SOTDL CAMPAIGN DIARY: THE END IS NEAR, PT 2, 10/17/17

The Heroes:

·     Ecna Lubma: dwarf priest grudgebearer healer

·     Gruntbelly: dwarf magician sorcerer wizard

·     Kane Arroway: human warrior fighter sharpshooter

·     Mathias: jotun jotun juggernaut spirit warrior

The heroes finish off the cultists in the tower and spot out the windows activity happening outside.  They look and see that the wall that had prevented them from entering the central part of town was going down, probably as a result of their stopping the cultists.  But as this occurs, the glowing fey spires begin to glow brighter and then each emit a bright beam of power that converge upon a central location in the skies above Crossings.  There, the space begins to warp and a dark hole appears in the sky, unnervingly similar to the hole that the Destroyer of Worlds emerged from just days earlier.  The heroes also spot activity on the ground directly below the hole in the sky.

The heroes rush down to the ground level and take their flying carpet towards the area where this is occurring.  The turbulence caused by the energy beams and the hole in the sky causes the rug to go haywire and it bucks the two dwarfs and jotun off.  They fall roughly to a nearby rooftop.  Kane holds on to the rug for a few moments, then drops to another nearby rooftop.  The group converge in an alley and spot the area where they saw activity and see more cultists in the town market square.  They also spot someone having been crucified in that area, likely being sacrificed in the ritual that is activating the fey towers.

Mathias moves in first, sneaking up to the nearest building and climbing in the 2^nd floor window, surprising the cultist there.  Kane follows and the two fight the cultist while Ecna and Gruntbelly proceed on the street level.  Gruntbelly spots a spellcaster on a nearby roof and uses his magic to summon a burst of wind, knocking the cultist off the roof.  This alerts other nearby cultists, who proceed to move in on the two dwarves and attack. 

The market square is a flurry of activity.  The center of the square is a whirlwind of energy with the leader of the Brotherhood of Shadows, Katandramus, at its center, apparently driving the ritual.  Surrounding him are several cultists, many appearing inhuman with red skin and horns, others appear to be normal humans, but all bearing the robes of the brotherhood.  Among them the heroes spot Inquisitor Masivar and they also spot a large demon on a rooftop. 

Mathias and Kane finish off the cultist in the building and the joten changes into a bird and tries to fly to Katandramus, but is stopped by the barrier created by the energies swirling around the cult leader. 

Ecna and Gruntbelly manage to kill some cultists, but the numbers pressing in on them result in Gruntbelly going down.  He survives for a time until Masivar casts a spell in that area and the dark tentacles he summons kills the dwarf!

Kane, Ecna and Mathias are left and things look grim as the cultists and demon bear down upon them and, as they look  upward, the see an impossible large, red and inhuman eye peering through the widening hole in the sky…

End of session.