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.

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.

Godsgrave Session 6 Pre-Game

Hello Lovelies!

Please level up to 13 for next session, or show up early and i'll help you level up.

Report from Ubi:

Rimblatook has taken control of a large port town, Calmwaters and has transformed it into a bizarre Orwellian city. He dwells in a maze of traps and is guarded by golems and a new airship which patrols the city with ballistae and scorpions mounted on its hull. He is launching people into the fog, in various contraptions, attempting to get someone past the fog to the other side. So far there have been 0 successes.

Ubi has discovered one of the master builders who helped create Rimblatook's maze. Although he is blinded and crippled (by Rimblatook) it is possible he could provide you with helpful information in navigating the maze.

Ubi has also found one of the pilots of the airship, and can provide you with is home address if that is of use to you.


Ubi has also kept tabs on Grummsh. Grummsh has succesfully killed and eaten the god of winter, and is now travelling south to try to find the god of death.

There are rumours that the god of war, who has never been defeated in battle, fled once he entered the fog, and is now hiding inside his magic sword, Pangtax, who can never be taken from it's owners hand in battle.

Hohonu is now trapped in small section of the southern ocean about a square mile in size. His frenzy has grown and he is now destroying coastal villages, towns and cities as well as boats.

There are rumours that the Apocalypse beast is stirring in the east.

There are rumours that there is a city were nobody can die or leave.

There are rumours that a magic tree is appearing overnight in villages, and those that eat of its silver fruit become gods.

There are rumours that the king of the gods is dead.

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.