7.2.22 - About the Abolith

From my little nook, I could hear the clacking of pincers coming from down where Cannon was and he was yelling something about being done with this place and retirement. I took off down the hall to try to pull Rhys free from the cloud again as soon as She-Rah had escaped from the whirlpool. She-Rah ran by and grabbed Rhys since I could not free her, and managed to get her to the other side of the cloud back down towards Cannon where she woke up and became Wolf-Rhys. We regrouped back in the room with the big pool in it where Reaver unexpectedly shot me, before going back towards the very first room we had entered.

We chased after him to figure out what was going on where we found the door we had not yet gone through was open. Inside, I saw all kinds of coins, gems, and other treasures, but Cannon said none of it was real. I went in anyways, only to find more of the lobster creatures and Reaver, who was hiding under the illusion. Together, we quickly dealt with the creatures until the only person left was Reaver, who was confused about why we were fighting each other after She-Rah gave him a good whack with her ax. Cannon tried to finish him because he was clearly a traitor, but we decided to let him live to try to explain what had happened. Reaver claimed he could not remember what had happened or that he had attacked us.

Since it was quiet in this room, we decided to take a short rest while we made a game plan about how to deal with the abolith. However, we got side tracked because Reaver still didn’t think that we could be siblings. He also thought that we should now go back to the hags and get them to deal with the abolith for us since he didn’t know about the deal we had made for Elisande. Meanwhile, Cannon had set up a little ritual to talk to his god that did not seem to be answered. Rhys took a look at the lobster creatures and determined that they had not evolved naturally in this world, and the abolith seems like it is much older than anything else on this continent. She-Rah and Reaver began rubbing their temples and mentioned that it felt like someone or something was trying to get into their heads. We decided we would look for the wizards who were making the illusions by going back to the door we had not entered in the room with the big pool.

We went back to the door, which opened to a study that had odd writing in blood on the floor and a bunch of desks covered in papers and books. In the corner there was a frogish-porcupine-tyranthraxus-ish dude stuck in a summoning circle and some devils waiting to ambush us. I told everyone about the devils in waiting, so we went in quietly to take them out before they could attack us. As we came in, the creature stuck in the circle began yelling at us, offering us deals, and information about the abolith if we help it escape. Cannon told us the creature seemed genuine in its offers.

After we dealt with our opponents, we talked to the creature who told us their name was Gurhaginax, and they were here because of the wizards who had summoned them and the devils. They told us that the devils were out of control because the wizard had left. Then they offered to answer two questions in exchange for their freedom to which Cannon told them they would answer all of our questions or they would not be freed. So, we asked them about how to close the portal leaking ooze outside. According to them, the abolith could not have created the portal and if we wanted to close the portal we needed to kill the wizard who had opened it, and they thought that wizard lived in the room to the north of the ritual room. Also, the abolith’s name is Seedooloo and he wants to become a god despite aboliths’ disdain for gods. We were told that we would not be able to kill Seedooloo, but we could kill his physical form and he would be banished back to a different plane for 100 years. At the completion of our questioning, we freed Gurhaginax before we decided we needed to return to the false treasure room to take a long rest.