SESSION 326: The Dreaming Caldera Pt.8: …And the Crowd Goes Wild
(Chaos) God is dead and its servitors were real unhappy with that.
Day 772 Continued III (Underworld): With the chaos god slowly devolving into soup Blerp the ogre pointed out that the music had stopped and the crowd in the theatre were stirring into a fanatical rage. Saff & Azucar were sent through the illusory barrier (nullifying it) between chambers. The audience were not happy. The smarter of which saw our two stinkers and began yelling fowl things. It would not take long before the mob goes wild.
The first of four fireballs, during this grand melee, was discharged from a wand into the middle of the theatre. There was over a hundred of the Chaos God’s minions present. A good many were consumed in the conflagration but many more remained and they now saw the blasphemers. Sure some of the rabble had their moral broken but many others streamed towards the stage once they regained their bearings. The rest of our hobo gang streamed out of the god-chamber and covered the stage. In hindsight this choice really exposed them to all the remaining forces of evil. The harpies began to sing and they ensnared Bimbles. Concurrent with that the Acolytes were able to ‘hold’ the charmed Bimbles, Dolec and Lester. The paladin faced the worst of it as multiple gnolls delighted in burying their blades deep into the holy warrior. The second fireball was released killing the evil clerics of chaos. This ended their paralyzing grip on the three at the front of the stage. Blerp was holding the bugbears on one side of the stage as Azucar held the gnolls on the other. Saff helped out by knocking down six of the gnolls with a sleep spell. Then Dolec and Lester were held again as the acolytes continued to undermine the hobo frontline. Lester was turned into a piñata he was standing dead as his fluids sprayed from his many holes.
“Why… did I ever come to the surface world?.....”
Our hobos kept ending up a step behind the opposition. Saff loosed another fireball once more ending the ‘hold’. During this time Bimbles wandered off to join his new masters, the gross but topless harpies. Carla stepped into the gap left by the fallen Lester. Bunny leapt onto the wall and crept upwards and across the ceiling trying to catch up with a now disarmed Bimbles that was wandering away with his skanks. Dolec jumped off the stage to better wade through the beastmen. Blerp was holding the line but needed help, so Saff made a new best friend Grok the bugbear. This allowed the ogre to smash the remaining pair of buggies. Being joined by Dolec made Azucar’s job much easier and the gnolls were doomed. Bunny dropped one of the last two harpies. The last fled as Carla was able to dispel Bimbles’s enthrallment.
The fight had now run its course. The theatre was a smoldering pit of carnage.
The hobos victorious once more but for the first time in a long while they were reminded of the cost of recklessness.
Bandaging and looting followed. The fireballs had likely incinerated a bunch of loot but they still came up with a bunch of coin, gems, jewelry and a couple of neat items (axe and trident). They then fell back to the god-chamber and had Blerp yank out the huge golden heart, about 85 lbs. of solid gold soldiers pay. The heart was strapped to his back and he once more picked up the two desiccated elves in rocking chairs. Grok slung dead Lester over his shoulder. Saff’s two henchmen fell into the back of the line as our gang pressed on. Next stop pickup Saff’s dwarf. She really was building quite the entourage.
They were wary that the Sisters could be on the prowl and took measures to determine such. The corridors were strangely, some would say eerily, quiet. No dragons. Returning to the Blood Bank, Chory the dwarf was gone (and so was his chest). Presumably things probably got dangerous when the music stopped.
Disappointed they began a very circuitous trip that ended before the Master’s chamber once more. “We ain’t done gettin’ paid yet”, Bimbles eyes sparkled with the true avarice of a MurderHobo.
The A-Team: Bunny, Carla, Bimbles, Saffron, Charles, Dolec Da, Nara, Lester & Azucar
ROLECALL
Carla the Green High Priestess of TMB (C10) 363590 xp +10% <400001> CRT 1d12/III
Scars: permanent loss left index finger and scarring on arm
Bimbles the High Priest of GSS (C10) 327825 xp +5% <400001> CRT 1d12/III
+2 save to poison and internal body things; Double eat (gotta feed my baybay)
Bunny the Thief! (T10) 319435 xp <400001> +10% CRT 1d24/II
Light wound: permanent loss of pinky finger, off hand
The Henchmen
Saffron the Mad Fairy Queen of Ribbits (FY8*) 201739 xp <200001> CRT 1d10/III
Moderate wound: Scar on abdomen
Lasting injury: -1 STR, mashed guts
PETRIFIED - Nara the Nearly Naked Purple Swami Girl (PS7) 116268 xp +5% <125000> CRT 1d16/II
Wraith Drained: -1 CON
PETRIFIED - Charles in Charge the Myrmidon (F6) 89866 <120000> +10% CRT 1d20/IV
Franz the Grave Return (Lawful; XXXX) Sword
Critical Wound: Punctured lung (-2 CON)
Mostly DEAD. (-1 CON)
Dolec Da the Hero (F7) 74855 xp +10% <120000> CRT 1d20/IV
Missing five teeth
DEAD - Lester Flanders the Guardian of Oceana (P6) 52155 xp <95000> +5% CRT 1d16/IV
Azucar the Elven Myrmidon Warlock (E6)
RESERVES
Elapsed Campaign Time
743b days at beginning of session (Boris & Friends just outside of Liwil)
766a (Bunny Group Newville/ Dreaming Caldera) Busy until 779
724d (Ding-We Gang Lake of Abominations/ Liwil)
Join us for session Three-Hundred-and-Twenty-Seven when we ask the questions:
What fabulous award awaits us for smiting god-bits?
Where are the Sisters?
Is the joint super quiet because everything is dead or gone?
Tale of the Tape
Lester the Paladin of Oceana sundered by Gnolls
Nara and Charles continue their stay at the petrification hotel.
Enslaved by Saffron: Blerp the Ogre & Grok the Bugbear & Chory the Dwarf (but we don’t know where he is)
KILLS
Orcs (10)
Gnolls (20)
Acolytes (20)
Goblins (10)
Bugbears (9)
Harpies (4)
Ogres (5)
LOOT
Golden Heart (85 lbs.) 60,000 gp
3,000 gp
6,000 sp
Gems (2): Flawed pearl 10, Wonderful Ruby 1000
Jewelry (3): platinum earrings 1100 gp, gold and diamond tiara 1400 gp, intricate gold bracelet 800 gp = 3300 gp
Scroll: Protection from Lycanthropes
Hand axe of XXXX?
Trident of XXXX?
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