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Quest
Go to [[Hallowed Shore]] and retrieve an ancient scroll. Probably with the body.
Despite Casts-No-Shadow protesting that this won't be a great use of time, the party decides to head to the shore so that Kihrazad can spend more time looting tombs.
Challenge
### Make it to the cave! Survival Check - Need 4 survival checks to make it. Casts-No-Shadows - Success Terfir - Success Kihra and Leanne - Success, -1 Traveler's Kit
We all successfully made it to the cave.
It's obviously an old cemetary which is clear because of the crypt near the shore. Overall it's also layed out like a standard graveyard, but there are a fair number of caskets which are sticking out of the ground - and there are thick thorned vines that surround the graves, and only the graves.
Casts-No-Shadows is totally on edge because the lack of sound.
Challenge
### Stop the Trap Casts-No-Shadows uses `security` to disarm a spear trap before the group is stabbed by it. He **Succeeds** with a 10. No resources used.
The group then enters the crypt, hopefully not having alerted the inhabitants but it's dark down here and it's full of stagnant knee-deep water. It smells quite bad.
Skill Use
Casts-No-Shadows uses `Illusion` to create light.
There's nothing living down here, no animals, no nothing - only the dead. The walls are lined with wrapped mummies.
Skill Use
[[Leanne]] uses `medical` to determine if the bodies are unnaturally preserved.
We hear a noise, and when we turn to the left there's a humanoid shape that lunges at Kihrazad.
Skill Use
Kihra uses `block` to avoid getting a disease from the thing's noxious bite. She then follows it with `hand-to-hand` in order to claw the thing apart, which she does without much issue, and then rip it apart.
Once Khira has ripped the not-zombie litereally in half, but we're in a big dome-shaped room. Terfir knows that the mangled carcass was a ghoul because her grandfather often had to deal with roaming ghouls frequently in the past.
After that, we head into another chamber and are greeted by several ghosts.
Skill Use
Both Casts and Leanne use `conjuration` to summon some weapons.
Fight
Several Ghosts vs the group Leanne gets blasted by cold and attempts to `block` with the conjured shield and succeeds. Terfir unleashes fire and flame using `destruction` - she succeeds in turning the ghosts into a pile of ectoplasm (along with setting some vines on fire). Casts uses `one-handed` to use a conjured dagger to destroy another ghost. Khira uses `hand-to-hand` to ineffectually flail at the ghost. Leanne uses `one-handed` to use her conjured dagger to kill another ghost.
We find a valuable necklace and spell tome (for Conjuration - Soul Trap) in the crypt.
Leanne located the scroll. When she opens it up, she immediately realized that this was a terrible idea. A portal opens up and a dremora pops out of the portal.
Fight
Dremora attacks! Leanne has to avoid its warhammer with `block`. She then stabs it with `one-handed` and sends it back to oblivion.
After this we head back to the Ancus's place, stopping to camp overnight because of the duration of the journey.
Once we get back, it's clear that the Warlock has zero problem with sending us into danger - and Lielle is planning on putting the dremora behind a trap.
Skill Use
[[Terfir Lif]] must use `conjuration` to help Lienne with the scroll openage.
The dremora is stuck behind a ward and seems a little confused that it can't fight.
Challenge
## Convince the Dremora to join us. This is the same dremora as before. Leanne summons a dagger and does the standard blood oath. [[Terfir Lif]] uses `speech` to convince the Churl to join us via a blood pact. Success! -6 Health.
Terfir gains the ability to summon that particular Dremora Churl via the summon Atronoch spell.
Lielle determines that Nulfalga is the one who cast the spell. She's the mother of Lysandus, went crazy, and then fled into the mountains.
Later, Lielle asks Kihrazad why Leanne is hiding her ulterior motives from her parents, but she doesn't give them any clue, just says that they're good friends. As a sign of gratitude, Lielle gives her a book titled "The Red Kitchen Reader", Increases Sneak by 2.
Afterwards, we headed back on foot to Gothway Gardens. In the tavern, a young traveler comes to greet us, and he has a sigil on his arm that we do not immediately recognize.
Challenge
## Make it to Daggerfall! Everyone needs to roll `Survival`! Terfir, Khira, and Casts all succeed withouth effort. Leanne also succeeds but at `-3 traveler's kits`.
We successfully make it to Daggerfall relatively unharmed, but having used some of our supplies to keep Leanne from falling ill.
After some antics with Moonbeam we headed to the Dirty Dagger and met with Lady Brisienna Magnessen. She gives a quick recap of the goings on in Daggerfall and warns us not to go out at night.
The current king of Daggerfall, Gothryd is not a fan of the empire. There may be other people in the court might be okay.
Abuk-i - The queen of Daggerfall may be able to help us find Nulfalga's lair. She's a bit more Naive and willing to listen, more so than Gothryd.