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Thursday, August 30, 2012
Darves Hill August's Summary (DH#56 & #57)
Cyr’s Broken Coin
DH#56
Blevins the Halfling, Percival the Wizard, Francis the
Magic-user, Martriss the Elf, Cyr the Thief, and Targ the Fighter remained in
the dungeons. The group did not
challenge the moving crystal statue with 4 arms, and instead went around the
long way to avoid the deadly looking adversary. They traveled through the corpse tunnel of the Purple Wyrm, and
talked with some of the Dark Dwarves (their current allies). Some of the Dwarves came with the party to
help them clear out some of the rooms in the Dark Elf territory.
In the next room they explored they heard coughing,
wheezing, and also the sound of liquid hitting the ground. Some of the underground human slaves were
there and they seemed very sick or infected with some magical ailment. They had horribly pock-marked skin with puss
leaking out of wounds. A path of slime
and phlegm was behind them. The group fearing
to get sick from the gross humans unleashed violence upon them. When their weapons hit them, slime and gross
blood splattered on the walls of the tunnel.
Some of the adventuring crew got splattered with their
rotten blood and felt horrible, that made it difficult to continue the
fight. They killed and torched the
bodies of the fallen disgusting things like in John Carpenter’s The Thing. Six more came around the bend, and these
also died by fire after they were saying, “Take us to the surface, we’ve heard
rumors about you! We’re free!” FLAMES!
They went back to Kergil the Dark Dwarf Highpriest to get
healed of their strange disgusting illness.
On the way there they pass Bugbears that were allies of the Dark
Dwarves, and they were permitted to pass because of their Dark Dwarf
guide. They then passed a magical
spider when their guide showed them how to pass.
They saw a silver ringed fountain that had crystal clear
water in a pool beneath it, and it was off to the right. Kergil had a hippogriff with him, and when
the party arrived the creature with a magical collar shrunk when the Dark Dwarf
gave a command word. He told them they
looked like Hell. He went around and
cured them of their ailment.
Kergil told them that the fountain used to be in Dark Elf
territory and they think it would be death to Dwarves if they drank it. Martriss went over and tried to take a
drink. When he touched the surface of
the water invisible coins appeared to him, but no one else saw them. He grabbed them and showed them to the
others. He poured some water on the
floor, and nothing happened. He then
quaffed a large cup of the water (and then I passed over a “Backstab Note” to
him saying that he had gained a massive amount of XP).
Kergil wanted a cut of the coins at the bottom of the water
but he wouldn’t drink it. Francis drank
next (Backstab Note saying his stats increased and he also gained lots of
XP). Blevins then drank as well as his
master Percival.
The group that wasn’t drinking from the pool heard strange
Elven spellcasting, but they ignored it.
Cyr’s Coin started to release white mist and this mist was surrounding
the nearby door. Just after this the
door started banging violently, and they guessed the door would have collapsed
had the mist not been holding it in place.
White misty letters started to fill all the surface area on the ground,
and it seemed to be some arcane lock to hold back something… It was very strange almost three-dimensional
writing. Cyr and Targ also heard the
whispers of little girls when this was happening.
Stinky began to wail, and Cyr thinks that it was bleeding on
his back. Then the bleeding Stinky fled
into the dungeons in absolute terror from the white misty writing. Targ thought that the writing was a powerful
warding against Devils or Demons.
Cyr’s Coin then broke and the spirits of the two twin girls
inside of it then inhabited Cyr and Targ, but their possession of them was not
violent, and instead they were just along for the ride only wanted to help
eliminate Lekorh, whom they seem to have a huge grudge against. The other members of the party could tell
something had happened, but they weren’t sure what just happened.
((We took some time to level up characters)).
The girls possessing Targ and Cyr told them the spell broke
the artifact, and that the mist around the door was holding one of Lekorh’s
most powerful allies. They told Targ
that the things on the other side of the door were a distraction, and a waste
of time. They said that they were sent
to kill or weaken the group. They also
said that their prison was not permanent, but that it would hold them for some
time. There was also a group of The
Withered Legion on the other side (the intelligent skeleton army of the
dungeon). The Dark Dwarves were told
about this, and they started to fill in the tunnel and room where this door was. They hoped they could completely bury the
things behind the door.
When the group walked under the giant evil spider… it turned
into ashes. It seemed the power of the
artifact was made manifest in Cyr and Targ.
The girls possessing Targ and Cyr told the group that Lekorh
is both a Lich and that he is also a Demon.
He is essentially a very powerful creature that will be very hard to
destroy. The group loaded up on Holy
Water. The girls said that Lekorh may
be unaffected by Holy Water.
“The Annihilation of Nahm” DH#57
Cyr and Targ then showed the group the broken coin artifact,
and explained what had happened to them.
A history of the coin was then revealed, about how it was dedicated to
the primal two gods that are no longer worshipped. The coin had proved to be a holy artifact that was also a bane
vs. Demons. Cyr and Targ then explained
that they were possessed by little girl souls.
They told the Dark Dwarves that they would most likely be
exterminated if they remained in the dungeon.
Any allies of the adventuring party would most likely bring the wrath of
Lekorh. Some of the Dark Dwarves
decided to come with the party, while the others fled into the upper levels of
the dungeon, and perhaps they would flee to the mountains in the North.
The girls told the group that Lekorh is an Abomination. They said that there was some connection
between Lekorh and Darves Hill. They
don’t believe that Lekorh can leave his place.
The girls weren’t sure what the exact nature of this relationship
between the two is, but they know there is one. The girls renewed their dedication to help destroy Lekorh.
The Archmage from Larm appeared and seemed angry and
disturbed. “What did you guys do?! Have you been to town lately? It’s Gone!
There is a crater filled with smoldering ashes in a 50 mile radius
around the town. Did you piss someone
off, did you break something, what did you do?” The group told the mage that Lekorh is most likely behind it all. He noticed that something was different
about the group, and he seemed disturbed by the girls possessing Cyr and
Targ. He told them that Lekorh felt
Cyr’s Coin breaking. The girls told the
mage to stay out of their business, and the mage took a few steps back. The mage told them to keep him updated with
the magical messenger birds, and then he left.
Back in town the group wondered what had happened to the one
eyed Ogre with the Black Death sword, what happened to the goddess’ body in the
Temple. The girls felt that the Dragon
was a distraction and unimportant. They
also said that the Giant Mystics who participated with the dragon parts might
have been breeding dragons.
The group remembered that many of the buildings on the
surface of Darves Hill were built to keep things locked within the
dungeon. The girls told the group that
if Lekorh is close they will be able to feel him. On the surface of the hill they saw the plume from the town of
Nahm. Cyr warned Marnal the Dwarf on
the surface of the Hill about all of the danger. Marnal was a friend of Old Manx who sold them the maps. Cyr told Marnal to flee. He decided to move to Larm. He gave them more maps since they warned
him.
They then went to the Gnomes of Slurred Speech and warned
them too. The one they were talking to
swore like crazy when they spoke of the danger, but they packed all of there
statues onto wagons and left. The girls
told them that the statues were the souls of all of those that used to live on
Darves Hill…
Then they went to warn the Green Dragon on the top of the
Temple and woke him up. The Dragon told
them that it had destroyed Nahm before as well, he said that it was, “Nice
work.” The Dragon was appreciative of
the warning, and then unceremoniously flew away. It flew around the town of Nahm, and they assumed it was curious,
and then it collapsed out of the air into the center of the town of Nahm. They also noticed that the “dead zone”
around the town seemed to have increased since the last time they looked at
it. They remembered that the sword
Black Death did have a Demon trapped in it… and the one eyed Ogre did have
it… Francis the Frail and Martriss the
Elf then went to see what happened to Nahm.
The Dragon’s corpse then exploded, and bloody chunks flew in all
directions.
They noticed that there were runes that said “Death” and
“Lekorh” written out in the dungeon.
They felt like Death referred to Mwerkef the God of Death. Then they weren’t sure if Lekorh wrote those
words in rooms, or if others had. They
also noticed the Hellfire pits on the maps.
When the group walked into one of the surface rooms four
invisible spirits were destroyed by the girls possessing Cyr and Targ in a
horrible fashion. They dug out one of
the hidden secret doors… but they found a magical circle on it. They didn’t want to break any more seals
keeping things in Darves Hill, so they didn’t open / break it. The door was a warmer and warmer the deeper
they dug.
Martriss the Elf noticed that there was a Circle of Death
surrounding the town of Nahm, and that it was slowly spreading outward (1 inch
per hour).
The group then planned a path through the dungeon levels
going from stairway to stairway.
Martriss the Elf then stuck his sword over the threshold of
the Circle of Death that was surrounding the town of Nahm… failed his save vs.
death and then his body exploded in a gruesome display of gore.
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