Session played - awaiting descriptive text

Thursday 30th October

Before we go into the basement Cass notices a strange symbol on the floor attached to a leather cord, which must have come from Tounge Eater, when Owyn removed his head.

Containts the symbols of:

Having all these evil deity symbols cannot be a good thing.
We head down into the basement, Kellen and then Anari lead the way, I push forward to follow Anari. Owyn and then Cass bring up the rear.
Sword feels good in my hand, muscles cording in my forearm.

Basement

Smells of mud, wine, beer and blood
Five people standin the middle of the celler, swaying slightly from too much drink.

2 dressed as hill folk
3 dressed more as Cauldron heavies

Bran starts singing to inspire the group
Anari dramatically leaps from the stairs and attacks a man dressed as a Cauldron commoner.

Seriously wounds him

Cass charges up Jazz with shocking grasp
Kellen moves in amongst the frey and gets attacked by two hill folk

They both miss Kellen
Kellen misses them

Bran moves in and attacks a hill man

Misses

Owyn moves in and attacks

Hits

Bran gets attacked by the man he is facing off with

Receives a minor wound

Kellen gets injured from the combined attack of the two hill men he faces
Anari is attacked and injured
Bran again misses his foe
Anari hits causing a fresh but minor wound on her enemy
Jazz shocks one of the men from Cauldron

Killing him
Smell of electricity in the air, mingled with burnt flesh

Kellen hits a hill man dropping him to the floor
Kellen hits the second hill man he faced
Owyn hits his Caludron based oppenent
Hill man tries to tumble past Bran and Kelln

Swords flash out from Bran and Kellen
The man dies as both swords skewer him to the floor

The final man from Cauldron is surrounded

Fails to fend of attacks from:

Anari
Bran
Cass
Jazz

Kellen finishes him off
Owyn grumbles about not getting a go.

After the battle we notice:

there is a passage way leading off
a closed door next to the stairs
three large smashed beer kegs
Three bodies

They are all next to each other.

one is headless and wears the vestments of the his priest of the Church Of St Cuthbert
the other bodies have been stripped of all possession but I recognise them as:

Sarcem Delasharn has not been touched, apart from the removal of his head.
Upon his body we find:

Three empty potion flasks
Banded mail
Holy mace - light
Periapt with a blue pearl on a silver chain
Heavy gold ring

While on my knees examining the bodies carefullly and his respect I pray to my God St Cuthbert

Feel my horror and upset drain away leaving a void that is filled with cold determination - this will not go unavenged

I insist that the bodies are moved from the basement and returned to Cauldron with us. Noting with a dispassionate interest the coldness in my voice.

Owyn points out that each of the five here are wearing red sashes as were the humans he killed upstairs. He summises that it is probably a crude way of identifiying allies in the initial attack on the Lucky Monkey.
We each put on a sash
I look at my sword, it is not red enough yet, it needs to let more blood
Cass opens the door nearest the stairs in the basement and finds an empty wine cellar
Owyn moves down the corridor

Three are three doors two lead of from the left wall and the third is at the end of the corridor.
First door - normal

Room beyond contains vegtables and fruit

Second door - normal

cold room, carcasses hanging from hooks in the ceiling
open and over turned chest
sign in the room "No flames beyond this point"

Third door - steel banded and strengthened, warped and expanded, swelling outwards, covered in a thick layer of frost

air in area around the door is very cold
three dead bodies

two hill women and one hill man
all three covered in a thick layers of frost
a hill woman is holding an extingushed torch also covered in frost

Cass says a quiet spell and determines the door has been effected by a shape wood spell
I sit and consider the frost, the sign and the over turned mepty chest in the cold room

It could be brown mold, it grows wehn subjected to heat and prosuces huge amounts of cold

Cass readies herself and fires rays of frost at the door, almost instantly the frost on the door starts to thaw and the air in end of the corridor returns to normal
Bran calls out to the person inside to open the door and that we are here to help them
Anari and Kellen try to barge the door down to no effect
Frustrated Kellen hits the door with his sword and causes damage

Continues to do so until the door is in splintered ruins

We enter the room

Final basement room

We see a well - on the far wall covered with slats of wood
In the furthest corner of the room sits a woman cowering

The bright white hair and almost obsidian black skin immediately marks her as a Drow.

I advance wearily towards her
Her facial features and bone structure suggest she is likely to be a half-Drow.
I put down my sword and say it is okay and that we are here to help, we had come to assist Sarcem
She shrinks away as I put out my hand to her, I touch her andfeel the warmth of the healing spell pass between us.
She is still graely wounded so I also use a wand of cure moderate wounds upon her. This seems to return her to full vigour.
As we stand I introduce myself and the rest of the party, she in return introduces herself a Shensen Tesseril
She explains what happened:

that she had been travelling in the forest
heard noises coming from the Lucky Monkey
she came into investigate
she was pushed into the basements by the three clerics as they tried to fend of an attack
she looks at Cass and says that the woman leading the attack and ordering the werebaboon looked like her
she provides a more detailed description of the woman

looks like Cass
shorter hair
ritulistic tattoos
A sigil of Hextor
Partial plate armour - covered in vicious spikes

as the battle was in the basement the Dwarf Cleric was killed by a crushng blow
Sarcem screamed at her to get herself hidden
She ran to the cold room got the brown mold
went into the the last room and closed the door and sealed it using a shape wood spell then smeared the brown mold on the door
she sat in the corner cowering as the last to clerics died trying to protect her
she cries as she recalls the sound of the werebaboon howling in triumph
She says she has been in this room for about 12 hours

I look at Cass she is paler than usual and looking a little shocked at the news that a woman like her was here butchering clerics
I am cold and feel nothing but the sword in my hand and then need to avenge my friends, my church and my God
We leave to go back into the kitchen

Kitchen

The others look at the floor plan we have and come up with a plan of attack to sweep all the enemies away and search for the Wands Of Control Water
I pace the room awaiting a decision, my sword light in my hand
We leave the kitchen by an unbarred door into a small corridor and search all the rooms finding nothing and wasting time
We enter the main bar area, which is a very large room

Main bar

Checking a private curtained off booth we find nothing except the detrius of drunks and slaughter
I check on another private booth and find a couple have sex over the table, my sword slides easily through his back and impales the woman on the table. Both die, when I pull my sword out she is still impaled upon the table.
I walk out of the booth, there are horrified looks on the rest of the parties faces.
My sword is still not red enough.
Further into the bar area there are five people arguing, sat at a table.
We move in silently, our movements covered by their drunken argument - I had wanted to rush in screaming but a hand on my arm from Anari tempered me
Surrounding the table we attacked, my enemies fell easily away from me.
Cass using Jazz to deliver a shocking attack caused on of the hill women to actually explode such was the power of the spell, all we ever found of her was a smouldering boot and some ash
After that the remaining three were slaughtered
A drunken woman from Cauldron judging by her clothes tried to get up from the stage floor and attack us. She died by the tip of my sword piercing her dusky, slim throat. Her eyes widened and locked onto mine in a moment of clarity as her blood poured from her. I pulled my sword out of her as the blood flow slowed and her eyes rolled back into her head.
He moved on to search the rest of the Lucky Monkey ground floor

Lucky Monkey ground floor

After finding the first two room wrecked and devoid of anything useful we moved on
I was about to kick open a door when Shensen asked me not to and before entering would we put away our weapons
After a moment we looked at each other, I shrugged and we each put the weapons away.
Shensen seemed to steel herself before opening the door and when she did she gasped
Entering we found a small shrine to Fharalagn (out of character: silly god name)

It was devestated the shrine itself was smashed
there were holes in the wall
a distinct smell of urine

A tear flowed down the beautiful obsideon cheek
We left the shrine, I closed the door carefully after me
The search of the ground floor revealed nothing
We moved the search upstairs

First floor of the Lucky Monkey

Searched every room

No wands
No evil Cass
No more fighting

We returned to the kitchen

Kitchen

Gathered together items we would be returning to Cauldron with:

the head of Sarcem
the body of Sacem
the body of Lorain
the body of Ordllanach
the items carried by Sarcem
the coin and saleable items found
the weapons and armour recovered
the head of Tongue Eater

Owyn looks into the courtyard and sees a troupe of baboons, wanting to find out if the red sash gave protection from them he decides to find out

He takes of all his clothes
He puts on the sash
He runs accross the courtyard
The baboons watch him run past and almost look as confused and worried as we do about why he ran naked infront of them
Owyn returns and puts his clothes back on

I don't care what he says, it is not that cold.

We finally left the Lucky Monkey - I toyed with the idea of using the Alchemist Fire I am carrying on it but decided to keep it for a special occasion.

Outside

As we leave we notice there is a pile of what appears to be bodies
We approach to see them moving slightly and then a head of a large lizard appears
It is feasting on the bodies of the customers and staff of the Lucky Monkey, yet another outrage
I charge and attack the creature which when it stands up is nearly as tall as I.

My sword bits into it's hide it screams

Another creature straightens up, it hd been masked by the one I just hit.
The others join the frey and soon both the creatures are screaming at our blades open up gouting wounds
T He creature I attacked initially finnaly secumbs to its wounds and dies.
The second creature is then dealt a horrific blow from Shensen, she runs in and leaps that creature her foot connecting with it's snout. The force of the kick snaps the neck and twists the head at an obsence angle.
Owyn looks both impressed with her style and disappointed not to get the kill
We collect the heads as trophies
Anari collects the tails she has plans for pair of boots
We gather the hourse from the stables and leave to go to Cauldron

Journey home

It is an uneventful and sombre ride home

Shensen still is recovering from her experiances and the desecration of her shrine
Cass is mulling over what the evil-Cass means
Kellen sensing Cass' mood is riding closer to her
The white hot anger I held for so long is now gone filled with lose and dread at the meeting meeting with Jenya
Owyn is riding close to Shensen
Anari is riding just a little behind and to my left

Church of St. Cuthbert

Meet with Jenya

Tell her

the wands are lost
Sarcem died defending them
Lorain and Ordllanach also fell

Give her the mace and other artifacts
She looks grief stricken and then suddenly strong as she grips the mace
She returns Sarcem's other effects to us
We return the bodies and head of Sarcem
We return the bodies of Lorain andd Ordllanach
Ask if she is able to find out more information for us

Told to come back in the morning

Drunken Morkoth

Lose in the quarter finals of the drinking contest - heart not really in it

Got quite a few stares though due to the fact I rushed in sat down covered in blood just as the competition started

Friday 31st October

Church of St Cuthbert

Jenya looks like she hasn't slept all night

Eyes puffy and red

Same could be also noted of Lilah as she welcomes us
The mood of the Church is sombre but determined

Jenya's office

She casts a spell on Sarcem's head and he speaks to us

evil-Cass attacked
evil-Cass lead the attack
evil-Cass killed Lorain
Tounge eater killed Sarcem and removed his head
he tells us about Shensen - we soudns relieved that she survived
He is unable to tell us much more than that

She casts the same spell on Tounge eater's head but he refuses to come forward to talk
We show were the necklace we retrieved from Tounge eater.

She identifies the symbols as belinging to the Ebon Triad

An evil group following the three evil Gods
They want to combine their Gos into a super deity
Not a good thing for the rest of us

She tells us that the funerals for Sercem, Lorain and Martell will be conducted tomorrow

We promise to attend

Outstanding things to do:

Attend funeral
Evaluate:

Boots of striding
Banded mail
Sarcem's ring
Peal periapt

Talk to the Town Guard about evil-Cass

Find evil-Cass and the wands

Find out about the Ebon Triad
Find out what needs to be done for the Demonskar Ball

What do the symbols on the invitations mean
Why does Kellen have a different one

Prepare for the Demonskar ball
Get a date for the Demonskar ball
Find Wands Of Control Water and stop Cauldron from flooding

Party accounts.

Bran Journal Session15