Curnach hurls another fire bolt.
VS Touch
Curnach hurls another fire bolt.
1d20+2 VS Touch
1d6+2
The undead takes another strike from the fire, but remains standing for a little bit, though appears haggered and weakened from the attack. The necromatic energies holding it together are weak and one strong hit is needed to take it down.
Krenn's round 2 action
Krenn swings his axe to deliver a mighty blow, severing the zombie in half with a single bow, killing the last one in this room.
attack
damage
That's the end of the round and there appears to be nothing of interest in this room only many lipsticks and other expensive and exotic makeup in this room. the jewlery case was emptied you assume by Jolistina as she did have stolen jewlery on her. Like the rest of the mansion so far, this room too smells strongly of carrion due to the rotting bodies.
The room you enter appears to be a bathroom. There's nothing here of interest besides the blood on the floor which the trail leads out and adds to the pile of bodies on this floor.
All that's left is a door that is across the room, surrounded by windows and near where Josilina is laying unconcious. This is a door that leads to a balcony that overlooks the guarden, but there is nothing of interest here. The only place left to look is downstairs.
Before leaving the bedroom, Ariana will pick up the lipsticks and cosmetics. "A girl's got to look her best"
You don't appear to notice anything in this room, however you do catch out the corner of your eye three more zombies. Two sitting down by the fire whilst another is standing there like a servant with a silver tray, on it appears to be a few empty glasses.
If we've effectively searched the room at A-C/3-5, then Krenn will check the door between E4 and F4.
This appears to be a small sitting room that appears to be mostly untouched and with nothing else of interest here.
Sure, we plan to search the place thoroughly...
The path down south where Krenn is looking is into the guarden. There appears to be nothing of interest out the guarden.
As Krenn opens the door once again there is a macarbre pantomime here, courtesy of Jolistina. You see 4 figures sitting down dressed as a sear serpent, a castle tower, a swan and a blus skeleton whilst on the stage a single zombie dressed as a blue-winged angel, struming a large, standing harp, unfortunatly all the strings of the harp are broken so there is no sound, but that doesn't stop the zombie from trying to pluck at the invisiable cords.
Round 1
Group Initiative:
Curnach Daveck:
Jerinthian Kos:
Arianna Rothschild:
Krenn Whetstone:
Zombies:
Order:
Curnach Daveck
Zombies
Jerinthian Kos
Arianna Rothschild
Krenn Whetstone
Curnach hurls a fireball at the zombies on the stage , almost disdainfully.
Reflex DC19 for 1/2.
zombie 1:
zombie 2:
zombie 3:
zombie 4:
zombie 5:
All of the zombies in the room fall to the floor under the insense explosion by Curnach's fireball. Small fires are set up all over the room and over the corpses' costumes, but they are all down now.
Curnach spits in disgust, and then gestures for the group to continue exploring.
Curnach spits in disgust, and then gestures for the group to continue exploring.
A door to the south and a double-door entrance in the hall that you've all gone past.
Arianna wrinkles her nose as the smell of decayed, and now burnt, flesh wafts out of the room. With a dramatic 'after you' gesture she waves Krenn past her to the door at the end of the short hall.
The room you come across is the preparing area for the servants. Here you find two zombies, they were once the house servants, dressed in simple clothing at a preperation table using their dull knifes to cut the meat off a dead body, which is dressed up with a pig. What's even more sickening to add to this visual is the dead body has a apple stuffed in it's mouth.
You dispatch the two zombies with no problem. A door to the right leads into a larder where the meats and cheese were stored, though some has gone out of date whilst the door west leads into a room with both stairs that lead down into a basement and another door leading further west.
We'll check the larder quickly before going to the west door and opening it. Krenn will comment I'd prefer to make sure nothing's left up here to follow us down before taking the stairs down. If there are no other doors in this branch of the house, we'll backtrack to the main room and take the other south door.
As described, door to the west or stairs downstairs. It's a reasonable assumption that this door would lead eventually the same way that the double doors in the main area that havn't been checked yet might lead.
As you enter the double doors you see six zombies, all dressed up and eating from bowls of what is probably rotten soup. The motion is continous as whenever they drink the soup their mouth is left gaping and it spills back out into the bowl for them to once again get more soup with their spoon. They notice you and start their attack.
Round 1
Group Initiative:
Curnach Daveck:
Jerinthian Kos:
Arianna Rothschild:
Krenn Whetstone:
Zombies:
Order:
Curnach Daveck
Jerinthian Kos
Krenn Whetstone
Zombies
Arianna Rothschild
The zombies will be having trouble and be unable to move this round as they have had their seats pushed tightly against the table and will need some time to struggle out.
The zombies will be having trouble and be unable to move this round as they will be immolated by Curnach.
More filth! Curnach exclaims in disgust, hurling another fireball at the zombies.
DC19
zombie 1:
zombie 2:
zombie 3:
zombie 4:
zombie 5:
zombie 6:
One single survivor appears to survive this blast, but it has left him terribly wounded from the scorching fire.
No Jerin isn't going to waste his spells on these lesser monsters :)
As Krenn charged in he decapted the zombie's head off, the disembodied head flying in the air and then crashing back down to the floor, rolling under the table.
You make your way down the stairs into the dark, but you notice that unlike the other floors this one has been lit with torches. You make yur way through a door, finding many barrels of wine stacked up, some wine being rare bottles dating back several centuries. Everything here has been left unused and you find a final door, however this one appears to be locked.
Inside you see many painting supplies, a small shrine to Shelyn, a tawdry-looking divan, several scandalous portraits of Mrs. Carowyn and from the paintings above you recognise Mr. Carowyn, however somewhat older than he was in the portraits.
He is brandishing a dull paint knife defensively at all of you, backing away.
"Who are you?! Don't come any closer, friends of that vile harlot woman!" he shouts, but his voice is shakey and the knife is shaking clearly from his own rattled nerves. He appears to have a few waterskins, most of them empty and a few dead rats in the corner, he's locked himself down here for quite some time.
Inside you see many painting supplies, a small shrine to Shelyn, a tawdry-looking divan, several scandalous portraits of Mrs. Carowyn and from the paintings above you recognise Mr. Carowyn, however somewhat older than he was in the portraits.
He is brandishing a dull paint knife defensively at all of you, backing away.
"Who are you?! Don't come any closer, friends of that vile harlot woman!" he shouts, but his voice is shakey and the knife is shaking clearly from his own rattled nerves. He appears to have a few waterskins, most of them empty and a few dead rats in the corner, he's locked himself down here for quite some time.
You don't have to worry about that evil little elf anymore, she is unconscious upstairs and her evil menagerie has been delt with. Would you like ot get out of hear and you can tell us what happened over an ale and some food?
Inside you see many painting supplies, a small shrine to Shelyn, a tawdry-looking divan, several scandalous portraits of Mrs. Carowyn and from the paintings above you recognise Mr. Carowyn, however somewhat older than he was in the portraits.
He is brandishing a dull paint knife defensively at all of you, backing away.
"Who are you?! Don't come any closer, friends of that vile harlot woman!" he shouts, but his voice is shakey and the knife is shaking clearly from his own rattled nerves. He appears to have a few waterskins, most of them empty and a few dead rats in the corner, he's locked himself down here for quite some time.You don't have to worry about that evil little elf anymore, she is unconscious upstairs and her evil menagerie has been delt with. Would you like ot get out of hear and you can tell us what happened over an ale and some food?
He lowers his knife with a nod
"Yes, but I'm not leaving without my wife. I want to know what happened her. Did she escape? Was she the one that told you I was here?" he asked seeming hopeful about his wife
I must be honest with you sir- your wife was made into an abomination; one which we destroyed in order to put your wife to rest. I am sincerely sorry for your loss, and we have the mage responsible in our custody. Justice will be done, that much I can promise you.
I must be honest with you sir- your wife was made into an abomination; one which we destroyed in order to put your wife to rest. I am sincerely sorry for your loss, and we have the mage responsible in our custody. Justice will be done, that much I can promise you.
Ausio remains still, seemingly making him lose his composure and he pales, but sighs as he accepted the worse would've happened some time ago.
"That woman burst in, quite uninvited and dressed as something of a harlot-harlequin." he sighs, sitting back down "She opened fire on my guests with her crossbow, laughing all the while in the most frightful, shrill way. They sickeed and collapsed with shocking rapidity-whatever venom she coated those bolts with could only be blood veil!" he gets back up and looks over the group. "Please, escort me to the guard for a full report on what happened here. I need to make a report to the Field Marshall and have a formal investigation to clean up and repair any damage that crazy elf woman did to my home. The families will need to be informed of what happened too."
We'll take you to the field marshall now sir, along with the Elf that attacked you.
We'll take you to the field marshall now sir, along with the Elf that attacked you.
"I thank you. I wish to take her head off, but she should be delt with by the law, even though she is clearly deranged." he gets up, wanting to get off and report what had happened to the Field Marshall.
Field Marshall Cressida Kroft is surprised by what disturbing news you brought her. As you all explain to her everything that happened she makes sure to have Jolistina Superio gagged when put away as she knows this woman is a sorcorer. She lets one of her leutenants deal with the paperwork for Ausio Carowyn for the cleaning of his mansion and reporting to the families of those who died.
Once he's left she looks over to you with a serious look.
"I have the address where the good doctor has been hiding out. He has been hiding in The Hospice of the Blessed Maiden. This Hospice has many infected within it's walls and my informant has seen many of the Queen's Gray Maidens entering and leaving, but beyond that my informant knows nothing about the inside, but he did manage to find out a nurse stops anyone from getting any further than the entrance." she stops for a moment and looks out the window. "Take a rest for tonight and make sure you are prepared to enter the Hospice. There will be many innocent, suffereing victims of the Blood Veil in there and I would hope none of you cause their deaths, however I understand if there are unavoidable casualties. I hope once you catch this horrorfying doctor we can get some straight answers out of him and a cure to this plague. I wish I could pay you for what you have done, but we have our resources streched."
2 potions of invisibility
2 potions of remove disease
wand of cat's grace (10 charges)
4 smoke bombs
+1 Glamered Studded Leather Armour (was in the fourm of a beautiful ball gown, but can be changed to what the owner wants)
+1 light crossbow
3 screaming bolts
30 bolts
masterwork dagger
2 alchemist's fire
flint and steel
manacles
sealing wax
20 sewing needles
150 gp in stolen jewelry.
a wizard's spellbook with some spells (clearly not Jolistinia's)
Spells in book:
4th--Ice Storm
3rd--Dispel Magic, Fly, Haste
2nd--Knock
1st--Identify
Spells in book:
4th--Ice Storm
3rd--Dispel Magic, Fly, Haste
2nd--Knock
1st--Identify