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Game summary for January 26, 2016, Savage! campaign, for Phoenix Gaming Club. Session included: Blazing Sun (Kau Human Sage played by Kaliegh Belda), Singing Mammoth (Elf Soldier played by Taylor Averdick), and Wolf Spirit (Kompache Human Priest played by Chris Harmon). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons.

The team came across another sealed door with a puzzle lock. Blazing Sun entered a combination and was burned. Blazing Sun entered another combination and was burned. This continued a while. Eventually, Singing Mammoth figured out the pattern, entered it, and opened the doorway.

The group entered an enormous room where a young woman struggled, bound, upon an altar. She had been smeared with blood to form crude blasphemous sigils. The team recognized Runs-with-Deer! All around, Keeper priests chanted prayers to hideous ghula. A partially robed woman holding a wicked stone dagger stood behind the altar. She swayed in religious ecstasy as perverse utterances fell from her lips. She was close to completing an unholy ritual!

The priests moved in and hurled spell curses at the party with little effect. Arrows, spears, axes, and wolf teeth tore into the Keepers! The under priests went down quickly, but the priestess was made of sterner stuff. She stabbed viciously with her dagger and hurled curses at the team. In moments, she died at the hands of the team, and Singing Mammoth claimed one of the sacrificial goats staked in the corner as his own. Wolf Spirit freed Runs-with-Deer who told them the “guardian” was beyond a sealed iron gate. The team debated how to get through for a while before realizing they had the key in their pocket from a chest discovered recently.

The team moved into a cavern, but Runs-with-Deer was weak from her ordeal and stayed back. The dark dank cavern chamber was filled with faintly glowing lichen, and a putrid pool stretched into the darkness. A stalk with three orbs protruded from the water. Eyes! With a loud splash and terrifying roar, an enormous frog-like monster leapt from the pool! It had eyes on a stalk above its head, and its body was mostly like a frog, but its forelimbs were replaced with four writhing tentacles.

The horrific froghemoth tore into the team, driving most of the party back and to the ground with its battering onslaught. Blazing Sun worked her way behind it and setup a flank with the wolf. Singing Mammoth dropped back and fired volleys into its hide. A hurled spear from Wolf Spirit preceded his closing in with his axe. The froghemoth battered the team and nearly killed Blazing Sun. She was beaten unconscious, but the team killed the monster and stabilized her. The team then discovered the next fragment of the Dawn Seal just below the water surface!

Game summary for January 19, 2016, Savage! campaign, for Phoenix Gaming Club. Session included: Blazing Sun (Kau Human Sage played by Kaliegh Belda), Night Watcher (Ogre Martial Artist played by Casey Scruggs), Singing Mammoth (Elf Soldier played by Taylor Averdick), Standing Bison (Giant Soldier played by Peyton Harmon), and Wolf Spirit (Kompache Human Priest played by Chris Harmon). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons.

The team encountered a pack of alligator snapping turtles which attempted to eat them! The party rabidly engaged. Everyone but Standing Bison had good luck against them, and the turtles were dispatched pretty readily.

Next the group entered a room with a blue glowing orb guarded by Keeper Warriors and beamos! The team tore through the Keepers with little effort while the beamos fired energy beams all about the room. The group quickly dispatched them, and Blazing Sun tricked the orb into activating. This caused a hidden chest to rise up through the floor. Within, the group discovered a key, three oils, and some red tioye.

From here the party progressed to another puzzle door. The group examined the glyphs and selected one matching the emblem on the door itself. Upon pressing it, the door swung open.

The group delved deeper until the discovered a canal. The deinosuchus that had been tracking them emerged and attacked! It bit some of the party members but slipped and stumbled in the mud. The group was able to capitalize upon this and soon brought it down.

Game summary for January 12, 2016, Savage! campaign, for Phoenix Gaming Club. Session included: Blazing Sun (Kau Human Sage played by Kaliegh Belda), Singing Mammoth (Elf Soldier played by Taylor Averdick), Standing Bison (Giant Soldier played by Peyton Harmon), and Wolf Spirit (Kompache Human Priest played by Chris Harmon). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons.

The team entered a chamber partially flooded and filled with giant frogs. One was blue and emitted an intense supernatural cold. The frogs closed in, and one tried to swallow Blazing Sun! She used her hand claw and shredded it on the way down its gullet. Wolf Spirit was not as fortunate and ended up swallowed by the frostfoot frog. The team quickly dispatched the other frogs and surrounded the frostfoot. They were able to take it down and rescue Wolf Spirit.

The group then discovered a herd of goats and two slave boys forced to care for them. The boys told them the Keepers sacrifice the goats to a tentacle frog. The party helped them all escape into the swamp where they had at least a chance of survival. The team then had to move through a bunch of adle-minded elha who got high licking poisonous frogs. To blend in, Singing Mammoth and Wolf Spirit had to take a lick and suffered minor hallucinations. They met a diseased woman named Dawn Flower who was able to tell them about some stone doors that required a puzzle to solve and open. During their journey, the party found themselves stalked by an enormous crocodilian! They were able to evade it and found a flooded room. The group swam underwater to another chamber. Some of the party struggled making the swim, but they finally crossed.

Soon the group found themselves in front of a strange doorway surrounded by various images. Singing Mammoth followed a hunch that they depicted some kind of dance. He performed the dance, and the stone slab became somewhat insubstantial. The rest of the group also performed the dance which opened the doorway.

On the other side, the party found a mob of rock ooze living statues capable of shooting gray ooze from their fingertips! The party dispatched them with relative ease but found themselves confronting another puzzle door. Blazing Sun deduced depressing the matching panels on either side would open the door, and she was correct! The door slide open, and the team advanced inside.

Game summary for January 5, 2016, Savage! campaign, for Phoenix Gaming Club. Session included: Blazing Sun (Kau Human Sage played by Kaliegh Belda), Singing Mammoth (Elf Soldier played by Taylor Averdick), Spirit Walker (Naci Human Assassin played by Andrew Renfrow), Standing Bison (Giant Soldier played by Peyton Harmon), and Wolf Spirit (Kompache Human Priest played by Chris Harmon). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons.

The team encountered a vicious sticky slurk that tried to entangle Standing Bison! The giant shrugged off the effect, and the team closed in. The slurk bit with its tusks, but it proved no match for the team. No sooner did it die than a creeping titanoboa surged out of the water trying to coil around Singing Mammoth! A second fight in moments erupted, with the same results. The team tried to salvage the spine as a collector’s item but destroyed it in the process.

The party discovered the ruined temple of Cueyatitahtli and delved inside. The found Runs-With-Deer’s broken necklace and a mangled pile of dismembered Kompache braves. Nearly half a dozen Keeper Warriors charged out of the dark tunnels, their feet splattered mud with every step and light glinting on their raised macuahaitls. The party braced for the charge and yelled to one another, “Never tell us the odds!” Behind the Keepers came five spear-wielding bullywug muckers! Blood flowed freely on both sides as the teams engaged. Singing Mammoth triple-shot volleys into the beasts as Spirit Walker began a stabbing flurry with his knife. Blazing Sun squared off with a warrior as Wolf Spirit and his wolf moved to flank. Standing Bison stood his ground in the corner, clubbing man and bullywug alike. In short order, the day was won! Now, the team prepares to explore the lair of the Frog Father, Cueyatitahtli.