Thirty-Second Session (9 page pdf) – “Crucible of Chaos II” – The chaos-warped ruins of Ulduvai still contain some of its original inhabitants! The PCs get to play “guess the weird undead type” as they meet them.
And they finally see… the shoggoth. They got warnings about something being in the city so they were a little wary but this really put the fear of God into them.
He sees a black pool of ooze that his terrible to behold. Its sound is also terrible but greatly dampened thanks to the ear plugs. Wogan pulls the others back and motions for “don’t look”. The next morning he bleeds from his mouth, eyes and ears until he heals himself.
They had seen a shoggoth once before, on the high seas back in Season Two, and they escaped it by sailing near another ship to let it eat them instead. And of course, they are all Lovecraft scholars like any true gamers. So this put the idea of “let’s just fight it” completely out of their minds, which is hard to do in D&D (ok, Pathfinder, whatever).
Then they meet 2/3 of the local ancient undead power players, who are much less spooky than the headless parrots, so they find it relaxing to talk and/or fight with them.
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