Fish Cult Today: Session 2

Fish Cult Today: Session 2

The Party:

Lars Hootman, Random Fighter  (Ian Reilly)

Sappheon, Blue Wizard (Josh Rapp)

Barnabus Sleet, Muscle Wizard (Maxime Golubchik)

Emma Bright-Eyes, Muscle Witch (NPC henchwoman)

Sharene, Elf Muscle Wizard (NPC henchwoman)

Dale Bidwell, Fighter/Valet (NPC henchman)

Brutal Pete, Dwarf (Aleksandr Revzin)

The Child Labor:

Chauncy Sadshadow (NPC torch bearer)

Clarence Dungleavy (NPC torch bearer)

Barnabus and his NPC crew had travelled back and forth to Vyzor a few times and inveigled Sappheon and Hootman to come and help them move the statue of the woman coming out of the fish. They did not give a lot of details and at first Hootman and Sappheon were confused as to why a cult of fishmen and fish sympathizers wanted to kill them. It gradually came out that the statue that the party had removed from the dungeon was still very much in use and the cult wanted their statue back for their fish fertility rights.

Brutal Pete was smoking and trying to figure out how his life got to this point.

The party comes up with a plan to abscond with the statue. They cast a bunch of bullshit ridiculous spells and wind up riding a box with the statue in it as it slides down the hill to the south. Emma, who is now an owl (because obviously she can just turn into an owl whenever she wants, duh), sees that they are being pursued by a band of fishmen and hooded cultists with weird fish dogs.

The party is able to get far ahead of their pursuers on their frictionless box but they are still being pursued.

The party then relies on a misunderstanding of how the 3rd level spell fly works to ride the box another few thousand feet. This will never work again.

They then decide to hide in the bushes while Barnabus confronts the pursuers with his invisible demon pals.

There is a fight. One of the demons reveals itself. The party is doing well. The two most powerful of the pursuers hug each other and begin a weird fishy chant. The rest of the pursuers die trying to shield them. The human(ish turns out they are part fish) cultists are put to sleep.

The ritual just barely finishes as the party closes in on the embracing fish boys. The more human cleric’s head explodes and a bunch of gross blood stuff happens and an Avatar of Blibdoolploop climbs out of the whole in his neck, sucking the life force out of the remaining fishmen and consuming it.

The party examines their ridiculously overpowered magic items and concocts a plan. Emma charges the god and tries to get a magic acorn that can instantly grow into a tree into the god’s mouth. Unfortunately Emma succumbs to the maddening gaze of Blibdoolploop and is driven hopelessly insane when she gets within arms-length.

The next ridiculous magic item is up. It belongs to Brutal Pete (not Lars Hootman, who has 'no special powers'), it is a pearl or marble or something that gives the bearer the power to charm any undying being with a successful charisma check or something. It totally works. They charm the god. The item is consumed.

The party then orders Blibdoolploop around for 10 minutes. They have her get them the biggest pearl from the see (1100 gp pearl) and they have her teleport them along with the statue to Vyzor. They then tell her to return to her home plane, which she does just as she was about to kill them all.