Session 2
Then party continues down the corridor as Tonic, using his dark vision scouts ahead. Tonic starts to round a corner but hears voices coming from the next open area and returns to the rest of the party to inform them of the situation. Theran decides to send his familiar, a weasel to further investigate the situation and finds four people.
Tonic tells the rest of the party he will start the ambush and for everyone to follow his lead. Tonic slinks around the corner and unleashes his arrows as the man holding the spear screams in agony. A female with a bloody shield charges Tonic, wildly swinging her mace but misses. The rest of party charges in and takes up defensive positions.
Theran quickly fires a bolt of fire but misses as Tonic catches a solid blow from his opponents mace which sends him staggering back. The battle ensues but the God Bane seems to be empowering his people and the party appears to be in dire straights and almost deadly blows start land with startling consistency. In a fit of rage, Uthar screams and swings his greatsword with all of his might that results in cutting the female opponent in half. Before the two halves of the body hits the floor Theran motions to a torch which flies off of the wall and collides with the last two remaining opponents that explode in a shower of sparks dropping them.
In the wake of the blood lust, the party realizes that the three guards were interrogating a prisoner chained up to the back wall in the shadows. As Gabriel goes to free the prisoner, two armored fists fly off am armored statue and misses Gabriel's head by an hair. Tonic is quick to react and connects with an arrow to one of the fists in midair as Gabriel grabs the other one and tries to put it on but fails to do so. During this effort the other fist rings Gabriels bell as Tonic skewers it with an arrow, pinning it to wall and both fists stop moving. After confirming that the fists are not a threat, they party frees the prisoner and quickly learns that he is a noble and was being held for political reasons. He promises that of he is seen to safety he will make sure everyone gets an award. Merrick decides to lead him back to the bathhouse so he can be returned to safety with a degree of certainty.
As merrick and the noble person heads back to the bathhouse, one of the guards moans and rolls over and bravely exclaims that we have all just signed our death certificate. Gabriel and Tonic picks up the guard, and chains him up where the prisoner was. After a few rounds of questioning, no information is given and Uthar finally has enough. Uthar walks over to the chained up guard, sticks the point of his dagger in the guards nose, and cuts a new slit in it. The guard grunts in pain but says, "I am still not telling you anything. You have no idea who my boss is". Theran grins maniacally and exclaims, "wrong answer" as he pulls down the guards pants and lines up a golf shot. The guard quickly changers his toon and explains how many people should be down here and how his boss is in a hidden room behind the torture chamber. The guard continues to sing like a canary and uses his limited hand movements to point to what door they need to take and the various direction they need to head in to find the torture chamber and the hidden door beyond that chamber. Just as Tonic walks over and paths the guard on the head, Merrick returns, sees the situation, and throws up his hands and says, "I do not even want to know. Can we get going?"
The party continues their journey following the guards instructions as the finally make it out of the wetness of the sewer and onto drier paths. They come across a corridor with multiple doors and the party starts investigating the doors and opening them one by one. Tonic opens one of the doors only to find himself face to face with multiple zombies and before Tonic can react, the zombies start to shamble forward. Tonic yells for help as he takes a few steps back narrowly missing becoming a snack. Tonic is able to drop back and fire an arrow but notices that is does not seem very effective and slings his bow so he can draw his short sword. The rest of the party rushes to the area as more zombies continue to spill out of the room. The corridor becomes a melody of steel rending undead flesh as Merrick, Theran, Uthar, Gabriel, and Tonic dance around the swarm of zombies - felling them one by one. Uthar dispatches the last zombie with an annoyed grunt as he removes the zombies head with a swing of his greatsword. Uthar movesa forward to inspect the room they were locked in and finds nothing of note. It appears it was just zombie storage?
Theran goes for the next door and cautiously cracks it open just enough to pick in. The room appears to be empty except for a sarcophagus in the far end of the room. Theran and Merrick cautiously enter the room as the rest of the party stands guard outside of the room. As they reach the sarcophagus they find it empty except for gel like liquid filling a 1/4 of it. Theran decides to reach into the liquid and discovers that it has a false bottom. Theran then finds a mummy and casts a spell to detect if any magic is present and he gets a feeling there is something magical. Merrick helps Theran pull the mummy out of the sarcophagus respectfully and then Theran discovers a leather pouch that has a pair of gemstone eyes. Theran pockets the entire pouch and Merrick returns the mummy to its resting place.
The party finds nothing else of note in the remaining rooms and continues on their journey. They eventually find themselves in the torture chamber as they notice two people chained up on to one of the walls. Tonic walks over for a closer inspection as he is about to exclaim they are both dead he notices that the female Tiefling is breathing and quickly frees her as he cradles her to the ground. Tonic gives her some water and she seems to regain some of her energy and wakes up. The party learns from the Tiefling that the leadership of the cult has always been members of the the royal family. The party decides to take the tiefling with them and learns that her name is Amber. Theran gives Amber a dagger so she has the ability to defend herself.
Tonic scouts ahead through the far door in the chamber and runs right into a guard. Tonic quickly snaps off an arrow but the guard yells Intruders and retreats down the hallway. The rest of the party hearing this, charges in as multiple guards rush in to stop them. Uthar drops one of the guards as Gabriel and Tonic drop another couple with their arrows and bolts. The remaining two guards retreat into the next room and close the door. Merrick without wasting any time, charges through the door, splintering it, and pushes the remaining two guards further into the room. Uthar joins Merrick in the room and they both make short work of the guards. The party then explores each of the remaining doors. The first door was a now empty barracks where the guards were living.
As the party opens the second door, they are hit with the unmistakable stench of blood and they notice there is a sarcophagus in the center of the room that is over flowing with blood. As they cautiously search the room, Gabriel finds an old lady, in rags, heavily breathing behind the Sarcophagus. The old lady acts really sweet but she gives Gabriel the creeps as something just feels off. Theran goes to retrieve Amber from her hiding place and she states that she has never seen the old lady before. Gabriel's bad vibes feelign intensifies and shoves Theran out of the way as an intense wave of murderous intent washed over him and the old lady stabs Gabriel.
Tonic sees this interaction and quickly fires of ann arrow that connects squarely with the old ladies hip as the old lady stabs Theran which drops him. Merrick senses the evil and charges in with his polearm and smites the old lady with extreme prejudice as Merrick's strike erupts in glowing golden light. The holy strike breaks the old ladies illusion and she is revealed to be a beautiful young woman. The battle continues but their opponent is tougher then she looks and leaves the various party members gasping for air and hoping for a miracle. After suffering another holy blow from Merrick, the lady tries to escape but Uthar takes her lack on concentration and cuts her down.
As the party is left to catch their breath and wonder what in the nine hells just happened, Tonic secretly picks up the ladies dagger and slips it into one of his sheaths.
Session 3
Disclaimer: I was not present for Session 3, so here is the best I could do with the notes I got from the other players.
After regrouping from the attack of the old lady, the party is able to locate the hidden door the leader is hiding behind and they charge in with a hope of surprise. Though, the leader was ready but by himself. They leader of the cult fought fiercely but eventually was no match for the numbers of the party.
As the leader took his last breath, the party decides it is time to head topside and prepare their report to the Capt. When the excited the bath house, they were ambushed by a group of people wearing all black and silver dragon masks. During the onslaught, one of the members dragon mask got knocked off revealing a beautiful women that Uthar instantly falls in love with. Uthar's pleas for her and the dragon masked assailants to stop their assault go unheard as Uthar is forced to cut his love down, with tears in his eyes.
The few remaining dragon masked attackers flee at the sight of the dawn.
