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<blockquote data-quote="Celtavian" data-source="post: 6802399" data-attributes="member: 5834"><p><strong>The Destruction of Gracklstugh</strong></p><p></p><p>Shouts from the city interrupt your activities. Bells clang with fearful intensity. </p><p></p><p>You push your way out of the inn. Screams pierce the air. Madness has taken the city. You see merchants, customers, and guards clawing their eyes out, staring blankly towards the water, striking down fleeing folk, eating their own flesh, and other such mad acts. </p><p></p><p> Something between a roar and a howl rents the air. You gaze towards the water.</p><p></p><p> At first you see only two sets of burning eyes in the darkness of the huge cavern in which Gracklstugh is housed. Soon the darkness abates, two monstrous heads resembling hideous, angry baboons with wickedly curved tusks emerge from the shadows. Both of them attached to a scaly torso half-submerged in the Darklake. You surmise it must stand thirty feet tall at least. Split tentacles on each arm writhe as though searching for something to crush and tear. Its heads emit a howling roar again as it advances towards the city.</p><p></p><p> Demons beyond count flock about it. Some vulture-like, some like giant flies, some like the dog-headed creature you fought in the Tunnels. Kuo-toan fish men swarm out of the water in a mad fury spearing, biting, and clawing, taking the time to feast upon any creature that falls. They chant <em>“Leeomoogoogon”</em> in their gurgling fish tongue.</p><p></p><p> The Abyss has come to Gracklstugh. </p><p></p><p><strong>Madness Check:</strong> When you see Demogorgon, must make DC 19 wisdom save or gain a level of Madness.</p><p></p><p><strong>Cairngorm Giants…</strong></p><p></p><p> Jharzzle sees a group of stone giants pushing their way through the fleeing crowds. One of the giants he met named Dorhun waves to him and points. The largest giant follows the line of his finger. He locks eyes with Jharzzle and the giants make their way to him. </p><p></p><p> The giant wastes no time, “Jharzzle, Dorhun has told me of your words. I have talked to the stones. They say your heart is not as that of your people. I have no time to learn what is in your heart for my people have a sworn oath to defend Gracklstugh with the Gray Dwarves. We will die fulfilling our oath.”</p><p></p><p> “Yet it is our wish that the evil that has come not destroy the world. I say to you this. Find Gravenhollow. It is a place of ancient knowledge. There you may find a way to cast this evil back from whence it came. Take this crystal.” He hands you a polished crystal the length of a forearm, “My people use this to speak to the stones at Gravenhollow. I hope you are worthy, for only the worthy may find Gravenhollow. If you find Gravenhollow, it will be of great use there. Take it and bring salvation to the stone. Now follow us and we will see you out.”</p><p></p><p>The giants push through the crowds ordering duergar guards trying to keep order and form up for battle out of the way. They order the gates open, so you may pass, “Jharzzle of the drow, rise up and save the Underdark. Be the hero your people have never had. Save them from themselves and while doing so, save all that we people of the Underdark call home. Now Go.” </p><p></p><p>The Stone Giants turn as Demogorgon’s massive heads appear above the city and the demons and fish men swarm forth like a mass of hate and rage. They raise their stone clubs, a battle cry in Giant they roar, and they charge fulfilling their oath to the clan of the Deepking.</p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>DM Note</strong>: I felt the destruction of a city the size of Gracklstugh was a more impressive display of the threat Demogorgon poses to the world. This will also strengthen a part of the adventure that occurs later. When you witness an Abyssal lord with a demon army destroy a city, priorities change.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celtavian, post: 6802399, member: 5834"] [b]The Destruction of Gracklstugh[/b] Shouts from the city interrupt your activities. Bells clang with fearful intensity. You push your way out of the inn. Screams pierce the air. Madness has taken the city. You see merchants, customers, and guards clawing their eyes out, staring blankly towards the water, striking down fleeing folk, eating their own flesh, and other such mad acts. Something between a roar and a howl rents the air. You gaze towards the water. At first you see only two sets of burning eyes in the darkness of the huge cavern in which Gracklstugh is housed. Soon the darkness abates, two monstrous heads resembling hideous, angry baboons with wickedly curved tusks emerge from the shadows. Both of them attached to a scaly torso half-submerged in the Darklake. You surmise it must stand thirty feet tall at least. Split tentacles on each arm writhe as though searching for something to crush and tear. Its heads emit a howling roar again as it advances towards the city. Demons beyond count flock about it. Some vulture-like, some like giant flies, some like the dog-headed creature you fought in the Tunnels. Kuo-toan fish men swarm out of the water in a mad fury spearing, biting, and clawing, taking the time to feast upon any creature that falls. They chant [I]“Leeomoogoogon”[/I] in their gurgling fish tongue. The Abyss has come to Gracklstugh. [B]Madness Check:[/B] When you see Demogorgon, must make DC 19 wisdom save or gain a level of Madness. [B]Cairngorm Giants…[/B] Jharzzle sees a group of stone giants pushing their way through the fleeing crowds. One of the giants he met named Dorhun waves to him and points. The largest giant follows the line of his finger. He locks eyes with Jharzzle and the giants make their way to him. The giant wastes no time, “Jharzzle, Dorhun has told me of your words. I have talked to the stones. They say your heart is not as that of your people. I have no time to learn what is in your heart for my people have a sworn oath to defend Gracklstugh with the Gray Dwarves. We will die fulfilling our oath.” “Yet it is our wish that the evil that has come not destroy the world. I say to you this. Find Gravenhollow. It is a place of ancient knowledge. There you may find a way to cast this evil back from whence it came. Take this crystal.” He hands you a polished crystal the length of a forearm, “My people use this to speak to the stones at Gravenhollow. I hope you are worthy, for only the worthy may find Gravenhollow. If you find Gravenhollow, it will be of great use there. Take it and bring salvation to the stone. Now follow us and we will see you out.” The giants push through the crowds ordering duergar guards trying to keep order and form up for battle out of the way. They order the gates open, so you may pass, “Jharzzle of the drow, rise up and save the Underdark. Be the hero your people have never had. Save them from themselves and while doing so, save all that we people of the Underdark call home. Now Go.” The Stone Giants turn as Demogorgon’s massive heads appear above the city and the demons and fish men swarm forth like a mass of hate and rage. They raise their stone clubs, a battle cry in Giant they roar, and they charge fulfilling their oath to the clan of the Deepking. [b]DM Note[/b]: I felt the destruction of a city the size of Gracklstugh was a more impressive display of the threat Demogorgon poses to the world. This will also strengthen a part of the adventure that occurs later. When you witness an Abyssal lord with a demon army destroy a city, priorities change. [/QUOTE]
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