Yo, Ho, Blow the Man Down!

or... A Funeral Fit For a Pickle!

The party prepares and enters the cave in the slopes of Nextepeua ("He Who Rains Ashes"). Surrounding the entrance to the cave, a handful of small bat totems and offerings. Following the cave entrance, through a maze of lava tubes, the adventurers discover the shrine of Zotzilaha. Not long after entering the shrine, a flood of sinister fire bats and Zotzilaha himself appears and breathes unholy fire into the room.

Zotzilaha moans 'Desecrators' and he begins smiting the party members and draining their strength away. With brutal rage he takes down Kongu, and the party truly fights for their survival. Recovering from what was a tactial guffaw with the fire bats, the party struggles in combat. Daria wasn't as nimble as she needed to be, and falls to Zotzilaha's might blow.

Ortho finally frees himself from the unending onslaught of fire bats to open up the artillery. The tide begins to turn and Rudy finally grooves into a mighty rage. The party outlasts Zotzilaha and ends the mountains rage. The pile of loot discovered made even the greediest of pilferers happy. With a found scroll of resurrection, Z (by party consensus) bring Daria back to the world.

The Olman's agree to help defend Farshore, since the party has quieted the mountain and ended the anger of Zotzilaha.

Meet the Icemarks... Returning to Farshore, the party unloads, regroups, and discovers that the repair of the Sea Wyvern cannot be completed without the usual supply of tar from the Olmans. Recruiting a bit of new blood to make up for the loss of Kongu, the party discovers a northern warrior maiden from a far off land, Hjalmgerder. All were lost on her ship, and she bears the interesting family name of Icemark. Her pure-blooded humaness is not overlooked by certain blue party members.

The Olmans report that a particularly vicious dinosaur Temauhti-Tecuani has claimed the Tarpits. And upon arriving at the tar pits a dozen tiny screaming raccoon-men are being chased by one gnarled looking Tyrannosaurus Rex. Hjalmgerder volunteers to jump in the beasts mouth while the party beats the dinosaur to death. The raccoon-men are friendly after the battle and call themselves phanatons. They thank the party and return to their village.

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Session Characters: Nesta, Daria, Ortho, Rudolpho, Vin, Gwendyln, [Kongu], Hjalmgerder, Z
Session Loot: 500pp, ivory statue (3000gp), tiger figurine (250gp), necklace (100gp), masterwork buckler, +3 mithril brestplate, flame tongue bastard sword [stolen], stone of luck, scroll of resurrention [used], leather case with fang inside.