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Game summary for September 30, 2025, Chronoshift: Spelljammer campaign, Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, for Phoenix Gaming Club. Session included: Adeline Tormak (Human Magus played by Andrew Renfrow), Callum Spellhardt (Human Sorcerer played by Parker Harmon), Helg Ingvar (Aasimar Cleric played by Chris Harmon), Herezis Tahriol (Mongrelfolk Paladin played by Preston Harmon), Skree Grizzlehide (Mongrelfolk Gladiator played by Peyton Harmon), Snagyndar Blackthorn (Huldran War Master played by Casey Scruggs), and Ursay (Mongrelfolk Slayer played by Paul Potter). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons.

The team traveled further through the caverns beneath the Forbidden City getting close to what they hoped would be the yuan-ti temple district.  They met up with a dinosaur-riding mongrelfolk paladin named Herezis, and he joined them on their quest.  They came upon a chamber that was dark but loud. A waterfall cascaded down into a shadowy chasm. The adventuring party estimated it plunged a few hundred feet into the darkness. Strange purple stones were embedded in the cavern walls. The chasm splitting the chamber was crossed by a single wooden bridge. A smaller chamber opened to the north, and a pool of calm water rested within. A large mound filled with sickly green insect eggs sat on the far side of the chamber.

Ugly giants moved about the chamber, apparently trying to harvest the eggs. They were all smeared with some kind of liquid or goo. Several were ogres, vicious, stupid, man-eating brutes. Some carried slings and others crude axes. Towering over all the rest was a massive, deformed giant. Its limbs were twisted and misshapen, and it had one terrible eye that was much larger than the other. It wore no armor and carried an enormous club. Faintly, barely audible over the crash of water, was a clacking and chittering sound seemingly coming from holes and fissures in the rocks, ceiling, and floor.

The giants looked at the pile of barely edible eggs. Then they looked at the group. They smiled hungry smiles.

Ursay launched a barrage of arrows at the nearest ogres, and Adeline enhanced herself with magic.  The fomorian doomcaller leapt across the yawning chasm and thrashed about with its greatclub.  Its evil eye was staggering and sickening, affecting some of the team with its baleful gaze. 

Callum cast fiery spells of destruction like scorching ray and fireball but suffered several devastating injuries.  Helg used channeling to keep the team bolstered and alive.  Snagy rallied the team and eliminated the sickened effect. 

Suddenly, large insects skittered out from holes and cracks spraying sticky entangling resin and biting and stinging.  They avoided the giants (the team later learned it was due to the goo covering the giants) but accosted the party. 

Adeline killed the fomorian, and several of the ogres were slain.  An ogre ripped the bridge from its moorings and tossed it into the chasm.  This was no problem for Herezis, though.  He charged and enlarged his lance, spearing the giant!  Snagy and Stingy flew across the chasm, and soon the team had mopped up the monsters.  The insects settled down, and the team looted the bodies. 

They then explored the northern chamber with the pool of water.  A beautiful fey creature emerged, healed half the party and disappeared. 

Game summary for September 23, 2025, Chronoshift: Spelljammer campaign, Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, for Phoenix Gaming Club. Session included: Callum Spellhardt (Human Sorcerer played by Parker Harmon), Einar Ormsson (Human Fighter / Unchained Barbarian played by Preston Harmon), Helg Ingvar (Aasimar Cleric played by Chris Harmon), Piper Quickstep (Human Druid-Mage played by John Osborne), Skree Grizzlehide (Mongrelfolk Gladiator played by Peyton Harmon), and Ursay (Mongrelfolk Slayer played by Paul Potter). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons.

The group continued through the caverns and came across another bugbear patrol attempting to ambush the party!  Einar noticed the bugbears slinking in and alerted the team!  The deadly bugbears swarmed in with their sword spider companions.  The spiders stabbed and bit, but only Helg was envenomated.  The majority of the initial attacks went against Helg, which forced him into a tactical retreat.  Callum was badly injured by a spider as well and used dimension door to get out of immediate danger.  Piper cast several protections around himself and then unleashed disintegrate and quickened stone discus.  Einar got tripped and ended up tripping a bugbear as well.  However, the flanking monsters slew him on the ground.

Skree’s inability to be flanked kept him from suffering a similar fate.  He was able to brutally injure bugbears while Ursay planted multiple arrows into enemies.  Callum cast multiple offensive spells, including fireball, lightning bolt, and Dalamar’s lightning lance.  Piper made him even more effective by cloaking him in greater invisibility before summoning twinning mad monkeys himself.  The bugbear blade priest closed in on Helg as the rampager pressed in on Ursay, driving them down a narrow channel.  One of the sword spiders jumped up on the rocks and began driving his spear-like blades down into them.  Helg grabbed Ursay, and both rolled under the spider as Helg called down a flame strike right on top of themselves!  Protected by the enormous spider, they laughed with delight as the holy flames burned their enemies to death.  Although it was an extremely tough fight, the party did prevail!    

Game summary for September 16, 2025, Chronoshift: Spelljammer campaign, Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, for Phoenix Gaming Club. Session included: Callum Spellhardt (Human Sorcerer played by Parker Harmon), Einar Ormsson (Human Fighter / Unchained Barbarian played by Preston Harmon), Komorebi (Kitsune Bard played by Josh Jenkins), Skree Grizzlehide (Mongrelfolk Gladiator played by Peyton Harmon), Snagyndar Blackthorn (Huldran War Master played by Casey Scruggs), and Ursay (Mongrelfolk Slayer played by Paul Potter). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons.

Following the brutal battle, the team went to ground and nursed their wounds.  Snagy found the mongrelfolk and befriended several.  He soon recruited two, a gladiator named Skree and an slayer named Ursay, to join their adventures.  Einar and Komorebi caught up with the group, and they plotted their next steps. 

The mongrelfolk shared some information, and they decided to make a push deeper into the city to try and find the tablet.  They slipped into the mongrelfolk caverns because it has fewer bugbear patrols than the city above.  The group made great progress through the caves before they came upon a group of bugbears. 

Battle erupted quickly.  Komorebi immediately began a performance, inspiring his allies!  His rally was instrumental throughout the skirmish.  The sword-wielding bugbear slaughterists and axe-swinging bugbear rampagers gleefully closed in, taunting the group as they came.  Callum unleashed scorching ray to scald bugbear hide.  Ursay popped up and rained death from the shadows with his bow, delighting in the carnage inflicted upon the oppressors.  The bugbear bladepriest cast field of razors, which littered the cavern floor with caltrops.  It then moved in and disappeared into the shadows. 

Skree proved his battlefield prowess with his mighty macuahuitl.  He devastated a bugbear and caused a bleeding wound the likes of which the team had never seen!  Einar advanced and displayed a dizzying flurry of spinning axes.  He ripped the feet out from under a bugbear, causing allies to hammer down upon it.  Snagyndar moved up and throttled a foe only to get surprised by the hiding bladepriest.  He hit him with a poisoned and diseased spiked gauntlet, and the foul poison burned through Snagy’s veins!  He was weakened by the toxin but kept fighting. 

The bugbears fought hard but found themselves in several unfortunate situations.  The team was able to capitalize on these and sway the fight in their direction early on.  The new mongrelfolk team members proved their worth early, and in a few moments, all the bugbears had been slain.

Game summary for September 9, 2025, Chronoshift: Spelljammer campaign, Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, for Phoenix Gaming Club. Session included: Adeline Tormak (Human Magus played by Andrew Renfrow), 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), Piper Quickstep (Human Druid-Mage played by John Osborne), and Snagyndar Blackthorn (Huldran War Master played by Casey Scruggs). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons.

Piper cast dimension door to move him and Hammer way out of the fight.  Snagy dismissed Stingy to escape the wasps and fell prone (but invisible).  He remained still as several foes rushed past him.  Adeline was mostly undetected and was able to fall back, but Callum was clearly visible and struck with multiple attacks.  He eventually fell to the ground, and an invisible Helg flew over and touched him with a heal spell.  Adeline cast ghost sound and convinced a handful of Scarlet Brotherhood monks a small army of behtu approached! 

Finch was hemmed in and pummeled while numerous monks tripped and grappled Hwrulf.  He killed a couple of the monks before they pinned him.  Hekera was hit by attack after attack.  Snagy rallied the team, but it was too little too late.  Hekera was slain by the swarm of monks.  Moments later, Piper noticed a horrifying fact.  Like they had seen them do earlier, the Scarlet Brotherhood had held back a small portion of their forces who arrived as reinforcements.  The fresh enemies ran in and beat Piper unconscious and killed Finch.  Hwrulf held out a little longer but was finally beaten to death as well. 

Callum escaped with dimension door, and Piper’s wolf, Hammer, picked up his master and fled.  Adeline ran alongside Hammer trying to get away.  Helg sent an earth elemental, summoned from a magic gem, among the monks and flew off following Hammer.  Meanwhile, Snagy (also invisible) was able to slip out the other side of the battlefield and ran away seeking to find a way down into the mongrelfolk tunnels hoping to find shelter among them.  The last any of the party saw, the monks were dragging the slain PCs together into the street. 

Game summary for September 2, 2025, Chronoshift: Spelljammer campaign, Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, for Phoenix Gaming Club. Session included: Adeline Tormak (Human Magus played by Andrew Renfrow), 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), Piper Quickstep (Human Druid-Mage played by John Osborne), and Snagyndar Blackthorn (Huldran War Master played by Casey Scruggs). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons.

The group began interrogating the captured member of the Scarlet Brotherhood.  They did not get his name.  They confirmed the Scarlet Brotherhood was in the Forbidden City seeking the tablet.  They learned the Brotherhood had been making assaults against the bugbears but kept getting driven back.  They were also skirmishing with the vicious behtu attacking from the jungle.  The rank and file were tired and discouraged and hoping to leave.  However, failure would result in their deaths.  The man told them were to find the Brotherhood camp and that Professor Tormak is there.  As the only person living to see the tablet, they need him to identify it.  They decided to scout out the Brotherhood, and Snagy killed the defenseless prisoner.  Adeline cast greater invisibility and went running in the direction of the camp, only to become visible a minute later. 

The group attempted stealth, but Helg’s gleaming armor caught the light and the attention of the entire Scarlet Brotherhood camp!  The group scurried into a nearby building as the monks came leaping across rooftops and surrounded the team.  The group roped themselves together and cast invisibility on everyone via a wand.  They then tried to tiptoe down the street away from the monks, but the alert martial artists heard them and trailed them a while before completely surrounding them. 

Battle erupted with the team invisible, which proved critical.  The monks were uncertain the exactly location of the team.  Piper revealed himself by casting, and the monks hurled shuriken at him in bulk.  Still being invisible, most missed, but he still suffered many damaging hits.  Hwrulf attacked and became visible, drawing attackers, as did Hekera.  The monks swarmed in.  Adeline hit with several arrows, Finch tripped and savaged another, and Callum blasted one dead.  Snagy summoned Stingy and sent him into the air, which proved the wasps will attack airborne foes.  Helg quaffed a whisk away admixture and invisibly flew over to heal Piper.  However, unable to see him, he missed him with the spell!  The team was now surrounded and hard pressed by the Scarlet Brotherhood.  Can they fight their way out?