Quartz 4

Pyramid of Peril

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Date: 2026-04-25

Session Draft: Session 06

Previous Session: Delving Gurpo’s Domain

Next Session:Awakening the Arcane Network

Location(s): Brittany, Ziggurat of Gurpo, Wildlands

Characters: Jorgrim, Bingus Bongus, Luc

Main Quest: Retrieve Dark Seal to the West

Side Quests:

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Last Session Recap

Delving Gurpo’s Domain

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Summary

Pyramid of Peril

  • The Party crosses a chasm by solving the chess puzzle
  • A series of mirrored chambers are solved to retrieve a few magic items
  • The Party battles an arachnid construct and Bingus Bongus is paralysed repeatedly
  • Gurpo’s living quarters are explored, and many Key Items found
  • The Dark Seal is retrieved from the trapped room, before a rupture in the Weave
  • The Party finds the Ziggurat of Gurpo teleported into the Wildlands

Full Session Notes

  • Passing through the door in the rest room, The Party encounters a 50ft chasm
  • The other ledge has the exit door and an opaque portal, corresponding to 8 on this side
  • The chasm is completely blocked by a ‘Wall of Force’
  • The Party randomly chooses the 7th portal, and is teleported onto a chessboard, in the position of the white knight
  • Solving the puzzle by only moving in the way a knight can, and capturing the black king, The Party goes through the portal behind the black pieces and emerges on the other ledge
  • Passing through the door the party enters a 15x15ft room with a mirror on one wall
  • Jorgrim solves the puzzle by moving the painting to where it is visible in the mirror, revealing a door in the mirror room. The Party also grabs a magical bottle sitting on the shelf
  • The next room is similar, except walking into the mirror feels like touching your reflections body
  • Bingus Bongus discovers the bricks making up the Ziggurat block all forms of teleportation
  • Luc solves the puzzle by inviting his reflection to step through, to which it insists he goes first
  • Before leaving the room, The Party loots gold and gems, and a magic bag
  • The next room has two hallways, each with one of the comedy and tragedy masks
  • The Party proceeds through the comedy hallway and comes upon a large banquet hall with various furniture strewn through it, and a magical wand at the head of the table
  • Bingus Bongus spots a large shape hiding in the shadows of the arched ceiling
  • As Jorgrim picks up the wand, the creature is alerted and drops from the roof, revealing itself to be a large four-legged spider-like mechanical construct
  • Jorgrim casts ‘Lesser Restoration’ on Bingus Bongus as he is struck by a paralysing beam
  • Luc wields Orthalus and continually blasts the construct with high-level ‘Lightning Bolts’
  • Bingus Bongus again eats a paralysing beam, and this time Jorgrim has no more spell slots
  • Jorgrim interposes himself between Bingus Bongus and the construct, and blasts it back with his heavy crossbow while Zethios carries Bingus Bongus away to safety
  • Luc fries the construct with a barrage of high-level ‘Witch Bolts’ and The Party loots the area
  • Exploring the area, The Party finds an expansive living area, suitable for a headquarters
  • Throughout all of these rooms, The Party finds a huge array of magic items
  • Returning to the tragedy hallway, a large chamber is found housing the Dark Seal on a plinth
  • Bingus Bongus sends his steed to break through the huge arrays of magic trap sigils
  • Bingus Bongus takes the final steps to grab the Dark Seal and in doing so trigger a Sigil of Death, taking massive amounts of necrotic damage, only surviving from his ‘Lay on Hands’
  • As The Party leaves the looted Ziggurat, Luc senses a massive shift throughout the magical Weave of reality
  • Outside the entrance, The Party finds the Ziggurat of Gurpo has been teleported to a completely new place, identified by Bingus Bongus as the Wildlands of South-East Eoris
  • The Party feels a massive magical earthquake throughout the magical disruption, and sees a huge avalanche to the far West, where Jorgrim believe another Ziggurat may be located
  • Luc uses the Crystal Orb of Scrying to view some known major characters, to find none were involved with the massive magical burst, and teleporting Ziggurat
    • Iskander is in the Central Blight with his Ratmen and Siege Cannon
      • Still moving five days after his battle with The Party during Siege of Besanlon
      • His failed teleportation was most likely between Metz and Bayeux
      • ‘Detect Thoughts’ tells he is not related to the Magic Burst
      • Annoyed he failed the attack at Besanlon, and his next attacks will be better
      • Planning to expand his power and that of The Horned Rat
      • He is worried about the reactions of the Aridonian successor states
    • Scrying Godfrey fails, indicating he is either in another plane or a Ziggurat
    • Gurpo was walking towards a large city on the coast; Constanbul
      • Turns around to cancel the scrying spell, and in doing so reveals her likeness
    • Gunther Schnell is shown in Chamrousse, planning to supplying the Vermandois army

Key Items

Currency

  • 25,500gp

Gained

  • 100gp mixed gems
  • Wand of Wonder (legacy)
  • Goggles of Night
  • Folding Boat (legacy)
  • Sym’s Renovator
  • Armor of Invulnerability (legacy)
  • Magnificent Golden Spirit Pagoda Deed
  • Ampliphyer Musique De Crescendo
  • Crystal Ball of Mind Reading
  • Strange Pocket-Watch
  • Arcane Bomb
  • Gurpo’s Hat
  • Gurpo’s Bottle
  • Bag of Devouring
  • Dark Seal

Lost

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