if he is here to relieve them
- They seem to think Rivan is insane
- Telling them to make signs on the way back
- They say they know the way back they will see you at the tower
- Better tell the master something is wrong with Reevan
- Wert follows Farkhum
- Fizzywit casually follows them up the hill
- Ishta sneaks around looking for bodies
- Everything is flat uneven rock
- Farkhom reaches the top of the mountain
- Sees movement
- Sees a twisted Dark Tower
- Ishta tries to get more information out of Reevan
- It is not useful
- Ishta falls
- Takes damage
- And is in a pit
- Farkhom
- Hears the pit
- Sees the rope and starts to descend the rope
- Wert sees the rope and a rope
- Goes down the rope
- Fizzywit, moves towards the cliff leisurely
- Ishta is in a pit
- Reevan is confused by them being in the pit
- Sends Zagti out of the pit to look around
- Makes a loud bawk and is enveloped in a green cloud
- Makes the save!
- Cloud is coming out of some kind of triangular medal face
- Apparently that's what killed Reevan
- Reevan says that's what killed him
- Ishta is annoyed at Reevan cause he died in somethin-g that couldn't kill an owl
- Visibility is 5 feet now
- Ishta casts detect thoughts to see if the metal face thing has thoughts
- Climbing up slowly and searching for things
- Farkhum is casting stone cunning and moving forward
- Giant metal bull in front of Farkum
- Farkhum angerly Charges!!!
- Savage attacker
- 24 damage on this
- Topples the bull
- Attacks again
- 22 more damage
- Ishta
- Climbs the rest of the way up
- Looks for a nose ring
- Puts a dagger in the nose ring
- The bull is not grappled
- Nicks the bull
- Dagger glows green
- Misses
- Attacks again!
- Misses again
- Bull Stands!
- Attacks Farkhum
- 9 piercing damage
- Tramples
- 5 bludgeoning
- Bull restrains them
- Farkhum
- Angrily hits the bull
- Crit!
- Does a bunch of damage
- Topples the bull
- Has been petrified
- Ishta
- Attacks
- Miss
- Attacks with the other dagger
- Misses again
- No longer restrained
- Wert
- Runs at the combat and blesses everyone! (but Fizzywit the slow)
- Bull stands up
- Attacks Ishta
- 20 damage
- Falls down unconscious
- Ishta does not have this situation under control
- Also gets trampled a little
- Attacks Wert
- Farkhom
- Is a stone
- Ishta
- Makes a death save
- Wert
- Moves around the bull
- Cure wounds on Ishta
- 11 healing
- Ishta is up!
- Fizzywit starts climbing down
- Grumbling
- Bull attacks Wert
- Hits Wert
- Knocked prone
- Trampled
- Ishta
- Attacks the bull!
- 18 pokey damage
- The bull collapses the ground
- Ishta holding steel balls in her hand astride a mechanical bull
- Fizzywit arrives!