Abyss Modified Session 24: Into the Extra Dimensional Magic Mansion

Our adventure this week continued the storyline with Daddy Fate and the now freed halflings. Tamin, Xanaphia, Orion, Thelrum, Dinak, and Godric started the night off by pillaging the corpse of Daddy Fate, finding a wide array of magical gear.

They decided to head deeper into the tent mansion, exploring this strange extra-dimensional space. Following the route Tamin had used, they went up the western stairs, finding a chamber with four oddly shaped and vividly colored door on the western wall and a small normal looking door in the south eastern corner. They looked for traps and found none in the room and opened the small red door first. They found the hallway crudely carved out of soil, as if some kind of burrowing creature had dug its way into this earthen realm. not wanting to deal with it they shut the door and checked the next one, the purple door. Beyond it they found a bright airy realm with floating islands in the sky and it seemed the other end of the doorway was placed on one such island. Not wanting to fall to their deaths they shut that door as well. the third door was green, and beyond the threshold appeared to be a swamp, the stagnant water seemed to have something large swimming around within it. Fearing whatever large and most likely multi-headed monster dwelled within they decided to shut that door as well.

They looked at the last colored door, the black door, and when opened found a long hallway made of old stones, and at the very end over fifty feet away stood a cloaked skeletal figure. The party said hey, asked him why he was there and was informed that Herman, the skeleton man, worked for the Oni, Daddy Fate, as his ghoul wrangler. He did not seem sad that his master had been murdered by the party but sadly had to remain in his hallway to keep the ghouls in.

They investigated the last room, the small door to the south east and found what seemed to be a classroom with four large sized desks and a large slate chalk board. As they peered in papers and chalk dust kicked up in the air. The three invisible stalkers attacked the party. Godric had stepped into the door and was besieged by the first monster, ending up getting grappled and smacked around. Thelrum used see invisibility and could make out where they were, but everyone else was at a loss. Dinak launched a few arrows at the invisible grappler, just managing to judge where the creature was. The group was having difficulty hitting the monsters so Xanaphia cast sickening radiance, filling the room with a pale green mist. Godric teleported out of the mist finding the safest place in the room as well as a small gremlin hiding under a desk that kept trying to stab him with a sharpened hand broom. Orion, Tamin, Thelrum, and Dinak watched as the creatures became filled with the green radiance and were easier to hit. Once visible the party made quick work against the stalkers, and as always stealing kills from each other. The Gremlin attempted to run away but saw the green radiance and decided to surrender. Godric attempted to talk to the ugly blue gremlin and found they had no common ground language wise. Having killed the invisible stalkers, the group started ransacking the desk finding odd other worldly bronze coins, some daggers, a empty journal, and the nest the blue gremlin slept in. After pretty much robbing this gremlin they searched for any secret doors or chambers off this room and just found the chalk board was fragile and had a map of Toril marked with different places the oni were planning to either attack or capture animals. 

They left that room to go back down stairs, through the “boring” library I forgot to fully describe, up the metal circular stairs and into a chamber with a large dark metal door in the center of the northern wall and four large glass cylinders with metal furnishings. The cylinders also gave off a faint humming sound each one was a different color. Those with barding ability started humming to see if the tone or pitch would change anything and the green cylinder lit up. They tried to change up the pitch and see if other ones would light up, but found only the green one reacted to their sounds. They touched the green one and it stayed lit. They started touching all of the other cylinders and they each lit up when touched in the right order. The metal doors clanged open and a large demon with two big pincer arms, two smaller but still beefy arms, and a canine head roared into the chamber, attacking the party. Godric charged the beast but succumbed to its confusion spell, staring into its odd pecs. Tamin and Dinak shot at it with their bows, each having decent success, Xanaphia and Thelrum launched magical attacks at the demon with less success, Orion pummeled the demon with fists, and once Thelrum removed the confusion from Godric, Godric laid into the beast with his sword. In the battle Tamin attempted to flee back down the stairs to find they had pulled up and sealed behind the party. The beast put up a good fight but was overwhelmed by the party. We ended there for the night and the group is now level 9.