Session 1440
Module: Modified Serpent's Skull Adventure Path (and Carrion Crown)
Pylia the half-elf bladesinger, Drizmar the drow ranger with a ring of humanity, Blood the gnome cleric with a ring of humanity, Blue the satyr paladin with a ring of humanity, Snek the half-dragon/serpent with a ring of humanity, Pezok the kenku rogue with a ring of humanity, and "Chuck" the mindflayer wizard had rested near the room with the skull of the snakegod. Drizmar declared his desire to kill Strahd, saying he feared the visions Strahd had been sending Pylia were a means of manipulating her.
The group killed Chuck since they knew he was likely going to betray them later; Blue went insane after looking at Chuck’s book. Blood cured Blue’s insanity. They went to the skull of the snakegod, found out Snek was the son of the snakegod, and found out that the skull anchored them so that they could not teleport it; they had to drag it through the jungle for 2 days, back to the City of the 7 Statues. In the jungle, they found Selaxasp again; they freed the 2 human slaves Selaxasp had.
An old man told the group he feared that doing the ritual would destroy the island; he asked them to save the 200ish people there before doing the ritual. They engaged in a lot of group discussion and planning. Blood worked on the snakegod ritual while Pylia did the Cthulhu ritual – with the snakegod beginning to regenerate while the Cthulhu-esque being took over Snek’s body and transformed into a large aberration. Cthulhu-Snek ate the snakegod skull before the group killed him; he hadn’t regained his full power and thus was slow to move around. Before being killed off, his tentacles had temporarily feeble-minded Blue and almost petrified both Drizmar and Pylia. Blue used the godslayer sword to destroy the purple essence of the island, but it destroyed the weapon.
After the battle, a gate opened up in the park - to Waterdeep, with a gold dragonborn saying he had received a vision to open the gate for them; the 200ish people in the city went through the gate while Pylia and Blue debated how to rescue the other islanders and the dryad. They quickly bought teleport scrolls and saved the people from the whaling village, the water genasi mayor, the elf assassin lady, and the dryad. The island was sinking into the ocean.
In Waterdeep, the group found out that the city had joined the Empire of Veertopia, ruled by Empress Veersalla; that happened after the giant queen told everyone about the deaths and defeat of Force Green and called the leaders of the Sword Coast together to sign an official alliance with the giants. The group also found out that the bard Relgar, the gnome chef Cookie, and Billy had taken Pylia’s 200,000 gp from her bank account after claiming she had adopted Billy (and thus he was her son and heir). There was also a note from Relgar saying Pylia and Blue’s family might be evil, replaced by dopplegangers, possessed, or something; he wasn’t sure, but felt they had been acting evil.
In investigating, the group went to Daggerford (where they found out Billy’s father who abandoned him had been a necromancer and was just recently killed), the Feywild (where they spoke with Blue and Blood’s father Fluter), and Reyal Keep. Pezok stayed at Reyal Keep, where the team found out Pylia’s brother was staying at a hunting lodge. They went to the lodge, met the nobles, stayed the night, found out Pylia’s brother was a werewolf with a strange tattoo that prevented the lycanthropy from being removed. The brother explained that the rest of the family had gone to the elf world where Shendelavri, Borngray II, and Kya had been spreading the word of Corellon.
The team hunted down Relgar, Cookie, and Billy to get the Tortuga ship back; the elves from Evermeet took the ship back. Pylia insisted that they return to Waterdeep and fill out paperwork to establish that she never actually adopted Billy; the trio explained that they had taken the money and ship to protect them for the group because the air genasi cousin had been acting evil and they also worried that Mercy’s elf wife might try to steal the ship.
[The session ended with the group still in Waterdeep, having finished the paperwork and cleared up the issue with Billy. Relgar and Cookie decided to officially adopt Billy.]
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