Session 5 (The Word of Life)
18th Barrakas - After the initial surprise of a talking skeleton, the battle was joined! After a furious fight, both of the undead were returned to an inanimate state and the party was able to continue on their way to the partially ruined tower nearby.
The tower was eighty feet tall and nearly square. There was a pale flickering light emanating from the rooftop and access to the building was gained by scrambling over the rubble of one largely destroyed wall. Moving swiftly but carefully, Andrew, Dha'ron, and Maker searched the tower room by room. They discovered a small amount of Cyran coins, some shortspears, a copper pendant with a tree inscribed on it, and a slim wooden box - later opened to access the wand inside - in the officer's study.
The party heard noises outside and went to look. They found rank upon rank of armored zombies in formation outside the keep, preparing to enter. Reacting to the incoming threat, the party ran to the roof and found only rubble and an elevator of much more recent construction than the building itself. The elevator's guiding beam was the flickering light that had been seen from below. It was being debated whether they should run for it another way when their hand was forced by the arrival of several zombies climbing up the walls and attacking them!
Forced to fight inside the elevator, Dha'ron's axe had its haft chopped in two by a particularly aggressive zombie before it was dispatched.
The elevator shuddered to a halt on top of the glass plateau, again resting at a recently constructed platform. For three days, the three explorers headed south along the plateau, making do with dry rations and the stale leather-flavored water from their waterskins.
21st Barrakas - At around mid-morning of their third day of walking they saw a figure silhouetted against the sky, visible between jagged spurs of glass rising from the plateau. The figure was robed from head to foot and was chanting in a keening wail, arms raised above him. There was a blood-red glow being omitted from the tablet, lighting up the figure and proving it to be the item they were seeking to retrieve.
The party dashed forwards to try to stop Saren Domant but his ritual was too close to completion to be halted and he uttered the word of power inscribed on the tablet...
...for a moment there was no reaction, then Saren contorted, twisted, and exploded in a burst of power, showering blood and viscera around where he had stood. Andrew very nearly died at that moment too, being close enough to clearly intuit the power of the spell. Thankfully his mind was resilient enough to deny the influence of the waves of power washing over him and he collapsed unconscious instead of dead!
Once he regained consciousness, the party searched through Saren's belongings and took his potions (Remove Fear and Lesser Restoration), his scroll (Resist Energy), his wand (Cure Light Wounds: 15 charges remaining), and his magically imbued morningstar (+1 Morningstar).
They then picked their way further south to the tip of the plateau and found Saren's rope ladder that he'd secured in order to leave.
26th Barrakas - After a further five days of travel the three arrived in Darguun and purchased a horse and cart in Rhukaan Draal.
2nd Rhaan - They had traveled along a riverbank until reaching Sterngate and had managed to get passage on the lightning rail back to Sharn over the course of four days. Once they arrived they found that Praxxas Magister had taken a sabbatical and returned home to the Talenta Plains for a while. Morgrave University arranged for the tablet to be taken off display and handed it into the care of House Kundarak. A silver Aurum member by the name of Harrin d'Kundarak placed it inside a chest which then went into a twin-Khyber sharded adamantine locked chest which required Kundarak blood to open the Arcane Lock and other seals.
Each member of the party was given a purse of fifty platinum coins in thanks for their efforts in returning the valuable tablet.
Later that same night, Dha'ron was chased and attacked by a werewolf in the streets of Sharn! It was itself chased off by the arrival of the swifter of a pair of guardsmen. In particular a golden-eyed man who took Dha'ron immediately to a Jorasco healer and administered belladonna to stave off the infection of the lycanthropic disease! He introduced himself only as Kelmar at the time and returned to his partner just as quickly as he left. Now Dha'ron bears the taint of lycanthropy, but not the curse itself.
The tower was eighty feet tall and nearly square. There was a pale flickering light emanating from the rooftop and access to the building was gained by scrambling over the rubble of one largely destroyed wall. Moving swiftly but carefully, Andrew, Dha'ron, and Maker searched the tower room by room. They discovered a small amount of Cyran coins, some shortspears, a copper pendant with a tree inscribed on it, and a slim wooden box - later opened to access the wand inside - in the officer's study.
The party heard noises outside and went to look. They found rank upon rank of armored zombies in formation outside the keep, preparing to enter. Reacting to the incoming threat, the party ran to the roof and found only rubble and an elevator of much more recent construction than the building itself. The elevator's guiding beam was the flickering light that had been seen from below. It was being debated whether they should run for it another way when their hand was forced by the arrival of several zombies climbing up the walls and attacking them!
Forced to fight inside the elevator, Dha'ron's axe had its haft chopped in two by a particularly aggressive zombie before it was dispatched.
The elevator shuddered to a halt on top of the glass plateau, again resting at a recently constructed platform. For three days, the three explorers headed south along the plateau, making do with dry rations and the stale leather-flavored water from their waterskins.
21st Barrakas - At around mid-morning of their third day of walking they saw a figure silhouetted against the sky, visible between jagged spurs of glass rising from the plateau. The figure was robed from head to foot and was chanting in a keening wail, arms raised above him. There was a blood-red glow being omitted from the tablet, lighting up the figure and proving it to be the item they were seeking to retrieve.
The party dashed forwards to try to stop Saren Domant but his ritual was too close to completion to be halted and he uttered the word of power inscribed on the tablet...
...for a moment there was no reaction, then Saren contorted, twisted, and exploded in a burst of power, showering blood and viscera around where he had stood. Andrew very nearly died at that moment too, being close enough to clearly intuit the power of the spell. Thankfully his mind was resilient enough to deny the influence of the waves of power washing over him and he collapsed unconscious instead of dead!
Once he regained consciousness, the party searched through Saren's belongings and took his potions (Remove Fear and Lesser Restoration), his scroll (Resist Energy), his wand (Cure Light Wounds: 15 charges remaining), and his magically imbued morningstar (+1 Morningstar).
They then picked their way further south to the tip of the plateau and found Saren's rope ladder that he'd secured in order to leave.
26th Barrakas - After a further five days of travel the three arrived in Darguun and purchased a horse and cart in Rhukaan Draal.
2nd Rhaan - They had traveled along a riverbank until reaching Sterngate and had managed to get passage on the lightning rail back to Sharn over the course of four days. Once they arrived they found that Praxxas Magister had taken a sabbatical and returned home to the Talenta Plains for a while. Morgrave University arranged for the tablet to be taken off display and handed it into the care of House Kundarak. A silver Aurum member by the name of Harrin d'Kundarak placed it inside a chest which then went into a twin-Khyber sharded adamantine locked chest which required Kundarak blood to open the Arcane Lock and other seals.
Each member of the party was given a purse of fifty platinum coins in thanks for their efforts in returning the valuable tablet.
Later that same night, Dha'ron was chased and attacked by a werewolf in the streets of Sharn! It was itself chased off by the arrival of the swifter of a pair of guardsmen. In particular a golden-eyed man who took Dha'ron immediately to a Jorasco healer and administered belladonna to stave off the infection of the lycanthropic disease! He introduced himself only as Kelmar at the time and returned to his partner just as quickly as he left. Now Dha'ron bears the taint of lycanthropy, but not the curse itself.
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