Session 84 "The Sleeper Awakens"

Session 84 recap: The Sleeper Awakens

Making your way towards The Sewer King’s lair, The Lucky Seven came to a flooded section of tunnel. After swimming though, on the other side, you found your old ally, Anoushka Kohlana locked in battle with a dozen or so of the undead that had begun to rise around Athkatmon. She had already made sure several did not get back up, and with your help, the rest were de-animated. Though they seemingly struck killing blow after killing blow, Anoushka did not stay down which she attributed to an unfortunate condition of hers.

She lead you to The Sewer Kings lair, and who should be the first to greet you but Begbee who was thrilled to see you all. Rensig quickly found his old friend and former fellow bandmate, Speaker Davos Yillross, a member of the resistance and cleric of Milil. When he asked you to keep an eye out for his son Kohlam, you had to bear the bad news that  Kholam had perished, sacrificing himself to save your lives. Though distraught, he was still ready to help, and ended the condition effecting Rhys’ mind. He thanked you for taking a piece of his son, a potential means by which to bring him back.

Bucky spent the night identifying items and studying her book. When she identified the book she learned about its origin, its author, and the history of the lineage of the author. It was written by Dorn’s mother, Lorelie, daughter of the Queen of Air and Darkness, an extraordinarily powerful Archfey and ruler of the Unseelie court.

The next day you left for the river to attempt to awaken the Sleeper. Rhys attempting to channel the source of his power to reach out to the higher planes for power in his time of need was successful, taking on a form with golden skin and glowing eyes like twin suns. He gave the assembled here hope and though his words might have been faltering the sense of duty in his heart touched them all.

Making your way to the river, you left the sewers through a drainage pipe that Rhys and Rensig were able to pry the grate off of. Mist had descended over the city, a yearly occurrence this time of year known as the Season of Mists. Sliding down the hill into the water, Muffy knocked a large stone down into the water, alerting the enemy devils, but you quickly all submerged before getting spotted.

Under the water, at the bottom of the river, Bucky noticed a small sliver of a cave, one too small for Grin who Rhys had just summoned into his embodied form for the second time. Within was a large fissure running along the bottom of the cave… Bucky realized, this was no fissure. It was a closed eye, you had found the Sleeper. Each of you tried but could not wake the most powerful of the guardians and were running out of air. Begbee went back to the surface and Grin alerted Rhys that there was trouble, that Begbee had come face to face with the devils that had been searching the area due to the falling stone. Grin drew the devils away allowing Begbee to escape and join back up with the rest of you.

Finally with little hope left, you gave the Wheel of Stars to Begbee who went down into the water, and with the ability to cast message, he contacted the Sleeper…and awakened the ancient entity. The water glowed with a turquoise energy, bubbled, and then exploded outward soaking you all, and the most massive being any of you have ever seen, larger than the Devil’s Tower, flew out of the water. An ancient blue dragon unlike any dragon any of you had seen before or even heard of for that matter.

Acting fast, Dorn shot out vines from his yew wood hand and grabbed a hold, pulling him and Bucky onto the surface of the dragon. Gram grabbed Rensig and with the Vaulting Boots of Valtor, bounded after Dorn and Bucky. And then suddenly, Grin swooped in, having out maneuvered his pursuers who now had bigger dragons to worry about—Grin carrying Rhys and Muffy aloft after the others. And so, we pick up, as The Lucky Seven ride along with The Sleeper in the Tides, climbing above the mists to great the morning sun and The Forces of The 9 Hells.