Twenty-first Session – We brave both Law and oxen as well as ourselves to go get the fabled Helm of Chistu for Podrick!
After the Celebration of Temptation’s Embrace we have brunch and decide on next steps. One of the great things about DCC is we all have quests we want to go on to get specific superpowers. But it does founder a little upon the shores of irregular attendance. Mordecai wanted to go to the Temple of the Carnifex, but he’s not here, so we instead head for the Rusting Hills where the (tainted) Helm of Chistu is.
The Helm is a big deal, we’ve heard rumors about it from like the second or third session of the game, getting it, untainting it, and using it is one of the core plot arcs of the whole campaign. Spoiler alert.
So we end up going to a super duper Lawful dungeon, which no one but Podrick is really comfortable with. We meet a giant like Babe the Blue Ox-style ox named “Taurziel, First Born of Oxen, Guardian of the Cataphract, Bound to Remain” which now allows me to google for the adventure and discover that we were in DCC #80, Intrigue at the Court of Chaos.
The dungeon is mostly puzzles and choosing the right colors and whatnot. We mostly guess right on how to solve them, at least enough that we don’t lose major body parts. There is a “Sacrifice” area that demands we give up class abilities and stuff which was a bummer, but it turns out we get them back at the end of the adventure.
Then we have to fight mirror versions of the party. Hemp knows what’s up and shoots Mordecai (who showed up partway through the session) immediately in the head, he’s a wizard so the greatest threat and has notably low hit points.
OOC moment: We had been making “evil wizard” comments about Mordecai trying to kill all the Snuggoo cultists back in Fythorp he didn’t like and now my targeting his shadow double caused some amount of IRL interpersonal hard feelings, unfortunately. We tried to settle it out and move on.
We come away with the Helm (which being a Chaos-tainted Lawful artifact is unusable as of yet) and exit stage left!
Geek Related 