Reign of Winter — Game Session — 056

Game summary for January 30, 2018, Reign of Winter campaign, Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, for Phoenix Gaming Club. Session included: Kenwrec Battleglaive (Kobold Slayer played by Peyton Harmon), Magnus Erlingsson (Alseid Cleric played by Chris Harmon), Svala Alehorn (Orc Unchained Barbarian played by Todd Hughes), and Yelnoth the Dark (Winterborn Triaxian Sorcerer played by Casey Scruggs). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons.

The team crept forward and found a three-way corridor and saw some kind of massive skeletal creature moving up one direction away from them.  They decided to go straight and avoid it.  They came upon a huge chamber displaying skeletal remains upon raised plinths.  Three other exits led out of the chamber.  The group advanced, and four bone golems animated.  Yelnoth was trapped in a bone cage almost immediately.  The group figured out some spells were ineffective, but Magnus was able to slow the constructs with channeled positive energy.  Greta cast bull’s strength and shield of faith on Svala.  Kenwrec, Svala, and Shatha waded into melee combat.  The golems hit hard, but having been slowed, they were greatly reduced in effectiveness.  Shatha unleashed his breath weapon, and Yelnoth summoned a fiendish ankylosaurus!  The team quickly turned the tide of the battle, and soon piles of bone lay all around.  Realizing they could use the ankylosaurus for a short time longer, the team darted after the skeletal creature they saw earlier.

The team came upon the fossil golem in another intersection.  The creature’s pincer-like skull hands dealt horrendous wounds.  Kenwrec was hit with a staggering blow of epic proportions.  Somehow, he remained standing, but he was in terrible shape.  Svala was also hit and turned partially to stone!  Yelnoth unleashed his own breath of cold air, and Shatha followed suit.  Greta cast baneweapon, granting Svala’s axe even greater enhancement against constructs.  Magnus observed the creature and made several key deductions of which he warned the entire party.  The group rallied and brought the construct down in a heap of bones.

Reign of Winter — Game Session — 055

Game summary for January 23, 2018, Reign of Winter campaign, Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, for Phoenix Gaming Club. Session included: Baknarla (Adlet Shaman played by Shane Bradley), Deska Starseeker (Half-Elf Druid played by Kaliegh Averdick), Svala Alehorn (Orc Unchained Barbarian played by Todd Hughes), Tulvur Xandersen (Troglodyte Fighter played by Taylor Averdick), and Yelnoth the Dark (Winterborn Triaxian Sorcerer played by Casey Scruggs). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons.

Following the death of several allies and the reincarnation of some, the team encountered a sorcerer named Yelnoth who had deserted from the Drakelands.  He soon joined the cause, and the team found a chamber with seven bodies frozen in ice.  While investigating, a roper plunged from the ceiling trying to impale Deska!  She sidestepped, and it began whipping its paralyzing strands all about.  Deska pinned it with a wall of stone, and the group swooped in and killed it.  They thawed the ice using Yelnoth’s wall of fire, and they found the body of Sarnok.  They claimed his magical items, and Baknarla agreed to help them try and slay Yrax.

The group exited the crevasse near Ivoryglass.  They disguised themselves quite well as members of the Drakelands army and allowed Yelnoth to do the talking.  They avoided several patrols and one awkward conversation with a hydra-handler.  The group found themselves standing before the doors of Ivoryglass and several armed guards.  Yelnoth stepped up and told a lie of epic proportions so convincingly, they just ushered the team right through the doors and locked the gate behind them.

A bit shocked, the group continued into the gardens of Ivoryglass where they were challenged by a half-dragon destrachan.  They decided to just ignore it.  This perplexed the creature for a bit until it finally blasted them with a cone of cold.  A fight erupted, and the team swarmed around the creature.  It took devastating shots from the party and was soon dead at their feet!

Reign of Winter — Game Session — 054

Game summary for January 18, 2018, Reign of Winter campaign, Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, for Phoenix Gaming Club. Session included: Denessia Rapidarma (Dwarf Gunslinger/Paladin played by Casey Scruggs), Kenwrec Battleglaive (Kobold Slayer played by Peyton Harmon), Magnus Erlingsson (Human Cleric played by Chris Harmon), Svala Alehorn (Orc Unchained Barbarian played by Todd Hughes), and Ten-Penny Tacey (Halfling Rogue played by Shane Bradley). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons.

The team took their first steps into the Rimekeening Crevasse, a massive glacial fissure stretching down hundreds of feet.  Deep in the depths of the world, they came upon a mated pair of frostcrawlers!  The reptilian monsters leapt to defend their lair and unhatched egg.  Svala charged and killed the first with a single hit!  The rest of the team converged on the second and brought it down with only a slight injury to Magnus.  Next the team decided to try and hatch the egg and keep the monster within as a pet.  Magnus successfully hatched the egg.  The hungry creature opened its mouth for food several times.  When none was forthcoming, it blasted Magnus with lightning and tried to eat him!  The team brought the young down in moments, with only slightly more injury to Magnus.

Deeper into the fissure, they came across what Ten-Penny recognized to be a carnivorous crystal!  The fearsome entity could petrify members of the party and eat them!  It was not fully aware of them, so they tried to run past it.  This got its attention, and its subsonic hum stunned Denessia.  Most of the team ran on, leaving her behind.  Baknarla doubled back, as did Magnus.  With the benefit of blessing of fervor, the team was able to get out of the range of the crystal and outpace it, leaving it far behind.

Quite some way into the crevasse, the team noticed something burrowing beneath them.  Suddenly, a frost worm burst up and began trilling!  Several of the party swayed in fascination at the sound, doing nothing to help.  Moments later, a second frost worm arrived and blasted the party with a breath of cold.  The trilling worm was brutally hit by several members of the party.  It stopped trilling and also breathed cold.  The combined effects hit almost the entire party, and the team was in very, very poor shape.  The worms then began biting.  Kenwrec was bitten nearly in half and swallowed.

Magnus hit back with flame strike while Baknarla and Svala tried melee.  Ten-Penny was grievously injured, and Greta was able to heal some of her wounds.  Ten-Penny consumed a ditch dram to heal further and turn invisible.  Denessia then shot the first worm and killed it, cause it to explode in a shower of piercing shards and freezing air!  This blast killed Ten-Penny outright and badly injured everyone else, including Greta and Shatha.  Fortunately, both shrugged off the cold effects.

The team continued to trade powerful blows with the surviving worm, and things looked very bleak.  Finally, Denessia shot this one dead as well.  It also exploded.  The second explosion almost eliminated the entire party.  Greta, Baknarla, and Shatha held on by a thread.  Svala only survived due to her drunken rage!  Greta quickly healed her what she could.  Magnus and Denessia were slain by the second blast.  In total, four members of the party died in the epic battle!

The group fled to nurse wounds, meet up with Deska, and reincarnate those they could.  Kenwrec and Magnus came back to life in all new forms…  Denessia and Ten-Penny’s souls refused to return and went on to their final rest.

Reign of Winter — Game Session — 053

Game summary for January 2, 2018, Reign of Winter campaign, Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, for Phoenix Gaming Club. Session included: Denessia Rapidarma (Dwarf Gunslinger/Paladin played by Casey Scruggs), Deska Starseeker (Half-Elf Druid played by Kaliegh Averdick), Kenwrec Battleglaive (Kobold Slayer played by Peyton Harmon), Magnus Erlingsson (Human Cleric played by Chris Harmon), Ten-Penny Tacey (Halfling Rogue played by Shane Bradley), and Tulvur Xandersen (Troglodyte Fighter played by Taylor Averdick). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons.

The team tried to communicate with the wolf-like alien they encountered.  Magnus cast comprehend languages and started to understand her.   This led to finding out she can speak Triaxian, which Shatha could also speak.  Baknarla, an adlet, told them she believed them to be the “destined ones” foretold in prophecy of old.  The party agreed to go with her into a deep crevasse in search of Sarnok, an adlet hero who disappeared long ago.  She wants to prove to her tribe he existed and she found the body.  She offered to give the party his famous spear he used to kill multiple dragons.  The crevasse runs alongside Ivoryglass, so the team may be able to ascend and approach Yrax’s lair unnoticed.

The party and Baknarla the adlet set out for the crevasse.  Along the way, they ran into a herd of ice runners.  Some of the birds smelled Tulvur and headed for the party.  A furious battle followed with flame strikes, charging horses, glaive-wielding dragons, exploding pistols, swarm skin, and more.  The fighting was bloody but quick, and soon the birds were slain or driven off.