The Stolen Prince

"The Stolen Prince" (Ses 08) is the eighth session of The Exiled Abyss. The Tower of Beasts has been traversed. It's time for NovaTome to face their first real showdown with a Lord of Entropy.

Synopsis
Our adventurers had fought their way through the tower of beasts and had opened the way to the heart chamber. They entered and the walls behind them had closed. They stood on a platform surrounded by blood and stared down the heart of the tower. Then suddenly a loud crash came from within the heart, causing the whole room to shake. The heart was broken from the inside and there floated Krinkle, smug and covered in blood. The showdown with The Sixth Lord of Entropy had begun.

Krinkle struck fast teleporting around and firing beams and missiles. He even summoned the help of monstrosity dog-like creatures made up of patched up flesh. NovaTome found themselves evenly matched but were slowly able to wear the goblin down with magic. However, this was just the beginning, Krinkle had stuck himself with vire energizing him to another form. Vire started to pour into the pool of blood and sent the platform to the top of the tower, with the bell in sight. This caused a backfire in Jenavive ’s plan to dip into the pool of blood to surprise attack Krinkle who was now a fly trapped in a bubble submerged in vire. Back on the platform Krinkle had knocked down Tog and Sarya. Things were starting to look bleak, in turn, Sog, Inxibis, and Torglug turned to each other and clashed their rapiers to gain the One For All buff. With the help of this buff as a raven, Inxibis dived into Krinkle’s eye stunning him for Sog to deal the final blow and eat the goblin whole.

With Krinkle dead, the tower transformed back into the original old empire tower and an apple grew on the tree on our adventures hand. Our adventurers took the bell back to town to prove their heroic deed. With all that done it was time to head home and celebrate. Election winning and hillbilly killing took place in the hangover afterward.

The chat with the council wasn’t the cleanest thing to happen, but most of the council members agreed NovaTome had done what they were set out to do and were awarded with 10,000 gp and renewal on their contract. However when they went to receive their reward a warning was left in place on their doorstep. Apparently, their mail was trapped. After arguing about what to do, Tog took action and opened up the mailbox destroying some of their reward in the process. Novatome attempted to get reimbursed, but with little avail. The rest of the session was spent purchasing magic items.