Centrum Glacies 2021 Session 5: Niston and Xobis
Week five in 2021 of this Dungeons and Dragons Campaign in Centrum Glacies seems to be reaching the head as the plot twists drop. Niston and Xobis made their intentions known. When named characters start to die, you know the story has gotten real.
Like my other campaign, I’m turning this one into a book series. However I’m still working on that project. Give it some time.
Anyway, just like my other campaign, there is a whole lot going on and I don’t want to elaborate on every moving piece in the story. You can see the whole thing once the book series starts hitting virtual and real shelves.
!!!Trigger Warning!!!
This story deals with a cruel world with some horrific twists. So far, this campaign has featured: Animals getting killed, Genocide, lots of body horror, evil cults, brainwashing, torture.
Most recently one of the party members had an eye gouged out and lost an arm. Not exactly the way it happens in Berserk, but that might have been the inspiration for it. The group at large is currently succumbing to magical wounds that appear to be turning them into Demons.
!!!Final Trigger Warning!!!
The party including Faustus the Half Demon Warlock, Trent Westwood the Human Druid, Jyona Thornwreath the Half Elf Artificer and poor Malcolm the Dwarf Paladin who still doesn’t know how his simple assignment escalated to such an insane degree had no choice but to fight alongside a coven of Witches and their potent leaders.
But that only got worse when most of the deadliest people on the planet all appeared on the same battleground. The fields around the Imperial Capitol where the party happened to be. Knowing they were outmatched against 3 Mythril Adventurers and a 4th person who might as well have had that title, they weighed their options.
Persephine, one of the said Mythril Adventurers and technically their ally at that moment, told them to flee into the city and get to the Peacemaker’s base before more guards could intercept them. The party fled from the climatic battles underway and sought one more within their means.
Betrayal:
As they approached peacemaker temple, Xobis and Niston appeared. These two Gnomes had been hostile towards the party from their very first encounter. Yet Faustus had chosen to spare their lives. He even pointed that out when the two moved to block the alleyway that lead to the Peacemaker’s Temple.
The Gnomes revealed that they had been with the Peacemakers all along. Or rather, they were employed as mercenaries. But the revelations didn’t stop there. They were the reason that the Peacemakers continued to hound them on all their adventures. Furious by all these revelations, the party prepared to fight. All except Malcolm who had no idea who these two even were.
It didn’t matter, the brothers had an experiment they wanted to try. Since they had watched the party this entire time, they had noticed their transformations into Demons. This had peaked their interest. And somehow Niston and Xobis had found a way to turn the catalyst into a potion.
Drinking the fiery solutions, the Gnomes transformed into Demons willingly. Their bodies convulsed and the two screamed in pain as their concoctions took effect. But the mixtures worked. Where two Gnomes were replaced with massive four armed Demons.
The party fought them off ultimately killing them. But not without cost. The group used many resources just to fend them off. And this fight wasn’t one they had planned for. Niston and Xobis had been skilled alchemists and made use of powerful potions and spells that their Demon forms had afforded. The Peacemakers are still ahead and even in death, these deadly adversaries might have succeeded in bringing down the group.
Wrap Up:
After the two former Gnomes died, Peacemaker Monks appeared prepared to finish the group off. The party had little time to prepare for this second attack. They were still healing from the last battle.