13th August 2024
21st Day of May 1492
Weather: Clear.
High Temperature: 16 degrees Celsius.
Low Temperature: 7 degrees Celsius.
Mission: Find the Embalmers
Campaign: Forest of Wyrms
Location(s): Undercity.
Present: Barlyn, Zinalla, Seraphina, Brielle, Glepper, Elysande & Dameun & T'or. (4 Guards)
Stranger: "You.... f'kn Goblin get orf me or I'll do ya."
Seraphina was surprised when T'or slapped his left wrist, he wore some kind of gauntlet which went up his forearm and instantly a shield appeared. The Kobolds pressed closer.
Zinalla: “Shall we dance?!!” Glepper switched to short bow as the bulk of Elysande filled up most of the corridor.
Seraphina fired an arrow into the semi darkness of Brielle's cantrip light . Hard to discern targets she was rewarded with a whelp of pain. Brielle cast her sacred flame and hit as the Kobold dodged the wrong way, right into the flame.
Barlyn moved to help Glepper and the others but mistimed his charge to assist Elysande.
Zinalla moved closer to the Kobolds, hugging the wall corner to the left of the entrance to the room. T'or moved to the opposite side. They both waited for the opportunity to strike. Seraphina launched a second arrow but missed.
Glepper loosed an arrow but missed.
Elysande watched the Kobold blows miss and swept his axe in riposte.
Elysande: “one down three to go Glepper”
Glepper let fly an arrow with deadly accuracy. One of the Kobolds in front of Elysande fell down.
Glepper: "Dibbs on his stuff!"
Zinalla watched the Fire Snake and rider slither past, uttering a prayer he swung his sword down, a divine smite. T'or struck at the same time from the other side, the snake and rider were badly wounded.
Elysande hits with a sweeping attack which slays all 3 Kobolds dead.
Elysande: “cleared em up lads and lasses cleared em up”
Brielle moved into the door recess to prepare another Sacred Flame.
Fire Snake and Rider, badly wounded, missed their attack on Seraphina. Seraphina unbalanced fired an arrow but missed, hitting T'or instead! A Kobold tried a deadly strike on Zinalla but Zinalla moved his shield to block the blow.
Zinalla: "ha”.
Glepper moved to where Seraphina was fighting the Fire Snake but missed his shot.
Elysande surveying the destruction of his axe blade and smiling to himself suddenly realised he was alone!
Elysande: “hold on, where is everyone”!!!
He see's Brielle step out of the recess and move back the way they had come not 5 minutes before. He moved after Brielle.
Again Brielle cast Sacred Flame and yet again missed. Barlyn was not amused, he was mad, he struck down with his hand axe and split a Kobolds head in 2.
Zinalla using his divine prayers to enhance his blows swung and killed another Kobold. T'or now full in barbarian rage smashed his Maul into another Kobold and shouted out:
T'or: "Am gonna eat you".
T’or licking lips grapples another Kobold then proceeded to rip the Kobolds throat out with his steel fangs. The Kobold tried to strike back but was dead before the thought came to light.
Barlyn had finished off the Fire Snake and Rider but in it's death throws the fire substance within it's gut had splashed onto several of the group.
Seraphina searched the bodies and found a potion of clear liquid with a very large fingernail floating in it and a tidy sum of copper some 48,559cp
Brielle found a scroll, written on top were the words Aura of Life and next to it the symbol of Zinalla's Paladin Order. She gave it to Zinalla.
Zinalla: “these thieves, these deviants they stole the pay chest and other things.”
Brielle cast healing word on Seraphina, she mouthed a silent 'thank you'.
They retraced their steps to the jetty where T'or was found. A second boat was tied up. The water, although flowing wasn't moving fast. Barlyn looked around and stated:
Barlyn: "Tunnel, natural. Don't know how long or where it goes in either direction. After this lot.....might be prudent to leave well alone".
They again moved back, passed the room where the fight had been the hardest
Glepper opens door room 7 and enters he hears a str to the door in the recess that Brielle had taken cover in. Glepper couldn't hear anything so opened the door. As soon as he stepped inside the strumming of a harp could be heard yet there was no harp in the room. The furniture in the room had long since been smashed up. They surmised that someone or something had smashed up the furniture in frustration for not finding the hidden harp! They left the room and proceeded to the junction where Elysande had smashed the table and killed the Kobolds. He listened at that door and again hearing nothing opened it. Glepper opened the door and shut it again straight away.
Glepper: "Dead, composing and very smelly lots of rats. Let's leave it".
As before Glepper moved ahead of the others. Coming to a very large, high ceilinged room he stopped in the shadows. To his right hung a curtain, it looked heavy, ornate. To his left he could make out a body strung up between two pillars by it's arms. The head raised and he recognised Adi Abba Adidas. Behind Adi, in an alcove, lay a huge pile of bones. He moved quietly over towards the curtain.
Brielle entered the room, moved to a corner and again prepared Sacred Flame. Barlyn prepared his hand axe, ready to attack any enemy. Seraphina moved to assist Glepper. Zinalla and T'or moved in between the 2 Rogues ready to defend them if necessary.
Glepper moved the curtain to one side, he was astonished by what he saw. The others moved closer to see what Glepper had revealed.
Elysande: “is that a bidet?”
Someone answered for the rest of party “Does Elysande know what a bidet is!!!!”
On the north and south walls were 2 snake fountains and on the east wall a door carved with snakes.
Elysande moved to right snake fountain, Seraphina checked the snake door but could not find any handles or even a lock.
Zinalla: “Glepper check door”
He turned around to inform the others when................................................................................
Suddenly Adi Abba Adidas looked to the ceiling and screamed. They could see beams of green light shooting out of the rear of the pillars and down into the pile of bones. T'or had moved quickly forward to check Adi:
T'or: "His bodies a dried out husk, skin is shrivelled......"
To'r was mid sentence when the noise from the bone pile caught his attention. A giant snake skeleton had risen from the bone pile. It moved to strike Brielle but missed. It should've hit but didn't. The others looked on in amazement. Brielle's cantrip missed. Barlyn and Glepper took one look at the giant bone snake and froze to the spot.
Elysande: “that’s a big un!!”
Seraphina was frightened and dropped her bow.
Zinalla: “what the fudge that’s a bloody big snake”
T’or stepped back, Barlyn cried out in a frightened voice........a thought entered his head, just one word.
Barlyn: “FLEE, it's a Bone Naga!”
Glepper moved in to strike the Naga and missed. Elysande and Brielle managed to strike the Naga as Seraphina missed. Zinalla hit the Naga with his sword but there were no words of divine help this time. T'or put his head down and bellowed out a war cry and went into another Barbarian rage. T'or was struck and staggered as the poison from the Naga's bite started to work instantly. Brielle seeing this stepped in and cast a protection from poison prayer on T'or.
Zinalla called forth in a shout.....
Zinalla: “IN THE NAME OF PALLADINS OF THE COMPANIONS”.
and struck a mighty blow. One by one the others, still frightened missed their strikes. Elysande stepped forward and swung his battle axe. It bit deep. The bones of the Naga clattered to the floor. Whatever magic that had sustained it's form gone.
Barlyn: “Ohh does this hurt?” and poked T’or in the ribs.
T'or: "What ya do that for?"
Barlyn just shrugged his shoulders.
Glepper: “think I’m getting hang of this magic”. He had been watching Dameun and Brielle and was copying some of their semantics and verbal complexities and thought he had mastered the start of 'wizardry'.
Taking stock and searching the bodies.
