26 June 2024
Sawmill Cult Camp Finale
The party, from their safe hiding spot in the woods, did some planning on how to approach the abandoned saw mill. Jukli with his newly acquired Eagle-Eyed Goggles was able to see a cultist doing some sort of ritual by a pyre, another cultist covered in robes and a mask holding The Staff, and a few other minion cultists mulling about as well as outside of the building there was one cultist in a tent. Jukli devised a plan to distract the guard outside with squirrels… but they were just interested in his food so he decided to use Mage Hand to collapse the tent on him before the group commenced their attack. Everyone got into position: Ralathen and Ranoa at the main entrance and Fergus and Jukli at the open side of the building where the cut wood was sent out. Jukli activated his mage hand, collapsed the tent and grabbed Fergus to float up to the ledge with his balloon pack. As everyone converged into the building, the party was able to surprise the enemies and catch them off-guard. It appeared the one performing the ritual was imbuing magic into a sword, but was interrupted and turned around to defend himself. Blows were traded back and forth, a wall of fire was created splitting the battlefield. Ralathen sent his shadow into the fray and fought a heavily armored cultist, Jukli created chaos on an upper platform, Fergus ran across the large log splitting machine while slinging spells and commanding Ferdinand, Ranoa activated his dragon claws and lashed out at the leaders. During the commotion, it was revealed that the man who was performing the ritual was named Elizar and he planeshifted out because he seemed to think this fight was not worth it. The masked cultist was addressed by the name Astrid and was keen on only attacking Ranoa and stayed fighting and conversing with him until the other cultists fell. Astrid displayed great powers that were unknown to Ranoa and mentioned that she was blessed by two gods now as she shed copious amounts of worms and bugs. She escaped the fight and used the staff to planeshift the rest of the cultists in the camp away.