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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RichGreen" data-source="post: 4849666" data-attributes="member: 2039">Session #17 Temple of the Black LeopardHi,Here's what happened in Monday night's game. I got to reveal who the BBEG will be, using the carvings in a temple in the ruins of Gopura. Probably one more session in the ruins before moving on to Wrath of the River King.23rd Maius (contd)Pausing only to loot the room and retrieve the +2 homing bow from the dead hag, the PCs head off to the first ratha they explored to rest for the night and recover from their wounds.24th MaiusEl’em, Brave Ella, Margarita and Krivinn return to the Great Temple. Heading back through the first three chambers, they proceed cautiously through the doors they saw the other archer and the barghest battle lord flee through. At the end of the corridor is another room – the Cosmic Chamber of Order and living quarters of Induma the Moon Hag. Inside, Induma, her coven sister-lover and the barghest are waiting. The PCs attack but are beaten back by Induma’s shriek of pain and the barghest’s life feed power. Krivinn slams the doors behind the party and holds them closed with his flail. After a brief rest and a team tactics talk, the PCs return to the fray. This time they concentrate their attacks on the barghest which falls to a killing blow from the dragonborn paladin. Induma howls, pushing everyone away but the adventurers fight back and Krivinn again is the one to deliver the fatal strike. Ella shoots the hag archer twice and then El’em finishes her off with magic missile. The PCs search the room, finding some treasure, as well as a pile of human and humanoid skulls which Krivinn blesses before burying outside. The paladin also takes pains to smash up the evil, occult trappings inside the room.Next, the PCs head to the impressive temple of the Black Leopard. When they enter, the four-armed statue in the centre of the prayer room and the two cobras draped around over its shoulders come to life and attack. As Krivinn is poisoned and Margarita is bloodied, the PCs decide to withdraw from the fray and rest again. Outside, Ella upsets Ranjeet the faerie dragon who flies off in a huff.After an extended rest, the party return to the temple and lure the statue into combat with El’em’s flaming sphere. This time, they are victorious – Ella destroys the statue and the others finish off the two snakes. With the guardians disposed of, the PCs are able to open the doors to the garhabgriha (inner sanctum) which holds an enormous statue of Bauhei, the Black Leopard. At the foot of the statue is a sadhu – an ancient mystic named Shankara, who invites the party to walk round the temple and study the carvings to learn the history of Dhak Janjua. The first three storeys of the tower tell the story of Vrishabha’s rise to power and his defeat by Srivatsa but the third floor carvings are more interesting, showing Vrishabha’s imprisonment in a glacier high in the Pillars of Heaven Mountains, rakshasas in modern-day Parsantium, and then yakfolk sorcerers performing a ritual from an ancient book to free the rakshasa rajah, allowing him to take his revenge on the city. Ella rushes down the stairs to talk to the sadhu, who utters a few words about what the PCs have seen just being one possible future before returning to his deep trance.Any comments?CheersRichard</blockquote>

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