The Collective - Session 71

This is the seventy-first session in The Collective campaign and the second session in the Time Diversion storyline of the Conflict Arc. Player feedback ranks this session at a 9.17.

## Notable Events

* The party caught glimpses of two more mysterious characters.
* Roscoe was nearly killed in combat with terrible shadowy creatures, saved by being turned into a bear.
* The party successfully discovered and activated two of the chromatic sigils.

## Summary

**UNKNOWN:** The party continued to make their way through the mysterious gray halls in search of more chromatic sigils after a brief discussion of their strange sightings. Entering into another room through piles of ominously marked parchment, the party found themselves inside of an old classroom. Inside was a mess of large piles of parchment, gaping holes in the floor descending further into the void, and the nauseating scent of iron in the air. Delorean carefully approached one of the holes, dropping a stone into it and watching as it shot up quickly from another hole, clanging dully against the ceiling. His curiosity piqued, he repeated his experiment with another pit, dropping a lit stone that soon burst forth from below one of the large stacks of parchment, revealing a smaller hole. Gorrn, caught up in the excitement of the scientific method, pushed through another pile of parchment, revealing a lit blue sigil. He reached down and touched the sigil, sending the blue light shooting out of the room and inciting a distant screeching that rapidly approached from the dark pits.

The group prepared themselves for combat as the terrible screeching intensified and a number of terrible, shadowy creatures emerged from the depths. The shades attacked the party, sapping their strength as they ripped and tore with claws and blades. Roscoe, surrounded by the creatures, had his strength sapped to the point of barely being able to stand. Knowing his friend’s fate may be sealed with one more unlucky blow, Delorean leapt into action to save the small man, polymorphing Roscoe a bear, leaving him with the strength to continue fighting, but not much in terms of mental faculties. The fighting continued, with Kevril transforming himself into a giant scorpion and Flynt invoking holy light to turn the undead menace. After a valiant defense, the party retreated from the room as more shadows began to flood the area. Flynt defended the rest of the group as they escaped, before turning to see a goliath appear inside the room, slamming the door to prevent the shades from escaping. Safe from the undead, Flynt relayed this vision to the group, whose description brought to Gorrn's mind the name Agvahl.

Hopping across the depths to the next room, Flynt offered to carry Roscoe on his shoulders, but was quickly reminded that “Roscoe is a bear.” Perhaps Flynt just wanted to upstage Gorrn’s bear pelt by wearing an actual bear, but his true motivations are unknown. Opening the door marked “Summoning Room,” the party found a circular room with chairs and tables throughout and a large round carpet in the center with a glowing violet sigil written on the chalkboard opposite the door. An invisible forcefield, discovered by Delorean, prevented the party from crossing the center of the room. Roscoe the bear made himself comfortable on the carpet as Gorrn sat near him, bonding over salmon, while the rest of the group got to work solving the puzzle. OTIS, using an innate knowledge of the arcane, identified several chalk circles on the ground as conjuration sigils. With this knowledge, Kevril found a way around the forcefield by summoning a frog on the other side, using it to touch the violet sigil and sending the light shooting out of the room.

## Gallery

The classroom in which Roscoe nearly lost his life...again.The summoning room, its sigil blocked by an invisible barrier.
## See also

* The Collective - Session 70
* The Collective - Session 72