All Hail the Demon Lords

 

January 2, 2013

 

The Dungeon:

 

We decide that there is a need to go back out and find Praetorius. His help in combat would be much appreciated. We find a keyhole in the wall where the door was and Verus puts the key in. The door opens back up to the stairway. 

 

We meet Praetorius at an inn owned partially by Janathen. Arael introduces to Ermalos, a 6'3" 16 year old blacksmith. He's anxious to help us, a little over-excited.

 

We head back to the door and open it with the key. Once the door is open, we see all the dead bodies, moved onto the alter to bleed. Praetorius pushes past Verus and walks in. Everyone else follows down. Ricken summons Curator before we head down.

 

After we all get in there, all the bodies start exploding, and on the alter is standing a man-sized demon.

 

Galen takes a swing and misses

Praetorius attempts to disarm the demon, but fails

Curator moves up and his sword bounces off the demon's skin

Ricken buffs Curator for his next action

Demon1 casts a spell and a dretch appears next to Verus, attacking him

Verus casts protection from evil on himself and Preatorius

Galen hits demon1

Praetorius hits demon1 for a lot of damage

Arael strikes Dretch1

Ricken cast Guidance again

the demon summons two more dretches which attack Praetorius and hits him

Dretch1 hits Verus, hard

Galen hits Dretch3

Praetorius hits demon1 with his whip and wraps it around its neck

Arael casts healing radiance and heals us all for a decent amount

Curator attacks demon1 and hits strongly

Ricken fires his crossbow at demon1 for minimal damage

Demon1 turns on Curator and does significant damage, Ricken intercepts some of the damage

Dretch3 misses Galen

Dretch2 fails to hit Arael, but manages to bite

Dretch1 spins on Arael and fails to hit him

Verus casts shield on Curator

Galen hits dretch3

Praetorius uses his chain to pull him down to the ground

Arael misses Dretch1

Curator brings his sword down hard on demon1

Ricken tries to hit demon1 with the crossbow, but fails

Demon1 attacks Praetorius from prone and hits him hard

Dretch3 hits Galen three times

Dretch2 hits Praetorius 

Dretch1 hits Arael

Verus casts open/close to close the hallway door.

Galen takes down demon1

Praetorius hits dretch3 

Curator hits dretch1 and destroys it

Ricken reloads

Dretch2 fails to hit Praetorius

Janathen is able to get into the room and fails to hit.

Galen cures himself, poorly

Praetorius destroys dretch2

 

Curator prevents Ermalos from going further into the hall. He's quite energetic.

 

Praetorius asks Verus to open the hall door, he uses a cantrip and opens it, thoroughly impressing Ermalos.

 

The next room has supplies. Verus takes three daggers and Praetorius tells the kid to take a big spool of rope.

 

We continue to the end of the hall and the door isn't trapped or locked. Ricken reads the inscription above the door: Purify. We all file into a room that's completely dark. We cast several light spells and there is an obelisk in the middle with skulls covered in dried blood. On the other end, there's another hallway.

 

Verus walks up to the obelisk. He realizes that we have to bleed on a skull and put it into the obelisk to appease some sort of bad spirit. Ricken sends Curator over to the stairs. On one side, he finds stone ritual knives. On the other, he finds shelves of skulls.

 

We all do the bleeding, and the spirit seems pleased with the offering and we move on.

 

The hallway we start walking down has ceilings that are 12 ft tall. Janathen, being a ranger, pulls out her bow and prepares for the next threat. After Verus didn't notice any traps, at a distance, Curator leads the group. He and Praetorius trigger a pit trap. Praetorius manages to reflexively get away, but Curator falls in and takes damage but manages to crawl out the other side.

 

Someone tosses the rope across the pit to Curator, who holds it. Everyone passes over the pit, using the rope. 

 

There are four statues in the next room. 

1. An old hunched over crone

2. A fat man with scars

3. A naked woman posed demurely

4. A fat demon sits cross-leggedly in front of a bowl

 

Down an offshoot hallway, there is a pool of water that smells bad and looks like a wishing well.

 

The archway past the statues that leads into the next room has more abyssal writing: Testify. 

• Verus drops a piece of paper and a quill into the bowl. They erupt in orange flame and they are consumed. The statue changes to a grin. 
• Praetorius drops a pair of manacles into the bowl, they burst into purple light and disappear. The statue remains grinning.

All of the sudden, all the lights go out. Praetorius sees 12 dark creepers in the big room ahead. He moves forward...

 

Praetorius moves in and decapitates one.

Galen casts light and loads his crossbow

Ricken casts light on a coin and throws it into the room

Verus moves up, looking for a target, not finding one.

Ermalos moves towards the naked statue and stops

Curator moves into the room

The light on the coin winks out

The dark creepers move

Janathen misses

Praetorius takes out another one

Arael comes up next to Verus and kills the creeper next to it

Galen kills a creeper

Curator missed

Verus takes one out with a magic missle

Ermalos rushes in and misses a creeper

Ricken misses

Ermalos is hit and almost dead

Preatorius gets hit

Janathen misses

Praetorius wraps his chain around one of the creepers and pulls it into another one, killing both

Arael moves over to the kid and pulls him out of the way

Galen kills one

Ricken moves

Curator kills the last one

 

We search the bodies, then Curator takes one and drops it in the pool. It seems to have been acidic as the body dissolves. We use the pool to dispense with the rest of the bodies.

 

Tallied up the coins: 314sp and 200cp

 

One branch off this room is blocked by two creatures that say we can't enter the master's sanctum. Looking in from this room, Praetorius can see a fountain. He's unable to determine the deity. Ricken casts light on a pebble and throws it into the room, which starts a fight.

 

Praetorius attacks a dark stalker, DS1, around the corner

Arael walks in and casts a bless

DS2 moves up and attacks Arael, poorly.

Galen attacks DS2

Curator misses

Verus fires a magic missle at DS2 doing max damage

Janathen misses with her bow

Ricken uses magic missle at DS2 

Arael hits DS2

Praetorius notices a new threat across the room, and moves towards it. It's a shadow demon

The shadow demon pounces on Praetorius, hitting him with two attacks

Galen attacks DS2, missing

Curator hits DS2 hard

DS2 hits Curator

DS1 misses Galen

Verus fires a magic misses at DS2 for max damage

Janathen hits DS2 for all but 1 hp

Ricken finishes off DS2 with a magic missile

Praetorius grabs a wing of the shadow demon, plants his foot on his chest and rips the wing off. The shock of the damage stuns the demon.

Arael misses DS1

DS1 hits Galen, who fails save and gets poisoned

Galen breaks off and attacks the shadow demon, hitting

Curator hits the shadow demon

Verus fires a magic missle at DS1

Janathen hits DS1 with her bow

Ricken fires a crossbow at DS1

Arael hits DS1

Praetorius wraps his chain around the demon's neck, steps around it, and yanks him over his shoulder. 

Arael is hit by DS1

Galen moves into flanking and hits the demon

Curator turns around and charges DS1

Verus fires a magic missile at DS1 and it explodes in a fireball 20ft radius

Arael goes down and Curator winks out

Praetorius rips and arm off of the demon and kills it. Then he takes it's head.

 

Verus searches the dark stalkers and finds 150sp and 110gp and mentions that Praetorius can get good money on the dusk market for the demon wings.

 

The room beyond, appears to be a very opulent study. Tapestries depicting a war between devils and demons fighting for the hearts of Cheliax. There is also a book on demonology.

 

We find a secret door and Verus tries to pick the lock, but fails. A trap fires off and hits Verus and Praetorius. Verus then has to explain why he has the key to Praetorius and then uses it on the door. Once the door opens, a voice from the demonology book laughs and the key disappears. 

 

In the room, there is a pile of coins (10pp, 3gp, 43sp, 6cp), a hand-held silver vanity mirror worth around 50gp, bejewelled gold medallion worth around 300gp, two potions of featherfall, and an elven silk gown worth around 200gp are on a table in this room.

 

We then head out to the earlier room with the pillars. Off that room is a closet with torture instruments and a barracks. There is also a hallway heading off to another area.

 

Down the hallway, an inscription is in the archway above: Liquify.

 

The room has a pillar and a suspiciously clean alter with manacles. The pillar is completely whitewashed. Even the wolf, summoned by Ricken, can't smell anything in this room. 

 

After splitting the loot 7 ways, it equals out to 173gp, 6sp, and 8cp each. Verus sold the loot items for 950gp instead of 550gp, so that helped.

 

The group fund now equals 100sp.

 

Praetorius talks about taking his trials with his father, but politically, his father recommends a delay.

 

Ricken is told by his cousin, Julia, that his father is in a mood. If Ricken is seen by him, he will be required to summon his Eidolon or take the oath for the HellKnights.

 

1700 xp

 

 

GM Notes

• I prepped the dungeon before hand, as shown in the picture.  (Hmm.  Should probably get a better picture.  That's the one I sent to the group but I wanted an angle so not everything was clear.)  I think the dungeon stuff went well but lasted a bit longer than I wanted.  
• I think we got further but might still have a session or two in the first module.  I am happy how it went!   

 

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