Session 13: Into the Deep Part 2

The Flight

With appropriately dramatic timing the volcano begins to rumble. The Urn is quickly identified by Assamber as a Second Age artifcat, perhaps the original vessel used by Maran Gor to raise the continents and create life. They decide to take it with them.

The Hammer quickly shatters its bindings and between them Morn and Azhanti begin to man handle it out. Unfortunately Artemis leads them into a dead end and then Assamber, using his frost magic to ease their passage, manages to mis place his spell sending Morn tumbling. He tries to hold on to the Urn but it gets away from him and rolls back down the passage to be swallowed by the rising magma.

As volcanic rock and gasses spew forth the group just escapes from the erupting volcano on their flying ship as below them cultists explode into flames.

The Return

The group return to the City to rest up and recuperate. They have an appointment back at the Temple of Ul-oo-thee and are quickly led into the Inner Sanctum, a place foerigners and non believers have never been allowed before.

There they meet Iridalla, High Priestess of Ul-oo-thee, an alien creature living in a crystal tube filled with evil smelling viscious liquid with strange tubes. Azhanti recognises her name as that of one of the first seven daughters of Mael who once ruled the seven oceans.

She is intrigued by their presence and keen to conclude an alliance with them. The group is coy about what they want, simply saying they are enemies of the Temple of Mael. Iridalla explains that she is here looking for her sister Vedris, mistress of the Lokarnos Ship Maelstrom which sunk some time ago. Vedris was thought dead but she has recently learned that she survived by drawing deeply on the spellstorm. This has changed her and she has become infused with Chaos, in effect becoming a Lich. Now she schemes somewhere beneath the Temple of Mael.

If the group will find Vedris and learn how the Maelstrom was destroyed then she will help them get to the Temple, providing them with protection from the Kraken. Assamber agress although whether the agreement will be honoured by the rest of the group is unclear.

The Monster Hunter

On returning to their lodgings Artemis receives a message from a Captain Strom. He wants to meet him. Taking him up on it he heads over there with Morn. The captain is a grizzled veteran of many battles, a hunter of sea monsters and worshipper of Mael. He is here to hunt the Kraken and offers Artemis a chance to be involved.

Mortal weapons can't kill the Kraken, only living fire thrust against its heart can do that. He is seeking a capable crew to keep the beast busy so he can get swallowed by it. By bathing in its immortal blood he hopes to open the pathway for immortality himself.

The hunt wont begin for a few days and so the group decide to head to the Temple of Mael first.

*cut scene*

The Urn of Pharamee crashes down the corridor and is swallowed by molten rock. It slowly sinks into the crater but as it does so the rock moves and a figure forms out of it. The goddess Vinga claims her mothers Urn. "I will have my revenge on the Faithless, let those who desire revenge on them be reborn. I name you, M'Kemba, Martek, Paldemar, Najentus and Ixion, you will be the agents of my vengeance."