Godsgrave Session 7 Part 2

Returning from their fishing trip, The New Gods were greeted by Leorah and Amun Khun, who had discovered that the prayers were coming from the city of Ochyro, which lay directly in the path of a creature known as The Apocalypes Beast, The Primal Earth Elemental, The Tarrasque.

Leorah's research showed that they could not kill the beast outright, even if they defeated it in battle, it would regenerate within a day. She went on to add that they would probably not gain any power from this conflict, and the most they could hope for would be some epic spell components for Esmerelda to use in crafting her 13th level spell.

The goal then, is to delay the beast until the city can evacuate.

The new gods lept into action, organising supplies to be teleported through Sol's faerie rings. Elda Gem set her dwarves to work building siege engines, and the rest were set to lure The Apocalypse Beast to a ravine and trap it via mountain-summoning ( high level D&D really does give you the demigod feel).

Meena and Elda Gem took horses to the crucible of the beast to lure it towards their ravine ambush. They set up camp three miles away and waited. The Tarrasque burst out and began charging towards them, with roughly twenty minutes before it caught up with them. Some quick thinking from Elda Gem saved them as she summoned a celestial flying horse to carry them into the sky and safety.

The fight in the ravine was long and brutal, and extremely close, but everyone fought cleverly and wisely, and the beast was defeated.

Godsgrave Session 7 Recap Part 1

The New Gods decided this time to hunt down Hohonu, The Oceanfish. In the month leading up to the hunt they were troubled by more and more vivid dreams, with a common theme of a plea for help pertaining to their individual domains. They theorised they were hearing prayers and Leorah and Amun-Khun set to work ascertaining their origin while the rest set out to kill Hohonu.

Ubiytsa had procured a ship and captain in Tranheim for them to take out on the remaining ocean and hunt down Hohonu.

Upon arriving at Tranheim, Esmerelda briefly vanished and then reappeared almost instantly, saying only to the rest that she believed they were crossing the threshold into true godhood.

Captain Yoffrian had piloted and commanded The Mixed Bag, a fishing vessel, for the past 15 years, and agreed to help the gods if they could save his town. The New Gods interviewed him about Hohonu's actions, and he relayed that Hohonu had seemingly gone mad, and had been actively sinking ships until they stopped sailing out into the water and had since started occasionally beaching and smashing up the docks and buildings of Tranheim.

The party briefly considered if it was right to kill Hohonu but decided to sail out to sea and play it by ear.

Before departing, Esmerelda visited the graveyard and raised two dead sailors, with their permission, as wraiths to help slay Hohonu, to protect their families still living in Tranheim.

The day started clear as they sailed out but once they were out to sea proper a storm filled the sky with supernatural speed.

Hohonu rammed the boat, smashing a hole in the hull and water began to pour in. Before Hohonu could dive, Namjoon leapt onto its back and wedged a grappling hook between its scales.

The fight continued, with Hohonu ramming more holes in the boat, Namjoon willingly being swallowed by the great fish, and when the boat was about to sink due to water, Meena leapt into action and used her power of feasting to drink all of the water in the ship, as well as a few schools of hapless fish drawn in at the same time.

Esmerelda trapped Hohonu in a forcecage and the fight turned into a slaughter. The New Gods feasted on Hohonu's raw power but none of them gained the essence of oceans. They wondered if this is due to the way they killed Hohonu.

Godsgrave Session 6 Recap

The Party initially decided to hunt down Grummsh, the god of the orcs, to finish his rampage. Grummsh had already slain and consumed the gods of darkness, trade, and winter.

Study of Grummsh uncovered the only readily available myth where he was tricked and betrayed by the other gods, denying his orcs a home, for which he swore revenge, after which the elf god shot out one of his eyes to add injury to insult.

The party decided upon learning this that perhaps they could parley with Grummsh and see if he could be reasoned with. To aid them in their diplomacy they decided to retrieve his missing eye, which they scried and discovered was in the home of the now deceased elf god, whose forest was now mired in the grey mist.

Sol and Yugom traveled by faerie ring into the woods, and retrieved the eye, hearing voices in their minds while exposed to the fog, but otherwise seeming to experience no ill effects.

The party then intercepted Grummsh in the northern tundra, and tense negotiations followed.
Grummsh trusted Sol, the only elf in the group, the least.

After a series of tense negotiations, Grummsh agreed to join the pantheon, on return of his eye, Sol's excessive life-energy, and Sol must submit to having Grummsh's speartip placed at his throat. Having been betrayed once before, he was wary to trust again.

Sol agreed to this bargain and forged a bond of trust between himself and Grummsh.