In last night's "Raiders of the Overreach" campaign session we were sent to a group of merfolk who knew the location of one of the last two Writhing Gates we need to take down. It was underwater, but before the merfolk would tell us its location they asked us to perform a task for them: rid a nearby shipwreck of the ghosts that were haunting it.
We managed to take care of that without too much trouble, but the main takeaway for my lizardfolk PC was the whole concept of there being a race of underwater creatures who, in his words, are part human, part food! He couldn't stop snickering every time he looked at a merman or a mermaid, wondering how they managed to resist eating their own delicious tails. (He was raised as a fisher-slave and sees most of life through the lens of how it relates to fish.)
Four sessions left to the campaign! Next time we'll be taking out the underwater Writhing Gate, then we'll have a session traveling to the hidden island where the last Writhing Gate lies, then a session traveling across the island to find the Writhing Gate, and then a final one where we take down the last Writhing Gate and fully sunder the connection between the Material Plane and the Dying One, an illithid Elder God we're destined to prevent from destroying the world.
Johnathan
We managed to take care of that without too much trouble, but the main takeaway for my lizardfolk PC was the whole concept of there being a race of underwater creatures who, in his words, are part human, part food! He couldn't stop snickering every time he looked at a merman or a mermaid, wondering how they managed to resist eating their own delicious tails. (He was raised as a fisher-slave and sees most of life through the lens of how it relates to fish.)
Four sessions left to the campaign! Next time we'll be taking out the underwater Writhing Gate, then we'll have a session traveling to the hidden island where the last Writhing Gate lies, then a session traveling across the island to find the Writhing Gate, and then a final one where we take down the last Writhing Gate and fully sunder the connection between the Material Plane and the Dying One, an illithid Elder God we're destined to prevent from destroying the world.
Johnathan