Session x 128 "The Treasure of The Dragonlords"

Session 128: The Treasure of the Dragonlords

As the battle with the banshee’s concluded, Lutheria stood on the shore of the small island inside this strange hollow mirrored structure upon the Nether Sea. She made offers to some members of The Lucky Seven in their heads as she teased them aloud. Meanwhile Gram discovered that you were not able to save everyone on the ship, there had been four casualties from the banshee attacks, and many more members of the crew were barely hanging on, including the goddess Kyrah. Though when Bucky took off towards Lutheria on the carpet of flying, Kyrah was the first member of the crew to say she was going to come with.

While Muffy and Rensig attended to the wounded, Rhys took off upon the newly much larger Grin with Chadwick, Kyrah, and Pythor, (Pythor who Rhys had just sobered up with his lay on hands), along for the ride. Captain Gram made his own way after convincing Urm, who could barely hold his mud form together, that he needed Urm and Bip to attend to the ship. A celestial Rhys summoned for help during the fight with the banshee’s rounded out the group that pursued Lutheria.

Lutheria jumped down a red glowing hole in the middle of the island and the group followed. Bucky realized it was some sort of veil between worlds. On the other side a glowing red underwater world awaited and while there was no sign of Lutheria, the group was not alone. First two enormous angler fish that fed on light and flesh came out of the darkness then a massive shark. In the fight both Kyrah and Grin were taken out and Pythor though devastatingly effective in the fight now that he had sobered up was swallowed whole.

Rhys managed to cut Pythor out of the shark, killing it in the process and Bucky called forth the healing spirit Rensig had cast into the spell storing ring to restore Kyrah. A deadly serious Gram continued on swimming down through a tunnel then up into some sort of bright silvery grotto. The surface of the water was solid enough to stand upon and a bright blue sky hung over head with massive several hundred foot tall water falls surrounding this strange lake. A statue of Lutheria stood in the middle of the lake, and then a watery titanic version of the goddess arose. She congratulated the group on finding the treasure of The Dragonlords but said she had decided to remove one of the items for safe keeping, and with that she created a circle  of water to show which item before attacking. She trapped Chadwick and Rhys’ celestial ally in a wall of water and again dropped Kyrah and then Gram. With an impassioned plea that she just wanted to talk, and a great deal of help from Rhys, Gram, and Pythor, Bucky dispatched this watery version of Lutheria with a magic arrow fired from Fenthras. As the watery Lutheria dissipated she told Bucky that if she wanted to talk to her face to face, she should come see her upon her barge.

There were small islands scattered about the lake with ruins on them that Bucky was able to determine were ancient shrines to various Elven deities, though she was not sure which ones. The treasure was found and gathered amongst these shrines.

When Estor saw his old swords he insisted on Gram having them. But when Gram asked Bucky for them she hesitated. Though initially this was due to a fear of what might happen if Estor had them, Gram felt distrust from his ally and a tense conversation on whether the group really still trusted Gram ensued. Not only was the unknowable entity Tharizdun potentially influencing Gram, but so was Estor. Estor who Bucky had read the journal of and felt the man was as close to evil as mortal souls get. Rhys compared Estor to a “baking tool” that might accidentally slice Gram, the analogy strongly resonating with Chadwick. Meanwhile Kyrah and Pythor stretched out on the solid water catching their breath as the celestial Rhys summoned slowly dissipated. After taking 10 minutes to identify the swords Bucky felt comfortable handing them over. Still the matter of whether the evil that Gram wrestled with might eventually be too much for him felt unsettled.

With four out five pieces of the Treasure of The Dragonlords collected, Gram teleported the group back to the deck of The Charm. The piece you had initially set out looking for, The Piece of The Rod of Seven Parts still remains at large presumably in Lutheria’s possession.