The Delinquents - Session 32

This is the thirty-second session in The Delinquents campaign and the fourth and final session in the Glimpse of Us storyline of the Pictures of a City arc. Player feedback ranks this session at an 8.60.

## Notable Events

* The party continued to search for pages of Harkem's tome while trapped in the dark, grey dimension.
* Mace and Palmer learned about the strange circumstances regarding the group's memories of this place.
* Palmer (rather indirectly) admitted his feelings to Lamhach in the form of a dismissal of Jesper.
* The party fought a terrible boney serpent to acquire the final page of Harkem's tome, with Palmer landing the killing shot.
* The party escaped from where they were trapped and returned to Harkem's office.

## Summary

**UNKNOWN:** The party continued to battle against the hordes of nightmarish shades as each group pushed to the edges of the long tendrils of warped landscape, searching for pages of the tome needed by Harkem. With 5 pages acquired by the party and shades descending upon the scattered groups, each group planned their escape back to the central platform. Palmer, his strength greatly sapped by the creatures, covered the approach of Lamhach and Agvahl to his island with his pistol. As the trio were reunited, Palmer expressed that he did not think he was strong enough to make the jumps back to Harkem and that they should keep going. Lamhach and Agvahl immediately disagreed and tried to think up a way to get Palmer back with him. Much to Lamhach and Palmer's disagreement, Agvahl decided that he would throw Palmer across the gap to save him, and with no one strong enough to contest him, he picked up Palmer and jumped across the chasm back to Harkem with Lamhach in tow.

Meanwhile, Ishim passed off his page to Eren to run it to his father while he continued to fight off the shades. Eren began to run back to the island, passing Marcus on the way. The two watched as shades swarmed Ishim, surrounding him as they all began to attack, tearing into his flesh and leeching his life's energy. All hope seemed lost, before Ishim noticed Marcus firing a concentrated bead of fire (a fireball) towards him and the shades. The Dragonborn braced for the explosion and closed his eyes before realizing that Marcus had protected him from the explosion, only killing the shades with the fireball. Marcus demanded that Ishim run, as Eren commented that he'd wished Marcus had done something like that earlier. Marcus responded sarcastically to him before turning Eren on his way:

> "You're a fuckin' bozo, man. Get his dad the pages!"
>
> Marcus Johnson to Eren, in response to him saving Ishim's life.

Gorrn and Mace soon joined the rest of the party back with Harkem, still maintaining his concentration on containing the Black Opal. The party provided the 5 pages to him but soon learned that he was still missing a critical page to seal the artifact away once more. They argued for some time, with Ishim demanding Harkem try the spell without all of the pages and the rest of the party trying to figure out where it may be hidden. While this happened, Palmer began to freak out about what was going on, demanding to know where they were and what was going on. He was calmed by Mace as the party explained to them what they knew and now remembered. Palmer, now back to his senses, asked Ishim if there was *anything* else he could tell him about this place, which he unfortunately could not.
To the party's good fortune, it seemed that the endless waves of shades had stopped, giving them time to recuperate for a moment. Ishim and Lamhach took the opportunity to write notes to themselves for later; Agvahl readied his javelins and Gutter Snipe prepared a flaming sphere; Eren investigated Mace's blank tome; and Mace administered healing potions. Palmer, still grappling with what was happening, suddenly exclaimed that he had two things to say to Lamhach. Before he could finish his statements, however, he was cut off by the deep shrieking of a new approaching enemy:

> "I think you can do way better than that Jesper guy!"
>
> Palmer, in his first of two planned things to say to Lamhach.

The party watched in horror as a terrible, rattling skeletal serpent emerged from the darkness above them, accompanied by another horde of shades. They immediately descended upon the party as they began to fight for their lives while defending Harkem. As the battle ensued, a well-placed bolt of acid by Snipe shattered a section of the serpent's ribs, revealing within the creature's gullet a sixth page from Harkem's tome. The group fought valiantly against the creature, with Agvahl standing in its way to hold off its approach as Lamhach and the others pelted it with whatever they could muster. The party sustained considerable injuries and continued sapping of their strength. Finally, with a well-placed shot by the now nearly completely leeched Palmer, the serpent was felled and the sixth page given to Harkem, who immediately began to seal the Opal away as hundreds of shades descended upon them. Without a moment to spare, the Opal was sealed away as the party lost consciousness once more.

## See also

* The Delinquents - Session 31
* The Delinquents - Session 33