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Game summary for September 24, 2024, Chronoshift: Spelljammer campaign, Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, for Phoenix Gaming Club. Session included: Claude Dill Budshire (Sokari Sorcerer played by Peyton Harmon), Einar Ormsson (Human Fighter / Unchained Barbarian played by Paul Potter), 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 Snagyndar Blackthorn (Huldran War Master played by Casey Scruggs). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons.

Stuck in the sargasso, the team got to work trying to break free.  The group started hacking at vines, guiding the ship, and trying to scout a way through.  Komorebi inspired the team with bardic performance while Einar imbibed a potion of fly to get a better vantage.  He was able to guide them around a cloud of spores, but some of the team got grappled by carnivorous plants!  They shook them off with help from their allies.  A few minutes later, the party burst free of the plants and took off further into Greyspace!

About a week later, they came upon an amazing sight.  While passing close to a dazzling and immense nebula, they came across a pod of kindori, massive space whales.  Upon the backs of several were halfling howdahs!  A flag-waiving halfling used semaphore to indicate they were merchants.  Intrigued, the team approached and met with them.  They met trader Jorun Skyweaver, a potion maker named Baela Cloudsong, and the elder shaman, Mystic Yara.  The team shrewdly negotiated for a set of stardust elixirs for each of them and also bought a cloak for Notch.  They then joined the halflings for a feast and got to know them a bit.  The party learned many rumors and useful bits of information to help them in their journey!

Game summary for September 17, 2024, Chronoshift: Spelljammer campaign, Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, for Phoenix Gaming Club. Session included: Einar Ormsson (Human Fighter / Unchained Barbarian played by Paul Potter), 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 Notch Bowman (Human Fighter played by Josh Jenkins). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons.

The team packed up in Bonanza and headed out into space to continue their journey toward Ginsel.  They went about two days and the party’s ship slowed out of spelljamming speed, and they saw they were surrounded by bright green, leafy plant matter. Plant material was everywhere: ahead, behind, above, and below. It also seemed to be waving or moving within the cosmic winds, temporarily opening paths and closing others. It would have been exceedingly easy to get mired in such flotsam, perhaps permanently! The ship came to a halt, unable at that moment to move freely in any direction. Navigating this hazard was going to be quite the challenge.

The ship had come to rest against a shelf of plant material solid enough to serve as a floor. The adventurers could have jumped right off the ship and walked around if they had so desired.

But that was the least of their concerns. This plantscape was inhabited! Creatures were swarming over the plant and up to the ship. Never had they seen anything like these entities. Their primary feature, an enormous body, appeared to be composed of wrinkled brain matter. These brains seemed to float in mid-air, trailing what looked like ten long rubbery tentacles. A massive beak protruded from the front of the brain, but there were no obvious ears or eyes. The creatures carried short silver rods that occasionally emitted sparks of electricity as they approached. Bizarre alien clicking and squawking emerged from the beaks. After a moment, the party realized they were talking! But what they were saying was beyond their comprehension.

The creatures, which Komorebi identified as colonial grell, moved in quickly.  They blasted the party with lightning lances and a barrage of spells such as slow and flame strike.  Helg cast spiritual weapon, and Hekera climbed out onto the sargasso and advanced on a grell.  Moving slowly, Komorebi began inspiring his allies with his bardic performance and then cast dispel magic on the spell upon him.  Notch, also slow, started drawing forth a potion of haste.  Einar unleashed a volley of arrows into a grell, and Khesen advanced upon the same one and hit it repeatedly. 

Hekera tore into a grell but found it extraordinarily tough.  Despite his martial prowess, the beating he put upon it barely slowed it down.  Khesen was paralyzed by a grell, but Komorebi used a flourish to cancel the effect.  Notch was able to drink his potion and cancel the slow effect, which brought him back into the fight.  Another grell cast spike growth to hamper Hekera, but it had little effect.  In a nasty twist, Khesen was hit by a moonstruck spell and went utterly berserk!  He ripped into Helg and nearly killed him.  Only his celestial heritage which protected him from Khesen’s magical cold and acid effects kept him alive.  The Valhallan priest strategically retreated into the hold of The Perry to heal himself. 

Hekera struck down one grell while Einar killed another with his bow.  Komorebi unleashed an ear-piercing scream and killed the last grell!  The group quickly looted the bodies and then turned their attention to the next problem.  The Perry is firmly mired in the plant! 

Game summary for September 10, 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 party came upon an illuminated portion of the mine, likely once some sort of administrative or housing area. The rocks along the walls glowed with magical flames, probably continual light spells, casting flickering, moving shadows throughout the chamber. Bedrolls, cooking utensils, and other signs of a camp were scattered about. Toward the back of the chamber, a large metal-bound chest rested ominously.

A heavily armored man, wielding a greatsword, stood off to one side. They caught a glimpse of a dwarven pistolero—the same one they’d bumped into back in Bonanza! More lurked in the shadows along with a crossbow-wielding gnome.  A tall, scarred, and ugly man with a metallic lower jaw—Jeb—stood before them, gripping a morningstar in one hand and a pistol in the other. His expression was one of irritation. “You’re in my mine,” he said through his creaking jaw. Then, with a sudden shout, “Reapers, reap!” he bellowed.

Claude cast telekinetic charge and hurled Hekera through the air into the fray!  He grievously injured one of the dwarves with his sword.  The gnome unleashed a volley of screaming bolts at Hekera, and Jeb shot the gatorman with his pistol!  The sword-wielding brute priest cast prayer enhancing all his allies and negatively impacting the entire party.  Khesen and Notch brought the fight to the enemy, and Komorebi overshadowed the prayer with his bardic inspiration and warded himself with mirror image.  The dwarves starting shooting Hekera as well.  Snagy, astride his magical wasp, charged the priest and hurt him.  Helg cast a curative spell on Hekera who then stepped back and consumed a potion of enlarge person. 

Claude blasted Jeb with maximized shocking spark, hurting him badly.  The gnome kept firing on Hekera while Jeb tried to fight Khesen but missed him.  Khesen beat Jeb down with his martial arts.  Meanwhile, the brute priest stepped back and cast ring of blades.  Notch started dropping dwarves with his arrows and Komorebi quickly dispelled the priest’s ring of blades.  Snagy was then able to close in and hit the priest with more lance attacks.  Helg cured Hekera more while the gatorman began engaged with his enormous blade. 

Claude cast shrillfire and killed the brute priest.  Notch dropped the last of the dwarves and Komorebi cast ear-piercing shriek which defeated the gnome!

The team then looted the room and used Jeb’s key to unlock the chest.  It contained several magical weapons the team decided they could use!  They then decided to make the battlefield look like a cave-in killed all the outlaws.  They found their way to another exit, made came, and then traveled back to Bonanza. 

Game summary for September 3, 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.

The group realized the chamber was about to collapse, and so they fled down a corridor as debris and dust came crashing down behind them.  They roamed a bit until the came into a natural cavern occupied by three hook horrors!  Notch had initiative and fired three arrows that plinked off chitinous plates to no effect.  Claude cast manyjaws which was moderately effective against one of the brutes.  A raging hook horror grappled Snagy while Hekera consumed a potion of enlarge person.  Another hook horror approached while Helg cast righteous wrath of the faithful and Khesen attacked one of the monstrosities.  The third provoked an attack of opportunity from Hekera and was terribly injured. 

The hook horrors tried to grapple the melee warriors and take them out of the fight while more rocks fell upon the party, but it just wasn’t to be.  Arrows, spells, and melee strikes rained down upon the insectoid hook horrors, and they were unable to withstand against the team.  The group searched the room and found booted footprints leading down another path, and so they followed.