Tonight's Godbound rpg session almost ended earlier then expected. The PC's discovered a major planar wreck or ruin along the edge of the Arizona border. And almost bought it during tonight's game as they were lured into the ruin by what they assumed was the cries of child inside the wreckage.
Spaceship Crash - Digital Matte Painting by Reeves123
The party very carefully went inside only to find a cache of gems, swords, armor, & bones. Before the party could leave a strange planive cry or cough came from outside. And the party's demi god warrior Thesazu The Mighty saw the horrid vista of a mated pair of Leucrottas of incredible size. And the whole place sound weirdly like a fun house of horror.
The party inside the craft found a crude shrine to Kostchtchie,Yeenoghu, a female aspect of Demogorgon! This messed with the players heads because this wasn't the usual Advanced Dungeons & Dragons aspect of the demon lord Demongorgon. This instead was a strange immortal from Mystara?! And that's when they saw the giant hyenas & their witch riders!
The party didn't even have time to get a spell off before two massive ice & lighning spells came bursting in on them! Then a brace of gnoll warriors were gated nearby each more scarred & battle hardened then the other. The gnolls & witches were chanting & chanting the name Kostchtchie, over & over again. The party has no wish to meet the demon lord of wraith.
The players were not amused by this turn of events at all. They had their backs against the wall here & only a word of travel got them out of the situation. They were able to gate out fifty miles from the situation deep into the Arizona desert. Kostchtchie has had it in for the player's PC's for a couple of years now.
This began back in 2019 when the players killed a Leucrotta in Nevada that had come through a back alley version of a night road that had opened up within a small town. The party had saved a young woman from the jaws of the monster that was eating through a car door. And then cursed the monster say 'Whomever this horror belongs to we will bring wraith & vengence down upon you!' Tonight the hammer almost came down on the party's collective heads.
Back in Dragon issue#91 in the 'Ecology of Leucrottas' by Ed Greenwood we learned that these beings have very close connections to both Yeenoghu & Kostchtchie.
Is there far more going on here then meets the eye. And why is a major demon lord or lords tracking a party of minor godbound across the planes?! The players are both scared & pissed! They've come across the work of this pack or coven of demon worshipers before in the wreckage of small towns across Nevada..
With whispers of The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth that they've heard rumors of before in their ears things are heating up again. All in all not a bad game when you've got the player's PC's on the run again.
