Game summary for June 25, 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), Notch Bowman (Human Fighter played by Andrew Renfrow), and Snagyndar Blackthorn (Huldran War Master played by Casey Scruggs). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons.
Twenty-four hours after leaving the derelict Ombre Émeraude behind, the group heard the sounds of teeth gnashing against bone from all over the ship. Most of the crew and party were paralyzed, and ghostly teeth materialized and began eating everyone! The three gnomish crew, Rick, Nick, and Vick, were slain in moments! Helg channeled positive energy, blasting the haunt, while Hekera consumed a mushroom drop to heal those around him with its aura. Snagy snatched up the swarmbane clasp they had brought over from the ship assuming it to be haunted, hung it around a ballista bolt, and fired it deep into the Phlogiston! The moment it passed beyond the air envelope, the haunts disappeared and paralyzed crew recovered.
The group nursed their wounds and decided to try to use raise dead on the gnomes while still in the Phlogiston instead of waiting until they reach Greyspace for fear that it would not work. Their gamble paid off, and they were able to use their scrolls and raise the fallen comrades.
They passed into Greyspace, just a day behind schedule, and Sailmaster Tuk plotted their location. They are 85 days from Ginsel, 82 days from The Spectre, 54 days from Greela, and they estimate they possess 45 to 55 days of breathable air remaining! They are starting to strategize on how to conserve oxygen. Also, they are pretty certain Wizzlecrank has reconnected with the illithid hive mind!
Game summary for June 18, 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 Komorebi (Kitsune Bard played by Josh Jenkins). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons.
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Beyond the galley, the team found the captain’s quarters, which had been ransacked. They found pages from her journal strewn all about, and Komorebi was able to piece enough together to learn of the terrible cannibalistic fate of the crew some forty years ago. They learned about a missing cabin boy named Roland, Captain Shadowblade, a helmsman named Matthias, ten other crew members, and some mysterious female named Iskra who seemed to be perhaps something not human from the clues in the journal.
Inside the captain’s storage area, they uncovered a human skull inscribed with blue draconic runes spelling out “Iskra.” After touching the skull, a shadowy figure appeared behind them and a female voice asked them to take her with them. They turned and found a beautiful platinum blonde woman with deep black empty eye sockets. Her long black robes covered her body, but her skeletal hands were visible. They spoke with her for a bit and learned this is Iskra, a nearly-three-hundred-year-old watchghost originally from Waterdeep. She warned them they should leave before the captain, now a ghost, confronted them. She also warned that the crew seemed to also still haunt the ship. They asked her about treasure aboard, and she indicated there is an amulet of some sort fallen down into a crack in the floorboards down below. They also asked her about Roland, and she told them he had hidden behind a loose board in the pantry, got stuck, and died. They looked and indeed found the cabin boy’s long dead corpse.
They went to investigate the stern castle and were attacked by the captain! She unleashed a frightful moan which sent Khesen into a panic! Unfortunately, he was carrying Iskra’s skull at the time and dropped it. It shattered on the floor, and the watchghost screamed and dissipated. The ghost captain tried to possess Helg first and failing that, attempted to possess Hekera. Helg channeled positive energy to blast the ghost while Hekera hacked away with his magical blade. They temporarily discorporated her and rushed into the hold to search for this amulet.
The group moved down into the dark hold and illuminated it with a light spell cast on a coin. Komorebi used his magical gloves to try and look through walls, finding the rooms pitch black. The slid illuminated coins under the doors so he could see. Inside a crew quarters, Hekera heard whispers, shivered, and became extraordinarily hungry. They found another room that from the cleaver and bloodstains seemed to be the room in which they dismembered the bodies of the crew as they consumed them. In a crack in the floor, they found a swarmbane clasp. Suddenly, the hold was filled with voices, and the faint outlines of the crew appeared in the dim light. Their teeth seemed to physically manifest, and Claude and Komorebi were mysteriously paralyzed! The teeth began rushing in and bite huge hunks of flesh from their bodies, and it seemed to disappear as if eaten, bite by bite!
The team tried to fight the teeth but could not affect them. The group began shoving healing mushrooms and potions down the throats of the paralyzed allies. Komorebi, paralyzed, was able to mentally contact Wizzlecrank who realized these were haunts but that Komorebi was unable to communicate. Wizzlecrank was able to contact Helg who began blasting channeled positive energy. Eventually, he blasted the haunt out of manifestation. The team grabbed their paralyzed allies, the amulet, and the fragments of Iskra’s skull and fled to The Perry. As the ship flew off further into the Phlogiston, Helg cast mending and restored the skull hoping it would perhaps allow Iskra to reform.
Game summary for June 4, 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), Komorebi (Kitsune Bard played by Josh Jenkins), Notch Bowman (Human Fighter played by Andrew Renfrow), and Snagyndar Blackthorn (Huldran War Master played by Casey Scruggs). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons.
The team was awakened in the night to screaming from the hamster wheel room. Flick (or was it Rick) was waiving a wrench in the direction of a wide-eyed, and quite nude, halfling woman who was in the hamster cage with one of the giant space hamsters. The other hamster was missing! After providing a robe, the team learned the woman, Tilly Tumblefur, was a werehamster! She actually was the missing hamster! She had been transformed into a werehamster by a wizard named Morlax in Realmspace. She had escaped and fled to Bral where she hid among the giant space hamsters and happened to be the one purchased by the party’s tinker gnomes. After talking for a while, they offered to allow her to join the crew if she would continue to serve as their motive power on the hamster wheel and take on the role of cook. She readily agreed and was given a hammock in the wheel room instead of having to sleep in the hamster cage.
Several days later, The Perry came out of spelljamming speed beside an old green squidship named the Ombre Émeraude. Atop the forecastle tools had been laid out in piles to spell out the word “Help.” The group immediately noticed, much to their chagrin, that the air was stagnant and old. It intermingled with their air, drastically cutting the amount of “safe” travel time available to the ship and crew. They saw a beautiful pale-skinned woman by the stairwell, and she turned and fled down into the bowels of the ship. The group crept out onto the ship and began to investigate. It was eerily quiet. They found the cargo bay doors open and the bay seemingly empty.
The group opened a door and found the ship’s galley filled with the bones of 11 humans. The bone piles were mostly stacked neatly, although a couple had toppled or been scattered. Hekera examined them and determined they had been piled orderly and respectfully. The bones had been separated though with neat cuts at the joints as if chopped apart by a large metal blade. Disturbingly, he also noticed human teeth marks on the bones. While within the galley, Snaggy and Khesen overheard a scratching sound followed by faint cries or screams. They opened a door and found what appeared to be the pantry, and it was completely empty. With dread, the party began to suspect perhaps a doomed crew had long ago resorted to cannibalism in an effort to survive!
