Myrkulverse D&D Campaign Log - Iron Kingdoms

[Nerion]

Session 118

28th of Solesh

In the Bag (accurate at the end of the session): 66,679 (money modified for last loot and thrall), 8200 Bank Note, 5 Concordance (15,926G in Ike’s Monastery, 10gp in Rayven’s pocket).

Ike gloriously transforms into the Avatar of Myrkul.(A song plays) Light and dark, Black and White, Up and Down… he is the glory of the niiIiiIiIiIiiiight!!! His body goes into a casket, something happens, and a new bonier version comes out!!!

Upon bearing the glory of Myrkul, Ike excitedly remarks “Nice.”.

Myrkul is touched by his exuberance.

He uses his S/M (Super Myrkul) Chains to bind Noiren Prime. Taking him out of the fight, for a moment.

Noiren Fake surprises Sinsear and runs him over like a dog in the driveway. A lot of discussion occurs.

A fireball shoots forth, towards the hero, and strikes him. Fireball is dumb and all AoEs in this game are dumb.

This session is full of surprises and transformations, the hero is given a gentle touch to his extraordinarily firm buttox by Shadow, whom now greatly questions his sexuality. A power reverberates off those platinum cheeks and transforms the hero into even more of a hero. His sword glows with a glowing power that indicates he will do painful things.

The hero assess the situation, stares down the line of enemies, and gently whispers the word… Bankay. SSSSLLLLASSSSSSHHHHHHHH, power erupts from his blade and slaughters countless infernal minions while putting the fear of Myrkul in the others.

Ike uses his emo fists and does solid damage.

Sensing danger… Prime Noiren retreats into the portal to escape the grapening. Shadow uses his powers to hurtle Ike into the abyss after him. Ike goes to work and drops his staff of fairness and balance, for the last time. The staff cracks and breaks from the weight of the tears it calls forth from enemies and DM’s.

The true hero is blessed by Myrkul and his super slash recharges because he is the chosen of Myrkul and not chosen by the party. The true hero capitalizes upon the opportunity created by the staff of fairness and balance, and unleashes fucking hell on Noiren Prime… ending his reign of annoyance. Ike literally cries and sobs… you could hear him repeating the words “It is finally over…” over and over again, under his breath.

The true hero realizes the notes for the last session do not fully encapsulate the bad assery that occured

We exit the portal and Suffer notices that something has changed with the party. He makes a few witty remarks but you could hear a bit of hesitation in his banter. He knows a butt fucking is coming.

Suffer assaults the hero with a wave of cheesy aoe damage… but it isn’t enough. He uses ANOTHER wave of cheesball aoe damage… but it isn’t enough. He uses his lair action and summons ANOTHER cheesy ball of lame aoe damage… BUT IT ISNT ENOUGH.

At this point, it is Suffer’s turn. He takes a deep breath and summons all the cheese. He connects to the cheese force to locate all our team mates… attempting to Jihadi super cheese bomb ALL OF THEM at once.

Seeing a threat to his fellow Myrkulites, the true hero then does something truly heroic. He grits his manly teeth and grabs hold of Suffer, like Goku taking hold of a bloated Cell. He stares into Suffer’s eyes while he unleashes his fury… and Suffer blinks. The true hero selflessly saves the party.

The true hero eats the fucking blast like a champ… then AGAIN, MYRKUL BLESSES HIM WITH A RECHARGE ON HIS FUCKING SUPER SLASH. While not breaking eye contact he cuts down Suffer with his power strike… BECAUSE THE TRUE HERO OF MYRKUL WILL NOT SUFFER THE HERETIC OR TOLERATE THE MUTANT. The heretic Suffer and the mutant Noiren both die at the hands of the true hero.

Yah, it was that bad ass.

They quickly search the remains of the building and get some potions/moolah. Nerion kicks back a couple health pots to recharge his aura. A few infernals guard the portal but enough fun is had. They take Suffer and Noiren Prime’s bodies.

Three living bad asses TP back to Nerion’s crib. Two low-t ghosts await them and quiver from their powerful sigma ohio vibes. The party notices something weird is happening and follows a mysterious blackish smoke that is emanating from the bodies and trailing upwards to Myrkul’s Favorite Little Chapel.

They are offered choices by Myrkul for their bad assery.

[_UDL_Rayven]

Session 119

28th of Solesh

We spent the first 15 minutes pondering how to get Noiren’s body through the portal but eventually figured it out. Shadow grabbed one of its weapons and headed toward the portal, while Ike grabbed the other and exited. As he stepped through, he paused to snort some Sinsear ash. Suffer tried to grapple Ike but failed, though he did manage to land a hit. Nerion struck him hard, leaving him bloodied. Shadow exited the portal and dispelled it, pleasing the gods.

Suffer tried some tricks on Ike, dealing some damage, but Ike made his way to Shadow and gave him Myrkul’s blessing. Nerion attacked Suffer again, inflicting severe damage. With his final attack, Nerion sacrificed all his health in a blow that knocked him out, enduring the suffering as he killed Suffer, defeating the second-to-last lieutenant and Noiren.

Ike then found the last two casters, and shouting Myrkul’s name, destroyed them. While looting the area, Whosdad found a few interesting papers and some undetermined loot. Ike found 10 healing potions among dozens of breastplates, chain shirts, pistols, rifles, etc., and took 13 rifles. He also found several individuals with suicide vests and convinced half a dozen to follow Myrkul. We also discovered another 13 followers in the lower levels.

At the end of the session, we teleported to the Temple of the Undying Servitude. We sacrificed the bodies of Suffer and Noiren and prayed to Myrkul…

[Sinsear]

Session 120

1st of Balesh

In the Bag (accurate at the end of the session): 66,679 (money modified for last loot and thrall), 8200 Bank Note, 5 Concordance (15,926G in Ike’s Monastery, 10gp in Rayven’s pocket). Adjustments soon to follow cause be we spending.

The prayer is answered!

The party gathered at the Alter of Myrkul. Many of the local inhabitants of the temple were also present. The alter began to sink into an unholy darkness and what we had come to recognize as an Avatar of Myrkul appeared. He instructed Sinsear to place his shield upon the alter and Nerion to stop scratching that itch in his special place.
Sinsear placed his shield upon the alter.
A moment later, a tear in the fabric of reality appeared and a shadowy figure resembling a Tabaxi appeared. The Avatar of Myrkul gestured and a blob of ephemeral goop was pulled from the Tabaxi onto the alter. The Tabaxi was dismissed and poofed off to some other realm.
The darkness began to fade and the candles in the room shone with that ever loving purple light we all enjoy.
Now resting on the alter was an imposing bone shield and a blood red splinter shard.
Nerion and Sinsear both procured their respective items with gratitude.
The crowd let out a cheer and began to chant in supplication to Myrkul.
Little ghostly Dana approached the group and expressed gladness for those that survived the ordeal intact. She also renewed Shadow’s happy charm, which reduced her apparent age even further. After which, Shadow made some sort of comment that caused Rayven to send him partway back the blackness of death. But in a friendly, I love you, kind of way.

At this time, Leo-tard calls for a mighty feast.
Nerion decided to roam around a bit and survey his territory. Everything seemed calm for the moment.
Sinsear and Rayven, still in their ghostly forms, felt they should give the denizens of the temple a good spooking.
During the awesome festivities, Sinsear performs a spectacular feat of terror and causes one of the trade merchants to literally die of fright. Sinsear is pleased with himself.
After letting his fellows know what happened, they decide to use the core remains of Dumnar to create a new thrall companion from the corpse, better than it was before. Better, faster, stronger… And it shall be named ???
Over the next week, the party recuperated, Shadow made some potions, Ike hunted with his pooch, and the rest visited Dieter for some equipment upgrades.

At the end of the week, we find the party perusing through Thorne’s wares in search of goodies to waste our money on.

[Shadow]

Session 121

Session Start Date: 1st Belesh
Session End Date: 9th Belesh

Party Gold Start of Session: In the Bag (accurate at the end of the session): 66,679 (money modified for last loot and thrall), 8200 Bank Note, 5 Concordance (15,926G in Ike’s Monastery, 10gp in Rayven’s pocket). Adjustments soon to follow cause be we spending.

Party Gold End of Session: 7775 gold in pocket / 0 Concordance

During the downtime, here’s what happened:

• Party is level 19
• We earned an income of 4k from our Keep taxes
• We collect the ~16k from Ikes Monastery
  • (Shadow Ports around to collect)
• The following items were purchased:
  • +2 Int Tome (20k g)
  • +2 Int Tome (20k g)
  • +2 Con Book (20kg)
  • Tattoo of Bloodfury (11k g)
  • Flechette Pistols w/ Runes (14k g)
• Nerion commissions art from the Acolytes to make visages of Myrkul they witnessed. 1 acolyte becomes obsessed with painting the perfect visage of Myrkul. His name is Draithen Palehymn.
• After a week has passed, Ray and Sinsear revive under the temple, and don all the gear they lost.
• Nerion and Ike’s super saiyan abilities recharge
• Shadow smokes from a pipe while toting a cart full of fireworks, setting them off when Sinsear and Ray are reborn.

Potion Inventory:

• Ike, 4 common, 1 uncommon, 1 rare

• Nerion, 2 common, 1 rare, 1 very rare

• Ray, 1 common, 2 rare, crippling venom

• Sinsear, 4 uncommons

• Shadow, 3 commons, 1 rare

• 10, 2d4+2

• 2, 4d4+4

• 4, 8d4+8

• 1, 10d4+20

Moving ons…

Shadow sends several familiar towards Abyssal Fortress, one succeeds and we gain casually familiarity with the area. Shadow then sends his Simulacrum to obtain a sandstone approximately 5 miles north along the abyss shelf. He then sends his hawk familiar towards the fortress, seeing several people along the wall, wearing red robes with black accents. no movement in the courtyard or around the tower. Shadow rolls an insight and feels that this is a skeleton crew for this place.

It is noon when the reconnaissance is done. The party takes a long rest and teleports, using the sandstone, around 8/9 pm to approximately 5 miles north. We each lose 1 hit die, killing the portal thingy upon arrival.

Upon arriving at the keep, everyone at the fortress opens fire with a magic missile cannon, firing hundreds of missiles at the party. Shadow steps to the front and draws them all to him, casting a shield and negating the missiles.

A note came through for swallow and he went through a portal apparatus. We then determine that swallow is with petal at her fortress.

We then go back and reset, after rolling through swallows fortress, and get a long rest in before porting to nearby Petals fortress and stealth our way in. We set ourselves up on the roof and see a massive ambush waiting for us. We then quickly devise a plan to do an opening salvo.

Sinsear drops an exploding rat onto swallow, who is somehow immune to fire.
Shadow drops a meteor swarm into the courtyard, but it is dispelled due to a barrier at the opening and a good roll from Petal.

Combat then begins and Shadow, going first in combat, casts dispel magic at 4th level, interrupting the film on this section of the roof for 4 rounds (rolled a 4 on the d4), limiting any effects for people dropping in.

[IkeHyran]

Session 122: 9th Belesh

7775 gold in pocket / 0 Concordance

The battle kicks off with Sinsear casting “The Real” on Ike and Rayven, granting them truesight to discern any illusions and hopefully spot Petal. Ike wastes no time, firing his flechette pistol—empowered with both Accuracy and Spectral Mark runes—at Swallow before leaping down to dispatch two missile launcher minions. Rayven also jumps down, and Shadow manages to cast feather fall right before he leaps, preventing him from falling on his ass. Rayven lands amidst a cluster of missile launchers, unleashing Shadow Flame to incinerate all but one. Nerion hastes himself, jumps into the melee, and cuts down another minion.

The surviving missile launchers retaliate, peppering Rayven with projectiles. Meanwhile, the visage of Petal delivers a prerecorded speech, expressing confusion at our animosity as we are undead and she is on good terms with the Dragonfather. She then promises the “Eternal Bloom” will rise soon and directs Swallow to take out the group.

Swallow shoves his infinitely regenerating pig aside and lunges at Rayven, seizing him and attempting to force him into his cavernous maw. Meanwhile, the Nonokrion Reavers reposition: two grapple Nerion, pinning him down, while another swipes at Ike, landing a glancing blow before Ike knocks it back. Rayven takes a searing hit from a Reaver’s beam cannon as the soulbound thralls close in. Nerion deflects one of their strikes with a shield, but Swallow succeeds in latching onto Rayven, swallowing him whole.

Shadow targets Swallow with a mental spell, but he shrugs it off. Sinsear selects a swath of the battlefield and casts Ally of Time, bending reality to the party’s favor. Ike punches a thrall away, vaults onto a Reaver, and lands a critical strike. Channeling energy through Necrolucent, he unleashes a blast that obliterates the Reaver, a missile launcher, and singes two thralls.

Inside Swallow’s stomach, Rayven finds himself cocooned in a pocket of the Infernal Plane. Using shadowstride, he steps outside the cocoon and backstabs it. The structure implodes, spitting him back through Swallow’s mouth onto the Material Plane in a dramatic regurgitation. Nerion, dodging attacks, strikes Swallow with a weaken and a bleed. Swallow retaliates with a hellish rebuke, but Nerion counterspells it. The remaining missile launchers turn on Nerion, dealing minor damage.

Swallow, annoyed at the resistance the melee force is putting up, spots the casters, teleports to the roof, and snatches Shadow, swallowing him whole. Trapped in the Infernal Plane, Shadow calls down a meteor swarm on his own position, blasting himself free and reappearing on the roof amidst the devastation. Ike easily scales the building, grabs Swallow, and with an RKO out of nowhere, slams him back to the surface inside Sinsear’s Ally of Time. Rayven rises and delivers a vicious backstab, followed by Ike landing another critical blow. Swallow tries to swallow Ike next but can’t get a grip.

Nerion steps in, slashing Swallow with another weaken and a point-blank bleed, finally knocking him unconscious. Rayven weathers a volley of magic missiles and shields against a Reaver’s soul-sucking orb. Petal’s illusion resumes its prerecorded monologue, unfazed. The Reavers try their soul-draining trick on Ike, but he proves immune; they manage to siphon a sliver of life from Nerion instead, holding off Swallow’s permanent demise for a moment longer. The thralls swarm Rayven, but their efforts amount to little more than an annoyance.

With the fight going a little smoother than expected thus far, the Party is on high alert for trickery, especially as Petal has yet to show herself. The anti-magic barrier will remain inactive for 12 seconds.

[Nerion]

Session 123: 9th Belesh

7775 gold in pocket / 0 Concordance

Shadow super nukes a group of noobies. Sincere breaks the mind of the fireball grouping. Ike goes ham on some swordsman to get some souls…. A DARK AURA EMANATES FROM THE DARK MONK. RAY UNLOADS A SUPER BACKSTAB ON SWALLOW. NERION FINISHES HIM OFF AND LETS THE WEAPON FEEEEEEEED. Minions attacks the group and Ray gets pounded, nothing new.

We we a tingle as the anti magic field is removed. Shadow let’s out a powerful AoE and we hear some wings beating??!

[_UDL_Rayven]

Session 124: 9th Belesh
7775 gold in pocket / 0 Concordance

A sense of incoming doom hangs over us as we finish mopping up the last of the bad guys. Those with true sight see a shadow descending — a dragon (Charsaug) approaches! Ike teleports onto the dragon’s back and rides the beast. Rayven summons George, his shadow drake.

Charsaug teleports, trying to shake Ike off. Ike falls but easily lands safely. Nerion weakens the dragon, and in retaliation, Charsaug flames the party! Rayven lands a massive backstab, nearly killing the dragon while healing himself. Nerion seizes the moment and smacks the dragon from the sky. To no one’s surprise, the dragon turns out to be Petal — the person we’ve been searching for.

Nerion tries to hide, but Petal chases him down for a make-out session. When Nerion rebuffs her, she bitch-slaps him for hefty damage. Shadow yeets a hasted Ike at Petal like a guided missile! Realizing the danger, Petal beguiles Nerion into protecting her — and the weak-willed Nerion obeys…

[Sinsear]

Session 125: 9th Belesh
7775 gold in pocket / 0 Concordance

The session kicked off with Nerion mysteriously charmed by Petal, leaving the party stumped on how to break the enchantment. Amid the confusion, Shadow launched a fireball at Nerion just for fun, burning both in the blast. Another fireball, this time radiant, fizzled harmlessly.

Sinsear stepped up and successfully removed the charm from Nerion—only for Petal to immediately re-charm Nerion through suspiciously dubious means. Sensing the chaos, Ike made a clutch move, grabbing Petal with his signature brute strength, dragging her to the distortion, and shackling her with Stygian Chains, causing psychic backlash.

Ray fired an umbra bolt at Petal. Nerion, still under Petal’s influence, tried to restore and protect her. The Reaver struck at Ike but missed, while Petal did nothing (suspiciously). Shadow managed to dispel some effects, clearing the field a bit. Sinsear followed up with mind daggers, and Ike added some extra punishment.

Petal then charmed Ray—but a glitch in the magic made him hear Nerion’s voice instead of hers. Not charmed, Ray retaliated viciously, landing a massive stab that killed Petal, though he took poison damage in return.

To everyone’s surprise a 2nd Petal’s influence lingered. Nerion downed a healing potion, activated his symbiote, and attacked the clone(?). Shadow was charmed next. The Reaver grappled Ray after landing a hit. Petal tried more charm shenanigans, failed, then kissed Shadow for damage. Shadow stunned Ray in turn, and Petal used Shadow to zap him.

Sinsear restored Ike, who then recovered his chi and blasted Petal with his pop guns. Ray remained stunned. Nerion restored Shadow, drank another potion, and Warding Bonded him. Shadow dropped the stun on Rayven.

Finally, Petal morphed into a dragon (because of course she did), bathed Nerion and Shadow in poison fire, and vanished into a swirl of mirror images.

(Yeah. That sounds good enough for gubmint work.)