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Game summary for November 28, 2023, Chronoshift: Spelljammer campaign, Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, for Phoenix Gaming Club. Session included: Claude Dill Budshire (Sokari Sorcerer played by Peyton Harmon), Edonna Match Wushu Lu Klighke (Dragonborn Oracle played by Casey Scruggs), Hekera Nephera Mawhesk Vyk’sebekenka (Sebek-ka Fighter played by Preston Harmon), Khesen Pavel (Human Brawler played by Parker Harmon), Komorebi (Kitsune Bard played by Josh Jenkins), and Notch Bowman (Human Fighter played by Andrew Renfrow). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons.

 The team emerged into a dark blue-stoned catacomb with large green pipes.  Brightly-colored piranha plants rose up from some of the pipes and belched for glowing energy balls of cold, fire, or electricity.  The deadly attacks ripped into the party.  Dwarf-life short brown mushroom people, Goombas, came charging in.  They rammed party members and tossed them about like ragdolls.  Notch unleashed a volley of arrows while Komorebi began a bardic performance and Edonna enhanced the team with spells.  Soon the team was powerfully enchanted with supplemental magic.

 Claude cast Bogg’s cinderball, which unleashed a powerful blast.  Throughout the fight he contributed other spells such as energy dart.  The team learned the Goombas seemed resistant to slashing and piercing attacks along with sonic energy.  The team took a solid thumping from several of the foes before they turned the tide.  The enemies were brought down with a flurry of attacks and spells. 

 Hekera activated a yellow mystery box and discovered a temporary mushroom effect that caused him to increase in size.  The team searched the room and found some single-use magic items they could carry with them and use later including some magical mushrooms.

Game summary for November 21, 2023, Chronoshift: Spelljammer campaign, Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, for Phoenix Gaming Club. Session included: Claude Dill Budshire (Sokari Sorcerer played by Peyton Harmon), 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), and Khesen Pavel (Human Brawler played by Parker Harmon). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons.

Claude cast shocking spark to start the battle and blasted one of the mohrgs.  Edonna buffed the team with blessing of fervor while Hekera charged the mohrg.  The undead moved in, and Hekera found himself paralyzed!  A grievous festrog rushed in and began eating Hekera’s helpless body.  Helg rounded the corner and channeled positive energy to blast all the undead.  Khesen moved in and defeated the injured mohrg.  The remaining mohrg tried to paralyze Helg and injured Khesen. 

The festrogs swarmed in on Hekera and tried to feast on him.  Amazingly he survived a brutal assault, but several piled on and ate him to death.  Khesen began battling through the creatures while Helg continued channeling energy.  Claude unleashed powerful combat spells while Edonna cast prayer and not only enhanced allies but also debuffed foes. The snarling festrogs were strengthen by eating Hekera, and the morhg stepped over and paralyzed Claude.  Khesen kept true to the course, beating monsters back into the grave.  Edonna tried to help allies recover using resurgence. 

Eventually, Helg channeled the other mohrg to death while Khesen and Edonna finished off the festrogs.  The team used a scroll to raise Hekera, and they nursed their wounds.  They then moved into another room and discovered its opulence was nothing but an illusion that helped better hide a secret door. 

Moving down the hidden hall, they followed their map to another secret door.  Inside this room they found several large smashed mushrooms and slaughtered tortles or some other type of turtle people all lying dead from a battle.  Another secret door opened, and woman in bright pink and white clothes.  She spoke to them briefly, but Helg did not fully trust her.  He felt she honestly answered their questions but was hiding something.  She went down the hall, leading them a strange green pipe.  She stood up on the pipe, told them to come on, and then she stepped into the middle of the pipe and plunged into darkness.  The teamed gathered round and plunged in after her!

Game summary for November 14, 2023, Chronoshift: Spelljammer campaign, Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, for Phoenix Gaming Club. Session included: Claude Dill Budshire (Sokari Sorcerer played by Peyton Harmon), 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), and Notch Bowman (Human Fighter played by Andrew Renfrow). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons.

The group met a few new adventurers and brought them into the fold.  They welcomed Claude Dill Budshire, a sokari sorcerer who specializes in evocation.  Likewise, they welcomed Notch Bowman, a talented human archer. 

They then went to the Laughing Beholder to get the latest gossip and information.  After they talked to people for a while, Councilman Ozamata’s representative, yakuza Yuan Zhang, entered and approached.  He presented them with a missive sealed with Ozamata’s crane symbol.  He informed them the Councilman had found them work, as requested.  He wanted them to enter the Bral Underdark in pursuit of the Pink Lady, a fairly new arrival on Bral with connections to the construction guilds.  Her husband had been kidnapped and taken into the Underdark.  She had gone ahead with some of her toadies and wanted some serious muscle to follow her down and help rescue him.  In exchange for their services, Ozamata offered to double their investment in his businesses as well as deeding them his latest purchase, Torvey’s Tent Pegs!  Formerly owned by Boris the Butcher, this would certainly be quite the insult to their enemy.  The team instantly agreed, took the provided map to the rendezvous point, and headed to a known Underdark entrance beneath Gamalon’s curio shop.  They spoke with him about Bral Underdark denizens and learned there are rumors of an illithid mastermind in the depths, activities of the Chainmen slavers, orcs and kobolds, and of course the usual Underdark vermin and slimes. 

The team found a room where a battle recently raged.  Numerous poorly equipped orcs and kobolds lay dead.  Helg discovered footprints appearing to belong to female human and maybe four gnomes exiting the area.  They also found some pools of a strange brown liquid. 

They moved down the hallway and found a triggered fire trap, its pressure plate now apparent.  The walls were scorched, and there was quite a bit of that brown liquid sprayed all over.  Helg cast communal protection from energy to ward the entire group against fire.  Carefully, they moved on down the hall and through secret doors marked on the map. 

They came to a door and opened it to reveal another slaughter.  The rotting bodies appeared to maybe have once been zombies.  From the carnage arose lots of other undead!  Two skeletal creatures rose up, their distended purplish entrails writhed from their mouths like slimy spiked tongues.  A pair of man-sized doglike creatures rose up as well.  They were apparently feasting on the slain corpses.  The team paused a moment, shocked by the scene!

Game summary for November 7, 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), and Neko (Half-Orc Magus played by Peyton Harmon). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons.

The party ventured deeper into the dragon’s lair, a cavern where danger dripped from every shadowed crevice. High above, the dragon perched imperiously alongside its formidable allies: a draco-wyvern, a pale chimericore, and a fiery red dungeonbred chimera. The dragon conjured a thick blanket of haunting mists, its magic doing little but veiling the treacherous icy floor below, which tested the party’s footing. Undeterred, the adventurers resourcefully brandished potions of flight and whisk away admixtures, defying the slippery ground as they ascended into the air.

Invisibility cloaked Khesen, but the dragon, keen to his scent, unleashed a chilling breath of shocking cold. Miraculously, his magical defenses held firm against the icy onslaught. Below, the chimericore’s spikes crackled with electrical fury, thwarted only by the team’s resilient wardings. The dragon, persistent in its sorcery, cast a choking stinking cloud that further shrouded the battleground, though it did little more than blur vision.

Above the miasma, Neko soared, only to be met by the searing breath of the dungeonbred chimera. A swift and deadly flyby from the dragon snatched him from his aerial refuge, its maw delivering a lethal strike before discarding him lifelessly upon a craggy outcrop.

As the team strategically dismantled the dragon’s minions, Hekera, emboldened by an enlarge person spell, stormed across the cavern with the fury of a tempest, landing a devastating blow that left the dragon reeling from the unexpected ferocity. Despite another fearsome wave of its shocking breath, the party stood unscathed, their protective magics unwavering.

The battle’s tide turned as the dragon retreated to a lofty perch, cornered with nowhere left to soar. Jiraiya, armed with his flayer flail dripping with toxin, aimed to incapacitate the beast, only to be met with a vicious counterstrike that ended his valiant charge.

Below, Edonna and Helg feverishly wove spells to bolster their companions and mend their wounds. Hekera, relentless, pressed on with Khesen at his side. They harried the dragon with a relentless assault until, in a whirl of scales and fury, the dragon retaliated, cutting down Khesen in a brutal display of its raw power. Hekera, though grievously wounded, remained unyielding. Rallying with healing magic from his comrades, he lunged once more into battle, and with a thunderous strike, pierced the dragon’s heart, silencing the tyrant of the skies.

With haste, the survivors collected their fallen and the dragon’s treasure trove, securing the beast’s carcass within their cage. They returned to Bral, hearts heavy with loss, to claim their bittersweet reward. Though the bounty was modest, for the dragon had fallen by their hands rather than succumbing to capture; however, the threat was vanquished. Mournful yet resolute, they honored their departed, resurrecting some while others found peace in eternal slumber. Licking their wounds, the adventurers counted their remaining gold and looked to the horizon for fresh allies. With their resolve steeled, they readied themselves for whatever fate would cast upon their path next.