Makoa and Quintella continue exploring Rachikan by themselves, finding a variety of... remains, in Episode 075: Necromancer grabby hands.
They find a variety of carved stone spheres with landscape images, and the slagged remains of Hellknights who picked a fight with something. They discover some of the horrible fates of some of the inhabitants, now persisting as deadly haunts.
The haunts were slightly disappointing, as the players either forgot about them or decided it wasn't something they wanted to pursue. Considering their own undead state and Makoa's zeal to put undead to rest, I hoped to get some more mileage out of them trying to work out how to handle the haunts. I cannot remember exactly what was going on with the haunts, but their fates would have revealed historical information about the fall of Rachikan: the fiend-infused golems and so on breaking free of their control and turning their powers on the citizenry.
Much of this was clues about the dangers of the fiend-golems still prowling the ruins centuries later. In my head these are essentially daemon engines from Warhammer lore: huge, hulking things whose metal twists into flesh as the power of the daemon within claims it, dripping with balefire and sprouting new spikes and skulls occasionally. Since Rachikan is so under-described, I didn't feel up to letting them explore the entire city, but that's fine; I had a plan for that.
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- Episode 001: Character Generation
- Master list of episodes
- Episode 007: Screaming blue murder from his waist (start of Castaways)
- Episode 023: Everyone knows that mummy octopi are not scared of cooking (start of Nautical Shenanigans)
- Episode 027: The crumpling noise you can hear was Book 2 (start of Nameless Ancients)
- Episode 049: Mint Ice Cream (start of Trouble in Cheliax)
- Episode 067: Or we'll come and eat you and your children (start of Road to Rachikan)
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