Abyss Modified session 22: Chaos

Our over sized battlefield for the night

Chaos, sweet, sweet chaos. The party had split into two groups last session. Thelrum, Orion, Xanaphia and their ward Telegar had a good vantage point of the caravan’s camp site from their hot air balloon. They saw the carts with the unicorn, the manticore, the owl harpy, and the serpent. A few of the hunters and trappers were eating at the central table with a laughing Daddy Fate. Gordric, Tamin, Syre, Dinak, and Thelrum’s familiar were stealthy watching Daddy Fate brewing potions and tinkering around his monster filled workshop inside his strange extra dimensional tent. On one side of the room they saw a cage with a gryphon, a displacer beast, a metal bull gorgon, a kirin, a wyrmling white dragon in a muzzle, and a chimera with clipped wings. On the other side there were two cockatrice, one much larger and more feral than the other. On the far side of the room there was a door. Godric snuck closer to Daddy Fate and cast detect magic to see if there was any illusion magic on him, and found no illusions, just numerous intense magical auras. As he tried to back out of the chamber Daddy Fate asked him how many of his friends survived, or if it was just the two of them, both Syre and Tamin were invisible at the moment. Godric demanded that Daddy Fate let the halflings go and was informed there was a dangerous buyer in line for them and Daddy Fate feared the buyer more than the party.

Daddy Fate Oni (Rising Sun Oni of Plagues)

Godric started things off by launching two eldritch blasts into Daddy Fate, watching as the bolts hit him in the shoulder and his body started to grow into a large four-armed gray skinned oni creature. This definitely was not what they anticipated. Dinak launched his volley of arrows into oni, getting in an extra attack with the speed of a highly trained ranger. Thelrum told the hot air balloon team that the fight had started, having seen it through his familiar, so Orion climbed down the rope and ran out to kidney punch one of the wandering guards. He was dense and did not go down from the attack and dark course fur sprouted from his body as he turned into a werewolf. Xanaphia hit the table of guards with a fireball spell, ruining the meal and burning them. Tamin did not want to scuffle with these creatures in the room so he shot at the oni and hid behind the barrel of food for the beasts. Godric charged in and hit the oni with a booming blade and a hexblades curse, hoping to maximize his damage potential.

Godric squaring up to Daddy Fate

The Oni Fate hit Godric with all his blades and approached the cages, using magic to open a random cage, releasing the gorgon that was next to Tamin. Syre and took this chance to leave the tent and try to talk with the big snake, which was a naga and did not succumb to the animal friendship. Dinak launched a few mare arrows at the oni, also fleeing the tent. Godric took a few more swings at the Oni and followed his allies out of the tent. The Oni pursued. Tamin did not like the bull creature so he ran to the back door on the room, looking for another exit without an oni standing near it. He found a deeper room with garish tapestries of Daddy Fate flying on a dragon and another of him in front of a castle. There were two other doors deeper in, so Tamin stole the dragon tapestry and put it in his bag of holding. 

The balloon team decimated the werewolves at the table, Telegar dropping a cloudkill on the group as well, liquefying the remains of two of them. Orion watched as the Daddy Fate outside the tent turned into an oni as well and rushed up to attack, flanking with the remaining werewolves. Xanaphia aided with magic missiles and chromatic orb. Thelrum made use of the dragon breath spell and engulfed his foes with fire and lighting.

The two teams met up outside the magic tent as the four-armed Oni Fate came out after them. They could also hear what could only be the troll they scared earlier running to the camp. When it arrived, it had a large tree fashioned into a club and saw the carnage of the battle field, it had large blistery wounds from the elemental swarm Thelrum attacked it with earlier. The nearby party members told him everything was okay and he should fight the Daddy Fates with them. The troll sat down confused. Godric ran back up to the main oni and was blasted with lighting from the sky above, Thelrum quickly cast absorb elements through his familiar, which was on Godric’s shoulder and reduced the damage and exploding the spider familiar in the process.

Orion worked on the outdoor oni, hitting it with a stunning fist and pummeling the life from it, eventually killing it. Dinak hid in the shadows between the two carts, launching barrages of arrows at Oni Fate, he also notied the owl harpy was watching him closely. Syre worked on damaging the Oni Fate with heat metal, scorching him with his own armor. Orion made it to the unicorn cage and broke the lock off the cage, which burst into flames when it hit the ground. The unicorn let Orion remove the bracers from its legs and the fake horn from its face and leapt out of the cart. It charged the sitting troll and with a fell swoop stabbed it through the head with its horn, blowing the head right off. The other werewolves in the area were taken aback by this but quickly fell to the party’s blades. Another group of werewolves charged up, having heard the commotion and started launching arrows at the party. Telegar separated one group of archers with a wall of fire, burning them up really well.

Meanwhile in the tent Tamin heard a loud crash and a banging against the door behind him, the gorgon was trying to break it down. He opened the door on his right and found a study with a large circular staircase leading to another floor in the far corner. He closed that door and tried the left one, finding not the exit but a large stone staircase with a painted portrait of a group of halflings standing in a pastoral field. He entered that room and broke the door’s lock behind him as a loud crash filled the hallway. He looked at the familiar halfling faces from the village and planned on cutting the painting out of the frame… he brought his blade down carefully in the corner with the least figures in it and was pushed back as a sea of halflings poured out of the frame, filling the room. At this point he and the halfings were rudely interrupted as the gorgon blasted the door to their room open. Light flickered across its metal body as it released a cloud of green mist into the chamber. Tamin felt his legs and arms stiffening as he started turning to stone, many of the halflings sharing his impending fate. The metal bull looked pleased with itself until the elder of the halflings cast a spell breaking the petrification effect. Tamin ran up and placed one of his blades in the bull’s eye. The pile of halflings grabbed broken bits of stone that had fallen off of them and helped Tamin bludgeon the gorgon to death.

Outside again Dinak let the Owl harpy out of her cage. She nodded thanks and started screeching into the sky and suddenly the sound of thousands of wings filled the air as the owls that had been following the party started removing the dead from the battle field. The Oni that was Daddy Fate took this chance to reenter the tent. The party took care of the remaining werewolves that were still a threat and made their way back towards the tent. A few peering in to see almost all the caged animals running amok in the tent and the Oni Fate chain drinking potions like shots. They swarmed back into the tent, murdered the two cockatrice and cornered Oni Fate. He lashed out with his blades and suddenly stopped mid threat, an arrow sticking out the side of his head. Tamin with his halfling army entered the room, Tamin’s bow still at the ready with another arrow ready to go. The party freed the intelligent animals and is set to investigate the rest of the mansion for the next session.