Session 40 - Mokmurian

Pharast 17

The tunnel past the trolls wound its way down into the earth like a corkscrew. After a few hundred feet down it opened up into an underground structure that the party recognized as Thassilonian.

Khazen cast a spell and sent an arcane eye down through the complex, identifying all the rooms and its occupants including the location of Mokmurian. There were a number of collapsed hallways that funneled the group through the series of room to get to Mokmurian. Khazen had another idea.

They headed into the first room where because of the way the room's angles were cut, became disorienting and made people nauseous. Inside this room was a hill giant with weird Thassilonian runes all over his body, and it looked like its muscles were about to break through its skin. Despite some people being sick from the room, the party took it out.

Khazen used a spell to bypass the rubble in a connecting hallway to the room where it lead to an ancient library. Everything in it was written in Thassilonian, and even had a construct that acted as the librarian. Knowing the didn't have time to do any research, they decided to leave the library heading to Mokmurian's room and use another spell to bypass the wall.

As the opened the door out of the library, and bright flash of light appeared blinding everyone except Phain and Vale. An otherworldly creature appeared burning everyone with a bright intense light. The barbarian hacked away at it blindly, Xantumal summoned some elementals, and Phain and Vale continued to hack away at it until finally it disappeared in another flash of light.

Preacher re-prayed for some spells to relieve the blindness while the other prepared for the battle with Mokmurian. When everyone had their sight back, Khazen cast the spell to bypass the wall and the attacked Mokmurian.

Mokmurian seemed moderately prepared for them as when they brought out the silence medallion, he cast a silenced dispel magic, and also was able to dimension door to another part of the room to get off a fireball. Some other planar hounds came in the room as well splitting up the party. Mokmurian took a beating and dealt out a lot of damage, but in the end the group was victorious over him and the hounds.

Before he died, however, an unseen force overtook his body and a voice spoke to them, “So these are the heroes of the age. More like gasping worms to me, soon to be crushed back into the earth when I awaken the armies of Xin-Shalast, when the name Karzoug is again spoken with fear and awe. Know that the deaths of those marked by the Sihedron—the giants you have so conveniently slain for me—hasten my return, just as yours soon will. Fools, all of you. Is this all you could manage in ten thousand years?”