[Ooc]Get back. I'm basting it![ooc]
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Tess pulls her bow, knowing a fight is incoming.
With a horrific burst the body of the Black rider explodes. Stranding in its place is a huge creature almost treelike in nature, its branches like tentacles and its roots ending in hooves, with a trunk decorated with numerous drooling maws.
"Get behind me!"
Eleric you recognise the creature as a Dark Young of Shub-Niggurath. They have damage reduction except against slashing weapons, they are immune to electricity, fire and poison. They have a frightful presence aura. They have the constrict and trample abilities, some spell like abilities and if they pin a target they can do strength damage.
Eleric coveys what he knows to the group.
[ooc[Initiative order
Block 1: Eleric and Creeden
Block 2: Dark Young
Block 3: Ortensia and Tessara
So block 1, your actions.[/ooc]
Eleric tries to blind the creature and do some damage intensify a burst of radiance (DC 20 Ref).
Roll twice take the lower.
The dark young takes the full force of Eleric's spell and appears to be blinded.
Creeden rushes to stand next to Ortensia and attacks the grub.
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Creeden strikes the Dark Young but unfortunately none of the damage gets through.
The dark young tries to attack Creeden but misses.
Ortensia manuvered herself so as to exclude herself and Creeden from the effects of her blast, her breath fogging on the the super cooled air as sheer cold shed from the ray she directed at the blinded monstrosity.
Tess casts Bless on the group, making their attacks more accurate against the strange beast.
A blast of cold air strikes the dark young and it howls in pain.
Eleric will cast a havocing magic missile.
Eleric's spell strikes the abomination again and it howls in pain.
On its turn the Dark Young activates its aura (30ft - Will 24 - frightful presence)
Seeing that his punches have little effect, Creeden will draw a waveblade and attack.
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[i]Due to being shaken, Creeden's blow misses the creature.
The Dark Young tries to attack Creeden but misses
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Ortensia blasted the monstrosity with more super cooled air as it flailed and squealed.
Tess casts Prayer, again trying to aid the others at striking the awful strange enemy.
Ortensia blasts the creature with her spell.
Creeden continues to try to cut the creature down.
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Eleric will cast another havocing magic missile.
[i]The creature is slashed by Creeden's weapon and then hit fulkl blast by Eleric's spell. It looks as if it is very badly wounded.
It tries to hit Creeden again, managing to lock on with 2 of its tentacles
Creeden, hold fast!
Tess lets fly three arrows at the enemy.
Attack
Damage
Attack
Damage
Attack
Damage
Ortensia blasts the Dark Young with a ray of cold, it gives one final pained scream and that falls dead. As it dies various sparks come off of the equipment and you can see small cracks appearing in the roof of the caverns. Slowly the waters of the lake start to trickle in to the cave.
Loot: Shadow mistmail
+1 wounding sickle
belt of giant strength +2
Whispering Way amulet
155gp
diamond worth 500gp
There is a bone scroll case which contains the following on a scroll:
"Necrophagus secrets whisper
Through chronicles of Raven's tongue
These words, no doubt familiar to you, are your next task. Take the Seasage Effigy to G.L in Illmarsh. He will exchange it for the legendary mace. When the item is in your possession, join your partner in Caliphas and the Carrion Crownm can finally be completed.
For the Glory of the Whisperer
AA."
Finally in one corner is the Seasage Effigy.
Creeden disentangles himself from the various tentacles. "Just in the nick of time, there! Let's gather what we can and get back on dry land. I'm curious what we should do with the Effigy, but time to speak of that later."
"So, it seems like the trade has not been completed. If that is right then we can try to use the effigy to get the mace. Then the mace in Caliphas to get the crown and arrest the person responsible for all this chaos."
Ortensia held up the Ravenshead mace. Actually, we already have the mace in hand. Its pretty much a holy relic.And it will continue to be used as such against the Whispering Way. We can return the Effigy to the college. They'll probably pay us a handsome sum for its recovery and the new information we uncovered about it.
She started to stuff the Effigy and the other items of worth into her handy haversack.
We best hurry along. This place isn't architecturally sound enough for is to dawdle. We'll divvy up whatever we found once we're safe. Should we take the brains in jar and that bleached girl?
”Yes, let’s take the girl. I’m not sure about the brains however. I wouldn’t want to be kept in such a state.”
"If we can get the bleached girls with one of the town administrators maybe they can set her up with a good family and with time and love she will recover or adapt. If you all go ahead I have an idea about the brains."
There are the sounds of rock shifting.
You manage to take the girl and meet back up with Croon who takes you back to the surface. You realise from what you have seen that the majority of the townspeople have at the very least been involved in the fostering although Mayor Greedle and the owner of the manor house were the main instigators.
"This town is full of corrupt and incompetent people let confront the mayor."
...I do believe Greedled was the former mayor. I doubt they're organized enough to have elected another mayor so soon. Would it be remiss of me suggesting we burn this eyesore to the muck it stands upon?
"Maybe Horace has some family that will take the kid? Then we can get on our way."
Elric will walk around town and see how people respond to him asking about the cult and abductions openly.
Horace is the only decent sort in this sordid place. But, aye, a good idea...
The villagers that Eleric speak to are very cagey. They seem to know nothing about the abductions. On the cult they are perhaps a little more open although none seem to know it was a secret cult to Dagon. They explain for centuries there has been fostering of children to the neighbours.
"Perhaps without the cult to lead them astray, they will return to more wholesome practices. Once we return to the city, we could contact a temple to have them send representatives here. Perhaps Sarenrae? They have much to repent for, and could use some light in this damp swamp."
Creeden is ready to put the dismal town behind him.
"Well we have done our job now we have to go to Caliphas."
The trek from Illmarsh to Caliphas takes several days. You are about a day's ride from Caliphas when the road narrows as it passes between two hillsides topped with skeletal trees looming to the east and west. Just ahead, a stone bridge spans a wide, fast-moving stream with stone sentinels in stag-antlered helms guarding each end. In the middle of the bridge is a horseman dressed in black on a black horse.
”Well, that all black soldier looks pretty ominous, doesn’t it?”
"Not the first one we have come across. Should he try talking, fighting or sneaking?"
"Maybe if we question him, we can get to the bottom of this."