Battle Of The Tarrasque

The Book Finally Read
2,000 XP

When Absinthe finally recovers enough for her to recount to the others her harrowing experience of reading the vile book that has been fought over for so long, she tells the group of what she's learned.

The book it would seem, is The Book Of The Tarrasuqe, obviously enough. She says that it is a demonic book which tells of rituals that can be performed to summon the World Ender, the tarrasque from the Chaotic Plane to this plane. The book also tells of how to stop the demons from completing the ritual.

This is why the various devils have been trying to acquire the book. Some devils even tried to tell the group that they are working towards the same end. That was, preventing the summoning of the tarrasque to this plane.

Sadly, the the group was able to defeat the devils trying to get the book and as such have failed to stop the summoning of the tarrasque.

The group sits on the deck of Araxie's ship, the cool night air around them and the stars bright in the sky. One of them notices a bright spot in the sky. Soon enough everyone is looking skyward as the bright spot turns into a bright streak. Soon the night sky is lit as in dawn with the bright spot travelling across the sky like a meteor. They watch as it crashes beyond the mountains with a large flare.

Following the Falling Star

Araxie heads her ship in pursuit and the next day they soon are able to follow the massive trench created by the falling star. They follow it until they arrive at a huge crater a mile across near a small poor farming town. In the center, there is a rock-like sphere 60 feet across.

The object still glows from the heat it still retains.

As they watch the object, Araxie positions her ship nearby but only within cannon range.

Soon, the object begins to crack and open. As the sphere opens up, it unfolds to expose a massive creature. The Tarrasque.

The battle is fought long and hard but ultimately, the group concedes that perhaps they need either a different strategy or simply more soldiers. The tarrasque seems to reflect battle spells and is able to regenerate the damage done by the group more quickly than they can inflict it.

They return to Baldur's Gate to gather more experienced members in order to defeat this creature. If left to rampage it would certainly eventually destroy the entire world they live in.

The Battle Of The Tarrasque

The Order is able to assemble fifteen of the greatest heroes from around the immediate vicinity of Baldur's Gate.

Maddox, H, Absinthe
Araxie (and her crew aboard the Flying Dragon), Catya, Bertha
Vall, Smallfang, Guy
Deshanie, Criella, Thorin (the ugliest dwarf you've ever seen)
Ely Miss (a rare member of the mousefolk), Cortella and Liam.

Order....Assemble!

Ely Miss uses her arcane skills to clone herself in order to aid the battle.
The tarrasque charges often. Surging forward at great speed and tramples Maddox and Criella.
Absinthe is able to grab Maddox and teleport up to Araxie's ship in order to help him.

But the ship is no haven from the tarrasque. It looks to have been previously held with arcanic shackles which is must have broken, for the shackles, along with some remnants of chain, dangle from it's massive feet. It has learned to use them to throw lightning attacks, which is does to great damage to The Flying Dragon.

The lightning attack kills many on board including the cleric, Amelia Dustglacier. She was in charge of maintaining the air elemental which powers the ship. The air elemental which is housed in a large clear crystal in the ship's hold. This crystal has now been badly cracked. The air elemental escapes and attacks...angry that it has been tortured and used to power a device of humanoid making.

The airship begins to list badly. Crew scramble to hold on.

They are able to battle the air elemental back into the crystal and Cortella is able mend the crystal enough to keep the air elemental at bay and Araxie is able to right the ship.

The tarrasque is finally brought down thanks to a combination of magical preventing the tarrasque from regenerating the damage done to it as well as just massively damaging the creature from all involved, including the massive destructive power of Araxie's cannons, forged by H. This has to happen a couple of times as they realize that even if the creature is killed, given enough time it will come back to attack.

They dig through the tarrasque looking for an organ responsible for it's regenerative abilities. Soon they arrive near the brain and as they cut out what looks to be a pituitary gland, the beast now longer seems to regain consciousness. It is finally subdued.

DM Note: Scew XP.....LEVEL UP!

The Aftermath

The townsfolk from nearby eventually approach the group and all find that the tarrasque, with it's regenerative properties still intact, but unable to regain consciousness, they can now harvest in infinite amount of food and resources from the creature. Magic reflecting scales, bones and meat are mined off of the creature and the town's industry is renewed with vigor.

This worries the Order and H volunteers to stay behind to keep law and order. 

Hopefully, he is enough.

DM Note: Sorry guys, didn't know the tarrasque battle was going to take two full nights.

DM Note: To my D&D group....sorry about the delay in getting the notes down....lack of internet sucks!