Session Fifty-Seven Summary (Graveyard of Empires: After the Fall)

Session 57, August 11 2021

Introduction

We continue at 12:00PM on the 22nd of Laurilden in Montoa as the villagers and party deal with the aftermath of the orc battle. The group must figure out how to re-consecrate the healing lake and insure the safety of the Montoans from One-Horn's forces while also moving ahead with their plans to counter the DVL invasion ...

Larry's Summary

AT the lake, Felix casts commune with these 3 questions and gets a YES answer to each question.

Commune questions asked:
1-Will Remove Curse restore the lake's healing power after we clean it? YES
2-Is the Winter King amenable to our proposal to join the coalition to fight the DVLs? YES
3-Is there any of Myrientaxus' treasure left in Myrientaxus' lair that will directly benefit us in fighting the DVLs? YES

Lungmold talks to the emissary from Hizzou and the talks went well. The emissary thinks he can get the village elders to agree to be part of a defensive pact to deal with hostile forces West of the mountains.

Brendil looks at Velkin's notes on blood magic and talks to Kauri about blood magic.

Rallion, Lungmold, Velkin, & Will Seibold go looking for Hermengart. They come upon a burned patch of jungle in the rain and discover 7 giant beetles. Rallion entagles with blood magic and holds 3 and slows 2. Lungmold is attacked by the two not held and goes down.

Will is dropped by the two beetles who turn and blast fire out their hind ends and Will goes down, badly burned.

Rallion drops another entangle and gets 3 of the 4. One is not affected. Velkin rushes in and gives Lungmold a healing potion and he's back on his feet. Velkin bound Will.

Rallion strikes the beetle facing him, it turns and blasts him, and both he and Velkin are stunned.

Rallion is then slain. Velkin is invisible and safe. Lungmold charge but got hung up in the entangle.

Hermengart showed up just in time and distracted the beetle from slaying Lungmold, but Hermengart gets hung up in the entangle when he charges in.

Hermengart is slain and the beetle carries him off.

Just before the entangles wear off, Velkin comes to his senses and kills 3 entangled ones. The first 3 held ones come in and drag off Will and Rallion. One gets hung up. Velkin and Lungmold kill the beetles carrying off Rallion, Will, and Hermengart and slay one that was slept and one entangles.

They make a travois and pile on the bodies and head back to Montoa.

Back at Montoa, the villagers clean up the lake and Felix casts Remove Curse and the party and villagers heal up and top off their vessels.

It is after dark before Lungmold and Velkin return to Montoa with the bodies of their companions.

This brings a solemn tone to the party. Gath is sad when Rallion doesn't respond to prodding.

Lungmold relays to Gath that the party will fix him, so Gath picks up Rallion's body and carries it to the lake.

Lungmold places his glowing feather in one of Rallion's hands and Rallion's glowing feather in the other. Lambertus and Felix lower his body into the water and his body is no longer damaged, the feathers vanish, and Rallion glows.

Druul reaches into a pocket thinking of resussitation and gets a parchment with a rune that VElkin, Kauri, et. al. record.

They elect to bring the 5 orc and 6 hobgoblin prisoners to the lake and preserve Lambertu's final god stone, keeping it as a last resort to raise Rallion.

Lambertus begins slaying hobgoblins and it takes 5 of the 6 hobgoblins to power the spell of the rune. Rallion changes form and stands before all as a glowing unicorn. He cannot speak. Gath thinks that Rallion has ascended to become a higher power. Gath elects to stay with Rallion. Rallion decides to remain at Montoa and stand as a guardian of the lake and the village.

Ajax returned and relayed that about half as many of the orcs as were slain appear to be the surviving force and they are making their way towards the mountains. We slew about 70, so we estimate about 35 survived so about 70 remain of the original assault force.