Ragnorra Session 26

Start: 9 pm, Monday, Flamerule 19, 1396.

Before battle, Vix, Cassius, Lilly rest. Leonard and Ronja decide not to.

Vix directs Lilly to stay behind at the Prancing Gargoyle.

They regroup and head on out to the south wall, after some deliberation.

The four of them join war wizard Lloyd Terestar at the south wall, are briefed by him, and ask questions about what to expect.

Ronja and Leonard split off and take watch on the east portion of the wall. Ronja spots a suspicious collection of brush by the treeline, and blasts it with her eldritch blast. She deigned to wait for enemies to approach from that opening.

Meanwhile, a guard, who after inspection, genuinely appears to be a guard, shambles towards the gate. Lloyd interrogates him and holds him with an appropriate amount of suspicion. The guard speaks of a traveler being attacked on the road.

Vix and Cassius waste no time. They scale the wall and proceed down the path, cutting through the woods to find another cleared path. Oddly, once they follow it, they notice some of the trees appear blighted.

Ronja and Leonard follow suit after a little bit, catching up to them.

The lot of them continue down the path and witness a strange sight. It's a man-sized chain golem before a murky pool, with a few slain afflicted before it. However ominous this seemed, they did not have time to consider the meaning of such a creature in this place. More afflicted, these with primitive gills and webbed fingers, climbed through the polluted sludge to the surface. With the golem, the party squared off against the afflicted, and slew them all.

The golem accompanied them through the twisted trees, down an alternate path back towards the wall. In their absence, the guards had been assailed by more afflicted. It seems however, their pike and crossbow strategy proved quite effective - with war wizard Lloyd Terestar's help, of course.

The party quite conveniently cut off a fleeing Zenythri's exit plan. They cannily captured him, finished off the remaining afflicted, and reported back to Lloyd.

Lloyd chided them for risking their lives, inquired about the traveler, and remarked about how odd and out of place the golem seemed.

They regrouped on the other side of the wall, and rested at the Prancing Gargoyle.

Omen and Montgomery must feed in 63 hours.

XP: 1800 xp
End: 9 am, Tuesday, Flamerule 20, 1396