Godsgrave Session 5 Recap

The party discovered that devils and demons were no longer answering summoning spells through Esmerelda's experimentations. Thirsting for more knowledge, they decided to chase down Lucian, The God of Knowledge and Magic, and Leorah's father.

Sol used his faerie magic to transport the party to the toadstool ring closest to Beacon, the city founded and ruled by Lucian. As they approached Leorah warned the group that while Lucian was the god of knowledge, he hoarded it and many in Beacon were illiterate serfs working to support the scholar caste. Leorah did not know why, but Beacon was also deeply chauvinistic in its customs.

Approaching Beacon, the party found a crowd gathered to burn an 11 year old girl, who was condemned for witchcraft due to her ability to read and write.

Tempted by violence, the party instead opted to have Sol distract the group with his divine music. Sol played so well that the group was complete enchanted, along with Nam-Joon. Sol lead the witchburners away into the forest before disappearing into the toadstool ring with Nam-Joon. The party gave the little girl money and a knife and set her on the path to Sorefoot Sanctuary.

Sol and Nam-Joon found themselves briefly stranded deep underground, as the peasants had dug up the toadstool ring looking for Sol. With a little help from Amun-Khun's beetle worshippers, they appeared in a forest and Sol turned into a giant owl to fly himself and Nam-Joon back to the party.

The party encountered Lucian on the edge of the mist, where he was studying its effects on various people, including a new demigod he had fathered, and Leorah proclaimed with disgust and disbelief that she had a new baby sister who was suspended in a cage above the deadly fog. Leorah used her divine insight to try to discover more about the fog, but it was hidden from her. She turned her omniscience on her father, and discovered that he knew deep down that he was responsible for the mist, but would never admit it, not even to himself.

Lucian had been watching the party with divination since the start of their journey, and was apparently expecting them with their favourite foods and drinks, expertly prepared. Eventually the whole party sat down, although many did not eat or drink, fearing poison.

Lucian had coated the chairs in a slow acting paralysis contact poison, although he failed to take into account the party's divine constitutions. A small fight started until the party realised that Lucian was merely an illusion.

Tired from the fight, the party decided to rest. Lucian reappeared in the night and trapped all but Nam-Joon in the forcecage. He captured Nam-Joon with the intention of studying him and then studying the effects of the mist on this "new god".

The party mobilised to rescue Nam-Joon, but Esmerelda let slip that Nam-Joon was still charged with energy from the Well of Souls and could simply suicide to reappear with his friends.

As soon as Lucian heard this through his arcane sensors, he sent his guards to restrain Nam-Joon, but it was too late. Nam-Joon reappeared in a burst of golden light with his friends.

The party ascended the tower, noting that the guards were instructed to stand down and let them through, passing some traps, before enountering multiple floors of empty magic circles inscribed to imprison demons and devils.

On the highest floor with these circles, the party discovered one devil and one demon still within their circles. The devil, desperate for freedom, bargained with the party, offering complete and honest information and safety for themselves and mortals for 300 years if they would simply release him from the circle. The party did so. True to his word, as devils must be, he told them everything he knew.

Lucian had been working on a project for the past 200 years. He had been trapping devils and demons, destroying them to their elemental components, discarding the pure Law and Chaos, and instilling the Evil into a scythe blade which he sent off to another god. The remaining devil and demon were apparently not needed to create the blade, and he had seen thousands of his kind destroyed to make it.

The party moved on to encounter Lucian, who sat in a throne surrounded by nine mirrors hanging from the ceiling.

The fight was brutal and in some ways, lacking in the misdirection and deviousness they had noticed before. The party did discover that Lucian had created 9 True Simulacra which dwelt inside the mirrors (portals to demiplanes) and that they could not kill him until they killed all the Mirror-Lucians.

While some of the party battled in the real world, the rest traveled from plane to plane, slaying each Lucian.

At one point the party disrupted Lucian's casting of an epic spell, and in the resulting arcane chaos, an enormous monster broke into the material plane and began to attack them.

Eventually, Amun-Khun slew the last mirror Lucian, and Esmerelda slew him in the real world. Leorah inherited his knowledge, and Esmerelda took his magical power.

Godsgrave Session 5 Pre-game

Hi guys, please level up to 11 or come early and i'll help with level up.

Dwarves have set up a forge and rice paddies at the foot of the mountain. (all weapons and armour available for sale)

A band of elves has returned with Sol and are establishing a herb garden and apothecary ( 3 healing potions available for purchase)

Ubiytsa returns with extra information:

1) Lucian, God of Knowledge and Magic, is conducting experiments with the grey mist in the north eastern theocracy of Beacon. (Lucian is Leorah's father and ruler of Beacon)
[This may reveal information about the fog]

2) Hohonu, The Great Ocean Fish, is rampaging through the western oceans, destroying ships and coastal cities.
[This is a powerful god and will give you 3 levels if you win rather than 2]

3) Grummsh, God of the Orcs, is going on a journey similar to your own, he is hunting down other gods and taking their power. He is currently in the far north, hunting the god of winter.
[Grummsh is incredibly warlike and will represent a difficult fight, but will yield an additional divine power]

Ubiytsa has also heard rumours that spells like Infernal Calling, and other demon summoning spells, have stopped working.

Godsgrave session 4 Recap

The party returned from their battle with Moradin to find a man in the temple awaiting their return. Ubiytsa was a conman and thief who wanted to be their angel. Esmerelda eventually took him up on the offer and sent him off to gather information on other gods for them.

The party travelled to the western forests to confront the elven gods, Corellon and Lathuan. On their way into the forest they found and confronted the elf spirit. They eventually defeated this spirit by a river of cursed water that would kill all who touched it. Yugom was splashed and died, using up the last of his divine reserves to create a new avatar for himself.

Across the river they entered the elf forest, which they quickly surmised was dead and necromantically animated to present a picture perfect ideal of a forest. On their way to confront the elven god they met the necromancer responsible and defeated him, Esmerelda taking his spellbook.

They confronted the elven god(s), Sol playing a song of countercharm to defend against the elven charms. Eventually the gods were defeated and Sol was made new god of the elves.

Upon leaving the forest Esmerelda was touched by the grey fog but survived.

Godsgrave session 4 pregame

Pretty simple this time guys, just level up to 9 before the session or come a bit early and i'll help you level up.

Godsgrave Session 3 Recap

The party decided it was time to deal with Moradin, God of Dwarves. On their travels there they ran into a shapeshifting elf spirit that was convincing a pack of wolves to commit suicide. Suitable unsettled, they travelled on to "The Big Dig" where they heard Moradin was leading the dwarves.

The Big Dig turned out to be a hole about a mile across and immeasurably deep. The dwarves aboveground were working to send supplies and withdraw crushed rock from the bottom of the hole.

The party managed to get parachutes and descend into the hole. At the bottom was an armoured, mobile city, continuously digging down.

The party moved swiftly through the city, stopping briefly to raid an armory, stealing crossbows and a scorpion siege engine, before descending to Moradin's Forge.

Moradin was clearly mad and discussion ended with the party firing the scorpion directly at him. During the battle, the city descended deeper and eventually The Fog began seeping through the floor. Esmerelda was briefly touched by the fog but seemed to escape unscathed.

Moradin became obsessed with killing the dwarves in the city before they could be touched by the fog. The party dispatched him and Elda became the god of Dwarves and Amun became the god of smiths.

Godsgrave Session 3 Pre-Game

Hello lovelies!

Please make sure you're levelled up to level 7 before the game starts. The Well of Souls has detected three viable targets for you this session.

1) Moradin, God of Dwarves, dwells in a vast Dwarven Stronghold to the Southwest. He is desperately attempting to prepare the dwarves for the apocalypse, abandoning the majority to save a few.


2) Corellon and Lathuan, God and Goddess of the elves, are leading their people to accept the end of the world with grace and dignity. The dwell in a forest to the West.

3) Jild, the God of Traders and Merchants, is offering a vast reward of riches to anyone who can get him and his followers out of this predicament.

I'm also deducting 500 gold to re-equip the party with any equipment lost in the ocean. You're down to 500 gold now.

Thanks guys!

Godsgrave Session 2 Recap

The party, minus their rogue, bard, one of their clerics, and their wizard for the first half of the adventure, decided to go after Rimblatook, the god of gnomes and invention. He had killed the god of halflings and was experimenting on the small folk in the southern deserts.

On their journey to the desert they ran across a dwarven caravan heading to The Big Dig. The party was distressed by the fact the dwarves had shaved their heads and beards, and were talking about the saved and those left behind.

They also ran across a goblin party. The goblins were celebrating the fact that they had killed their god, who was crucified in the middle of the party. Nam-Joon decided to absorb the dead god's powers. Nam-Joon also absorbed his responsibilities, so Nam-Joon is now the god of goblins.

They found gnomes hiding in the desert, and proceeded to try and stuff one into their backpack. This is when Rimblatook's Airship captured them via rocket powered cages. They were deposited in a jail cell, which is when Esmerelda materialised.

They proceeded to break out of the cell, being chased by a golem called The Warden. They stopped briefly in the chase to light a fire under the central boiler system. They proceeded to rush to the lower deck and face off against Rimblatook and his army of golems. They didn't do well.

Luckily the boiler exploded before they could all die and Rimblatook became more concerned with escaping than killing the party. The party managed to barely escape with their lives thanks to some quick thinking.