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Game summary for May 31, 2022, Chronoshift: Spelljammer campaign, Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, for Phoenix Gaming Club. Session included: Crimson “Pyro” Deathcloud (Tiefling Alchemist played by Peyton Harmon), Hekera Nephera Mawhesk Vyk’sebekenka (Sebek-ka Fighter played by Preston Harmon), Helg Ingvar (Aasimar Cleric played by Chris Harmon), Intevar Dagella (Centurian Drow Silent Hunter played by Casey Scruggs), Khesen Pavel (Human Brawler played by Parker Harmon), Ruby Rue (Blink Dog Rogue Cohort played by Dylan Whittinghill as secondary), Scraggy Lodgers (Werebear-Kin Gunslinger / Witch played by Dylan Whittinghill), and Zzyym (Zif Esoteric / Academy Sorcerer played by Kaliegh Belda). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons.

The team decided to go up in the keep and try and neutralize the towers to aid in their eventual withdrawal.  They went up one flight and found an officers’ quarters and a door locked from their side.  Inside some chests they found Lolth prayer scrolls, coins, and some white mushrooms.  They slid a daylight coin under the door and peeked through the keyhole to find a large but seemingly empty room.  They threw open the door and discovered a drider around the corner!  They shut the door back.  And locked it.  And walked away. 

They went up another flight of steps and found a large table and chairs and a sign warning them to leave the food.  Another door stood before them, and detect magic revealed moderate abjuration.  Helg cast dispel magic and Zzyym could tell the magic was negated.  They opened the door to find a short hallway with two more closed doors.  While examining those doors, a phase spider materialized and bit Crimson repeatedly!  He was poisoned, and the spider lurked in the ethereal plane while the party tried to figure out how to fight it.  Ruby Rue was able to see the spider since he was blinking between the material and ethereal planes and was able to direct the party on the spider’s location.  Zzyym and Intevar tried to lure the spider back into their realm by torching the nest they found behind one of the doors.  Instead, the spider waited patiently as the poison ravaged Crimson’s body.  Scraggy remembered some of his arcane training and stories he had read about such spiders and recalled force magic can harm them.  Zzyym and Helg unleashed magic missiles and spiritual weapon while Ruby continued trying to bite and rend.  The injured spider then fled down through the floor and disappeared! 

The team was able to give Crimson a potion of neutralize poison and stop its horrific progression.

Game summary for May 17, 2022, Chronoshift: Spelljammer campaign, Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, for Phoenix Gaming Club. Session included: Crimson “Pyro” Deathcloud (Tiefling Alchemist played by Peyton Harmon), Hekera Nephera Mawhesk Vyk’sebekenka (Sebek-ka Fighter played by Preston Harmon), Helg Ingvar (Aasimar Cleric played by Chris Harmon), Jiraiya (Hurwaeti Freebooter played by Andrew Renfrow), Khesen Pavel (Human Brawler played by Parker Harmon), and Sienna Whispermist (Half-Elf Cleric / Illusionist / Rogue played by Todd Hughes). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons.

The team had Sienna disguise several of them as drow using her disguise kit and skills.  They then hitched The Perry and cargo barge behind the Elamshin and flew the damselfly back to the fortress.  They then walked into the fortress with Hekera and Jiraiya apparently tied up as prisoners.  They marched right up to the doors, and Sienna talked their way in.  Inside the chamber were several drow and an ogrillon.  They talked for a short time until the raid leader realized there were no female drow aboard the ship, but there stood Sienna disguised as a drow!  They were confused for a minute and the team suddenly struck.  Crimson hit most of the drow with a fiery cone bomb!  Hekera and Khesen unleashed a barrage of attacks while Sienna fired of magic missiles.  Jiraiya displayed some amazing agility and danced among the foes, provoking attacks and counterstriking every miss.  One drow dropped a darkness globe which was promptly countered by Helg’s daylight spell-like ability.  The raid leader cried out to alert the fortress of intruders before being struck down.  The group looted the room and decided they needed to move upward and eliminate all the siege engine crews.

Game summary for May 10, 2022, Chronoshift: Spelljammer campaign, Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, for Phoenix Gaming Club. Session included: Hekera Nephera Mawhesk Vyk’sebekenka (Sebek-ka Fighter played by Preston Harmon), Intevar Dagella (Centurian Drow Silent Hunter played by Casey Scruggs), Khesen Pavel (Human Brawler played by Parker Harmon), and Sienna Whispermist (Half-Elf Cleric / Illusionist / Rogue played by Todd Hughes). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons.

The crew of drow dropped a globe of darkness to make the light dim and provide them some cover.  They began firing arrows and boarding The Perry!  The drow scouts struggled in the skirmish, but their ogrillon pugilists proved far more effective.  Intevar cleverly used vanish to get some space and make it over to the enemy ship.  Sienna unleashed arrows and magic missiles, and Khesen and Hekera made judicious use of cleave.  Intevar had provoked the drow by mocking their goddess, so the priestess unleashed spells upon her.  She hit her with his katana before she retaliated with her trident.  Unfortunately, it was poisoned, and Intevar fell to the deck asleep!  Hekera and Khesen cleared their ship of foes and then leapt across to the Elamshin and brought the fight to the drow.  The priestess fought valiantly but eventually fell beneath the party’s attacks.

The group then woke Intevar and gave her numerous potions of cure light wounds.  Somewhat recovered the team then cleared all three decks of the ship and confirmed the entire crew had come out to fight.  The team decided the view of the castle is blocked by an asteroid, so they plan on piling into the captured damselfly ship and flying it back to the castle as if they were just the returning crew!

Game summary for May 3, 2022, Chronoshift: Spelljammer campaign, Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, for Phoenix Gaming Club. Session included: Crimson “Pyro” Deathcloud (Tiefling Alchemist played by Peyton Harmon), Hekera Nephera Mawhesk Vyk’sebekenka (Sebek-ka Fighter played by Preston Harmon), Helg Ingvar (Aasimar Cleric played by Chris Harmon), Intevar Dagella (Centurian Drow Silent Hunter played by Casey Scruggs), Jiraiya (Hurwaeti Freebooter played by Andrew Renfrow), Khesen Pavel (Human Brawler played by Parker Harmon), Ruby Rue (Blink Dog Rogue Cohort played by Dylan Whittinghill as secondary), and Scraggy Lodgers (Werebear-Kin Gunslinger / Witch played by Dylan Whittinghill). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons.

Traveling through Pirtelspace, the party found themselves in the midst of a space ice storm!  Several began scraping ice off the vessel.  Several whipped up alchemical anti-freeze while others helped spot ice chunks and pilot the ship.  Others even “swam” around on deck knocking snow free!  Thanks to the party’s quick actions, the ship was able to navigate safely through.

Within a few days, the tug of the magical ring guided them to the edge of Guinmir’s Band.  They spotted some kind of castle or fortress on one of the asteroids!  They watched as several figures scurried to weapon embankments and a damselfly ship rose up and moved between the Perry and the castle.  The team was uncertain what to do.  They tried using semaphore to communicate while training their weapons on the ship and positioning themselves with some asteroids between them and the castle.  The more maneuverable damselfly ship closed in!  As it approached, they could read the golden-lettered name Elamshin.  Those who read Elven pondered for a moment… “the will of Lolth”?  The black-helmeted individuals on the deck are drow and trying to board the Perry!