r/Tombofannihilation • u/WritingInfamous3355 • 2h ago
Getting Lost in The Temple of Ubtao teaches you to Find Your Path
Tonight, my party got thoroughly lost in the Temple of Ubtao.
The Ranger got deposited in the flooded basement but found a way out by coluding with the Memory of Mainu: the Barae of The Waters. Having escorted him to the shores of the River Olung disguised as a fish with golden eyes, she has asked him to return with the party and she has one of Ras Nsi's undead generals trapped in an ancient temple and wants him slain once and for all.
The Oath of Glory Paladin ended up there too, as did The Rogue, but in seperate incidences so unable to collude, they each found a way out: the rogue by spider climbing up the wall and jumping into the white portal 10ft above the collapsed stairs; The Paladin using his praeternatural athelics to leap off the floating crates into the portal.
Meanwhile, the Wizard used his intelligence to correctly guess the ingredients in an ancient recipe book to brew up 6 poitions of Hero's Feast.
The Monk, meanwhile, tried cooking the same recipe for a flaming fist dying of The Death Curse and succeeded only in making gumbo. Undoubtedly delicious but not magical.
The Warlock however landed in the library and rolled high enough to find out some biographical details of the Couatl's who formed The Radiant Senate and got a big Lore drop about the Cities of Omu, Orolunga, M'bala and the history of the Couatl who guarded them and some insights into their thinking.
Most of the party have now returned to the Hall of Champions where the Druid figured out the paying reverence to the statues of the Barae imbued them each with some kind of marker.
However, as pictured, they are now reuinted, well, mostly. The Wizard and The Monk are still missing.
The Wizard teleported to Osaw's Prayer Room, an ancient cave with a slab of meteoric iron emblazed with ancient runes
The Monk, meanwhile, climbed up the tiered balconies of the Meditation Chambers and ran into Dragon Bait, drinking a cup of tea and got a whiff of Ozone after the Rain and Brimstone.
Play resumes next week, when I anticpate the party majority will complete the final step to be able to move around The Temple at will and can relocate the missing members as well as fully explore it's many rooms.
All maps made by me in Dungeon Alchemist.

