Players (Characters)
Scott (Rain)
Jeremy (Grokk)
Catherine (Amber; Nidrama)
Tony (Roland)
Rachel (Horkina)
DM: Tom (Garlen)
Standing in the central room at the base of Skullrot, Amber cast light on an arrow which Rain shot straight up into the darkness, revealing the general structure of the tower. Rain, Roland, Nidrama and Amber flew upward and discovered a strange hag-like creature flanked by a pair of huge flesh golems. Rain moved into position and Amber set off the fire seeds he was holding, severely damaging one of the golems in the blast. Dragon Breath from Sam and some powerful sounds from Roland destroyed the Annis. Nidrama slashed into a golem, and Horkina came up the stairs and chopped the golem in half. Amber missed the remaining golem with her sling, but Sam and Nidrama finished it off. Rain's constant blabbering about his sword got so annoying that Roland cast fly on Percy to allow him to escape.
The party gathered together and moved to the top of the tower. At the center of the tower was a huge cage with a pitiful-looking Adimarchus inside. Guarding the cage was a massive skeleton with bony wings, a red robe, and a massive black scythe. This lichfiend, along with a demonflesh golem, prepared to attack. Rain poked and prodded the lichfiend while Grokk tore pieces out of the golem. Horkina resisted a Destruction spell (fort save 51) while Roland and Sam scorched the enemies with dragon's breath. Amber countered the lichfiend's Wail of the Banshee. Horkina finished off the golem, and Grokk and Garlen dealt several blows to the lichfiend. Roland used Bigby's Crushing Hand to hold it in place, but it still managed to Blaspheme and paralyze Redtail. Horkina crushed its bones with the Maul of the Titans, and Amber cast a Miracle to keep its life essence from escaping back to Grazz't, its patron.
Admiarchus looked to be secure in his cage, so the party headed for the basement and slaughtered a pair of flesh golems, with Horkina landing an impressive blow that cut through one and into the other. They smashed up some golem-building equipment and then stepped into the next room. There, a fly-like Chasme Demon awaited. Roland tried to destroy it with a finger of death, but it shrugged off the attack. It was not so lucky against Rain's swords or Grokk's axe, and soon lay dead on the floor. Sitting in the center of the next room was an iron flask which Roland surmised held some sort of nasty enemy. Rain tumbled into the room and the flask released a massive Devourer. Garlen poked it several times while Amber cast Mass Heal. Sam, in Marut form, blinded the beast, but Roland's disintegrate spell was ineffective. Grokk stepped forward to land the killing blow, and the party headed back to the top of the tower to face Adimarchus.
Amber reshaped the stone around the demon prince's cage in order to create a stable platform for the party to fight on. Roland, as ruler of Occipitus, could see that his power could shatter the cage easily, so he stood ready to break it open as the rest of the party positioned themselves to attack. Horkina reacted to the broken cage first, cutting deep into Adimarchus (184 damage). Garlen, in his Centaur form, stood opposite from Rain as the two timed their attacks for maximum effectiveness (326 damage; 111 damage and -6 strength). Adimarchus' demon form was slain, and Grokk began to smash into his angel form (105 damage). Adimarchus tried to implode Garlen with his claw, but the demon-hating ranger resisted. Amber's pair of moon bolts weakened Adimarchus (-20 strength). A ray of fire from Roland and a strike from Percy (135 damage) left the demon prince reeling, but he managed to avoid being crushed by another Bigby spell. Horkina and Garlen landed the last few blows (153 and 136 damage), slaying Adimarchus.
His body disappeared a few minutes later, and Roland realized he'd likely appear on Occipitus in the center of the skull. The party headed there and found Adimarchus' body was just beginning to reform. The unconscious demon was unable to defend against the flurry of strikes that finally destroyed him. As Adimarchus died, a massive earthquake shook Occipitus and broke the skull mountain in two. Deep within the mountain was a vault filled with Adimarchus' most prized treasures.
Over the next few months, the city of Cauldron continued to rebuild under the leadership of Lord Vanderboren, with help from the temples of St. Cuthbert and Ehlonna. The Drunken Morkoth Inn added a new decoration -- a painting of the famed Morkoth fighting with the Rubble Rousers. In the painting, Rain and Garlen were firing arrows at its loins, Amber and Roland were blasting it with magical rays, Grokk was mid-leap swinging his Holy Cow Axe, and Horkina was wrestling a massive beer mug away from the lake monster. Many other businesses in Cauldron gave their own small tributes to the Rubble Rousers, and even the Stormblades sent them congratulations. The Stormblades went on to map and clear out most of the tunnels beneath the city. The Rubble Rousers donated their guild hall to Meerthan as they each headed their own way.
Rain took control of the remaining half of House Rhivaldi, turning it into "Rain's Whore Arena". Horkina built "Horkina's Rain", a brewery and bar across the street. Roland finished his paired towers on Occipitus and in southeast Cauldron, and went on many demon-slaying quests across his plane. Grokk went back to the steppe and founded his own tribe, wandering around with a large herd and telling stories about the many things he'd slain. Amber left her temple to James and went to the north, founding a new temple and smiting various evil things. Garlen followed Roland and Amber around whenever they had demons or undead to fight, and would occasionally walk through the woods with Amber wearing fancy clothes and baiting foolish bandits into attacking. And this is how they remained, until a great evil descended onto the land... (To be continued!)
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