Game summary for December 29, 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.
Things seemed darker in the Pelisso Swamp since the party left. The sky was more overcast. The gloom was thick and oppressive. The biting insects seemed to bite more. The mud sucked at their feet. Flowers appeared withered. Animals seemed more feral. There was a sense of menace and doom all around.
They came across a dead deer lying and decaying in the tall grass. Flies buzzed and droned around the corpse. Suddenly, its eyelids opened, revealing sightless white orbs. The head jerked up at an unnatural angle, and the deer began laughing hysterically.
A pair of massive frogodiles came crashing out of the swamp in a frenzy. Charging behind them, maybe in pursuit or maybe just after the same meal, came rotting yet mobile corpses. Their flesh was bloated by the swamp moisture and heat and even ruptured in places. Maggots teemed and flies buzzed.
Herezis recognized the undead as deadites, bodies inhabited by otherworldly evil spirits that twist the bodies into a mockery of their former selves. These deadites were corrupted boggards that leapt into battle with cruel taunting and vicious teeth and claws. Skree moved into battle and sliced a piece of dead flesh off a deadite. The undead frogman seemed unconcerned by the injury. Piper cast quickened shield and mage armor and positioned Hammer in front of him for cover.
One of the bogbound hopper deadites used an unholy leap to close with the party while screaming, “Hop to it mortal! You’re late for your funeral!” One of the frogodiles tried to snatch Snagy with its sticky tongue but failed. Helg moved up and cast bane weapon on Ursay’s bow. Another hopper jumped into the fray yelling, “BOING! Right into your face!” A gurgling boggard deadite climbed upon a rock and proclaimed, “Gleh loves a screamer!” while unleashing a terrible cloak. Fortunately, none of the party succumbed to its effect.
Snagy summoned Stingy and activated battle tactics. Callum steamed up the area with an impressive empowered fireball. The other frogodile closed on Snagy and death rolled him to the ground! Ursay whipped out his baned bow and unleashed a flurry of arrows at the undead! Herezis found himself hemmed in between rocks, allies, and enemies, so he was unable to charge about. However, his lance gave him the reach to attack several foes.
The remaining boggard deadites came lurching in yelling phrases like “Time to gargle with doom!’ and “What’s that smell? Oh, it’s you!” Their sharp claws and teeth tore into the adventurers.
The deadites proved a resilient threat with the team hurling several big spells such as flame strike, scorching ray, and searing light into their ranks to wear them down. Much to the team’s dismay, the gurgling boggards exploded in a spray of acidic water when destroyed.
Skree and Snagy both found themselves contending with the frogodiles trying to eat them. This kept the reptiles busy while the rest of the team dealt with the deadites. They eventually were able to fend off the beasts, and the team defeated this onslaught.
In the aftermath, they built a crude raft and put the bodies of Finch, Hwrulf, and Hekera (brought back from the Forbidden City) upon it along with their furnace helm. They returned to Aratheas’ hut and found it deserted. The team decided to seek out Nada and see if he could tell them what is going on.
They found the odd goblin preparing to leave the swamp, and he encouraged the team to leave Helg behind and flee as well. He told them the vapors of his special veilroot pipeweed revealed Gleh is Helg but not Helg. Gleh is the source of the deadites; wherever he goes, evil spirits inhabit and animate the bodies of the dead. Nada told them Gleh will not rest until Helg is dead and Helg will not rest until Gleh is dead. They debated for a while but decided the faster they deal with Gleh the fewer undead he will have created.
They decided they would raise Hekera from the dead and set him up in Aratheas’ home to protect Professor Tormak as they go to rid the world of Gleh.
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