Ch 4, Part 3: Clan of the Sun

Belly of the Beast

The heroes embark upon the mission to face the fabled Cindermaw, so that they may recreate the legend of Skurak the Reborn. There journey is mostly uneventful only slightly inconvenienced by a landmark known as Sasserines Tears, great shards of rock and glass that is frequently propelled into the air by deep volcanic activity.

Sparrowhawk does an admirable job navigating the tears, only running afoul of them once.

Soon they are in the feeding grounds of Cindermaw where they set about attracting the creature (which they correctly deduce is some sort of giant worm). They perch themselves upon a great rock protruding from the desert and wait for Cindermaw’s arrivals.

And eventually he does arrive, but is slow to attack circling the heroes for over an hour before finally attacking. A furious fight follows and where Cindermaw weathers a brutal assault. Watson allows himself to be swallowed whole and quickly cuts himself out.

The heroes, spurned into a frenzy  from the smell of blood  and continue to attack. Some manage to contain their blood lust long enough to question the slaying of beast that the Shoanti consider a diety, but Hellious presses his attack, shooting and mortally wounding the great beast. Asyra the demon woman is only too happy to help finish the beast off.

With beast slain, Akram is aghast, what he thought was not possible had come to be and Cindermaw was no more.

The Clan of the Sun

The heroes plunder and desecrate the great worm before setting out for the Flameford, home of the Sun Clan.

A few days later they arrive at Flameford where they are met by the Sun Clan Outriders, with the help of Akram they are able to gain an audience with the clan chief and elder.

The meeting is quickly held where Akram, the truthspeaker relays his account, however things do not go as anticipated. When they learn that Cindermaw was slain, their great feat of being rebirthed as Shaonti from the belly of Cindermaw is undermined. The heroes had shown cindermaw to be a mortal beast and therefore nothing to be revered.

The Chief and Shaman are enraged that the heroes had shown Legend of Skurak to be a sham attack and a quick and bloody fight follows. Surrounded and unprepared for battle, the heroes are quickly overwhelmed, though they had not survived the ordeals of Korvosa on pure luck. They able extract themselves from their predicament, fleeing by wing and magic.

Only the body of Slyvania is left behind while Count Sol and Asyra likewise flee by magic.

Encounter	Grit	Helious	Mandraiv	Sparrowhawk	Sol	Watson
Pre-session	81,891	76,741	85,741	76,591	80,691	77,241
Level	9	9	9	9	9	9
Tea maker correction	-450		450
Cindercones	265	265	265	265	265	265
Cindermaw	6400	6400	6400	6400	6400	6400
Barbarians	1600	1600	1600	1600	1600	1600
Chief Tea Maker	900
Total	90,606	85,006	94,456	84,856	88,956	85,506