5/9
Athredon is downed by a fucking toadskin knifeears
Cipher sees this happen and finger guns the filthy gith straight through the fucking dome but yet it lives.
Krieg punches that same gith. It’s barely alive.
Jericho blows its head off and quaffs a healing potion.
Khione goes down.
Cipher casts aid and finger guns the gith near khione
Krieg punches that same gith. It’s dead
“I’ll fawkin kill all of ya!” He intimidates the rest of the Gith. It worked. Most of the gith left.
Athredon stands.
Jericho takes control of the cart.
Khione wakes up and starts looting the corpses.
Cipher goes on a rant, this was a fackin setup, it was afackin suicide mission, we’ve been fackin chosen to be sacrifices to these no nose fucks and their degenerate gods
He points at Khione. YOU! YOU FACKIN SET US UP YOU FACKIN CUNT!
Khione’s hand is in the pouch of khione’s pouch and is pulling out a single coin
THEY FACKIN TRUSTED YOU
“It’s so fun to get this one riled up.”
I’LL FACKIN PECK YA EYES OUT YA CUNT! Cipher charges Khione. She sidesteps him and cipher falls onto the gith corpse.
Jericho’s driving the cart through a shifty tunnel, blurry and unnaturally dark.
motes of darkness
Body just fucking disappears. Khione uses Divine Sense but cannot determine who this stranger is.
There is a seated man in the wagon observing the happenings.
Khione approaches and asks, “How did you get into our cart?”
He looks at Khione. He is incredibly pale with insane bags under his eyes. He is dressed to the 9’s in all black suit.
“I would like to welcome you to my domain.” The entity asks.
“What do you mean, your domain?” Jericho asks.
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“I know why you’re here,” says the entity.
“If we need to go somewhere else, you tell us,” Jericho says.
“This is not quite the caravan’s path. But you will merge back with it, soon. In fact, you have partially freed this path to be viable in the future.” Entity
“Can you show us the path the previous caravans have taken?” Khione
“Do you really want to go back?”Entity
Krieg asks, “Do you know what happened to the other caravans?”
“I have an inkling. I’ve been rather.. Indisposed lately. This is partly due to my negligence.” Entity
“Is there something you wish to ask of us?” Krig
Jericho asks, “When did you get here?”
Entity responds, “When you shattered the sentry.”
Khione asked for the Entity’s name. He introduces himself as Bertram. The party quickly realizes he is Bertram of The Feared.
Betram was asked about his intentions. He advises, and warns, the party.
“My Cousin. His.. Influence.. He’s been trying to take root down here, and I have not been entirely successful in weeding it out.”
Krieg asks which cousin, and Bertram dry swallows. “I mean Naresh.”
“The god Naresh is trying to.. ”
“Create undead here, yes. I’ve been handling things. If left, certain entities take root in corpses, which I am not very fond of. He knows better than to trap the souls, but their bodies are the issue.”
Khione offers assistance in dealing with Naresh. The party questions Khione’s history.
Bertram states that the humanoid races dwelling down here are the problem. I took something uninhabitable and tried to make a garden with the help of others. And mortals have decided to ruin it. And He has found ways to poison my garden. I’m not telling you this as if I’m ordering you to handle it, i’m telling you this in order to keep you from dying by it. The more that die to it, the bigger this problem becomes.
Is there anything we can do? Krieg
Given what you have already encountered, it’s… Hard to say this, but I NEED you to be as serving as possible.
You mentioned you’ve been taking care of the bodies? Should we burn them? Khione
And leave the bones behind? No.
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One caravan didn’t make it. The other did.
Bertram warns the party of three entities, to know what to look for and to avoid, but if the party can slay them, great.
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Corpse Flower. The first entity is a type of flowering plant. Most notably, it is wound around corpses. It adds corpses to its mass and strengthens with each addition. It reeks of corpses.
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There are variations of oozes and slimes which are stronger than the original.
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The mist. If you see a storm cloud of any size at any point, either brace yourself, or run.
The Mist is responsible for the losses one caravan took. It took out the caravan guard.
Krieg asks, “Are you the reason the Under changes so often?”
“It is… How to say… ” Bertram trails off.
Krieg. “No one has been able to map out this area.”
“It.. Is a fair bit of overuse in magic that has since seeped into the stones and the earth.”
Krieg. “So it’s more of an after effect.”
“Correct, it worked at first. it would keep most people out but some people would knock down walls and tunnel through.”
“Would you prefer caravans travel above ground?” Krieg
“It is far too late for that.” Bertram
Krieg asks about the origin of the travel companion bug without much success.
“He will do you well when you leave. He will not do you well where you’re going.”
the outer areas of this place are the most unstable and bertram gives his word he will secure them.
Bertram transports the party to The Forest, where there is full lighting effects where dark vision goggles are not needed.