SAGA Log 1449: Tomb of Horrors

The RPG Saga continues...

Module(s): 
The Tomb of Horrors
Beneath the Tomb of Horrors
AD&D Return to the Tomb of Horrors
3E Tomb of Horrors Conversion
4E Tomb of Horrors Campaign
5E Tales from the Yawning Portal: Tomb of Horrors

(Above: Acererak on the 5E DMG Cover)

Session 1449
Force Green’s Core 4 (Pylia, Drizmar, Blood, Blue) left Strahd at a magic lab at Jade Palace so he could make potions and scry on Ivanja for Pylia. From the group loot, they set aside 52,436 gp for Mercy’s child.

Borngray II communed with Corellon and got the team an invitation to a celestial grove where they met up with Corellon and Ehlonna, who told them they had a visit from an agent of the Alpha-Omega Organization who was unhappy about the Godswar. Force Green’s actions have caused Veersalla and her allies to alter their plans. Veersalla has retreated back to her homeworld after giving Pylia’s parents to her allies, thus making Caperakis, Acererack, and Keraptis the current threat (with Caperakis now governing Veertopia on K-T and Keraptis on Oerth). As for Pylia’s parents - a retired cleric of Ehlonna on Oerth named Sather, in her prayers, said she had heard rumors of Gael and Thane being taken through the town of Kalstrand. The other lost family members are fighting at Shendelavri’s side, but it looks like she and Jergal are about to obliterate each other.

Blue came up with the idea to get her mother and her mother’s allies from “the other universe” to help fight in the Godswar and help Shendelavri; Corellon said he would commune with her to see what she would want to do. Pylia recommended Corellon’s team work on the post-Godswar situation to secure the portfolios of any deities who perish. Blue also suggested Ehlonna get Drizzt to help with the war. Pylia requested, in the future, to get an item of Veersalla’s so they can plane-shift to her (to get vengeance).

Ehlonna sent Force Green to Oerth. They found Grunther, who brought them to Falon’s grave and told them how to find Sather's home and “the screaming place” in the swamp. Instead of recruiting Grunther as a guide and going to Sather, the team proceeded to use their magic carpet to fly through the swamp (avoiding monsters) and ended up at Skull City, home of the Dark Academy necromancer school. They argued with the guards and a necromancer (and banished a demon) before proceeding to where a mudslide had covered up the entrances to the “cave of the Devourer” (which they didn’t realize was the Tomb of Horrors).

Inside, the team dealt with traps for several hours. They lost all of their gear when they were teleported naked. In another teleport, they all had a magical sex change; Pylia and Drizmar went back through and switched back. Blue put on a cursed crown that blinded him (when not in the throne room/treasure vaults). Blood was crushed to death, but Blue healed her body and revivified her. Drizmar had his soul taken by Acererak before the team finally defeated the villain. They saved Drizmar, Pylia’s parents (Gael and Thane), and a small team of adventurers.

[At the end, the team was in a room trying to start a rest but they were pretty sure the vampires and necromancers from the city outside were probably going to come in and attack them...]