The Darkest Hour (Blighted City 25)
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| The Darkest Hour (Blighted City 25) | |
|---|---|
| Date | 2/28/25 |
| Storyteller | Dag |
| Tier | High Master/Low Legendary, Hard |
| Player Characters | Siltmean the Craftrat, Melfyra, Shadefrost, Sheeri of the Frozen Wastes |
| Rewards | 325 xp, 3k platinum, warleader's bulwark, saurian spike (greater), warcaller's chime of dread, wand of spiritual warfare (4th rank), spiritual warhorn (greater) |
| Result | Success |
| Author | Siltmean |
| Downtime | Varies, see "What to do about crystals" thread in Psychic Link |
Associates save another group of Associates, wait a day, then try again at their own mission.
Log
The First Attempt
- Meet other groups in Onadbyr
- Head to Lancaster as large group
- Undead outside the city?
- Undead along warded paths?
- Entire city cloaked in darkness
- Carve path to safe house
- Prepare, head to Palace
- Everyone clears wall
- Split up
- Team 1 going to clear outer palace
- Team 2, us, expected to clear the bridge again
- We head toward the main bridge to clear path for our strongest associates, team 3
- Lack of melee fighters in our team
- Am I the attention grabber now?
- Glad for my new anti-otherworld armor modification
- Before arrival, Vara and Mutt of other group run to us
- First team in trouble
- We hurry to help
- One already dead, massive vortex of shadows rampaging
- Use my VDA (Void Dispersal Array) to repel the shadow mass
- Body of fallen Associate hits the ground
- Plan is already a bust
- I Go retrieve team 3
- Retreat to safe house
- Try again tomorrow
The Second Attempt
- Shadefrost uses teleportation pack to retrieve more Associates
- Team 1 bolstered, we head out the next day
- Angstrom stayed in Onadbyr to ferry the fallen Associate to a revival
- We head to the bridge
- Several troops of undead, from zombies to ghost soldiers
- Sykvever and Ephialtes stand behind them
- They hear us, prepare for fight
- Melfyra surprises them with sunburst, thins the herd significantly
- I face the rapidly approaching dread wraiths
- My AO armor resists them well
- Finish off ghost swarm with Molten Lava blast
- Sykvever rushes Melfyra atop tower
- Ephialtes stays back early on
- Ghost soldiers suddenly blast me and Sheeri with powerful fire
- Suddenly I'm not handling these undead as well anymore
- Sheeri gets rid of the ghosts
- Melfyra busy with Sykvever chasing her
- Ephialtes begins approaching
- Shadefrost moves to distract it at the bridge
- We finish off the wraiths
- Begin focusing on Sykvever
- Ephialtes ensnares Shadefrost, wounds have apparently closed on it
- Shadefrost escapes and falls back
- Ephialtes reaches us, unleashes wave of chains
- Wears us down even more
- We focus Sykvever, force it to focus on healing itself
- Eventually kill it, but can't put down Ephialtes
- Figure out it has weakness to holy to stop regeneration
- Only holy person is Melfyra
- Fight to keep it down and keep Melfyra alive
- Her and I both nearly die
- Narrowly manage to finish it off after Melfyra strikes it with holy magic
- No lives lost, everyone severely injured
- Escape to the safe house, let team 3 move in