05/11/2023 Virtuous Age Session 44: Hallow Spawn are A Nasty Bit of Business, Finding the Source of the Music, and A Trove of Wands

We start this week’s session with combat.

The Girtablilu wielded a spear and had leather armor. It was another guardian creature encountered along the way. In a room off the intersection was a couple of old-time spell casters who brought forth unusually large hell hounds. It occurs to Aevum we are reliving some kind of past of our opponents, an event that went wrong.

When we turn our attention to the conjuration room our characters see the chamber is under a time flux because the various items throughout the room phase in and out as they fluctuate between slips in time. The spell casters are hard to focus on. Aevum enters the room to investigate further. 

Lost in the flow of Time

Aevum reaching through time

Aevum is able to pull them into our time and they appear as Hallow Spawn. Once they are killed the time flux ends for this chamber.  

Kron stays in the hall while the rest of the characters enter the conjuration room to investigate. There is a wand of every monster summoning, nature’s ally and a couple of unique rods. Obviously, these individuals were crafting wands when something occurred and hell hounds attacked. The time effect is still an unknown factor, but much like the Ways, when things are lost in time, they can be changed. Our characters scoop up the magical valuables- mostly wands and raw crafting materials.

 After about 10 minutes we follow the cacophony to the north and into a chamber where three robed individuals mime instruments to create the magical noise assault. Their robes were red, green and black. As we kill them, more hallow spawn appear. Kron avoids them like death. 

When we finish them off the music stops and where they were once standing are three instruments. A violin, a lute and a harp. Each are magical and bear a curse.  

A couple minutes later we continue north to the next long narrow chamber where are characters find several humanoids chanting focused on a single black robed figure leads the gathering. This group, it seems, has also been at this for centuries. The former priests of Agamotto were corrupted by Tiamat. 

                                                                                  

The Corrupted of Tiamat

One of them immediately reacts to us and directs the gathering at us. Aevum realizes this group is from before the age of dragons. These humans were allied with or under the protection of giants in the ancient past. Kron hangs back, and again when we defeat the robed spell casters and again more groups hallow spawn appear. Problematic as they were, they eventually fell to electrical attacks.

Our characters back track to the room where all the glyphs were upon the walls and surfaces.