Session 6:
The party was ambushed at the bottom of the lift, as they exited they struggled against no less than three of the Murder Machines. Experimenting with the technology here they accidentally replaced Colossal’s Eyes with mechanical ones and killed Silverheart, turning his corpse into a new murder machine in a horrifying ritual that stripped him of his ability to feel and speak, leaving him with his mind intact but forever separating him from the sacred stone. Acastus, the fury expressed his supreme dislike for their mutilations of their bodies. A few more struggles and with much of the party being hypnotized into serving a long gone empire and being snapped out of it, they finally reached the end of the gauntlet. A testing chamber for a massive and powerful version of the Murder Machines. With surprisingly few losses the party overcomes this challenge and a portal in the back of the chamber flickers to life, responding to their need to return home, it opens a passage to the tower in Homlet, locking onto one of the portals there.
The party returned home and spent four days resting and recovering from the struggle in the mountain.
Session 7:
After taking a few days to recover the party returned to the druid grove, offering the manual to make the constructed and the service of the Murder Machine, Silverheart. Seeking additional power to protect these people Stonesinger the goliath gives up his life to become a powerful guardian of the forest known as a Dru’Gar.
With the ritual complete the party is out of time, a horn is blown and the forest is assaulted by a massive horde of gibberlings. After hours of battle the party has met with Yolanna, a fae knight who has been fighting the invasion in another part of the forest.
After spending most of the day battling against the gibberlings the party thinks to cut off the head of this attack and attack the commander of this horde. Ilanth the human cleric, Acastus the Fury, and Homlet the Ooze try to sneak to the commander’s tent and confront him. They are discovered by the commander, a Minotaur called Jag-Deesh, who invited them into his tent to discuss with them, the laws of hospitality preventing him from harming them. After a discussion with him, the party finds that Jagh-Deesh is an honorable minotaur in a bad position. Committing to the death of the druids and fae simply because it was his duty and should he find a way to not commit the genocide, he would. The party demanded a duel of honor to get him to stop the genocide.
The following day the party met at a garden in a meadow to prepare for their duel with Jagh-Deesh. Their plan was a simple one, put forth their most powerful champion, the transformed Stonesinger and to cheat. They cast spells to strengthen the Dru’Gar and waited for the minotaur to arrive. Upon arrival Jagh-Deesh waited until the magic had worn off before entering the meadow for the duel, shaming the party for attempting to cheat. Ultimately Jagh-Deesh killed Stonesinger and made a decision. He told them of a powerful magical weapon in his father’s tomb near Four Oaks. He offered them a magic ring to protect them from the curse, realizing that these cowardly cheaters might be worthy of his father’s legacy.
With the duel resolved and another friend dead, the party negotiated a ceasefire for the time being. Jagh-Deesh left them with a horn, which commanded the gibberlings, and a cryptic and not very helpful explanation on how the horn works. After he departed the party decided to hunt down the weapon they were told about and headed north into the mountains.
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