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Game summary for September 27, 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), 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.

Crimson moved down the hallway and started opening doors.  He found some storage areas filled with ship supplies and ammunition for the siege weapons.  He went into another room and triggered some sonic glyphs of warding that hurt him and nearly killed Intevar.  Hekera gave Intevar a potion of cure serious wounds while Crimson took a few extracts.  Meanwhile, Ruby could smell something down the stairs, so he and Scraggy went to investigate.  At the bottom were three drow!  A fight broke out while Crimson continued searching the trapped room and found a chest filled with provocative weblike undergarments.  Zzyym went into the room around the corner and found another bedroom filled with various pieces of art and weapons. 

Scraggy fired both barrels at the drow spell dancer encountered at the point of the stairs.  The team came rushing down while the drow tried to defend.  The spell dancer used a flail to hit several party members and cast mass reduce person across several of them!  Jiraiya was shrunk down to half size but still came charging in!  Once most of the party packed into the hallway, the spellcaster hit many of them with a Kiara’s stingball, inflicting nonlethal damage on many of the team.  But not Jiraiya!  The hurwaeti was able to nimbly dodge the attack and came rushing back in!  One of the drow raiders was slain by the party, and the other knocked out by the spell dancer’s spell.  Khesen then stomped the raider into a trip to see Lolth. 

Meanwhile, Zzyym was using detect magic and finding some auras in the room upstairs and found a stand where one might hang a necklace, although there was no necklace there.  Crimson continued rifling through what appeared to be the priestess’ bedroom and found a hidden locked metal coffer.  He took it and the mauve-glowing Lolth idol. 

Back on the lower deck, Hekera and Ruby were able to slip around behind the spell dancer.  It was badly wounded and cast greater invisibility, but Intevar recognized what it was.  So, the team continued its onslaught in the seemingly empty square but landed blow after blow!  The spell dancer stood no chance and crumbled dead. 

Game summary for September 20, 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), and Khesen Pavel (Human Brawler played by Parker Harmon). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons.

Intevar charged down the stairs and was ambushed by a drow raider who missed him with her crossbow.  Intevar slashed the drow, and the rest of the party came rushing down to assist.  Down in the ship, a drow noble priestess emerged from the shadows and cast greater forbid action which prevented Helg from being able to attack.  The half-drow who had flown over to the party’s ship earlier also emerged from the shadows.  She looked at Intevar and shrugged almost apologetically and then cast boneshatter on her!  Intevar was wracked with agony as her bones splintered into shards poking into her muscles and skin causing her horrific pain with every movement.  In close quarters, the party quickly started getting the upper hand.  However, the drow were not out of the fight just yet.  The necromancer blasted the team with a lightning bolt while Intevar filled the floor with shard gel caltrops.  This hampered the drow movement even more and set them up for a pummeling from the melee fighters.  Helg healed the entire team while Crimson blasted away with bombs and Hekera and Khesen closed in on the priestess.  She caught Khesen with a bestow curse and then tried to hit him with blindness!  The necromancer fell to the party’s brutality moments before Hekera put his sword through the priestess’ face, slaying her instantly.  The group defeated the remaining raider, and prepared to move deeper into the ship.

Game summary for September 13, 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), and Khesen Pavel (Human Brawler played by Parker Harmon). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons.

The team prepared several items for an all-out assault on the man-o-war.  They decided they did not know what was keeping the portal open and didn’t want to risk it closing in the battle and being separated from the Perry.  So, they decided they would fly the damselfly through and attack while the Perry came through and made for Archin (20 days away).  They would try to meet up with the crew there. 

The team sailed their ship through the portal and up upon the man-o-war before anyone could adjust targeting on the siege weapons.  They had lined up on the rails and were prepared to board.  Khesen tried to use a grappling hook to link the ships and missed his first toss.  Several of the enemies jumped over onto the damselfly!  Crimson started hurling bombs while the team engaged the enemies on board.  Intevar tried to rush up through the hatch and found Crimson standing on it and holding it shut!  One of the drow illuminated most of the boarding party with faerie fire. 

Several of the enemies hurled tanglefoot and tangleburn bags and missed terribly.  Another hurled an iron pellet grenade, but it bounced around the deck!  Helg picked it up planning to throw it down the communication pipe!  Most of the team jumped over to the man-o-war after repelling the attackers on their own ship and securing the ships together.  The rest of the enemies were cut down, and Helg rolled the grenade into the depths of the ship, and they waited…

KABOOM!  Intevar grinned as smoke and dust rolled up the stairs. 

Game summary for September 6, 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), 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 spent two weeks sailing across Pirtelspace toward Alastriel.  It was mostly uneventful with the team pitching in on chores around the ship and spending time crafting items.  As they approached Alastriel, they noticed a growing blue nebula nearby, and the tug of Alton’s trail veered toward it.  They came out of spelljamming speed and saw a large black elven man-o-war and moved toward it.  Crimson began using Linguistics to try semaphore to signal they were tradesmen.  They then decided to hide some of their members and put Intevar prominently visible.  They had Crimson start signing drow aboard as the man-o-war rotated to line up most of its weapons upon them.  Drow aboard used semaphore to tell them to come to full stop and prepare for boarding.  Soon a single flitter arrived, and a dark-eyed half-drow emerged.  She looked around and demanded to know who Intevar was and what they were doing with the Elamshin (meaning “the will of Lolth”) that was towed behind their vessel!

Intevar tried to intimidate the woman.  Nonplussed, she stepped up into a close whisper and demanded the truth.  Intevar decided to tell her everything, that they were trailing Alton using magic, he is onboard their ship, and they had wiped out the drow at the fortress.  She had no idea who Alton was, but at the news they had killed the other drow, especially the priestesses, she smiled.  She told Intevar she would give them a little gift for killing the priestesses, a head start, before the captain destroyed their vessel.  She disparaged Lolth and got aboard her flitter and headed back.  The group, recognizing the nebula as a portal, rushed past and through in the Perry.  On the other side, they realized they had traveled all the way to Realmspace!  They then decided since the portal is too small for the man-o-war to travel through, they would wait one day to let the drow drop their guard and then charge back through in the Elamshin damselfly and board the man-o-war and sweep through killing drow and looking for Alton!