[WotMK: Hexcrawl] Session Twenty-Six
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dorchadas
Dramatis Personae:
The remainder of the session was a battle. The mercenaries surged forward into the walking dead as Amos quickly aimed at the chuzan necromancer and fired, seriously injuring him, while the chuzan threw the sphere he held into the mercenaries, hitting one and knocking him over. The skeletal mycon charged forward while the Green Knight prepared for his arrival and they began trading blows. One of the mycon's blows hit the Green Knight, scoring a cut on his side. The red-eyed mycon waved his hands and shadows descended on Shining Star and the Green Knight, draining their vitality, but Shining Star's answering bolt of white fire just missed.
As Amos fired another arrow at the skeletal mycon, half-a-dozen maggot-white hands attached to long arms erupted from the ground and grabbed at the mercenaries. Crimson shouted at his men to push the walking dead back and open up a path, but they were wavering. The red-eyed mycon gestured at one of the bleeding wounds on a mercenary and the blood leaped through the air into their mouth, which did not help with morale.
Elaphe sent out a mental call to his claw strider mount and drank a Crimson Hero's Elixir he had waiting for just such an occasion and collapsed on the floor, writhing in agony but growing in size. As he stood up again, now almost five yards high, he leapt over the mercenaries and brought his blade down onto the red-eyed mycon, but the mycon's body fell apart into mist as Elaphe struck.
Shining Star blasted the skeletal mycon with holy fire as Elaphe laid into the two necromancers near him, cutting the chuzan in half and seriously injuring the kappa. His claw strider leapt forward to guard him, but both of them were assaulted by shadow energy. The red-eyed mycon was revealed in the light as the mercenaries surged forward, though Bonnie saw one of them have her throat bitten out as something emerged from the dirt before vanishing again. Then hands burst from the dirt around her and pulled her to the floor.
Elaphe sent his claw strider to free Bonnie, and it bit one of the arms in half and ripped it from the soil, allowing Bonnie to push herself up from the soil and out of immediate danger. The red-eyed mycon, seeing that it was in danger, fell into mist again and Elaphe's attack missed...but Amos's arrow, or at least the fires on it, seemed effective. As the mist fled from them, the party chased it through the tunnels to a small laboratory or workshop filled with corpses and unholy texts and, just as it was going to some cracks in the wall, Amos's last shot struck home. The mycon reformed briefly, silently screaming, and then exploded into ash, leaving only the black cloak it was wearing behind.
And that was it. The battle took almost the entire session between the mercenaries, the thing under the ground, the three necromancers and the vampire, and the PCs. The Green Knight's retainer Drifting Snow botched her Valor roll, so she spent most of the battle cowering in fear. And yes, they left the mercenaries to kill off the skeletal mycon. Did they? We'll see.
I guess in one way I went easy on the PCs because I had to make a snap decision about how they could hurt the vampire's mist form, but fire harms mist in Vampire: the Masquerade, so that's the precedent I drew on.
Next session is next week due to the hiatus we've had, where we'll also deal with the fallout from the battle and what the PCs do next.
- Shining Star, mandragora sorcerer-priestess of Nyahré.
- The Green Knight, mandragora briarwitch.
- Drifting Snow, chuzan former farmer.
- Bonnie, kong Auspicious Orator.
- Amos Burnham, a human from Earth.
- Elaphe, a chuzan junior member of the Black Rose.
The remainder of the session was a battle. The mercenaries surged forward into the walking dead as Amos quickly aimed at the chuzan necromancer and fired, seriously injuring him, while the chuzan threw the sphere he held into the mercenaries, hitting one and knocking him over. The skeletal mycon charged forward while the Green Knight prepared for his arrival and they began trading blows. One of the mycon's blows hit the Green Knight, scoring a cut on his side. The red-eyed mycon waved his hands and shadows descended on Shining Star and the Green Knight, draining their vitality, but Shining Star's answering bolt of white fire just missed.
As Amos fired another arrow at the skeletal mycon, half-a-dozen maggot-white hands attached to long arms erupted from the ground and grabbed at the mercenaries. Crimson shouted at his men to push the walking dead back and open up a path, but they were wavering. The red-eyed mycon gestured at one of the bleeding wounds on a mercenary and the blood leaped through the air into their mouth, which did not help with morale.
Elaphe sent out a mental call to his claw strider mount and drank a Crimson Hero's Elixir he had waiting for just such an occasion and collapsed on the floor, writhing in agony but growing in size. As he stood up again, now almost five yards high, he leapt over the mercenaries and brought his blade down onto the red-eyed mycon, but the mycon's body fell apart into mist as Elaphe struck.
Shining Star blasted the skeletal mycon with holy fire as Elaphe laid into the two necromancers near him, cutting the chuzan in half and seriously injuring the kappa. His claw strider leapt forward to guard him, but both of them were assaulted by shadow energy. The red-eyed mycon was revealed in the light as the mercenaries surged forward, though Bonnie saw one of them have her throat bitten out as something emerged from the dirt before vanishing again. Then hands burst from the dirt around her and pulled her to the floor.
Elaphe sent his claw strider to free Bonnie, and it bit one of the arms in half and ripped it from the soil, allowing Bonnie to push herself up from the soil and out of immediate danger. The red-eyed mycon, seeing that it was in danger, fell into mist again and Elaphe's attack missed...but Amos's arrow, or at least the fires on it, seemed effective. As the mist fled from them, the party chased it through the tunnels to a small laboratory or workshop filled with corpses and unholy texts and, just as it was going to some cracks in the wall, Amos's last shot struck home. The mycon reformed briefly, silently screaming, and then exploded into ash, leaving only the black cloak it was wearing behind.
And that was it. The battle took almost the entire session between the mercenaries, the thing under the ground, the three necromancers and the vampire, and the PCs. The Green Knight's retainer Drifting Snow botched her Valor roll, so she spent most of the battle cowering in fear. And yes, they left the mercenaries to kill off the skeletal mycon. Did they? We'll see.
I guess in one way I went easy on the PCs because I had to make a snap decision about how they could hurt the vampire's mist form, but fire harms mist in Vampire: the Masquerade, so that's the precedent I drew on.
Next session is next week due to the hiatus we've had, where we'll also deal with the fallout from the battle and what the PCs do next.
