Session Forty-Five (Graveyard of Empires Summary)

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Session 45 – February 25, 2015

Thorfus and Axel head over to Midmark to sell some loot and get more information, while the other begin trading. We encounter a devil fish but it is not a problem.

After selling gear and gathering information we head back to the Bawdy Bachelor when we encounter a shipping accident involving cranes, and meet Uthruk, whom we haven’t seen for several weeks. Uthruk elects to join us and returns with us to Kalligan.

Back in Kalligan we find the others in their training. The next day Perette stops by on the Leering Sheriff and we meet Admiral Diconsin a tough looking lady.

Perette shares that he is going to the mining camp up the Vargwater to investigate claims of slaves and we encourage him to look for Em.

Perette shares a letter from Thornton that perette is authorized to pay us to clear out the fort and we can keep the loot we find.

The day after that, a barge arrives from Kalligan with Emory Longstirap who tells us that the Kobolds are attacking the ford and the Baewin has been hurt. He wants to take Adelard and the mercenaries. Adelard and 7 of the mercenaries leave, but the party hires 8 of them to join us for 6sp a day plus food.

We equip them with backpacks and other gear.

We are advised to stay at the inn with the mercenaries and the trainers, which we do.

We go to the fort and Finklemur shinks the stones and they fall away, revealing a large room with a spiral iron staircase that had been sheared off at the level of the floor.

We go down and find a passageway off each of the four walls. To the west it is only ten feet to an open door with lots of huge spiderwebs. We elect to light them afire. Two spiders come out that we kill. Thorfus pushes the door closed and we wait.

While we wait we look and see long pasages to the North and South. To the East appears to be a flooded room.

We go to the west and find a room with pillars and a stone statue that is platinum plated.

Axel rushes in to investigate and three centipedes drop on him. The party rushes to his aid and they are killed before anyone is hurt.

The statue is very heavy, so we elect to leave it until we leave.

We open the door and find a burnt humanoid about 5 feet tall that makes a mewling noise. Ashton attempts to heal it.

It then rises and tries to attack and we kill it.

While couning the coin in this room the body grabs Ashton and we kill the “zombie” again and set it on fire. It is still moving even though it has been decapitated and a hand cut off.

We explore 8 cells, 3 of which Chuq unlocks in a row,the 4th Ashtonn unlocks, then we find the key to open the four remaining cells.

One of the cells has a large crack in the wall, so we put a bench in front of the opening and close and lock the door.

The body starts moving again and before we can move the remains to a cell and lock it in, our hirelings keeping watch are attacked by two giant scorpions from the north passage.

We arrive to see Hengist foaming at the mouth and another hireling unconscious.

We rush to fight. Another hireling is knocked down and Axel is pinched mightily by the pincers, but no one else is stung.

We manage to defeat them, but alas, poor Hengist is dead.

We lock up the remains of the “zombie” and light them afire. Axel pokes it through the heart with his magic sword.

We then let the wounded go up and the party moved the statues near the spiral stairs, with discussions of using the eye hook in the ceiling that held the phoenix egg.