04-02-2014, 12:47 PM
Session 4
The characters dine with Lord Lyamford and his son Osric. Suddently, Baldwin hears a female voice chanting in the basement. The PCs and the Lyamfords climb down the stairs to the crypt and find Lyanna Lyamford, holding a scroll and pronouncing words in an ancien language. Suddently, her mother rises as a wraith, pushing back Lyanna and facing the PCs. Arthur's sword, Dirga's magic arrow and Baldur's magic missiles make short work of the undead. Balwin turns the wraith who (non-)existence is terminated by Lyanna's dagger, throwed by her brother. The dagger - Lyamford's Luck, is given to Baldwin. Lyanna is held in her quarters, Baldwin and Baldur are pleading for leniancy, while Mirko and Driga believe that stern punishment is in the order.
During the night, the Egg visits Mirko's dream again, offering him a chance to "go back to the stars from which he traveled to Blackmoor". Mirko denies, but the Egg presses on. Finally, Roweena appears in the dream and shatters the Egg's control on the alien's dreams. Baldwin is equally visited by Rowena who wishes to reassure him that she manages to hold "her former friend"'s power in check, she also suggest that Baldwin uses the dagger's Wish to annihilate the Egg's control on Lyanna. Driga dreams about his wife, whose disappearance weights heavily on his heart.
On the next morning, the paladin does use the dagger's sole Wish. The spell seems to work. The characters, with Lyanna, decide to go see the druid Lather, a close friend of Roweena and one of the few people who knew how to access her domain. Driga notices that the pine grove in which the druid has elected to live is strangely devoid of life. On the way, the PCs meet Anna-Bri, a druidess who explains that Lather's disappearance worries her. The PCs are suspicious as the story told by Anna-Bri is suspicisious. Baldwin detects her as an evil being. In the druid cottage, she offers them some food, which the PCs decline. She goes to the cellar with Mirko who sees the rotten cadaver of Lather held by a hook, just like it was a peace of meat. The druidess drops her magical disguise, she is indeed a green hag, who the party defeat, taking her magical ring (a ring of fire resistance), a potion of healing and Lather's meager treasure.
The characters decide to go and explore the two tombs located on a nearby ridge. The first one, made out of the same black rock as Castle Blackmoor, has a 30'-radius zone of darkness around it. Three shadows attack the characters, while their protective devices are cancel and fear grips their heart. The magical effect cancels the properties of Baldwin's amulet and the paladin is turned into a cave bear, riping out a shadow with his claw. The other shadows are dispatched by magic and blade. Only Driga and Lyanna decide to go into the tomb. They see several statues of women and men dressed in ancient costumes, some of them having aquatic traits such as webbed fingers, bulbuous eyes and others completely looking like hybrids of fishes and men. A sarcophagus holds a few bones and a wand of paralyzation.
The second tomb is made out of marble. Once the characters (all of them, this time) enter the massive door closes behind them, trapping them with thirtheen squeletons and a few odds and ends. On the wall, eighteen skulls, five of them still soft like clay, glare at them. Baldwin defaces the five soft skulls and the door opens.
Having decided to leave, the characters ride to nearby Williamsfort, to plan their trip to Archlis.
The characters dine with Lord Lyamford and his son Osric. Suddently, Baldwin hears a female voice chanting in the basement. The PCs and the Lyamfords climb down the stairs to the crypt and find Lyanna Lyamford, holding a scroll and pronouncing words in an ancien language. Suddently, her mother rises as a wraith, pushing back Lyanna and facing the PCs. Arthur's sword, Dirga's magic arrow and Baldur's magic missiles make short work of the undead. Balwin turns the wraith who (non-)existence is terminated by Lyanna's dagger, throwed by her brother. The dagger - Lyamford's Luck, is given to Baldwin. Lyanna is held in her quarters, Baldwin and Baldur are pleading for leniancy, while Mirko and Driga believe that stern punishment is in the order.
During the night, the Egg visits Mirko's dream again, offering him a chance to "go back to the stars from which he traveled to Blackmoor". Mirko denies, but the Egg presses on. Finally, Roweena appears in the dream and shatters the Egg's control on the alien's dreams. Baldwin is equally visited by Rowena who wishes to reassure him that she manages to hold "her former friend"'s power in check, she also suggest that Baldwin uses the dagger's Wish to annihilate the Egg's control on Lyanna. Driga dreams about his wife, whose disappearance weights heavily on his heart.
On the next morning, the paladin does use the dagger's sole Wish. The spell seems to work. The characters, with Lyanna, decide to go see the druid Lather, a close friend of Roweena and one of the few people who knew how to access her domain. Driga notices that the pine grove in which the druid has elected to live is strangely devoid of life. On the way, the PCs meet Anna-Bri, a druidess who explains that Lather's disappearance worries her. The PCs are suspicious as the story told by Anna-Bri is suspicisious. Baldwin detects her as an evil being. In the druid cottage, she offers them some food, which the PCs decline. She goes to the cellar with Mirko who sees the rotten cadaver of Lather held by a hook, just like it was a peace of meat. The druidess drops her magical disguise, she is indeed a green hag, who the party defeat, taking her magical ring (a ring of fire resistance), a potion of healing and Lather's meager treasure.
The characters decide to go and explore the two tombs located on a nearby ridge. The first one, made out of the same black rock as Castle Blackmoor, has a 30'-radius zone of darkness around it. Three shadows attack the characters, while their protective devices are cancel and fear grips their heart. The magical effect cancels the properties of Baldwin's amulet and the paladin is turned into a cave bear, riping out a shadow with his claw. The other shadows are dispatched by magic and blade. Only Driga and Lyanna decide to go into the tomb. They see several statues of women and men dressed in ancient costumes, some of them having aquatic traits such as webbed fingers, bulbuous eyes and others completely looking like hybrids of fishes and men. A sarcophagus holds a few bones and a wand of paralyzation.
The second tomb is made out of marble. Once the characters (all of them, this time) enter the massive door closes behind them, trapping them with thirtheen squeletons and a few odds and ends. On the wall, eighteen skulls, five of them still soft like clay, glare at them. Baldwin defaces the five soft skulls and the door opens.
Having decided to leave, the characters ride to nearby Williamsfort, to plan their trip to Archlis.