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Session 32 into session 33 –(recap)
Welcome back everyone! – Here’s what happened in our previous session.
We rejoined the party as they were preparing to embark on their next journey to the Arcane Sanctuary.
Rhyker, Kaelin and Cinder were gathering around the way-point, and were waiting on Ophi to join them, as she was off recalling Nix from the Fae realm to come to join her side.
When Ophi’s summoning was complete, and they were all finally together, it was time to move on.
Stepping from the way point back onto the tiles of the platform, which still just seemed to be floating in dead space, the party proceeded to argue about many things, one of which was which direction to head for.
There were three red portals, and one deactivated portal, one on each of the sides of the platform.
Finally, a portal was chosen and the party all stepped through, upon entering were whisked away to another platform which had four spectral enemies lurking in the shadows, and a lightning spire, directly in the middle of the platform.
Upon the party moving closer, the spire sparked into life and sent chain Lightning into three of them, before it dissipated, and the spire deactivated.
The party did eventually destroy the spire, and took down the four specters that hovered around the platform… But with no corporeal bodies left behind to search, there was no way to loot, and the party soon headed back to the central platform.
Once there, they wasted no time in picking a second portal, and were once more whisked away to a new platform… This time there was Specters, the Lightning spire, and a group of Hell clan Goatmen, wielding large sharpened axes, ready to cut the party down, they charged recklessly into combat.
Nix unluckily took a large bolt of lighting to her chest and was reduced to ashes in seconds.
The fight began, and was fierce, with Cinder casting a giant flame all across the platform to injure and cut off his foes, but it was short lived due his concentration being broken, after suffering the damage taken from a miscast Fireball, brought on by Ophi, as a result of her magical power running wild.
Eventually, the second platform was left empty, the spire dealt with in broken pieces, the ghostly apparitions had faded, and the bodies of the goatmen lay strewn across the floor, with their blood slowly seeping into the wide gaps between the stone tiles.
A quick search of the bodies and the area, and the party were once again headed to the central platform to take the third portal.
The next platform had only a couple of groups of goatmen, and a lightning spire in the middle.
It was during the combat on this platform, where Cinder pushed the good nature of the fae creatures he summoned, a little too far, and paid the price.
He would summon them in the air, and have them connect with the targets below, by plummeting from great heights at speed, and this instantly destroyed the form the fae creature took on impact.
His actions angered the Druidic spirits, deeming them unjust and unworthy of their blessings.. and so they stripped Cinder of his ability to cast any spells, or summon any fae beings again.
Still, using the aid of Ophi and her deadly fireballs, the partywere able to clear the platform of the goatmen, and destroy the spire.
One more quick search had them on their way back to the central platform yet again.
Only this time, when they arrived back, the fourth portal that was inactive, was glowing red off to the east of the platform, it had been fully activated.
Eagerly, the Emberguard raced through the remaining portal, to find more of what they expected, a spire with a group of enemies around it, but they didn’t expect to find a stair case off to the far side of the new platform… It seemed to lead down, but down to where?
This of course got their interest, but instead of fighting, they all decided to go to the central platform and take a short rest, before taking on the next platform, and of course whatever was waiting for them down those steps.
It is here where we rejoin the party for this session of…. Adventure in Sanctuary.
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