Difference between revisions of "November 16"

Latest revision as of 03:15, 2 April 2017

• Leave camp. Keep following tracks
  • zombie bits
  • giant footsteps - stone giants?
• keep following tracks, temperature drops as we ascend
• overgrown building foundations, rubble
  • as we look back down over the way we came, we're looking down over an old city
• Ephut Ki notices some shamblers
• We keep heading up, track ends near spring, footprints split, one set continuing up, one heading into forest.
• We continue up, canopy gets thicker, rock outcroppings
• Shuffling noises above and ahead. We hide.
  • 18 zombies, mixture of unusual types. One zombie has the werewolf symbol engraved into his forehead, seems clever, also has a tall skinny hat and a rattlestick. Shaman? He knows we're here.
  • Fight.
• Zombie master is white, a northerner, not local. Marked with symbol of Bardi
• clothing and fetishes, faerun origin
• Loot: 100 gold pieces (party pool), potion frost giant strength (Kunoh), rattlestick (Maybellina), top hat (Ruben)
  • rattlestick is hollowed bone with zombie symbols all over. After spending time with it, Maybellina realises it is a necromancer's stick - heals and buffs undead
• Maybellina and Ephut Ki realise this zombie master would've been a mercenary with free will and Ephut Ki also knows the juggernaut would've chosen to give up his life to become this.
• Zombies are mostly Treonol, probably slaves
• We continue on, coming across an area with lots of dead animals. Ephut Ki and Ruben investigate, it gives them an uncomfortable sensation, like they are becoming ill
  • rattlestick begins vibrating
  • the area goes weird to Ephut Ki and Ruben, statues seem to change and stare at Ephut Ki, ignoring Ruben. Ephut Ki and Ruben leave the area
• Maybellina gives Ephut Ki the rattlestick who takes it into the area.
  • Statues move, their shadows break away from them, Ephut Ki feels their animosity, Ephut Ki heads to edge of area, one of the shadows solidifies and heads towards him, Ephut Ki casts a spell on it, it doesn't work, the shadow lunges but goes right through him
• Ephut Ki gives Maybellina back the stick, Maybellina believes the shadows are in the Shadowfell.
  • Maybellina and Ephut Ki go back in. They feel like the statues are turning towards them but they see nothing. They do however both feel something say "Later". Ephut Ki moves further in, and works out we wouldn't want to be here at night.
• We continue on
• Ruben thinks these ruins are Carkade, at least 6000 years old.
• We come across a grove with 13 big stones, we believe this is the spot we've been told we need to be in to heal Ophion's curse
• Ruben moves in, we all hear a heartbeat noise, somethings floating in the centre, an ovoid space, emanating darkness, throbbing, clearly the source of the heartbeat.
• Stones have names of demigods that serve Bhaal on them, confirming this is where we need to be for Ophion
• Kunoh hears a voice in his head. It offers him greater strength, toughness, and promises he will be a great warlord. Kunoh is fooled.
  • Kunoh changes, covered in shadows, eyes like a serpent, he turns to Ephut Ki
  • Fight.
    • After a bit of a scuffle, Kunoh is successfully disarmed by Heian, Maybellina throws Kunoh's axe over the cliff, Kunoh is successfully held and then restrained.
    • the Crag turns up and demands "unhold my servant"
    • Ruben refuses
    • Werewolves turn up, the Crag attacks, fight.
    • The Crag cries out "enough!", orders Kunoh to stop trying to kill Ephut Ki, tells us to leave. Ephut Ki asks about Ophion, the Crag throws him some coins (obviously what he had stolen from Ophion to cast the curse on him), says to give it a day and Ophion will be cured, points us to other ruins where we can rest safely if we leave immediately.
• We move on, make camp. Everyone is shaken, Kunoh is not interacting much, but he is obviously no longer under the Crag's influence.