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Game summary for April 12, 2016, Savage! campaign, for Phoenix Gaming Club. Session included: Blazing Sun (Kau Human Sage played by Kaliegh Belda), Night Watcher (Ogre Martial Artist played by Casey Scruggs), and Singing Mammoth (Elf Soldier played by Taylor Averdick). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons.

The team finally arrived at Coatlnahualli and ducked inside to find a trio of Keeper snake cultists with poisoned stone knives awaiting them.  A quick scuffle followed with several of the party knifed but not seriously injured.  The Keepers were defeated.

To continue, the team had to resolve a puzzle door.  They considered it for a bit, and Singing Mammoth saw a pattern.  He explained it to Night Watcher he pressed the combination into the stone panels.  The door slid out of the way.

Beyond, they found more snake cultists swaying to the song of a yaqyachi, a Keeper priestess.  She hit the party with a blast of magical poison as Night Watcher closed in.  The ogre hurt her with several telling blows, but the snake cultists swarmed and began to stab and poison him.  Although badly injured, the team kept on the pressure.  Snake cultists went down beneath axe and arrow while Night Watcher continued to hammer on the priestess.  The team took the enemies down and found only spoiled food and tioye for their efforts.  However, Blazing Sun noticed a strange panel in the floor.  Night Watcher ripped it up and found a glittering and valuable carnelian beneath!

Game summary for March 29, 2016, Savage! campaign, for Phoenix Gaming Club. Session included: Night Watcher (Ogre Martial Artist played by Casey Scruggs), Standing Bison (Giant Soldier played by Peyton Harmon), and Wolf Spirit (Kompache Human Priest played by Chris Harmon). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons.

The team returned to Rides-the-Moon’s camp to prepare for the union ceremony.  They started by preparing a seating arrangement to keep the war chiefs from quarreling with one another.  Next they went out and gathered enough tioye for the ceremony.  The group helped the couple write their vows and made sure they got past their cold feet.  The rest of the team ran security for the event watching for intruding elha assassins.

Days after the ceremony, the team set out for Coatlnahualli, the lair of serpent warlocks.  They had been warned the Nightmare Company was driving octoroks into the plains to make travel more dangerous.  This proved true soon as the team came upon an octorok pack.  They fairly easily dispatched it but then came upon a triceratops!  The dinosaur proved quite dangerous and nearly killed Wolf Spirit!  The team eventually brought it down after considerable effort.

Game summary for March 24, 2016, Savage! campaign, for Phoenix Gaming Club. Session included: Blazing Sun (Kau Human Sage played by Kaliegh Belda), Singing Mammoth (Elf Soldier played by Taylor Averdick), Standing Bison (Giant Soldier played by Peyton Harmon), and Wolf Spirit (Kompache Human Priest played by Chris Harmon). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons.

After slaying the bulette, the team had to tend to Feathered Eagle’s grievous wounds.  Wolf Spirit nearly killed him, but the team pulled through.  They then dug themselves out of a cave-in.  On the surface, they constructed a litter for Feathered Eagle and began trekking back toward Rides-the-Moon’s camp.  Along the way, they encountered a medicine man who sold them red tioye in exchange for stories.  After moving on, they successfully slipped through the various Keeper and elha caravans crossing the plains.

As the team traveled, a rampaging herd of maddened mammoths came charging over the hills!  The beasts crashed into the party which immediately tried to defend themselves.  This enraged the mammoths even more, causing them to stampede over the party and try to stamp and gore them all to death.  Standing Bison was terribly injured and driven off.  Meanwhile, Singing Mammoth was trampled into the dirt but was able to drag himself back to his feet.  Arrows flew, axes swung, and teeth gnashed as the party fought to bring down the massive creatures.  After a prolonged and violent battle, the team finally stood victorious of the herd!

Game summary for March 15, 2016, Savage! campaign, for Phoenix Gaming Club. Session included: Blazing Sun (Kau Human Sage played by Kaliegh Belda), Little Spirit (Tsanta Human Soldier played by Andrew Renfrow), Singing Mammoth (Elf Soldier played by Taylor Averdick), Standing Bison (Giant Soldier played by Peyton Harmon), and Wolf Spirit (Kompache Human Priest played by Chris Harmon). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons.

The team kayaked back down the Drowned Turtle River to return to their camp.  They found something had torn the camp apart.  They began following tracks looking for survivors when they stumbled upon a grizzly eating remains of their allies!  The bear mauled Standing Bison, but the team rallied and began driving it back so Singing Mammoth could bring it down with his bow.

The group pressed on and discovered a cavern.  The group had to proceed carefully to avoid collapsing the ceiling.  Further in they were ambushed by five immature bulettes!  The young landsharks ripped into the team with their razor-sharp teeth and claws!  The team was severely injured, but they were able to slay the bulettes and move on.

The team came upon one of their allies, Feathered Eagle.  He was badly injured but hurling rocks at a full-grown bulette as it devoured another brave!  The team moved in, and the bulette bit Standing Bison with its enormous maw and dropped him unconscious.  Little Spirit, Wolf Spirit, and the wolf closed in and starting wounding the monster.  Singing Mammoth launched volleys while Blazing Sun beat it mercilessly with sling rocks.  A slip of an arrow and Singing Mammoth shot Little Spirit in the back; however, he was able to walk it off.  Despite the bloody chaos, Wolf Spirit managed to slip in and land a deathblow on the monster!  The team was then able to stabilize Standing Bison and Feathered Eagle.

Game summary for March 8, 2016, Savage! campaign, for Phoenix Gaming Club. Session included: Blazing Sun (Kau Human Sage played by Kaliegh Belda), Night Watcher (Ogre Martial Artist played by Casey Scruggs), Singing Mammoth (Elf Soldier played by Taylor Averdick), Standing Bison (Giant Soldier played by Peyton Harmon), and Wolf Spirit (Kompache Human Priest played by Chris Harmon). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons.

The team discovered a room in which the Keepers had bound a ghula of the wind causing unceasing winds to swirl through the chamber sending scouring sands blasting about. They constructed some make-shift cover and moved through. Next, they stumbled upon an enormous chamber filled with Keeper warriors in training. They startled and intimidated them, sending them scattering. The party rushed deeper into the dungeon before they could regroup. Then, the found a hall filled with statues shooting spiked orbs back and forth. With careful study, the found a pattern and worked themselves across. Deeper still, the found doorways blocked by huge round stones the team was able to muscle out of the way. Then, they found a chamber filled with thousands of scorpions! The team was able to hop across a series of stepping stones to safety.

Beyond these trials the team found a chamber filled with Keeper combatants and blue tektites. The party moved to attack and found the combatants quite skilled at sneak attack and flanking. Standing Bison took a beating due to their skills, but the team was able to quickly overcome. To exit the room, they had to solve another doorway puzzle. The first attempt resulted in blasts of flame burning the entire team, but Singing Mammoth figured out the door and got the team through.

The last chamber held a faintly glowing ghula-possessed scorpion! The creature advanced, its dehydrating aura sucking the moisture from members of the party. However, it stumbled during its attack opening itself to several solid blows. The team rocked it back, and Singing Mammoth, bolstered by Blazing Sun’s encouragement, sank three arrows into its face slaying it!

The team investigated a stone box and triggered an electricity trap. However, once they survived the blast they opened the box and found another fragment of the Dawn Seal!

Game summary for March 1, 2016, Savage! campaign, for Phoenix Gaming Club. Session included: Blazing Sun (Kau Human Sage played by Kaliegh Belda), Little Spirit (Tsanta Human Soldier played by Andrew Renfrow as secondary), Singing Mammoth (Elf Soldier played by Taylor Averdick), Spirit Walker (Naci Human Assassin played by Andrew Renfrow), Standing Bison (Giant Soldier played by Peyton Harmon), and Wolf Spirit (Kompache Human Priest played by Chris Harmon). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons.

The party entered a room filled with yellow-shelled sluggulas. The snail-like creatures crawled around and laid green bombs that exploded and damaged the party! The strange beings seemed immune to their own explosions. It didn’t take long for the party to eliminate them and explore the room. Blazing Sun detected secret hidden doors, and they began throwing levers triggering fiery jets of flame! Finally, they found the correct latch and revealed a hidden chamber!

The new room contained several moldorms and a giant scorpion! The creatures attacked viciously, especially as Spirit Walker and Blazing Sun closed into melee range. The scorpion hit Blazing Sun several times while Singing Mammoth riddled the worms with arrows. Wolf Spirit and the wolf darted in, and Spirit Walker took a terrible hit from a moldorm. He began bleeding uncontrollably but bravely stayed in the fight! He took his dagger and slaughtered the giant scorpion but then bleed out and died on the cold stone floor. The team finished off the monsters and, joined by Little Spirit, proceeded to another room.

The next room held a mob of red octoroks and a dastardly veteran blue octorok! Soon, stones were flying as the beasts spit rocks at the party. The team quickly rallied and brought them all down in a flurry of blows and arrows.

Game summary for February 23, 2016, Savage! campaign, for Phoenix Gaming Club. Session included: Blazing Sun (Kau Human Sage played by Kaliegh Belda), Night Watcher (Ogre Martial Artist played by Casey Scruggs), Singing Mammoth (Elf Soldier played by Taylor Averdick), Standing Bison (Giant Soldier played by Peyton Harmon), and Wolf Spirit (Kompache Human Priest played by Chris Harmon). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons.

The party entered the sandy dungeon of Colotlxalli and found an enormous room with a large stone in the center marked with glyphs. A massive scorpion stood in the room surrounded by ecstatic cultists. They all moved to attack the party at once! The cultists hit with several macuahaitl blows but were quite ineffective, overall. The giant scorpion fared better, hitting several in the team with its pincers and stinger. Fortunately, none of the party were poisoned. The group finally brought them all down, and Singing Mammoth jumped up on the stone which sank into the ground and revealed a hidden chamber!

The group descended and were attacked by leevers and red tektites! Initially outnumbered, the party took several hard blows from leever slashes and tektite slams. However, the upper hand did not last, and the enemies lost allies quickly from several well placed critical hits. In a few moments the team was victorious and ready to search the room!

Game summary for February 16, 2016, Savage! campaign, for Phoenix Gaming Club. Session included: Blazing Sun (Kau Human Sage played by Kaliegh Belda), Singing Mammoth (Elf Soldier played by Taylor Averdick), Standing Bison (Giant Soldier played by Peyton Harmon), and Wolf Spirit (Kompache Human Priest played by Chris Harmon). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons.

The team advanced into the cavern and found the spring blocked by rubble. A massive moldorm and four peahats moved to attack! Standing Bison maneuvered into the front and was mauled by the combined forces arrayed against him. Blazing Sun moved up the side and drew the attention of several of the foes, and the Wolf Spirit and wolf came up the other side. The whole time Singing Mammoth kept pressure on the foes with flights of arrows. Standing Bison was driven back by the deadly foes, and Blazing Sun was rendered temporarily unconscious. Singing Mammoth dropped some of the enemies, and Wolf Spirit and wolf killed some more, buying Standing Bison time to refresh and return to the fray. Finally, the team defeated all of them and slaughtered the moldorm! The found an amulet and ring and unblocked the spring. With the water flowing, the team can return to the dwarves successful!

Game summary for February 2, 2016, Savage! campaign, for Phoenix Gaming Club. Session included: Night Watcher (Ogre Martial Artist played by Casey Scruggs), Spirit Walker (Naci Human Assassin played by Andrew Renfrow), Standing Bison (Giant Soldier played by Peyton Harmon), and Wolf Spirit (Kompache Human Priest played by Chris Harmon). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons.

The party returned victorious to the camp of Rides-the-Moon and reunited Laughing Horse with his daughter Runs-with-Deer. Rides-the-Moon agreed to perform a union ceremony in one month. He informed them a captured rider from the Nightmare Company revealed another fragment of the Dawn Seal could be found in Cōlōtlxalli somewhere in the Sands of Bleached Bones. The party rode out with a group of braves and found themselves pursued by the Nightmare Company. Eventually, they lost them and made a camp for the braves and their horses to wait. The party then paddled kayaks 100 miles upstream of the Drowned Turtle River and set out to find a chieftain of the Tribe of the Flame, the dwarves, in the desert. The party met with a dwarf named Howling-Winds who agreed to provide camels and directions to Cōlōtlxalli in exchange for the party investigating why their watering hole dried up.

The party set out toward the now dry spring and were attacked by a huge mob of blue and red octoroks! The fighting was intensive, but the team quickly dominated. The octoroks were soundly defeated. The team then went down into the gorge and were attacked by leevers and peahats! The leevers tunneled through the sand and attacked from below while the flying peahats smashed into the team from above! The fighting was brief, however, and the team killed all of the carnivorous plants surrounding them.

Game summary for January 26, 2016, Savage! campaign, for Phoenix Gaming Club. Session included: Blazing Sun (Kau Human Sage played by Kaliegh Belda), Singing Mammoth (Elf Soldier played by Taylor Averdick), and Wolf Spirit (Kompache Human Priest played by Chris Harmon). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons.

The team came across another sealed door with a puzzle lock. Blazing Sun entered a combination and was burned. Blazing Sun entered another combination and was burned. This continued a while. Eventually, Singing Mammoth figured out the pattern, entered it, and opened the doorway.

The group entered an enormous room where a young woman struggled, bound, upon an altar. She had been smeared with blood to form crude blasphemous sigils. The team recognized Runs-with-Deer! All around, Keeper priests chanted prayers to hideous ghula. A partially robed woman holding a wicked stone dagger stood behind the altar. She swayed in religious ecstasy as perverse utterances fell from her lips. She was close to completing an unholy ritual!

The priests moved in and hurled spell curses at the party with little effect. Arrows, spears, axes, and wolf teeth tore into the Keepers! The under priests went down quickly, but the priestess was made of sterner stuff. She stabbed viciously with her dagger and hurled curses at the team. In moments, she died at the hands of the team, and Singing Mammoth claimed one of the sacrificial goats staked in the corner as his own. Wolf Spirit freed Runs-with-Deer who told them the “guardian” was beyond a sealed iron gate. The team debated how to get through for a while before realizing they had the key in their pocket from a chest discovered recently.

The team moved into a cavern, but Runs-with-Deer was weak from her ordeal and stayed back. The dark dank cavern chamber was filled with faintly glowing lichen, and a putrid pool stretched into the darkness. A stalk with three orbs protruded from the water. Eyes! With a loud splash and terrifying roar, an enormous frog-like monster leapt from the pool! It had eyes on a stalk above its head, and its body was mostly like a frog, but its forelimbs were replaced with four writhing tentacles.

The horrific froghemoth tore into the team, driving most of the party back and to the ground with its battering onslaught. Blazing Sun worked her way behind it and setup a flank with the wolf. Singing Mammoth dropped back and fired volleys into its hide. A hurled spear from Wolf Spirit preceded his closing in with his axe. The froghemoth battered the team and nearly killed Blazing Sun. She was beaten unconscious, but the team killed the monster and stabilized her. The team then discovered the next fragment of the Dawn Seal just below the water surface!