Human Cleric 5 Exalted 3 / AC 16, Touch 13, Flat 14 / HP 56/56 / Init +4 / Fort +10, Ref +5, Will +13 / Perception +8 / Channel Positive Energy (DC16/18) 7/7 Per Day
Darius growls and snarls baring his teeth towards Stam and Snaps defensively at Spugnoir.
He bobs his head, which may or may not be an acknowledgment to Stams question as Were-Darius takes a couple steps back.
One cultist gear again, like before. This place would make a great source for magic equipment. You just need a quick and cheap way to bring the collected goods to a market.
As you missed the opportunity to use wolfsbane after the bite it is now too late for that. Only cure would be casting remove curse now that Darius is changed.
Human Cleric 5 Exalted 3 / AC 16, Touch 13, Flat 14 / HP 56/56 / Init +4 / Fort +10, Ref +5, Will +13 / Perception +8 / Channel Positive Energy (DC16/18) 7/7 Per Day
Were-Darius tries not to move while Grergof touches him, but every muscle tenses and growls of warning escape his maw every now and again. Fighting to maintain some kind of control. But he knows he must flee before the beast takes over again.
Human Cleric 5 Exalted 3 / AC 16, Touch 13, Flat 14 / HP 56/56 / Init +4 / Fort +10, Ref +5, Will +13 / Perception +8 / Channel Positive Energy (DC16/18) 7/7 Per Day
HP 77 Ӏ AC 17 (FF 115/T 13) Ӏ CMD 18 Ι F+8, R+8, W+11 Ι Ini +6 Ι Perc +9
"His wounds look healed but that is generally Darius' place to know about all that. I guess in the morning he should be back to normal with less fur? and claws and teeth?" Stam says still staying his distance.
Human Cleric 5 Exalted 3 / AC 16, Touch 13, Flat 14 / HP 56/56 / Init +4 / Fort +10, Ref +5, Will +13 / Perception +8 / Channel Positive Energy (DC16/18) 7/7 Per Day
Were-Darius heads off into the night again...taking the corpse of the cultist with him to try satiate his lycanthropic hunger so that his friends don't look so tasty.
HP 77 Ӏ AC 17 (FF 115/T 13) Ӏ CMD 18 Ι F+8, R+8, W+11 Ι Ini +6 Ι Perc +9
"I think we just find him in the morning, we aren't going to be able to keep up with him at this place and we will be exhausted come the morning as well." Stam says to Grergof and Spugnoir.
Most of the group retreats to the farm outside town to rest for the night and wait for Darius to come back. With Darius hiding outside town in the open and the forces of the Whispering Way weakened no one stumbles over Darius or checks on the farm.
The sun rises and shines through high fog highlighting the destitute condition this land is in. Everything is dead, and what is not you wish it were. Silence lies over town.
Darius finds himself as his old self, blood smeared over the ripped apart body of the dead cultist.
Grergof heals everyone if they need it before he turns in for bed.
After a few hours sleep:
Grergof rises early to greet the dawn adding a prayer for his companions soul to his standard morning prayers. Then although tired from last nights activities, he quietly prepares the meal of trail bread and water while waiting for his companions to wake or return and make ready to continue his divine work.
Whey they still are not awake yet he sits quietly keeping watch over his companions.
I must be patient with them, they are not used to the monasteries strict routine.
Spugnoir eventually wakes as well, his twisted body all sore from sleeping on the ground. After taking care of morning business, he starts his mutagen cooking and sets up his extracts before munching on some jerky and looking for Varsk and Stam.
Human Cleric 7 Exalted 4 / AC 23/*25, Touch 12, Flat 22 / HP 76/76 / Init +3 / Fort +10, Ref +5, Will +13 / Perception +8 / Channel Positive Energy (DC17/19) 3/7 Per Day *Spell Adjusted No's
When Darius comes to he gathers himself up, his armour and clothing torn from his new transformation. His sword thankfully still in his sheathe at his side and his holy symbol also still around his neck, but the chains holding it almost bent to bursting.
He looks up at the rising sun and knees down in the wet grass. He draws his sword and plunges the tip into the dirt and hangs his holy symbol from it. The new dawn's light catching both the blade and silver symbol which shines on Darius
Darius however looks a mess. His normally white beard, chest and abdomen stained with blood and dirt. The taste of copper filling his mouth and nostrils.
Focusing on the symbol and trying to fill his being with the power of Iomedae he speaks the words he has for the past 30 years as a priest and then eventually a warrior cleric of the Inheritor.
"Herald of Aroden, goddess of righteous valour, honour and justice. Iomedae. Lady who watches over us. Grant me the wisdom to follow where you guide me. The protection you offer in completing the tasks you set before me and the courage to dispense your justice where it is needed. For all this I thank you oh just Inheritor."
He ends with a moment of utter silence feeling if she is indeed with him. The cold morning breeze on his now bare and blood stained torso.
HP 77 Ӏ AC 17 (FF 115/T 13) Ӏ CMD 18 Ι F+8, R+8, W+11 Ι Ini +6 Ι Perc +9
Stam wakes up with a stiff back, "I think we should buy a feather mattress to take with us, we could always get Ned to carry it for us. What do you think?" Stam pulls out some hard tack and eats while looking over his spell books.
"I will keep these.... and prepare this one today...Ohh this one is fun...ohh my head." Stam takes a drink and after about 20 minutes stands up. "If the others are ready lets find Darius before the cultists or Werewolves do."
Wand of Spider Climb 30/50
Scroll of Identify x 2
Scroll of Bulls Strength
Silver Arrows 8/10
Arrows 10/10
Blunt Arrows 10/10
Silver Blunt Arrows 10/10
Smoke Pellet
Smoke Stick x 2
wand of burning disarm 13/50
wand of charm person 19/50
wand of grease 4/50
Staff of the Swarm 10/10
Why? The floor is not cold or wet. Sleeping like this was one of the ways we used to teach the acolytes humility. I still am not comfortable in those soft beds most townsfolk enjoy.
Man has slept on the good earth and woken up under the Dawnbringer's watchful eyes for time beyond counting. Why fight against what as meant to be?
Human Cleric 7 Exalted 4 / AC 23/*25, Touch 12, Flat 22 / HP 76/76 / Init +3 / Fort +10, Ref +5, Will +13 / Perception +8 / Channel Positive Energy (DC17/19) 3/7 Per Day *Spell Adjusted No's
Darius heads off in search of his friends. To the last location he remembers leaving them before the change came upon him.
Human Cleric 7 Exalted 4 / AC 23/*25, Touch 12, Flat 22 / HP 76/76 / Init +3 / Fort +10, Ref +5, Will +13 / Perception +8 / Channel Positive Energy (DC17/19) 3/7 Per Day *Spell Adjusted No's
Darius meets the rest of the group, looking a little embarrassed and dirty.
"Is everyone alright? I fear... I am sorry for what I may have done last night. I was... not myself."
He moves to pick up his armor and equipment that fell off of him during his transformation and puts on his spare shirt and armor.
"Grergof is right though, lets remove these cultists before we deal with my... dilemma."
Human Cleric 7 Exalted 4 / AC 23/*25, Touch 12, Flat 22 / HP 76/76 / Init +3 / Fort +10, Ref +5, Will +13 / Perception +8 / Channel Positive Energy (DC17/19) 3/7 Per Day *Spell Adjusted No's
With Iomedae's blessing I can possibly rid myself of this curse, but we will have to survive the day and the night. It was not part of my gifts today as I already have todays blessing from before i turned."
HP 77 Ӏ AC 17 (FF 115/T 13) Ӏ CMD 18 Ι F+8, R+8, W+11 Ι Ini +6 Ι Perc +9
"Maybe we can tie you down tomorrow night, what are we looking for here today? I feel like we cleared out most of the cultists and werewolves." Stam says as he helps drag a body into an abandoned home.
Human Cleric 7 Exalted 4 / AC 23/*25, Touch 12, Flat 22 / HP 76/76 / Init +3 / Fort +10, Ref +5, Will +13 / Perception +8 / Channel Positive Energy (DC17/19) 3/7 Per Day *Spell Adjusted No's
"If I'm not mistaken, they were still busy on completing some kind of ritual. We should probably find where it was and any remaining cultists. Unless you all took care of that while I was furred up?"
HP 77 Ӏ AC 17 (FF 115/T 13) Ӏ CMD 18 Ι F+8, R+8, W+11 Ι Ini +6 Ι Perc +9
I thought we had
"We did not, lets dispose of the bodies and move onto finding the wolves? Everyone have their silver weapons ready?" Stam says as he pulls out his silvered arrows.
Human Cleric 7 Exalted 4 / AC 23/*25, Touch 12, Flat 22 / HP 76/76 / Init +3 / Fort +10, Ref +5, Will +13 / Perception +8 / Channel Positive Energy (DC17/19) 3/7 Per Day *Spell Adjusted No's
"Do you have any more of that silver for my sword? Alas the dagger does not help me as much as I would hope."
Not I. But we should go, we are waiting the Dawnbringers Light.
Grergof pulls out his silver flail and leads the group back into town, trying to avoid the patrols and head to that tower that has been mentioned a few times.
Overlooking the town square stand the battered remnants of what must have once been an impressive tower. Now only the tower’s ground floor and half of its second floor still stand, and catapult balls lie scattered about the piles of broken stone and masonry at the tower’s base. Of the top of the tower, only a jagged crest of stone remains; the tower’s roof has been ripped off, and much of the rear portion lies buried in rubble.
Remarkably, a pair of massive stone doors still hangs within the entrance of the tower’s battered facade. The walls are crumbled halfway up the second floor - judging by the height of the door.
Perception DC12:
There are skeletons watching out from the tower over the remains of the outer wall of the second floor.
Human Cleric 7 Exalted 4 / AC 23/*25, Touch 12, Flat 22 / HP 76/76 / Init +3 / Fort +10, Ref +5, Will +13 / Perception +8 / Channel Positive Energy (DC17/19) 3/7 Per Day *Spell Adjusted No's