Halls of the Mountain King was the second 4th Edition Open Design project from Kobold Press. I ran the adventure in 2010 as part of the same Parsantium campaign as Wrath of the River King. Here’s the write up from the 25th session.
Begin here with Session 1 – Alarm in the Dead of Night.
25th Quintilis (contd.)
As the characters battle Ghrysigor the two-boar-headed diabolic gatekeeper and his kobold sorcerer sidekicks, steam whistles can be heard going off further inside the complex. The alarm has been raised, bringing four Golden Guard templars to reinforce the Mammonites. Bolval’s spiritual weapon continues to pummel the devil, the devil pummels, then dominates Krivinn, and Khuma rages, turning into his new badass polar bear-headed form and charging the gatekeeper.
Once Ghrysigor has been slain, the guards set off flame jet blasters as the paladin bears down on them. The tide has turned by now, however, and only one guardsman escapes with his life. The characters have only time for a short rest though – something big is heading their way….
Heading out into the main corridor, the party sees a well-drilled platoon of dwarven shieldbearers in gold armour advancing from the left, while the deranged form of Bragollach the corrupted gold dragon appears from the right, clad in golden armour bristling with spikes and blades and marked with infernal runes. Krivinn tries to reason with her, and manages to remove some of the corrupting armour but Bragollach breathes molten gold on him over and over again, exposing the dragonborn to gold fever.
It doesn’t take long for the characters realise they are not going to get through to the former Vianna. Khuma uses spirit of the healing flood to wipe out most of the annoying dwarves, and Bolval takes out Bragollach, using lance of faith to knock her unconscious. The characters dispatch the last two dwarves and then strip the golden armour from the dragon, waiting for her to come round.
Bragollach comes to her senses and tells the characters that the cult of Mammon is building a big idol out of corrupted gold in the Prime Forge; there are many devils as well as humans, tieflings, imps and even a female vampire among the cultists. The characters go back up the water-rise with the dragon to rest.
Khuma dozes off while on watch. When he wakes up, the dragon has gone.
26th Quintilis
Krivinn recovers from gold fever.
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