Game summary for July 2, 2019, Reign of Winter campaign, Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, for Phoenix Gaming Club. Session included: Alfbern Winterbloom (Half-Elf Inquisitor played by Preston Harmon), Keravno (Aasimar Fighter played by Peyton Harmon), Koloth Kruge (Centaur Ranger played by Parker Harmon), Magnus Erlingsson (Human Cleric played by Chris Harmon), and Tarik (Human Bard played by Andrew Renfrow). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons.
The team tried to open the double doors before them and triggered a frosty trap that blasted them with frigid magical cold. Beyond the doors was a large chamber lined with fourteen thrones, the ninth and fourteenth empty. The rest were occupied by the twitching corpses of long dead ice queens. Some were little more than blind husks feebly trembling with a mockery of undead life. Four, however, sprang out of the chairs howling in anger as they sensed the presence of Baba Yaga! The team was slow to enter the room and found themselves divided by a wall of ice! The queens started unleashing cone of cold and polar ray to devastating effect.
Tarik was able to dispel the wall, and the team crept in only to be divided again by another wall of ice. The remaining queens unleashed spells and energy-draining melee attacks on the isolated party members. Keravno, Alfbern, and Koloth tried to bring the fight to the queens, but they suffered greatly for their efforts. Once again, Tarik dispelled the wall, and Magnus slipped a maximized flame strike in on the queens. Alfbern used his inquisitor bane ability to deal some damage while Koloth found himself hit with several energy drain attacks. Yet again, the queens divided the party with a wall of ice, and Tarik once again dispelled it.
Koloth found himself encased in ice while Magnus and Keravno pounded away with fiery spells and whirling hammer. A fourth wall of ice divided the team, and Tarik failed to dispel it. However, Magnus succeeded. The queens pummeled the team with cone of cold and polar ray with the occasional crushing despair. Alfbern died under one of the queen’s flurry of staff attacks due to the devastating energy drain, and his bear companion died soon thereafter. Magnus started two of the foes on fire with fire storm, which caused them to run around and falter in some of their magic.
Tarik was able to hasten the party, and Keravno’s hammer was enhanced with Greta’s baneweapon. His thrown hammer brought down a queen while Magnus’ fire brought down another. Greta freed Koloth from the ice, and several party members provided some healing to their allies. The combined fire and hammer continued to wear away, and eventually the last two were slain!
As the last crone queen died, Baba Yaga instructed the party to cut out the hearts of all twelve queens in order to steep a tea! The team went around and collected all the hearts and then spotted a tea set on a table in the back of the room.
