The Final Push, Fly-Paper Shields, The Fury of the Sea Mother

Session Notes #25 - 5/20 and #26 - 5/22

The assault on the Kuo-Toan City of the Glass Pool fires back up with a quick 4-person session Friday (Talon and Cowl out - played by party.) and full session Sunday (Cowl out due to work - many acid balls were hurled in his name). Hopefully we can resolve just what did happen about Cowl's plot this next session.

Day Tracker

Start Day 185
Travel back to city thru Cloud Peaks caves - 15 days (200)

Rest after farm fight (201)

Fight for the farms and temple encounter:

Some large number of KT whips and citizens, 10 KT priests, 4 KT Monitors, 2 KT captains, 2 KT Lts
2 Ixzan Wizards (one dead, one fled), 1 Ixzan Mutant, 1 Acid Savant, 1 Illithid
Dukes Hugulboorg and Klorgaboog - Kugloogoop feared away
Fury of the Sea Mother statue/elemental, 2 greater water elementals, a buffet of monstrous crayfish

37K EXP

SCP's: +36 (total 67)

DM Notes

 Play continues in the giant battle arena that is the city. Notable stuff not mentioned above and some clarifications:

• Stone giants were perched on the temple dome throwing rocks (mostly unsuccessfully - of note - the party is now ~3 levels above when they first attacked the city and their stats are quite a bit higher, many of the foes are not posing a large threat and have started mixing up their tactics.)
• 30" ft. tall stone-shaped towers with caged tops have sprung up around the city in defensive positions, intent on harassing the party. They are seemingly occupied by the scant remnants of the Derro military with illithid commanders and dispelling whips focused on limiting the party's mobility.
• Tomoe died shortly before the party finished the farm pools fight to a pile of melee KTs. Or'Tree scooped up her ioun stone, Finfinder, and used it to raise her after the party's retreat.
• Stisix the couatl continues his bard-music fueled murder-spree and eats like 10 non-trivial KTs.
• Later in the session, a bunch of Or'Trees summoned electric eels also "view the performance" during the underwater temple fight and become ~4x more powerful. The summoning abuse continues.
• The party managed to rescue 5 of Cowl's followers from the farm pools and also found Rogtar's brother, Mogtar. Happily reunited and filled with fury at his domination (and leveled up into Oracle-lame curse), he actually proves quite useful. Stisix plane-shifts out with the rest of the followers with instructions to get them safely back to Haranshire.
• The altar in the notes (actually a statue) reincorporates after creating the whirlpool and begins hurling elemental rays at the party. They weather the storm and begin approaching from the edges of the whirlpool to deliver the killing blow. Talon gets about 5 ft. too eager and dies to a full-attack. The statue falls shortly afterward and the vortex fades away.
• Almost done with the City! Only a few buildings have not been tackled. The KT king has ominously not yet shown himself. We'll need a holiday weekend double-header to wrap it up and move on to book 3!