Session Seventy-Nine (Graveyard of Empires Summary)

Session 79 – October 21, 2015

Regroup!

After quickly dispatching the envoys of the “Dark king” and taking control of 40 “undying” zombies the Starchy Boys thought they had some time to consider their next steps.

However fate had other plans. Not long after the battle ended, and after confirming those that ran down into the lower levels perished a load familiar noise echoed down the halls and another message was issued by the “Dark King” directly offering Thorfus by name a chance to join forces with the “Dark King” – he had until sundown to decide.

Edan and Chuq answered by severely maiming two heralds before they passed through the portal back to the jungle where another host of undying and their supporters waited. Thorfus then ordered his undying into position in front of that same portal with Edan watching over them while the rest of the Starchy Boys began to pack for a strategic retreat and Chuq scouted the opponents. Chuq soon found that they were much more powerful than the previous group and after a brief skirmish had them retreat into the jungle out of range of our missile weapons. Roughly 180 visible opponents, including the undying and a trio priests: one with eyes, one with a mouth and last with only ears (I think I got that wrong).

During the planning, Thorfus began to have difficulty understanding those around him and after removing and Derich explaining that the circlets were often used in hierarchical groups it was deduced that our opponents were reading Thorfus’ mind gaining valuable information.

With that realization Thorfus removed the circlet and the party began to pack to retreat through the portal to another area accessible to them, but with a bit of sabotage unreachable by our opponents.

As the packing was complete Edan began to notice that their undying “army” had begun to speak and whisper, when Axel and Chuq came to have the undying remove the corpse of the dinosaur, they turned on the party. Prompting a quick retreat of the three towards the central portal where the others had already begun crossing to the Mechanical & Engineering area.

Once through, a quick sweep of Thorfus’ amulet ensured that were safe from the “Dark King” for now.

After a quick scan of the surrounding areas by Chuq and needed rest – it was decided to make a return trip to the lower city of ZelKel.

There the Starchy Boys explained much to Edan about the current situation the party finds itself in while on their way to meet one of their few allies – a Naga.

With Naga – Thorfus explain what happened and what they discovered, Naga confirmed and added more information as follows:

1. Surprised that there was another entrance to the complex, wasn’t thrilled that the party was not able to defeat them, but confirmed that the circlet was a liability and retreat was the best option. Hopes we’ll be able to re-take it.

2. Doesn’t know who the “Dark King” is, but was startled to learn that he had the eyes, ears and mouth of the dwarven god.

3. Confirmed that there was more than one Grand Marshal (but only one at a time), and that every one of them had a probability sword.

4. Confirmed that the Dragon princess was never captured but perished during the last battle of the rebellion. Noted that another dragon in the area may be able to shed light on this as it was old when the naga was young.

• I may have missed some other details, feel free to add them in the comments.

We left off as our conversation ended with the Naga.