Session 16 - 04MAY2025

Attendees

• Tim ✅
• Walter ✅
• Erica ✅
• Jin ✅
  
• Nick ✅
  
• Alex ❌
  

Copy/Paste Source: ✅ ❌

Recap to Current Situation

•  We find ourselves in the Zotogeus League and go about finding a local treasure hunter named Anje. After some gallivanting around town we get a lead that there are some small draconic creatures (kobolds) that Anje is going to lead us to. We end up attacking the kobold camp and killing all but a couple that we leave alive.

Session Notes

• Erica begins interrogating the creature that she kneecapped
• They try their best in very broken Common that the orb is "us" gesturing to itself
• To try to communicate better, Jin attempts to communicate telepathically
• Jin is able to deduce that the creature means that the orb doesn't belong to us, it is their people's treasure
• The creature is able to tell us who currently has the orb, but said that we wouldn't want to meet her
• They describe her as the great mother and the strongest
• We decide to ask for more information about "The Great Mother"
  • She is very large
  • She lives beneath the earth
  • She grants all these creatures a "gift" of draconic lineage (probably by converting them to Kobolds)
    
• We end up healing the two kobold. The main one we have been talking to is named Ugri. The other is Vokku.
• We decide to investigate the camp before heading out
  • We find 4 total (1 for each of us) potions of Cure Light Wounds
  • Nick picks up a +1 shield (but he can't use his Cleric abilities while wielding it due to having the wrong holy symbol fixed by Erica)
  • We also pick up a scroll of Guiding Bolt
  • We also get ~50 gold each
    • Nick decided to give his cut back to the kobolds as part of reparations
• During the search of the camp, we find one of the tents is better furnished than the others
• This tent has a rug that covers a hole with a ladder
• We decide to rest before heading down the ladder and going to The Great Mother
• Erica attempts to affix Nick's holy symbol to his shield and is successful after a dope roll
• Next day, Vokku has organized the camp and is in the process of burying the dead
• Ugri joins us as we descend the ladder and head underground
• The tunnel is heading deeper and deeper as we go
• Eventually we reach a large chamber. There are other small holes entering the chamber
• Ugri warns us that when we meet The Great Mother, we should be respectful
• We head down one of the small holes in the chamber and make our way down a different tunnel
• Eventually we reach another large chamber that is actually lit
• The room is filled with ~100 kobolds that are chanting and gesticulating towards a large creature in the front of the room
• The creature is something similar to The Archivist in that they are part dragon/part person
• They are larger than The Archivist (huge, ~15 ft), but their dragon and human portions are all kind of mixed up and weird
• We head further into the room, to have an audience with The Great Mother, telling Ugri thanks for taking us this far
• As we enter the room, Erica deploys Boobo to do some aerial recon
  • There are exactly 53 kobolds in the chamber
  • The Great Mother is seated on a stash of shiny objects (looks like treasure)
• We decide to approach The Great Mother with a ruse
• We claim that we are from The Republic of Acium and searching for a group of mercenaries that were members of The Red Omen that were causing trouble
• We are searching for leads on The Red Omen due to the Zotogeus league being a haven of lawless mercenaries and offering a warning to her about The Red Omen
• Erica explains all this to The Great Mother
• The Great Mother replies in a large booming voice that she doesn't know who we are speaking about
  • If they come by, she will grant us power to deal with them
• Jin asks The Great Mother for her name and more of her history to learn more about her
• She says her name is Hurle, Protector of Creatures and she has always been what she is
• We tell her that we are seeking out the audience of Nibenah next
  • She doesn't really react and just spouts basically the same line about communing with her
• Erica asks if she has any magical items to provide to us to help us on our journey
  • A small kobold runs up to us carrying a brooch that depicts a small porcupine or hedgehog
  • If you are wearing this, and somebody is trying to touch you, they take some damage due to your spiky hair
• We decide to head back to The Archivist, but before we go, Nick checks out the surroundings with Detect Magic
  • All the kobolds have the effects of transmutation magic
  • There is a giant glowing orb inside the body of The Great Mother
• As we turn to leave, 10 kobolds block our path
• She insists that we commune with her before we leave, or we don't leave at all
• We decide to try to make a break for it
• Nick casts Thunder Wave on the kobolds blocking our path and they all die
• We bolt down the tunnels to escape, with Jin casting magic to slow down the people behind us
• We manage to break out of the tunnels and make it back outside to Anje
• We then head back to the town of Lonte

• The weather is....a bit windy and pleasantly sunny

• We decide to try to intimidate Anje into not going after The Great Mother on his own and are seemingly successful
• We strike a deal with Anje...he is going to recruit help on his side to deal with the Kobolds as long as we can deal with The Great Mother
• We head back to The Archivist and relay this information to him
• He says that he is not familiar with this entity and that the only way to retrieve the orb is to cut it out of her and remove it
• He can offer us something to help us
  • A small stone in the shape of a cat's head called The Stone of Good Luck (+1 on saving throws and ability checks)
  • A blue cloak with chain mail embroidery (+2 to AC)
  • A pocket watch with an engraved triangle (clockwork aulet, automatically roll a 10 in an attack roll)
• We decide to get the stone of good luck and give it to Jin