LoDS Session 3
Legend of Doom Scroll Actual Play.
Rumours of Rhax & Roon.
Once more the heroes descend into the Neropolis. This time joined by the Dwarven Fighter Rubynose. The party elected to explore the secret passage they discovered. The passage led to the mechanism side of a secret door. They burst through to found a bearded brigand menacing a young woman with a red-hot poker.
Like the heroes they are the party fell upon the brigand and cut him to pieces before releasing the maiden from her manacles. She introduced herself as Pinella, an aspirant sorceress who had entered the Necropolis as part of a luckless band of adventurers and was duly captured. She knew little of the complex but agreed to accompany the party if they could guarantee her safety.
The party realised they had stumbled upon the brigand lair and a long and learned tactical debate ensued. Such was the length of the debate that two lizard men burst through the eastern door and attacked. After bloody close quarter fighting the beasts were dispatched. The eastern door revealed a semi flooded chamber in which hundreds of skeletons had been submerged in a pit. The topmost skeleton was bound in chains and richly robed. A search of the body revealed a serpent mace and a strange bone whistle.
Pressing further they found a single hobgoblin rummaging through a pile of rusted torture equipment. The hobgoblin, though sorely outnumbered, fought with a valour more akin to a Titan than a goblinoid. Even has he died the hobgoblin swore to find them again in the afterlife and slay them all in the final battle of Raganorok and mocking the feebleness of man. The party, thus chastened, returned to the flooded chamber and climbed to a high concealed balcony that overlooked the pit.
From here they identified a hidden passage that led to the rear side of another secret door. The door was breached and a wonderous chamber was revealed, a glittering waterfall pool lit by six multicoloured lanterns. In the centre of the chamber the glamourous witch Odo reclined on a couch, lost to the purple lotus dreams that issued from the water pipe that she smoked. Surprised by the arrival of the party she rose, and in imperious tones, began to intone fell syllables of sorcery. But her magical efforts were no match for the speeding of steel of the party’s swords. Even as she died her minions leaped to attack, mutant goblinoids from the pool and armoured henchman from the adjoining chambers. To late to save their mistress, many brigands fell and yet more fled, only to be cut down as they ran in shrieking cowardice.
The party moved from chamber to chamber, slaking their blades on the blood of the enemy. An old man in mysterious black priestly robes stumbled from a chamber and fell to his knees in craven surrender. He was bound and taken captive. The chambers were ransacked and much treasure was recovered, including two spell books, one belonging to Odo and one to Pinella. Sated by gold and bloodletting the party loaded up the spoils and returned to camp.