Session 99 "The Untimely Death of Gram Palos"

Session 99 Recap: The Untimely Death of Gram Palos

As The Lucky Seven emerged out onto the desolate and demolished streets of Athkatmon, the rain gently pouring down, Balistar commanded a section of the sky to turn to sleet giving you a distraction by which to leave as arrows and hellish beings emerged from the sleet and rain to attack him. As Dorn stepped out of Balistar’s Shop, Vampire Killer, responding to the fiendish presence, began to glow white hot. Dorn realizing that he would be an obvious target, especially given it was now fully dark out, split off from the group while the rest of you made your way into the sewers unseen thanks to the distractions provided by Dorn and Balistar.

Bucky leading the way, and with great assistance from the carpet of flying, you eventually reached the portion of the sewers closest to The Alabaster Lyceum. It was there that Mrs. Brunkle spotted the orphan Dorn had tried to recruit, Rodney, running away. Rodney who was fearful at first explained that The Giant’s Legion had found the layer of The Sewer King—that which had been the new base of operations for The Resistance and had “snatched up everyone.”

Leaving Rodney with a knife, some holy water, and Gram’s promise that this would all be sorted by tomorrow, you continued on. Bucky found the Alabaster Lyceum approximately 500 ft from a manhole cover that she emerged through. Rhys, using his divine sense, found that there were fiends all around. Grin was able to confirm the presence of the imps that had been spying on you throughout much of your adventures in Amn.

Gram decided to go into the Alabaster Lyceum first accompanied only by Mrs. Brunkle to scope out the situation. He found he was able to locate the teleportation circle and begin to clear it off with ease…however it all seemed TOO easy. Then, for whatever reason, a quote popped into his head, one that he had encountered in his youth:“There are no virtues in the Shadowfell. Thank to the balhannoth, even hope is punished by death.” Suddenly a large creature all tentacles and gapping maw was on him. Muffy realized Gram was in trouble but the rest of you were so far away. She Dimension Doored herself and Rensig to join the fray, but Gram meanwhile was being assaulted on all sides. Not only was there this tentacled beast on him, but a small company of bearded devils as well as a barbed devil. As soon as Muffy and Rensig caught up to Gram, the Balhannoth whisked him away.

Meanwhile, Bucky was making a dead sprint from the sewer cover to the Alabaster Lyceum while Rhys accompanied her keeping up thanks to the carpet of flying. All the while Muffy’s dementors were giving The Devils as a good a fight as they were getting but Gram, who had managed to fend off so many Devils by himself succumbed to the attacks of the balhannoth. Muffy and Rensig put up what fight they could, that was until the remaining members of The Giant’s Fist showed up. The twins, focusing their attacks on Muffy, dropped her first. Carric and the remaining devils simultaneously went to work on Rensing. And all the while, Gram, against all odds, kept coming back from unconsciousness, but was again and again sent back into the inky void by the balhannoth. Finally the beast finding Gram’s sheer determination to not stay down troublesome, struck the killing blow. Gram Palos is dead. Muffy St. Claire is unconscious. And Rensig Isaey? He’s not doing so well either.