Session 7
Cult of Dust
Cult of Dust
In the morning after their well needed rest, while taking their water at the fresh source, they noticed something scorpion-like at the bottom of the drinking pool. Fazanna, deciding to use mage hand to caress the creature woke it up.
It was an aberration known as a chuul, a magic eating otherworldly monster. As frightening as it looked, it was not very dangerous after being trapped in a magical entanglement by Safi. The chuul was able to eat the magical trap and swam down to the bottom of the pool, away from the party.
They warily backed away and let it be.
After batting down the warped wooden door and crossing the cracked stone floor they found themselves in a cross corridor with three doors. Behind the two on each side were basins filled with magical glowing water, maroon and aquamarine. After unsuccessful attempting to discern the properties of the mysterious liquids. Eventually Shank decided to drink from the blue fountain and felt invigorated and the others followed his pattern. He then rushed to the maroon side and drank from there, suffering a bout of vomiting and nausea. He thought he could cure it by drinking again from the blue but he was again wracked by pains.
Behind the third door was some sort of ceremonial room with glowing braziers in each corner and a snake skeleton on the floor in front of a bone altar. As soon as they entered the room, fiery skeletons appeared in blasts of flame in the far braziers and salt zombies and scaly ghouls appeared in puffs of smoke around the nearest two.
It was a long and hard fought battle fought with little strategy and many failed ideas such as destroying the altar and opening the only other door. Many of the group had brushes with death and narrowly escaped with their lives. The last fiery skeleton fought from the brazier and the group finally toppled him with going prone, tossed bricks and Fazanna using her lightning lure to drag him from the flames where he was crushed