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Game summary for April 30, 2024, Chronoshift: Spelljammer campaign, Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, for Phoenix Gaming Club. Session included: Claude Dill Budshire (Sokari Sorcerer played by Peyton Harmon), 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 Perry lurched out of spelljamming speed to find an asteroid passing beneath the ship.  Off in the distance, they could see the water planet H’catha with its single massive mountain in the center.  As the asteroid drifted closer, several orbs rose up into the air.  Two were mottled and about five feet in diameter with a central eye surrounded by a ridge of flesh dotted with a dozen or so smaller human-like eyes!  These creatures, gauth beholderkin, possessed six tentacle-like eyestalks ending in eyes and a large fanged mouth.  Another larger orb drifted up, a zombified beholder!  A final beholderkin, a death kiss, rose up from the asteroid as well.  It was an off-white orb with long hanging tentacles that gradually fades to a crimson color at the tips.  Each tentacle ended in wicked mouths! 

The death kiss beholderkin drifted closer and began slapping tentacles into Khesen.  The biting appendages grappled him and latched hold to drain blood!  Helg peeked out and cast flame strike which destroyed one of the gauth!  The other gauth blasted away with eye rays hitting several of the team.  Claude was burned, Hekera suffered open wounds, and Notch was exhausted.  Claude cast a maximized shocking spark on the death kiss damaging it terribly. 

Notch was too tired to draw his bow, so he spun the magical ballista around and used its lance power to kill the death kiss which exploded in an electrical blast to which Helg was immune.  Hekera chopped away at the zombie beholder but was unable to cut it down.  Helg cast cure serious wounds on Khesen. 

The gauth continued to blast eye rays at the party with limited effect.  Claude stepped back and cast manyjaws which ripped the gauth to pieces!  Khesen realized he knew how to use a ballista, and he fired the other one at the beholder zombie!  Finally, Notch spun the magical ballista around and used the volley effect to blast the zombie to pieces.  The team nursed their wounds and then explored the asteroid.  They found part of a wrecked groundling vessel.  They surmised the asteroid had crashed through the ship at some point long, long ago.  Casting detect magic, the discovered the crow’s nest was actually a magic item that enhances perception!  They decided to take it and install it on The Perry.  Beneath the ship they found a handful of onyx gems.  The group discovered several signs of beholder excrement, but they were unsure how long the beholders had been here or what they had been eating. 

Game summary for April 23, 2024, 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), 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 took the three severed heads they discovered frozen on The Green Guppy out of the storage barrel now that they had thawed.  To their horror, they found them infested with rot grubs!  Fortunately, their crocodile-man, Hekera, was able to stomp them before they could burrow into anyone.  The team cleaned out the barrel and killed all the grubs they could find.  They discovered a few cracks in the barrel but were uncertain if any grubs would have fit through them. 

Helg then cast speak with dead on the first head and posed five questions.  They moved on through the two, questioning them as well.  They found several interesting tidbits.  After discussing, the team decided they wanted to ask more questions but would have to wait a week.  In the meantime, they began trying to open the religious text they discovered on The Green Guppy.

They took turns trying to decipher the bizarre markings, mechanical locks, and magical wards.  It took several days, but they eventually unlocked the tome and found it to be a copy of the Apostolic Scrolls, an unholy text of the worm god, Kyuss.  Notch noticed some key pages dogeared and passages underlined.  Focusing on these, he learned a tremendous amount about Kyuss.  He shared his information, and the entire team spent time studying the text.  By the end, the entire team had learned a great deal about Kyuss and even some tips on how to resist the effects of burrowing Kyuss worms! 

At the end of a week, they once again used speak with dead on the three heads.  After gathering all they felt they could, they launched the barrel of heads off the ship and destroyed it with a barrage of fire magic!

Game summary for April 16, 2024, 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), 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 spent a week traveling peacefully through Realmspace.  Edonna used the time to craft a magical wand, and Komorebi started working on some traps.  Bright blue lights flashed and portals opened throughout The Perry from which emerged an arachnoid manticore, several drow, a few Zhentarim mercenaries, and a terrifying banelar (a type of fearsome purple-scaled naga with venomous fangs and stinger). 

Immediately, Notch and the manticore began exchanging volleys.  One of the Zhentarim, a man in full plate armor wielding a bastard sword, engaged Helg in the cabin on the cargo barge.  The two tried to exchange blows, but both kept hitting the door frame and walls with their chops.  Helg stepped back and hurled a flame strike out the window and blasted the manticore into pieces.  Meanwhile, Claude cast a maximized shocking spark at another Zhentarim and melted him into oblivion. 

Down below, the drow priestess held one of the gnomes who was then murdered by a Zhentarim.  The banelar stung Edonna and envenomated her with horrifically toxic poison. She was wracked with agony and fled down the ladder where she collapsed unconscious from the toxin.  The banelar then slithered up the ladder to the top deck while the priestess killed Sailmaster Tuk.  The drow scouts unleashed volleys of poisoned arrows inflicting minor wounds, but they were no match for the focused might of the party, especially Khesen’s onslaught. 

Komorebi sang out and enhanced the abilities of the entire party.  Hekera then cut down the banelar and plunged down into lower decks where he cut the Zhentarim in half with his massive greatsword.  Claude followed him down and blasted the priestess into whatever afterlife awaited her.  Helg and the Zhentarim continued to brawl while Komorebi slipped around and hit him with a blistering invective.  The mercenary then surrendered. 

The team regrouped and the slain bodies began decaying into reeking sludge!  As the placed manacles upon the Zhentarim, he screamed in agony and melted into goo as well!  Komorebi recognized this as a common tactic of the Black Network and especially a particular foe from his past, the archmage Manshoon!

Game summary for April 9, 2024, 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), Komorebi (Kitsune Bard played by Josh Jenkins), and Notch Bowman (Human Fighter played by Andrew Renfrow). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons.

With all foes vanquished from the ship, the team began searching thoroughly for clues and items.  Several mundane items were discovered.  Inside a magically sealed locker was a child’s doll, old but unused.  Within a barrel they discovered a broken mechanical parrot that seemed stuck making a humming squawking sound.  They opened the magically sealed crate they previously located in the cargo hold and were horrified to find three perfectly preserved frozen heads.  Opened, the crate’s magic was dissipated, so they no longer had a way to keep the heads frozen.  They decided they would later use speak with dead once thawed to learn what they could. 

In the sail locker, they found a hand drawn map of an unknown star system with only a single planet.  Beneath a bed, they turned up a wooden unholy symbol of Umberlee.  Another room revealed a book of old sea shanties.  Komorebi recognized some as old versions of songs of which he is very familiar.  He was also able to read the journal of the former captain, Aric Shadowbane.  It contained various tidbits of information and possible clues. 

They discovered several other old things that seemed to have no real value or significance such as an old mug, a small silver compass, a feather quill, a worn leather belt, and a single left leather glove. 

The group unbolted the furnace helm from the ship and moved it over to The Perry as a spare.  Once back on the ship, they handed the mechanical parrot to the gnomes to repair and tried to secure the Kyuss loreworm they discovered earlier as safely as possible.