ToA: Session 4

Ghouls & Grottos
Last time, we left our intrepid heroes at the edge of a marshland, tracking ghouls that Liara wanted dead. Well, dead again. Beyond is what looked like hills with caves, and the most likely location of the ghoul nest. Not wishing to take the long way around, the group took the safer of two paths and waded through some shallow water around the right side of the marsh. All the while they felt as though they were being watched, a feeling that only intensified as they climbed out of the marsh to enter what seemed to be the main cave.

First Among Men
Inside, they found a vividly painted story of Adun Anagonye, first among men. It is a tale of how he led 7 men, 5 women, a leopard and a dog out into the sunlight, and taught them how to survive and thrive. The last coherent bit ends with him breaking a tree in half. From here on it became incoherent, and later descended into mad ramblings created by a monsters hand.

The Ghoul King
The group continued downwards, where they reached a big oval chamber. Here they found the ghoul king, who either was, or styled himself as, Adun Agone. Attempting to barter with the king, the group lied and offered him regular shipments of meat in exchange for leaving the fort alone. The king, however, had a different deal in mind. He wanted the witch (aka Liara) dead, in exchange for not killing the party. The group surprisingly sided with the one who was paying them in gold, and surprised the king with a d-squad special (an eldritch blast to the face).

A fight ensued, with Daedalus getting paralyzed and almost eaten, Fargus actually staying upright for once, and the two others being absolute ballers. In the end, 9 ghouls lay dead, and the cowardly ghoul king made himself invisible and fled down the eastern corridor. With limited resources, our heroes pursued.

Albino-Crocodile Dundee
Here they came to a chamber with a river flowing through it, with said river harbouring 2 large stones in the middle. On the other side, some houses the ghouls would seem to have been using, and where the king must have hid, for there was no other way out. Furthermore, 2 blind albino crocodiles were in sight. Business as usual.

While Bucket shaped the stones to allow safe passage to the other side, Neb attempted to beguile the crocodile floating in the river. This worked, to everyone's surprise, making the crocodile see Neb as his master Sobek. After getting it to tell us about Sobek, we learned that Sobek, and by exstention the crocodiles, hate Adun, whom had previously controlled them. It is therefor trivial to get him to summon his brethren and get them to devour the remaining undead.

And here we leave our heroes, with an army of ancient crocodiles hellbent on doing their dirty work for them. Score!