Recap

This week at Alakazam Comics in Irvine, CA, the Game Show continues to battle in search of shards to prevent a mind flayer ritual that will bring back more mind flayers. We fight a yoked mind flayer, relax with Voalsh, kill more nothics, and battle an elder brain. All this plus milk shots, pizza, and brownies.

Characters

Christopher – Half-orc barbarian
David – Renrag – Earth genasi soulknife rouge
Glenn – Tiefling Warlock
Henry – Elf scum
Lance – Schwarm Elf Wizard of some sort

Summary

Rifts in Reality

While hunting obelisk fragments in the previous chapter, the characters learned of the fanatics’ headquarters: a mind flayer enclave called Illithinoch deep in the Underdark below Phandalin. In this chapter, the characters learn more about the fanatics and rescue the kidnap victims from Phandalin. However, doing so—as well as stopping the ritual that threatens to turn Phandalin’s townspeople into mind flayers—will be far more harrowing than the characters realize.

Shadow over Phandalin

The mind flayer fanatics haven’t begun their ritual in earnest, but ripples of Far Realm energy have infected some residents of Phandalin. Those who spent significant time around the obelisk shards absorbed some latent Netherese magic and are suffering strange maladies. Three of these people—Sister Garaele, Ander, and Halia Thornton—have become angry, violent, and very much not themselves. A fourth, the tiefling Wheel-of-Fortune, is on the verge of a similar transformation.