Category: Graveyard of Empires: The Islands of Curabel

Session 167: September 6, 2017

We rest and get a bit more information for a few nice gems.

We are led to location of bettlemen. It is ancient dwarven mines, now inhabited by the remnants of a goblin tribe decimated a few times by the beetlemen.

The location has a doorway into a room of ancient dwarven design with a button that disintegrates all in the room. There is a vacuum cleaner bot that is only active when there are ashes to clean up.

The goblins advise us that the beetlemen have driven them from their home and made it their nest. We use the berserker to operate a winch to go down to the level with the crfeatures.

We find two damaged berserkers and Thorfus orders one monkey to take the head from one and the other to get the other ready for the head.

The first beetleman confuses Thorfus, Sturloc, and Kottar. Miraculously, it can’t hit thorfus.

Amodeus hits it with continual light, and it is a slow slog. The female joins the fight, and after prompting the monkey to fix the berserker, Edan cast lightning bolt and drops the first beetleman. The female is badly hurt and several of the eggs on her back burst.

Amodeus cast continual light into it’s eye, and Edan hit it with magic missile. It fled just before Amodeus cast web.

Thorfus was hit hard by the female, and has stood confused in spite of being hasted by Prixithalma.

Thankfully, no one in a confused state has managed to hurt another or themselves.

Betty was enlarged to giant size by Prixithalma and is ready to give chase to the female.

Nash was wounded and Lambertus healed him a bit.

Will we catch the female and get the eggs? Will we find eggs in the nest?

Where is the third beetleman the goblins mentioned?

We learned from the goblins that the silence are squid faced brain eaters who are former servants o the ancient dwarves who now make war on them.

Session 166: August 30, 2017

After resting and healing, the party continues west, and comes upon a group of drow questioning some deep gnomes and a half-orc Lilly/Brenda/Bavmorda.

We defeat the drow and the leader and one other escape. One of the gnomes is slain. One of the Monkeys is smashed. The other monkey and the berserker are injured. Amodeus agrees to use the wand of mending to fix the berserker and working monkey. Axel was severely injured and was healed up.

Edan becomes very ill, and the gnomes tell us that it is “stone sickness.” They take us to their lair and meet with their leader, Willems. We learn that they have a cure, but it requires the eggs of beetle men. They are large and tough.

We need at least 3 eggs. All of us that have psionics most likely have stone sickness. Thorfus and Nash then become ill. We plan to get enough eggs to take the cure back to those on the surface.

We also learn that the Dark King, or someone with a circlet greater than Thorfus’ slew a dragon and went into the ship before it exploded. We hope that means the dark king was slain. The drow were sent down to see if anyone got away from the ship. They did not think it was going to result in anything until we showed up.

We also learn that there is a faction called “The Silence” that has something to do with the ancient dwarves and things beyond the world.

Willems, the gnome leader is not one that we can trust. Prix doesn’t like the situation, but we have to trust the fix can truly save us. Prix said the ancient dwarves had their own cure for this.

This is a mess we rest up and hope to quickly defeat the creatures, and avoid more drow, and being betrayed by the gnomes to the “Hidden Ones” AKA ancient dwarves/Council of 12/ Lords of the Silver Throne.

Session 165 August 23, 2017

5:37am 23rd of Masrilden Temple of the Flesh God

As expected, three dragons assault the temple of the Flesh God just before dawn. Their approach was heralded by a violent storm front unnaturally rolling in from the east.

The rolling clouds from the east blanket the sun during the last minutes of Myrientaxis’ life. It takes three belches of dragon fire to end the ancient bronze. He returns in kind to the smaller of his opponents weakening it enough that Bellisente’s revenge attack wing electrocutes it dead. Miraculously, Bellisente’s pilot intercepts the unconscious Chuq Nourrous plummeting to his imminent death from the air. She snatches the monk’s limp form as the larger Red Dragon grasps her wing man from the sky, slagging the automaton monkey with a point blank belch of fire.

Thorfus watches Bellisonte and Chuq fly away through eyes of another monkey hidden in the canopy of the banyan. He, Axel and Edan have lurked in a cabin close to the entryway of the Temple of the Flesh God. While the three monitor the battle outside, Amadeus persuades Prixalthalmus and her escort of Sturloc and Kotar to flee into the tunnels below the Temple. His entreaties are for naught, so he proceeds on his own. Nash is ensconced in another cabin, praying to Merendur for the power to survive what comes. His thoughts and feelings are jumbled and conflicted since Sarachino his companion was recently consumed by a mysterious freezing growth that erupted from a footlocker in an adjacent cabin. To save himself, Nash had to leave Sarachino’s body behind. The regret is painted all over his face.

As one, the Dwarves and part Elf give the order to abandon the Temple after the last dragon, a blue, arrives and alights the banyan tree via a lightning strike. The topside monkey returns via one of the fighter bays. The Beserker Autonotom covers the party’s retreat. Hopefully the two dragons outside will be delayed long enough for Zayid’s plan to explode the ship via an engine overload happens.

Far below the temple, in the spiraling tunnels, Amadeus discovers a Bullette’s body. Amadeus decides to butcher the body to harvest valuable body parts but his efforts are interrupted by a deadly Cloaker. Leaping to the rescue, Thorfus inadvertently strikes Amadeus unconscious before abandoning sword play for wrestling the Cloaker off of Amadeus’ limp body. The fight for Amadeus’ life alerts Edan and the others. Working together they defeat the cloaker and hopefully can keep everyone else alive.