Ruby Phoenix Tournament - Day 2 & 3

Shinjiro, Sawyer, Bella, and Nicki had just begun the Test of Three Towers against the Vudrani oracle, Ganyavesha. After using Greater Dispel Magic to eliminate many of the group’s more helpful spells, Ganyavesha hit them with a Mass Inflict Moderate Wounds. As they shuddered from the effects of the negative energy, the giant oracle leaped back down off her tower perch, and moved away from the towers.

Ruby Phoenix Tournament - Day 1 & 2

The party had won their first match of the Ruby Phoenix Tournament fairly easily, but they knew there were harder challenges to come. Since theirs had been the first match of the day, they settled in to watch the other matches and get a handle on their competition.

Welcome to the Ruby Phoenix Tournament

With Ameiko and Sandru held hostage by Prince Batsaikhar, the party had no choice but to agree to the Prince’s “invitation” to serve as his champions in The Ruby Phoenix Tournament, a competition held every 10 years between the finest martial teams from all over Golarion. They were paraded past cheering throngs (with armed soldiers standing by to ensure the enthusiasm of the cheers) to the Temple of Abadar. There the priests arranged them in the center of a teleportation circle, and began to chant …

A Prince of a Guy

Over six months since they set out on the Path of Aganhei, and more than nine months after leaving Magnimar, the party gazed out upon the fabled continent of Tian Xia. A vast expanse of steppes and grasslands stretched out before them, and as he led them down from the Wall of Heaven mountains, Ulf told them a little about the nation of Hongal that they were about to enter.

Katiyana's Ghost

Trying to find a way out of the Uqtaal Necropolis, the party had been ambushed by a pair of Yeti Savages as they made their way across the floor of a vast cavern that appeared to be some sort of throne room. The Yeti Savages put Ulf down before he even knew what hit him, and then another pair of Savages, accompanied by a half dozen other Yeti, began charging towards them from their hiding place in a deep chasm on the far end of the cavern. As if that wasn’t enough, the yeti chieftain, Bormurg, stepped right out of the stone wall behind Bella. It looked as if the party could be quickly overwhelmed.

A Fallen Friend

After defeating the Greater Shadow and its minion who guarded the tomb of the High Priestess, Spivey and Koya were anxious to re-sanctify the Tree of Life, once one of the holiest relics of the worship of Desna. Joined by Marie, the three clerics waded into the shallow pool surrounding the seemingly lifeless Tree. They joined hands around its slender trunk and in unison called forth the holy power of Desna. As the goddess’s power washed out of them, the violet radiance of the pool took on a darker hue, and the Tree’s branches began to thrash as if in a windstorm. With an anguished moan, a pair of Spectres emerged from the Tree!

The Shadow's Tomb

The party and their caravan had been traveling for days through the eternal night of the subterranean Path of Spirits, far below the Wall of Heaven mountains. Finally, they had reached the fabled Uqtaal Necropolis. This underground temple complex had once been consecrated to the worship of Desna, but sometime in the intervening centuries it had been desecrated by followers of the Tian god, Fumeiyoshi. At the entrance to the complex, two octagonal towers stood guard, and a party of Headless Wardens had emerged from them to challenge the party’s progress.