Game summary for December 9, 2025, Chronoshift: Spelljammer campaign, Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, for Phoenix Gaming Club. Session included: Callum Spellhardt (Human Sorcerer played by Parker Harmon), Helg Ingvar (Aasimar Cleric played by Chris Harmon), Herezis Tahriol (Mongrelfolk Paladin played by Preston Harmon), Piper Quickstep (Human Druid-Mage played by John Osborne), 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.
Ursay quaffed his final potion of invisibility and scouted ahead. Awhile later he returned befuddled and babbling. Helg helped him shake it off a bit, and they learned he had come across a room with serpent statues with glowing red eyes. They caused confusion and disorientation. The group proceeded with caution and found the room filled with movable tiles and glyphs and those disorienting statues. They tried to decipher the puzzle as an incorporeal spirit attacked! They fought it back and solved the puzzle, which opened a way down deeper into the complex!
The team entered the temple’s inner sanctum and found time running askew. Things seemed to happen in reverse order, and the fastest among the team found themselves operating the slowest. They engaged in violence against several yuan-ti, including another ignan and a new foe, a darkfang apostle! The apostle, an oracle of Cthulhu unleashed magical curses which drastically impacted the team’s capabilities. Fortunately, Snagy was able to use battle tactics to keep the team from succumbing too deeply to the negative effects as long as they stayed relatively close. The writhebow cultists were mostly a nuisance rather than a real threat. The thrallcoil sentinel and ignan, however, provided quite effective in melee.
The team was appalled to learn the darkfang apostle could manipulate time in this room! Repeatedly the team would slay a yuan-ti only for the apostle to bring it back as some kind of dark revenant and continue the fight! Callum and Piper bopped around the room with dimension door spells. Skree and Herezis held the front line while Snagy and Stingy flew out to try and fight the apostle. Helg, depleted of most of his spells, contributed healing and battle rage. Callum and Piper both ended up with deadly foes near them during the battle and paid a steep price in blood. Piper even suffered a mangled limb due to the apostle’s spellcasting. Ursay struck enemies over and over with precise arrows.
The twin lances of Herezis and Snagy proved very effective, especially with Stingy able to fly. Piper fell back and cast release the hounds which harried the enemy caster. Skree held his own against some particularly skilled yuan-ti, and Herezis narrowly avoided his mount being tripped out from under him. One of Callum’s spells, scorching ray, was ineffective against the yuan-ti ignan. However, he did greatly help the team by dispelling yet another darkness effect.
Piper put more pressure on the caster with a second casting of release the hounds. His triumphant moment came, however, with two stone discuses slamming into and slaying the darkfang apostle! The team cut down the revenants, again, and took control of the room! They quickly found a hidden panel and revealed the tablet fragment! Handling it caused scenes to play out in their minds, revealing much (little of it good) about the history of the tablet and the Witchlight Marauders!
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