As of writing it's the last days of April and spring is finally appearing after the longest Winter... or more accurately the most winters in one winter. It was just snowing two weeks back. So what better than playing through yet another dnd session. I planned it all out for us to dive into the Xanathar's Guild and retrieve the stone of Galorr. But my player's decided to side-track. So Hope and Freya headed to the harbour and the Apparatus of Kwalish that Glindra left so they could investigate the harbour. The apparatus is pretty much a submarine in the form of a lobster. After getting in and figuring out the controls (and almost submerging it with the hatch open) they head out for a look. On their way they are suddenly attacked by the giant shark Obliteros, with the obvious appropriate music:
It becomes an epic battle as the two submariners duke it out with the shark. They attack it with their claws and tries to grapple it while the shark gets loose and tries to bite the submarine. During the fight Freya rolls a 1 on the attack so what's more fun than destroying the lever controlling the attack so they are stuck on grappling the shark that begins dragging them down into the depths. Hope brings out some pliers from her equipment bag to use as a substitute lever and and is able to damage the shark so that it reaches bloodied. And I already decided that the shark is smart enough to leave the prey behind if it it is too much of a challenge. The sub is a bit beat up so they head back and get Parker to fix it the next morning. Which he does with a mending spell and some elbow grease to bang his hammer on it to even out the bite marks from the shark.
The next day they begin thinking about heading out again, but to speed on the plot I return with Vincent Trench that have stalked out Xanathar's hideout and found the entrance and given them a map to use. He also warns them that Xanathar is dangerous and only listen to someone called Syglar. They head down and enters the place. Everywhere is blinking stone eyes watching their every move. In the first room they find a hidden door that they carefully open and finds a hallway lined with stone statues of different people and an insane gnome jester laughing and cartwheeling all around. They all say no and close the door. They look at their map and realise that that secret door is probably the best way to go around so they cast pass without a trace and tries to sneak up on the gnome. Freja approaches him and he's just glad to see someone, he will show her to the boss if she can answer his riddle.
The answer to the riddle is laughter, but she get hang up on the "In Slaughter I rest" and we have to pause the game to explain it for her. She got the answer but interpreted that part to mean that if you massacre people it isn't fun and took forever to get that laughter is part of the word slaughter. And then he show her the way to Xanathar introducing her to a drow with a grell and then bringing them to the sanctum. There they see a dwarf feeding a fish in a bowl and hearing a voice complaining he can't tune to the stone since he don't dare untune to his magic rings. She reads the dwarfs mind but don't get that it isn't Xanathar, but just a minion. So I reveal him as he turns the jester to stone (since he grown tired of the gnome). Freja begins playing for Syglar to keep Xanathar in the good mood while the others with the pass without a trace tries to sneak up on him to backstab him... don't think that would work and I'm really suspicious over that ability, but they are in for it now. Freja tries to mind read Xanathar to see where the stone is, but is blocked by his ring of mind shielding which I interpret must warn him that somethings happening... on the other hand, his gaze would mean she couldn't use magic so whatever. The battles starts anyway.
And it turns out to be the toughest yet. They try to attack him, but with an AC 18 they have a hard time hitting, and since I use a legendary action after every attack in retaliation I'm finally doing some damage to them. Immeral gets hit by a Death Ray that takes 45 damage. Freja and Hope avoid their disintegration rays while Ulf get caught in a telekinetic ray and lifted to the roof. Ott, the dwarf, grab Syglars bowl and runs over to the larger fish tank and dumps him in their and then run off. Freja talks to the coral plants in the tank to get them to catch and kill Syglar and then puts up an illusion that Syglar actually is dead to trick Xanathar... which just makes him pissed, but since the illusion dissipates at his gaze he just gets even more mad. Hope gets paralyzed by an eye beam and the floor turns into goo as the lair itself acts to stop the intruders. And here we pretty much had to end the session since others had to do stuff, they might have finished if they didn't try to use the submarine.
It still was a fun session and it feels like they actually affects the story. Thinking about letting Xanathar run away if he gets bloodied, but we will see what happens. I think they would appreciate the EXP since it's a lot. Need to see if there is some magic items that allows long distance conversation (I think I heard about it, but it could have been some homebrew thing).
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