...continuation of 12/28/14
The party attacks the ESUs to draw them away from the Emkrah, so Lars can feed Eddie to it. Egor is running from table to table, gathering his lab equipment. Constanzo (the kasatha), stands calmly at the back of the cavern. Back out of site, Zed the mad scientist-wizard, is shutting down whatever dastardly experiment he is running.
Constanzo yells back to Zed, "HE is here...". Zed's only reply is "Dammit!". A shimmering ghost-like form appears in the middle of the cavern, on the party's side of the invisible barrier. Shimmering blue lines trace pattern in his skin, he appears not quite human. "Attention, leave this mountain immediately. All technological artifacts are to be left behind, no exceptions." As he is speaking, dimension doors open and robotic constructs walk through and begin demolishing cabinets, benches, and pickled dwarf jars.
Lars, warns the party not to interfere with the new interlopers. Constanzo tells Egor to leave for the gate now. Egor, nodding and limping along with his bag of holding, muttering "yes, yes, yes". The CTDs fall back into a position guarding the back passage way to Zed's room. With one ESU down, and the other distracted, Eddie finally makes his way into the Emkrah's belly. Suddenly surrounded by a nimbus of violet-black energy, the Emrak enters a dream-like trance.
The shimmering form begins chanting an incantation, while Constanzo responds with one of his own. Luce charges at the CTDs, and passes through the space where the barrier had been. The rest of the party works to finish off the last ESU to protect the Emkrah. A quick glimpse of Zed, pushing some large metal artifact into an archway, is followed by loud otherworldly roar. Constanzo barks, "something has come through Zed's gate. Egor, leave now. Dwarves of Hammerfalls, defend the portal."
The robots continue to smash the lab, as one of the pickled dwarves spring to life and attacks Kushii. Some of the smaller robots have engaged the CTDs, but seemed to be hinders by a magical barrier. Luce is not affected by the barrier and continues to carve pieces of zombie dwarf. As the last of the cultists retreat, three frog-like demons materialize and begin attacking the party. The loud roar continues as the squid-headed demon finally shows itself.
Things are looking pretty bad, Billy even digs into his special stash of cold-iron holy bullets. Even the robots seem ill-equipped to fight off the horrible creatures. Slowly the party brings down the creatures. The squid-headed demon falls and the rest of its summoned minions return to the dark beyond. The Emkrah awakes from its trance and blasts Kushii, Lars, Luce, and Billy with beams of chaotic energy, and goes through the portal where the cultists escape.
Everyone seems to recover, and the ghost like form introduces himself as Erasmus. He states his claim that all of the artifacts in this mountain are his, and must be turned over immediately. Lars looks for a opportunity, and asks what about the items the cultists made off with. Erasmus states, return all of the items now, return what the cultists have taken, and he will pay each character 4000 GP and and the party ten percent of the value of the items they return. Lars says, "What about 4500 GP per", and Erasmus replies, "Done."
Erasmus says the portal will take you to what ever destination you will it to. It is a one-way trip. Kushii and Billy head for Absalom to intercept Tamir arriving at the shipping docks. The rest of the party returns to Katapesh, to Rayhan's villa to collect the reward from the Captain of the Sunset Ship.
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Session Characters: Kushii, Lars, Luce, Billy, William, Hazel
Session XP: 8800 XP
Session Loot: 5 masterwork warhammers, 5 masterwork chain mail, 5 masterwork steel heavy shields.
