SESSION REPORT - SWORDS OF THE INNER SEA, SESSION 28 Looking to turn a rich profit from extracting the JADE STATUES from the ancient SWAMP TEMPLE, MAZDAK THE GRIM, FOLG SON OF FOLG, the sorcerers WEND WITHER and THOGGOS, and THE HERMIT RINPOCHE, along with their henchman MINO set out from RIN LOTU, the canoes and rafts of the swamper EZO and his relatives laden with ropes, lumber, and other equipment. After passing a barren crag raising from the water, which seemed to conceal a NARROW CAVE ENTRANCE, they arrived on the temple island. Unloading their supplies, they tossed many fish to appease the CROCODILES dozing in the temple fountain and entered the temple proper. However, as Folg and Thoggos tried to test the statue's attachment to its base, all four statues abruptly animated and the nearest swung heavily at Folg with its stony fists. First Thoggos, then the rest of the party fell back, and while Folg and Mazdak launched volleys of javelins and arrows at the statue nearest the o...
Dennis Higgins As you understand it, based on his appearance in battle, he is a MAN-EATING SPIRIT of considerable, but not boundless power, characterized by bottomless appetites, skill for illusion and deception, and a hateful temperament. It is difficult to determine a specific identity based on these parameters, but you are able to turn up a couple of variations of a children's story which has certain resonances with your experience.
ReplyDeleteThe basic gist of the tale is that "in a far-away land," a YOUNG PRIEST of royal blood agreed to help an older Priest bound to a tree for various transgressions in a past life. In exchange for this service, they concocted a scheme together where the OLD PRIEST breathed his spirit out of his body, and with it, possessed the DAUGHTER OF A KING. He then allowed the Young Priest to pretend to exorcise him from the princess's body, and in exchange, asked for the daughter's hand in marriage. But when the Old Priest took on a new body, in which he meant to do mischief, the Young Priest either tricked him into climbing up another tree to retrieve a thrown ball, or drove him into the tree with "a melody hateful to him."
Assuming these tales reflect a genuine encounter with the spirit in question, his name may be SUKHNUNA or JIDDIRO if any of tales preserve his name correctly.
Ventriloquism! Firebreathing! Folg son of Folg has had TWO WEEKS to improve his circus act.
ReplyDeleteFirebreathing coming along. Ventriloquism you can start w/ your next downtime now that the party is back in GUNN LATTH
ReplyDeletecole long How would someone go about summoning SUKHNUNA / JIDDIRO?
ReplyDeleteRobert Parker you don't know
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