The Termina Records

Fuck Turkeys: The Musical

This session starts with events that happened while none of the party from the first session were there for.

Linzu Vinmo and Purple Nerd arrive at the Termina Guild Headquarters. They meet Bahbahra and get their Guild IDs and are introduced to their party leader, Orgoz Bloodbeak, a seasoned Half-Orc adventurer. Orgoz tells Linzu and Purple that he was taking them to “The Vaults of Themberchaud”, and after which they would be set for the rest of their lives. As they were heading to the portal, Turkastor appeared in the main area of the Guild Headquarters and a general call to arms was given. Orgoz, Linzu, and Purple head off to fight Turkastor. Midway through the battle, SevFi comes through the portal and joins the battle (see end of Session 1 recap). 

After the battle, Bahbahra is furious and sends us all to talk to BasBo, the Guild Master. We head up to the third floor and enter very intricate metal doors heading into BasBo’s office. Once we enter the office, as we approach the desk, there is a glowing green orb on it. When standing at the desk, only the wall with the doors that we entered from are visible, the side area is just an unending darkness, and straight ahead you can see a mountain range off in the distance. This appears to be either a portal or pocket realm. We heard a rumbling and saw scales moving off in the distance of the mountains. Slowly, a giant head rose into our view right behind the desk. The face was very draconic and rocky and had golden eyes. This was BasBo, the Guild Master. He appears to be ancient, and no one really could tell exactly what he is. 

The guild master spoke to us through some form of telepathy, and wasn’t mad at us, but seemed disappointed. Quill, recognizing this, did not speak his responses out loud, but only thought them. When BasBo asked what happened, Quill explained that we were “helping”, because the beings we’ve met so far have said they were there against their will, and this was not acceptable to him. BasBo explained that they are all in contracts with Troupe de Termina, but Quill responded that a contract isn’t a contract if they are not willing. BasBo told us to “do better”, and sent us back on our way. 

As we head back down to the portal, Bahbahra stops us and gives us another scroll of recall, and thanks us for being responsible for a new feature of the guild scrolls of recall. When we all sign our names to this new one, the names are burnt into the paper and cannot be removed or changed. Quill goes to reach for the scroll, and Thaskagh snatches it and sticks it into his bag. 

The party heads through the portal again back to the Troupe de Termina Faire grounds, and when we enter, we can see that there is no line at the Mermaid Cove now. With a clearer view of more of the grounds, we can see the tent for the Mud Pit. We head there and just cut in line in front of some Huzzahmbies and enter the tent. The entrance to the tent had enchanted dirt flying around acting as a gate and curtains. Once inside, we saw a mud golem juggling balls of mud, a few workers walking around cleaning up, and a bunch of Huzzahmbies watching the show. We approached one of the workers to see if they knew anything of what was going on, and they said that they really never leave the tent, but were interested in any gossip about what was going on out in the rest of the grounds. We explained that people were going missing, and that we were from the Guild sent to answer a general call for help from “Small”, “Medium”, and “Large”. We also explained that we were unable to find them. The workers all gathered around and merged into the mud golem. The golem introduced itself to us as Errrtor. He talked very slowly and did not seem very intelligent, but was very friendly. When we asked if he knew where S/M/L were, he dissipated into the ground and returned a few moments later saying that he couldn’t find them. The conversation went in circles for a little bit, until eventually the workers came back out of him and went back about their duties. When we explained to one of the workers that Errrtor even couldn’t even find S/M/L, she reached inside of Errrtor and pulled out a small stone. She explained that this was “Peblet” and he could help us find them. 

Peblet was picked up by Iliana, and it rested on her shoulder. Peblet made little scratching sounds that Quill was able to partially understand as a dialect of primordial. Quill translated for Peblet, who was pointing at the door saying “Find friend”. We left the tent, and Peblet started to seem like it was frightened. Iliana talked to her familiar, a spirit rabbit named Esther, who was able to communicate better with Peblet. Peblet was very worried because he could not detect S/M/L. He rolled off Iliana’s shoulder and buried itself into the ground and disappeared. 

At this point, we started looking around to see if we could find any “Staff” doors nearby. We did manage to find one, but it had a lock on it. The lock seemed to be also imbued with some magical properties. Quill was able to somewhat discern the magic of the lock, so he was able to help Linzo pick the lock. Once unlocked, and the door opened, there was just a swirl of colors on the other side of the door. Mitsuku was the first to go through the door, while the rest of the party followed. Some of the party saw a coral encrusted door as they went through, except for Thaskagh, Quill, Iliana, and Linzo. Thaskagh ended up in front of a red door that was locked, and a voice said “You’re not supposed to be here” and blasted him back through the door he came through and ended up tumbling out into the Coral Gate area where the other party members ended up. Quill, Iliana, and Linzo ended up coming through another door that was on the other side of the faire grounds. 

When the part of the party that ended up through the Coral Gate gathered their wits and took in their surrounding, they realized they were back in the mermaid cove. They heard a song start from the “mermaids” and Thaskagh and Mitsuku became entranced and started walking towards the water. Garian and Belladonna were able to restrain them and snap them out of the trance. Purple attempts to intimidate the “mermaids” by electrifying the mage hand that carries him around, but it instead just alerts all of the “mermaids” of their presence. The song gets louder and more intense, and Purple, Belladonna and Mitsuku become entranced. Thaskagh and Garian are able to restrain them and snap them out of it.

While this was going on, Quill, Iliana, and Linzo notice a commotion at the Mermaid Cove, so they head that way. Once there, they enter the tent and Quill and Linzo immediately become entranced and start walking towards the water. Belladonna manages to restrain Quill. Iliana attempts to knock Linzo out of the trance with her quarterstaff, but instead just nails him across the head with it. Linzo wanders towards the water as no one helps him. Linzo gets to the edge of the water and jumps in. The water becomes a flurry of splashes and no one can see inside what is going on. Garian throws a javelin into the water hoping that Linzo is able to grab onto it. The javelin actually manages to hit one of the “mermaids” directly in the face. Mitsuku fires an arrow into the water, but manages to shoot Linzo in the leg. The pain snaps him out of the trance, and he manages to escape the grasp of the “mermaids” holding him, trying to drag him to the bottom of the pool. Garian and Thaskagh lower another javelin into the water and Linzo grabs it, and they pull him from the water. One of the “mermaids” also gets pulled out of the water and lands next to Linzo on the ground, it was the one that took a javelin to the face. 

At this point, the 6 remaining “mermaids” in the pool come to the surface and battle starts. Iliana jumps into the water and wild shapes into a Giant Octopus, and attacks the closest “mermaid”. Purple makes his way to the water and casts shocking grasp through his mage hand causing a surge of electricity to go through the water. This hits all the mermaids, but also Iliana. Linzo draws his dagger and stabs the “mermaid” that was on the ground next to him in the neck, killing it. Mitsuku ties a rope to an arrow and shoots one of the mermaids with it and starts trying to pull her to shore. Thaskagh, clearly done with all the misadventures that have happened so far, becomes enraged and runs to the edge of the water where one of the “mermaids” was at. He deftly slices the mermaid clear in half in a single hit. One of the “mermaids” siphons Mitsuku’s soul, causing her great pain. Iliana, now partially surrounded by three of the “mermaids”, makes a cleaving attack with her tentacles at them. She kills one of them and hurts the two others. Belladonna heals Mitsuku, while Garian helps Mitsuku pull the “mermaid” to shore. They do not manage to pull her out of the water, but it is right on the edge of the water now. Quill points at the “mermaid” and a bell tolls, causing the mermaid to scream in pain. Purple launches a volley of Magic Missiles at one of the “mermaids”. The ranger, now directly in front of the “mermaid” that was pulled to shore, attempts to stab it with her dagger, but was too excited and missed. Thaskagh continues in his rage to another one of the “mermaids” near the edge of the water and repeats his sushi technique, splitting another “mermaid” in half. One of the “mermaids” that was further out in the water casts Command on Quill, and gives the order “KILL”. After doing this, the “mermaid” dives underwater and starts swimming away trying to escape. Belladonna attempts to shoot a bolt of holy fire at one of the “mermaids”, but it fizzles out before making contact. Iliana dives after the “mermaid” that is escaping, grappling it within her tentacles. Garian launches one of his javelins at the “mermaid” that Iliana has restrained, and it goes straight through the “mermaids” neck, killing it. Quill, now no longer under the command spell, sees two more of the “mermaids” trying to dive to escape, and attempts to use mold earth to cause a large chunk of the roof of the cave to fall onto them. Part of the cave collapses, but does not land on them. Mitsuku fires another arrow into the water and gets a glancing blow on one of the escaping “mermaids”. One of the two remaining “mermaids” manages to swim into an underwater tunnel and escapes, while the other is close to doing the same. Iliana tries to catch up and restrain the last “mermaid”, but it manages to avoid her tentacles and escapes. As the two “mermaids” are swimming through the tunnel, Iliana hears one of them yell to the other “GET HER OUT OF HERE NOW”, and Iliana sees one of them swim directly upwards after going through the underwater tunnel.