Previous Session: 16 Doing the Work for Our Undead Overlord || Next Session: 18 There and Back Again
We hop aboard our ship and as per usual Arvel greets us and places the blessing of Stendar upon us.
On the boat, Medora approaches Leanne and suggests she has a way to communicate to Lysandus's spirit, though it may take some special ingredients in order to do it. She's been at it for a while now, and the floating GM letters let us know that we'll need to get our next objective from her after we complete the mission for the underking.
We make port at the same place we did last time we were here and head out into the wilderness
Challenge
Traveling! Survival checks. Everyone succeeds. -1 Health for Casts
It's hot out here, but after a number of days we see Castle Llugwych out in the distance. Unusually, there are no signs of Blades... only Werewolves.
Kihra and Casts sneak closer to get up to the castle.
Skill Use
Stealth
When they get closer we discover that there's a dead horse that appears to have been killed by animals. We also find a fair number of burnt corpses - some of which are wearing Akaviri armor, some of which might have already been undead.
Kihra finds a window and heads on up:
Challenge
Get up the window (Athletics) Success! -2 health
She finds a dark room, basically nothing valuable in here - just a desk and a quill. It's very quiet in there, so she asks for a Perception roll to see what's going on.
She finds evidence that there was a fight, but someone took the time to remove the corpses from the room and otherwise tidy up the place a little. Right around that time here greed-sense activates so she heads into the captain's room - finds a bunch of random trinkets, as well as the crown...which she immediately puts on her head. This act summons a floating skeletal thingie which immediately attacks.
1. The Undead thing fires a lightning bolt at Kihra, who successfully dodges.
2. Kihra slashes for the throat, discovers there is no throat, but does injure it.
3. Kihra bolts to try and find Casts, -4 health as she's attacked on the way out
4. Casts Climbs up into the room
5. Kihra gets into the room, lures the creature in, but takes 2 health damage in the process.
6. Casts Backstabs the creature.
Meanwhile Terfir Lif and Leanne run up into the fray and discover the mound of burnt corpses are standing up!
1. Terfir blasts them with fire!
2. Leanne gets attacked by a zombie, who successfully blocks.
3. Terfir punches the torso of the last zombie, and finishes it off.
Back inside, Kihra tries to remove the crown, and when she does so it immediately appears back on her head. She and Casts head back out of the window.
At the gate, Terfir and Leanne encounter a Werewolf who snarls at them, but doesn't immediately attack.
As the window, Kihra goes down first, and Casts gets attacked by a werewolf - he puts up a shield (Alteration) which successfully blocks the blow, but ejects Casts from the window and lands hard with a thud, spitting up blood.
This triggers the werewolves to come around the corner, where the leader transforms back into a human and claims to be one of the blades defending the fort.
On the boat trip back, Kihrazad has some terrible nightmares, and begins to use the "royal we" in casual speech.
We eventually make our way back to the Fire and Steel, to meet with our contact (whom we never bothered to ask his name). He makes the arrangements for us to meet the Underking, but makes us promise to not reveal his location to anyone else.
We head south.
Challenge
Survival Casts: Success Terfir: Success Kihra: Success Leanne: Success minus some Traveler's kits.
We travel to the edge of a desert, and eventually come to a series of runestones. We're led to a pair of stone pillars and told to stand between them, which teleports us underneath the ground.
Pretty soon thereafter, we are led to meet the Underking, and he wants to learn of our exploits. We give him an abridged version, and after requesting that we bring him the Totem of Tiber Septum he tells us that Lysandus's body is interred in Menevia.
Quest
Make it to Lysandus's body, located in Menevia. It's disgusied as a normal tomb as to not draw attention.
We head back to Chainlink after this and run into a man named Genonenian who has been hired by Princess Elysana to escort her friend to Daggerfall. The friend is quite pampered, but she introduces herself as Mirdette. We agree to it, and set out.
Before too long, we are beset by pirates!
Fight
1. Everyone needs to block (and does so). Kihra - Dodge, Casts- Alteration, Leanne - Block 2. Khira slashes at one with Claws (Brawl) - Success! 3. Casts stabs one in the kidney with a dagger (One-handed) - Success! 4. One of them attacks Leanne, who blocks. 5. Leanne kills one with a sword. 6. Khira slashes anohter one 7. Casts stabs another one in the throat with his dagger.
We drop the nice young lady off at her destination and find out that Princess Elysana tried to pull one over on us and have the destination family pay instead of her, but we're going to pay a visit to her and make sure that she does.