Players/Characters
Aust (Russell) 1st level male Elven Spellthief
Elzara (Will) 1st level female Elven Monk
Kovar Hammerguild (Ian) 1st level Male Dwarven Paladin
Tanith (Ewar) 1st level male Human Sorcerer
Alexis Serria (Andrew) 1st level female Human Cleric (run as NPC)
Eolias (Richard) 1st level male Elven Ranger
Game Events
The party returned to the Whispering Cairn well stocked and refreshed. Entering the Lantern room they investigated each of the corridors and discovered a passageway 50' up the Blue corridor, down which they could see a carved face covering the entire 20'x20' end.
The everburning torch was retrieved from the green lantern. Aust went first and triggered a pressure plate after 50' which animated the face with the eyes whirling with all the colours of the rainbow and caused a wind to blow, increasing in strength each round until Aust, Eolias and Elzara were blown away and forced to grab at the lantern chain as they fell past.
After some deliberation they placed lights in each of the lanterns which effectively disabled the trap - now the pressure plate opened a passageway behind the face.
The room behind the face was another elaborate trap with iron spheres the size of oranges firing from the walls and knocking Elzara off a balancing plank onto an unstable floor made of the spheres. Once on the floor she was attacked by a Grick that burst up through the spheres, which she despatched in a single round due to an impressive critical hit.
A spectral figure then appeared and introduced itself as Alastar Land, a young boy who had fallen victim to the trap over 50 years ago. He told the party that the only way through the next door was to release a switch inside the room itself, and without his help there was no way through. All he wanted was for his bones to be buried alongside his family, to which the party readily agreed.
The party returned to Diamond Lake to recover, resupply, and level up to 2nd level and then set out for the Land farm where they discovered five recently opened graves and five sets of tracks leading to the abandoned farm but only four, running tracks returning.
Entering the farm Eolias was surprised by a wounded Owlbear, but it was soon despatched. The party searched and found a baby Owlbear (which Eolias took into his care) and also a dismembered human arm bearing a distinct tattoo.
Tanith recognised the tattoo as being the same as one on the face of Kullen, the half-orc leader a gang who frequented the Feral Dog inn, and so half of the party went to speak to Kullen in the pub whilst Eolias and Elzara took the baby Owlbear to the Druid's enclave a day and a half away.
Managing to change the half-orc's attitude to friendly, Tanith discovered that Kullen's boss, Balbar Smenk (one of the local mine owners) had instructed them to assist one of his friends, a Necromancer called Filge, to move into the old Observatory and get him whatever he needed. In this case, he needed skeletons to animate as guards.
Rather that wait for their friends to return, Tanith, Korven, Aust and Alexis decided to pay the Necromancer a visit - after destroying a couple of undead-type creatures in a toolshed and three skeletons (part of the Land family) and being wounded in the process the party decided to wait for the other two before returning to assault the building.
The party attacked and defeated the Necromancer and his zombie and skeleton bodyguards, capturing the Necromancer alive who bargained information for his life. He told them that his friend, Balbar, asked him to come and be his undead expert. He told the party that Smenk had been in the Dourstone mine where he found the place was crawling with hideous beasts in hooded robes. These cultists called themseves the Ebon Triad, and said something about the Age of Worms being upon us.
The party found a glass jar with a dead green worm floating in it - Balbar pinched it from the Dourstone Mine - Filge identified it as being one of hundreds that infest a powerful undead known as a spawn of Kyuss. If the worms get inside you they can turn you into undead within a day.
They also recovered a Scroll of Animate Dead (at 3rd level), potions of Gentle Repose, False Life, Ghoul Touch and Chill Touch (all also at 3rd level.)
Also found was a letter from Balbar to Filge detailing his discoveries at Dourstone Mine.
Magical Items Found
- Scroll of Animate Dead (at 3rd level)
- Potions of Gentle Repose, False Life, Ghoul Touch and Chill Touch (all at 3rd level.)
XP Summary
Total XP gained - 6,750 or 1,125 each (565 for Alexis - NPC)
