Perrinor

Session 27 (September 3, 2023)

Last session, we rejoined our heroes immediately after Elias cut his rope and ran off, trying to escape the fog. Along the way he saw a figure at some distance, long hair reflecting the turquoise light, and gave chase. However, he quickly became lost and was ambushed by a carapskit. After sustaining an injury, he fled again, and was quickly found by Heph and Rormir. Heph got in between the carapskit and Elias, protecting him and defeating the creature.

After Elias fled again and ran into another carapskit, Rormir calmed the visibly-shaken rogue down somewhat by reminding him of the strange and funny times they’d shared, such as when Rormir first showed up fully nude, falling from the ceiling. Elias managed to somewhat regain his composure, despite not finding the figure he had chased, and the party continued on.

On the way, Heph saw Potion Pitstop in the fog, the windows smashed and fire licking the insides of the shop. He entered, seeing a scene of destruction. Despite the attempts of his companions to stop him, he fought through the flames to the back room, where he saw the skeletons of his parents.

Finally he broke out of the spell, the party regained their bearings, and they continued to the center of the fog. They attached Elias’s bell to Karrl and had him fly around to distract the carapskit from the party. Before taking off, Elias gave Karrl a bit of a pet.

Elias scouted ahead and emerged in a clearing in the fog. In the center of this clearing he saw a confusing combination of ruins and structure, consisting of towers and walls that seem like they were built from the inside of the circle out. A number of carapskit were already in combat with various adventurers. Others were clearly in the process of leaving the clearing towards the sound of the bell, some having already exited. And in the center, seated on a throne was a humanoid carapskit leaning on a rough plank-like staff. It stood and Elias tugged on the rope, bringing the rest of the party into the clearing.

• The humanoid carapskit is vaguely reminiscent of the sirens, in that it’s still an animal but it is mimicking humans
  • It has dull, unintelligent eyes
  • The humanoid raises its staff, and shoots a burst of blueish energy at Heph, and misses, then ducks under the water
  • The staff is more of a plank from some kind of construction, with half an insignia carved into the broken top
  • Heph runs up to the wall, takes a shot at where the humanoid disappeared, but misses
  • Helen Maren continues engaging with the carapskit
  • Rormir runs up to the wall, shoots at carapskit 4, and does a significant amount of damage on a crit
  • Elias runs up behind Heph and Rormir, and throws a dagger at #4
  • It misses, and he throws a second dagger, and deals 2 damage, which is just enough to finish the carapskit
  • #3 moves towards the wall, Heph feels a fuzziness in his brain and the air swirls in front of his eyes, like when he saw the Potion Pitstop illusion, but is able to shake it off
  • #2 jumps over the wall, runs up to Heph, and bites him
  • #1 fails to hit Margrit
  • Fruto Bupbop dodges behind the pillar
  • #6 fails to hit Helen
  • Margrit misses #1
• The humanoid swims a bit further forward, emerges from the water, and tries to affect Heph again
  • He manages to shake it off once again, and the humanoid dives under the water
  • Heph gives himself temp HP again, and misses a punch on #2
  • Helen hits #6 for 3 damage
  • Rormir runs over to the right side, and launches a shot at #3, but misses
  • Elias jumps back across the water, in the general direction Rormir went, and fires a shot off at #2
  • He misses terribly and hits Heph instead
  • #3 heads towards Rormir, and Rormir succeeds on an intelligence saving throw
  • #2 tries to sting Heph, but Heph blocks it with his shield
  • #1 misses a bite on Margrit
  • Fruto continues to dodge
  • #6 hits Helen for 5 damage
  • Margrit swings at #1 for 4 damage
• The humanoid pops back up out of the water, and fires another blast at Elias, and deals 13 cold damage
  • Instead of dipping back into the water, it swims up to the land and stands on the edge of the water
  • Heph thunder punches #2 and crits, dealing 10 thunder damage
  • It seems to vibrate the shell quite a bit and deals extra damage
  • Helen misses #6
  • Rormir runs over a fallen pillar and shoots at #1, dealing 19 damage and killing it with a headshot, then hides behind a wall
  • Elias runs into the mist, and pops out on the opposite side, effectively hidden from sight because no one notices except Rormir
  • He shoots at #2, the crossbow bolt whizzing through its eye as it’s about to attack and killing it
  • #3 chases after Rormir, and stings him for 12 piercing damage and 4 poison damage
  • Fruto has a brief conversation with Elias, and tells him about a nerve cluster in their limb joins that will force them to retreat into their shell
  • Elias asks him if he has any health potions, and it turns out he has one
  • He then takes the ready action to administer the healing potion when Elias gets in range
  • #6 swings at Helen and takes her down
  • Margrit begins swimming towards Helen to try to help
• The humanoid tries again to give Heph an illusion, but he shakes it off and notices that half of the emblem on the top of the staff is half cut off
  • The glow of the emblem dims after that, indicating that particular ability is run out
  • It cautiously moves towards Heph
  • Heph casts Thunderwave on it, it takes 4 damage but doesn’t seem extra affected by the thunder damage
  • Helen succeeds on a death save
  • Rormir stabs at #3’s joint with his sword, misses on a nat 1, and the sword chips a bit
  • Rormir hears a bit of a groggy “hrmph?” when he the sword chips
  • Elias turns to head back into the mist, Fruto asks if he should do anything with the potion, Elias asks him to get it to Heph
  • Elias runs back into the mist and sneaks, only Rormir seeing where he went
  • Elias pulls out his heavy crossbow and shoots at #3, aiming for the joints
  • He hits the carapskit right in the nerve cluster using Elven Accuracy, dealing 10 damage and causing it to retreat back into its shell
  • Elias runs back through the mist and appears on the other side
  • #3, currently in its shell, rocks back and forth a bit but it does not manage to overcome the reflex
  • Fruto runs towards Heph, and readies an action to shove a health potion down Heph’s throat
  • #6, after defeating Helen, makes its way towards the humanoid
  • Margrit makes it the rest of the way to Helen, but does not have any actions left
• The humanoid heads towards Heph
  • The casting of magic from the staff seems accidental almost, it hops over the wall and tries to claw Heph
  • The first claw misses, and the second Heph easily parries with his shield
  • Heph claps his gauntlets again, casting Thunderwave, and pushing back the humanoid and #6
  • Heph takes a step back, Fruto pours the health potion down his throat, and Heph heals for 7
  • Helen succeeds on her second death save
  • Rormir attacks #6, but the arrow bounces off its shell, and he retreats back across the water towards the edge of the fog
  • Elias jumps back through the fog, but isn’t quite able to sneak this time
  • He runs back to the left side again, through the fog
  • He dashes towards the top of the clearing, and yells out to Margrit to ask what’s going on
  • Margrit yells back that Helen is unconscious, and that she doesn’t know anything about the other unconscious guy
  • #3 is still unable to overcome its reflexes
  • Fruto asks Elias what to do, and Elias tells him to run towards the direction the party came from originally, after throwing a dagger at the humanoid
  • He misses, and starts to run towards the fog
  • #6 runs up to Heph, hits for 6 piercing damage
  • Margrit stabilizes Helen, who is still unconscious but now stable
• The humanoid frantically claws at Heph, and misses both attacks
  • Heph uses the gun from Toddle to cast burning hands on the humanoid and #6
  • Helen is unconscious but stable
  • Rormir moves down a bit, uses Zephyr Strike, puts vial #4 on the arrow, shoots it at the humanoid, hits it for 6 piercing and 4 force damage
  • In addition, it takes 1 poison damage from the coating
  • Rormir notices that the humanoid’s pupils dilate a bit, in addition to the poison damage
  • He hears another voice in his head “oh god, jesus christ, why did you wake me up?”
  • It’s still super unclear where the voice is coming from
  • He uses the rest of his movement to head down a bit, then jump through the mist to the left side
  • Elias casts Sleep, and both #6 and the humanoid fall asleep
  • He jumps across the water a few times to get to the section near the throne
  • He sees that the throne seems fairly plain, but there are some patterns of cracks on it that seem familiar
  • #3 manages to finally pop out of its shell
  • Fruto continues to run away, and pops out at the top of the map
  • #6 is asleep and snores in a turtle-y way
  • Margrit runs towards the humanoid yelling “that prize money is mine!”
  • The humanoid is asleep
  • Heph tries to punch the humanoid, but misses
  • Helen is unconscious
  • Rormir shoots the humanoid, but the arrow bounces off
  • #3 dashes towards Margrit
  • Elias uses his health potion on Ramon to revive him
  • Ramon wakes up, and Elias asks him 1) if he has a health potion, and 2) if he knows anything about the turtles
  • He doesn’t know much, but is willing to help out with the fight if the party needs help
  • Elias asks him for weapons, he hands over a dagger but Elias tells him to keep his rapier
  • Elias asks him and Fruto to help inspect the throne
  • Fruto gets up to the throne, and sees that the cracks are in some sort of design
  • They might be intentional, rather than random cracks
  • They do not look like turtle shells, it looks partially like the water but with other designs
  • #6 is asleep
  • Margrit hops over the wall, misses a shot on the humanoid
• Ramon inspects the throne, and on an 18 investigation he notices that the cracks seem to form diamond shapes in one section, and ones branching off of it are more curling and swirly
  • The humanoid is asleep
  • Heph tries again to punch the humanoid, but misses
  • Helen is unconscious
  • Rormir focuses all his attention on this shot, the world turns black, and shoots at the humanoid, following a green light, seemingly looking through a different realm
  • It hits the humanoid, killing it, and the turquoise glow dims and the fog seems to become darker, as if a nearby clearing is no longer there
  • He moves a bit closer to the action, and hears “oh, bloody hell, what’s going on, where am i, oh god, this seems, oh god, what’s going on, holy shit what the fuck is happening”
  • On a 13 perception, Rormir notices that the voice seems to bump every time he steps
  • Elias goes up to the throne, and recognizes that the patterns on the throne are crude imitations of patterns, not expertly carved, that are a pattern Elias is familiar with
  • He can tell that it seems that some magic force created the area from the center
  • The architecture is fairly generic, but there is a vague familiarity to the whole thing
  • Elias casts Sleep, targeting #3, who falls asleep
  • Elias hides behind the throne
  • #3 is asleep
  • Fruto is confused where Elias went, and dodges
  • #6 is asleep
  • Margrit chops off the head of the humanoid, grabs it, and starts running
• The architecture starts crumbling, the fog is thinning, and the glow is completely dim
  • Ramon starts to dash away
  • Heph picks up the staff that the humanoid had
  • On dirt 20s for history and arcana, Heph can tell it is a spar from the outside of a ship, with a distinct half-broken insignia near the top: a combination of hard geometric shapes, with curves and swirls in the shape of an anchor near the geometric shapes
  • It was serving as an arcane focus for the creature, and it reacted with the creature in some way
  • This object somehow transformed the carapskit into this fucked up humanoid thing
  • Heph tells Rormir to run after Margrit, and punches #6 into oblivion
  • #3 seems to be shrinking slightly and glowing less
  • Helen is unconscious
  • Rormir thinks that Margrit is throwing the situation off balance, and shoots at her, dealing 11 piercing damage, hitting her leg and damaging it severely, dropping the head of the humanoid
  • She is unconscious
  • The columns are continuing to crumble, and the cracks in the throne are starting to get bigger
  • The water is rapidly drying up, with steam rising from it
• Heph punches #3, which wakes up and is thoroughly unintimidated on a nat 1 intimidation

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