1. Journals

Session 9: The Inhabitant

- The party makes tentative steps through the lower chambers of the tower.  No trace of dust or decay mars the surface of the upholstered furniture in the drawing room or the meeting room table and chairs.  All is dark and still, save for Paws’s search for silverware.  Neither falling snow or the cold night air seem to pass the open threshold.

- Black Helm Tower’s second level unfolds to the party after a cramped climb up the spiral staircase.  A scriptorium and a study stand empty and waiting, as though the Heralds of Faerun may return at any moment to resume their cataloguing.

- The library on the third level hosts a skeletal figure enthroned on a stone chair.  Harvey immediately fires a shot.  The entity awakens, but remains seated—fused to the chair.  The rest of the group comes racing up the stairs at threats reverberate through the tower’s masonry.  The inhabitant attempts to summon aid and leverage the chamber’s environment against the party through both exhausting cold and blazing fire.

- Ultimately, the efforts prove fruitless and the bound creature is defeated with a sound punch from Paws.  Black Helm Tower trembles as the eldritch light that limns the inhabitant’s eyeless sockets fades.  Early winter’s chill begins to seep into the library and dust again begins to collect on the meticulously preserved tomes as the jewels bedecking the throne-bound corpse glint in Harvey’s eyes.

By Kasiana

find infor on merkel and shadowfell. want to understand


kas is sad we didn't get to ask teh creature what it was protecting.


the tower is shockingly warm!


mess hall. seating for about 12-14 people.


feels like any moment, a staff member could walk in the door. the room feels like an active center of the order still. ready for guests.


harvey thinks people come back sometime soon. Vic says this place has been uninhabited for a long time.




Kas looks at the statue and where the ghost died one more time as she is walking through the door where everyone else has already entered.


this staue is a scholar of some sort. closisterd scholar. doesn't feel like a statue that was meant to guard or host the spirit that habited it. aedina was right when she said the eidelon was attracted here and corruipted or corrupted then attracted. The statue was really just a decoration.


the temperatue outside was very chilly and snowy. and now it's very warm. comfrotable.


the flurries of snow do not pass through the doorways with me. there is no draft of cold air that follows me in. throw some snow, it goes through but the snowing snow doesn't fall in.


Harvey notices undead presence within a mile. (NOT SHARED)


the staircase is NARROW. smaller stooped people?


curls upward. throwing would be awkward.


finely wrought iron silverware. utilarian 


about 20 complete sets of flatware. paws preps it for taking home.


stacks of paper. scriptorium. well of ink is dry.


everything is dustless.


book binding materials..


Kas would like to close the door while the group goes up. success. simple latch closure.


more windows than expected 


third floor. still contues. conventional library. stacks of books.


a central chandlelier in the middle 


not a resting area. find your bok and out


a figures seating motionless on a stone chair. slightly raised. skeletal.


kas is trailing a bit and doesn't see the skeleton yet.


vic yells to harvey


kas on bottom of stairs t 3rd floor. 


harvey shoot a fire arrow at the skeltel.


tarrtered and maroon robes. crest of some kind. gems, jewlers. maybe mumiffied


on the arms as it's seated in the chair. it's not seated. fused to teh stone chair itself. the fire from the arrow dies and the eye sockets in the skeletal figure light up in it's throne. 


the rasping of forced air through desiccated windpipes. the voice is felt in the stones throughout the tower. the voice speaks all around us in the walls. clearly. you seek to disturb my study? you come here bearing flame in my library. you threaten the preservation of this towers knowledge. I will not suffer that. 


fight.


this creature is fused to the stone chair.


searos summons fire spirit.


the creature grimly laughs. 


im hearing this all from below


fire here. better to light your way to....


legendary action.


the chandelier above us and the 4 wall scones burst with illumination.


more intense shade of blue. summons a wraith behind paws.


flanking!


 


kas talk to the walls. we do not wish to destroy this tower. we only wish to learn and help.


It's too late. we attacked first, he is angry.


"I need no help protecting whats mine." all the doors slam shut on all the floors.


more scones attack. when you burn me, i burn all.


standing too close too the creature causes necrotic damage.


searos tried to heal paws but if you are too close to the creature, you cannot regain hit points. a aura. (also because she is at max)


searos teleports paws with his pet. she immediately returns to punch.


deeper cold on paws. she saves but it still hits HARD. splinter of it's bone start to silver back into place. it sucked paws' life force.


the walls of the tower reacts to radiant damage. the walls tremble and the creature yells.


you'll freeze like the rest. TEMP DROP. all fire goes out.


one level of exhaustion paws and vic.


It's killing PAWS.


CURSE, WINGS RADIANT>


the tower shutters and dust begins to fall and gather once more and the doors open again. the cold around.


HEAL PAWS