Game summary for July 29, 2017, Ruins of Undermountain campaign, Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, for Harm Incorporated. Session included: Boran Gibbs (Human Cleric played by Chris Harmon), Kalil Bakran (Human Sorcerer played by Parker Harmon), Paddy Brandywine (Halfling Bard played by Preston Harmon), and Rumbald Shieldcracker (Dwarf Ranger played by Peyton Harmon). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons.
The group stumbled out of Trobriand’s Graveyard but soon found themselves in some dark corner of Undermountain filled with aberrations and other horrors. The team discovered a chamber filled with beholders as a portcullis slammed down behind them! With few choices the team engaged and found the beholders exploded when hit! These were gas spores! Moments later they learned it was a mix of gas spores and zombie beholders. The floating orbs moved in as the team unleashed blasts of area of effect spells. The ceiling was layered with loose bricks, though, so each explosion caused rubble to fall upon the party and their enemies, causing gas spores to explode, causing more bricks to fall, and so on. In the end, the team took more damage from the bricks than anything else. Searching the room, they found a real treasure, a figurine of wondrous power (glass walrus)!
The party progressed through another door and found themselves in a torture room occupied by two displacer beasts! The six-legged felines rose up and waived their tentacles in annoyance. The group charged in and found the displacer beasts a pain to hit! Kalil learned the hard way that the iron maiden in the room was actually an iron maiden golem! It tried to grapple him and gobble him up, but he used dimension door to get to safety and fire off scorching ray at the displacer beasts. Boran was the next target of the iron maiden golem’s grappling attempts, but he cast righteous might to become too large to eat! He began pounding the thing as his team layered buffing spells upon him once they killed the displacer beasts. Soon, it was reduced to a battered mound of metal.
The next chamber proved to be some kind of dark shrine or chapel to cosmic horrors beyond time and space. A number of vampiric cloakers hung on the wall trying to disguise themselves, but the team noticed them. The creatures tried to engulf all the party, but several were able to fight them off, and the team took them down with little trouble. They did find a rare treasure, a fully charged wand of voidmote! This obscure cleric spell promised some interesting options in a future battle.
Finally, the team entered a room that may have once been consecrated to Bhaal, god of murder. Two owlbears and a gorgon had been held in stasis, and they surged to life as the team entered. The owlbears proved little challenge to the team’s deadly blades, but the gorgon petrified Paddy and Kalil! Rumbald and Boran battered the creature viciously, but it critically gored Rumbald. Paddy and Kalil shook off the petrification, and just in time! The gorgon breathed on them again! However, the team was able to land several more telling blows and slay the creature. The group was able to recover a great treasure, a +2 sharding undead-bane bastard sword!
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