Sanguinity

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May 14, 2020 12:24 pm
With the Asset, the attack succeeds and does 4 damage. The larvae or whatever pop and scorch around him. But there's plenty more where they came from.
May 14, 2020 8:04 pm
Rohim draw his knife and spend an action to charge it with electricity for the fight.
May 14, 2020 8:30 pm
Initiative

Rolls

Init - (1d20)

(17) = 17

May 14, 2020 8:32 pm
Aduan casts a physical Onslaught into the center of the swarm.
May 14, 2020 8:38 pm
Make an attack roll, difficulty 3
May 15, 2020 1:48 am
"Yuck!" Raezhon removes her baton/staff from its holster, snaps it open, and takes a defensive stance. "Not the best or most effective weapon against a swarm of carnivorous blood slugs, but maybe I can use it to vault out of trouble if I start to get swarmed," she thinks to herself. Then begins hop-stomping on any of them that get close, taking care not to stay in one place any longer than necessary.

Rolls

Unarmed Combat (Trained) - (1d20)

(5) = 5

May 15, 2020 4:29 am
Attack on swarm with Onslaught

Rolls

Onslaught physical attack - (1d20)

(20) = 20

May 15, 2020 11:51 am
Combat is over.

Aduan's mind attack bursts from him and the remaining larvae explode in a rain of viscera centered on him. The strange song in your mind fears and you find yourself alone on the butte, save for the three priests, one in sick, one unconscious, and the other dead and partially consumed.

Rodia has fallen to her knees in shock. When convinced to surreal she says, "Sanguinity, for years has answered us. A creature made of blobs of blood bubbles, but all along it was eggs for these tiny creatures? The psychic song, the telepathy, the teleportation. Was all of it a lie? But my god is dead, as is Molan."
May 15, 2020 7:27 pm
"Some seek gods who they learn to fear, others seek gods who the learn to love but there are still others who seek a greater power because they are bereft of hope and seek only surcease of sorrow and are left with nothing. I fear, Rodia, you may be the last of these." Adnuan tries to comfort the priestess with a hand on her shoulder.
May 15, 2020 10:30 pm
"Wow, both eloquent and depressing at the same time. I'm impressed." Raezhon gives Aduan a sideways smile as she wipes the goo from herself. "Blood gods, never trusted 'em."
May 17, 2020 1:37 pm
You each earn 2 experience points (XP) for getting the teleportation device to function, and one more for discovering the nature of the god:

Sanguinity is not at all what the priests believe it to be. Rather, the god they have been worshipping for so long is an ootheca full of eggs that have been incubating for centuries and have just now hatched. While the eggs were mostly dormant, their telepathic and teleportation powers were limited. Now that the hatchlings are free and hungry, their telepathic pull is strong enough that the creatures in the area heard their call for food and attempted to respond to it, most likely destroying the device in the process.

You may have made some long-term allies in the two surviving priests (and, consequently, among the people who live in the priests’ villages).

Upon discovering the truth of their religion, the surviving priests might forgo their faith completely, continue the charade so the people in their villages feel safe, or try to destroy all of the remaining broods so they don’t harm more people. Those who return to their villages give the characters an open invitation to stop by anytime.

This is the end of the adventure, Sanguinity.

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