Recap
After resolving the previous underwater fight and returning to town coordination, the party pushed into Sahni’s lair route, identified conflicting deity signals at the site, and advanced deeper while avoiding some threats and engaging others.
Major Events
- Finished the underwater battle sequence and recovered the keystone objective.
- Returned to Stana with a potion intended to help Blavket.
- Asked Stana to locate blueprints to Sahni Bride-of-the-Sea‘s lair.
- Monty helped forge the original letter from Iron Taviah, adding “Lixl” alongside “Sallow Shore” and “Sandhi of the Sea.”
- Heard additional rumors about Geb returning and paying closer attention to governance and blood-lord interference.
- Stana found basic blueprints to Sahni’s lair.
- The party was confronted by angry townsfolk warning that investigating Sahni would be bad for the town.
- The group read the confrontation as fear of backlash rather than explicit pro-Sahni support.
- The party descended to Sahni’s lair and moved stealthily along the side.
- Found a statue resembling Dagon (“The Shadow in the Sea”), then came under crocodile attack.
- Noted tension between Dagon imagery and the understanding that Sahni’s lair is a sunken shrine to Urgathoa.
- Observed a giant fairy leaning on the Dagon statue near a door and questioned whether it was guarding the entrance.
- Entered the temple instead of confronting the fairy.
- Found a guarded shrine to Urgathoa inside; interacted with frankenstein-bird chimeras guarding it, then snuck past.
- In the next room, encountered additional crocodiles and drew shrine guards into the same fight.
NPCs and Factions Mentioned
- Hunsl - Civilian-group leader during confrontation over anti-Sahni investigation pressure.
- Stana - Received return support items and provided blueprint assistance.
- Blavket - Target of potion support.
- Sahni Bride-of-the-Sea - Central target of lair infiltration and political pressure.
- Dagon - Deity imagery present at lair approach via “Shadow in the Sea” statue.
- Urgathoa - Deity associated with the identified sunken shrine context of Sahni’s lair.
Important Context
- The party combined civic pressure, deception/document tactics, and direct infiltration in the same operational window.
- Site symbolism now appears mixed or layered (Dagon statue context at approach vs Urgathoa shrine context inside).
- Local civilian fear continues to function as active resistance pressure around anti-Sahni operations.
Unresolved Threads
- Determine whether the giant fairy is a passive occupant, gatekeeper, or active defender tied to the lair.
- Clarify why Dagon-linked iconography appears at a location identified as an Urgathoa shrine.
- Confirm who informed townsfolk and whether backlash is coordinated by Sahni or independent local fear.
- Resolve the multi-wave interior combat with crocodiles and shrine guards.