SOTDL CAMPAIGN DIARY: SESSION 9 - THE LIVING CAVE
The Cast:
· Brother Aron: Human priest/cleric of the New God
· Calista: Ferren rogue/thief
· Perry Flaxseed: Halfing Hunter/Fighter
· Nikolai Petrechko: Human Veteran/Fighter
The heroes travel by foot to where the cave from Brother Aron's dreams would be found. After a day's journey and another harrowing nightmare that nearly killed the priest, they find the cave. Tracks around it suggest others have recently entered, so they enter cautiously. They come to a partial cave-in and are forced to climb a wall of boulders to continue. The passage beyond the boulders was clearly the entrance to a massive creature's body. They enter the mouth and proceed to an opening that leads to the creature's brain. In that chamber, they arouse a sleeping drake that they must kill before interacting with the brain. Once the drake dies, Brother Aron touches the brain and is force-fed images of how the massive creature came to be in this place.
From the creature's perspective, Brother Aron watches it emerge from it's mother, an even larger monstrosity that resides in a massive cavern. The creature is told by it's mother to seek out the creatures of this world to slay and eat, for they forcibly brought her into this place. The creature emerged from the cavern and found it's brethren already doing their mother's bidding, causing destruction wherever they went. The diminutive residents of the island, which their mother hated with all of her being, lived in communities surrounding several towers that were protected by magic. The creature and its brethren watched as the little people of the towers called forth a magic that trapped the monsters on the island. But their mother also had power and used it to send her children outside of the barrier to the other lands of the world.
The Gargantua continued their mother's bidding, but were opposed by the many peoples of the world, who worked together to kill the creature's siblings off one by one. Brother Aron watched as the creature ate hundreds of these people, but one in particular, a holy warrior who bore a weapon that caused the creature great pain, entered its body and made his way to the creature's heart and buried that weapon into it, incapacitating the creature. But the spark of magic from the mother kept the beast alive, though it was unable to heal itself due to the weapon being embedded in it's heart. The creature's body was buried over time until it was indistinguishable from the surrounding hills. There it languished as other creatures found and exploited its undying corpse for thousands of years.
Recently, the spark of magic from its mother grew more powerful and enabled the creature to reach out with its mind to any who could hear it, beckoning them by manipulating their dreams; as it had with Brother Aron. It did this to force them to come and rid its body of the foul weapon that kept it from healing.
Brother Aron tore himself from the brain and realized that he must remove this weapon, even though doing so may restore another Gargantua to plague the world. He knew he must do so, as he had a true vision from Astrid the Prophet of the New God, that showed him this weapon long before this monster had tampered with his mind.
The group followed Aron through the maze of tunnels throughout this Gargantua's body, but they were attacked when they entered some cancerous caverns that had a giant ooze and ghouls residing within. They group fought through these monsters, nearly dying in the process, but were able to defeat them all and continue onward to the heart. There, Aron found the weapon embedded in one of the heart's chambers. He removed it, which immediately began the regeneration of the creature's body. The group follow Aron out and eventually emerge on the surface of the hill.
They realized that their actions would result in the restoration of another monster, but Brother Aron assured them that the weapon he now held would be instrumental in the Gargantua's ultimate defeat, as revealed to him by Astrid.
End of session.
From the creature's perspective, Brother Aron watches it emerge from it's mother, an even larger monstrosity that resides in a massive cavern. The creature is told by it's mother to seek out the creatures of this world to slay and eat, for they forcibly brought her into this place. The creature emerged from the cavern and found it's brethren already doing their mother's bidding, causing destruction wherever they went. The diminutive residents of the island, which their mother hated with all of her being, lived in communities surrounding several towers that were protected by magic. The creature and its brethren watched as the little people of the towers called forth a magic that trapped the monsters on the island. But their mother also had power and used it to send her children outside of the barrier to the other lands of the world.
The Gargantua continued their mother's bidding, but were opposed by the many peoples of the world, who worked together to kill the creature's siblings off one by one. Brother Aron watched as the creature ate hundreds of these people, but one in particular, a holy warrior who bore a weapon that caused the creature great pain, entered its body and made his way to the creature's heart and buried that weapon into it, incapacitating the creature. But the spark of magic from the mother kept the beast alive, though it was unable to heal itself due to the weapon being embedded in it's heart. The creature's body was buried over time until it was indistinguishable from the surrounding hills. There it languished as other creatures found and exploited its undying corpse for thousands of years.
Recently, the spark of magic from its mother grew more powerful and enabled the creature to reach out with its mind to any who could hear it, beckoning them by manipulating their dreams; as it had with Brother Aron. It did this to force them to come and rid its body of the foul weapon that kept it from healing.
Brother Aron tore himself from the brain and realized that he must remove this weapon, even though doing so may restore another Gargantua to plague the world. He knew he must do so, as he had a true vision from Astrid the Prophet of the New God, that showed him this weapon long before this monster had tampered with his mind.
The group followed Aron through the maze of tunnels throughout this Gargantua's body, but they were attacked when they entered some cancerous caverns that had a giant ooze and ghouls residing within. They group fought through these monsters, nearly dying in the process, but were able to defeat them all and continue onward to the heart. There, Aron found the weapon embedded in one of the heart's chambers. He removed it, which immediately began the regeneration of the creature's body. The group follow Aron out and eventually emerge on the surface of the hill.
They realized that their actions would result in the restoration of another monster, but Brother Aron assured them that the weapon he now held would be instrumental in the Gargantua's ultimate defeat, as revealed to him by Astrid.
End of session.
posted by DM Nel @ 3:26 AM
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