Session 115

Heroes (lvl 15): Deet, Horgin, Rhys, Nura, Hassan, Ryel

676 MR - Summer

The Heroes enter the Necropolitan Frontier, where the desert abruptly gives way to a borderland that refuses to decay. Bones lie exposed but unrotted, bleached clean yet unnervingly intact. Dust storms rise and collapse in silence. The land feels held in suspension, waiting for a command that never comes. As the Heroes advance, skeletal guardians shamble from half-buried ruins, animated not by life but by a cold, ritual stillness. They cut through the patrols and press deeper toward the Magian’s domain.

They soon reach the Ossuary-River, a wide channel of drifting bone fragments flowing like water, carried by magic rather than current. To cross, the Heroes must navigate shifting barges of fused ribs and shattered skulls while skeletal remnants rise from the churning mass to pull them under. The crossing becomes a brutal struggle against the dead and the river itself, but the Heroes force their way through and climb the far bank as the bone-tide roars behind them.

Beyond the river lies the Failed Ascension Pit—an enormous crater surrounded by broken pillars carved with failed incantations. In its center stands a ritual cage, the remnants of an abandoned attempt at immortality. The Magian’s lesser experiments, twisted undead that never achieved form or will, crawl from the walls and attack with desperate hunger. The Heroes fight through the malformed horrors, finally silencing the last of the failed creations.

With the pit cleared, the path to the Magian’s true sanctum opens beneath a cracked slab of obsidian. The Heroes descend into darkness, leaving the Necropolitan Frontier behind as they prepare to confront the architect of this frozen, deathless land.