| The Lightless Depths Part 3 (Garnham) The Chroicles of K. Garnham Vanderboren-Black
as written by Conrad Horst
Golismorga, the unsunken city of the aboleth, lay before the Silver Beetles and the Jade Ravens in all it's fetid glory.
Under the glow of purple flame lit millenia ago by elder evils whose names are now lost to mortals lay buildings pulsing with the last gasps of twisted life. At the heart of the city sat the still festering wound inflicted by an ancient Ohlman god.
All the while cold blooded fiends sang hymns to two-headed Demo-gorgon. Nagas slithered and sacrificed in their throbbing tower.
It becomes increasingly obvious that I've drawn the short end of the stick with this assignment.
The Beetles and Ravens have spent two weeks scouting the anus of the Isle of Dread. They've killed about two hundred aboleth at this point and there's no end in sight to them.
On the 15th day in Golismorga the scouting ended.
We began the day expecting trouble. The wizard Sabine had sent out those eye things to scout ahead and lost a lot of them when exploring the crater that Tlaloc's Tear had fallen into. We got closer and the spellcasters boosted them with protections.
They ended up fighting some strange aberration. It was invisible at first. It drove Elyosha's dinosaur insane and paralyzed Garnham. Attacking didn't make it visible like you would have expected.
The spellcasters broke the invisibility. It was ugly. It had extra brains bobbing around. Sometimes it sucked down some of those extra brains. I think it may have been using them to power-up it's magics.
They killed it.
The investigation of the Tear itself showed that it's cracked and old. Dexter could probably cleave it in two with a lucky blow. Course if he does this place floods and we have a city full of aboleth trying to boss us around or kill us.
We then travelled to one of the pillars of flame.
If you even get close to one of these they make you sick. Maggie took a fly around one and left her trail rations over over a 20 foot line on the floor below.
Elyosha used her monocle and said that going inside would kill you and that only the most powerful magics could bring someone back after that.
We then went to the Kopru temple. The Ravens made a distraction and the Beetles assaulted.
The Beetles kicked some serious ass.
On making their way inside they met heavy resistance from a kopru priest of Demogorgon. Nearly killed Garnham.
Then there was the chamber below that held the shadow pearls themselves. What we found there is too horrible to put into words.
We are now returning to Farshore. |