September 27, 2025

Hook

The Abyss Which Stares Back [Dirge of the Depths] 2

Plot Synopsis

The session started with the party venturing off the boat and into the water. While heading deeper into the water, Roche catches a small fish and lets it go, and then the party sees lights and the dome, which they presume contains the underwater city. While they get close to it, much of the party searches around the dome, ending up seeing figures of 5 creatures that Mikke and Fish attempt to investigate and try to talk to them. One of the figures pulls out something, summoning a squid, which they whisper to[using Whispering call to other Abyssilings]. It disappears, and they attack the party, triggering combat. During the combat, some of the party members get quite hurt, and Roche stays outside of it, attempting to dig up a hole around the dome. After each of the creatures died, they burst into a black goop with their weapons and armor floating around, when all of them were dead Emil takes one of their curse dolls removing a spike and ending a curse that was casted on them, and Varis looks through one of their pouches finding 2 amulets, 1 stick of weed, and a doll and needle [nomadic incants that had a little bit of magic left]. Once scrounging around the dead creature, the party began to look around the dome once more, investigating a prempek lamp which produced light, which they attempted to remove from the ground, eventually ripping it in half and carrying along the broken lamp post with them. After a bit more searching, they end up finding a chest filled with 11 pearl necklaces with kelp cords. With these necklaces, they are finally able to bypass the dome, but as the first one does, they get pelted with salt. They slowly go in and out of the place as they slowly but surely gain the trust of the onivero inside and are allowed to stay in their without being pelted, except for Roche, who showed signs of pain from the salt, which causes them to forbid him from entering the city. After some conversation, the party learns about the Abyss-dwelers(Abysslings), with the learning that Roche was one of the infected, that salt was apparently effective against them, and that the Abyss-dwelers were more agitated than normal. After further discussion, they reached an agreement for Meer-Fisk to keep their necklaces and surrender the rest, allowing them to return to the surface and meet their leader in the future. The party also learned what Onivero desired from trade, mainly salt, but food and other objects were also desired. The party ended the session, swimming back to the surface, unsure of what they wanted to do next, knowing they had 1-7 24 hours until they had to get back to the city.

coGM: Tal, Jack S
Rewards: 2500(5000) exp, no gold yet

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