Session Report #10 & 11

Pavel, Arkady, and Felix searched Chauvet to little effect, though they discovered that the people knew about Lord Rocard, they just weren’t talking.

While Arkady worked the inn, blessing each table and trying to suss out what was going on, Felix noticed some townsfolk who were watching them. When the townsfolk left, Felix followed them. Pavel headed up to his room to try to search the rest of the inn.

The townsfolk went to a well-appointed house. Felix was able to climb up to a window to overhear a discussion between the townsfolk and Lord Rocard. They told him that the inn keeper had done his job and the snooping outsiders would be dealt with tonight.

Felix headed back to report his findings. Arkady confronted the inn keeper while Felix went to check on Pavel. Arkady learned that the group had been poisoned. He puked up his food to minimize his exposure.

Felix found Pavel asleep in his room and was unable to rouse him. After several attempts, Felix grew tired and sat down. Arkady checked on them and forced them both to puke up the poisoned food. Felix was drowsy, but ok, and Pavel was roused with difficulty.

They all raced to the well-appointed house to find it empty, except for two caretakers. While Pavel and Arkady went upstairs to search, the caretakers attacked Felix. They inflicted some serious wounds on him before he received backup and the party dispatched their attackers.

While searching, Arkady found some books describing where the lost city of R’lyeh might be and what was required to summon the dark god. Pavel found a map of underground tunnels with a hidden chamber under the inn and a scrap of paper serving as a diary to a woman named Maria.

As a girl, she was hiding from the town monsters in the woods when she met some travelers who offered to help her. They took her to the church in Desport for safe keeping, but the priest there handed her over to Rocard (she’s convinced the travelers were working for Rocard and betrayed her). Rocard has been victimizing her since, slowly turning her into a monster. She is scheduled to become Rocard’s bride soon, and that doesn’t sound like such a bad idea anymore.

As the party left the building, they recognized the off-tune piping of a shoggoth. They chose to flee with the books, hoping to bury them for the future to find. They stole some horses and rode off. It became clear that the shoggoth was following them, and it seemed to be calling to another shoggoth in the distance (in Desport).

They wrapped the books in oil cloth, searched for a cave, found one, and rigged it to blow, hopefully burying the books. They left Felix to detonate the cave while Arkady and Pavel went to distract the shoggoth. The cave failed to detonate, Pavel fell in combat, and Arkady returned to the cave. Arkady was able to collapse the cave and he and Felix rode out to fight the second shoggoth. Felix fell in that combat, leaving only Arkady.

As he was disposing of the bodies, the ground shook in an earthquake.

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The party woke in the traditional white room, though they could hear explosions outside. Dust filtered through the ceiling and an annoying, constant, high-pitched whine filled the room. Three other people were laying on beds, all of them were unresponsive.

The left the room, found that Rocard’s men were assaulting the base, and General McLaughlin’s soldiers were being routed. The remaining soldiers and the party were able to escape the base, located deep within a blasted, barren mountain, via aircraft. They were barely able to escape the enemy aircraft, some of which seemed to be airdropping shoggoths onto the base.

They gave the general their news and flew to France, where met up with more rebels. They were able to find the books. After two weeks of the rebels studying the books, they believe they know Lord Rocard’s plan. During this time, the party’s memories slowly came back and they remembered their true identities for the first time since this began.

Lord Rocard plans to raise the sunken lost city from the ocean and perform the ritual in 3 days’ time. The rebels will airdrop the party onto the city where they must stop Rocard. The rest of the rebel army will face Rocard’s army, hopefully buying them time to end the war.

Tonight should be the epic finale of the adventure arc.