Wicker

Wicker

Thursday, November 19, 2015

Session 56

Date: 11/8/2015
Attending: Jake, Aaron, Joey, Justin, Max observing
Absent: Dave – Wendy recovering from eye surgery
Start Time: 7:20 pm
End Time: 10:20 pm
XP awarded: 6,250
Game time elapsed: 2 days
Enemies Defeated:  Fingali

Notes:
The session begins with the party riding towards Mooncrest which they reach that evening. The gate guards wave them through and they enter the town about an hour after nightfall. The streets are filled with people huddled under makeshift tents and lean-tos. The party summarizes that these are refugees from the surrounding area which seems to be overrun with giants. Trios of guards patrol the streets, keeping a watchful but friendly eye on all. Figuring the church would be a cool place to look for catacombs, they went to the center of town only to find the church had been burned and the remaining stone structure boarded up. Asking a passing patrol of guards, they found out that there had been a Chovalian uprising that burned the church and slew the local priests, only to be violently put down by the town guard. He suggests they look for catacombs in the cemetery behind the church.

The knights circle the church and find a large densely packed cemetery. In the center is a big mausoleum structure. Entering the mausoleum they find a hatch covering a staircase leading underground, but in opening the hatch they set off an alarm.

Going down they find a second world underground network of burial crypts. There are many traps which are all disarmed when they arrive. Fingali taunts them, his voice echoing down the corridors, and as the make their way they find that he has left a trail of burning scrolls – pages of the scrolls of epic legend, all of which are destroyed. The knights finally reach a room that is filed with a network of stone columns of irregular shape, holding upright coffins. Many of the coffins are open and the whole area is lit with many torches providing a skeletal audience for the fight.

Fingali is able to move with unnatural speed, and suddenly rushes out to strike at the knights, only to rush away again and disappear in the columns (spring attack feat). A long frustrating fight begins as Fingali continues to spring out and then away while the knights stalk him through the twisted columns and leering coffins. Bajol is slain only to be revived by Frumious’ magic, and Feydor falls only to be healed onto his feet. Fingali take steady wounds, and then after a long fight of hit and fade bolts for the back door. The knights, almost exhausted of healing and all low on hit points give chase, Frumious using a wand of haste so that they can keep up.  It is apparent that Fingali can run faster even than the hasted Bajol and Feydor, but they pursue anyway, chasing him out of the catacombs and into the streets. Bajol stops occasionally to pepper him with arrows, and Feydor summons his mount Brutus, but Fingali still gets further and further ahead. Eventually he climbs the outer wall, but when he does so Frumious –flying via potion – hits him with a flame strike. Fingali, now smoking jumps off the wall outside the town and continues running. Frumious flys over the wall and flame strikes him again. This time Fingali does not get up.


Frumious stays with the body while Feydor and Bajol work around to the town gate and outside to join him. They strip the dead dwarf of all his possessions and haul his corpse back into the city and then into the catacombs. They rest in the crypts until Frumious is able to cast speak with dead, but Fingali resists the spell. End Session

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