Game summary for July 4, 2017, Reign of Winter campaign, Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, for Phoenix Gaming Club. Session included: Denessia Rapidarma (Dwarf Gunslinger/Paladin played by Casey Scruggs), Deska Starseeker (Half-Elf Druid played by Kaliegh Belda), Ten-Penny Tacey (Half-Orc Rogue played by Shane Bradley), and Tulvur Xandersen (Dwarf Fighter played by Taylor Averdick). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons.
The team went down the tunnel and heard some shouting down the way. However, they also found a stone door and decided to explore it instead. They went down a hallway and found a large room filled with growing fungus. Deska noticed a horned man hiding behind a mound. She alerted her allies just in time as the man took to the air on bat-like wings and a terrible tendriculos surged upward and attacked! The man, with his goat legs, hooves, and ram horns, used a suggestion to tempt Deska to move toward him. He tried to charm her but failed all the while make horrific suggestive comments. The plant creature snatched up and swallowed Denessia, however she was able to blast her way out with her pistol. Tulvur was also snatched up and swallowed. The tendriculos snatched Denessia back up off the ground to try and eat her again! Greta and Deska tried to kill the flying man, but he proved resistant to weapons, spells, fire, and more. Greta started hurting him with channeled negative energy. Finally, Deska hit the tendriculos with a flame strike revealing its vulnerability to fire. Denessia’s flaming bullets ripped into it as well. Before long, that creature lay in a smoldering heap. Deska spit poison at the flying man, but he just laughed. He managed to charm Ten-Penny, and she grappled Denessia! The group managed to injure him enough to flee down a hallway, the group used a scroll of dispel magic to remove the charm from their half-orc ally. They nursed their wounds and took off down the hallway.
They came upon another really weird chamber divided into sections by wooden frames with beaded cloth stretched between them like walls. Inside they found a brunette woman named Caigreal. She told them she had been walking through the forest and suddenly appeared in the caves. She seemed scared and even dropped her staff when they surprised her. Deska talked to her for a while but could sense no deception. Denessia was unable to detect evil upon her, although Greta still registers moderately so. The group invited Caigreal to accompany them but warned she would have to fend for herself in battle.
The party went through a closed door through which Caigreal claimed the flying man had fled. They found a room filled with dazzling light emanating from a six-inch hole in the floor. Deska moved in to throw a blanket over it and was struck blind. The party began to get injured by unseen assailants harming them with small sharp blades. The team flailed about for a few moments as the whatever it was continued to wound them. Deska plopped down on top of the shining hole, and in the dimmed light four light fairies appeared! They used magic to blind two more party members and slashed viciously with their blades. They could not withstand the onslaught of the team, however. Greta dealt sheer angry damage with her axe, but Tulvur was particularly effective with the cold iron of Icebiter.
Finally, the group killed their assailants and recovered a magical gem from the hole in the floor. Unfortunately, three of their part remained blind!
