Game summary for October 14, 2025, Chronoshift: Spelljammer campaign, Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, for Phoenix Gaming Club. Session included: Callum Spellhardt (Human Sorcerer played by Parker Harmon), Herezis Tahriol (Mongrelfolk Paladin played by Preston Harmon), Piper Quickstep (Human Druid-Mage played by John Osborne), and Ursay (Mongrelfolk Slayer played by Paul Potter). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons.
The group found a safe place to encamp in mongrelfolk caverns and rested and recovered spells. They then traveled to the cave exit to emerge upon the streets of the yuan-ti temple district. Under the cover of invisibility, Ursay scouted around and heard some bugbears talking at the door of some building. He noted this portion of the city to be in better repair and covered in a snake motif.
He slinked back to the party waiting in the stairwell leading down into the subterranean chambers. Callum used a wand to render everyone invisible. They spread out and ambushed the bugbears with Ursay’s precise arrows leading the way. The bugbears were caught completely by surprise and massacred by an onslaught of arrows, fireball, stone discuses, and a charging paladin! The building seemed to be some kind of ritual location. It contained a pit of coals with a swinging bridge spanning across. Two yuan-ti were on the other side, and they carried the fight over to the party. One was purple with a great split tail instead of legs, horns, and radiant heat. The other looked nearly human. The yuan-ti ignan hit Herezis with a terrible blow, but it was slain by Ursay’s arrows. Herezis then killed the thrallcoil sentinel.
With the defenders slain, the party crept into the building, and Callum and Ursay crossed the bridge. On the far side, they examined a strange lever. Callum cast detect magic and sensed overwhelming transmutation magic in the room. Ursay examined the walls and murals depicting snakes consuming humans. He sought traps and trapdoors but found none. Finding nothing of immediate danger, the two of them pulled the lever which caused a low hum to resonate from the surrounding stonework. Then, with a flash of violet-black energy and a deep thrum like a heartbeat, a pulse of writhing darkness flooded the room, phasing through solid stone and flesh alike. The air grew heavy, humid, ripe with serpentine musk. Something deep in their blood… twisted. After a bit of detect magic, detect evil, and numerous knowledge checks, the team determined Ursay and Callum had been afflicted with some kind of curse. Their best guess is it is a form of the curse that first created the yuan-ti. They believe the two are cursed to transform into yuan-ti themselves! Unsure how to break the curse (dispel magic did nothing), they decided they must consult the priests of the Maw That Remembers! They fled back to the mongrelfolk tunnels to find Herezis’ fellow clergy for assistance.
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