3. The Cards Never Lie

Long rest - Empat 5, 169 YCS

2nd floor, at Kazavan’s door

hag gave info

doors more ornate, filigree 

Kazavan

semi-ghost

ghost dragon

speak with Zelara

ask 1 question every 24 hours (contact other plane)

Go find phylactery

Jewelled vase

Azrufa (and others) want to keep the phylactery

Talox refuses to re-engage the Demi-lich

7 bottles of wine, 1500 gp each

Chain devils 2

fiend Horseman chained

Empat 4, 169 YCS

dragon hoard

• 7030 gp
• 18000 sp
• 40,000 cp
• 5800 gp in gems
• magic item???

caretaker’s quarters

into keep, bronze double doors

red tile marble, altar and pool

water elemental

glyph

Cells, acolytes Dark Shrine of Midnight

skeletons laying in bed, daggers to the chest self

mess hall/living room/common room

Mold zombies

stairs down

porter station, gore

writhing shadows, prelate room

altar skull chains

100 gp

opulent furniture

prelate’s suite

murky glass jars, larder

Humanoid remains

main altar doors, wood ornately carved

Night hag Malatrophe (B18)

Castro Thane (knight red war)

Belshalam (shadow drake)

Nihil (tower) fiend

Zev Revenka (chapel)

Where to find them all, directions

deals with buying and selling of souls, harvesting

Kazavan

souls drawn into castle from town?

boss 2 "killing breath": shadow drake Belshalam

kennel

long rest

Empat 4, 169 YCS

Exit keep

4 potion of healing (paid for from party treasure) [Sev, Zeer, Azurfa, Talox] 

spend 200 gp

long rest (Empat 3, 169)

return to castle courtyard

kill knight "red war", 8 skeletal warriors

Samahain looks in a well, sets off combat with plant creature

DM dares us to look at the broken cart in the corner

Larder

human bone, cannibal

porter’s hall

arrow slits

7 minotaur skeletons, in uniform

Courtyard

mounted knight and soldiers, guarding stairs and double doors

Re-enter the keep (room B7)

hallway 3 doors, breathing at far door

first door:

broken bunk, weapon and armor stand

golden necklace with locket, with cameo (150 gp)

”remember me and come home safe my Lashton”

picture of human woman

second door:

bunk, desk, moldy foot locker

intact potion (magic abjuration), rotten leather sack

33 pp, 39 gp, silver ring, jade scarab 250 gp

third door:

creature

double bunks, tattered and mouldy

”Lord Kazavan I won’t fail you this time.” (Skull lord?)

killed by Zeer

Half plate [Sev]

long room:

skeleton remains whole, northeast corner, plate armor

fanatic

dark sword Blade of Betrayal

plate armor (taken by Talox, modified)

Laori (from song?)

Zigzag room:

red mist with teeth

no residue

Anton’s mother banging on door, dusk

Anton in the keep for an hour, getting dark when going into the keep Castle Scarwall

gather everyone and meet at the keep

fear, foreboding, hatred

corpse thing

followed footsteps

Find Anton, escort him back out

spectral hands reaching out for the Zellara's Harrow Deck

Harrow deck

spectral lady Zellara appears beside the deck in Samahain abode

asks for party to come

Betrayal, selfishness 

Empty Throne, loss, gone but present

Tyrant, ruler blight

call upon other ghosts

sings “The Spirit’s Song”

(Four henchmen)

Paladin

Fiend

Winged serpent

The Lost