Game summary for March 24, 2026, Chronoshift: Spelljammer campaign, Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, for Phoenix Gaming Club. Session included: Callum Spellhardt (Human Sorcerer played by Parker Harmon), Hekera Nephera Mawhesk Vyk’sebekenka (Sebek-ka Fighter played by Preston Harmon), Helg Ingvar (Aasimar Cleric played by Chris Harmon), Polaris Helmsmeade (Dwarf Templar 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.
Their galleon ship, The Shooting Star, came out of spelljamming speed upon a bizarre sight. A tiny planetoid covered in dirt, rock, and a few scattered plants tumbled slowly through space, sweeping them up into its gravity plane and air envelope. A battered Viking drakkar was anchored to the rock, hovering slightly above it and clearly equipped for spelljamming. Scattered across the ground lay the destroyed remnants of older vessels.
Shouts of rage and pain rang out as a brutal battle unfolded before them. Trolls poured from the mouth of a cave, clashing with the strangest group of dwarves they had ever seen. There were half a dozen or more of them, mighty warriors who wore little in the way of armor and carried well-worn weapons, mostly axes. A few wielded torches, swinging them with fervor at the snarling giants.
The dwarves bore bright orange and red mohawks and fought like berserkers. Their axes tore limbs from the giants as they pressed forward, but more trolls continued to emerge. Even this impressive band of dwarves did not seem likely to withstand the tide for long. Several were already wounded. Some had lost their weapons, left embedded in the fast-knitting flesh of the trolls.
What the dwarves were fighting for remained unclear. What the trolls were protecting was a mystery. And among the wreckage of shattered ships, there might yet be something of value.
Hekera quaffed his second-to-last potion of enlarge person and grew to massive crocodile-man proportions, his equipment magically increasing in size as well! Polaris leapt from The Shooting Star onto the planetoid to the cheers of the fighting dwarves. They called out welcoming him to the fray. A female red-haired dwarven slayer stood upon a rock swinging a two-handed hammer at a troll, and an older dwarven slayer with a tall bright orange mohawk slashed away at a troll further away. He oddly seemed to relish every hit the trolls landed. Some of the trolls snatched up dwarves and ripped them in half! Much to the shock of the party, the dwarves seemed to celebrate with each death. Callum charred one troll with all three rays from his scorching ray spell.
With most of the party still grouped together, Helg cast blessing of fervor upon them while Ursay fired numerous arrows into green troll flesh. Snagy summoned forth Stingy from his figurine of wondrous power and mounted the giant wasp while retrieving his magical lance from his glove of storing. The giff began aiming the ship’s catapult into the fray.
Hekera attacked a troll, and his sword stuck in its flesh! The troll ripped the sword from his grip, its flesh growing around it and partially absorbing it! Polaris killed a troll and Callum cast a fireball into the fray. Helg dropped a flame strike after casting bane weapon on Ursay’s bow. One of the trolls tried to leap into the air and rip Snagy and Stingy from the sky but tripped over the edge of the Drakkar and fell prone within. Snagy then charged with his lance across the battlefield to hit a different troll. The giff fired the catapult and blew one troll off the island!
Several dwarves died in the melee, but the combined might of the dwarves and the party killed all the trolls. The party learned these dwarves have taken the oath of the slayer and are seeking fearsome foes in order to earn an honorable death in battle. They honored their dead and then boarded their ship to leave.
The group explored the wrecked ships. They believed the wreckage comprised two ships, perhaps three. The unmistakable insect-like hull of one was clearly elven. It bore damage from siege weaponry, fire, and great gouges that looked like claw marks. A fragment of the ship was emblazoned with a name in Elven, Lightbearer Vigil.
The other vessel was crude, constructed from the bones of some enormous beast and felled logs. They could only imagine the hulk had been nearly non-maneuverable, serving more as a transport than a warship. Even so, an enormous catapult, now destroyed, had clearly been mounted upon it. Thick ropes bound the two ships together.
Studying the shattered hulls, they suspected the vessels had been locked in a brutal boarding action when both crashed headlong into the small planetoid. The casualties must have been tremendous. If the trolls had been aboard the monstrous vessel, however, their regenerative abilities might have allowed some to recover.
Digging through the wreckage, they uncovered a burned fragment of the elven captain’s log. They were able to make out references to “overly strong goblins” and what seemed to be a reorganization among the unhuman races. The journal mentioned reports of ships full of unhumans organizing in Krynnspace and beyond. The elves had been searching for evidence of a new leader or force rallying their ancient enemies.
Among the shattered bones and trunks of the other vessel, they unearthed a preserved but damaged piece of hide or skin. It appeared to be dwarven, marked with writing scrawled in old blood. The language was Giant, and they could decipher portions of it. It seemed to be a set of orders. The trolls had been instructed to meet with the Armistice goblins in Greyspace and aid them in locating and protecting a tablet fragment. They were then to return with it to Krynnspace with all haste. The orders appeared to have come from someone calling themselves Overcaptain Skraag.
Puzzling over this, Ursay then explored the caves. The caves were natural but not very deep. Claw marks revealed that the trolls had been carving them out, widening the chambers. Scattered throughout the caverns were gnawed and cracked bones, elven by the look of them. The party estimated that at least two dozen individual skeletons lay strewn about. The trolls had not been here long, they believed. Perhaps only a few weeks or a month at most.
The group pondered their newly discovered information while collecting up several valuable gems and magical items Ursay found in the cave.
