Ragnorra Session 75

Start: 5 am, Friday, Eleasis 20, 1396

Vix slew the water naga.

The party decided to investigate Myth Drannor.

They teleported to outside the cult compound, and searched around. They found it to be quite waterlogged. Ivy searched for the past owner of the crate guarding the entrance. She found the following: Human, male, 224, chaotic evil, gained it by commissioning Thayan laborers to create durable but light crates, lost it abandoning the Myth Drannor shrine.

Searching the flooded ruin, they found the corpses of three Jabberwocky. One was missing, presumably rescued to wherever the cult fled.

Most of the test subjects, and most of their tanks were found waterlogged. Some appeared to be missing, and the tanks themselves appeared to be remarkably intact. The party found 445 lbs of starmetal and 750,000 gp in wealth. Searching deeper, they found three deactivated portals. One portal went to the well of dragons, another to Bindle's Cellar, and the third went to the Astral Plane.

Using her mind powers, Ivy searched the history of the portals. The most recent significant event was the flooding of the base. Before that, Ivy can sense waves of panic over a long time span. The portal to Bindle's was closed first, the Well of Dragons second, and the Astral plane was closed last. This gave her an inferential timeline to work with.

Periodically, the portals were touched by great evil. Ivy reasonably concluded this was the touch of Vane. He had not been present in this base since recently after the portal to Bindle's had closed.

They searched aboveground, finding the compound was build over an ancient temple of Shaundakul.

Investigating around, they found the area had mythals preventing the passage of elementals, demons, and slaadi.

They heard sounds coming from the south, and decided to investigate. Once they arrived, they found one active portal and two inactive portals. The inactive portals were to the astral plane and the plane of air. All of these portals were incoming one way portals. The active portal evidently went to one of Graz'zt's layers of the abyss, as the party would soon discover.

Three demons, a hezrou, and two vrocks, stood outside the portal. It appeared as if the vrocks were mocking the hezrou. Their conversation was interrupted by what the demons initially considered an easy meal. Cassius decimated one of them, and Ivy slew one herself. Cassius restored the one Ivy slew to question it.

They uncovered some pertinent information. The demons identified themselves as an envoy of Graz'zt, and were sent here to sacrifice 'suitable' mortals to him. One of the vrocks, named Rha'jeen, seemed genuinely apt at sniffing out suitable candidates. He deemed Vix "too rigid and orderly, but otherwise suitable" as a sacrifice.

The cultists seemed quite bold, as if they knew the mythal would protect them. Two cultists Rha'jeen observed were worth capturing.

The dwarven tunnels below myth drannor contains 'old portals', some of which may be two-way. The inactive portal once led to somewhere Rha'jeen did not see, although months ago it was active. One of these portals was said to be a 'keyed' living gate, potentially to the far realm. This seemed to be a possible point of ingress for Vane. It is said living gates can make judgements, and seems to open and close on its own volition.

'Lar'khat' aka 'the fat one' lurks around the lake ward is an old phaerrim which is 'not discerning with its food'. It only emerges at night. It routinely eats demons, and the demons suitably seemed afraid of it.

There is 1 portal to the astral plane, less than a mile away to the east, in the lake ward. It is 'young', and two way.

They slew the demons and fed them to Omen.

Investigating the lake ward briefly, they came upon the lair of a revered elder Phaerrim. They found drag marks near its lair and tracks its kind would make. They decided to return later to fight it.

They returned to the demiplane, except Vix, who collected her belt from Wind-up Jimmy in Sigil. He made good on his oath and provided her the belt.

10:1 time elapse on the demiplane.
130 hours in the demiplane during this session, or 8,740 overall.
660 Demiplane hours remain until the Belt of Magnificence +4 is ready for Vix.
Omen must feed in 72 hours. Provisions provide 0 more feedings for Omen. Monty must feed urgently.
0/2 monthly uses of Vix's succ ability. These recharge on Eleint 18, at midnight.
Vix's super secret plan: 415 hours remaining (260 demiplane days total)
440 hours spent on Vix's plan (v3)
97 hours until Guillermo is finished with the airship.

XP: 2,500

End: 6 pm