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Game summary for November 11, 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), Komorebi (Kitsune Bard played by Josh Jenkins), Piper Quickstep (Human Druid-Mage played by John Osborne), Skree Grizzlehide (Mongrelfolk Gladiator played by Peyton Harmon), and Ursay (Mongrelfolk Slayer played by Paul Potter). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons.

The team crept out into the temple district and discovered the bugbears and yuan-ti were on high alert.  Ursay did some scouting and came back to warn the party of a group guarding an interesting temple.  The party cast several spells upon themselves and moved in.  The bugbears and yuan-ti proved quick and closed in before the team could attack.  An attic whisperer associated with the bugbears moved among the party and brought its aura of sobs to them.  Most of the team were saddened and crying along with the spirit of the undead child.  Three yuan-ti flourishers closed in but only landed a few of their attacks.  One dropped darkness on itself which was dispelled by Callum.  A white-furred koblak bugbear, a fearmonger, sauntered up to Herezis.  Its aura of cowardice overcame his religious convictions and filled him with a near-blinding fear.  His terror was palpable, and the fearmonger was delighted. 

A spirit naga emerged from the temple, and a sword spider closed in on the team.  Things appeared bleak, but the team suddenly unleashed an onslaught of arrows, melee attacks, and magical spells.  Dalamar’s lightning lance, flame strike, searing light, mad monkeys, release the hounds, and other magic flashed across the battlefield.  The spirit naga countered with a fireball, which failed against the spell resistance of its ally but hit several of the party.  Komorebi caught it in a shadow conjuration, which plunged it into a spiked pit!  Skree, Hammer, and Herezis ripped foes apart, and Ursay put on a sharpshooting clinic.  Herezis prepared to fly into the pit to attack the naga, but before he could, Helg blasted it to death with flame strike.

With the foes defeated, the team looted the corpses and searched the temple.  Inside, they discovered a secret door leading to a wide descending stairwell!

Game summary for November 4, 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), and Ursay (Mongrelfolk Slayer played by Paul Potter). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons.

The party made camp to rest before tracking down the chuul; however, Ursay and Callum were wracked by agony from their curses gaining a negative level and fatigue.  Herezis used his mercy to remove their fatigue and provide rest.  The team also noticed something seemed off with Helg.  He was not his normal angelic gleeful self.  He was more taciturn and dourer, seeming to be absent his joy.  Even the idea of smiting his enemies with divine fire did little more than twitch the corners of his mouth.

The group went to find the chuul cavern.  Ursay applied several magical oils to his arrows and quaffed a potion of invisibility.  Herezis cast sea steed, and Helg cast righteous wrath of the faithful, several protection from evil, and several water breathing spells.  The group moved into a dark partially flood cavern spanned by an old rope bridge.  They spread out in the chamber and explored a bit before a dark lake terror chuul erupted from the water and snatched Herezis off his dinosaur!  It grappled him and put him in its tentacles.  Callum transformed into a small water elemental and moved into the room.  An ulat-kini and a giant freshwater crab emerged from the dark waters and attacked.

The vicious chuul proved tough and formidable, inflicting deep wounds; however, Herezis granted his smite to Skree who was able to cut down the monster!  Arrows sailed out of the darkness alongside powerful spells like Dalamar’s lightning lance.  The enemies took injury after injury before morale broke, and the team cut them down in the retreat.  The team quickly gathered the chuul brain fluids, searched the cave, and returned to the mongrelfolk slums. 

The high priests of the Maw That Remembers was able to concoct a horrid potion that cured the transformative curse afflicting Ursay and Callum!  The team rested another day, and Helg prepared and cast a couple of commune spells seeking answers about his bizarre melancholia. 

Game summary for October 28, 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), and Ursay (Mongrelfolk Slayer played by Paul Potter). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons.

Not wanting to waste the days they have remaining before the curse claims Ursay and Callum, the team rushed down into the deep caverns to find the ur-histachii.  Ursay scouted ahead and found the lair, confirmed by the stench.  Skree quaffed a potion of good hope, Callum cast Bailey’s golden retriever, and Helg cast blessing of fervor.  Callum had cast light on Herezis so even though Ursay was very quiet, the team was very obvious in their approach.  Out of the darkness, ur-histachii black bloods and a single histachii rager rushed into battle.  Ursay was up front and took the brunt of the initial assault.  One of the black bloods vomited forth a spray of tar-like bile that burned and coated the team.  Helg was entangled for a round, and the rest of the team found themselves in difficult terrain due to the sticky gunk. 

Helg cast spiritual weapon right away, which began slashing away at the enemies.  Ursay fired acidic arrows, Skree put his maca to great utility, and Herezis used magic to grant his amount the blessing of flight.  Callum cast his first of two fireballs.  The living and dead histachii withstood the opening assault with tenacity.  They ripped back into the party with tooth and nail.  Another ur-histachii sprayed its breath over the flying Herezis with limited impact.  He countered with charge and smite!  He ravaged the undead but coated his lance in hardening, encumbering black blood. 

After another fireball, slashes from Skree, and precise arrows from Ursay, the foes were suddenly driven back and cut down.  Skree used the vial he had stored his potion in to gather heart blood for the antidote to the curse.  Callum used detect magic to locate a powerful set of spellguard bracers which Helg donned.  The team also found several gemstones.  They decided before facing the chuul, they needed to camp and recover.  They debated heading back to the mongrelfolk pens but opted to hide out closer to the chuul caverns. 

Game summary for October 21, 2025, Chronoshift: Spelljammer campaign, Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, for Phoenix Gaming Club. Session included: Adeline Tormak (Human Magus played by Andrew Renfrow), 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), and Ursay (Mongrelfolk Slayer played by Paul Potter). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons.

The team limped back into the caverns and met back up with Helg, Skree, and Adeline.  After debating a while, they decided to seek the high priests of the Maw That Remembers.  Herezis’ association with the clergy of the Maw That Remembers had granted them an audience with its trio of high priests.  High Archivist Kreezhel of the Slime-Sealed Scroll is short and round with flipper-like feet, slitted nostrils, and one massive translucent eyelid. His robes do not fully cover his ochre skin, which is etched with tattoos of sermons and calligraphic scarring—memory marks. His fingers are ink-stained, and he constantly scribbles notes.  Priestess Zaalet of the Bleeding Pool is lithe and hunched, always keeping a veil over her face. Her hair is mossy and clumpy, and she smells faintly of salt and rot.  Deacon Brumm, a towering mongrelfolk with crustacean plates along his arms and torso and large tusks, wears a harness strung with hollow bells made from skulls, bones, and shells.

These holy figures examined the cursed companions and then went to pray to the Maw.  Some time later, they returned bearing both good and bad news.  The Maw had spoken and revealed that the curse was not transforming the party members into yuan-ti. Instead, it was a curse of servitude. It twisted the victim into a slave race loyal to the yuan-ti. Humans became a type of creature known as a tainted one—still appearing human, but imbued with yuan-ti abilities and compelled to serve as spies, infiltrators, and bodyguards. Non-humans, however, were transformed into horrific, nearly mindless creatures known as histachii—degenerate, serpent-like humanoids used as soldiers and disposable fodder in war.

This transformation occurred over the course of 10 to 14 days and, once complete, permanently altered or killed the cursed. Death offered no escape—unless the curse was lifted, any resurrection would be followed by immediate re-death as the curse reasserted itself. That was the bad news.

The good news was that the process could be stopped. The clergy could brew an antidote of uncoiling, but it required three rare components found throughout the caverns: sporeheart fungus growing in the Fomorian caves, chuul brain fluid from the flooded chambers, and the heart blood of an ur-histachii—an undead version of the histachii that dwelled in the deep caves. If these ingredients were gathered and delivered before the curse ran its course, the transformation could be halted and the curse broken.

The team decided to seek the Fomorian caves since they had recently fought some of them.  Ursay scouted ahead and found himself in a cloud of spores through which he could make out the shapes of giants battering some recently slain body.  His sneezing fit alerted the giants to his presence.  He slipped back to the party to prepare.  He quaffed potions of invisibility and good hope.  Adeline cast haste.  Helg cast bane weapon.  The group advanced and found two Fomorian giants and two ogres.  The Fomorians sent them reeling with their evil eyes, and the ogres closed in.  Arrows flew out followed by devastating fireball and flame strike spells.  Callum warded himself from the fungus spores using a wand of Drawmij’s protection from gas. 

The giants hit the party easily and brutally, but the team proved their tremendous damage potential by hewing down several of the monsters.  Skree revealed his magical fire-spewing gauntlets.  The team suffered several heavy blows, but Helg and Herezis were able to mend those wounds when the last giant had fallen.  The team scooped up a lot of sporeheart fungus as well as a magical ring they located.

The team then compared notes and stories they had heard about chuul and decided they would rather next seek out the ur-histachii! 

Game summary for October 14, 2025, Chronoshift: Spelljammer campaign, Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, for Phoenix Gaming Club. Session included: Callum Spellhardt (Human Sorcerer played by Parker Harmon), Herezis Tahriol (Mongrelfolk Paladin played by Preston Harmon), Piper Quickstep (Human Druid-Mage played by John Osborne), and Ursay (Mongrelfolk Slayer played by Paul Potter). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons.

The group found a safe place to encamp in mongrelfolk caverns and rested and recovered spells.  They then traveled to the cave exit to emerge upon the streets of the yuan-ti temple district.  Under the cover of invisibility, Ursay scouted around and heard some bugbears talking at the door of some building.  He noted this portion of the city to be in better repair and covered in a snake motif.

He slinked back to the party waiting in the stairwell leading down into the subterranean chambers.  Callum used a wand to render everyone invisible.  They spread out and ambushed the bugbears with Ursay’s precise arrows leading the way.  The bugbears were caught completely by surprise and massacred by an onslaught of arrows, fireball, stone discuses, and a charging paladin!  The building seemed to be some kind of ritual location.  It contained a pit of coals with a swinging bridge spanning across.  Two yuan-ti were on the other side, and they carried the fight over to the party.  One was purple with a great split tail instead of legs, horns, and radiant heat.  The other looked nearly human.  The yuan-ti ignan hit Herezis with a terrible blow, but it was slain by Ursay’s arrows.  Herezis then killed the thrallcoil sentinel. 

With the defenders slain, the party crept into the building, and Callum and Ursay crossed the bridge.  On the far side, they examined a strange lever.  Callum cast detect magic and sensed overwhelming transmutation magic in the room.  Ursay examined the walls and murals depicting snakes consuming humans.  He sought traps and trapdoors but found none.  Finding nothing of immediate danger, the two of them pulled the lever which caused a low hum to resonate from the surrounding stonework. Then, with a flash of violet-black energy and a deep thrum like a heartbeat, a pulse of writhing darkness flooded the room, phasing through solid stone and flesh alike. The air grew heavy, humid, ripe with serpentine musk. Something deep in their blood… twisted. After a bit of detect magic, detect evil, and numerous knowledge checks, the team determined Ursay and Callum had been afflicted with some kind of curse.  Their best guess is it is a form of the curse that first created the yuan-ti.  They believe the two are cursed to transform into yuan-ti themselves!  Unsure how to break the curse (dispel magic did nothing), they decided they must consult the priests of the Maw That Remembers!  They fled back to the mongrelfolk tunnels to find Herezis’ fellow clergy for assistance. 

Game summary for September 30, 2025, Chronoshift: Spelljammer campaign, Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, for Phoenix Gaming Club. Session included: Adeline Tormak (Human Magus played by Andrew Renfrow), 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 traveled further through the caverns beneath the Forbidden City getting close to what they hoped would be the yuan-ti temple district.  They met up with a dinosaur-riding mongrelfolk paladin named Herezis, and he joined them on their quest.  They came upon a chamber that was dark but loud. A waterfall cascaded down into a shadowy chasm. The adventuring party estimated it plunged a few hundred feet into the darkness. Strange purple stones were embedded in the cavern walls. The chasm splitting the chamber was crossed by a single wooden bridge. A smaller chamber opened to the north, and a pool of calm water rested within. A large mound filled with sickly green insect eggs sat on the far side of the chamber.

Ugly giants moved about the chamber, apparently trying to harvest the eggs. They were all smeared with some kind of liquid or goo. Several were ogres, vicious, stupid, man-eating brutes. Some carried slings and others crude axes. Towering over all the rest was a massive, deformed giant. Its limbs were twisted and misshapen, and it had one terrible eye that was much larger than the other. It wore no armor and carried an enormous club. Faintly, barely audible over the crash of water, was a clacking and chittering sound seemingly coming from holes and fissures in the rocks, ceiling, and floor.

The giants looked at the pile of barely edible eggs. Then they looked at the group. They smiled hungry smiles.

Ursay launched a barrage of arrows at the nearest ogres, and Adeline enhanced herself with magic.  The fomorian doomcaller leapt across the yawning chasm and thrashed about with its greatclub.  Its evil eye was staggering and sickening, affecting some of the team with its baleful gaze. 

Callum cast fiery spells of destruction like scorching ray and fireball but suffered several devastating injuries.  Helg used channeling to keep the team bolstered and alive.  Snagy rallied the team and eliminated the sickened effect. 

Suddenly, large insects skittered out from holes and cracks spraying sticky entangling resin and biting and stinging.  They avoided the giants (the team later learned it was due to the goo covering the giants) but accosted the party. 

Adeline killed the fomorian, and several of the ogres were slain.  An ogre ripped the bridge from its moorings and tossed it into the chasm.  This was no problem for Herezis, though.  He charged and enlarged his lance, spearing the giant!  Snagy and Stingy flew across the chasm, and soon the team had mopped up the monsters.  The insects settled down, and the team looted the bodies. 

They then explored the northern chamber with the pool of water.  A beautiful fey creature emerged, healed half the party and disappeared. 

Game summary for September 23, 2025, Chronoshift: Spelljammer campaign, Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, for Phoenix Gaming Club. Session included: Callum Spellhardt (Human Sorcerer played by Parker Harmon), Einar Ormsson (Human Fighter / Unchained Barbarian played by Preston Harmon), Helg Ingvar (Aasimar Cleric played by Chris Harmon), Piper Quickstep (Human Druid-Mage played by John Osborne), Skree Grizzlehide (Mongrelfolk Gladiator played by Peyton Harmon), and Ursay (Mongrelfolk Slayer played by Paul Potter). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons.

The group continued through the caverns and came across another bugbear patrol attempting to ambush the party!  Einar noticed the bugbears slinking in and alerted the team!  The deadly bugbears swarmed in with their sword spider companions.  The spiders stabbed and bit, but only Helg was envenomated.  The majority of the initial attacks went against Helg, which forced him into a tactical retreat.  Callum was badly injured by a spider as well and used dimension door to get out of immediate danger.  Piper cast several protections around himself and then unleashed disintegrate and quickened stone discus.  Einar got tripped and ended up tripping a bugbear as well.  However, the flanking monsters slew him on the ground.

Skree’s inability to be flanked kept him from suffering a similar fate.  He was able to brutally injure bugbears while Ursay planted multiple arrows into enemies.  Callum cast multiple offensive spells, including fireball, lightning bolt, and Dalamar’s lightning lance.  Piper made him even more effective by cloaking him in greater invisibility before summoning twinning mad monkeys himself.  The bugbear blade priest closed in on Helg as the rampager pressed in on Ursay, driving them down a narrow channel.  One of the sword spiders jumped up on the rocks and began driving his spear-like blades down into them.  Helg grabbed Ursay, and both rolled under the spider as Helg called down a flame strike right on top of themselves!  Protected by the enormous spider, they laughed with delight as the holy flames burned their enemies to death.  Although it was an extremely tough fight, the party did prevail!    

Game summary for September 16, 2025, Chronoshift: Spelljammer campaign, Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, for Phoenix Gaming Club. Session included: Callum Spellhardt (Human Sorcerer played by Parker Harmon), Einar Ormsson (Human Fighter / Unchained Barbarian played by Preston Harmon), Komorebi (Kitsune Bard played by Josh Jenkins), 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.

Following the brutal battle, the team went to ground and nursed their wounds.  Snagy found the mongrelfolk and befriended several.  He soon recruited two, a gladiator named Skree and an slayer named Ursay, to join their adventures.  Einar and Komorebi caught up with the group, and they plotted their next steps. 

The mongrelfolk shared some information, and they decided to make a push deeper into the city to try and find the tablet.  They slipped into the mongrelfolk caverns because it has fewer bugbear patrols than the city above.  The group made great progress through the caves before they came upon a group of bugbears. 

Battle erupted quickly.  Komorebi immediately began a performance, inspiring his allies!  His rally was instrumental throughout the skirmish.  The sword-wielding bugbear slaughterists and axe-swinging bugbear rampagers gleefully closed in, taunting the group as they came.  Callum unleashed scorching ray to scald bugbear hide.  Ursay popped up and rained death from the shadows with his bow, delighting in the carnage inflicted upon the oppressors.  The bugbear bladepriest cast field of razors, which littered the cavern floor with caltrops.  It then moved in and disappeared into the shadows. 

Skree proved his battlefield prowess with his mighty macuahuitl.  He devastated a bugbear and caused a bleeding wound the likes of which the team had never seen!  Einar advanced and displayed a dizzying flurry of spinning axes.  He ripped the feet out from under a bugbear, causing allies to hammer down upon it.  Snagyndar moved up and throttled a foe only to get surprised by the hiding bladepriest.  He hit him with a poisoned and diseased spiked gauntlet, and the foul poison burned through Snagy’s veins!  He was weakened by the toxin but kept fighting. 

The bugbears fought hard but found themselves in several unfortunate situations.  The team was able to capitalize on these and sway the fight in their direction early on.  The new mongrelfolk team members proved their worth early, and in a few moments, all the bugbears had been slain.

Game summary for September 9, 2025, Chronoshift: Spelljammer campaign, Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, for Phoenix Gaming Club. Session included: Adeline Tormak (Human Magus played by Andrew Renfrow), Callum Spellhardt (Human Sorcerer played by Parker Harmon), Finch Bloodrain (Half-Hobgoblin Slayer played by Peyton Harmon), Hekera Nephera Mawhesk Vyk’sebekenka (Sebek-ka Fighter played by Preston Harmon), Helg Ingvar (Aasimar Cleric played by Chris Harmon), Hwrulf (Human Unchained Barbarian played by Paul Potter), Piper Quickstep (Human Druid-Mage played by John Osborne), and Snagyndar Blackthorn (Huldran War Master played by Casey Scruggs). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons.

Piper cast dimension door to move him and Hammer way out of the fight.  Snagy dismissed Stingy to escape the wasps and fell prone (but invisible).  He remained still as several foes rushed past him.  Adeline was mostly undetected and was able to fall back, but Callum was clearly visible and struck with multiple attacks.  He eventually fell to the ground, and an invisible Helg flew over and touched him with a heal spell.  Adeline cast ghost sound and convinced a handful of Scarlet Brotherhood monks a small army of behtu approached! 

Finch was hemmed in and pummeled while numerous monks tripped and grappled Hwrulf.  He killed a couple of the monks before they pinned him.  Hekera was hit by attack after attack.  Snagy rallied the team, but it was too little too late.  Hekera was slain by the swarm of monks.  Moments later, Piper noticed a horrifying fact.  Like they had seen them do earlier, the Scarlet Brotherhood had held back a small portion of their forces who arrived as reinforcements.  The fresh enemies ran in and beat Piper unconscious and killed Finch.  Hwrulf held out a little longer but was finally beaten to death as well. 

Callum escaped with dimension door, and Piper’s wolf, Hammer, picked up his master and fled.  Adeline ran alongside Hammer trying to get away.  Helg sent an earth elemental, summoned from a magic gem, among the monks and flew off following Hammer.  Meanwhile, Snagy (also invisible) was able to slip out the other side of the battlefield and ran away seeking to find a way down into the mongrelfolk tunnels hoping to find shelter among them.  The last any of the party saw, the monks were dragging the slain PCs together into the street. 

Game summary for September 2, 2025, Chronoshift: Spelljammer campaign, Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, for Phoenix Gaming Club. Session included: Adeline Tormak (Human Magus played by Andrew Renfrow), Callum Spellhardt (Human Sorcerer played by Parker Harmon), Finch Bloodrain (Half-Hobgoblin Slayer played by Peyton Harmon), Hekera Nephera Mawhesk Vyk’sebekenka (Sebek-ka Fighter played by Preston Harmon), Helg Ingvar (Aasimar Cleric played by Chris Harmon), Hwrulf (Human Unchained Barbarian played by Paul Potter), Piper Quickstep (Human Druid-Mage played by John Osborne), and Snagyndar Blackthorn (Huldran War Master played by Casey Scruggs). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons.

The group began interrogating the captured member of the Scarlet Brotherhood.  They did not get his name.  They confirmed the Scarlet Brotherhood was in the Forbidden City seeking the tablet.  They learned the Brotherhood had been making assaults against the bugbears but kept getting driven back.  They were also skirmishing with the vicious behtu attacking from the jungle.  The rank and file were tired and discouraged and hoping to leave.  However, failure would result in their deaths.  The man told them were to find the Brotherhood camp and that Professor Tormak is there.  As the only person living to see the tablet, they need him to identify it.  They decided to scout out the Brotherhood, and Snagy killed the defenseless prisoner.  Adeline cast greater invisibility and went running in the direction of the camp, only to become visible a minute later. 

The group attempted stealth, but Helg’s gleaming armor caught the light and the attention of the entire Scarlet Brotherhood camp!  The group scurried into a nearby building as the monks came leaping across rooftops and surrounded the team.  The group roped themselves together and cast invisibility on everyone via a wand.  They then tried to tiptoe down the street away from the monks, but the alert martial artists heard them and trailed them a while before completely surrounding them. 

Battle erupted with the team invisible, which proved critical.  The monks were uncertain the exactly location of the team.  Piper revealed himself by casting, and the monks hurled shuriken at him in bulk.  Still being invisible, most missed, but he still suffered many damaging hits.  Hwrulf attacked and became visible, drawing attackers, as did Hekera.  The monks swarmed in.  Adeline hit with several arrows, Finch tripped and savaged another, and Callum blasted one dead.  Snagy summoned Stingy and sent him into the air, which proved the wasps will attack airborne foes.  Helg quaffed a whisk away admixture and invisibly flew over to heal Piper.  However, unable to see him, he missed him with the spell!  The team was now surrounded and hard pressed by the Scarlet Brotherhood.  Can they fight their way out?