Game summary for January 20, 2026, 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), and Skree Grizzlehide (Mongrelfolk Gladiator played by Peyton Harmon). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons.
Thick, cloying fog rolled across the reeking waters of the Pelisso Swamp as the trail led the party into a clearing ringed by bent trees and sickly reeds. The stench of decay was overwhelming, a vile cocktail of swamp gas, old blood, and something far fouler.
At the center of the mire rose a mound of shattered tree and mud, the remnants of an ancient shrine now warped beyond recognition and grown into a tree covered in screaming faces. Lurking in the muck around it were tall wooden poles, each crowned with a writhing corpse, skin stretched tight over twisted bones. Their heads jerked and twitched as they chanted in unison, backward and broken: “Nikto… Klaatu… Gleeeeeeh…”
The words crawled under their skin like centipedes. Each syllable pulsed with black energy, floating motes of darkness that drifted through the air like ash. The chanting grew louder, faster. The mud began to bubble.
They felt it in their teeth. A summoning was near. Something was coming, unless they stopped it.
The team quickly used their knowledge and other skills to attempt to disrupt the growing power of Gleh. The swamp reacted, releasing maddening disharmony causing the team’s minds to reel with confusion, and noxious gas bubbled up making them sick. Despite the hazards, the group overcame the ritual. This broke some of Gleh’s power in the swamp making necromantic energy less effective.
A skeletal deadite with glowing blue eyes emerged from the swamp. It wore dirty, wizardly robes and carried a staff made of vertebrae topped with a human skull. A palpable aura of decay and death radiated from it, and boggard deadites accompanied it.
The boggards engaged the team while the necro-mite spellcaster yelled “I studied death so hard I aced it!” and cast stinking cloud. Skree rushed to fight the boggards as Adeline cast haste. Helg unleashed positive energy, ravaging the undead. Callum followed it with a fierce fireball. Herezis put his lance to work.
Adeline fell victim to the stinking cloud, and most of the rest of the team fell victim to mass curse of impending blades. The boggard deadites were slaughtered by Skree and Helg’s blades, but the necro-mite caused the team frustration. Herezis got hit by its spine staff and was shocked by the wallop it dealt. Helg tried to heal his allies with a channel positive energy near the undead, and it usurped it and turned it into negative energy! As it tried to disappear into the stinking cloud, Skree struck it down!
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