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Game summary for June 28, 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), Intevar Dagella (Centurian Drow Silent Hunter played by Casey Scruggs), Jiraiya (Hurwaeti Freebooter played by Andrew Renfrow), and Khesen Pavel (Human Brawler played by Parker Harmon). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons.

The team entered what appeared to be a dinning hall and debated ascending stairs to the roof or going through one of two doors.  One, leading into the round-walled tower had a large run painted upon it.  It looked like pursed drow lips blowing a kiss surrounded by eight spider legs and was done in black paste flecked with blood-red powdered gems.  To be safe, Crimson hit it with a dispelling bomb.  Hekera beat the door off its hinges and found the room filled with preternatural darkness.  Crimson threw a stink bomb within, and gagging sounds resounded.  Intevar dropped a faerie fire in the room revealing numerous drow.  Jiraiya slipped in and was sliced nearly to ribbons by some unknown force and then was badly wounded by an attacker in the darkness.  He was able to use his acrobatics to exit the wound and go drink a potion. 

Poisoned drow arrows whipped out the door with little effect, and fiendish crab spiders seemed to appear from nowhere and scurry over the tables to attack.  Intevar slipped into the room and found herself face-to-face with a drow priestess armed with a trident and surrounded by a swirling cloud of razors.  She was horrible slashed, and then the priestess plunged that trident deep into Intevar’s chest.  Fortunately, the poison did not take hold.  Intevar retreated and was just barely able to acrobatically dodge out of the room.  Unfortunately for the drow, one of the scouts stumbled into the priestess’ blades in the fog and died horribly. 

The drow scouts and fiendish crab spiders were not much of a threat, but the emerging priestess was a problem.  Her swirling blades and quite shocking melee prowess rocked the team back on their heels.  Intevar fled at all speed away, and Jiraiya fell back to a safer distance.  Crimson raised a shield while Khesen and Hekera went toe-to-toe and found themselves outmatched; not an experience either is used to.  Crimson was able to hurt her with thorn body, but it cost him a hit as well.  The group fell back a bit to take stock of the situation.  Most of the team is injured, some critically so, and the priestess is still coming. 

Game summary for June 21, 2022, Chronoshift: Spelljammer campaign, Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, for Phoenix Gaming Club. Session included: Intevar Dagella (Centurian Drow Silent Hunter played by Casey Scruggs), Jiraiya (Hurwaeti Freebooter played by Andrew Renfrow), Ruby Rue (Blink Dog Rogue Cohort played by Dylan Whittinghill as secondary), Scraggy Lodgers (Werebear-Kin Gunslinger / Witch played by Dylan Whittinghill), Sienna Whispermist (Half-Elf Cleric / Illusionist / Rogue played by Todd Hughes), and Zzyym (Zif Esoteric / Academy Sorcerer played by Kaliegh Belda). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons.

The group moved back to the ground floor following the pull of the ring.  They went through a door and found a drow patrol and the drider!  The team moved in quickly with Scraggy blasting holes in the ogrillon with his pistol while Jiraiya moved about hitting drow and ripping weapons from hands.  Intevar attacked the drow with his poisoned blade.  The drow poison put the monster to sleep!  After mopping up the other foes, Intevar performed a coup de grace and killed the aberration. 

Next they moved down the hallway and threw open another door into a weapons training room.  Inside were two drow freebooters who opened fire with poisoned crossbow bolts!  Zzyym was able to windy escape out of one attack and did not succumb to the other.  Jiraiya tumbled into the room as Scraggy moved up and Ruby used dimension door to enter.  Intevar swapped weapons while the freebooters closed in for melee.  Several of the group took hits from rapiers and poisoned daggers, but they failed to put anyone down.  Magic missiles flew, bullets blasted, and flails smashed.  After a brutal assault, the party defeated both drow and looted the area. 

Game summary for June 14, 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), 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 surged up through the trapdoor and were bombarded with tanglefoot bags and ballista bolts, but Jiraiya nimbly dodged.  Helg came through and held the ogrillon while Scraggy came in, guns blazing.  Most of the team ended up on top of the tower, and one of the drow limned much of the team in faerie fire.  The drow were brought down while Scraggy killed the ogrillon with a double-barreled pistol blast.  They then disabled the ballista while the other siege weapon emplacements turned weapons on the tower. 

The group went down the hallway and head to the last tower.  They go up through the trapdoor and find the group still trying to aim at the other tower.  Zzyym cast snakeball and poisoned all of the enemies!  The rest of the team came up and started tearing into the enemies while Zzyym blasted away with magic missile.  In no time the team was victorious!

Game summary for June 7, 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), Intevar Dagella (Centurian Drow Silent Hunter played by Casey Scruggs), Jiraiya (Hurwaeti Freebooter played by Andrew Renfrow), and Khesen Pavel (Human Brawler played by Parker Harmon). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons.

The group found a door at the back of the lab after collecting all the silver coins.  The door would not open, so Hekera used his earth breaker to bust the lock right off.  The door still wouldn’t open, so they suspected it was magically held closed.  Crimson hit it with a dispelling bomb but it still wouldn’t budge.  Back to the hammer!  Hekera destroyed the door and the group found a hallway and stairway up into the tower!  They could hear drow up above talking about being ready for whomever beat down the door.  Jiraiya threw open the trapdoor and dodged a tanglefoot bag! 

The team swarmed up the steps trying to dodge tanglefoot bags and slashing blades.  Khesen found himself stuck in a burning tangleburn bag!  The drow posed little threat, but the ogrillon proved quite formidable.  Intevar had poisoned her katana and slashed the ogrillon causing it to fall asleep!  The team looted the slain drow and the unconscious ogrillon.  Crimson disabled the ballista while the team dumped the ammunition over the side.  Then, the group threw the poisoned ogrillon off the tower! 

The splattered ogrillon drew attention!  The other ballista and catapult crews quickly shouted and pointed at the tower and began adjusting their weapons to fire upon the party!  The group scrambled back down into the keep. 

They decided to go deal with the drider and headed back to the entrance.  The injured phase spider appeared and bit Crimson before phasing back away, but the tiefling shook off the venom!  Jiraiya took a swing at the spider but seemingly missed.  Up the stairs they found the door to the drider room open and the drider missing!  They beat down another door and found a hallway and another stairwell to the top of the next tower.  They could hear drow up there as well.