Session 58. Buried in the back yard

With the dillema of davons dummas and everyhting else in soro as well resolved as we could we headed underneath Soro. In order to find the seals that locked away the sleeping god. To see their state, and if we could learn anything about their numbers, their source, and maybe to repair them.
We already knew that behind one of the already broken where the the tunnels, that led to the kobolds who were hired to protect Soro came from. To us this meant that almost anything could lie behind the other seals, our luck knowing, only bad things.

 

Ricardo let us, through his crack den, into the underground. Last time Ricardo brought me here he distracted me quite thoroughly, however now that I have more time to look around, I can clearly see that these were once streets, now paved over, and Soro build upon it. Soro is clearly not the first town to be build here.

 

In the underground we find some wererats. These creatures are no challenge for the Hammers, and are quickly dealt with. However Ricardo recognizes one of them, a fellow that wanted to become a brewer when coming to Soro, but ended up becoming a guard for fort placo.. and then I guess, became a wererat instead. The curse is passed on by the claws, so we had to be careful, and when we come back to Soro we might want to see if more of these rats walk the streets.

 

In the sewers we find two seals, already broken. When investigating them I can only sense a hint of magic, made out layers and layers, and each of these layers seem broken in some way. On the seal itself we can find text, in draconic, giant, infernal and celestial as a sort of translation stone. The text reads:
draconic: A story of how the physical world is only a reflection of the spiritual world. That big effects in the one will cast a shadow on the other.

Giant: The power of the king is so huge that his subjects can also bow before him

Infernal: The deposit is ready, exchange will be of equal value. In the future we shall reap the reward, he will accept us with open arms

Celestial: we gave ourselves, our blood spilled, we appreciate the results and await our salvation.

 

We are reminded of the boxes, each of them seemingly representing a species or language..

 

It is a while later while when we find one of the intact seals, but as soon as we find it, we see that we are not the first one to come across it. 4 black oozes come forth from the sewer water and attack us.
You know, the troubles with oozes is not that the are hard to defeat, or that they keep splitting in smaller pieces that all start attacking you. No it is the smell, these things smell like death farted after eating something from Ricardo’s den.

The text one the intact seal said only 1 thing: “It is below”. The thing itself seemed very heavy, but upon it was something like a lock, a puzzlelock..

It took 3 attempts but we were able to unlock them. As the final piece was solved, the seal.. opened up.. into a deep black abys..

You don’t become a hero by sitting idly by.
So we climbed down.

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