Charmaine studies the group around her quietly, looking at the odd bunch of adventures speaking several different languages and hailing from many foreign lands.
It would seem that i am not alone in being called here by god to help fight this evil, even if we do not all worship the same powers it is clear they have called us all into action,
could i suggest we found out all we can from Father Renaud about this necromancer and then rest and regroup on the morrow at the cemetery, i believe where there is undead we will find a necromancer
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Le nécromancien Judas exerce ses habitudes impies dans un repaire secret dans le Guyer ....
...So, I guess we should go to the guyer.
Come, let us make way to the guyer!What's a guyer?...
"Isn't that a type of cheese?"
I'm not sure, master Paladin, I think the Cleric is confused and is using the wrong word. ... It's almost inconceivable. Nonetheless, let us go forth.
Alphonse, are you from London -- I hear you speak in English with a native's accent? Do you know the Boar's Head Inn by chance? I spent some time there years ago with some friends.
"I went there once. Food was good, though since I was there with some extended family, things got...awkward. Thankfully I didn't have to stay the nigh there with them."
Well, what are we waitin' for? We go there, kick his arse and get back to the bleedin' tavern. The quicker we get it done, the quicker I can get back to me drinking and me ladies.
Anyone know where the 'guyer' is?
Let's go to the catacombs!
Let's go to the catacombs!
Yes! To the catacombs! Though we may want to stock up on holy water first, my aspergillium is empty
Father Renaud leads Tevaga to the baptismal font in the nave of the cathedral so she can refill her aspergillium with holy water....
[dice=Knowledge Local (w/ Inspiration)] 1d20+8 +1d6
Iommi-Tyr knows that the extensive catacombs beneath Paris can be accessed through the crypts beneath Notre Dame cathedral, among other ways.... There are also several taverns, inns, brothels, and shop basements throughout the city with access points....
"Pour le Seigneur!"
Wait friends, our noble ally Charmaine Da'vi, the shy French villager with that fancy looking weapon, is exhausted; mayhaps we should rest and return on the morrow. It is late, afterall, and a good night's sleep will do us all well.
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Mike, what does Father Renaud say about our coming back at first light tomorrow instead of charging down there now?
"I'm good either way...though the longer we wait, the more of a chance the Necromancer has to prepare or escape."
7 of us means we each get three & the other 3 can be held by whom?...
Is Paddy or Hisao (or anyone else) interested -- or should we try to sell them?
Iommi-Tyr Magnusson casts Detect Magic
Let's try to Appraise the gems and split the total gold
800 for each PC
I think it unlikely he will try to escape -- the traitor has some ill plans, I surmise, and will think himself safe in his lair. He will know we are coming, certainly, for we have struck a blow against his reign of terror -- all the better, I say, that we are fully recovered.
As his fantasy and reality align, Jean becomes excited.
"Monsieurs et filles, I work as a hand at an inn three blocks yonder. My employer knows of my quest for the Seigneur, and when he sees you all by my side he will surely allow us a stay. Let us go!"
Fast table....
Wait friends, our noble ally Charmaine Da'vi, the shy French villager with that fancy looking weapon, is exhausted; mayhaps we should rest and return on the morrow. It is late, afterall, and a good night's sleep will do us all well.
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Mike, what does Father Renaud say about our coming back at first light tomorrow instead of charging down there now?
Father Renaud understands that those among you who cast spells might need to wait until the next day before entering the catacombs....
As his fantasy and reality align, Jean becomes excited.
"Monsieurs et filles, I work as a hand at an inn three blocks yonder. My employer knows of my quest for the Seigneur, and when he sees you all by my side he will surely allow us a stay. Let us go!"
Deciding it would be safer to hunt the necromancer in his lair with all members of the expedition fully rested and prepared, the heroes accompany Jean Lamarre back to Grotte de la Sirene, an inn a few blocks from the cathedral, where they are given shelter through the night in the common room free of charge. Pitching bedrolls under tables or near the warmth of the fireplace, the heroes sleep undisturbed until dawn on the following day, June 2nd....
June 2nd, 1430: Into the Catacombs!
Rested and prepared for an expedition into the catacombs, the heroes return to Notre Dame cathedral, where Father Renaud and the young acolyte greet them and usher them down a stairway to the subterranean crypts beneath the cathedral. The crypts are a part of the greater catacombs, and house the mortal remains of generations of clergy....
Alphonse yawns.
Father Renaud utters a word: Lux! as he touches the weapons in each hero's hand, causing light to radiate like a torch from the weapons....
Méfiez-vous , les jeunes piliers , que les morts-vivants hantent les catacombes....
Father Renaud goes on to explain that the treacherous Pierre the Necromancer has stirred the dead interred in the catacombs with foul necromancy, creating undead skeletons and zombies, and has called the ghouls which have always dwelt in the deeper catacombs up to his service, unleashing them upon the sleeping city after nightfall....
In response to what anyone says to him Hisao just shrugs in an exaggerated fashion and replies with
Father Renaud, may we each have some of the blessed water, made Holy by your god, to aid us in giving rest to the unquiet dead?
The stairs descend to a vaulted chamber, 30 ft by 40 ft with a ceiling apex of 40 ft high, some 60 feet under the nave....
The walls from floor to ceiling are lined with rows of human skulls, some forming morbidly artistic religious symbology--crucifixes, chi-ros, fish, et cetera--casting dancing shadows....
A faint charnel smell permeates the air....
Arched, 10-ft-wide by 10-ft-high corridors, walls also lined with niches filled with skulls and candles, exit the vault from the north, south, east and west walls.... This vault seems to be a crossroads of the catacombs under Notre Dame....
Perception checks, please....
Merci, Mon Pere. May we put an end.to this foul servant of Satan!
Jean is not using his.buckler atm, favoring his longspear. His AC is 16. He also no longer has improved initiative, and his initiative is 0. I will update him in the morning when I'm not on my phone....
Father Renaud, may we each have some of the blessed water, made Holy by your god, to aid us in giving rest to the unquiet dead?
Se il vous plaît , Norseman .... garder votre trésor .... vous pouvez avoir autant d'eau sainte comme vous le désirez ....
Father Renaud and the acolyte await the heroes' return at the top of the crypt stairs, in the nave.... They dare not descend with the intrepid adventurers into the dangerous dungeon below the cobbled streets of Paris....
Merci, Mon Pere. May we put an end.to this foul servant of Satan!
Jean is not using his.buckler atm, favoring his longspear. His AC is 16. He also no longer has improved initiative, and his initiative is 0. I will update him in the morning when I'm not on my phone....
[dice=perception]1d20
The French prophet's ears detect a thin musical piping.... The strains of the ancient church melody known as the dies irae (day of wrath) played on a flute somewhere to the north echoes faintly down the corridor into the vaulted chamber....
"Someone is playing music down here... I could only think of it being two sorts of people, avec this horrid smell... It is either a lost orphan from the Cathedrale, or the wizard. But orphans seldom have money for flutes."
Hisao, pretty just coming along for the ride, gets more alert as they pass into a more dangerous seeming area.
Hisao, pretty just coming along for the ride, gets more alert as they pass into a more dangerous seeming area.
** spoiler omitted ** he mutters to himself.
[dice=Perception]1d20+4
The ninja's keen ears perceive the eerie flute music wafting from the northern corridor.... His keen eyes perceive rats scurrying into the shadows as the heroic band enters the vaulted chamber at the bottom of the stairs....
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I can scout ahead if necessary. The darkness holds few secrets from me.
I can scout ahead if necessary. The darkness holds few secrets from me.
Standing in the vaulted chamber at the bottom of the stairs and looking up the north corridor, from whence Jean and Hisao hear flute music, Tevaga sees that the corridor runs straight for at least 40 feet into darkness....
Looking east, she sees another arched corridor, like the one running north, 10-ft-by-10-ft and lined with human bones and skulls resting in niches, and also extending at least 40 ft into darkness....
To the south, another arched corridor, running at least 40 ft before darkness obscures the half-orc's vision....
To the west, the same--another corridor extending into darkness....