Game summary for December 16, 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), 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.
The team decided they had to rest to recover resources. Ursay led them out and slipped the group past a bugbear and yuan-ti patrol and back down into the mongrelfolk tunnels. He then helped them find a very well-hidden alcove where they were able to rest and recover even though hostile creatures moved through nearby caverns. They then went and consulted with the mongrelfolk to learn what news they had regarding the Scarlet Brotherhood. The team conceived a plan to negotiate a temporary peace with the behtu like they heard the mongrelfolk and Scarlet Brotherhood had done. They purchased five scrolls of tongues from the mongrelfolk so they could speak with behtu, who only speak the language of the apes.
The group went to a meeting spot and laid out magic weapons to negotiate a truce. Several behtu arrived led by an emaciated, sinewy behtu witch doctor with matted, blood-caked fur and ceremonial body paint in spiraling patterns. His yellowed tusks were capped in bronze, and he smelled of herbs, smoke, and rot. Strange bones dangle from his staff, which burned with greenish fire. A necklace of severed human ears hung around his neck.
The half-crazed demon-worshipping ape, Ghaz’tul the Smoke-Eater, was twitchy and erratic. He laughed and howled inappropriately, often scratched his bare rump, and was all together unpleasant and unhinged.
Helg used tongues and his touch of glory to negotiate peace with Ghaz’tul in exchange for a mountain of magical weapons taken from defeated bugbears and yuan-ti. They then proposed the behtu break their treaty with the Scarlet Brotherhood in exchange for more weapons. The demonic witch-doctor loved the idea of betrayal and bloodshed, and in exchange for even more weapons, agreed. The bloodthirsty behtu wanted to engage immediately, and so as to not give time for the demon apes to betray them, the party agreed.
With the behtu and a great ape thundering alongside, they went crashing into the remnants of the Scarlet Brotherhood camp! Callum and Ghaz’tul cast fireball spells while the behtu ragefiends and flesheaters raged and charged. Skree, Snagy, and Herezis rushed in as well. Ursay fired arrows at the monks, but many missiles were swatted from the air. The enormous great ape ripped the dome from a fountain and hurled it as a missile weapon, crushing a Scarlet Brotherhood monk in a sudden field of broken rubble! The team stood somewhat shocked at the ape’s display of power while Ghaz’tul cackled with glee.
The leader of this group of the Scarlet Brotherhood, a woman armed with a bladed polearm, was annoyed at the betrayal but leapt into the fray. She proved incredibly tough and skilled with her blade. She cut down one behtu with a flurry of slashing cuts. As monks fell under the combined forces of the party and the behtu, the leader was slowly surrounded. Ursay hit her with an arrow, and the great ape tried unsuccessfully to smash her under a chunk of rubble. She seemed unrattled and used a whirlwind attack to absolutely rip into her assailants including Snagy and Skree! Helg came around a corner and cast hold person, which paralyzed the woman! They fell upon her, disarming and binding her quickly.
They then searched the nearby ruined houses and discovered Professor Tormak, bound and beaten! They freed and healed him, as well as themselves and their behtu “allies.” He told them the woman they captured was “Uncle” Izdreth, which seems to be some kind of title among the Brotherhood. The team learned the Scarlet Brotherhood had traded the bodies and equipment of the fallen party members to the behtu for a temporary peace treaty!
Helg spoke with Ghaz’tul and learned they had taken the party’s equipment to “the Big King” deeper in the jungle but were slowly consuming the corpses of Hekera, Hwrulf, and Finch! Helg was able to negotiate a trade of Uncle Izdreth in exchange for the bodies. Ghaz’tul made it very clear he would sacrifice Izdreth to his foul demon lord. The team shrugged and went with the behtu to retrieve the bodies. They found they had severed Hekera’s tail and were cooking it over a fire! The witch doctor invited them to stay for the sacrifice, which they declined. With the bodies of their allies collected, they headed back to Xuxulieto and the portal heading back to the Pelisso Swamp.
Once back in the city, they got turned around and found themselves on a street filled with statues of mongrelmen, bugbears, and even a few yuan-ti. Some statues nearby moved! No, grey-skinned eyeless humanoids were lurking among them and came out to engage! From behind a broken wall, a giant began to emerge! Its head peaked around the stones, and it wobbled unsteadily. It bobbled and jerked. Something was wrong. It surged out, not a giant, just a giant’s head! A head sitting atop eight enormous snakes. The snake heads writhed, and the long bodies trailed up into what would be the giant’s neck. It was like an octopus with the giant’s head as its body, and serpents for tentacles. The creature approached, multiple serpentine tongues flicking out tasting the air. Around it, the eyeless men fell in and advanced.
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