Game summary for December 18, 2018, Reign of Winter campaign, Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, for Phoenix Gaming Club. Session included: Erris (Arctic Elf Bloodrager played by Casey Scruggs), Iguruzu Koshin (Human Monk played by Peyton Harmon), and Magnus Erlingsson (Human Cleric played by Chris Harmon). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons.
Greta lopped off Mametqul’s head, and they placed the head and crown in the cabinet causing a portal to open. Going through, they found themselves back at the pool by Vigliv’s tree! They were suddenly urged to submerge the head and crown in the pool. Doing so, the matryoshka doll once again opened further. Suddenly, the team could distantly hear Baba Yaga speaking telepathically in their heads! They also surged with additional power, becoming either more resistant to physical damage or spells. Vigliv emerged and tasked them with finding Baba Yaga’s death, which she mystically bound into an athame, hid in the chest of a corpse, and buried under an oak tree on Buyan island. Baba Yaga then told them how to find their way to Buyan. Magnus then asked Vigliv how to get to Buyan. Vigliv pointed the direction Baba Yaga told them.
The group ascended the cliffside pathway and found four gugs and a gug savant! The slavering creatures loped forward to attack. The creatures tore into the party with rending claws and vicious bites. The gug savant hit them with unholy blight. Erris hastened the party and Magnus unleashed a prayer. The gugs badly wounded several of the team, but the party landed a series of great attacks too. Then, Magnus blasted two with a maximized flame strike. Erris cast displacement on Magnus after he suffered a beating. Koshi mixed ranged and melee attacks to great effect, and Erris charged into the fray to protect Greta who was staggered by the gugs. The gug savant made the battlefield a challenge with spike stones and transmute rock to mud.
The fighting was intense, with horrible wounds inflicted on either side, but with Magnus’ clerical talents, the team avoided severe injury. Finally, all were defeated, and the team found several valuable treasures and Baba Yaga’s mortar and pestle!
