Daggerford Militia: Quit Hitting Yourself! Quit Hitting Yourself!

Game Date: 3/19/2022

Location: Roll20
Campaign: Daggerford, Session 26

System: D&D 5e
DM: Mike

The Party:

Azul (Cliff) Dragonborn Fighter (absent)
Nikolice Gomez (Steven) - Human Fighter
Khemed (Rusty) Half-Elf Wizard
Navine/"Spider" (Steve) Elf Rogue
Vanya Bennett (Matt) Half-Elf Bard

The Session:

Today we continued our hexcrawl on the unfamiliar planet. We followed the base of the mountain. The alien sun had an exhausting effect on our bodies, but the mushroom milk we'd harvested earlier was good out counteracting this effect. Zeus, our guide, insisted we eat the hearts of our fallen enemies, to keep them from coming back as ghosts. We showed him how to cook food so it tasted better.

Our cooking attracted some gribbs (vulture lizards). They got a couple of good hits in, but we took a few out and the rest flew off. We decided to start sleeping during the day and travelling at night. During our downtime, Nikolice tried to figure out how to use the raygun gauntlet he picked up last session.

We saw another Kith patrol in the distance. It seems they were attracted by Nikolice's gauntlet tests. We decided to greet them and try to convince them we were gods. As we got close, one of them rushed forward and fell at our feet, groveling. They mistook Navine for their "chosen one", finally returned to them and ready to lead them to victory. Navine accepted her role as queen, and they awaited her orders. 

We found a tomb that the Kith said was full of ghosts. We sent Azul and our guide to help the Kith hunt for some food while the rest of our party explored the tomb. Navine got shot by a trap, a black box that shoots death rays. Scouting ahead, Navine and Nikolice kept an eye out for more traps like that, and disabled the next one with an arrow. 

Around the next bend we ran into a pair of Strekelions (big rat things). Once they were dead, we turned South and found a burial chamber. Navine found some tiles that looked like the same eight runes we've been seeing everywhere. They experimented a little pressing some buttons, until a door opened on the East wall in the chamber North of us.

The next chamber looked very sci-fi. There were six cylinders lining the walls. The door on the East side had more of those runes. Pressing buttons 1 and 5 opened the door. The next room held a large casket, and six pillars with levers. There was a mummified Kith in the casket, but he didn't look like a normal Kith. There were control panels on each side of the casket.

Nikolice and Khemed stood at the control panels and pressed some runes. Then they started pulling levers. The room started to cool down, and the casket opened. The creature inside awakened. It had one one functioning eye, and one glowing eye. It spoke in a barking language, so Vanya cast Tongues. He asked us which house we aligned with, and what the status of his house was. He was very threatening, so we told him his house was fine. He identified himself as Sotark the Destroyer, and ordered us to accompany him back to his people.

Sotark requested green stones to restore his energy. Luckily we had some from a previous session, which he gladly took and used to power up. He appeared to be some sort of cyborg. He asked us to donate genetic material to create more soldiers. Nikolice, Khemed, and Vanya each made donations. Mutant clones of us grew in the tubes. 

One of the clones grew to fruition, and it was a horrible mess of a creature. Nikolice decided to put his clone out of its misery. The creature dealt acid damage, ruining Nikolice's rapier. Vanya's and Khemed's clones joined the fight. Vanya convinced Sotark to help us kill the rest of the clones. He turned out to be a hard hitter, and we were glad he was on our side... so far.

Khemed held his actions, because Sotark was doing just fine. But then Sotark ordered him to help, so Khemed let loose a fireball on the remaining clones... and Sotark, who was not pleased. On his next turn, he went after Khemed. Khemed went down, and on the next turn, a clone took down Nikolice. Vanya healed Nikolice, and Sotark finished off the final clone. Khemed rolled a 20 on a death save, returning to 1 hit point, but Sotark still believed he was dead. 

Nikolice accompanied Sotark out of the tomb. The other Kith were back from hunting. Sotark asked them which house they served. Zeus said he was loyal to Vanya, and the other Kith pledged loyalty to Navine. Sotark started to go into kill mode. Nikolice stood between Sotark and the Kith and attempted to calm everyone down. 

Sotark was not happy about this. We ended the session on this cliffhanger.