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<blockquote data-quote="Cultsbane" data-source="post: 8962979" data-attributes="member: 7037457"><p>Campaign time: roughly 3 hours </p><p></p><p></p><p>We need a voyage to another island ziggurat and we let Stover know of the update. Kelik offers to take him to his favourite restaurant in town in exchange for getting authorization to leave on investigation early </p><p></p><p></p><p>The chief inspector Margaret Thatcher is there behind us "trying to bribe your boss" and Kelik explains the situation. Next to Margaret is Lady Songbird and she start belittling us for again setting the warehouse on fire, that we're going to be out in administrative leave without pay</p><p></p><p></p><p>Are we going to be put on administrative leave!? We explain everything, but we have to make wisdom saves as the office shakes and the area becomes translucent. It happens again multiple times. All of our minds are getting strained to the point of exhaustion, Freya gets a mind scar and suddenly makes the profound realization that the entire RHC headquarters is made out of dark chocolate. Her favourite! </p><p></p><p></p><p>Freya begins eating at the mahogany table, panicking as she thinks everything is turning into dark chocolate. </p><p></p><p></p><p>Anael grabs the staff and stables her own mind. From the hallway she can see several medium sized crab creatures with a garden of eyes crawling from the walls and she can hear screaming. </p><p></p><p></p><p>Hops manages to focus his mind. The shimmering starts fading. What he sees is an RHC member with his head bashed in and the brain missing as the crab is devouring it </p><p></p><p></p><p>Kelik knocks Freya who is screaming at him "chocolate kitty" but she rolls a natural 1. In her mind she must let everyone know of the chocolate crab gods coming and runs down the hallway seeing more dead RHC members with missing brains. </p><p></p><p></p><p>Only Anael can see these shimmering crabs eating away at the RHC members. Every pincer has a garden of eyes. Hops finally sees one and it instantly explodes </p><p></p><p></p><p>We continue following Margaret Thatcher down the hallway. Kelik rolls for wisdom to see what Hops attacks with his spear, but can't see anything. Kelik goes to grab Freya and gets her back into senses, her teeth are messed up from trying to eat tables and her tongue full of splinters </p><p></p><p></p><p>Isabelle sees the crabs crawling upon the ground. Another one hops onto the head of an RHC member, Isabelle reacts by chopping it in half with her Scimitar. She uses the momentum to slice through another one effortlessly </p><p></p><p></p><p>Hops starts seeing giant mosquitoes with elephant trunks. He also sees professor Xambria chanting something, Lady Margaret Thatcher asks what is she doing? Hops notices that Xambria is a bit odd, having a third eye and each one looks like an alien. A voice screams out "remember our deal, remember Obsecurti our deal" </p><p></p><p></p><p>Xambria is like "hand me what I want, or I burn the entire place to the ground" hops goes to grapple her, he thinks he did, but she disappears to his right as though through a different plane. Her coin on her neck glowing </p><p></p><p></p><p>Anael arrives seconds later. Strength check to grab her. Xambria however gets a natural 20 and gets out of the way. Kelik stabs into her third eye, who screams as the gold in her eyes disappears, and she drops her map. She removes her sleeve to reveal three eyes on her shoulders looking every direction and says she's fighting it</p><p></p><p></p><p>Kelik locks the door as we attempt to restrain her. At this point a giant worm comes pouring out from Xambria s head with the plane of apet mark on its. Freya uses a pulse wave on it, it disappears into the floor taking 25 damage, and it tries going from the floor to attack her. She dodges out of its bite, but its tail swings around and grabs her into the air</p><p></p><p></p><p>Isabelle swings at the tail and hits it, but it's still holding onto Freya. Freya tries wiggling out through the tentacles but isn't able to break out. </p><p></p><p></p><p>Hops is now questioning Xambria with the Obsecurti and Lady Margaret Thatcher wants us to leave after she mentions them. </p><p></p><p></p><p>Meanwhile back at the hallway. Kelik shoots at the worm with his special carbine, doing 27 damage, it screams and drops Freya. Freya uses mirror image and three more clones of her appears Naruto style </p><p></p><p></p><p>Isabelle casts an ice knife at the giant worm. It misses and it hits the wall. The ice shards go flying hitting the worm and Freya for 3 damage. Isabelle slices into it with her Scimitar of speed as her necrotic spores infect into it, rotting it from the inside, and it falls to the ground dead. </p><p></p><p></p><p>Things are starting to return to normal, but what's that? We get the Smell of burnt engine grease and see our dear friend the shadow man Mr. Creed laughing hysterically</p><p></p><p></p><p>We cut back to Hops. Who is now belittling Margaret for doing deals with extraterrestrial beings. Xambria whispers in Margaret's ear, Hops hears "the Obsecurti sends their regards" and her face shifts and begins to absorb Margaret Thatcher. Spitting her out and leaving a small hole in the skull, the possessed Xambria kicks open the wall, saying that's where it is. Behind the wall is one giant golden disc</p><p></p><p></p><p>Kelik is to go check up on Hops as Anael is now facing down the Shadow Man alone in pure badass fashion, who is making fun of her for trusting him that he wasn't involved. That he saved her in the same way a cat saves a lizard to play with it. Saying that the person who killed Benefactor Caius was none other than Professor Xambria . Now come at me, as his hand turns into two giant shadow claw once again</p><p></p><p></p><p>Anael swings two handed with her longsword. Casting divine smite as it burns through him with radiant damage. He screams in pain. He goes to scratch at her twice, but Anael dodges out of both attacks and ignites her cap ablaze as Creed disappears back into the wall</p><p></p><p></p><p>Kelik sees that the door is locked and is unable to break it down. Freya adjusts its density to be lighter, making it easier for the next person to get in. Isabelle turns onto a grizzly bear to smash through it. A giant crack goes down it, it's still standing, but significantly damaged. Another attack and it busts down </p><p></p><p></p><p>The professor's hands turn translucent and the handcuffs fall to the ground as she picks back up the map, putting her finger on the golden seal, and three circles appear in the middle of it. Hops pulls out the ancient sword that he has been holding, swinging at Xambria with it. Landing a 21 to hit. Does 12 slashing damage and a tear appears on her arm, light expanding from it, and burning her. </p><p></p><p>Xambria says "let me go back home, I've been trapped here for eons in the Ziggurat, and I've just wanted to leave. After I took the brain of Caius, I learned that the Obsecurti is mad that the good lady Margaret Thatcher didn't remove a bunch of pesky investigators"</p><p></p><p>Why didn't you leave? - Hops</p><p></p><p>Because I wanted this and he points at the seal. </p><p></p><p>Anael makes a dex save as a shadow claw comes up from the floor, but fails. Anael takes 24 damage and must make a wisdom save, she saves, but she takes another shadow claw blow doing 9 damage. He is back above ground staring her down</p><p></p><p></p><p>Anael reacts with her sword, using her last second level spell to do 18 radiant damage. She drops to her knees to use her bloodied action, praying to the heavens, and the power of radiant comes through her and she gains a second level spell back. She uses Searing smite at second level and hits the shadow man doing another 16 radiant damage. Flames come from his chest</p><p></p><p></p><p>Turns out the alien told the Obsecurti was about to be betrayed by Margaret Thatcher, get rid of the greatest threat and anyone else</p><p></p><p></p><p>Kelik goes to shoot at the golden seal. It begins to crack and a red light comes pouring out, from behind the light comes this tentacle. Hops casts stone wall to block it up</p><p></p><p></p><p>Shadow man goes to slice at Anael, but Freya silvery Barbs it into a natural 1. You hear the sound of a shotgun blasts and Creed gets shot. Down the hallway is Stover saying let's get him.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Anael must go all in with her hail Mary. She transforms into her true angelic being. Radiating from her body is a radiant energy that does damage to Creed as she swings her longsword down. The shadow disappears and he goes limp falling to the ground dead, decapitated. The rest of his body is significantly messed up, with the stitch of burnt engine grease fumigating the air</p><p></p><p></p><p>Now begins negotiating. Although I have to leave momentarily, the rest of the session has the Alien known Sijhen end its possession of Professor Xambria as well as left back for Gidhim, "til we invade again <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />"</p><p></p><p>Also Sijhen told the party about some fun obscurati things: A target on their backs, a wide conspiracy, and a certain important train ride with some of the leadership</p><p></p><p></p><p>Freya and Isabelle left with the RHC crew to take care of a wounded Margaret Thatcher and Stover Delft, as well as avoid any potential assassinations.</p><p></p><p></p><p>And thus we end the session as the rest of the party is discussing what to do about the Seal of Apet. </p><p></p><p></p><p>We end module 3 and level up to level 6. Apparently we avoided fighting a very powerful encounter thanks to the DM mercy, called "Thing from beyond" and I don't know how we would've done</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cultsbane, post: 8962979, member: 7037457"] Campaign time: roughly 3 hours We need a voyage to another island ziggurat and we let Stover know of the update. Kelik offers to take him to his favourite restaurant in town in exchange for getting authorization to leave on investigation early The chief inspector Margaret Thatcher is there behind us "trying to bribe your boss" and Kelik explains the situation. Next to Margaret is Lady Songbird and she start belittling us for again setting the warehouse on fire, that we're going to be out in administrative leave without pay Are we going to be put on administrative leave!? We explain everything, but we have to make wisdom saves as the office shakes and the area becomes translucent. It happens again multiple times. All of our minds are getting strained to the point of exhaustion, Freya gets a mind scar and suddenly makes the profound realization that the entire RHC headquarters is made out of dark chocolate. Her favourite! Freya begins eating at the mahogany table, panicking as she thinks everything is turning into dark chocolate. Anael grabs the staff and stables her own mind. From the hallway she can see several medium sized crab creatures with a garden of eyes crawling from the walls and she can hear screaming. Hops manages to focus his mind. The shimmering starts fading. What he sees is an RHC member with his head bashed in and the brain missing as the crab is devouring it Kelik knocks Freya who is screaming at him "chocolate kitty" but she rolls a natural 1. In her mind she must let everyone know of the chocolate crab gods coming and runs down the hallway seeing more dead RHC members with missing brains. Only Anael can see these shimmering crabs eating away at the RHC members. Every pincer has a garden of eyes. Hops finally sees one and it instantly explodes We continue following Margaret Thatcher down the hallway. Kelik rolls for wisdom to see what Hops attacks with his spear, but can't see anything. Kelik goes to grab Freya and gets her back into senses, her teeth are messed up from trying to eat tables and her tongue full of splinters Isabelle sees the crabs crawling upon the ground. Another one hops onto the head of an RHC member, Isabelle reacts by chopping it in half with her Scimitar. She uses the momentum to slice through another one effortlessly Hops starts seeing giant mosquitoes with elephant trunks. He also sees professor Xambria chanting something, Lady Margaret Thatcher asks what is she doing? Hops notices that Xambria is a bit odd, having a third eye and each one looks like an alien. A voice screams out "remember our deal, remember Obsecurti our deal" Xambria is like "hand me what I want, or I burn the entire place to the ground" hops goes to grapple her, he thinks he did, but she disappears to his right as though through a different plane. Her coin on her neck glowing Anael arrives seconds later. Strength check to grab her. Xambria however gets a natural 20 and gets out of the way. Kelik stabs into her third eye, who screams as the gold in her eyes disappears, and she drops her map. She removes her sleeve to reveal three eyes on her shoulders looking every direction and says she's fighting it Kelik locks the door as we attempt to restrain her. At this point a giant worm comes pouring out from Xambria s head with the plane of apet mark on its. Freya uses a pulse wave on it, it disappears into the floor taking 25 damage, and it tries going from the floor to attack her. She dodges out of its bite, but its tail swings around and grabs her into the air Isabelle swings at the tail and hits it, but it's still holding onto Freya. Freya tries wiggling out through the tentacles but isn't able to break out. Hops is now questioning Xambria with the Obsecurti and Lady Margaret Thatcher wants us to leave after she mentions them. Meanwhile back at the hallway. Kelik shoots at the worm with his special carbine, doing 27 damage, it screams and drops Freya. Freya uses mirror image and three more clones of her appears Naruto style Isabelle casts an ice knife at the giant worm. It misses and it hits the wall. The ice shards go flying hitting the worm and Freya for 3 damage. Isabelle slices into it with her Scimitar of speed as her necrotic spores infect into it, rotting it from the inside, and it falls to the ground dead. Things are starting to return to normal, but what's that? We get the Smell of burnt engine grease and see our dear friend the shadow man Mr. Creed laughing hysterically We cut back to Hops. Who is now belittling Margaret for doing deals with extraterrestrial beings. Xambria whispers in Margaret's ear, Hops hears "the Obsecurti sends their regards" and her face shifts and begins to absorb Margaret Thatcher. Spitting her out and leaving a small hole in the skull, the possessed Xambria kicks open the wall, saying that's where it is. Behind the wall is one giant golden disc Kelik is to go check up on Hops as Anael is now facing down the Shadow Man alone in pure badass fashion, who is making fun of her for trusting him that he wasn't involved. That he saved her in the same way a cat saves a lizard to play with it. Saying that the person who killed Benefactor Caius was none other than Professor Xambria . Now come at me, as his hand turns into two giant shadow claw once again Anael swings two handed with her longsword. Casting divine smite as it burns through him with radiant damage. He screams in pain. He goes to scratch at her twice, but Anael dodges out of both attacks and ignites her cap ablaze as Creed disappears back into the wall Kelik sees that the door is locked and is unable to break it down. Freya adjusts its density to be lighter, making it easier for the next person to get in. Isabelle turns onto a grizzly bear to smash through it. A giant crack goes down it, it's still standing, but significantly damaged. Another attack and it busts down The professor's hands turn translucent and the handcuffs fall to the ground as she picks back up the map, putting her finger on the golden seal, and three circles appear in the middle of it. Hops pulls out the ancient sword that he has been holding, swinging at Xambria with it. Landing a 21 to hit. Does 12 slashing damage and a tear appears on her arm, light expanding from it, and burning her. Xambria says "let me go back home, I've been trapped here for eons in the Ziggurat, and I've just wanted to leave. After I took the brain of Caius, I learned that the Obsecurti is mad that the good lady Margaret Thatcher didn't remove a bunch of pesky investigators" Why didn't you leave? - Hops Because I wanted this and he points at the seal. Anael makes a dex save as a shadow claw comes up from the floor, but fails. Anael takes 24 damage and must make a wisdom save, she saves, but she takes another shadow claw blow doing 9 damage. He is back above ground staring her down Anael reacts with her sword, using her last second level spell to do 18 radiant damage. She drops to her knees to use her bloodied action, praying to the heavens, and the power of radiant comes through her and she gains a second level spell back. She uses Searing smite at second level and hits the shadow man doing another 16 radiant damage. Flames come from his chest Turns out the alien told the Obsecurti was about to be betrayed by Margaret Thatcher, get rid of the greatest threat and anyone else Kelik goes to shoot at the golden seal. It begins to crack and a red light comes pouring out, from behind the light comes this tentacle. Hops casts stone wall to block it up Shadow man goes to slice at Anael, but Freya silvery Barbs it into a natural 1. You hear the sound of a shotgun blasts and Creed gets shot. Down the hallway is Stover saying let's get him. Anael must go all in with her hail Mary. She transforms into her true angelic being. Radiating from her body is a radiant energy that does damage to Creed as she swings her longsword down. The shadow disappears and he goes limp falling to the ground dead, decapitated. The rest of his body is significantly messed up, with the stitch of burnt engine grease fumigating the air Now begins negotiating. Although I have to leave momentarily, the rest of the session has the Alien known Sijhen end its possession of Professor Xambria as well as left back for Gidhim, "til we invade again :)" Also Sijhen told the party about some fun obscurati things: A target on their backs, a wide conspiracy, and a certain important train ride with some of the leadership Freya and Isabelle left with the RHC crew to take care of a wounded Margaret Thatcher and Stover Delft, as well as avoid any potential assassinations. And thus we end the session as the rest of the party is discussing what to do about the Seal of Apet. We end module 3 and level up to level 6. Apparently we avoided fighting a very powerful encounter thanks to the DM mercy, called "Thing from beyond" and I don't know how we would've done [/QUOTE]
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