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Despite its defeat in Mulmaster, the Cult of the Crushing Wave seeks to regain its strength and create another Devastation Orb to exact its revenge on the City of Danger. To do this, the cult is nurturing a budding elemental node of water beneath the ruins of Fort Dalton, southeast of Mulmaster.

The node is nearly complete and a follower of Olhydra performs dark rites in the abandoned town of Fort Dalton to protect what she sees as the beginning of the return of the Cult of Crushing Wave. The cultist—a female marel named Shelavassa, a Champion of Olhydra called Karsev the Drowner, and a small cadre of fanatical cultists work to cement their hold on the area and provide security for the fledgling water node.
Getting into the bathhouse should be a relatively simple endeavor. There Karsev is busy with his ritual, drowning prisoners and subjecting them to the cult’s magic.

Arriving at Fort Dalton, the characters are waylaid by cultists who leave a trail directly to a bathhouse. Searching the bathhouse, the characters find a warm spring that leads down into the earth. Following the spring they find a small set of chambers and eventually a chamber holding the young water node. Protecting the node and the elf prince prisoner are Shelavassa and her merrow servant. After defeating the cult the elemental node begins to breakdown and dissipate.

(co-DMed with Sean)

+121gp per adventurer
+1 potion of acid resistance
+1 spell scroll of invisibility
+1 cloak of protection

We didn't finish the module the first time, so we finished it up this session ! Characters unlocked both Story Awards, a single soul coin, and a bowl of commanding water elementals (no potion of invisibility).

We began the adventure, and I took things a little slowly. I bungled some of the map details regarding visibility. The party met Respen Shadowswimmer, reached Plagueshield Point, battled four Water Weirds, saved the drow escapee (Eskellika), then made their way up to Upper Plagueshield Point. There, they battled two barbed devils and two imps. Ljubmir the Bone Devil fled to the Geode before the characters saw it. The characters took a short rest in the Commander's Chamber. The characters then proceeded along the hallway and solved the mural puzzle (Bonus Objective A), gaining access to Respen's records room, where they battled four Helmed Horrors. They took another short rest, and made their way to the demonologist's tower, where they just barely survived the encounter with Chain Devil Viltharn and his four imp servants. They retreated to Respen's records room for a long rest, ending the first 2/3rds of the module.

+50gp per character
+1 level, +10 downtime

Goggles of Night ; Illuminator’s Tattoo ; Potion of Comprehend Languages ; Potion of Growth

Despite its defeat in Mulmaster, the Cult of the Crushing Wave seeks to regain its strength and create another Devastation Orb to exact its revenge on the City of Danger. To do this, the cult is nurturing a budding elemental node of water beneath the ruins of Fort Dalton, southeast of Mulmaster.

The node is nearly complete and a follower of Olhydra performs dark rites in the abandoned town of Fort Dalton to protect what she sees as the beginning of the return of the Cult of Crushing Wave. The cultist—a female marel named Shelavassa, a Champion of Olhydra called Karsev the Drowner, and a small cadre of fanatical cultists work to cement their hold on the area and provide security for the fledgling water node.
Getting into the bathhouse should be a relatively simple endeavor. There Karsev is busy with his ritual, drowning prisoners and subjecting them to the cult’s magic.

Arriving at Fort Dalton, the characters are waylaid by cultists who leave a trail directly to a bathhouse. Searching the bathhouse, the characters find a warm spring that leads down into the earth. Following the spring they find a small set of chambers and eventually a chamber holding the young water node. Protecting the node and the elf prince prisoner are Shelavassa and her merrow servant. After defeating the cult the elemental node begins to breakdown and dissipate.

(co-DMed with Sean)

+121gp per adventurer
+1 potion of acid resistance
+1 spell scroll of invisibility
+1 cloak of protection

We didn't finish the module the first time, so we finished it up this session ! Characters unlocked both Story Awards, a single soul coin, and a bowl of commanding water elementals (no potion of invisibility).

We began the adventure, and I took things a little slowly. I bungled some of the map details regarding visibility. The party met Respen Shadowswimmer, reached Plagueshield Point, battled four Water Weirds, saved the drow escapee (Eskellika), then made their way up to Upper Plagueshield Point. There, they battled two barbed devils and two imps. Ljubmir the Bone Devil fled to the Geode before the characters saw it. The characters took a short rest in the Commander's Chamber. The characters then proceeded along the hallway and solved the mural puzzle (Bonus Objective A), gaining access to Respen's records room, where they battled four Helmed Horrors. They took another short rest, and made their way to the demonologist's tower, where they just barely survived the encounter with Chain Devil Viltharn and his four imp servants. They retreated to Respen's records room for a long rest, ending the first 2/3rds of the module.

+50gp per character
+1 level, +10 downtime

Goggles of Night ; Illuminator’s Tattoo ; Potion of Comprehend Languages ; Potion of Growth