Session 53

=June 4th, 2020 - Iymrith's Hoard=

Coin-elemental Guardians
The session began as the party (most giant-sized), and their giant allies crushed the remaining yuan-ti in the massive lair chamber. With no way to escape, the snake people were trapped, violent, and in no mood to chat as Rachen tried to spare one. Silence finally fell upon the dark lair, except for the sounds of the storm above. The group tended to their wounded, with Cadmus restoring Thia to consciousness. Harshnag was quite wounded, but wanted no outside care - he would go slow but would tend to his wounds.

The ancient blue dragon Iymrith, the Doom of the Desert, lay dead before them. Victorious in their kill and that none of their own perished, the group briefly searched the sand piles but it didn’t appear as if her hoard was in this chamber. Queen Serissa was quite determined to recover her scepter, and the party wanted the spoils for their kill. Soon, it became clear after looking down a side tunnel, that this main lair section had been searched and nothing discovered. There was yet one tunnel remaining, in the far south disconnected chamber with the purple worm pit.

Thus, the party backtracked back outside, before venturing down the staircase in the nearby ruin. The sky was still filled with storm clouds, but it did seem as if the intensity of the storm had weakened. Down in the purple worm pit room, the giants had to stand guard as they were all too large to fit through the small tunnel entrance going west. The party members who had become giant-sized with their potions, had to squeeze through, but they could make it - they were only twice their size after all, not storm giant size.

The tunnel was also dark, and after a few bends it opened up into another chamber. This one was not as large as the main lair, and the walls and ceiling showed signs of being carved out. In the center of the chamber, stood two walls, floor to ceiling, connected at a right angle. Rachen was the first to go around the wall and see what was piled up against this corner, a massive amount of gold coins. Just a moment afterwards, the coin pile began to rustle and swirl up into the air as five large air elementals manifested, swallowing up the hoard of coins and moving very quickly to surround the party members.

The coin-filled air elementals pounded the characters with fists of gold, with Rachen becoming surrounded, and Thia taking a beating. Cadmus had called upon his spiritual orc guardian brethren to aid him in combat, and the green glow reflected off all the gold coins as the ghosts fought. Alburt’s evocation magic proved to be very beneficial, as he casted powerful area of effect spells upon the gathered elementals. Between his fireball, and then a devastating cone of cold, the rest of the group’s magical attacks were able to whittle them down.

Iymrith’s Hoard
The treasure hoard now literally rested scattered a few dozen feet from its original location, and so the group started to gather it together while they searched the original resting place. It wasn’t long until right under the top layer of sand they found a sealed sarcophagus. When they opened it, they discovered four magical items, and Queen Serissa’s scepter. They continued searching, finding three more sarcophagi filled with more powerful magical items (less of them each time, three, then two). The last was filled with the first legendary magic item they have seen, a almost priceless, brightly glowing vorpal scimitar, resting on a bed of nearly a thousand platinum dragons. The sarcophagus afterwards contained all of Iymrith’s gem and other valuable collection, worth thousands of gold itself.

The final sarcophagus naturally contained a mummy lord, but the group was ready. Right after the lid was unsealed and the creature awoke, they pounced. Between the weapons slicing, arrows and bolts flying, and magic burning the dried and decrepit monster it didn’t get an attack off.

Thus, before the group returned the scepter to the giants waiting, they distributed the rare magic items from Iymrith’s hoard. While they talked, they collected the coin and gems distributing it among them and their bag of holding. Two items went to the bag, the necklace of adaptation, and the slippers of spider climbing. Cadmus obtained the gauntlets of ogre power, and the staff of thunder and lightning. Rufus got the cloak of elvenkind. Rachen got the belt of dwarvenkind, while Thia got both the scale mail of lightning resistance, and the +2 longbow (which gave off a constant dim light of its own).

Alburt got the second very rare item, the tome of clear thought, while the vorpal scimitar, went to Lachlan the bladesinger. The group was amazed at such a rare find, but it was clearly the prized possession of the ancient dragon. The group returned to the giants dragging their treasure trove, and returned the royal scepter. Queen Serissa was very thankful, saying they proved her mother’s position, that smallfolk could be courageous and great allies. They were like giants, some were bad yes, but others were good. Serissa told Rachen they could count on her and the giants as allies in the fight against this cult and their dragons. If there comes any coordinated action, they would be there to aid.

Just before the group parted ways, a massive distant disturbance rippled through the sky and across the land. It came far from the south east. Clouds rippled, trees, and grass were all pushed aside as some pressure wave passed. It went harmlessly, but beyond it was a new uneasy sound, quiet yet unsettling. If there was a normal conversation it would drown out the sound for humanoids, but one member of the parties group reacted very strongly to it. Thia’s black wyrmling Kiruna. The young dragon was drawn to the sound, and to the direction that it came from.

It was only moments until Kiruna was trotting off in that direction as Thia called after her, then running and then she took to the air. Thia yelled after her, and then used their telepathic link, while still wearing the black dragon mask, to command the dragonling to return. At this command, Kiruna turned her head back, shaking it, and banked around and flew back to her mother.

This was clearly an ominous omen, but at the moment it appeared harmless other than greatly disturbing Kiruna. The giants parted ways, returning to their perched rocs across the dunes, while the two wizards of the party prepared a teleportation circle to return them to Ironbay, victorious.

And that is where the session ended, with the group completing act two of the campaign and obtaining level 11! It was the late afternoon of the two hundred and thirty first day since the raid on Greenest.

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