21 - Scorched Earth - 01-8-2017

·        Party awakens in Lorelai’s house. She is finishing up Greyson’s fire arrows.

·        Pitt trains Ellemin how to use his gun, completes his training

·        Party head back to Lorelai’s, claim Greyson’s fire arrows, and head for the Scorched Earth.

·        Takes about 6 hours to walk there. The land is a deep, barren ravine with a thick air of ammonia. Party camp at the edge of the Ravine. Pitt takes first watch

·        After about an hour, Pitt notices a ghostly figure heading towards them at an alarming pace. He wakes everyone up. Dhurgir recognises the shape as the Phantasm, and suggests the party run into the Scorched Earth.

·        Party cover themselves up to their waists in tree sap.

·        Phantasm blasts the ground around them with a magi fireball. Party is thrown into the scorched earth.

·        Mad scramble to escape the Phantasm. The dead rise from the acidic soil as party approaches. Phantasm continues to snake around the ravine, throwing fireballs as the party frantically tries to avoid getting hurt.

·        Dhurgir runs train on a number of Zombies, and Pitt & Ellemin are caught in the blast radius of a fireball. Pitt is hurt, but Ellemin is unscathed thanks to the orb of Neviatha.

·        The Phantasm screams and snakes its’ way into the sky as the party members enter a warm, dank cavern on the other side of the ravine.

·        Party emerge in the prayer room of the temple of Diabolus. 20 or so males of various species are sat silently on the floor. One mentions that the temple is currently without a Maester, and that an elf with long hair entered the trials 2 days ago with a view to become the new Maester. Should he be successful, he will claim the ring of Diabolus.

·        Party enter the trials of Diabolus.

Funnies

·        Ellemin (as Pinky, trying not to Meta game) – “I’m about ¾ of the way there!”

·        Dhurgir – “This train keeps a’ rollin’!”

Attacks

·        Therin skewers a zombie and places it inside target zone of the phantasm’s fire ball

·        Dhurgir tackles a zombie into a stone pillar