return to the keep on the borderlands 5e

#Return to the keep on the borderlands 5e full

Red Hand Harry and the other two captured bandits were hauled back to the keep, along with all the recovered trade goods and captured gear. Unfortunately, sirfox had to bail for the last half of the session, so we decided to stick to mostly non-critical things in his absence. It was late morning by that point, so the characters stuck with their agenda. in the bandit tower, no worse for wear other than being a bit freaked out. Finally the last zombie was tossed down the hole, and the characters all immediately woke up. One grell was dispatched in messy fashion all over Sheala the elf magical girl wizard the other was simply slain in a more straightforward manner. This did have the effect of causing the vision of the Yellow King to vanish with a cruel chuckle, but the fight carried on. Nikki and Rina the wood elf ranger, trying to find some way of breaking the Yellow King's sending, decided to destroy the altars by shoving them into the bottomless pits as well. This tactic proved quite effective, largely because the zombies kept rolling really badly to avoid the initial grapple.

The players decided that the best way to deal with the zombies was to grapple them and shove them into the bottomless pit. Fortunately for the PCs, the grell's attempts to grapple them were not succeeding, but unfortunately the zombies proved annoyingly durable, repeatedly being reduced to 0 hit points, only to stand right back up again. As the melee commenced, zombies began to appear in the middle of each circle, adding to the mayhem. Togar attempted to tackle the King in Yellow, only to go flying right through him as it was just a projection, but also felt an unpleasant burning sensation when passing through the yellow circle. The grell dropped the amulets on the floor and advanced menacingly, and battle was joined. The most polite response was Togar's bellow of 'Never!' although some of the less polite responses were also quite entertaining. This, as might be expected, didn't go over well. Give yourselves freely, and be rewarded!' In their minds, the characters heard a deep voice proclaim, 'Kneel before me, for I am your king! There is no escape, even in death. So most the party bunched up at one entrance ready to rush in, while Togar (the dragonborn paladin) and Drang (the storm cleric) strode in through the entrance closest to the Yellow King to confront him.Īs soon as they entered, the grell scooped up amulets bearing the Yellow Sign from the altars, carrying them towards the two groups as if in offering (despite Nikki's confidence that his scouting had gone completely undetected). Miskan the purrsian bard determined that the one magic circle he could see (red) acted as some form of gate, while also acting as a damage buffer to anyone standing in it, which suggested the other magic rings also had some sort of function. Whatever they were, the party decided (not unreasonably) that there was nothing in there that would do them any good, but there also seemed to be no way around it but through it.

Larger cousins of the gricks? Something else entirely? Floating over each altar was a grell– bizarre monstrosities that consisted of a large, floating brain surrounded by tentacles and also with a beak. Standing in the yellow circle was a strange figure in tattered yellow robes, wearing a pale mask and a crown. Nikki scouted ahead to find that the caves all led to a large central chamber with a bottomless pit in the middle with altars on either side of it, and four differently-colored magic circles in each corner of the chamber. The gricks were dispatched, but the evening wasn't about to get any less weird. Specifically it was four gricks– strange wolf-sized snake-worm things with tentacles and a beak where their heads should be. After a few moments of WTFing, sirfox's rogue Nikki figured he'd better check to make sure they were weren't any beasties sneaking up on them, only to discover.

#Return to the keep on the borderlands 5e full

The party were suddenly all awake, with full gear, sitting in a campsite in a complex of caves, with no idea where they were or how they got there. Per their usual routine, they intended to camp in three shifts, with two people up and on watch the whole time. After kicking the collective butt of Red Hand Harry's gang last time (and reaching 3rd level), the party made a big ol' bandit bonfire with the bodies (carefully making sure it was downwind), then set up camp for the tiny little bit of night that was left. The_gneechSession four of The Keep On the Borderlands took a turn for the weird(er) last night.