Serpents of Chaos is an AD&D 1e campaign set in the lands of Hyperborea, a vast region of steppe, inland seas, deep mountains, horse-hordes, fierce barbarians, and hardened adventurers. Largely inspired by Howard, Leiber, Frazetta, and Dunsany.
This session, Zanuptra (Magic-User 3) and Sufthul (Fighter 2) with two bowmen and two footmen venture to the south, to climb a mountainside and enter the Copper Circle, a massive floating circular structure about 200' wide and 60' tall. A structure/vehicle built by the long-dead wizard Thenzur.
They saw two entrances, one on top and a trapdoor on the bottom. They decided to go in the trapdoor and managed to swing a grapple rope up! After testing for weight, they climbed in.
Immediately they came face to face with the large head of a dragon peering at them from lightning rimed-smoke. It was a friendly young female bronze dragon named Reshah, greeting them aboard. Once they started talking to her it became evident that there was an evil presence aboard the "ship." Some manes demons had snuck into Thenzur's laboratory and made a home. She was contracted by the pygmies to come help but didn't have any luck rooting out the manes. Reshah offered a rod of cancellation in exchange for a box of fine metal powders from the laboratory.
Next, Zanuptra and Sufthul met the grey pygmies, in a trance around a one-armed, headless statue. Their leader, a pygmy psion with a big boxy hat and a bejeweled bandolier, told them to go root out the demons. Anything in the room was theirs to take.
They traversed the hallways, passing by weird rooms of water, statues, navigation thrones, and talking archways.
Finally, they entered a large round chamber full of interesting things. A sparring automaton made of wood and metal. A shelf of potions protected by glyphs. A stone spellbook floating in air under the watch of a copper gargoyle. And a large heap of paper fragments, which yielded the bite of a couple giant ants, a fragment of paper with "BOO" written on it, and a scroll of unseen servant. The two adventurers decided to grab these two things and leave the rest for now.
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| David Sutherland |
Time to kill the demons. The two kicked opened the door to the laboratory, cast sleep (I forgot manes are immune to it, but they were already weakened and couldn't teleport/gate so we will say that was the reason), and poured a flask of acid down the throat of the single manes demon. There was only one, but no more showed up.
They cleared the laboratory of all its contents, taking the box of metal powders to Reshah (and receiving the rod of cancellation).
Saddling up, they rode home with a haul of light treasure.
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