Ragnorra Session 13

Start: 3 pm, Tuesday, 15th, 1396

The party checked both doors leading up and down. They noticed the basement required a key and was quite securely locked. They proceeded upstairs.

Ronja briefly searched the rooms, finding little other than semi-fresh loaves of bread, water, cots, and chamberpots, despite her best efforts.

The lot of them overheard a sermon of some kind being given in the room above them. They decided to proceed upstairs after a careful attempt to assess the threat.

Ronja listened at the door and the four of them charged forth through it.

They were met by a man vaguely matching Vane Egyon's description, four dominated women, and two guards.

Combat commenced.

Ronja was disabled early on in the combat by the wizard.

Cassius, Dorn, Vix, and Simon fought off the guards. The wizard seemed to still be required to manually direct the dominated women, one by one, if he so chose.

Once the guards were dealt with, Cassius charged the wizard and struck him. A spell took effect, teleporting him to a corner of the room. Vix pursued him, and the wizard walled himself off with Vix.

Vix withstood the barrage of the wizard's spells, healing herself in an attempt to wait out the duration of the wall of force.

Cassius forced the wizard to save against a possible effect controlling him.

He was able to after a second try, and in the span of six seconds, took measures to dispel his own protections and attack himself. He seemed oddly still and at peace with his gods. He told the party to do what they must, and expressed his regret and inability to control his actions.

Ultimately, they did just that.

An illusion fell off of the old man after he perished. He appeared withered and in late stages of the progeny affliction. Tumors and intersecting growths covered his body, and he was a contorted, warped mess. It was disgusting to behold.

Ronja searched the room and tied up the unconscious women. One perished during the combat.

She found an altar, a chamberpot, a strange alchemical apparatus, a still device, a large storage barrel to the north, and a couple of smaller reagent barrels next to the alchemical apparatus.

Cassius sensed strange, unpleasant, and quite concentrated life energies from one of the barrels. He announced to the party the wrongness of the feeling, and Simon backed him up on this. The four of them took note of this and proceeded, looting the dead, moving the corpses into an organized pile in the ground floor, and tying the unconscious women up with their comrades on the same floor.

Only one of the women appeared to be awake. She seemed to have a change once the wizard perished, and was crying and afraid. This went unaddressed, for now.

Using the small key the party found on one of the upstairs women, they ventured to the basement.

In the basement, they found a strange, lowly humming machine.

There were four humanoids suspended in vats.

There were two women in the vats, and two men. The two men appeared to be perfect copies of the man they found upstairs. One of the women appeared to be Lilly, the innkeeper's assistant from Proskur. The other, they would find out shortly, was Simon's daughter, Lilly.

Simon had an outburst and tried to dismantle the vat. Vix demanded him stop and explain himself. He reacted uncharacteristically angrily for Simon, and tried to disobey her directive, only following her commands to the explicit directive.

Through their conversation, they uncovered that this woman is Simon's daughter. They set out to free those in the vats.

Cassius and Ronja took downstairs to turn off the machine, and did so successfully.

In the process of this, they noticed a gentle slope to the tunnel beneath, seemingly functioning as a crude drainage system.

Upstairs, they managed to revive Simon's daughter, Isadora.

They did so without briefing Simon, who immediately hid.


Simon Food Status: Fed 5 pm, Tuesday, 15th, 1396 (72 hours remain before 25 will save if not fed)
End: 5 pm, Tuesday, 15th, 1396