In which our heroes ...
Orhan 4 Day 40 TE 6065
Suddenly, angels come down and heal Oathar up, so he doesn't have to sit around for the rescue of Harrison Jones.
Imre and Haeraan go to talk to Gireg Jan about Harrison Jones' plight. They give him a basic briefing.
Oathar and Arisia go off for a couple days vacation.
Orhan 4 Day 41 TE 6065
The others teleport into Kyrik's house of veils brothel room. They interrupt some business, but then flee. Haeraan forgets. Then they head out the back.
They disguise themselves as merchants "I am honest Aziz!" Then they head to the caravanserai. Alynna makes some rolls to contact people.
Salah was apparently convicted of conspiring against the alliance and was thrown into the Pit of Karkoon! Oh dear.
- Test of the Pit of Karkoon
- The Four paths of woe
- The judgement of the heart
- The guardian of the cliffs
- The gates of fire and darkness
- The maze of despair
- The worm of the world's end.
Kyrik goes through his book for the Pit of Karkoon.
Oh dear. It's huge, has seven deadly unpassable tests and if you emerge you are more than you were. The only person who ever has emerged was the first great king. No one's done it since. All movement magic fails within. No flight, teleport, etc. There's also a test where your heart is weigh against a feather.
Haeraan pulls out a Commune III:
- Is my corruption an automatic fail of that test? No
- If I pass the tests and emerge from the pit, will I be cleansed o my corruption? Possibly
- Is Salah still alive? Yes
Well, that's that then.
Imre does some divinations with his cards. (What are our odds of living through the pit?) The hanged man followed by the world, followed by the six of swords and death reversed. Huh.
Haeraan gets the advice that sometimes the softest spot isn't on the outside.
Oathar prays to Neela for wisdom and insight to guide is fellows. Upon the altar appear two stone jars and a red balloon on a string. The jars contain animal fat mixed with lye. A very basic sunscreen.
Oathar gives the balloon to Kyrik and the jars of goo to Alynna and Haeraan.
We go to the Pit of Karkoon. Yup, it's a big pit in the middle of the desert.
Haeraan leaps into the pit. Yup, Landing doesn't work. He ends up in a giant cavern. Salah is there. The opening behind them slams shut.
Everyone else leaps into the pit. Salah is unconvinced coming to rescue him was a good idea.
On the four walls are the gateways to the four paths of woe. Beetles, Scorpions, Crocodiles, and Snakes. Harrison Jones avoides the snake plaque. There's a doorway and a lever between each plaque.
Oathar and Salah head to the scorpions. Alynna and Imre goes to beetles. Haeraan goes to snakes. Kryik to Crocodiles.
We pull all four levers simultaneously. The four doorways all rumble and open. The doorways fall inwards and out pour all the stuff. Out of the Crocodile door pours unholy water and crocodiles. Kyrik takes it full on. Oh yeah. Haeraan gets attacked by snakes, Alynna bugs, Scorpions.
Initiative.
There's a solid wall of bugs, and Alynna dives right in. Oathar eliminates the unholy water. We fight.
Oathar passes out Lightning Armor potions and prepares to cast Stun Cloud. We fight bugs and scorpions and crocodiles and snakes.
Once all the things are dead, we get into the short passage ways to the silos of badness and there are niches. Inside the niches are Golden Keys. We get four.
An outline of a door appears in the main room.
We leave. Heading towards the judgement of the heart. It's filled with a pair of giant scales. On one side is a single white feather.
Oathar stands before the scales and gives praise to Neela and puts his holy symbol on the scale. Oathar sees another doorway materialize on the wall across the way, but no one else sees it yet.
Imre puts Simon on the rolled up piece of parchment. The statue and scales go into catalepsy for some reason. No idea what to do about it. Finally, the feather sinks and Imre gets off the hook.
Alynna puts a necklace symbolizing her brother. The feather wins again!
Next, Haeraan puts a wedding ring on it. The feather wins real quick. Kyrik ties his balloon to a book and puts the book on the scale. The balloon struggles and then grows three sizes. The feather barely wins this time.
Salah puts a little dried flower on the scale and the feather wins instantly.
The cast a circle of traction and edgerunning. Then the giant billie-goat shows up and says baaah! He's coming down towards us! We take evasive action as best we can and Imre breaks the goat's leg. Of course, that just makes it mad. It glares at Imre and he barely resists.
We fight!
We defeat the goat.
We get to a pair of gates. Fire and Darkness. Fire leads to heat and anger, Darkness leads to Despair.
Alynna, Kyrik and Salah choose Fire. Haeraan, Imre, and Oathar choose Darkness.