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--- paldegora:session_58_caleldor_is_calamari [2025/08/11 14:42] – created davidm
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 **Summary**
-No summary needed as the detail is short.
+The party faced a massive, rune-etched iron door with a chalice-snake medallion radiating evil. Eryn picked the lock (50% skill) after failing once. Cal, Eryn, and X’or (rolls: 3 vs. 19, 10 with exceptional strength, 4) forced it open slightly, then fully with Symon’s knock spell after Angelique suggested a blood offering.
+Ambushed by temple guards in darkness, they fought back. Cal fell to -3 HP from a critical hit but was revived by Angelique’s salve and potion (23 HP). Cassandra moved up to fill the opening. They finished off the guards. With X’or’s potion of speed still active, they descended a dimly lit, evil-filled hallway, hearing a disorienting giggle. They could not determine the from where the voice came; they chose a southern staircase around an octagon.
+A voice taunted: “Fools who stumble into the Nythera's embrace, your steps echo in a tomb of your own making. Sahn's shadow will swallow you whole.” After a short distance, the voice continued, "Every whisper in this temple is mine to command. Your secrets, your fears, they all belong to Nythera now.". They reached a lit octagon chamber with runes, smoking braziers, a chalice-snake altar, skeletal statues, and Emma caged. Eryn failed to pick the cage lock; a gagged Emma frantically nodding toward the alter. Eryn checked the altar; while Cal’s inspected a statue, two of the statues animated and attacked. They were zombie golems. Angelique failed to turn them.
+The voice returned, "Oh, Blazecaller, how Nythera weeps for your fallen kin. Once they wielded invocations of wrath, now you're but a relic and you're pitiful.". Angelique disagreed. Symon, polymorphed into a buffalo, and entered. The voice returned, "Oh Symon, you pitiful thing. Given such great power, and you're such a coward not to take it and use it. Your blood is dirty as all your kin is now. I don't think that you have what it takes to find greatness again!". Symon snorted.
+A golem’s stench penalized Eryn and Cassandra (-2 attacks). A Bozak’s magic missile hit Angelique (9 damage). The voice returned again, "Angelique, last ember of a dying flame, your ancestors were the Blazecaller, wreathed in red dragon fire. Now look at you, a flickering spark in a world grown cold. Blazecallers once burned empires at their emperors whim, but you, pathetic shadow, unworthy of the name. Your blood will serve Sahn's awakening, nothing more!".
+Angelique cast mirror image; Bozak’s stinking cloud incapacitated Symon (5 rounds); Angelique escaped. X’or and Cassandra finished off one golem as X'or dropped to 1 HP and drank a potion. Cal, Eryn, and Cassandra fought the other golem, killing hit. Nyra Vexis emerged, paralyzing Eryn with hold person. Angelique used a wand of fear on the Bozak which was successful; They engaged Nyra. She was struck many times before her flame strike killed Cal (-19 HP). After that, she was felled.
+They looted Nyra (dagger, bracers, mace, 100 gold, potion, ring, chain mail, snake-chalice symbol). Angelique destroyed the altar; Cassandra found keys, freeing Emma, who lamented Cal. They placed Cal’s body in a bag of holding for resurrection. Returning to Fritz, Symon (gorilla form) found guards abusing goblins. They were moving powder barrels. There were also two rooms full of powder barrels. Symon polymorphed one guard into a goldfish (died), lured goblins to allies. Another guard pushed a goblin into a pit, charged; X’or, along with Symon’s burning hands (17 damage) and the rest of the party killed him.
+Goblins revealed a ship loading explosives in a hidden harbor. Fritz warned it must not sail. Invisible Eryn scouted: pirates, draconians, enslaved goblins, and whipped prisoners. To stop House Umbridge’s plan, they debated fireballing the ship but feared harming innocents. Alternatives included luring enemies to the pit, collapsing the tunnel, or risky plans like Symon or Eryn detonating the ship at sea. With Grimms safe, the group faced urgent choices to prevent the ship’s departure or fight reinforcements.
+That is where the session ended.
+Please start the recorder!
+Exp: 8965 + 897 = 9862
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