Godsgrave Session 8 Recap

The new gods had just killed the Tarrasque and were trying to figure out how to prevent it from resurrecting at dawn. With only the knowledge from old mythology, they were not sure exactly of the mechanics of this, so the exact solution would be a shot in the dark.

As the sun set they began the long and arduous process of butchering the beast, hoping to cut it into small enough chunks that they could fit it through the magical door into a special pocket dimension that Esmerelda had devised to keep the beast imprisoned. They worked through the night led by Yugom, who worked as hard and fast as ten men, lead on by working songs sung by Sol, as Esmerelda began to create the demiplane.

Keeping a few choice peaces for themselves. they got the last part of the corpse through the door as the sun rose. Esmerelda now had a live Tarrasque trapped in a tiny plane only she had access to.

Using her new Tarrasque Eye to scry, Esmerelda looked upon the strange disc inside the ring of mountains called The Crucible to see if the Tarrasque had returned. They saw a new Apocalypse beast growing in the centre of the disc.

They decided that they needed time to rest, as they were spent, before they would face the creature, and they had bought enough time by slaying it initially that they could rest without risking any of the citizens of Ochyro.

When they returned from their rest inside of Sol's Magnificent Mansion, Esmerelda rode alone to a choke point between mountains near the dwarven stronghold, and the rest traveled to the disc of stone to see if they could figure out a way to stop the beast from returning if slain again.

They eventually discovered the disc was the top of a buried cylinder of pure adamantine, the material component in a grand spell created by the archmage Abi Dalzim in ancient history to imprison a more destructive force, and its destruction would unleash a far more destructive force.

Esmerelda trapped the Apocalypse Beast behind a pillar of stone that dwarfed the mountains on eitherside, allowing the citizens of Ochyro enough time to escape, but not before the dwarf mountainhome was destroyed.

They returned to Sorefoot Sanctuary to work with their spoils and plot revenge against Rimblatook for being foiled by him so long ago.

The Tarrasque skin and teeth were given to Amun Khun to see if he could make something of them at his forge.

They discovered Rimblatook had taken control of a city, patrolled consantly by a massive monitoring zeppelin, and built himself a massive, rambling, labyrinthine trap filled castle while he "experimented" on the city's population, which largely consisted of launching people into the fog and turning gnomes and halflings into flesh golems to "save" them from the fog.

Ubitsya discovered the name and address of one of the zeppelin's pilots, as well as one of the architects that had helped build Rimblatook's trap maze.

Their first plan was to use Sol's faerie rings to travel as close to Rimblatook as possible. Unfortunately Rimblatook had been spying on them and had learnt about Sol's Faerie magic.

The party teleported directly on top of a pressure plate built in the centre of an artificially grown mushroom ring, and the floor gave out beneath them, dropping them towards a pit of acid. Esmerelda used her magic to teleport everyone back home, and quickly scried on the room they had just left. She saw great gouts of flame and enormous spiked plates mashing into the acid pit, and when she scried Rimblatook, he was busy scrying as well.

Sol then decided to use his faerie rings to travel to the second closest ring to Rimblatook, and the new gods traveled on foot to enter the city from the outside. After dismissing the idea of entering disguised, they quickly changed their minds when they saw wanted posters depicting them plastered throughout the city.

They attempted to bribe information out of the architect, who Rimblatook had blinded and maimed to prevent him working ever again. Their attempts did not go well, as Sol was overrun with a desire for mischief, and turned himself into a giant owl before picking up the architect and flying out of the city.

The zeppelin took note of this, and began chasing the owl, charging a formidable looking lightning rod on the hull. As alarms rang throughout the city, the rest of the gods gave chase to their trickster friend.

Sol had not anticipated the zeppelin, and the architect was killed in a blast from the lightning cannon.
The zeppelin was hurting Sol badly, and the gods were unsure of how to face it until Leorah called heaven's fire from above, setting the zeppelin alight with a flame strike.

Esmerelda, exasperated from the trickster's antics, conjured the architect's soul and bound it in a cage so they could quiz the architect from beyond the grave.

They raced through the now panicking city, and used a secret tunnel to bypass Rinblatook's maze. They found the gnome god of traps sitting atop an enormous golem, flanked by more automatons and ringed with covering ballista fire.

The fight was somewhat anticlimactic, as Sol flipped from making their lives to diffcult to easy, whispering in the ballista crew's ears and turning them against Rimblatook, and when Rimblatook tried to escape, Yugom simply outran him and slit his throat with little fanfare.

Meena volunteered to become the god of the little folk, and the group decide to bring back the divine essence of invention to be given to Amun Khun.