r/legodnd • u/buildsandguilds • 6h ago
The Scaled Ones: Terrakin Sentinels.
THE SCALED ONES: TERRAKIN SENTINELS.
(Vengeance of the Earth series, pt. 3)
Picking up where we left off, we return to the Cult of the Scaled Ones! The mystery deepens, as the cult's members seem to each be expressing their newfound powers in unique ways...
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It was hopeless to fight them. The Scaled Ones came for outsiders who'd ventured into the city on a whim. Some of them fled, while others were yet captured. The pattern was simple, yet remarkably effective—their eyes and ears in the city would report what they saw and heard throughout the day, including any foreigners in the city, the Sentries would locate and engage the out-of-towners, and if they failed, they'd send in the Sentinels. While their stone terrakin brethren seemed to gain mysterious and heightened awareness from the cult's influence, the metal terrakin's combat prowess was enhanced. They were, faster, hardier, more difficult to hit—and far deadlier. Their abilities to summon weapons from their very flesh also ensured they'd never have a disadvantage offensively.
The Sentinels were much of why the Resistance played the long game. Tales and accounts of their ferocity and violence had reached their door, and left them certain that they did not have the means to deal with such an overwhelming force. So it would be information-gathering, then. A new group had come into town, likely to be hunted down by the Sentries. Though they seemed bedecked in magical items, they had also stirred up quite the ruckus in the city, and had brought the only horse the city had seen in ages. The party of outsiders had holed up in a boarded-up, abandoned manor above a wandmaker's store one night, when the Sentries finally found them. One after another they slew the Sentries, a more capable fighting force than the Scaled Ones were accustomed to. But, sure as they could be of their cause, the Sentinels descended into the home with bloodlust in their eyes.