2025-01-15 – Wed City of Arches

Characters

  • Andrew Armageddon – blowing shit up.
  • Lana – stabbing things
  • Ozara – Smiting
  • Zillian – bashing, proning, and stuff.

Strong Start

A cry for help from the souls of the damned.

Scenes

  • The cry of the souls
  • Acquiring the lift keys
  • Traversing the Pleasure Vaults
  • Into the streets of Sunken Revvia

Secrets and Clues

  • The pleasure dens used necromancy and psionics to transfer pain into pleasure – strength, contentment, power. This went beyond flesh.
  • Sunken Revvia is a battlefield between three entities – the hobgoblin warlord General Krash, the cult of Vrys, and a terrible black dragon named Ouryvax the Sallowsworn who commands trolls and stone giants out of the ruin called Omen's End.
  • The shattered keep of Grayon lies beyond the caverns of the Fetid Falls. Generations of grimlocks worship a queen known a the White Hand.
  • A kobold village named Fallen Avantys serves as a refuge for kobolds among the warring factions of Sunken Revvia.
  • Several keys limit access to various parts of the pleasure dens.
  • Followers of Vrys worship the celestial at the ruins of a tower called Gray Reach. They are served by an exiled mage of Kartan named Velenda Thyrade.
  • The psions of the Nameless King found a world beyond physical space, a world where thought, dreams, and memories were as solid and real as flesh and blood. They called this world the Black Rainbow.
  • Things live in the Black Rainbow. Horrors beyond mortal imagining. They whisper of an entity there called the Father of the Void – Ourboran.
  • Over the centuries, cracks formed in the walls of the Pleasure Vaults where the boundaries between this world and that became thin.
  • Creatures bathing in the oily substance of the Black Rainbow become beings of thought – most have their minds shattered. Some come out Different.
  • A young girl was placed in the oil very young. She has been trapped in a circle of power for hundreds of years.

Fantastic Locations

  • Two Headless Gray Conservi attend a mummified sycophant of the Nameless King.

Notable NPCs

  • Tasia Kayde – young shadow elf psion of the Black Rainbow.
  • Lord Dasade Calesh – Sycophant of the Nameless King
  • Myscordia Thornblood – infernal humanoid of the Black Rainbow

Monsters

  1. Psionic Ghouls CR 1/2 AC/DC 12 HP 22 Atk/Prof +4 DPR 8 Atks 2 × 1d6 + 1 + pain
  2. Headless Gray Conservus CR 4 AC/DC 14 HP 84 Atk/Prof +6 DPR 28 Atks 2 × 1d6 + 11
  3. Sychophant of the Nameless King: CR 8 AC/DC 15 HP 136 Atk/Prof +7 DPR 53 Atks 3 × 1d6 + 15
  4. Gray Conservus Painmelder CR 5 AC/DC 15 HP 95 Atk/Prof +7 DPR 35 Atks 3 × 1d6 + 9 + psychic blast, pain transference
  5. Lost explorer – Spensae Flowerfang, a pious infernal of Vrys
  6. Psychic beetle swarms

Treasure

  • 83 SP, 2247 GP, 105 PP
  • 4 × 100 GP amethyst gemstones
  • Earring that casts Ray of Enfeeblement once, DC 15
  • +1 musical undead scale mail armor, casts the spell vicious mockery at will. DC 12 + Prof and casts at your level.
  • The Devil's Teardrop. +2 dagger. Once per day can inflict an extra 2d6 psychic damage and can be hurled 60 feet and return to the owners hand. Once per day a creature attuned can use a psychic blast that inflicts 6d8 psychic damage and inflicts 3d8 damage to the user (DC 16 Wisdom).

Notes

  • Saved Myscordia Thornblood, an infernal being trapped in a mirror in the Pleasure Dens.