Session 8 - 4/17/2024

Everyone except Crawn hears small, muffled screams and harsh yelling in response

Ell notices a broken barrel spilling blood, bones, and guts all over the floor

Drew moves forward, opens the door, and sees a teenage half-elf

We roll for initiative and start smacking around the cultists

The half-elf kid tells us to help his friend; he’s in the next room, where the cultists are running to

Fish-Kicker takes the half-elf kid to safety away from the fight

Two cultists are caught up in Ell’s Entangle

“Get to the gate! Make sure they don’t get to the altar!”

We hear a door slam and some splashing to the east

Milhouse gets to the second kid, who points him in the direction the other cultists fled

Milhouse opens a door, sees SOMETHING BAD, closes the door, and walks back

Milhouse looks over the kid and notices rune-like markings near his ear

Milhouse tells Ell that we should study these kids; the cultists did something to them

Ell takes the second kid to hang out with the first kid and Fish-Kicker

Ell tells Fish-Kicker to take the kids to safety and holler if anyone comes down here

The rest of the group explores the base and short rests

We explore the base, looking for the altar

We go through a partially-water-filled room with a pulsing monstrosity that we sneak past

In the altar room, there’s a body before a large statue of the albino kraken

There are four armed monstrous gargoyles with tentacles on their faces and wings

The body was reaching into the statue’s mouth, but he was attacked before that

Bammon reaches for the lever the cultist was going for; a gravelly voice asks what he’d be willing to sacrifice for one of its gifts

Bammon withdraws his hand and explains what he heard

Milhouse asks Bammon what he’s willing to sacrifice, if he’s like the cultists

Milhouse asks what we should do at this point

Ell notices a mouse in the kraken statue’s mouth and moves closer; no one else can see it

Ell realizes that the kraken statue is actually a door

The body jumps up and bites Ell, telling him we’ll never take the gifts, hisssssss

Milhouse wants to pull the lever. For science.

Milhouse uses his right hand to pull the lever; he hears a whisper in his head asking what he would sacrifice for its gift

Milhouse asks if there is any more information

The voice responds no, only that his sacrifice will not be recoverable

Milhouse agrees to the sacrifice

Milhouse’s right hand gets cut off a bit below the elbow; the wound bleeds copiously

Milhouse bandages his arm up, accepting no help

Crawn asks if he needs help but Bammon and Ell make the ‘let him do his thing’ gesture

Milhouse walks to the altar and feels the most compelling urge to put his nub near it

Stones form an arm and splintered wood forms fingers

Milhouse takes out the vial of black ooze and it chills lazily, comfortably

Milhouse now has a DOPE AF new arm