Fighting Cont’d.
Ivy gets a chill pulse through her body when she gets hit
Blackguard gets out it’s glaive. Uh oh. Hits Smig.
Dorbin throws an impressive acid potion at the enemy.
“Well this is getting interested” – enemy
Bearshana gets super attacked. Ivy saves the natural 20. Loses bear form. no more forms!
Jeth dominated the Blackguard. (ensorcelled)
Khashana gets a chill pulse through her body when she gets hit
“this is where we will have to part ways” and dimension doors away. Gerens, name of blackguard.
Valon and Nin are struggling to hold the creatures at bay. Safira is alarmed!
They run in yelling that we need to break down the ceiling, anything. There are 50 or so skeletons coming. We need to block the entrance.
The other blackguard continues to chase the blackguard from Jeth’s telepathic action.
Jeth tells the Blackguard to cut the rope above it.
Jeth attempts to trigger a cave in with shatter on the roof. (must cast on creature) 7th level shatter spell with heightened metamagic! Success!
The cavern is sealed!
Nin and Valon are covered in stone dust.
Smig looks over the edge and sees a skeletons everywhere in the chasm, frozen in place as they seem to have been climbing out of the chasm. Sorta frozen in place, statues like?
Smig casts light on a baton and tosses in into the chasm to see what can be see.
Falls 20-30 feet past where Smig can see. So 80=100 feet below.
Skeletons just all the way down. Lands on a stone floor at the bottom. Looks like a man-made area. purposeful paving.
Khashana makes a mushroom platform system along the chasm most of the way down with Plant Growth. Terrifying skeletal faces starting up at us as we go down the chasm.
We make it al the way down.
The chamber we land on is about 40ft diameter. lovely stonework.
Craved arch with signs of merkul. Two skeletal figures reaching towards the arch with some kind of offering. One hand a heart, the other a dagger. In Dwarvish, the beginning of some passage or script leading down. “The flow of life to death…”
Finely finished stonework leading down.
Smig wonders if there are any underground rivers. Asks Ivy. Ivy recalls a river somewhere underneath Mythril Hall. Nin jumps in and says that the river dried up many years ago.
Jeth wonders if this place predates the temple to dumathown?
Smig throws his ‘glow stick’ down the stairwell to see what we can see.
Second Platform: Continuation of passage. “.. will pass beyond the valley of dusk.”
Valley of dusk: lingering of the soul before it departs. Beyond passage in an unnatural way.
Smig continues to throw the glow stick/ Homunculus follows too.
the Dwarvish runes, “if the heart is willing….
….and the hand is steady….
….then life eternal…”
nothing else?? no final word?
Half circle symbol. Humanoid figure carved onto the table. another figure poised with dagger over the chest area of the other.
Blood sacrifice! (wonders Khashana)
We have walked into a crypt of sorts. Dwarvish crypt size with Dwarvish runes. Most of them do seem sealed. Doesn’t seem like no one has been here for a long time. It’s dusty, not clean, rubble…
Ivy gets comfortable in grave cleric mode.
The Dwarvish runes around say "cleric of Merkul.. etc..) (Sorry, Ivy)
Ivy refuses to clean up the place like normal now. Is berating the dead in hushed Dwarvish for there relationship to merkul. More imagery of of a figure with it’s hand in another’s chest.
Smig continues down the hallway
Gray Ooze surprise! explodes out of the stonework on the wall, spills out onto the floor and smacks Smig.
Surreal stone carving face. Ivy angrily taking notes on everything.
We all continue along the corridor. The same figure/face we saw earlier is back with more sunken features and unnatural looking face.
Ivy is wondering out loud if we ever learned the name of the corrupted cleric. Nin pips up and says it is Melyor.
Nin wants to know why she is asking. Ivy asks if they may be the statues and offers her notes of what we’ve seen to Nin.
Smig activates another slime in a new room.
Nin looks at the bust with Ivy and rubs away some smudge on it, Reveals the Dwarvish rune with the name ’Meylor" .
Next story part of the images/figures. The creature preceding over the offering, pulls out a heart out of the Dwarvish figure on the table with a cavity in it’s chest. There is a hand holding.. something?..
Jeth searches for traps but none.
The footprints lead to the left. There is another bust in the room.
Ivy Barreling through writing down everything and angry.
The new bust in the room is even more disfigured than before. Deepening socket of the eyes.
There seems to be crumpled pedestal which may have once carried something.
Another ooze!
Ivy is a bit hurt that dumathoin didn’t protect it’s cleric from this horrible corruption.
Ivy walks into a new room and sees that the two pedestals seemed to have once carried something. Another with a bowl with some strange dried out item.
Khashana follows Ivy as Ivy discerns that the bowl has a desiccated human heart.
The images show the figure that was on the table with it’s heart removed now standing up with sunken features as well.
As Jeth explores the previous room, another ooze slides out. Nin helps.
Jeth pulls out some tools and worked on finding out more information of the figure scene. The possible item in the heartless figure’s hand seems to be carved in the shape of a gem.
Smig continues to follow the footsteps. They lead to a large room. HIdden step. THe temperature drops extremely fast and smig takes 5 necrotic damage.
In the room with Smig, two coffins, and another pedestal with a screaming bust. The eyes now have two gleaming black gems. SHINY!
The runes says Melyor. right box says life, left box say death.
The footprints head into the chamber and the right.
Smig yells out about what’s in the chamber and the shiny gems. Khas does her her shiny….
Dorbin turns into a pink gaseous form.
Khas tells Safire to stay at the doorway and do NOT enter. shiny gems. heading there. 5 dmg.
PHIL:
As a very quick session recap, there were a few turns of initiative after Kim left before we ended:
At the start of Kashana’s turn, which did not take place yet, the coffin in front of her slid open and the two emaciated hands grasped the sides of the coffin.
A figure slowly raised it’s torso out of the coffin, with it’s cowled face emerging to reveal the same figure depicted in the busts and friezes strewn throughout the temple/crypt/party house.
At this same moment all the other coffins strewn throughout slowly slid open as skeletal remains begin to slowly wake from their slumber.
Smig also discovered that the footprints led to a chamber, and into some passage that had been collapsed after the footprints traveled through.
We’ll find out what happens during next week’s episode of “In Death, Life” (queue theme tune):musical_note: :skull:
Khashana wants to change away from grasping vine long rest.