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Four Gods of Fury
Within the Temple of the Four Gods, our heroes continued to best trials left in honor of the gods of fury, gaining boons of Malar, Talos, and Auril. After Tetro unleashed a maelstrom whirlpool within the great hall, culling the local sahuagin population, our heroes plundered the treasure caches of these Low Netherese ruins. Paintings depicted a different coast, an eon before tundra overtook the boreal forests at the Sea of Moving Ice. Exhausted but well-rewarded, they returned to Angajuk for passage back to the coast. Crank's head pulsed with the first vestiges of lycanthropic madness. The full moon would be four days away.

Temple of the Four Gods

#battle #FourGodsofFury It seemed that Crank's lycanthropy was a curse treatable by an exceptiounally learned sage or perhaps with a barter with a fey being. With the full moon five days away, the party thought it best to push onward. Crank braced for the worst as he activated the challenge in Malar's chamber. Three werewolves spawned in the water... and began to drown. It dawned on Gadget that this room very never meant to be submerged. Still, the party had to fight against the pack of wolves, avoiding their teeth and the curse it carried.
#battle #FourGodsofFury Sidling up to the western door of the great hall, the party readied to burst in and dispatch the remaining sahuagin. Tetro, though, had other ideas. With a thunderclap, the stone doors flew out. A dozen enraged sahuagin, including a baron, stared down the party before Tetro called on his most powerful magic to conjure a whirlpool within the hall. The vortex was a stunning display of the druid's growing might, and the rest of the party took aim at the fish in the barrel. Crank, of course, was stuck in the center of the damn thing, clocking out sahuagin while his head began to pulse with the first glimmers of lycanthropic madness.
#FourGodsofFury In the chamber of Auril, Fern managed to convince a lone sahuagin priestess, who was tended to a wall of eggs, that the head priestess has abandoned the enclave and that she herself should go on vacation. The sahuagin blinked, grabbed a clutch of specific eggs, and left. Auril's trial, which Gadget attempted, was similarly not meant to be performed underwater. A jet of cold flash froze the room, encasing Oona, Tetro, and Gadget who began to suffocate. Only the tiny bubble of air near their lips was open to speech. Fern and Crank rushed to dig their comrades out, but the ice was extremely thick. Gadget, though, had several tricks up her sleeve. Vortex warping Tetro to safety, she herself misty stepped out of the icy prison. From there, Oona's rescue was quickly met. The mass of magical ice melted over the next quarter hour.
#FourGodsofFury The chamber of Talos was stocked with old armaments: harpoons, tridents, gauntlets, and manacles. The puzzle presented by the Storm Lord's test involved passing a shocking current through the room. A few trial runs later and Gadget passed the test, though the party sustained a few singed hairs and burns in the process.
#FourGodsofFury The treasury of the Temple of the Four Gods housed a room dedicated to each of the four, within which several treasures and plenty of gold was uncovered. Upon opening all four doors, the main chamber deepened. A hall with old paintings was revealed, their pigment smudged but shockingly well-preserved, revealing the temple as it was an eon ago on the shores of taiga turning tundra with views of Reghed Glacier in the distance. Another painting depicted perhaps an older scene, with humanoids prostrating themselves before giant kin of several colors and statures with a view of a floating island in the distance. Besides the artwork, a bag on a pedastal laid prominently in the room. Despite their fears around traps, the satchel was revealed to be a bag of holding. Inside it were leftover jotun glowrune pigments.

XP

Total XP: 28000

999 ~ Temple of the Four Gods complete

Loot

A lot of gold. Probably around 1200 gp total. I forget. ~ Temple of the Four Gods Treasure Room ~ All
Staff of the Adder ~ Temple of the Four Gods Treasure Room ~ Tetro
Bag of Holding ~ Temple of the Four Gods Treasure Room ~ Crank
Ring of Swimming ~ Temple of the Four Gods Treasure Room ~ Someone
Shield of Agathys ~ Temple of the Four Gods Treasure Room ~ Gadget
Jotun Glowrune Pigment ~ Temple of the Four Gods ~ Oona
Blessing of the Great Beast ~ Temple of the Four Gods Chamber of Talos ~ Crank
Blessing of the Storm Lord ~ Temple of the Four Gods Chamber of Talos ~ Tetro
Blessing of the Cold Crone ~ Temple of the Four Gods Chamber of Auril ~ Gadget