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Game summary for April 25, 2023, Chronoshift: Spelljammer campaign, Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, for Phoenix Gaming Club. Session included: Edonna Match Wushu Lu Klighke (Dragonborn Oracle played by Casey Scruggs), 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), Komorebi (Kitsune Bard played by Josh Jenkins), and Neko (Half-Orc Magus played by Peyton Harmon). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons.

Neko ran across the flagstones and hurled himself into a pond, which reacted to the alchemical reagents dousing his body and burned even brighter!  The rest of the team began organizing the citizens into a bucket brigade.  Helg healed several people and then went into the flames to begin dousing with create water.  Komorebi inspired the old man to greatness and hauled him through the flames to safety.  Finally, Neko’s flames went out.  Meanwhile, Gamalon Idogyr appeared via a teleport and cast a summoning to bring in a huge water elemental to fight the flames.

The City Watch also arrived and began questioning people.  They separated the party and interrogated them one-on-one while clerics came in and used speak with dead on the corpses.  After gathering all the information they could, they arrested Neko with the charge of arson!  He was taken into custody and taken to jail to await trial in three days.  The rest of the team tried to do a bit of damage control, and Edonna even gave a divination reading to a pregnant citizen regarding her child. 

Back at the Laughing Beholder, they recounted their woes to Large Luigi.  They all realized Joey was missing, and Sturion went off to find some people who could have information.  In the meantime, Edonna cast a scrying and was able to see Joey, huddled and crying, in a dim storage area.  After debating, Edonna and the party came to the conclusion that it is unlikely a moving ship, but it is possible it is a docked ship. 

The group now needs to find and rescue Joey and also come up with a plan for a legal defense, or perhaps some kind of bribe, to get Neko out of his troubles! 

Game summary for April 11, 2023, Chronoshift: Spelljammer campaign, Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, for Phoenix Gaming Club. Session included: Edonna Match Wushu Lu Klighke (Dragonborn Oracle played by Casey Scruggs), Hekera Nephera Mawhesk Vyk’sebekenka (Sebek-ka Fighter played by Preston Harmon), Helg Ingvar (Aasimar Cleric played by Chris Harmon), Khesen Pavel (Human Brawler played by Parker Harmon), Komorebi (Kitsune Bard played by Josh Jenkins), and Neko (Half-Orc Magus played by Peyton Harmon). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons.

Surrounded, the team exploded into action.  Khesen leapt from the ground up onto a balcony and kicked a shocked gnoll archer right in the snout.  The silver-furred gnoll cast hold person with no effect.  Neko targeted a group of assailants, and while his team yelled for him to stop, he launched a fireball into the middle of a residential street in the center of Bral.  The wooden-framed house burst into flame under the intense sudden heat, with fire spreading across the roof, walls, and across the curtains exposed by the open window. 

The enemies charged in and landed some devastating blows on the flat-footed party.  Edonna cast prayer and gave power to her team and diminished her opponents.  Helg cast a mighty dweomer, righteous wrath of the faithful!  Hekera tore into the enemies who had surrounded and injured him.  Komorebi chastised two enemies with a blistering invective and then used his singing steel armor to swiftly activate a dirge of doom that sent some of the enemy, on fire, scattering.  The archer in the building fired a deadly shot at Khesen who swatted it away like a gnat.  Meanwhile, the orc mystic caught a couple of the team in the confines of a web spell. 

Enemies fell left and right, one literally from a balcony.  The team slaughtered their assailants while the home continued to burn, and an elderly man appeared on the balcony screaming for aid for him and his wife.  One of the burning brigands fled through the streets, magically terrified of Komorebi.  The silver-furred gnoll cast blindness at Khesen but failed to affect him. She then began to move toward a retreat position.  Khesen in turn ran along the roof and dove down to the street to pursue. 

Most of the team shifted focus to saving the elderly people in the home.  Helg drenched the man and balcony with create water.  The silver-furred gnoll cast an obscuring mist to cover her retreat but was pursued closely by Khesen and Hekera.  The mighty sebek-ka nearly got his jaws on her, as a command spell sent Khesen running off in the wrong direction!  The gnoll was too quick for the ponderous reptile-man and began outpacing him.  Komorebi stepped up and encouraged his teammates with inspired courage, reciting a motivating oration:

Stand tall, brave hearts, and do not cower,

For danger strikes in every hour.

This alleyway may seem a trap,

But we can rise and break the snap.

We are the ones who dare to seek,

Our courage strong, our wills unique.

“Damn you, Joey, for this plight,

But we’ll fight on with all our might.

Moments later, Helg and Komorebi entered the burning home to rescue the people.  Neko had pulled out a tangleburn bag, and rather than carry it into the burning building decided to drop it.  At his feet.  Where it exploded, just like a tangleburn bag, and entangled and immolated him.  Helg carried the elderly woman out of the house and sat her down by the warm light of a burning Neko.  Several of the townsfolk began to emerge from their homes, and one walked smack into the magical webs.  He panicked and began screaming about giant spiders.  Others began to take up the cry, and in moments screams of warning about giant spiders were echoing through the entire neighborhood. 

Hekera was hoping to put an arrow or two into the back of the fleeing gnoll, but she turned down a cross street before he could get situated.  The house fire continued to blaze as Komorebi went out to calm the man.  Edonna was able to magically calm several of the townsfolk, but the cries of “fire” and “giant spiders” were echoing off in the distance.  Concerned citizens could be seen coming out of homes and running down the roads toward the scene. 

Game summary for April 4, 2023, Chronoshift: Spelljammer campaign, Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, for Phoenix Gaming Club. Session included: 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), Komorebi (Kitsune Bard played by Josh Jenkins), and Neko (Half-Orc Magus played by Peyton Harmon). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons.

The team got up their first morning in Bral, had breakfast, and heading out with Joey to meet Cap’n Gyudd.  The old peg-legged dwarf told them it would take a week or two of work to top out the Perry after their audience with the elves.  They asked him about any rumors or interesting goings-on, and he told them he keeps hearing about some undead covered in green worms.  They chatted a while and then heading to find a guide to Selune. 

They sent Joey off to find some assistance, and he returned a while later with a priest wearing voluminous robes and a featureless mirror mask.  The priest (or priestess) told them a bit about Selune and was interested in helping Faylen return; however, it warned them not to take any Torilians there.  With two Toril natives in the party, and two more on the ship, they realized they had a problem.  So, they put a pin in returning Faylen and went to talk to Needle about where he needed to go.

Needle warned them that most inhabitants of Toril know nothing about spelljamming, and it would be very wise to not be seen by many (or any) coming out of the sky in a ship.  He suggested they go at night and drop them in a clearing.  They agreed and headed out on the 1.25 hour voyage.  While flying over Toril, Needle pointed out places of interest such as the city of Waterdeep along the coast.  They then passed to the dark side of the planet and were guided to a clearing in Wa.  Before departing, he gave them a token good for a favor from the Wa embassy in Bral. 

They returned to Bral and decided to talk again to the Leiran priest.  They agreed to leave their Torilian compatriots behind while the rest head to the moon.  The Leiran spoke with Faylen a while and then cast a sending.  Meanwhile, Komorebi returned to the Laughing Beholder and spoke a while with Daiyu.  He learned she is from Kara-Tur and seemed to understand his inability to return to his home in the Feywild. 

The Perry landed on Selune, and Faylen’s little brother, now over 500 years old, met them!  He was overjoyed to be reunited with his sister who was lost to him over four centuries earlier.  This elf, Borlen, is a merchant and offered a great discount on trade goods as his appreciation to the party.  They then headed toward the Leiran temple to magically restore her arm. 

With their two errands completed, the group reconvened at the Laughing Beholder and decided to go to the ship and talk to First Mate Flick.  They put him in charge of hiring two more gnomish crewmen and acquiring another giant space hamster.  Overjoyed, Flick began debating what kind of space hamster to get.  The party seemed to reject most of the ideas in spite of his excitement and recounting the virtues of a more exotic hamster.  They reiterated what they sought and sent him off.  They decided to seek a new weapon master for the crew, perhaps one who can cook.  They are entertaining the idea of conducting interviews. 

On the way back to the tavern that evening, several armed figured emerged to surround them.  A mix of humans and gnolls confronted them along with at least one orc.  The orc whispered something about them being “as the boy said”, and the gnoll told them they needed crew and the party looked like crew.  It also snarled that it hopes they resist.