Session 30

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Title: Consumed by the Horror

Date: 12/30/2024

Locations: Bridgemoore, The Maw

Characters: Montez

Groups: Coven of the Maw

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Session Summary

• Montez has a large collection of pebbles 
• Favorite rock found on the shores of Carcosa, by one of Breeze’s Towers
• We once again leave for The Maw, now with Montez - we have two options:
  • Route one - hug edge of The Maw - adds a week to travel
  • Route two - through The Maw - far more dangerous, especially in the center - six days
• Montez’s rock seem to align itself to the route we are traveling
• First night we see little, but maybe hear the slight sound of vultures
• Montez’s perception of Pillar Town: Little rough, doesn’t associate with gangs
• Montez iss from Shai
• We progress through The Maw, and encounter a massive quantity of malformed/mutated vultures
  • Some land on the boat, but none are looking to attack us
  • The water here seems to be supernaturally still
  • Two vultures transform into women (conventionally attractive) wearing robes, members of The Coven of the Maw
  • The Coven of the Maw look to bargain, there is someone tainting the maw (necromancer) - atop corpse-stone mountain in the center of The Maw
    • Deal: Kill the Lich (Da Lo Lensky), and the coven will share knowledge. If we fail/disagree expect combat
  • They then disperse into The Maw, shocking Montez
  • Hags feed off of despair
• As we travel forward it gets darker and darker, and night approaches
• The next day we see Corpsestone Mountain appear from the fog, jungle environment, the mountain almost appearing organic - this area may be related to the The Age of Apostesy
• No animals are present on the mountain
• The mountain looks almost unscalable - how do we get up?
• A grotto is found in the side of the mountain, inside we see the ruins of a stone village - which does not resemble at all in the time-stopped village - it is warm and humid here. It almost feels like a mouth.
• Etron’s Necklace shakes slightly, Molescere/the dark passenger seems amused
• We venture further, the grotto seems slicker and softer, and more villages and cities are present
• The party is being assuaged by fears 
• We venture even further and the stone of the cave turns to flesh
• We are in the maw of an eldritch being
• Etron asks Molescere what this is “A discarded tool” and responds no further
• Further in the esophagus it opens into a larger area, where some land is present
• The mounds seem be mostly dirt and worn down stone
• Random detritus has washed up to the mound
• The water is starting to corrode our boat, is the water becoming bile?
• At the near end of the path, a rib has punctured into the intestine, we can park our boat here, but not completely out of the bile
• A switchback up the rib as it spirals up body, and we make our way up a switchback carved into its spine
• We see an open fleshy valve inviting us as a doorway
• Inside we see a thin fleshy tower and begin a fight

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