Legends of Arcadia: Genesis: Episode 22

__NOTOC__
==Recap==
===Day 17===
Having defeated the Gibbering Mouther, the party continues their track through the fields. When they see a river, they camp for the night. Wren heals the party. 
Gnoeman plots his revenge on and they discuss preparations. 
===Day 18===
They cross the river, and avoid the mist. Rouk finds tracks that seem to be Drexel's, and convinces the party goes after him immediately. As they reach the cave, Drexls says he knew they'd come. Drexl is chanting in unknown language flanked by 2 creatures. 
Combat start: Party vs Monsters 
Gnoeman casts . Wren casts . Drexl begins chanting and the mist consumes the party. Koibu remembers the terrain and manages to walk through the mist. Rouk blindly strikes and hits Drexl.
Misses are exchanged. Wren uses the horn to destroy the mist, consuming it in the process. Hugo hits a creature. Dog takes a heavy blow from the creature. Koibu is struck.
Drexl hits Rouk. Gnoeman jumps onto the skull cave and jumps towards Drexl. Koibu casts Koibu's Shadowy Grasp and hold the creature in place. Rouks dog bites the other creature. Rouk wounds Drexl. Hugo charges the creature and hits it. The creature slays Rouk's dog. 
Creatures start to mend wounds. The held creature, the bird part of the creature kills the creature and leaves the body. Koibu kills it as it flies away. Rouk is hit again. Hugo runs through the other creature. Wren casts on Drexl. 
Gnoeman leaps of the cave with the dagger and stabs Drexl, killing him on the spot.
Combat end. 
Around Drexls neck there is a little chain around his neck, with red gemstone, with a symbol of Malkis on it. As he dies, the gem starts glowing and the body rises up. They continue to hit the dead body. Drexl body smiles, his eyes empty as the void. 
Drexls body walks off. Rouk tries to stop him.
Gnoeman casts spells on him and manages to stop him. Drexl says he is weak and must reclaim his weapon. Koibu casts spells, Rouk keeps fighting.
 
Rouk continues swinging, Wren stops him, and he mourns his lost puppy. Divine intervention notifies the party that their quest is not done and Drexl is not connected to the monsters. They suspect Gnoeman's dagger is to blame, Hugo defends him. Rouk picks up the dog and heads home, the party convinces him to stay.
They walk into the cave and step inside the hideout of Cult of Ponos. In the center of the room is a giant blue eye, 2 cultists around it. Rouk charges forward. Wren suggests Hugo uses a mirror. 
'''
Combat start: The party vs Eye of Ponos'''
Hugo throws a javelin at the eye and takes out the mirror. The light shines on them, paralyzes Hugo, and the reflection in the mirror paralyzes one of the cultists. Other cultists tells them they aren't welcome and need to turn away from the Eye of Ponos. Koibu walks towards the door between cultists and blocks it. Gnoeman charges and hits the Cultist. Rouk strikes the eye. Wren charges the eye. The gaze of the eye hurts them. 
Koibu casts on the door. Gnoeman kills the cultist, the crimson mist rises from the blood. Rouk misses the eye. Hugo and Wren are hurt by the eye. 
Koibu covers the eye with his cloak, Hugo is no longer paralyzed. Hugo charges the blinded eye. Rouk hits the eye, killing it and ruining Koibu's cloak. Wren knocks out the paralyzed cultist.
Rouk rips through the red mist, Hugo finishes it off.
Combat end
They search the chamber and then walk through the door. 2 more cultists are in the next room.
Combat Start: Party vs Cultists
One cultist hits Koibu, Gnoeman casts and they both fall asleep. They tie them up. Rouk barges into a storage room full of scrolls. Wren casts , finds 4 scroll cases. 1 has 3 Inflict Wounds, other a spell , other 5 Priest spells, the last one destroys scrolls inside it when opened. Gnoeman calls for Melinda, no answer. 
They enter the next room, an eye and 2 cultists inside. Rouk and Gnome are paralyzed. Wren drags him out of the room. 
Combat start: The Party vs Second Eye
* Koibu runs across the room and stands behind the eye. Cultist attacks him and knocks him unconscious. The second cultist destroys the Image of Gnoeman. Hugo rushes the eye with a blanket. 
* Wren misses a cultist. Gnoeman kills the cultist and climbs down the well to get Melinda, unconscious. Rouk shoots the mist of the cultist. It wraps around Wren. Hugo decapitated a cultist. Rouk shoots the first mist again.
* Hugo attacks the second mist. Gnoeman wakes up Melinda and helps her out of the well. Mist hits Rouk. Hugo kills the mist. 
* Wren disappears. Rouk is knocked unconscious by the mist. Gnoeman hits mist and Wren. Wren leaves the mist. Rouks dogs and Gnoeman miss the mist. The mist surrounds Wren again.
* Gnoeman hits the mist and Wren, almost destroys it. Rouks dog rips the mist.
Combat end
As Gnoeman and Melinda celebrate their reunion, Wren heals Rouk. They bludgeon the eye to death. Hugo checks up on the people that were in the room and suggest Wren check-up if they are infected. Hugo tells the people the way to leave. Gnoeman sends Melinda with them and gifts her the tiara. Wren heals with the paste Chis gifted her. 
They open the center chamber and find 5 Archpriests of Ponos Cult, chanting around a circle with a goat's skull in the center. They do not turn to meet them. The dogs leap upon the cultists and overbear them and spell circle breaks. The magic twists, a portal to the Real of Nightmares opens, and the tentacle drag the cultists into the portal, killing them. 
Gnoeman inspects the skull and recalls a tale of a witch of the valley who wore a goat mask, and suggests Wren takes this mask to the elves, then proceeds to loot the place of everything not nailed down. They find 210 gold pieces and the motivation behind the cult. 
The Cult believes Ponos brings suffering to make them stronger and more godly. They wanted to create a great wave of suffering so the people would become more godly. To do so, they brought about a great plague, a disease that would damage but not kill, and create Nightmare versions of people and beasts, turning them into monsters. They heard of a relic in Steepwater from an ancient hero, a hero tied to the world of nightmares. Their final trick was the magic ritual which was interrupted.
They undo the plague of Cult of Ponos. 
==Experience==
All characthers level up.
Category:Legends of Arcadia: Genesis Episodes