Investigation of the university crime scene will reveal boot prints and wide, serpentine drag marks pressed into the soot around traces of a chalk-etched teleportation circle. The Yuan-ti, Richard will explain, are snake people colluding with an unknown evil to end the world. They live in and around ancient temples far to the east, deep in the coastal jungles of Sylvica.
Once everyone is supplied and armed, the fastest way to get there is by airship. The Queen of Gales is a sizeable vessel that will fit the party comfortably. It is captained by Loxley, and is crewed by a variety of colourful characters, including a half-orc bosun and an ostentatious elvish quartermaster. It appears to be powered by magical crystals and steered by an array fanning sails. It is armed with several ballista and mangonels.
But the skies are being watched and a single airship traveling alone is an easy target. After fending off an attack on the ship, the party will have to hoof the last few days of travel along the coastline on foot.
The mission’s last leg will entail infiltrating a temple’s innermost sanctum and tearing the artifact from the Yuan-ti’s grasp mid-ritual. The serpentine abomination they worship is an aspiring god who has grown massive on a steady diet of human sacrifice and prayer. She will swallow the artifact to protect it.
Logistics/Notes:
There will be an official free-for-all Final Boss Fight thread starter without sign-ups or enforced tag order.
Mundane armor, weapons, and supplies will be bankrolled by Richard and Loxley. Go nuts.
Here there be monsters -- displacer beasts, giant rocs, carnivorous plants, and dinosaurs are just some of the beasts stalking the jungles of Sylvica.
The Yuan-ti consist of serpentine hybrids of every shape and body-plan: cobra-headed malisons, guards with pythons for arms, and more numerous “purebloods” who might pass for human if you don’t look too closely. They are self-serving, largely evil, and do not feel emotion.
There are demonic emissaries in the temple with a vested interest in the ritual’s success -- notable for their brimstone stench and their individual departures from the snake theme the Yuan-ti have gone all in on.
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World 3: Avoiding the D&D Apocalypse
Investigation of the university crime scene will reveal boot prints and wide, serpentine drag marks pressed into the soot around traces of a chalk-etched teleportation circle. The Yuan-ti, Richard will explain, are snake people colluding with an unknown evil to end the world. They live in and around ancient temples far to the east, deep in the coastal jungles of Sylvica.
Once everyone is supplied and armed, the fastest way to get there is by airship. The Queen of Gales is a sizeable vessel that will fit the party comfortably. It is captained by Loxley, and is crewed by a variety of colourful characters, including a half-orc bosun and an ostentatious elvish quartermaster. It appears to be powered by magical crystals and steered by an array fanning sails. It is armed with several ballista and mangonels.
But the skies are being watched and a single airship traveling alone is an easy target. After fending off an attack on the ship, the party will have to hoof the last few days of travel along the coastline on foot.
The mission’s last leg will entail infiltrating a temple’s innermost sanctum and tearing the artifact from the Yuan-ti’s grasp mid-ritual. The serpentine abomination they worship is an aspiring god who has grown massive on a steady diet of human sacrifice and prayer. She will swallow the artifact to protect it.