Previously on the Age of Worms Campaign…
Our heroes were using tunnels under the city of Greyhawk to
get to the wizard’s guild ziggurat where a piece of the Rod of Seven Parts is
kept. They found their way blocked due
to a cave in and had to exit the tunnels to get to another tunnel that leads to
the ziggurat, but to do they had to cross the city Samilar the Druid intended
to use his magic fly Micah over the worm-infested river to the tunnel entrance
on the other side, but they were detected by one of the giant worms roaming
nearby and it somehow alerted all of the Kyuss Spawn in the area as well. The worm sprayed Samilar and Micah with
necromantic acid which spawned even more worms from the contents of its gut. The two managed to escape the brunt of the
attack and Samilar deposited Micah atop a building near the manhole covering
access to the tunnel they sought. Samilar
flew back, changed into a giant eagle to enable him to carry the last two of
the party, but when he arrived and Olaf and Halimyr emerged from the tunnel, a
nearby group of Kyuss Spawn ran over to attack, getting off some swipes as the
eagle flew off with its two passengers.
Micah, using her cloak of invisibility, was still somehow
being detected by the eyeless giant worm, but she was stealthy enough to keep
it from locating her and she moved over to the locked manhole to await her
companions arrival. When they got there,
she picked the padlock and the group entered the tunnel. Halimyr dropped a wall of force atop of it to
prevent the spawn or worms from pursuing.
The group then made their way towards the ziggurat and upon reaching
that area they found their way blocked by a magic-protected portcullis. They managed to discharge the magic contained
in the bars and made their way underneath the ziggurat, finding an entrance. But Samilar sensed that the shard of the Ro7P
was located down a separate tunnel, so they followed that until they reached a
large cavern. Within was the shard that
was protected by a huge silver dragon that turned out to be their contact from
the city of Alhaster, Lashonna, who was not only a silver dragon, but also a
vampire and a thrall of Dragotha.
Lashonna had aided them in locating other shards of the Ro7P in exchange
for the heroes finding Dragotha’s phylactery so that the dracolich could be
destroyed and Lashonna freed from its control. But she now tells the PCs that Dragotha
somehow learned that the Ro7P was now in play so he sent her to guard this
shard and since she is his thrall, she had no choice but to guard it with her
(un)life. A battle commenced as Samilar
turned into a bronze dragon and flew Olaf (armed with a dragon slayer sword)
over to meet Lashonna, but she met them halfway and paralyzed Samilar with one
of her breath weapons. Olaf, unable to
reach the flying dragon, began to make his way over to the shard, but Lashonna
intercepted him. Meanwhile Micah and
Halimyr used their magic and ranged weapons to pepper the dragon with spells
and arrows while she fought Olaf. The
warrior was able to kill the dragon’s mortal form, but she turned into a
vampiric mist and told the heroes that she was now helpless to stop them from
taking the shard and finishing their mission.
The heroes claimed the shard, but as they started to depart,
but just then a massive rumbling came from the ziggurat above. The mist that was Lashonna told them that the
“ritual” had begun and when they questioned what she meant, she said that it
was the beginning of the end and that their time was now limited. If they didn’t destroy the monolith to stop
the ritual, everything they knew would be destroyed. When the heroes left, they saw what she
meant. From a distance they see that the
ziggurat was projecting a green beam of necrotic magic towards the moon and
that similar beams, presumably from the other ziggurats the heroes knew existed
on other parts of the continent, were also striking the moon and that a
darkness was spreading over it. Somehow
(perhaps it was having read the Kyuss histories from Tenser’s library, perhaps
it was information gleaned from the Wind Dukes of Aqqa, or perhaps it was
knowledge imparted by the Talisman of the Sphere, but Halimyr and Micah
instinctively knew that the moon was being transformed into a Sphere of
Annihilation, and at the rate of the spreading darkness, they had less than a
day to stop it. This was the endgame for Kyuss and, according to Lashonna, Kyuss' master THARIZUN!
The session ends here.
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