Ragnorra Session 22

Start: 5 am, Sunday, Flamerule 18, 1396

Cassius, Vix, and Ronja decided to scout ahead on the fork on the road, leaving Omen to guard Lilly.

This took a few hours, but they discovered the fork led to a disused, overgrown side path, leading to a decrepit inn with a graveyard further on.

They decided their best plan of action was to proceed further. Vix noticed unusual footprints on the periphery of the path and decided to take precautionary measures, casting Hide from Undead, before they proceeded further.

The three of them explored the dilapidated inn, finding the front door locked. They found the door to the connected stable less locked, and entered.

Inside they were met with a terrible smell and a sight that spoke to the neglect and abandonment of the establishment.

A fetid, rotting corpse of four horses were left to rot in the pen. Making their way to the second floor utilizing a ladder found nearby, they made their way into the main building of the inn.

They found a poorly fortified building, with chairs and other furniture bracing every entryway. The stocks of food and drink were mostly consumed. Searching the ground floor revealed very little, except perhaps the desperation of whomever was fortifying the building.

They found a string leading to an attic. Inside, they found a corpse which was somewhat fresh. It seemed to be an emaciated peasant man clutching his chest.

The trio left the inn and went over to the mausoleum.

There, they found a small gazebo-like structure with a sealed entrance. The name on the crypt - Cathay - was familiar to Vix. It was quick work to bust the seal open. Inside, peering into the darkness, the trio spotted six vampire spawn dressed in noble finery and starved to the point of senselessness.

Utilizing sound strategy, Vix turned many of the undead, Cassius rappelled down a rope he affixed to the trap door, and Ronja sniped with her eldritch blast.

Finishing up all but one of the vampire spawn, Vix cast command undead on the final vampire spawn.

Cassius boldly decided to use a potion of restoration on the vampire spawn, and it worked.

Refreshed but confused, the vampire spawn identified himself as Montgomery Cathay, a noble of house Cathay, and a man who died over eighty years ago.

He revealed information about his perception of how order should be, and how his brother was likely the master vampire controlling him. He mentioned a network of aqueducts, and how the controlling pump, which could empty the Plungepool into this archaic water supply was nearby, as well as holding cells.

He did not seem to know the state of nearly anything, and had to be briefed on current events.

The three of them entered the next room, and found two corpses. One seemed to be a common laborer, and the other a mage of the arcane order. Cassius dispensed the mage's corpse into his bag of holding.

On the table in the holding room, Vix copied down a copy of the handwriting of someone signing off as I. V., and took the rest of the notes in her pack.

They noticed a basalt statue of Beshaba overlooking the room.

The three decided to dismantle the pump outside of Montgomery's notice.


XP: 944
Omen feeding: 2 days, 16 hours.
Montgomery feeding: 2 days, 22 hours.
End: 11 am, Sunday, Flamerule 18, 1396