# 79_20210622 Another pool but no Reona ## Session Summary We see that the wretches are placing what looks like gems into walls and writing something using fresh blood on the walls near the gems. We approach the wretch sac and kill off 13 wretches, which deal some damage to me before Keren teleports me out of the hot zone. With them defeated, Ka'ira and Maestro rescue three more civilians from the pool: three humans (a man, an woman, and a little girl). Maestro sends Lydia out to see what's ahead of us, inadvertently catching the attention of six more wretches that come towards us. I kill four of them off, Maestro kills another, and the last flees towards the crystal-- where some of the roots lift off the ground, snatch the remaining wretch, and feeds it to the gigantic foulspawn. The large foulspawn, presented with this wretch as a meal, seems to regain some energy and color as it starts to extract itself from the ground. ^summary ## Recap of last session ![[78_20210621 Back to the Twisted Fane#^summary]] --- ## Log The wretches nearby are either putting something in or taking something out of the pool. They're tugging at the roots by the water and they're doing something to the walls nearby. Maestro sends Lydia. The wretches see Lydia, but Lydia at least sees what they're doing. The wretches are putting gems on the walls and putting markings on them with what looks like blood. Two wretches are trying to retrieve something from a sac from the pool. Near the pool is a wretch sac that wretches begin to come out of as well. Seven of them. I Fire Burst them but only get two of them. I Fireball them and get four of them. However, every time I kill them, more come and teleport into the same spaces. Initiative Maestro 17 Ka'ira Gloomtoes 11 Wretches 11 Snowflake 10 Eraithe and Xio 10 Keren Ceaseless Murmur gives me -2 to will Attack vs. AC to me: 7 damage Keren: - Moment of Escape: Teleport an ally 4 squares, then teleports 3 squares himself and becomes invisible to all enemies adjacent to the square you left. - Misdirected Mark: Deals damage and marks Eraithe's Booming Blade gives him 10 temp HP (5 HP per square). Round 1 - Second Wind: Healing surge, +2 to all defenses Round 2 Eraithe finishes it off We approach the wretch sac. Nothing's moving. We attack it to make sure nothing will come out. Gloomtoes says that the voices are stronger here, but they don't make sense. Rescued: - thin human man: [[Trax]] - thin human woman: [[Ogana]] - human child, a little girl with curly locks glued to her face because of the water. <10 years old : [[Jorenna]] They are all covered by a very thin thread-like layer. It tears easily, and it has the sound of tearing flesh. The moment I tear it open, they awaken. They seem unharmed. I spot bruises from Grell's tentacles, but otherwise they're more in shock than anything. "Mommy makes clothes," says the little girl. She doesn't seem comfortable with me, but I've never seen her and she doesn't look familiar. Maestro sees three carrion crawlers fighting wretches, and also sees the large foulspawn. Behind the crystal, there are wretches dragging unconscious bodies away from us. There is also a hole in the ground that the grells are dragging bodies to. 6 wretches are in the middle and they turn to see Lydia. The gigantic foulspawn has two massive arms, but we only see until its elbow. Waist and below is also underground. We can see the muscles and veins on its side. It seems to be filled with some fluid and it's attached to giant, tentacle-like roots on its back. The roots are, in turn, attached to the wall. There is light-colored stone wall that blocks the package on the far side of the crystal (where we initially freed the [[Milk Elemental]]s). The wretches are fighting the milk elementals. We see two groups of wretches: one with 8, fighting the milk elementals, and one with 6. Wretches teleport more of them in when they die. I kill four of them with fire burst. The other two turn and flee back towards the crystal. Maestro kills one with his handaxe. We see one of the roots on the ground pull itself up out of the ground like a tentacle and envelop the one remaining running foulspawn. It pulls the wretch towards the large foulspawn and puts it in the foulspawn's mouth. The gigantic foulspawn seems to have been given a burst of energy and color from this wretch and it starts to extract itself from the ground.