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Game summary for May 31, 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 party began the trip back from Fire Mountain to the camp of Rides-the-Moon and were attacked by a pack of assassins led by a soul-eater!  They defeated him, and right before his death they were able to get some information from him.  He told them their victories would soon be for naught because Teomiqatl, a fearsome yaqyachi, has figured out a way to disenchant a Dawn Seal fragment!  If successful, the seal could not be reassembled!  The team set out to capture more Keepers of the Gate to learn more.

They discovered their original route through the mountains was now blocked by a roving pack of marbaq.  They sought another way through the mountains and entered the territory of a dire white ape!  The enormous beast burst into the area and began pounding upon the party.  Arrows flew, axes swung, and fists flew.  Blazing Sun’s firehawk swooped in for an attack and was gulped down in a single swift bite!  The team was momentarily stunned but rallied quickly and brought down the massive threat.

The team pressed on through swarms of botflies and roving Keeper war bands.  The team was able to interrogate prisoners and sneak into camps to learn more information.  They learned of an old dungeon in the jungle that was partially exposed to the surface during an eruption of Fire Mountain.  It caused a great earthquake and left the dungeon is a mixed ruin of exposed rooms, collapsed chambers, and underground mazes.  Through this dungeon run a number of ley lines, focuses of magical energy, and here the Keepers plan to sacrifice as many people as they can in a foul ritual to destroy the Dawn Seal fragment!

Into the dungeon the team crept only to come across some Keeper thugs and a terrifying new foe, a reDead.  This emaciated marbaq wore a wooden mask behind which glowed two red eyes ablaze with light like fire.  It revealed a devastating power, the ability to paralyze foes with its scream!  It was able to freeze Wolf Spirit and the wolf in place first.  It then caught several others and proceeded to attempt coup de grace attacks to kill the party.  Fortunately, enough of the team remained active to take out the Keepers and the undead!

Game summary for May 24, 2016, Savage! campaign, for Phoenix Gaming Club. Session included: Little Spirit (Tsanta Human Soldier played by Andrew Renfrow), 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 caverns filled with slaves harvesting obsidian for use in Keeper weaponry.  Ogre slavers kept them at task and attacked when the party entered.  The fighting was fierce and bloody, and a whip-wielding slaver entangled Singing Mammoth and pulled him in close.  He then used his screaming club as a bludgeon against the party.  The rest of the team dispatched the other ogres and came to the elf’s rescue.

In the next chamber, the team found a cave-gnawer ghula and a group of Keepers finishing a sacrifice.  The party closed in, but the Keepers stood their ground long enough for the ghula to engage Night Watcher and nearly disembowel him.  Meanwhile, Singing Mammoth’s velociraptor, Clever, missed a leap and hurled herself into the lava!  Standing Bison’s bear fished her out before she could be consumed.  Standing Bison forced red tioye down Night Watcher’s throat before moving in to fight.  Wolf Spirit, armed with a heartstone axe closed in as well.  Night Watcher was able to get back into the fight while hovering at the threshold of death’s door.  He managed to land a lucky blow and kill the ghula!

The team traveled on and balanced across narrow ledges beside lava flows and floated on mineral barges in rivers of molten rock.  They ran from Keeper hordes for hours, get more and more tired.  They successfully navigated around noxious thermal vents, with only a few of the party being harmed by the poisons.  They tried to negotiate some grey tioye from a merchant but instead ran him off.

In time they made it to a chamber and found the otomi warrior, Tepoizcat!  He swung his iron-edged macuahaitl with authority and precision.  Using wolf pack tactics, he and his thugs dealt a lot of damage to the party.  The team whittled away at his allies until only he remained.  He could not stand against the combined might of the entire party.  After slaying this wicked Keeper, they discovered the 6th Dawn Seal fragment!

Game summary for May 17, 2016, Savage! campaign, for Phoenix Gaming Club. Session included: 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 dispatching the base camp, screeches rent the air as crimson raptors hurtled into view.  Their riders slipped to the ground and drew forth deadly obsidian blades as the dinosaurs circled out running low and ready.  One of the riders strode confidently toward the team, a smirk upon his face and hatred burning in his eyes.  The man, an elf, had a tall blue Mohawk and pale white skin with sharp bone spikes piercing his flesh in intricate and painful patterns.  A dozen scalps bounced about his waist, tethered by still-attached hair.  He smiled revealing teeth filed to sharp points, and declared a fight to the death, winner eat all!  Nemtlac the Cannibal had arrived!  A velociraptor ravaged Singing Mammoth and nearly killed him.  Standing Bison took a barrage of hits from raptors and Nemtlac.  Wolf Spirit and the animals began tearing into foes and weeding through them.  Soon only Nemtlac remained, and he brutally slashed the party with his obsidian blades before the wolf ripped out his throat.  In the aftermath, they found another Dawn Seal fragment and a magical toothed necklace.

The group returned to the camp of Rides-the-Moon and were dispatched to Tletltepetl (let-ill-tep-i-til), the Fire Mountain.  They were warned an otomi warrior named Tepoizcat had taken the sixth fragment there and guards it with his iron-edged macuahuitl.  The dungeon is near the City of Skulls and hordes of ravenous marbaq.  The team set out and overcame many dangers before discovering a little-used entrance into the dungeon.  Within they found part of the floor had collapsed about five feet down and ten feet across, and the stone nearly glowed with heat.  Wolf Spirit and the wolf took a running jump and crashed headlong into a sheet of glass on the far side!  Rather than bounce off into the hole, their combined weight smashed through.  Both suffered lacerations, but that was far better than the burns they would have suffered.  With the trap now revealed, the rest of the team was able to safely leap across.

Deeper in the complex, they found the heat had partially melted the walls and floor.  In places molten rock bubbled into view.  Ahead a massive one-eyed magtail, a cross between scorpion and centipede, awoke.  The team found its hard shell very resistant to bladed weapons, but with some persistent clubbing, they were able to overcome.

Game summary for May 10, 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 continued through the plains, and their horses caught the attention of Scar, the alpha bulette!  It burst from the ground and ate Wolf Spirit’s horse right out from under him!  The team closed in as the bulette swallowed the horse and attacked the team.  Several moments went by with some wounds landing on both sides; however, Night Watcher landed the killing blow.

After recovering and moving on, the team came upon the supply line and base camp of the Nightmare Company.  The team smelled a meaty aroma and discovered several large fire pits burned down to coals with spits above.  Men and elves hung above the flames cooking in the heat!  A skyclad yaqyachi woman chanted a spell and animated the cooking corpses as she cut them free!  The roasted shamblers let out shrieks and lurched toward the party.  The team moved to engage.  Much to their chagrin, they discovered the shamblers exploded upon their death in a shower of bones and gore!  It did not take much to take down the marbaq, the undead, but the yaqyachi and Nightmare rider proved a bit more resilient.  The rider shattered his macuahaitl upon the ground in an epic miss against Standing Bison.  Meanwhile, Wolf Spirit deftly avoid curse after spell from the priestess.  Soon, the team had defeated all of the enemies and began to search the camp.