Session 17 – September 18, 2016

Session 17 – September 18, 2016

The elf is Alfbrande and the undead woman is his wife, Elyana, whose heart is kept by his master, who has promised to restore her. He has been there 100 years waiting for the master to fulfill the promise.

We don’t like what we have heard, and we attack. Zhoni tried to turn the undead elf and failed. We nearly knock down the elf, and slightly wound the undead elf, and the zombies from the other side of the room, the top of the other set of stairs. Urman cast web to trap them, and all but one zombie and the elf were trapped. Zhoni was trapped in the web.

The elf drinks a potion of gaseous form and tries to run, but we shut the doors and block the gaps with cloths and threaten his trapped wife and he surrenders.

Alfbrande tells us of another party of adventurers, of whom only the evil cleric Enok and a “small” flesh golem who have been there 20 years. Enok posses a key that opens the door to the catacombs of the “master”. Enok came to serve the “master” and the golem came with him and he betrayed his party to join the “master”.

The master, Vorigan is a vampire.

We rest up and learn new spells and go after Enok and the golem to get the key.

Enok is in charge of patching up the damaged undead. Boils “dead” zombies to either boil off sin to become skeletons or to strengthen skin to make them tougher.

People in “village” are slaves and some have been there for generations. They roam the swamps looking for new bodies living or dead. Urdjan knights who are killed have their armor animated, etc.

Otiben climbed up and blocked two of the chimneys to make it even more murky inside.

Otiben snuck inside wearing an elven cloak from Alfbrande, and his noisy footsteps draw the attention of the golem. Otiben notices the sleeping cleric and charges in and slays him. The golem turns and charges him, and we fire a few magic fire arrows at the golem, and then Batukhan and others charge in and help Otiben defeat the golem.

We find an iron key that opens a lock box in a chest. The lock box contained a key with a twisted version of the symbol of the Urdjan knights. This will open the door that is guarded by skeletons that are more than ordinary skeletons, according to Alfbrande. Also inside is a book about making golems.

Enok had an evil staff that turned into a poisonous snake when Urman grabbed it and he nearly died from its poison’s damaging effects, but Zhoni healed him.

There are various other items we found and we decided to rest, heal up, and renew our full complement of spells before going into the catacombs.