Game summary for May 6, 2025, Chronoshift: Spelljammer campaign, Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, for Phoenix Gaming Club. Session included: Callum Spellhardt (Human Sorcerer played by Parker Harmon), Finch Bloodrain (Half-Hobgoblin Slayer played by Peyton Harmon), Hekera Nephera Mawhesk Vyk’sebekenka (Sebek-ka Fighter played by Preston Harmon), Helg Ingvar (Aasimar Cleric played by Chris Harmon), Hwrulf (Human Unchained Barbarian played by Paul Potter), 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 slipped into Drenk’s and let their eyes slowly adjust to the gloom. The smell was not as terrible as the party had imagined. The floor and walls were stained from years of gruesome work. Ropes and pulleys ran through the building, and an extensive network of sharp meat hooks dangled from the ceiling, posing a serious threat to anything taller than a man. Heavy hammers rested in a rack, their handles well worn by hands long accustomed to swinging and crushing the skulls of livestock.
The smell of death was intermingled with another odor—the acrid scent of brimstone. Something rattled in the darkness. An enormous shape pushed through the meat hooks, completely unfazed by their presence. The monstrosity was humanoid in shape but nearly twice the height of a man. Grotesque red skin covered its muscular frame, and great horns swept out from either side of its head. A bloodstained apron covered its torso. In one beefy hand, it clutched the largest cleaver the adventurers had ever seen. Trailing along in the other hand was a whip of chains and barbed hooks. A deep, otherworldly voice gleefully exclaimed, “Fresh meat!”
From the shadows emerged more demonic creatures. A great featured vulture-like demon, a vrock, stalked out of a corner. Deep mooing sounds echoed through the chamber as Abyssal bullfiends, bipedal demon cows, armed with halberds approached across the blood-slicked floor. One of the bullfiends unleashed a cattle call, frightening several of the party. The butcher, a flayreaver demon, whipped its barbed chain in arc to entangle Notch! It dragged the terrified man to its side and hacked him to pieces with its cleaver! His contingent raise dead brought him back to life just long enough to experience the exquisite fatal mortification of his flesh at the gentle blade of the butcher twice. The demon hung his dismembered parts from the meat hooks!
Hekera engaged the vrock and was infested with spores before it teleported to engage Helg and Snagy. Callum terrified by the bullfiends cast dimension door and had his scorching ray fail against the demons’ spell resistance. Helg tried to cast flame strike but lost his spell after taking a brutal hit. Finch darted out, nimbly sliding across the blood, after two of the bullfiends. He tripped one to the ground and brutalized it before its companion sundered his scythe! The demon then sundered his armor leaving him unarmed and defenseless! Hwrulf entered a rage and tore into the demons with glee. The mighty sword of Wayland was not particularly effective against the demon flesh, but Hwrulf hit them with it relentlessly, causing massive damage through sheer stubborn determination.
Snagy and Stingy were forced to stay near the floor and creeping along to avoid the meat hooks. Snagy landed blow after blow with his lance, but the demonic flesh proved too resilient for several of the attacks to deal significant harm. Even still, he managed to slip the lance through the defenses of one bullfiend and slaughter it on the killing floor.
Hekera, sprouting demonic vines growing through his flesh, attacked the flayreaver demon and delt a solid blow. The two fought for a moment, but Hekera proved too deadly and killed the powerful fiend. Meanwhile, Hwrulf repositioned and killed both an Abyssal bullfiend and a vrock. Callum blasted away with a cold-augmented lightning bolt and Helg narrowly avoided setting the building on fire with a flame strike! Finch bashed away with his flail before being critically injured and left dying on the floor. Hekera killed the other bullfiend, and Helg channeled positive energy just in time to save Finch’s life.
The group looked at what remained of Notch and decided they could do nothing for him. Hwrulf distributed some potions to Finch while Helg quickly cast a number of mending spells to repair Snagy’s damaged and Finch’s destroyed equipment. Finch was soon outfitted with armor and scythe again, although their magical enchantment was lost.
The group nursed a few wounds and realized they needed to spell up before heading downstairs to see if they can rescue Adeline. Maybe no one heard the crack of thunder from the lighting bolt, the fanatical mooing, the crash of the flaming strike, the gleeful roaring of Hwrulf, or the butcher’s rattling chains. Yeah, I bet the enemies are about to suffer a surprise round…
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