Andrzej
- Olivier Dufresne, Venturer 2 (replacing the retired character Charr)
Brooke
- Swanhild of Eldeskhur, Barbarian 2
- Hilda Zorig, Barbarian 1
Matt
- Huzn Erste, Dwarven Fury 3
- Denis, Crusader of Phanriel 3
Mike
- Snak, Barbarian 1
- Gerrit, Fighter 1
Panem (August) 14, 1181 EC, about 2 pm
Play resumed with Swanhild and Snak with their henchmen at table with Ehsan the Wizard. They pressed him for further information, and offered some of their own stories about the Black Knight in return.
Ehsan confirmed that the knight was likely his old friend Adan Rosul, based on their description. Adan had used a set of black plate armor with a closed helm, and his cursed sword had the ability to burst into flames. Ehsan also offered them an additional piece of information - when Adan visited Ehsan’s compound, he always left through a mysterious stair in the woods. Ehsan guessed that he used a branch of the underground river to travel back to Priorsford.
When Swanhild and Snak began making plans to check out the staircase, Ehsan introduced them to a guide - Olivier Dufresne, an escaped Teppish slave. The diminutive man didn’t look like much, but he promised to show them the way.
With this they said goodbye to Ehsan, met up with Huzn and Denis who had stayed outside, and followed Olivier into the woods. As promised, in little more than an hour they came to a small clearing with the remnant of ruined walls and a spiral stairway running down into the earth. Huzn determined that it was of human construction, old, but not nearly as ancient as the Etheri statue.
About 100 ft. down the stair ended in an arched doorway into what appeared to be a large flagstone courtyard. A fountain stood in the center and the flagstones angled downward away from them. The courtyard was flooded about 10 feet ahead.
As Snak ducked through the doorway, he spotted a group of lizardmen skulking behind the fountain. After an exchange of javelins and arrows, The lizardmen charged the party, but the barbarians held their ground and cut them down.
Crossing the flooded court, they came to the facade of a church. In the Narthex they found two statues, a male and a female, both beheaded and defaced.
In the northern tower they found a huge bronze bell inscribed with Classical Auran writing, but they didn’t read it immediately. Instead Huzn tried to detach and lower it, but tragically botched the attempt, dropping the bell, breaking the wooden loft floor and sending the bell 50 ft down with a resounding crash.
This crash drew another gang of lizardmen who stormed into the narthex lead by a burly lizardman champion. Wisely, Swanhild, Hilda and Denis had prepared themselves at the doors, and the lizardmen were again dispatched without losses.
The party peered through the doors and saw that the nave of the church was split in half, with the underground river running through the middle of it. About 90 feet away, across the river, a slim, white-robed, hooded figure stood at a black altar with 4 strangely thin humanoid figures. More lizardmen also lurked about in the temple sanctuary. Olivier identified the humanoids as Flay Fiends, which he had seen during his time as a slave in the Blackhand Dominion.
With Snak and Gerrit wounded and Denis out of healing, the party decided to back off, but not without their hard-earned bell! With the prodigious muscles of Snak and Huzn they laboriously hauled it back up the stairs to the surface.
Treasure (not returned): A 400 lb bronze bell, inscribed with the name “The Song of Mityara” (badly dented)
Enemies defeated: 9 lizardmen, 1 lizardman champion
XP: 380
95 per PC
48 per henchman
Current XP totals:
Huzn: 7561/12400 (level 3)
Swanhild: 3791/5200 (level 2)
Snak: 821/2600 (level 1)
Olivier: 2886/3000 (level 2)
Denis: 3680/6000 (level 3)
Meinard: 3020/4000 (level 2)
Gerrit: 378/2000 (level 1)
Gustav: 150/2500 (level 1)
Hilda: 204/2000 (level 1)
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