March (50-51)
On the last day of the group's vacation
they did some shopping, and one of the Clerics made scrolls during
the 3 weeks off. They decided to head off towards Darves Hill once
all the preparations were made.
When they arrived in the evening at
Darves Hill, they saw a gigantic boil on the green dragon's back.
They headed down into the depths to the dungeon. Cyr failed to
disable a trap but luckily it failed to work. In the next room some
etherial eyes were looking down at them from the ceiling. The group
found 2,000 silver pieces in a small chest buried in the back corner
of the room once the Cleric turned the Shadows. They also found a
ring that said, “To my celia.” It made the wearer much more
lucky (Saves were all two better).
In the next room the door opens, and
there was a Shadow there, and it bowed to the group. “Are we free
to leave? We were bound to serve, but you have a thing that has
semi-released us. That was our wedding ring.” They were released
by the power of AeBalt. “Is there a final question before we
leave?” They asked what the meaning of life was, and the Shadows
said, “Lekorh (the Lich) rules us all, here and later.” As a GM
I was shocked that they didn't ask anymore questions, and that they
so quickly released them to the afterlife. Hehe.
While they were thinking on what
questions they could have asked, they heard some Gnolls speaking, and
they were talking to another person or thing. “Where's the
Minotaur lately, his brother has been making a presence lately in his
absence...” They heard a knock on the door. “In the name of the
Horns, who are you?” They gave a flippant answer. “Slego cast.”
The mages thought clairvoyance was cast, and they were looking
through one of the character's eyes. Then they heard them walking
away from them.
The group then heard the sounds of what
they assumed was marching skeletons. They could hear their bones
hitting the hard stone floors coming in their direction. They heard,
“Company halt! Slego cast!” They thought he cast the Massmorph
spell which is an illusionary spell. The walls, doors, basically
everything in a 240' radius turned into what looked like a forest.
Those that cast the spell were nowhere to be seen.
They found 4 Gnolls stabbed to death in
a nearby room. Each body was stabbed 20 or 30 times. The ceiling
was cracked, water was flowing through it, and it seemed pretty
dangerous. They found a natural spring. The ceiling collapses and
half a ton of rocks fell down on top of everyone's head. Those that
avoided the falling ceiling were able to dig out the rest of the
party members. The hallway back was completely buried so they had to
go forward.
They found a teleporting circle but
they didn't know where it would end up. One of the new guys Francis
(the Frail) decided to volunteer to test it out. He teleported...
somewhere. He found himself in a room with tapestries on the walls
that had arcane symbols on them. He was completely alone, and he was
standing on top of another teleport circle. There was a strange
cinnamon-like smell in the air. They were various colors and each
one had a different symbol on it. Francis heard more of that Slego
chanting again. Francis grabbed one and then teleported back up.
They think that Stinky was telling them
that the Slego's sometimes use sacrifice victims to help cast their
spells, or perhaps for worship of their strange gods.
They overheard two Gnolls talking about
what side they were going to support. They heard some names
mentioned, and talk about a brother. They were guessing that some
sort of power struggle is going on with the power vaccum. Mardus
they think was the name of the Minotaur that they killed. Kornas &
Borgius are two other names that seem like they have some power in
the dungeon. They grabbed the tapestries and teleported back up to
the surface.
They started to hear a strange humming
noise coming from the tapestries. They think that the tapestries
each have a different note. Cyr thought about the strange giants
that used sounds during their magic chants to summon the dragon.
When they separated them their notes reduced in sound, and then when
they put them together they were louder. They unrolled them and then
stacked them on top of each other. They seemed to interact with each
other in some strange way. The tapestries seemed to have a calming
affect on everyone.
They noticed the 3 moons in the sky
(the red, the green, and the white) were all close to one another.
They guessed that in a couple of days all three moons would be on top
of one another for a rare lunar eclipse. They slept on Darves Hill
for the night.
The whole group teleported down to the
room with the tapestries and six slimy pink humanoids with sagging
skin and tusks coming out of their faces were waiting for them.
These were said to be the Sleegos. Two of the characters were frozen
in place by the Sleegos' spell. They cast Sleep and many of the
Sleegos fell over. The creatures smelled like very strong cinnamon.
They tied two of them up and killed the rest of them.
When they woke up the two Sleegos they
turned towards each other and seemed to be communicating. Sleegos
have unsettling red eyes. They then heard bone feet marching in this
direction. They had robes that were the same color with the same
symbol as the tapestries.
The group was talking about what to do,
when a skeleton opened up the door, and two other skeletons rolled a
barrel with a lit wick into the room. The skeletons were armored,
they had a shield, crossbows, short swords, and helmets. They seemed
really intelligent, and there were 20 of them standing in formation.
The barrel erupted into flames, and the group was thankful for the
healing amulet. They put themselves out after they teleported
upstairs.
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They noted that many of the skeletons
had amulets on (black spere). Then after a few moments the skeletons
started teleporting after them. The skeleton's short sword had a
Minotaur's face on the pommel. Inside the shield it said, The
Withered Legion.
They sent the fiery magical bird to
send word to the Mage in the city of Larm about the weird humming
tapestries. They put on the magical Minotaur crown and learned that
the arcane symbols on them stood for: Blue Peace, Green Patience, Red
Release, Yellow Harmony. The colored robes that the Sleegos were
wearing had the same symbols meaning the same thing.
The group then headed off to the town
of Nahm. They put the tapestries on the walls of the groups
dwellings. They wanted to have the mages scribe some more scrolls.
At 9AM the next day the 3 moons eclipsed each other and then the sun
itself, and the skies went black with slight tri-color coloration to
everything from the light of the moons. The militia bells started
ringing and then men started to man the walls.
Hundreds of soldiers could be seen far
off in the distance, and then the group started to hear the drums of
battle begin. The leader of the militia hadn't sent out any runners,
so Cyr used his Dust of Disappearance and his Elven Boots to sneak up
on the army to see what was going on. He saw rank upon rank of
intelligent looking skeleton troops wearing chainmail and platemail.
There were skeletons riding Hell Hounds. He guessed the ones wearing
platemail were the leaders. Cyr heard them saying many times, “It's
great that someone finally broke the seal!” Cyr guessed /
realized that the tapestries must have been a seal to keep these
undead in Darves Hill.
Grunka's Company recruited the one-eyed
ogre named Gronn (who moves the “god rocks” every day to make the
pantheon symbol by the side of the Temple) to help defend the walls.
They told him to hurl the god rocks at the Skeletons. Then they
decked him out in the Minotaur armor and gave him “Black Death”
the Minotaur's sword. Overhead they saw the Dragon flying over,
seemingly checking out what was going on below.
The mage from Larm showed up in the
Temple in town, and the group went off to see what he could tell
them.
This wizard (who has not given them his
name yet) sighed when he saw what tapestries. He told them that all
of the buildings on Darves Hill were meant to keep the things inside
the hill. He said they could not be replaced. A ritual was
performed and those tapestries were originally set up. The wizard
told them that the Minotaur's impressive armor and sword must have
belonged to someone of very high rank to have such powerful items.
One of the retainer's souls was offered to the wizard and he shook
his head. He told them that they should go get the Elves to help...
with a smirk on his face. He knew that the Elven genocide started
here in Nahm. He told them that they made their bed and now they
have to sleep in it. He told them to contact him again if they
survived and found more artifacts.
The skeleton army marched and came just
out of reach of arrows. Gronn started hurling his god rocks out at
them. Joshua drank his Fly potion and then when he got within 60
feet of the Green Dragon he drank the Control Dragon potion. They
had 12 rounds of Drgon Vloxaxis (they asked him his name) fury. He
told Vloxaxis to destroy the Withered Legion. Joshua blessed and
protected the Dragon from Evil.
The Chlorine gas breath weapon killed
the Hell Hounds, and then it made many sweeps at the army. It then
landed in the midst of them and destroyed them. Maybe 40-50
skeletons survived. They fled to the North back to Darves Hill.
Joshua flew after them and made sure the Dragon was also heading back
to the Hill.
They inspected the field of battle, and
they noticed that Gronn the one-eyed ogre could also cast low level
healing spells. They found 120 amulets, 160 short swords, 100
shields, and 110 suits of chainmail, and 30 suits of Platemail.
Gronn was collecting his god rocks. They let Gronn keep the armor
and sword. Gronn asked for forgiveness for hurling a rock near
Thimple in the past. He asked if Militia would tell him if town
needed help. Uldritch was the leader of the militia now. He told
them that the Dragon “ate the town” when he was young.
Even though they defended the town from
the Withered Legion, they reminded themselves that the seal was
broken, and that things in the dungeon could now exit through the
surface. Thus ended the session.
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