Session 25

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Heroes: Moryak, Ruthinn, Tarkin, Thoradin

The Heroes spend a couple of days in the Vast Oblivium, while they recover their strengths and use divination magic to find the location of a purple worm egg.

They leave the beholder's lair, and travel the round tunnels for a few days, before finally reaching their destination, the Worm Nursery. There they find a vast cave containing several clusters of purple worm eggs. Moryak has just managed to pry one of the round silvery eggs from the resin it was encased in, when a tunnel opens up on the side of the cave.

From the tunnel, the demon lord Qorgeth comes forth, enraged by the Heroes' presence. Instead of running for their lives, the Heroes decide to fight the Writhing Prince. The ground shakes under their feet, as the demon summons the power of an earthquake spell, sending Ruthinn falling 80 feet into a crevice. Then it proceeds with crushing the others under his massive body, while piercing them with its poisonous stinger.

The fight quickly goes against the Heroes, and one by one they're swallowed by Qorgeth. When Sune's does not answer his call for hep, Ruthinn realises it's time to leave. He jumps into the maw of Qorgeth, somehow finding his companions inside its gullet, and uses a word of recall spell to get them all away from danger.