You travel deeper into the swamp and follow the old path. Once in a while you see in the distance a patrol of drakes flying over the swamp. Another time you can notice a squad if Grioths. Both groups seem to be patrolling the edge of the swamp and if they noticed you, they don't seem to care. Finally, you come to fork and must make a decision. You can either continue down the path and head to the monastery where you are supposed to drop the ransom. Or, you could follow the river and reach the crypt of Tula.
"Ok. Decision time. I think we should go to the crypt. Find those weapons that the baroness mentioned."
"Ok, but what about Kyras's weapon? Didn't we already agreed to only scout while the weapon is being upgraded?"
Why don't we all just head on down the path to the crypt while Kyras's weapon is get-tin an upgrade and we can come and get it before the monastery.
I am good with that. I still have my cold iron weapon.
Okay, then. Off we go.
Leaving the road, you follow the bank of the river. In some spots, you see the beginning of ice forming where the current slowdown. A few more weeks and winter will cover this area with ice and snow. Eventually, you see in the distance a big white shape. At first, you think it is just a big stone, but as you get closer, you realise that it is a gigantic skull of a long dead dragon. The head itself must be somewhere around twenty feet long. As you come into the clearing and get a better view of the rest of the skeleton. You see two humanoid shapes dressed like a soldier. It looks like they are inspecting the skull.
What's that up ahead?
"You know Hoga, I don't know. Looks like a giant skull."
Soldiers ahead. Perhaps they are with the town.
"Soldiers! Where!"
"Yep two people are at that skull alright, maybe they are lost. If they are I reckon we should help em find the way home"
Hernvet says something under his breath and casts resistance on himself. Hernvet says.
"Can't hurt to be safe I suggest y'all be careful"
Hernvet walks up a few feet and waves his hand for the rest to follow. He walks up to the guards about 30 feet away and says.
"Hello gentleman are you lost?"
Kyzen follows and stands ready for action...
Hoga, too.
Kakrish walks up behind Hernvet. He puts a hand on the pommel of his greatsword. He punches Hoga in the shoulder.
You walk up to the soldiers and hail them. They turn toward you. For a second, you expect to see friendly faces, but what stand in front of you don't seem friendly at all. The two soldiers look at you with black sunken eyes. The face look gaunt and their jaw are partly open. A horrid noise can be heard as they draw their weapons.
Hernvet grabs one of his star knifes and then turns to Kakrish and touches his shoulder and casts guidance on him.
Moving away from the skull, the two undead soldiers point their weapons in the group. You all feel two separate wave of magical energy pass over you. You clench your teeth and close your eyes as you try to resist the assault. When you open your eyes, you look around at your group and...
You are happy to notice that Kyzen, Hoga, Kyras and yourself are perfectly fine. The energy waves mustn't have been as strong as you first though.
You are happy to notice that Kyzen, Hoga, Kyras and yourself are perfectly fine. The energy waves mustn't have been as strong as you first though.
You are happy to notice that Hoga, Kyras and yourself are perfectly fine. However, your newest party member, Hernvet, as dissapeared. The energy waves must have been as weaker than you first though.
You are happy to notice that Kyzen, Kyras and yourself are perfectly fine. The energy waves mustn't have been as strong as you first though.
You are happy to notice that Hoga, Kyzen and yourself are perfectly fine. However, your newest party member, Hernvet, as dissapeared. The energy waves must have been as weaker than you first though.
Kyras drinks his mutagen and advances.
Mutagen (DC 16) (Su) Mutagen adds +4/-2 to physical/mental attributes, and +2 nat. armor for 40 minutes.
While moving toward the enemy, Kyzen looks a bit confused as he cannot find is new friend anywhere... "Hey, where's Hernvet?" and... "Who's the Dwarf and where the hell does he comes from?"... Then he launch a blast at the North One, but the confusion makes him aim very poorly as he's not sure if the Dwarf is friend or foe...
Kinetic Blast (Point-Blank + Elemental Overflow)
Hernvet looks at the dwarf standing next to him and says."Oh hello there I must not have seen you this whole time who are you?" then Hernvet looks back at the enemy and says "Well I guess its time to make these fell'as like there dragon friend over there" Hernvet moves up and throws a star knife at the figure in front of him.
Hoga casts Shield on himself and moves towards the men, axe in hand.
Kakrish stares down the skeleton and roars as he starts to raise his greatsword. He pauses mid-roar when the kitsune next to him taps him on the shoulder. "Uh. Hello? Yeah, nice to meet you. Let me smash these skeletons and then we can talk more." Then Kakrish moves straight towards the guards.
Both Kyzen and Hernvet attack misses the target while Kakrish close in on the undeads. Taking a step back, the two soldiers raise their lucerne hammer and aim for the dwarf in front. The first attack is defected by Kakrish's blade, but the blow rendered the warpriest off balance and the second found its way to a weak spot in the armor.
The magic that you felt would be the Curse of Oblivion and the Forgotten Friend. It makes allies forget each other and disrupt their efficiency to work as a group.
Hoga doesn't know what the skeleton men are swinging at, but he wants them dead.
He risks their attacks to get near the closest one, and goes into a bloodrage.
His swing misses, knocked off course by some unseen obstacle, but at least he's close enough to go again.
Hernvet moves up closer and draws another star knife while he says a few things under his breath, then the blades of the knife burst into flames but don't seem to harm him.
Kakrish continues moving towards the skeletons and swings his greatsword at it.
Grown stronger from his mutagen Kyras advances and attacks the enemy to the south.
These are Abandoned Ones; soldiers who were left behind in the wild places of the world and forgotten as their armies moved on or retreated. Tethered to their own corpses by the fury of their perceived abandonment, they seek to share their torment with any mortals they encounter.
Seeing the Dwarf attack the skeletons, Kyzen feels a bit reassured... He moves a bit closer and launch another blast at the northern skeleton
Kinetic Blast (Point-Blank + Elemental Overflow)
Closing in on the undeads, the group start attacking. Hoga misses, but Kakrish, Kyras and Kyzen score some solid hits. Moving as one, the two soldiers attack on opposite side. The south one aims for Kakrish, but the hammer misses the dwarf entirely. The northern one has better luck and gets Kyras on the side of his knee.
Kyras reels from the blow but steps back and continues his attack on the enemy to the south.
Frustrated by his previous miss, Hoga aims again at the one to his left, committed to doing what he does best: Swinging a big axe at things he doesn't like.
Kinetic Blast (Point-Blank + Elemental Overflow)
Kakrish laughs at the skeleton. "Ha. I hope you don't mind if I break a few more of your bones." He swings the greatsword across its body.
Hernvet runs up to the north one and swings his star knife at it.
As Hernvet move into melee with the undead, one of the soldiers managed to place a good hit on the side of his head. The blow knocks him out a bit, reducing his accuracy. Kyras and Hoga manage to bring down one of the undead while Kakrish damages the other one. Stepping into the center of the group, the remaining one attacks the dwarf again, but the head of the weapon just bounces off the armor.
Kyzen step back a bit (5') then launch another blast at the remaining undead...
"Not so close you ugly thing!"
Kinetic Blast (Point-Blank + Elemental Overflow)
Hoga takes a step and swings. He misses.
Huh? These things are crazy!
Hernvet takes a step back(five foot step) then channels a wave out from his holy symbol towards all his allies healing their wounds.
Kakrish kicks at the fallen skeleton then moves around the other to get into a flanking position with Hoga. He swings his greatsword around again.
Kyras 5' steps to the left and attacks.
Hoga taunts the remaining one.
Come at me, bro!
With the last series of blows, the second undead soldier collapse to the ground. The magic that was affecting your memory dissipate and all of your souvenir come back. Pocking around the corpse, you find some old, but still usable lucerne hammers and sets of field plate armors. Looking around the massive dragon skeleton, you notice that it is lying on top of an earthen mound. On the side of the mound is a stone door with a single, rough keyhole.
Nothing interesting for Kyzen in the loot...
"I guess those aren't the last undead we're going to see in there... So, do we go in?"
Kakrish pokes through the bones. "I'll take one of those hammers. Sometimes they are more effective against these walking bones than my trusty sword is."
Good idea Kakrish. I'll carry the other one. Can you detect magic on them?
After checking the loot he moves to and checks the door. He drinks an extract of Heightened Awareness first.
"Ah. Yes, let me check for magic." Kakrish holds the hammer on both hands in front of him and closes his eyes. He hums and mumbles some words before opening his eyes.
"Mind if I take a'look" Hernvet says as he walks up to the door and puts his hands on it he says over his shoulder."This'll only take a minute" and he starts using his Door Sight.