SO I've been playing for the better par of 20 years and this was one of the best sessions I've ever had.
There are (change that to were) 6 PC's and they are currently just finishing the Kopru ruins... litterally just finishing. They had cleared out the whole complex except for the zombie ogres and the spawn of Kyuss.
When the last session ended They had caught Treil and killed skaven and just destroyed the Gnoll creature (but the quaist was still undetected).
They were really beat up after the T-rex and the Gnoll so they decided to retreat to one of the bunk rooms. The Quasit decided to slip in with the party while invisible and cause some mischief by stealing a sleeping PC's backpack. Not a big deal but kind of funny to listen to the blind fighter (he got blinded by the glyph trap) and the monk explain how the backpack just disappeared (they were thinking ghost or the like).
Anyway, One them cast locate object on the final wand and they started following the Quasit (who was invisible nearby and heard them talking about casting locate object to find the wand). Of course being mischievious it led them right to the orges. A battle ensued and the PC's were getting hammered. The druid is killed in combat and the quasit decides to have some more fun and starts invisibly stealing random stuff off the body while the orges are still busy thumping the party. The rouge spots the quasit's lifting the items and decided to use the cloak of aracnid to cast web to catch the quasit and caught up the whole melee in the strands (comedy), They finally kill the orges but are really really beat up. After about 20 minutes of roleplay - cutting through webs and shooting at the invisible quasit they finally kill it too.
They are beat up and have one prisoner (triel) and a dead druid who due to some really poor decisions with alchemist fire and the web spell is dead and burnt worse that an Irish Grandma's cooking... so like all great party's they decide to pack it up and go - except the monk who went just far enough down the hall to see the Sarcofagus in the Spawn of Kyuss room. He sees the coffin and says "hey guys here's the loot" They walk in (not seeing the hiding spawn) and between the suprise and the fear aura total whackiness ensues (benny hill theme playing in the background). So half the party runs due to the fear and the other half stays to fight. The spawn hits the bard and infects him. After a short melee where the fighter did some serious whooping the spaw are no more. They slap each other on the backs congratulating each other (note Bard is infected).
The bard goes to open the chest and wouldn't you know it - posion. since it has a 0 initial damage I said well you really don't feel anything so he assumes he made his save. He opens the chest and gets all wide eyed seeing all the coin - then promptly dies a minute later due to the 14 points of secondary con damage (think of the posion scene in Princess Bride).
So the party is now carrying out triel and the bard; the druid but was so burnt to a crisp they didn't feel he could be raised). They make it to the basket bridge and are halfway across when the gift of Kyuss activates in the dead bard (I did make the transformation minutes instead of rounds because I thought rounds were too short of a transform time).
So now they are stuck in the basket with the bard / spawn when he re-animates a la army of darkness (eyes flick open and kind of giggles to himself before attacking). The rogue again fails his will save and has to make a DC 5 save or be so terified he jumps out of the basket (thankfully he made the save so he just cowers and cries). So here they are all swinging around in this basket fighting, the rogue is crying in terror, the cleric is running the pulley system wondering why the hell everyone is screaming - totally one of the best moments I've experienced.
Question - they are 6th level now and the bard really likes his character so they want to raise him. Is there anybody in Cauldron that can do it? If not I'll make them travel to Sarssrine.
