Session 6

Date: 10/19/2014

Attending: Jake, Justin, Joey, Dave, Aaron, Chris

Absent: none

Start Time: 7:20 p.m.

End Time: 10:18 p.m.

XP awarded: 640

Game time elapsed: 3 hours

Enemies Defeated: Vespatius the Dark Necromancer, many zombies, devil creatures

Notes:

After Trevor explodes, Herbian runs to Trevor’s horse and begins collecting his spell books. Grigor follows and Herbian hands him one of Trevor’s spell books.

A quick consultation among army leadership is had and the troops are ordered forward to assault the tower. As they move into the battle field the ground shakes, a massive cauldron rises out of the ground, and zombies begin clawing out of the earth. The cauldron spews a low hanging purple fog that is animating the zombies and the fallen.  Additionally a corpse worm comes out of the tower and begins burrowing through the battle, coming up and swallowing troops.

Grigor goes with the Order of the Bright Spear who are trying to move around the battle to get to the tower. Bajol peels off from the group and charges the corpse worm, sinking his lance into it. The battle rages on and Bajol spurs his horse Zephyr towards the cauldron. He tries to jump Zephyr into the cauldron but the horse balks and falls in instead. Zephyr dissolves in the cauldron which ends the fog. No new zombies are animated after. Bajol jumps free but is confronted by the corpse worm which he manages to slay with a readied action.

Meanwhile Fedor is fighting his way to the tower and Fyn with Frumious is trying to skirt thee battle with the same destination. Fyn loses control of his horse and Frumious is thrown to the ground, severely wounding him. Frumious plays dead. Fyn and Fedor combine forces and make it to the tower. Grigor has split from the Bright Spear to help Fyn and Fedor and arrives with them, Nolan, Justarius, and Bruce in tow. They all enter the tower (several minutes after the Bright Spear).

Frumious receives minor healing from Sarath on the battle field, and then he and Bajol head into the tower. Inside they meet Zack of the Bright Spear, terribly wounded. He tells Grigor that if the Dark Necromancer cannot be destroyed, to try to get out with the partial collection of the 77 Scrolls of Heroic Legend that he too from the Bright Spear. He also passes two healing potions.

The group charges to the top of the tower to see Vespatius working some fell magic involving a gate or portal and the Company of the Bright Spear fighting for their lives against what appear to be devils. Grigor begins searching the cabinets on the walls for the Scrolls, and the rest of the party engages the devils.

At one point a mirror is unveiled in a cabinet the shows Grigor a series of images and feelings that lead him to believe that a silhouette figure made of crows is a threat, a wicker doll is a source of fear (Frumious breaks it), and a gem will help (Frumious turns it on Grigor’s orders and it summons more devils).  Grigor also manages to grab a scroll case, two bags, and a chest.

An explosion happens below (Akkan says Zack did it as a death move) and the tower begins to fall. The Dark Necromancer catches it with telekinesis, but when threatened lets it go. The surviving devils blip out, Herbian leaps out of the tower (presumably to his death), Akkan, Justarius, and Perry are dead, Vespatius is pulled through the gate, something tries to take over Grigor’s mind and fails, and the party gathers on the balcony as the top of the tower explodes. The balcony is thrown free and the party lands in front of Karl and the surviving troops as the tower and a good piece of the surrounding landscape implodes leaving a crater. End